Secret Inside Me

by Turmanarmo

"Fine, if you insist I will tell them, but when they reject me and I lose my friends you all know whose fault it was." Naruto must divulge his biggest secret, but how will his friends take this knowledge and will things ever be the same.

9. Smelly Chakra

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As Naruto wondered down the paths to his destination he noticed that someone was following him before that someone called out to him, "Hey, Naruto what are you doing out here."

Naruto turned back and shouted, "Well I was looking for you Kiba, where is Akamaru?"

Naruto turned around again when he heard a bark behind him and proceeded to pet the dog saying, "There you are, you are way better than Kiba, even if I can't understand what you say."

Kiba landed and growled out, "Watch it baka, or I just might have to beat you into respecting me. Anyways what is it you wanted to see me for, do you want to spar or something?"

At Kiba's feral grin and Akamaru's excited yip Naruto chuckled, "Well that wasn't exactly why I came to find you though I am never opposed to more training. Maybe after our discussion if you still feel like doing so we could spar, it might be fun for me to make up for that embarrassing win in the Chuunin exams by handing you a more proper defeat."

Kiba growled as Naruto finished with a smirk before he heard Naruto state, "So anyways, on to what I came for, we need to talk for a bit, got any suggestions for a private or generally awesome place to hold this conversation."

At this Akamaru was actually the one to bark and head off into the forest to which Kiba and Naruto followed while Kiba said, "He claims to know just the place, though I am not sure where we are headed."

After a short walk they arrived at a hill that allowed them to overlook some of the surrounding forest but was quite a ways from the populated areas of the village. Naruto looked around before saying, "Wow Akamaru, you picked an awesome place. This will be perfect."

As the three of them sat down Kiba decided to say, "So Naruto, what was it that we needed to talk about and why did it have to be done in private? Hopefully it's not something embarrassing."

Naruto Hmpfed at Kiba's smirk before saying, "You don't have to worry about that Kiba, What I have to talk to you about is a village secret, that is why It has to be done in secret."

Kiba raised his brow as he scoffed, "Why would you be telling me about a village secret. That seems pretty suspicious to me."

Naruto glared at Kiba, "Honestly Kiba you know me, I wouldn't do anything to harm the village, and I am telling you because Tsunade-Baachan told me to. The reason she told me to instead of telling you herself was because she figured you guys would take it better from a friend than from her or something like that."

Akamaru barked and Kiba said, "Hmm I guess your right you baka, but I also have to agree with Akamaru, you smell nervous for some reason."

Naruto raised his brow skeptically before asking, "You can smell my emotions, how does that work?"

Kiba laughed as he said, "Well Akamaru is better at it than me since he can 'smell' your chakra as well so he can detect the patterns that show nervousness and stuff of that nature, sort of like a really good sensory ninja. However, even without that ability you smell abnormally of sweat despite the fact that it is perfectly nice out and you haven't been doing anything which is a good sign of nervousness. So whatever it is you have to tell us must be pretty scary if it is making you that nervous."

Naruto nodded before continuing, "Yeah that makes sense I guess. You really are pretty cool Akamaru if you can 'smell' Chakra. Hey Kiba, before we get started I have a question for both you and Akamaru, since you two rely on scent to detect someone from a distance you must have a pretty good idea of what I smell like to you. If possible, could you describe what you think I smell like, I am just curious. Also, if you could tell me what you think my Chakra smells like Akamaru that would be awesome."

Kiba looked confused for a moment as he asked, "Why do you want to know what you smell like to me, that seems kind of odd. Ah well, for me a person's smell is a mixture of things. The main components of your scent would be kind of hard to describe. Obviously I smell Ramen on you as usual, but the other scents besides that are a bit more difficult to describe. There is the sweat from your constant training and the smell of the district you live in Konoha. Obviously like all Konoha Ninjas you smell of the forest itself a bit and there are a bunch of other smaller things."

Naruto snorted, "Okay that makes sense and is pretty cool, now what about Akamaru?"

After listening to some barking and other noises from Akamaru Kiba responded, "Oh! That is interesting, Akamaru says that he smells basically the same things as me for your normal scent though he would also add that he thinks you smell very very faintly of fox for some reason. As for your Chakra, Akamaru isn't sure, he says you normally suppress your Chakra pretty well so he has a hard time scenting it, but from our battles with and against you in the past he says your Chakra is very dense and strong compared to most peoples Chakra. He also says that he is pretty sure you have a whole lot of the stuff but once again you seem to be suppressing it naturally."

