Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Naruto walked out of the house and saw that Kushina was busy teaching Mito, seeing as Kushina was going to teach him, he decide to leave for the library as he was curious about what Ajax said about 6 days. Naruto wanted to know more about his chakra affinity and chakra affinity in general.

Naruto walked through the village as he walked towards the library, he managed to get to the library in a short time and entered it. Naruto walked towards the section of the library which was open to the civilians and academy students. He looked around and found a few books that he decided to take.

After an hour of searching, Naruto finally found a book about Chakra affinity; he was very eager to read the book and as soon as he found a table to sit and read, he began to read the book.

"Overall, Everyone's chakra has an affinity towards one of the five basic nature transformations. Often affinity can be genetic, or at least normal to a certain family, for example most of the member from the Uchiha clan have an affinity towards the fire nature." Naruto read the book as he learned more about chakra nature affinity.

"A person's affinity can be determined using a piece of paper made from a special type of tree that is grown and fed with chakra: when the paper is exposed to even the slightest hint of chakra, it will react accordingly to the chakra's latent nature." Naruto read the next part of the book and figured out that the piece of paper mentioned was what Ajax made him pour chakra into.

"When paper ignites and turns to ash: that is an indication of an affinity towards fire. If the paper splits into two, that indicates an affinity toward wind. If the paper wrinkles, that indicates an affinity towards lightning. If paper turns into dirt and crumbles, that is a sign of affinity towards earth. If the paper becomes wet/damp, that is a sign of affinity towards water." Naruto read the book and continued to read the next part of the book.

"A shinobi would have an easier time learning to create and control chakra natures that match their affinity, although usually it takes years to accomplish. It is possible to master all five natures, but it is very rare as it takes a lot of training; Madara Uchiha, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru are the only one in Konoha history to have mastered all the five natures."

Naruto thought about the people who mastered the five knew that Madara Uchiha, Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju were all dead plus Madara was a traitor, so was Orochimaru. Last he heard, Hiruzen Sarutobi had died a long time ago. Naruto sighed as he realised that there was no-one to help him train.

Naruto put the book about chakra nature back into its shelf as he carried the books he was interested in and walked to the counter in the library. He placed the books on he counter, "That'll be 1000ryo." spoke the librarian behind the counter with, Naruto knew that she didn't like him, so he silently paid the money and left the library with the books in his hand.

Naruto turned right as he headed towards a well-known weapons shop, he looked through the wall of glass that showed off the weapons inside. He saw a sign on top of the shop, it said 'Higurashi's store for your weaponry needs!'. Naruto decided to enter as he looked around, he was looking for a weapon that he felt was right for him as he was order to by Ajax.

Naruto checked the first two aisles, most of them seemed to be filled with kunai, shurikens, string wires. He saw nothing that caught his eyes, so he decided to check all the aisles; Naruto was starting to get depressed as he couldn't find any weapons that caught his, it was only at the last aisle did he find something that he liked.

The weapon that caught his eyes was not one weapon but two; they were both twin katanas, though there was nothing that was extra-ordinary, he was still interested by the thought of using two blades at the same time. He picked them up by the hilt and it felt right, as if using two swords at once was meant for him.

Without a second thought, Naruto headed to the counter as he placed the katanas down on it; he rang the bell and within a few seconds, a mid-aged man with a beard and a blacksmith outfit. He looked the Nauto and to the katanas, then back to Naruto, "I'm sorry but I can't sell these katanas to you. You're too young and I'm only allowed to sell them to shinobis." said the man as he took the katanas from the counter.

Naruto frowned as he really liked the idea of using two swords at the same time, he was heading out but he was stopped by a hand; he turned around and saw that it was the old man, "Listen, if you want, I can keep these swords in reserve until you are able buy." he said as he took the katanas to the back.

Naruto smiled as he would be able to buy those swords one day, Naruto headed out of the store and back home. Naruto waste no time as he hurried back home, he got to his room and locked the door as he placed the books on the small table and started reading the books on things that he was interested in, like fuinjutsu, cooking, jutsus and chakra control.

Minato was working through the piles of paperwork, once he felt he had done enough; he thought about Naruto, he didn't had paid any attention to Naruto in a long time and he wondered at what point did he stop noticing Naruto.

'How did I end up in this situation?' Minato sighed, he felt more ashamed of himself the more he thought about Naruto; Naruto seemed to have isolated himself from everyone around him with the exception of a few people, like Kiba Inuzuka and Hinata Hyuuga.

