Merry Christmas everybody, if you don't celebrate Christmas that's fine, Happy Holidays. If your not happy with either of those then that doesn't matter just ignore them. So here's chapter 9. A little bit on the shortish side but I've been really busy of late. Anyway enjoy and drop a review.
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The fire flickered lightly even though there was no wind in the dark room. Orochimaru sat casually on his throne as he pondered about what Kabuto had told him.
"Orochimaru-sama what are you going to do about Naruto. Are you going to try and take his body or will you hand him over to The Origin?"
Orochimaru chuckled lightly at what his right hand man had said. "I thought about taking his body but if what you said about him becoming a demon is true then it cannot be done. Demon blood is a very interesting thing, it attacks anything that isn't native to the body. If I where to use fushi tensei his demonic blood would kill me. No I don't think I'll be taking his body."
"How do you intend to take him? I mean your good and all but not even a sannin can go up against an entire village of ANBU. As long as he's in Konoha you can't take him and I don't think the Tsunade will be letting him leave anytime soon .What's the plan?"
"I bide my time for now, then I force him to leave his village. Though once I have him I'll be asking The Origin for a hell of a lot more and with the power that kid possesses they'll have to give it to me."
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Naruto opened his eyes drowsily. He was in familiar apartment. He had been training with Jariya for little over a week and that had been the last thing he had remembered. The door creaked open, Naruto rolled over and gaped at what he saw. It was Kyuubi but not the usual Kyuubi. She wore black tight fitting pants with grey armor plating and a skin tight black singlet top that also had grey armor plates. On her hands were black gloves and she had grey metallic bracers on her forearms. The thing that surprised Naruto the most was that white fox mask that covered her face.
"Kyuubi your ANBU, when did this happen?"
Kyuubi chuckled lightly. "You were away training for over a week and then you've been unconscious for a few days, all up you've been out of the loop for two weeks and a lot happens in two weeks. Anyway I'm not completely ANBU. They wanted to give me that stupid tattoo but I refused to be branded. I've been mostly doing guard duty and patrols but the pay is really good, I'm earning a whole lot more than what you are."
"Yeah, yeah rub it in" Naruto said sarcastically "I'm still finding it hard to believe that Ba-chan let you join the ANBU, I mean you two didn't exactly hit it off."
"Yeah your right about that but the village elders thought it would be good for me to be with them rather than against them. Not only that but I'm now also a member of the council, I help determine what happens and what doesn't happen. Now more importantly I heard some pretty interesting things from that pervert about how your training was going. He trained you for a full week and a half before the strain on your body caused you to lose consciousness. Tsunade-san wanted you to go to the hospital by I thought it would be better if you rested up here. So please tell me what happened."
"Ero-sensei is fucking crazy, his idea of training was tying me up and throwing senbon at me. I haven't had anything to eat in two weeks. I had to go to the toilet in my fucking pants. I wasn't allowed to sleep or rest, it was the worst week and a half of my life."
"I know. I knew about his training methods long before you did, I tried to convince him that it wasn't necessary but he insisted that he push you to your limits" Kyuubi said lying through her teeth. "I didn't want him to do what he did but he wouldn't listen to me." She could see tears begin to form in Naruto eyes as he thought back to the events of his training. She lent forth and embraced him in a hug. Kyuubi's plan was working, he believed that Jariya was responsible for his hellish training and was beginning to trust her more and more. "Please Naruto tell me what you learned in your training."
"I can do things, things that shouldn't be able to be done. I can stop things and move them around. Ero-sensei said that I can move any object throughout space and time, he said that now that I have the basics it should be easier. I feel like some kind of freak, a kekkei genkai shouldn't have this much power, this is a power only gods should have."
Kyuubi raised an eyebrow at this. "I don't think you should worry about whether or not you deserve this power or not, just try and become stronger. You always said you wanted to grow strong so you could protect those that you cared about. Take this power as a blessing. Now it's been two weeks since you've had something to eat, you must be starved. Let's go get some ramen, my treat."
"But I still have questions" Naruto pleaded. "Why have I only recently been able to use my kekkei genkai, how come everyone else knows about my kekkei genkai, why is everyone keeping secrets from me and why is all this happening to me?"
Kyuubi just gave him a sympathetic look. "Sometimes the best help you can give someone is to keep them ignorant of a threat. People are keeping secrets from you for your own protection. Remember when I was sealed in you and no one would tell you because they wanted to keep you safe, it's just like that. Everything all will be told to you when the time is right but until then just be patient and roll with it. Now the longer we stay here the longer we have to wait for our ramen, let's go.