Akamaru yipped again and Kiba added, "He also says that when we fought in the Chuunin exams your Chakra was strange, it seemed lower and somehow out of whack, which is strange."

Naruto hummed in response before saying, "Well he is right I do have quite a bit of Chakra. And I had forgotten about that incident back at the chuunin exams, honestly knowing what I know now it is even more amazing that I beat you then given my handicapped state.

Kiba snorted, "Yeah right Naruto, everyone went into those fights tired from their previous days in the forest, stop trying to talk yourself up."

Naruto growled back, "I will admit that me beating you by farting was a fluke and if I hadn't done that I would have had a much harder time winning that fight in my state, but that doesn't mean I was lying just then. According to what Ero-Sennin told me later I had a part of my Chakra forcibly sealed off from the rest and that seal on top of making me have slightly less Chakra also ruined the tiny amount of Chakra control I did have at the time. Dattebayo"

Kiba glared back as he said, "As if Naruto, I highly doubt any of the genin in the exams would have been capable of applying that type of seal to you."

Naruto looked confused as he said, "Wait, didn't you know that our team was attacked by Orochimaru during the second phase. That is where Sasuke got that curse seal that messed with his head making him even more of a teme than usual and caused him to defect."

Kiba raised his eyebrow before he heard Akamaru bark. He then said, "No I hadn't heard about that, though apparently Akamaru did so I guess I believe you."

Naruto snorted before saying, "Well at least Akamaru is informed though I suppose Jiji might have tried to keep it secret at the time. Anyways, when we were attacked I tried to protect my team from the Hebi-teme so to get me out of the way he attached a seal to me that apparently was designed to make me even less of a threat to him and it also had the side effect of knocking me out temporarily. In our fight it probably wouldn't have made a terribly huge difference but it still would have given me a better chance of beating you in a fair fight."

Naruto continued, "But anyways back to Akamaru smelling my chakra, let me try something and then have him do it."

Kiba raised his brow as Naruto closed his eyes and seemed to be almost meditating before he suddenly started to visibly glow blue which caused Kiba to say, "Wow man you weren't kidding when you said you had a lot, even I can sense that. You are literally radiating Chakra. So Akamaru what do you think?"

After some barking and such from his ninken Kiba continued, "Well Akamaru says it's like he said before, it is very strong and thick and in large quantities but he also says that it feels like something is missing. Oh and he also says that your chakra smells nice which is an interesting compliment from him."

Naruto nodded before closing his eyes again and saying, "Okay now once more."

After a short pause Naruto looked back up and Kiba noticed his eyes were red and his whisker marks had seemingly spread out on his face. He also seemed to have developed some feral traits similar to him when he and Akamaru fight such as longer fangs and claws. At this observation he also noted that Akamaru had started growling at Naruto and slowly backing away.

After a few seconds Naruto laughed lightly and suddenly the changes to himself faded away and he returned to normal at which point Akamaru whined before sitting down again and communicating with his partner.

Naruto scratched the back of his head and said, "Sorry Akamaru, I didn't mean to freak you out there, I just wanted to test something out, so what did you think of 'my' Chakra that time."

Kiba finally looked back up and said, "Okay that was weird Naruto, I haven't seen Akamaru ever react to an ally that way though he absolutely demands that the Chakra he just smelled was an enemies and not yours. He claims it smelled to 'evil' to be a friend. And what was up with the transformation, it seemed a lot like the transformation an Inuzuka goes through when we are using our Beast Human Taijutsu."

Naruto nodded as he said, "Well to be fair I am not overly surprised at Akamaru's response, he is right that Chakra I used is rather tainted I would say. As to the transformation, it is an unfortunate bodily response to using that chakra."

Kiba looked confused as he asked, "You are making no sense, what are you talking about. How can you have tainted Chakra?"

Naruto looked thoughtful before saying, "Well I have two sources of Chakra inside my body. First is the one I showed earlier which is my own Chakra and the reason Akamaru thought it was missing something is because I normally have a small amount of the second Chakra running through my coils and when I was showing the first I was completely suppressing the second Chakra. This second time was a bit more difficult, I suppressed my Chakra as much as was safe and then drew on a bit of the other chakra, just enough that due to its potency it would outweigh my own and Akamaru would primarily sense it. However before I go into further details I want to know what Akamaru thought of it, Shino's insects thought it was poisonous and were afraid of it, what do you think Akamaru."