Minato remembered about the day when Jiraiya told him one of his children would be the child of prophecy, he instantly knew that it was Mito as he remembered what Jiraiya said "The child of prophecy shall be born of two great warriors; the child shall possess great power and will be marked with a seal. The child will either be the saviour that will bring peace to the world or a god that will destroy it."

'Mito is the child of prophecy; she wields the power of the kyuubi as its jinchuriki.' Minato knew that Mito was the child of prophecy and she needs help to become the saviour that she is destined to be, despite all that Minato felt bad about ignoring Naruto for so long.

Minato sighed, he wondered what his late predecessor; Hiruzen Sarutobi would've done if Hiruzen was in his place. Minato shook away the thoughts that distracted him from his work. He was ready to complete all of the paperwork but when he looked up, he saw a horrifying sight: A ton of piled up paperworks on his deck.

That day Minato feared for his life as he kept the rest of the day fighting every kage's nightmare.

Naruto sat down with his legs crossed as he was mediating. That was when he wondered 'Wait! Why am I doing this again?'.

"Because I need to talk you about something. You know the time when you used that jutsu which allowed you to create physical clones of yourself."

'Yeah.'

"It turns out that not only does it allow you to create physical clones of yourself but it also makes it so that the memories of the clones transfer to the original when the clones dispel or are destoryed."

'... So what does that mean?'

"It means that if you create ten clones and had them focus on a chakra control exercise, you would be able to reduce the amount of time needed to master the chakra control exercise by tenfold."

'Ohhh! So how did you come across this information?'

"Well, I learned the technique and experimented with it to see what it is able to do, at first the memories that I got from the clones were confusing as I didn't know what they were, but after a couple of days thinking on it, i figured out that they were the memories of the clones. Long story short, from now on you're going to use clones when you're training."

'Thanks for the information. I will use the clones tomorrow when I'm training.', Naruto cancelled his mental link with Ajax as he got up and focused on his homework; Naruto looked around his bookshelf for the book on the creation of Konoha. Naruto took the book out and started writing facts about the creation of Konoha.

Naruto felt cold as his body shivered, he could feel his face lying on a cold flat surface; he opened his eyes to find out that he had fallen asleep while finishing his homework. Naruto looked towards the source of the coldness as he closed and locked his window. Naruto picked up his homework and saw that he had finished it.

Naruto was a bit sleepy. He looked at the alarm clock to see that it was 7:58pm, and without a second thought Naruto rushed into the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth. He exited the bathroom and headed to his bedroom as he put his jacket on.

Naruto left the house with his bag of things he would need during he training. On the way, he activated his mental link with Ajax 'How is Tala doing with you?' thought Naruto.

"She really seems to enjoy the fact that she is able to run freely around this forest without having to worry about predators, however she does seem to miss you."

'Could you tell her that it's only for the time being until I graduate." said Naruto as he walked directly past Ichiraki's ramen. He never did understand why his sister and his family liked ramen so much.

"Okay I'll make sure to tell her that."

'Could you focus on her training when I don't need your help or guidance?" asked Naruto; he was getting stronger but he wanted Tala to not rely on him and rely her strength.

"Okay, but remember you own me 5 favors for this."

'Okay.' thought Naruto, as soon as he finished his thought Ajax laughed maniacally. Naruto knew that whatever Ajax was laughing about, he wasn't going to enjoy. Naruto quickly got rid of his current train of thought as he thought about eating at Ichiraki's ramen when he graduates.

Naruto got the temple as he took out a scroll on wind affinity exercises to begin practicing on his control over his wind affinity. He created hundreds of clones as he and his clones pick up a leaf; they tried over and over to try and cut the leaf in two.

After hours of trying, Naruto and his clones were able to cut a bit of their leafs. Naruto decided to take a stop as he sat down and took out some fresh wrapped sandwiches from his bag.

"Nothing beats the sensation of working hard." stated Naruto as he ate his food in delight and enjoyed the cold, refreshing wind breezing around him; he took a deep breathe and let it out.

Once Naruto had finished his meal, he got up and went back to the wind affinity exercises as he focused all of his concentration on the training. Soon the sun started to go down and Naruto decided to go back to home as he drank a bottle of cold water.

