Chapter 2: The Child Contract

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The village was dark and quiet. No one was awake yet. The sun was just beginning to rise. An hour later the village streets were filled with foxes. There had been a great feast and celebration the night before, in honor of their king's return.

Kurama had just awoken in his room with his queen. They had spent the night together, for the first time in 16 years. He moved his head to look over the room, and inspect it for danger. He saw nothing, and he could feel nothing dangerous. He but his head back down by his mate and began to close his eyes. It was then that a loud yawn broke the silence. Kurama's head lifted and this time he looked to the tails of his queen. He smiled as he saw Naruto awake. 'Of coarse Naruto would be awake first.' He thought to himself.

Naruto was looking around confused. He started to climb out of the tail and onto the floor. He was going to go over and wake the still sleeping fox, when the end of a white tipped tail wiggled in front of him. He saw the movement of the tail, and stopped. He watched it, and then fallowed the movement with his head. The tail moved about a foot away, and wiggled. He fallowed the tail and stopped the same distance from the tail as it had appeared.

The tail dropped to the floor and began to wiggle back and forth. Naruto focused on the moving object, and crouched down. The tail lifted into the air, and wiggled, tempting Naruto to attack it. He waited a moment before he sprung and leapt at the tail attacking it. He missed as the tail as it moved higher out of his reach. Naruto landed hard and then he spun around to find the tail sliding across the floor away from him. He ran after the tail. He would get close to catching it, and would grab for the tail with his paws only to catch air as the tail shot out of reach.

Kurama smiled and had to hold in his laugh, so he didn't wake his mate or Hinata. He played with Naruto for about ten minutes, before he heard another loud yawn. He looked over to Hinata who had just awoken. She brought a paw up to her head and rubbed one of her eyes. She then stretched out like a cat, and he saw her claws extend and dig into the fur of his mate. He winced as his mate jumped, and let out a panicked cry. She hadn't been prepared for the claws, or the sudden wake up call.

She spun around to look at Hinata. He could see the anger in his mate's eyes. He was fearful that she would attack the girl. He waited and saw her relax as she remembered what had taken place. She laid back down and relaxed to enjoy the comfort of him.

They watched Naruto who had noticed Hinata, and had moved into a position behind her. He crouched down to prepare for his attack. Hinata looked over to him, and saw what he was about to do. So she leapt from the tail, as Naruto leapt to attack her. He landed a little sloppy, and then leapt after her. He chased her for a few minutes, much the amusement of the two older foxes. He eventually slowed and looked around before a loud growling was heard. Kurama sweat dropped and he heard the sound. 'Of course he would be the one to get hungry.' He thought.

Cho smiled as she reached a tail out to pick him up. He wiggled a little before giving up. She knew how kits acted and knew that this was a natural instinct to escape from her. But she was the mother, and she wasn't going to give into him. She kept him in her tail. Hinata poked her head out of Kurama's front legs to look at Naruto. She had taken shelter there to hide from his antics. She jumped over the leg of the giant red-orange fox. She then jumped up to rest her front paws on Cho's leg. She didn't struggle as Cho's tail wrapped around her, and picked her up. Cho nuzzled her mate, and then left the room to go and get breakfast for the three of them.

Kurama fallowed shortly after, and found the three tearing at the dead carcass of a large deer to eat the meat. Kurama ate his fill after them, and then he moved to the throne room. Another throne had been placed next to the current one. They weren't really chairs, just over large pillows that had been set there.

He climbed onto the dais and called for the nobles. The great doors at the end of the hall opened and a large group of foxes entered. They took their places on the floor bowing, until they were told to rise. Then they sat on the floor to talk to their king.

They had been talking for an hour when a dark blue fox came running in through the side door that Kurama had entered through. The talking stopped as they looked at the fox. Kurama smiled at Hinata as she stopped in front of him and looked back the way she had come. A moment later Naruto came running through the door strait at her. She took off running around the dais. She was followed by Naruto, and when she reached the front again she jumped onto the dais, and ran in between his front leg to hide.

The nobles, who were stunned by the two fox, gasped and began to talk as they watched Hinata hide between their king's legs. Naruto came running around the side of the dais, and stopped, looking for her.

She poked her head out of his legs, and he saw her. She took off running around him, as Naruto jumped up to the dais to where she had been. He followed her, as she ran down Kurama's side, and then over his back. Naruto fallowed her trying to catch her.

Kurama let out a hearty laugh at the twos antics. It wasn't until one of the Nobles called out to him, that he sighed and stopped the two with his tails. They struggled in the air as he held them aloft. Hinata was fine with it because she was safe from Naruto, but he was growling and biting his tail to get free. It didn't hurt, and he smiled at the fight Naruto was putting up.

"What is it Shi?" he asked in a flat tone.