After a short period of back and forth discussion Kiba reported, "Akamaru feels similarly, he says that the Chakra seemed vile and dangerous. He noticed that it was even thicker than your own and smelled distinctly like fox for some reason. Also he and I want to know how that Chakra doesn't burn you up since it is so corrosive in feel."

Naruto hummed as he said, "Well that all makes sense and believe me it does burn a lot, and I currently feel like I am itching all over on the inside while my chakra heals the damage. Normally this Chakra, which I am going to call the 'red' Chakra is in such a small amount in my system that it is just supplementing my own and adds a healing factor to me. Which I know makes no sense, but apparently when it is mixed in with my own chakra, which I will call 'blue,' like that it becomes less destructive and actually helps my body."

Naruto continued, "When I use the red Chakra a lot it slowly wears down my body until I start to go numb and the more of it I use the more extensive the damage. For instance, the amount I used with you is what I like to call my initial state, it hurts the least and I have never needed to hold it long enough to do much actual damage to myself. Plus while it is active due to the shear amount of Chakra running through me my accelerated healing is massively sped up so I heal faster than I am damaged."

Naruto glanced off to the side as he said, "After that if I use a bit more I will start to glow like I do when I max out my own Chakra though it will be red and it often flutters around more wildly and occasionally takes shapes like the tendrils of Chakra that formed around me during my fight with Neji. Though shortly after that level I will literally start to form a Chakra shroud that looks almost like a liquid forming around me. At this point the damage is more sever and after a short while of using it I will start to go numb in my extremities."

Kiba looked shocked at this as he said, "Wait a minute, your red chakra can form an actual layer of Chakra around you. Not only does that sound excruciatingly painful, I can't even imagine how much Chakra that would take just to form."

Naruto grimaced as he said, "Oh believe me that is just the start of it and yeah it hurts a lot. After I form the shroud it takes on a fox like appearance and as I pump more Chakra into it the shroud grows tails. I have never actually been past four tails but both times I did so I lost consciousness and from what I was told it isn't pretty. Apparently at that point the Chakra is so corrosive that it literally peels off my skin and I begin bleeding into it so bad that you can no longer see me under the cloak it just looks blackish red. It also apparently heals me so quickly that I am constantly losing and regrowing my skin which was unbelievably painful for the few seconds I was conscious before passing out."

Kiba looked horrified before he blurted, "Then why the hell would you use that if it does so much damage, even if it makes you insanely powerful I can't imagine why you would ever want to use that power."

Naruto nodded as he said, "Well to be fair when I first used the initial state I wasn't fully aware I was doing it since my body just reacted as a way to defend itself. And the first time I used the cloak I only went to one tail and it was again brought out of a need to defend myself during my fight with Sasuke. When he sent a Chidori through my lung I started using the initial state to heal that and gain a slight advantage. However, when he did bushy brows move and broke my neck I ended up letting a bit more out and that was the first time I grew the cloak."

Naruto looked up when he heard growling from the other two as Kiba said, "The Teme nearly killed you twice, why didn't you ever tell anyone this."

Naruto shrugged at this before saying, "Well at the time I was so ashamed about it that I didn't want to talk about it with any of you guys, but I did tell Tsunade-Baachan during my mission report though I don't know if she ever told anyone else or not. Anyways, from there during my trip with Ero-Sennin he tried to get me to have better control of my red Chakra and so he had me use more and more of it and train with it which eventually lead to the four tails event. However, I have recently come to the same opinion as you, the power simply isn't worth the risk and so I have decided to stop using it unless I absolutely have to. Of course the reason for that had less to do with how much damage it did to me and more to do with the danger I can become to others, apparently when I lose consciousness in the four tails form the evil Chakra takes over and keeps moving for me 'tebayo."

Kiba frowned before saying, "You sure are a strange one Naruto though now that I think about it, why do you have two Chakra's I don't think I have ever heard of such a thing before."

Naruto looked thoughtful before he said, "Well to be completely honest, I didn't even know about my red Chakra until the night I graduated. As to why I have it I suppose you could say my little curse was given to me as a nasty birthday present, but to explain that we are going to need a slight story change, sorry."