Naruto started to run home, he kept running past all the civilians of Konoha as he headed home. Naruto made sure to go to his bedroom and go to asleep; he decided to spend the time before dinner reading books about fuinjutsu and the theories behind it.

*sigh* Naruto saw the what time it was on the alarm clock and headed downstairs, he grabbed his food and took it upstairs to his bedroom as he ignored the looks of his family. Naruto ate his dinner in silence as he read through the book he was reading before.

Naruto headed down to the kitchen and washed his dishes before heading to bed and going to sleep.

Naruto woke up as he got up from his bed and turned to face the clock, it was 8:54 am. Naruto leapt out of his bed and prepared himself for the training he was gonna do; once he was done washing his face and brushing his teeth, he headed to the collapsed temple to do some more wind affinity exercises.

Naruto trained for half of the day there with hundred of his Kage bunshins, he was starting to improve as he noticed the slight enlargement of the small rip on the leaf. Naruto and his clones were doing great as he seemed to make great improvements.

Naruto spent the whole day on the exercise and by the end of it he was able to cut a leaf in half within a couple of minutes.

Naruto headed home and slept wonderfully as he was very happy to have made a huge improvement.

*Beep* *beep* *be...

Naruto got up and turned off the alarm clock, he went into the shower and washed himself before he went back to his bedroom and put his clothes on. He looked at the clock to see that it was 7:59am.

Naruto went downstairs into the kitchen and made himself some toast; he ate his breakfast in silence and proceeded to head off to the academy.

Like usual, when Naruto got to his classroom; the classroom was empty and seeing as Naruto had nothing to do, he went to his seat and began to read his book on fuinjutsu as he was very interested in the that particular type of shinobi art.

Naruto heard the all the bells in the building go off at the same and before long, the sound of footsteps could be heard as student were heading to their classroom.

Naruto ignored all of those students and just focused on his book. He stopped reading when he heard a familiar voice, which he could easily recognise as Kiba's, Kiba sat next to him.

"Naruto, why don't you come to my house today?" asked Kiba, he seemed very energetic and excited about the thought of Naruto coming to his house.

"Uh... sure." said Naruto as he was confused and a bit creeped out by how happy and excited Kiba seemed to have him visit Kiba's house. Naruto started to wonder if going with Kiba to his house was a good idea but it was quickly stopped by the sound of Iruka-sensei arriving.

Naruto put the book he had been reading in his bag and prepared for the beginning of the torture that was school.

"Today we're gonna learn about chakra. Now what is chakra exactly? Chakra is the physical energy present in..." Iruka soon went on to give a lecture about chakra as he told the students everything about there was to know.

Naruto mentally shouted 'Nooooooooooo! Not another lecture!'

"Would you stop shouting? You're gonna break eardrums."

'What are you doing?'

"Trying to sleep. I spent the the whole day yesterday training Tala and I'm exhausted, so could you keep the noise down."

'So, how was the training?'

"It was okay and she is showing improvement, I would say that in the nearby future, she'll be a strong summon."

'So what should we do about the Kyuubi, I mean it is a hindrance to me and my training.'

"Don't worry about him for now, we'll deal with him in the future."

'Okay, talk to you later.' Naruto soon cancelled the mental link between him and Ajax. Naruto continued to listen to Iruka-sensei's lecture.

The school bells, or was it academy bells rang and Naruto sighed in relief as he walked with Kiba to his house. Naruto walked besides Kiba as he followed Kiba to his house; Naruto felt a little nervous as he never had any ideas of how to talk to someone's family since he had never talked much to his family and he was worried about how dangerous or crazy Kiba's parents might be.

Naruto and Kiba had gotten to the front gate of the Inuzuka compound and was starting to get nervous that they might reject them as the Kyuubi. Kiba opened the gate and walked through with Naruto following after, on the way Naruto show a lot of people give him glares. Naruto was starting to wonder if it was a good idea to have gone with Kiba to his house.

Naruto followed Kiba to the 2 story house and without wasting any time Kiba entered the house with Naruto following him. Naruto looked around the house and saw that it was no different from other houses, Naruto followed Kiba to the living room where he saw an amusing sight. "Mom, I want you to meet my friend, Naruto." said Kiba.

Kiba's mom turned her head from some of the papers that she was reading as she looked at Kiba's friend, "I didn't know you had a friend Kiba, I have never seen him here before." stated Kiba's mom as he stared at Naruto with her eyes, scanning him up and down; she was able to recognise Naruto as the son of Minato and Kushina, she wondered how her son and Naruto became friends.

