Chapter 14 is here, can you believe it - I'm still trying to! Sorry if it is a little shorter then the others. I'm working on the Windows 98 my parents let me put in my room, then I'm taking it to our XP. Diffrent fromats and stuff ya' know...
Anyway - Feed Back Time
To PuppetMaster55: I'm so glad you find Naru-chan so adorable - I love him this way too! :3 More cuteness in this chapter, plus blood... *I'm an evil author-heheeehee*
To Grocamol: Better to have much cuteness then too little-right! And you can never be to cute with Kitsune Naruto, he is uber kawaii!
Echo Uchiha: I love that you LOVE it! :D
Nargus: You will have to wait and find out. ;)
And finely to HoroSeishi: You are amazing - thank you for all the reviews and all your kind words! It really kicked me into gear with writing the last chapter! I hope the story continues to live up to your expectations. As for fan art - I wanted to dance around when you said that. I can't wait to see what you draw! Lot's of cookies for you! *thumbs up*
Alright as for this chapter, there are spoilers to the manga - because I am a spoiler addict. Hope nobody minds to much. As always, you guys are wonderful and I am so greatful for your reading and support! I hope every one is having a good holliday - even those not celibrarting!
Oh and as a Christmas recommendation for those who like 'Cute Naru Storie,' Road to Recovery by Grimmore - .net/s/5423600/1/Road_to_Recovery - is a must read! It has Kakashi and Obito in it. Mostly it revolves around a rehabilitating Obito who survived the bolder crushing accident that killed him in the cannon. Naruto comes in a few chapters later and is a big inspiration to the Uchiha. FYI Obito is my favorite character right next to Naruto - I mean who can deny the awesomeness that is wearing goggles? Check out her second Naruto 'one shot' as well, 'Whiskers'. It's also a good read!
'till next time
Jya ne!
-TheNineTailedKitsune
Chapter 14 – Two Tails
Naruto growled playfully from his spot atop a large rock. It was late afternoon and his Tou-san had gone out to hunt with out him today, so he was determined to bring back his own game, and show off to his father. Of course like the child he was, he got himself distracted imagining strong foe's that he would defeat with a wave of his mighty tail.
"I'm the great Fox Prince Naruto no Kitsune-the strongest demon who ever lived!" he shouted from his perch. Of course he wasn't sure he would ever by the strongest demon – that was his Tou-san's place after all. But he was definitely going to be as strong or close to his fathers power someday. He had to be if he was going to bring all the Bijuu back, and set the demon realm strait!
"Tsk, looks like a little pup's wander a bit far from his home." An unfamiliar voice announced making the kitsune turn. It was a pack of demons Naruto had never seen before. They didn't look like foxes with their long limbs and stone colored bodies. They walked upright on their back legs, but seemed able to use there front limbs like a beast as well. Long fur ran down their backs' and to the tips of their tails.
Naruto wagged his own tail. "Hi – wanna' play with me?"
The one in the middle snorted, and it sounded like gravel through his nose. "Since when does any true demon play? You call yourself the strongest demon who ever lived, ya' look more like a snack to me!" he snapped his jaws close to the kit's face sending Naruto falling backward off the rock. He landed on his bum with a cry.
"Ouch – that hurt!"
"Really, so will this." There was a sharp pain as another demon came up from behind, and bit hard into his tail. He yipped trying to run away.
"Uh – why'd you do that?" Naruto snarled, backing up against the side of the stone he'd just been clambering on.
"To make a point little 'Fox Prince'. You're no longer in Fire Country, and we don't like trespassers around here."
"Eeeerrr – I ain't trespassing!"
"Really? Then what's a brat like you doing on the edge of Stone territory?" the she demon to the right asked licking her lips. She was hungry, but there was always time to play with your food.
Naruto looked around himself. Stone country? His father had said they were near one of the other great kingdoms. That was why he'd wanted Naruto to stay put and not wander off. Of course his kit ignored him, and finely bit into trouble far too big for him to chew. Naruto growled at himself when he noticed the sky around him had turned a deep purple grey. A single moon-like sun was high in the sky.
Finely he got the courage to bite back at his opponents. "So what – The Nine Tail's has supremacy over the entire demon realm!" It was true. Kyuubi was the strongest out of all the demons, and was the greatest king. He could wander as he wished.
"Phee, Nine-Tails eeh? You don't look much like a Demon Lord to me kid." The second male chortled maniacally.
Naruto hissed as he took a step closer and puffed up his injured tail. "I'm son of the Kyuubi no Kitsune – I'm not afraid of you!"
There was more wild laughter.
"Son of the Kyuubi no Youko huh – that's funny – I've never heard of a Demon Lord bearing children with anyone! Why would the King of Demon's bother with a pathetic worthless creature like you?"
Naruto felt his face heat up beneath his fur, and his eye's flashed deadlt azure. "Shut up!"
The first demon to have addressed him bent down close to him and sniffed. "You smell more like a human then a demon – what are you a hanyou brat?"
That did it, Naruto slashed out with his claws digging into the demon's face. There was a hissing cry as he fed chakra into the wound.