Said fox stepped forward and bowed. He had brown fur, and he had a tan diamond on his chest. With tan tipped tails. "My lord, whom do these kits belong to, and why do you allow such low lives to play upon you." He asked puffing his chest out to show he was confident in himself.

Kurama sent out his Ki full of killer's intent. "Shi, you have gone too far!' he yelled. 'You should think before you speak… you have just called my children low lives… now tell me, why are they not just wonderful, innocent kits? Because I fail to see why you are questioning my actions?" he yelled at the scared fox. He had his tail tucked under him, and he was so ever slowly backing away for him.

It was then that Cho came running into the room. She had felt the furry and anger in the air, and knew that her mate was angered. She then saw kits held in his tails. They were still trying to play with each other. She then looked over to see Shi scared shitless. She walked over to the throne and took her place. She took Naruto and Hinata from Kurama. He never looked at her or reacted to her taking them.

Kurama didn't know what he was going to do. It was the sound of growling that brought him out of his rage. He sat down, and looked over to see his mate watching Naruto and Hinata playing between her front legs. Every time Hinata tried to jump out from between her legs to get away from Naruto, Cho would use one of her tails to stopped her and push her back into the area between her front legs.

He looked back to Shi who had been stopped from running by the rest of the nobles. He sighed, and counted to ten in his head. When he opened his eyes he knew what he was to do. "Shi, I'll let you live this time, but know now, that if you ever speak without thinking it might cost you your life." he told the fox. He could see Shi's relief wash over him. "Now that we have clarified that they are my kits, I will just announce it now that the blond fox is my kit, and my heir to the throne. When the day comes that I can't lead this clan, or that I wish to step down. He will be the one to become king. His name is Naruto Chinotsume (Blood Claw).

This meeting is over, and I will see you tomorrow to finish this meeting." He told them. They bowed and left as quickly as they could. He let out a sigh as the doors closed behind them. He slumped on to the throw pillow that was his throne.

Cho could see that her mate was really upset. "You need to relax Kurama. You have defended the pack, and that's all that matters. Next time the will know better than to speak ill of them. Be happy that they are with us now."

Kurama looked to his mate who was watching Naruto and Hinata wrestle in front of her. A few times Naruto over rolled and started to fall of the throne. One of her tails would whip out and catch him, before he would get hurt from the 10 foot fall. She would then put him back between her legs and he would go back to playing with Hinata.

"Cho… you know they will never replace the litter we had before." He said, looking at her. He saw a tear roll down her fur.

"I know they won't… but we can no longer have kits. And you need an heir to the throne. Yes they were human, but now they are foxes…"

Yes, I know, and Naruto has four tails in the body of a new born kit. I can't wait for his body to catch up to his mind. We won't have to wait long for that moment, but let's just enjoy them while we have them like this." Cho leaned her head towards him, and he nuzzled her to give his affection.

They spent the rest of the day playing together as a family.

Tsunade was walking down the street on her way to the hospital. She had just finished overlooking the defenses of the wall. It had been two days since they had learned that Naruto was dead. The Kyubi was head of the Fox Clan. With his return she was sure that one way or another; the Kyubi would be returning to the village to finish what it had started.

She didn't have the power to seal it, let alone defeat. She was simply preparing for the attack and to save as many lives as she could. She knew that she couldn't save all of them, but she would do what she could.

She had sent word out to the other villages that Naruto had gone missing, and they had no word on him. She didn't know if he really was dead or not. It was just simply implied that he was dead, because the kyubi was free and back with the fox clan.

She was lost in thought when she entered the hospital. It was then that the ground began to shake and the sky darkened. Tsunade spun around and her eyes widened. Standing there was a great black shadow. Nine objects moved about behind it. She knew that it was the kyubi.

Pumping chakra into her legs she raced off to the top of the Hokage tower to direct the other ninja into a fighting force. As she arrived on the building, three ANBU appeared and asked for orders. "Begin saving the villagers and get them into the shelter. You go and alert the others, tell the other to go to the wall." The three disappeared to fulfill the orders. Seconds later, Jiraiya arrived.

Cho had been watching over her two kits for the past week now. They would spend most of the day playing together, while Kurama would go to the throne room, and attend to the clan.

The day before Naruto had demonstrated one of the fox clan blood lines. He had completely disappeared from her detection. The only reason she knew he was there was because of his scene. He had appeared seconds later in the same place. It was a special blood line that allowed the fox to use their element affinity to disappear, destroy, or even create. It took years to master and years to even really use it.

Today she was in the throne playing with Naruto, while Hinata slept on top of Kurama's head. She had tried to stop Hinata, but Kurama had laughed and told her it was fine. He sat there directing the affairs of the clan with her sound asleep. Cho had to admit it was quite funny to watch the nobles stutter, and wear dumb looks at seeing Hinata asleep on their king's head.