"Hello, I'm Naruto Uzumaki." said Naruto as he introduced himself to Kiba's mom.

"Nice to meet you kid, my name is Tsume Inuzuka." stated Kiba mom, now known as Tsume Inuzuka. Tsume turned towards Kiba, "How did you and Naruto became friends?" she asked Kiba, who seemed to smile.

"Since 2 weeks away. Me and Naruto are like brothers, aren't we Naruto?" said Kiba as he wrapped his hand around Naruto with a huge smile.

Tsume smiled a little as she watched Naruto and Kiba talk and joke around, sharing laughs; Tsume could tell that Naruto and Kiba were great friends and cared for each other.

"MOM!" suddenly a loud voice ruined the peaceful scene as Kiba's older sister entered, she entered the living room and headed in the direction, where everyone in the room except Kiba's sister was.

"Mom, you could have told me the puppies were very hyper and hard to keep still." said Kiba's sister before she turned towards Kiba and rubbed his hair, messing it up in the process.

"Hana, would you stop that?" Kiba cried out as he pushed Hana's hand away from his hair.

"Who's this?" asked Hana as she turned towards Naruto.

"I'm Naruto, a friend of Kiba's." stated Naruto as he introduced himself to Hana.

"Since when did you have friends, Kiba?" asked Hana as she looked suspiciously at Naruto.

"For your information, I have a lot of friends." said Kiba with is head held high.

"And they are..."

"There's Naruto, Hinata and I think Shino too, and there's..."

"That's it, you have only three friends." asked Hana in surprise, how could Kiba have not three friends. As soon as Hana mentioned that Kiba had three friends, his pride crumbled as he swatted down and poked the ground as he mattered about big dumb sisters ruining everything.

Naruto just watched as Hana and Kiba started to argue and Naruto turned to Tsume, "Yes, they always do this." said Tsume as she answered the question that Naruto was about to ask.

After a while, Kiba and Hana stopped arguing and Naruto played with Kiba for around an hour before Naruto decided to leave as to head home before dark. Naruto knew that walking around during night was a bad idea, especially if you were Naruto and lived in a place full of people who hated him.

Naruto got home and cooked himself some meal since no-one was home, they were probably eating ramen at Ichiraki's ramen. Naruto eat his self-made dinner and headed to his bed for some sleep.

*Drip* *Drip* *Drip*

Naruto tried to go to asleep but the sound of water dripping seemed to stop him, he opened his eyes to see that he was in the sewer from before, Naruto quickly remembered the gate and Kyuubi being sealed behind it.

"Well, well, if it isn't my jailer, what brings you here?" said the kyuubi as he spoke with a menacing voice, at least that's how Naruto thought it sounded like.

"Cut the crap, why did you bring me here?" asked Naruto as he looked impatiently at the kyuubi.

"You know your sister, she going to die."

"What? You're lying to me, why is she going to die?" asked Naruto impatiently with a worried tone as he showed a lot of worry and concern for Mito.

Before Naruto was able to do anything, or even try to get the answers out of Kyuubi, Naruto was forcefully pushed out of his mindscape by the kyuubi's presence.

Naruto suddenly awoke and got up as he couldn't go to sleep with the thought of Mito dying, he did the only thing he could do, 'Ajax! AJAX!' Naruto called out as tears flowed from his eyes down his cheeks. Naruto may have envied Mito but he could never hate her or want her to die as he loved her, she was his sister and nothing was gonna change that.

'Ajax! AJAX!'

"What! Can't you understand that I'm trying to go asleep?" Ajax asked grumpily as he woken up by Naruto's annoying yells.

'Ajax, is it true that Mito is going to die?' as soon as Naruto asked that, any sign of sleepiness and grumpiness that Ajax's voice had seemed to disapear, Naruto got the answer from the fact that Ajax didn't say anything and started crying. 'Why?' Naruto asked.

"It seems that she is dying from the Kyuubi's chakra, without the kyuubi's soul to contain all the hatred and despair of the Kyuubi's chakra, Mitois using a bit of Kyuubi's chakra and it's starting to affect her body and brain. Eventually if she keeps using the Kyuubi's chakra, she will die from the exposure to the poisonous hatred and despair of the Kyuubi's chakra." Ajax explained in a serious tone as he answered Naruto's question.

