Wrath of the Fox
A/N – Between last chapter and this one was the same as canon, the only difference is Kakashi has secretly taught Sasuke several Jutsu and other techniques, while basically neglecting Naruto and Sakura.
Jutsu
"Talking"
"Demon Talking"
"Jinchuriki Talking"
'Thinking'
'Demon Thinking'
Chapter 2 – Broken Seal
A jounin, three genin and an old man were walking down a path. The jounin was reading a small orange book, the old man was drinking sake and the genin were all looking out attentively. As they passed by two puddles not one of them reacted. Until two ninja sprang out of the puddles and wrapped the jounin up in a chain that was connected to both of their gauntlets. They pulled with all their might as the jounin appeared to be shredded.
"Kakashi-sensei!" screamed Sakura, one of the genin; she had bubble gum pink hair and the loudest banshee scream to ever be heard by mortal ears.
The two enemy ninja looked to each other before nodding, one ran towards the genin and the other ran towards the old man.
"Your death is upon you bridge builder" the ninja heading towards Tazuna yelled.
One of the genin sprang into action at this point, leaving his teammates behind, he ran at the ninja.
"Katon: Phoenix flower Jutsu" yelled out a certain duck-butt haired genin. Sasuke had charged forward and started launching small fireballs at the ninja.
He dodged them all with considerable skill before charging at the genin and attempting to slash at him with his clawed gauntlet. Sasuke parried with a kunai before slashing at the mans exposed elbow, cutting deeply into the man's flesh. He screamed in pain and looked down as his arm dropped uselessly to his side.
Meanwhile
Naruto was scared witless, the ninja was almost onto him but he had to protect Sakura. He jumped in front of the enemy, knowing that he would be useless against him. He was just hoping that he would be able to stall the enemy long enough for Sakura to get away.
'If only I knew more jutsu' thought Naruto as he felt helpless against this stranger. Terror was coursing through his veins. Then the man slashed at him carving a large slash down his arm. He could feel some sort of poison oozing out of the claws and into his bloodstream.
As he was blacking out he saw Kakashi knock out both of the enemy ninja.
-Line Break-
Naruto woke up in a sewer; he thought it looked vaguely familiar but couldn't remember where he had seen it before. He started to wander along the pipe until he reached a large room.
Inside this room was a large cage held shut by a small paper slip with the kanji for seal written on it. Inside the cage was a giant fox. Naruto walked up to the cage but when he got close a blue field pushed him back.
When he reached for the field, his arm seemed to get more lean and muscular but when he pulled it back it was normal again.
"Good to see you again Naruto" came the voice of the giant fox. This confused Naruto greatly as he was pretty sure he had never seen this fox before.
Then he saw the nine tails swinging behind it and realized that he was looking at THE Kyuubi. This sudden realization had almost no effect on him however, like he had already met him but had only forgotten. He reached forward again and the blue field reappeared but weaker.
"Yes weaken the secondary seal, and then I can heal your wounds and remove the poison." As the fox was speaking a crack appeared on the seal, allowing a small portion of red chakra to leak out, going straight into Naruto.
"Now wake up, this dammed seal is almost broken, then you will remember your true power."
And with that Naruto woke up to see Kakashi talking to Sasuke and Sakura. He only heard a small portion of what he said but it pissed him off, he heard, "Well done guys, it's good to see you two aren't completely hopeless."
"Well it's great to see that Kakashi care so much for me." Said the yokai powered genin. The only person who heard him was Tazuna and he was too scared from hearing the multi-layered voice to mention it to anyone else.
The slashes on Naruto's arm healed up leaving only a few drops of poison on his arm that had been pushed out by the yokai.
By the time Kakashi and the other two had come over to check on Naruto he was absolutely fine, the yokai now at a level where it would only be detectable by a very skilled sensor.
Sasuke seeing that Naruto had no wounds on him assumed that he had merely fainted from fright, "So dobe, what's up with wimping out and fainting, you are undoubtedly the worst ninja ever." Naruto nearly lost it at this point but decided that until he figured out what was going on in his head he would try and remain calm.
"Wise decision" came the voice of the Kyuubi albeit incredibly faint. Naruto didn't even notice the voice in his head.
Kakashi, thinking that Naruto was about to start yelling at Sasuke decided to divert their attention.
"So guys should we continue this mission, as it has been bumped up to B rank so we should return to the village, but I'll leave the decision to you three." Sasuke was the first to respond.
"We should continue, it's not like we'll find anyone stronger than me, an elite Uchiha."
"I agree with Sasuke-kun!" yelled Sakura while inner Sakura was shouting, 'Sasuke-kun is so heroic and brave and strong, he will make the perfect husband, and I will be his wife, CHA!'
"Whatever, as long as we train, I'm fine with continuing." Naruto sighed.
And with that Team 7 and Tazuna continued their journey to wave country.