Kyuubi quickly changed out of her ANBU gear and into a casual kimono and the two of them walked out the door and headed for Ichiraku's.
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Sasuke pushed the door open and peered into Naruto's apartment. "Okay, the coast is clear" he said as he and Sakura sneaked into the room. "Alright, something is going on with Naruto, let's search his apartment for clues."
The two only stayed for a few minutes, they looked through every room but found nothing out of the ordinary, that is until Sakura found Kyuubi's ANBU mask. "Hey Sasuke-kun come have a look at this" she said as she showed Sasuke the mask. Sasuke looked it over and frowned.
"It's obvious what's going on, Naruto has become an ANBU agent. It's probably only recently he's got this promotion and that's why he hasn't showed up for training in so long."
"Wow" Sakura said surprised "either the ANBU has drastically lowered their standards or Naruto-kun is a lot stronger than he let's on."
"That's it" Sasuke said annoyed. "If the Dobe gets to be in ANBU then so do I. I'm going to go give Tsunade-sama a piece of my mind."
"Wait" Sakura said thinking things through. "Lets talk to Naruto-kun first, he may be able to shed some light. We'll go for now and come back when he's home."
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Kyuubi had just finished her first bowl of ramen when Naruto had just started on his seventh. She was amazed at just how much he could eat and where it all went. Most people struggled to get through one bowl but here Naruto had nearly finished seven. There where just some things in this world that just couldn't be explained.
"Kit" Kyuubi said "have you given any more thought about my proposal."
Naruto looked up from his bowl. "Which one are you talking about?"
Kyuubi's sweat dropped. "The Kingdom of Nine needs a leader, you can be the leader. You're everything that your kingdom needs. Not only that but you are the nine tailed demon lord, it is your duty and destiny to rule."
"Look Kyuu-chan I've had a lot go on these last couple of weeks I really don't need any more on my plate." Naruto looked up to see the vain popping out of Kyuubi's forehead.
"Don't call me chan, I'm able to put up with a lot but chan just isn't one of those things."
"Yeah, yeah what ever you say Kyuu-chan" Naruto said with a cheeky grin on his face. Kyuubi was about to smash his face against the table when she saw that foxy smile. It had been such a long time since Naruto smiled, just the very sight of it made her heart go soft.
"Come let's finish up, even on an ANBU salary my wallet can't take to much more." Naruto wolfed down the last of his ramen and he and Kyuubi left.
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Kyuubi flopped on the couch the moment they walked in the door. She ripped off the ribbon that held her kimono tore off her clothing. She let out a sigh of relief when she felt her tail move freely for the first time that day. It had been another uncomfortable day again, between the kimono and her ANBU gear she had been forced to keep her tail tucked in all day. Naruto walked in to see Kyuubi standing in the middle of her living room with nothing on but her underwear.
"Could you put some bloody clothes on" Naruto grumbled but secretly taking in what he saw.
Kyuubi grunted. "Why, I just need to give my tail some space, besides its not like anybody is going to see."
As if on queue the door flew open and Sasuke followed by Sakura barged into the room. "Right" Sasuke said "what the hell is going on with you and why the hell are you in ANBU." It was then that Sasuke and Sakura noticed the half naked Kyuubi. "T…t…tail" Sasuke stuttered as he pointed at the swaying fluffy tail.
Sakura said nothing, she was to concerned about trying not to faint at the sight. It was several seconds later before she managed to squeak out a few words. "Why does your personal trainer have a tail?"
Kyuubi gave a weak laugh as she realized just what complications this situation would have. Naruto groaned as he slapped his forehead "Why does all this happen to me" he thought to himself.
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So that's chapter 9 hope you enjoyed. I know I said I'd make this chapter longer but I really wanted to get it out before Christmas but I did throw in a bit of a cliff hanger at the end just like I said. Now pretty soon I'm going to run out a through chapter and that's where it's all going to begin. I'm talking some fight scenes, maybe an invasion or two and really big elaborate plan that ultimately leads to a completely revolution in the story and then after all that a twist that makes you all go "wow that was one big twist. Oh and I'll throw in some humor as well to make you all laugh and say that was funny.
So hope you enjoyed reading and please leave a review. No seriously leave a review, I'd really like to see more of them. So thanks to everybody who read and I'll try and update soon.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL" (except those who don't celebrate. To tell you the truth im not Christian but is still celebrate it all the same)
Goodbye and happy holidays.