'So what do I have to do? Isn't there a way to save her?'

"Well, you could transfer the Kyuubi from you to her and that will save her from death. But, since you are a jinchuriki if I extract the Kyuubi's from you, you will die. So I give you a few seconds to decide whether to live and let Mito die or die and let Mito live. Also if you wanted, you could extract the Kyuubi's chakra and keep it with you and let Mito die."

"..." Naruto didn't know what to say as he didn't spend enough time to know Mito closely but he knew he couldn't let her die, "I choose to let her live." Naruto strengthened his resolve and made sure that he wasn't gonna go back on what he just said.

"I guess, you go to her and touch her head." Ajax ordered and Naruto did as he was told without question, Naruto snuck into Mito room and without wasting a second, he placed his hand on Mito's head.

Naruto found himself inside of his mind with Ajax behind him, Naruto spotted two gates, on in front of him and the other behind him; Ajax helped Naruto moved to the gate in front of him and Naruto quickly unsealed the gate.

"So, my jailor decided to let me go." the kyuubi stated as it moved towards the other gate.

The kyuubi, Ajax and Naruto made their way to the other gate and without a second Naruto opened the second door with Ajax's help as he deactivated the seal as to not alert anyone. Once the second gate opened Kuuubi's chakra returned to Kyuubi, Kyuubi quickly tried to attack Narutot but Ajax stopped Kyuubi's tail and tackled Kyuubi inside past the second gate.

Once the kyuubi was inside, Naruto quickly went to work as he closed the gate, Kyuubi leashed out one of it's tails at Naruto but Naruto was able to stop it with the help of his newly created clones, all one hundred of them stood between Naruto and Kyuubi; the clones had done their job as Naruto had finished locking the gate and put the seal back on the gate.

Naruto slowly faded from the mindscape until he looked like a ghost, "I guess this is it, who knew I would die protecting the person who caused me so much pain and grief."

"I never in my wildest imagination had dreamed that I would die inside Mito and my mindscape." Naruto spoke in an amused tone, "I want to thank you, Ajax for everything, you've done so much for me that it fills me with joy. I enjoy and hold every moment I spent with all the people I love, even you Ajax." Naruto sat down as he talked in a happy tone as he showed his appreciation to Ajax for everything Ajax did for him.

Naruto calmly inhaled the air as he began to speak, "I wish I got the chance to say my farewell to all those people I love, but more important I wish I had been able to say thank you to them all for giving me the best time of my life and for helping me make my way out of that dark tunnel that I thought I could never escape." Naruto spoke in a seething and calm tone as he accepted his death, Naruto smiled as he remembered all the memories he shared with those people he loved.

"I feel cold, so cold, why do I feel so cold Ajax?" asked Naruto as he turned to Naruto, Naruto laid down on the ground and before long he faded away.

Naruto opened his eye to see that he has lying on his bed, he looked around and saw that wherever he was, it sure looked exactly like his room, "Where am I?" asked Naruto to no-one in particular.

"You're back in your bedroom." stated Ajax.

"Since Ajax is here, I must be in hell." said Naruto as he came to a conclusion. It was then that Naruto got a mental slap from Ajax.

"You ungrateful kid, I just saved you from death and you don't even show me respect."

"Sorry about that, yeah you're right, I should've... Wait a minute, why didn't you tell me that before I gave that big heart-felt speech." Naruto asked as he was shivering with rage, Ajax let out a fake laughter as he forgot that.

Naruto quickly slapped Ajax mentally, only for Ajax to mentally slap him back "There, have a two-for-one special." said Ajax.

"Oh yeah, we'll you can have a three-for-one special." said Naruto as he mentally slapped Ajax two times.

"Then, you can have a four-for-one special." stated Ajax as he mentally slapped Naruto two times.

Both Ajax and Naruto continued to mentally slap each other over and over again for a while until they both felt tired and went to sleep.

Well, that's it for this chapter, hope you like it.

"Hey, you can't just write about death like that as if it's something that's a joke." said Naruto while Ajax was behind nodding in agreement.

Me: but death is a part of life, you can try running away from it but you can't. You just have to accept it.

"Oh yeah, then you can accept the beating that Ajax and I are going to give you." stated Naruto as he and Ajax ran after me, the Author.

Me: You'll never take me alive, mhahhaahahaha!

That's all yorks! Make sure to review! Other then that, Peace out!