Kiba huffed as Naruto continued, "As you may or may not know I was born on the same day as the Yondaime's death. At the time he was fighting the Kyuubi to their fabled death match. However a fact that some do not know about the Bijuu is that since they are made entirely out of Chakra they cannot be killed in the normal sense. If you kill one all that happens is they disappear and reform a few years later. So the Yondaime being the Hokage needed to find another way to deal with the beast so he used his vast Knowledge of Fuinjutsu and sealed it inside baby me which is why I have a second source of Chakra."

At this comment Kiba chocked on air and Akamaru whined before they both noticed Naruto lift his shirt up and channel some Chakra which caused a seal to form on his stomach. Kiba winced as he said, "Bum deal man, is that why all of the adults in the village always smelled so agitated when you were around. I always wondered how you had managed to make them all pissed off at you, I mean I know you were annoying but still."

At Naruto's indignant hey Kiba burst into laughter. After a bit Akamaru barked a few times which caused Kiba to take on a slightly thoughtful look before asking, "Hey Naruto, Akamaru wants to know if there are others like you, he is pretty sure he has felt this type of Chakra before he just can't remember where."

Naruto nodded, "Yeah, there are I have only ever met one other Jinchuuriki before though. The one he is likely thinking of is Gaara although when you first met him during the Chuunin exams he was being heavily influenced by his tenant the Ichibi and was also being driven insane by the fact that everyone in his village hated or feared him. Plus his own father trying to have him assassinated surely didn't help things."

Naruto stopped when he heard Kiba and Akamaru growling again. He decided to ask, "Hey what's got you two all wound up?"

Kiba ground out, "We just don't like hearing about people being abused by their own pack. It is bad enough when the village at large hates you, but to have the very people who are supposed to watch out for you turn on you, that is just so much worse. Don't get me wrong we aren't particularly happy about how the larger pack treats you here in Konoha, but at least you have developed a pack of your own that trust you."

Naruto smiled as he responded, "That is an interesting way of looking at it Kiba, though I kind of like it." At this Naruto smirked before saying, "Though in our little pack I am definitely the alpha."

Kiba growled out, "Don't push it Baka or Akamaru and I will be forced to put you in your place."

A few seconds later both parties burst out laughing and once they were done they were both smirking as they thought about their unique friendship. Sure they were both hot headed and argumentative at times, but they both understood each other's barbs were in jest and even if they would outwardly react to them they both knew that it was there way of joking around.

After a while Kiba looked over at his friend and said, "Hey Naruto, why were we never told about this before. I mean it clearly seems like all the adults know about it so why not us?"

Naruto snorted before saying, "Well as you so nicely pointed out earlier, how did the adults react to me? They all knew just as much as you know now and they choose to be afraid of me or angry at me. How do you think you would have reacted if you were told as a kid that there was a kid at your school that had a demon inside him?"

Kiba looked like he was about to protest before he dropped his head and said, "I suppose you are right, I probably would not have reacted well at the time especially since I didn't know you that well back then."

At this admission Akamaru whined lightly before Naruto smiled and said, "Don't worry about it that is why Jiji made it so that none of you guys could know about it. That way I would have a chance to make real friends, even if the villagers tried to sabotage it by telling their kids to stay away from me. In the end though they couldn't stop me from befriending you guys and I wouldn't have it any other way. In all honesty I would say I am doing pretty good, I have ten friends who will stand by me no matter what, one wayward friend who I will bring back someday, and if I can reach him I may get another friend soon in Sai. Plus on top of all that I have a bunch of adults who are precious to me as well."

Kiba snorted before saying, "I guess you have built yourself a mighty fine pack, even if you are starting to get all mushy on me right now."

Akamaru barked in agreement as Kiba smirked before saying, "But seriously Naruto, I am glad you told me about this. Thank you for trusting Akamaru and me with your secret. It means a lot to us that you did this, even if it was slightly ordered by Tsunade-sama. And know this, even if you aren't the alpha of our group like you seem to think you are you will always have Team Kurenai's support."

As Akamaru barked once more Naruto smiled and looked up before saying, "Thanks Kiba. That means a lot to me. Now if you two are still up to it I would gladly prove to you my status as Alpha 'tebayo."

Akamaru and Kiba stood up with feral smirks to match Naruto's before they stood across form one another before forming the seal of confrontation and then getting into their ready stance.

Kiba crouched down and Akamaru performed a Henge into Kiba before they both dashed at Naruto at full speed. Naruto called out, "You are definitely fast Kiba though Bushy Brows is still faster."