"Got a bit to close Hiroki?"
"Shut it Morro!" Hiroki, the demon who Naruto just injured looked furious. "Come here little dung pile – I'm going to break you in my jaws!"
Naruto just growled even more deeply, and snarled brandishing his sharp teeth. "A little disgusting you want to chew on crap – even more so because you must be blind!" the fox kit darted forward faster then the eye could see, and there was a sharp pain in Hiroki's right flank.
Jumping back Naruto spat out the blood. "Taste like dirt."
"Don't worry, your going to be licking up more when we bury you!" the female hissed and pounced on him. Naruto's ears went back and he prepared himself for attack.
Kyuubi entered the small cave he and his kit had spent the night in. He dragged the corpse of a large four antlered deer behind him, and then dropped it out of his jaws sniffing at the air.
'Where is that kit?'
Usually Naruto would be right there when he brought back a kill, rambunctious and loud as ever to get his share. It always amazed Kyuubi how much his little one could eat.
But today there was no clambering fox pup, no shouts of excitement at his arrival. "Naruto?" he called in a demanding voice.
No answer.
'He must have snuck off again.' Kyuubi sighed, shaking his great head before he left the cave. It wasn't hard to fallow his kit's trail, and as he did he became increasingly unhappy. 'I told him to stay put – why – why does the boy never listen?' Kyuubi sped up as he passed over the boarder into Stone Country. It wasn't long before a strong gust of wind sent him the odor of blood. He snarled digging his paw into the earth, making it shake with each step.
Naruto readied himself for the attack and bristled with a sudden thrill. These guys were nothing but idiots! Lower class demons who had misjudged their opponent. In a flash he had torn through the female's neck, and she was unable to move with out pain.
He hissed as Morro tried to snap his right foreleg in his jaw, being thrown into a position that put his back feet on the monsters forehead. He scratched out catching the stone demon's eyes. There was a howl of pain. Naruto just jumped off his face landing in front of Hiroki. Blood splattered his glowing orange fur. He bared his teeth threateningly in a way that said, 'Leave now, because I'm willing to spare your pathetic lives.'
Hiroki on the other hand just licked his lips. He had gotten a whiff of this foxes blood, and it intrigued him. He may have smelled like a human, but the demon could already feel the kit's sweet taste on his tongue. 'The sweet taste of innocence…'
Once again Naruto was gone in a blur of movement. Hiroki's body dropped to the earth like a stone. The demon didn't even have the chance to realized he was dead.
Naruto snarled over his kill and went to finish the other two. Morro was easy with out his eyesight, and went down even faster then Hiroki.
"So I never caught your name." Naruto's eye glinted as he looked up at the she demon.
"As if I would ever tell you!" she hissed jumping out of his reach. Naruto just shrugged his furry shoulders, "Oh well." and sprinted after her. But instead of going directly for her throat like he had done before, he disappeared behind her. Soon he was on her back and whispering in her ear. What was eerie was that his voice still sounded like that of a child.
"Remember this in the next life; I'm Naruto no Kitsune, son of the Demon Lord Kyuubi, and you were an easy kill."
He radiated such a killing intent over her that her body dropped to the ground lifeless. Hopping off of the corpse the little fox kit began to preen his furn. The blood was awful on his tongue, and he wanted nothing more then to be rid of it.
That was how Kyuubi found his son, after a massive amount of malice had fallen over the vicinity sending him relentlessly forward. Crouching beyond some rocks he analyzed the situation, only to find his kit licking his fur clean surrounded by dead yokai.
Naruto's ears perched up and he sniffed the air through the blood. "Tou-san!" he cried in delight as Kyuubi showed himself. His kit was running around him happily, until he looked back at the demon bodies his father was staring at.
Had his kit really taken down three rock demons?
"Naruto…"
"They attacked me first and said I smelled like a human." Naruto growled then whimpered with his ears back and tail between his legs. "I gave them a chance to leave, but they wouldn't go away."
Kyuubi shook his head, and looked down at the little bloodstained fox his eye's catching something new about his kit.
"Naruto turn around for me."
"Huh?"
Kyuubi nudged him with his nose and the boy complied. The King of Demons paused. So his eyes weren't playing tricks on him.
"What is it Tou-san?" Naruto asked innocently, then noticed his father was eyeing something behind him. Naruto cringed. "One of 'em bit my tail…" he pulled the fluffy extension around him and began to lick the wound. It was a surprise when not one, but two furry objects collided with his face. He yipped a bit in surprise; "Aahh!" then wiggled both of them.
"Look-look Tou-san-I got two tails!" he shrieked and began to run around excitedly, any pain forgotten. "I got two tails – two – almost as many as you Tou-san!" he rolled on his back cutely right underneath Kyuubi's nose.
Kyuubi blinked and bent down to sniff him. Through the blood there was a strong new sent of power much like his own. He nuzzled the two tails with the tip of his nose, then licked some of the blood off his kits paws making the young one giggle. "Indeed you do."
"I told them – I said I'd be just as strong as you someday!" Naruto grinned back up at him as Kyuubi lifted him by the scruff of the neck.