-Line Break-
A dense mist covered the battle ground, Kakashi was trapped in a bubble of water, Sakura was cowering on the floor, Sasuke was trying to think but the amount of concentration was making him look constipated and Naruto was simply channelling chakra. Until.
"Shadow Clown Jutsu" cried Naruto forming his new favourite hand seal.
About 50 clones materialised and all charged toward Zabuza but before they even reached the shoreline 5 water clones rose up and attacked the shadow clones. Once the small skirmish had finished there wasn't any clones left on either side.
Naruto then threw a folded Demon wind shuriken to Sasuke who spun when he caught it. Naruto was surprised that he had caught on to the plan so quick.
When Sasuke threw the shuriken Zabuza simply swung his sword, knocking it aside. He noticed the second shuriken hidden in the shadow at the last second, allowing him to jump over it, still maintaining the water prison.
That is until he felt something pierce his shoulder. He looked back to see two things, the first being a kunai buried deep into his shoulder, glowing with a faint purple chakra. The second thing was Naruto in the water. He realised that the second shuriken had in fact been the genin transformed.
Zabuza was so focused on Naruto that he failed to realize that his water prison had dropped when the kunai had pierced his shoulder. It was only when he was hit with powerful kick to the ribs did he realise his mistake.
He started forming hand seals but found that his chakra wasn't responding, like the chakra points in his arm were clogged. He was partially correct, the small traces of yokai that were in Naruto's system from the healing had been pumped into the kunai, and then into his chakra network, not enough to give him yokai poisoning but enough to jam all his chakra points in his arm.
Again he failed to notice Kakashi until it was too late and he had been blown onto the opposite bank by an explosive tag.
As Kakashi was walking over to finish the job, Zabuza was hit with several senbon to the neck. Causing him to drop dead, at least that's what Kakashi thought when he checked for a pulse. A Kiri hunter-nin then dropped down from the trees, and walked over to Zabuza's corpse.
"Thank you for the assistance, Konoha ninja. I have been tracking Zabuza for quite a while looking for the best moment to strike. Goodbye." And with that he grabbed the body of Zabuza and disappeared in a body flicker.
Kakashi walked back over to the other side of the lake where Naruto was just climbing out, he walked over to the rest of his team before saying
"That was a great plan" which made Naruto beam with pride until he heard the end of the sentence, "Sasuke." Said genin just smirked, he knew that the plan had been Naruto's but he was an Uchiha so he deserved the credit.
It was at this point that Kakashi collapsed from minor chakra exhaustion, unable to move his body. Naruto was the one who was forced to carry the incapacitated jounin to Tazuna's house.
When they arrived at Tazuna's house they were greeted by his daughter Tsunami.
"Father, you're back. And these must be the ninja you hired." She had an intoxicating smile; it was enough to calm down the frustrated Naruto. They went inside and Tsunami showed them to the guest rooms and they basically collapsed wherever they could.
The next morning, Kakashi was up and moving again. He was lucky if he had used just a little more chakra, he wouldn't have been better for a week.
"Now this morning we will get some training down and decide who will be guarding Tazuna for the afternoon." Said Kakashi to his team.
They headed out into the woods until they came to a clearing.
"Now today we will be learning how to climb trees."
"But Kakashi-sensei, everybody can climb trees." Came the know it all reply from Sakura.
"Ah, but can everyone climb trees without their hands?" and with that Kakashi channelled chakra to his feet and walked up the nearest tree, coming to rest on a branch about half way up. He then threw 3 kunai down at their feet.
"Mark your progress with the kunai, and go." And with that the genin started to attempt the exercise, Sakura got it first try, Sasuke got on his second (his first he broke the bark) but Naruto couldn't do it, every time he would put too little chakra into it, causing him to slip off the tree.
"Naruto put more chakra in." stated Kakashi like it was obvious.
'More chakra huh, well how about I give it my all' and with that Naruto channelled a large amount of chakra into his feet. As soon as his foot touched the bark, it discharged, blasting a foot shaped hole in the tree and 3 trees behind it.
"Too much chakra, Naruto find the balance." Yelled Kakashi, like he was talking to a pre-schooler.
After half an hour, Naruto could only get about 5 steps before he would fall again.
"ok that's enough tree walking for today, Naruto seeing how you didn't complete the task you can guard Tazuna, your shadow clones will make it easier anyway. Sasuke you come with me, we're going to do some different training and Sakura stay here and keep doing the tree walking to increase your chakra capacity." Kakashi seemed almost thrilled that he wouldn't have to be around Naruto and Sakura anymore.
Naruto went off to meet Tazuna at the bridge, while Kakashi took Sasuke off to a different clearing. Sakura looked around and saw that no one was there and decided that a little nap wouldn't hurt, and promptly fell asleep against a tree.
Naruto was waiting at the bridge; he got bored so he sent a shadow clone to see what was taking Tazuna so long. He was shocked when the clone got dispelled by Tazuna smacking it over the head, but that wasn't what shocked him, it was the fact that he gained all the memories from the clone.