Cho was wiggling her tail next to Naruto while he lay on his back swiping at it. There was a small bang fallowed by some smoke. Cho used her tail to clear the smoke. She jumped when she realized Naruto was gone. The bang had awoken Hinata, and Kurama was looking at her questioningly. "He's gone, Naruto is gone!" she cried as she lost control of her emotions. She was in a frenzy and looking everywhere for him.

Kurama was standing, the anger and rage emotions that he was filling was washing over the room. His tail had already grabbed Hinata and placed her on the ground. He was on the ground running to the summoning room.

The foxes had a system to monitor all summoning's from the Fox Village. When he arrived in the room he saw that Naruto had been summoned by an unknown human. He ran over to the transport circle to summon himself to Naruto. As he was about to vanish one of the guards entered. "Go and tell the queen That she is to assemble the clan to fight. I will summon you when I have found the enemy." He said with a flash of light.

Kurama was standing there in the forest all around him. He couldn't see where the person was, more importantly, he couldn't hear, smell, or sense Naruto anywhere nearby. He could feel the nature around him, and he began to pull it into him. He began to grow, and swell in size. The earth started to shake with the amount of chakra he was pulling into him. He used a small jutsu and the sky started to darken. As he stopped growing, he saw the one place he hoped to never see again, Konoha.

The village hidden in the leaf was laid out before him, and he could see the ninja of the village running to the wall. He let out a roar that shook the foundation of the village. He took a step and roared again let his thoughts rollout into the minds of every man, woman, and child of Konoha.

Tsunade fell to her knees and the word echoed and yelled in her head. "WHERE IS MY SON!" as the words died in her mind, she looked to the fox. She didn't understand what the kyubi meant. 'Son? The kyubi doesn't have a son… the kyubi is a being of pure chakra. An entity of pure hate and anger…' It was Jiraiya that stood up fist and yelled out to the beast.

"Kurama, we don't know what you are talking about… we have done nothing to you or your pack. We ask that you leave us in piece!" the white haired man yelled.

Kurama instantly found him and fixed his eyes on him. Jiraiya shivered under the enraged eyes. "I will not leave without my kit! He was summoned by a human in this village, and I demand that he be returned this instances. The human has also signed the Fox Summoning Contract. I demand that you also return the scroll! If you do not retune my kit in 5 minutes I will send my clan…" as if they had been summoned foxes of all sizes leapt onto the wall. None of the ninja had been expecting them, and all of the ninja on the wall were now pinned under the paws of a fox or two. It was a truly intimidating sight at some of the sizes. What shocked the remaining ninja not pinned down was that all of the foxes were the size of Wolfs, and had at most 3 tails.

"…Will destroy this village, and wipe it from the face of the land. Now go, you will not like the wrath of my mate. She has already lost one litter, and to loss another kit… I pity the soul that catches her wrath."

Every person still standing there turned and ran from the front gate.

Ame was crying when a woman landed next to her. She screamed and began to run away. A kunai thudded into the ground in front of her. She stumbled back and fell onto her rear end. She turned to look at the ninja woman standing before her.

"You are the one who summoned the fox?" the woman questioned. Ame quickly nodded, and looked to the yellow fox play in the grass close by. "You are a stupid girl! You have brought the wrath of the Kyubi down upon the village." the woman yelled as she brought her hand up with another kunai to kill the girl. Ame screamed and closed her eyes and waited for the weapon to kill her. It never came.

Ame opened her eyes when the woman cried out. Her eyes grew wide when she saw the yellow fox hanging from the womans wrist. It had bit onto her wrist, and was holding tight. The woman cursed and punched the fox. It lost its grip and fell to the ground. It whimpered as it tried to limp away. It cried out as a foot stepped on its tails to stop it.

Ame ran forward to stop the woman from hurting the fox. The woman made a fist and punched her away from her. Ame was sent flying. When she rolled over to look at the woman, a kunai was sticking out of the woman's throat. She then saw a man with long white hair jump out of the trees.

"Are you okay?" he asked. She couldn't speak. The man came over to her, and knelt down. "You need to tell me… did you summon the fox?" she didn't answer. "Please you must tell me! The future of the village depends on you, little one." He said.

It was like a fire light inside of her. She got up, and ran over to the fox. She picked it up. It licked her face. "Yes I did, and I have the scroll that told me how to summon It." She said proudly.

Jiraiya smiled at the girl. 'She reminds me so much of Naruto. She will be a great Ninja when she gets older.' he thought. "Good, then you are coming with me." He said picking her up.

From Kurama's vantage he could see the ninja's all over the village running around to find and locate Naruto. He felt a strong and familiar chakra appear next to him. He tuned his head to see his mate come to the human world. He couldn't help the shiver that ran from the tip of his nose down his spin to the tips of his tails. She was glowing with red chakra. Her killer's intent was so strong that people began to scream in the village.