'You did well kit.' Kyuubi sent the thought to his son and could feel the pride radiating off of him. 'But now you need your rest. It's time to eat, and stone demons taste of nothing but dirt.'
Naruto nodded his head vigorously. If Kyuubi weren't carrying him, he would have seen the look of disgust on his kit's face as he stuck out his tongue. "Yeah-it's gross! I wanted to bring big game back for Tou-san! I wanted to show how strong I was!" his ears drooped and tails fell loosely at never finding anything edible to eat.
'Little one, you have shown me a great deal of your strength.' Kyuubi answered brightening his son. Naruto purred happily all the way back to their cave.
"What are we going to do today Tou-san!" Naruto hopped from the trees to the ground as he followed Kyuubi through the forest.
"Training kit, we are going to see how much stronger you can become."
Naruto whooped and ran ahead of him. It had been little under a month since the incident with the three rock demons, and he wanted to make sure his kit was fully healed. It didn't seem like he had to worry though. Naruto it seemed healed just as fast as Kyuubi, though demon inflicted wounds were harder to mend. His kit had so much potential, and after seeing what he could do Kyuubi had remembered his promise to the jonin Kakashi.
He smirked. His kit was by far stronger then any genin. The only thing he lacked was experience, and it seemed even that wouldn't stop him.
"I'm ready Tou-san!" Naruto barked, jumping in front of him, and launching on Kyuubi's muzzle. His big cerulean eyes sparkled with delight and mischief. Kyuubi shook him off gently and he continued too dance around. Even after the transformation Naruto was just as hyperactive as ever. As a demon with increased chakra, this had only strengthened his reserves ten folds.
"I've got two tails-two-two-two!" Naruto sang giddily swinging both back and forth. He'd been taking care of them for days, making sure they were always clean and soft. Soon he would be a great demon like his Tou-san. "Two tail fox-two tail fox!" A moment later there was something holding onto both his tails and was pulling him backward.
"Aww-Tou-san-"
"Calm yourself little one. I have something to teach you."
"Oo-oo-what?"
Kyuubi let him go and sat back on his haunches. "Watch."
Naruto's fur tingled as he felt the presence of chakra forming around them. His father had pulled all of his tails forward pointing them at his open jaws. A black energy ball formed in his mouth. A moment later he let it go and there was a thunderous boom. Trees fell away, and earth crumbled from the path the chakra globe carved through.
"Woooowwww!" Naruto gaped then turned to Kyuubi. "Teach me pleeeaaassseee!" he begged. Kyuubi couldn't help but smile a bit.
"Gather your chakra to the center of your mouth and contain it there, then release."
Naruto nodded vigorously, and took of the same position his Father had a moment ago.
"Alright, here I go!" he shouted, and sucked in a deep breath as he gathered chakra. He didn't really understand what chakra was, but he recognized the similar power he and his Tou-san had. Mimicking the larger fox he released the energy from his mouth. There was a cry as he was sent backward and the chakra dispersed around both of them.
"Gaaahh!"
"You let go a bit soon kit. You need to keep the 'Beast Ball' rotating constantly."
"Huh? Oh-okay!" Naruto nodded his head and picked himself back up to try again. There was a determined look in his eyes. After his fifth try still flaying backward with the force of his own chakra the kit pouted in annoyance.
"This is hard!"
Kyuubi chuckled and nuzzled him. "Practice kit."
"But I wanna' learn it now!"
Kyuubi just rolled his eyes. He knew how suborn his son could be. "It's time to hunt."
"Uh, um – you go Tou-san. I want to keep trying!" Naruto gave a determined growl and barked with a grin. "I know I can figure it out eventually."
Kyuubi was right; he was stubborn as ever. With that the demon king was about to leave the clearing they'd made when he turned back. "Remember you have two tails kit. Put them to use."
Naruto cocked his head letting one ear droop confusedly, but his Father was already gone. He sat down and squinted his eyes in his 'thinking position.'
'What did he mean, 'Put my tails to use'?' He brought his tails up to his mouth just as his Tou-san had. So what else was he doing wrong.
'You have to keep it constantly in balance and rotating…'
The thought entered his mind, but he didn't recognize where it had come from. Wasn't that what his Tou-san had said? Okay, he needed to keep the chakra spinning, but what else?
'…focus, keep it balanced and contained…'
He blinked, that was right – he needed to be moving his power in unison, along with keeping the energy from bursting out right. His problem was that he didn't have enough control. Again he scrunched up his eyes and thought wiggling his tails all the while.
He' d been so focused on bringing the energy up to his mouth, he didn't bother to think what his tails were doing. Standing he situated himself again and began to gather chakra. He held it in his mouth for as long as he could until-
"Eeerrr!" he growled and yipped as he was flung backwards again. He must have landed on his head just the right way this time, because the answer hit him as if he had known all along. With a wide grin he got to his feet and glared at an especially thick tree. "Heehee…"
A moment later there was boom and crash, as something exceptionally large toppled in the forest.
Kyuubi not to far off smirked. Birds fled from the trees when an even louder shout came through the forest.
"YEAH - I GOT IT!"