"So you figured out the secret to shadow clones huh. Why not get some shadow clones to work on the tree walking. And you might as well send one to see what Kakashi and Sasuke are doing; it would surprise them if you knew the exercise already." Naruto was a little shocked that the Kyuubi was helping him but decided that it was worth a try.
He created 51 clones, most of them started attempting to climb up the steel girders of the bridge while the last one left to see what Kakashi and Sasuke were doing.
It didn't take long for Naruto to receive the memories from his clone and what he learnt pissed him off. Sasuke was learning advanced jutsu and by the looks of things Kakashi had been teaching them to him for quite some time. It would also explain why Sasuke got the tree walking so quickly.
Red chakra started to leak out of Naruto's navel, at first he was scared that the fox was trying to take over until he realised that the red chakra was comforting him, like a friend giving him a hug although that in itself was a new feeling.
Naruto closed his eyes and when he opened them he was standing in front of the fox's cage. The first thing he noticed was that the blue field was covered in cracks. He walked up to the field and punched it causing it to collapse.
All of a sudden an influx of information forced its way into his head. The memory of meeting the fox, the lesson in stealth and the memory of who his parents were.
"I'm glad to see you remember now kit. It would've been too troublesome to try and convince you that I meant you no harm again." Naruto smiled when he heard the fox's voice
-Outside the seal-
It had been a few hours since Naruto had gone into the seal. The Naruto clones were finishing up the exercise, they had almost completed it and when they dispelled; the original would be able to do it. Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi were all heading toward the bridge, they were finished with their training for the day.
The clones dispelled just before the other arrived. So all they saw was Naruto apparently asleep while Tazuna and his workers were packing up their gear.
"Naruto why are you sleeping on the job, if Gato attacked you wouldn't have noticed." Scolded Kakashi.
"Yeah Naruto you baka!" yelled Sakura as she attempted to punch him in the head, but before she made contact Naruto disappeared. He reappeared behind them.
"I was not asleep Kakashi-san and you can talk Sakura you have been asleep since we split up." Said Naruto in a monotone voice. When they spun around they were shocked, Naruto was no longer the little runt they knew, he was now slightly taller, more muscled and lean, the baby fat on his face was no longer present giving him a more angular face. His hair now had 9 red spikes ringing the outside of his head forming a sort of crown, two of the spikes were longer than the rest drooping down to frame his face. He also had a tattoo of a fox tail on each arm.
All in all he looked like a younger version of the Yondaime; the only differences being the red in his hair, his tattoos and whiskers.
"s-s-sensei?" said the stunned Kakashi.
"Oh so you didn't know, well that explains why you trained Sasuke more." Said Naruto, still in the monotone. "We should head back to Tazuna's house, we wouldn't want to miss dinner." And with that he walked off, with Tazuna and a dumbstruck Team 7 following behind.
When they arrived Tsunami was shocked to see Naruto, he was so different but also still very similar to before. But when she saw that his clothes were now several sizes too small she decided that dinner would have to wait.
"I'm taking Naruto to see if we can find him some new clothes, you four set the table." And with that she dragged Naruto off towards town.
-Line Break-
When they returned from town, Team 7 were all sitting around waiting for dinner. Tsunami walked in first and went straight to the kitchen to finish up dinner. A minute later Naruto walked in, he was no longer wearing his trademark jumpsuit, he was now wearing a pair of black cargo pants with several large pockets and a burnt orange shirt under a midnight black cloak.
Team 7 were shocked for the second time that day, when they saw the drastic change between outfits. Naruto didn't even spare his team a second glance when he walked in, he simply went and sat down at the table to wait for dinner.
A few minutes later Tsunami walked in with dinner. About half way through the meal a small boy walked in and sat down with them.
"This is my grandson Inari," said Tazuna "Inari these are the ninja I hired to help protect me and to help free wave country." Inari abruptly stood up.
"Why do you bother, you'll just die trying. None of you can stand up to Gato."
"Sit down boy, beating Gato will be no problem." Said Naruto a bit of his old personality shining through.
"You don't know anything, you don't know what it's like to suffer, you were raised in a big village with people caring for you. You have never felt the pain that I've felt!" Screamed Inari
"Stop talking right now. You have never know true suffering. You weren't kicked out of an orphanage at the age of three. You have never been beaten by almost every civilian and some of the ninja of a village. You have never had to dig through trash just to find some food to survive. You have a family, something I never had." Yelled Naruto, yokai leaking into his system. He got up and walked out the door.
"I'm going to go train Kakashi, don't wait up."
That night many of the villagers woke up, feeling the earth shake.
A/N
Originally this chapter was longer but my laptop decided to crash and I lost most of my work. So hopefully I will be able to re-write it soon.
I think I may remove my digimon story, I'm not happy with how it turned out, I may re-write it later but for now I need to focus on my Naruto stories and maybe start a Percy Jackson story.
Review if you want me to write a PJO story.
Thanks Trigger2332 out.