"There time is up, begin the attack…" She commanded.

It was then that Jiraiya appeared. He was yelling for them to wait. Kurama could see in his arm's a young human girl and a bright yellow fury thing in her arms. On the man's back was a large white scroll with a large grey scroll binder on it.

Kurama could feel Cho relax next to him. "Is this the human that summoned my kit?" at his voice, Naruto poked his head out of the girl's arms and gave a winning call for help. Cho tensed next to him but didn't move.

"It is…" Jiraiya said as he put the girl down. She took a few steps forward before she bowed. It was an acquired bow because she was holding Naruto and trying not to drop him. She set Naruto down and he started to limp forward. Cho let out a roar as she saw the pain Naruto was in. she sent so much killer intent to wards the girl that she cried out, and closed her eyes.

Ame was so scared but then she felt something soft on her leg and saw that the Yellow fox had limped back to her and was trying to comfort her. She never realized why she wasn't scared, but she never noticed that Cho was no longer enraged.

Kurama was shocked to see Naruto was still trying to help the girl. It was a given that the girl was going to be killed, but know he wasn't sure about that. One of his red-orange tails moved out toward Naruto and picked him up. Another tail grabbed the scroll. He quickly read Naruto's mind before setting him in front of Cho. She dipped he head to nuzzled Naruto, and then one of her seven tails wrapped Naruto up tenderly and she turned and left. No one said anything to the Fox Queen.

Kurama studied the girl before he gave a nod of his head and he howled. All the foxes turned to their king, before snapping at the pinned ninja's and then jumping off/ over the wall to disappear into the forest.

Kurama turned and left without a second glance at the village.

Tsunade was shocked that the little girl had stood her ground and not flinched when the Kyubi had sent a tail to grab his kit. She turned and started to look around the village and order the ninja to retune home for the day.

She was just sitting down at her desk with Jiraiya. The girl 'Ame' had been taken by them to her office, and she was sleeping on the coach. She had passed out after the Kyubi had left.

There was a tapping on the window. That demanded the attention of her. She turned to see a fox sitting there. She opened the window and the fox jumped into the office. It then jumped up to sit on the coach next to Ame. "I have brought a message to you from the Fox Clan. My lord King Kurama wished to meet with you lady Tsunade. Will you meet with my king?" the little purple fox asked. She told the fox that she would meet with him. The fox nodded, and then disappeared in a puff of smoke. There was tapping on the window again. Their jaws dropped as they saw the Kyubi sitting outside the window. They didn't understand why or how he was so small to be sitting outside the window.

Tsunade opened the window that she had been standing next to, and the fox jumped into the room, and then sat on the coach Ame was on. He watched them carefully. "Let me start be saying this is not my true from, I have shrunk myself so that I could sneak into the village to meet with you.

The reason I have come to talk to you, is a very simple matter… I have come to talk to you about the girl. She has signed the contract, a feat that in of itself is a great accomplishment. There are many requirements to sign it." He paused as he looked at the girl behind him. "I saw into this girls mind, heart, and soul. She is the second purest thing alive that I have ever encountered."

"So what exactly do you want?" Jiraiya asked.

He looked to the older man. "First of all, she hasn't had a wonderful life at all. She has had one almost identical to Naruto's, just without the beatings, the mobs, and the hate glares from the village. She has been alone for so long. She is smart, and strong. Those are two things that are required to sign the contract. Next I saw that she has potential that hasn't even been tapped. She will be a beautiful woman when she grows up. I wish to take her now to the village and teach her the ways of the Fox Clan. She will be taught Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Funijutsu, and Genjutsu… she will become a Sage, just like you, Jiraiya, only she will be the Fox Sage."

"How do we know that you won't take this girl and warp her mind to be a weapon against us?" Tsunade asked.

"Well, that is simple, Naruto will train her to be an honorable, and great woman."

"What do you mean Naruto will train her? You know where Naruto is?" Jiraiya asked in complete shocked.

"YOU DAMN DIRTY FOX!" Tsunade yelled. She stood up, and slammed a fist into her desk. The desk smashed and broke into thousands of tiny pieces. In a swift movement she had grabber Kurama and had slammed him into that wall next to the door. "Where is Naruto?" she asked venom laced into her every word.

Kurama laughed darkly. "You think that your anger and petty threats could get me to tell you." he chuckled softly. "He is in the fox village, and he is happy. You see I showed him what Lord Hyuga and several of your Clan Leaders thought about him. He hasn't decided if he is going to return or not. I have told him not to. But he says that he will stay until he is ready." He told her.

Tsunade released him, and walked back to her desk. "You may take Ame with you, but she is to be treated like an ambassador, and she will be considered a ninja of Konoha. You got that FOX?"

Kurama smiled his evil fox grin, and gave a nod. He then wrapped his nine tails carefully around Ame and they disappeared in a puff of smoke.