Naruto created a few Kage Bunshin and formed a circle to defend and keep an eye on Kiba's attacks. Suddenly Kiba and Akamaru attacked from both sides using Gatsuuga. Naruto and his clones waited until the last possible second before jumping out of the way but Kiba and Akamaru managed to veer to the sides and only slightly injure each other with the attack. As they glanced off each other they changed course and headed straight for Naruto in the sky and managed to get there just before Naruto could use a Bunshin as a springboard to escape.

Taking the full force of a Gatsuuga sent Naruto spiraling into the ground and as he got back up he was covered in scratches and shallow cuts. Naruto grinned before performing another Kage Bunshin and having his clones form up into groups of three as they charged at Kiba and Akamaru at the same time. They engaged the pair in Taijutsu but it was only a matter of time before they dispelled due to their Bunshin status. Needless to say the two were slightly confused when all of the Bunshin dispelled leaving no Naruto.

They both sniffed simultaneously before looking straight up into the oncoming fist of Naruto and another Bunshin. Akamaru managed to dodge in time but Kiba wasn't as lucky as he took the full force of the blow and landed hard with Naruto sitting on top of him. Naruto raised his hand to deliver a punch that would hopefully leave Kiba hurting even more before his hand suddenly was bitten by Akamaru and he was pulled off of Kiba violently. Unfortunately for the two of them the one attacking Kiba turned out to be a Bunshin as well and Akamaru was surprised when he suddenly felt Naruto jump on his back.

Akamaru struggled to get his attacker off but Naruto held tight as Kiba dazedly got back up only to be met by another Naruto who quickly engaged him in Taijutsu to try and keep him confused. Eventually Akamaru managed to dislodge Naruto from his back who surprisingly enough turned out to be the real one before dashing to help Kiba. As that Bunshin dispelled the two stood side by side again as they performed another Gatsuuga and plowing towards Naruto.

Naruto managed to perform a Kawarimi at the last second replacing himself with a nearby log before he hurled a Kunai at the rotating duo as he shouted "Kunai Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" sending literally hundreds of Kunai at the pair. The two were hard pressed to deflect all of the Kunai and received quite a few glancing blows because of it but they were not prepared for the Naruto Bunshin army that followed up the attack.

As time passed there were many more attempts to best one another but in the end they stood opposite each other panting and silently agreed that at the moment there was no victor so they walked up to one another and performed the Seal of Reconciliation as they both fell to the ground laughing.

As they lay there Naruto gasped out, "Well that was definitely a much more fun fight than our Chuunin exams bout. Though I am sad that we couldn't prove who the victor was. At least we had fun and got to train some in the process."

Akamaru barked in agreement as Kiba stood up and said to his friend and rival, "So I guess that concludes our time together, who else haven't you told yet?"

Naruto stood up as well before saying, "Well I only have Neji and Hinata left to go, I was mostly just deciding these at random but I have been actively avoiding the one with Hinata. Any time I am around her she always faints or stutters really bad so I am not sure how well this conversation will go over with her."

At this Kiba burst out laughing while Akamaru whined as Naruto said, "What?"

Kiba looked back over at his friend as he said, "Nothing, Nothing my baka of a friend. Have fun telling those two and see you later."

As Kiba and Akamaru hopped into the tree in the direction of their compound Naruto decided to walk back and as he headed for his final destination of the Hyuuga compound he wondered what that was all about before shrugging to himself and deciding it wasn't worth worrying about.

Well that was another fun Chapter, Kiba seemed pretty easy to write since he acts a lot like Naruto a lot of the time, they are both loud and boisterous people who like to believe they can do anything regardless of the facts. But at the same time they both care a lot about their friends and would do anything for them. Hopefully I did him and his faithful ninken Akamaru justice in this chapter and hopefully you liked how I chose to reveal it this time. Also, hopefully the Fight scene wasn't two cheesy, I felt like at this time in the story most of their friends are equals, they are just better at specific areas. So I decided that with the two people who would most likely want to spar with Naruto they would be close enough that it would be possible for them to have a draw like I did with both Kiba and Lee.

Anywho, with 4739 words this one is decent length once again, at first it seemed like it was going to plow right through and maybe match Ino's but then as I reached the 3000 word point the conversation seemed to quickly want to wrap up and so once the fight scene was added it did not quite make it. Ah well, Hope you guys liked it and please review. See you next time as we tell the Hyuuga pair in the next two chapters.