Mythic Beings

Summary: What if there was more than the Kyuubi sealed with in Naruto. Open the book to magical beings of mythic legends.

Full Summary: At the same time that the Kyuubi was rampaging through Fire Country, thirteen beings are on trial for acts they have committed. When their counsel finds that their crimes are extremely heavy, Shinigami-Sama is charged with finding a place to seal them. A little while later the death god is summoned by the Yondaime to seal the Kyuubi into a baby. Taking this as his chance the Shinigami places his charges into the baby, however a seal that was meant to hold one can hardly hold fourteen properly. It is with the help of his questionable tenants that Naruto becomes a shinobi of legend, that he himself becomes one of these Mythic Beings!

Warning: Shounen Ai with the possibility of yaoi! Don't like, don't read! Possible bashing! Strong smart Naruto! OOCness! Cursing! OCs! Violence! Unedited! Lazy authoress! The plot bunny might hop away!

A/N: Hey I've decided to rewrite this fic because like with a lot of my other stories, if not all, I have changed writing style slightly and lost sight of my plot. So here it is the new Chapter 2 I hope you like it and please R&R! Anyways there is a slight crossover with a couple of different movies/shows/legends I wonder if you can figure out what ones.

Disclaimer: Sadly I own nothing except the OCs and maybe the plot… a big maybe on the plot.

"Talking"

"Demon/summoning/Inner Sakura/ enraged Jinkurichi talking"

'Demon/summoning/ Inner Sakura/ enraged Jinkurichi thinking'

"Mythical creature talking"

'Mythical being thinking'

'Thinking'

Justus

~~~~~~~Dreams~~~~~~~

(Flashback)

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Chapter 2; Meeting a Kitsune

About three months has paced since Naruto's little episode, three months since the young blond had a decent night's sleep, three months since those horrible nightmares began to haunt him with the terrify monstrous canines and their eerie glowing red eyes.

The blond stood in the middle of one of the training grounds trying to catch his breath and taking note of the positions of his various kunai and shuriken.

He had been working on his accuracy since he got out of the academy earlier that afternoon, but now it was late and he was starting to tire. His arms and legs were beginning to burn from the constant motion of throwing his weapons and the jumping and running around he did to hit different targets at different angles. His lungs worked over time to try and pull in the cool night air, as his heart thundered from the exertion.

Even though his body protested he hadn't yet reached that bone wariness that would prevent dreams, so he went around the clearing and picked up his weapons to do it all again. He found that if he was truly exhausted enough then he had a better chance at not having that same nightmare, or at least not remembering the majority of it.

That made for more sleep than if he were to just go to bed normally, and to him that was good.

(Scene Break)

"I guess that's enough for tonight." Naruto gasped out two hours later.

Collecting his weapons for the last time that night the blond heaved himself home, stumbling here and there as his legs tried to give out on him. After reaching his apartment he made a beeline to his room, sleep taking him before his head could even touch his pillow.

Cerulean eyes took in the now familiar settings of his nightmare; the pitch black buildings that was the same shade as the ground and surrounding trees, the sky that was the color of freshly spilled blood, and the huge daunting orange moon that looked way to close.

A shiver ran down his spine at the familiar screech that always came before the dragging thumps of the slow broken footfalls. It was time to run, because the chase had began and he would rather run into those horrible dogs then face the creature that was behind him again.

He had did that once, figuring that nothing could be worst then the hellish hounds and his zombified precious people but he was wrong. Oh so very wrong; it was hard to look at for its appearance was never the same for more than two seconds. It was rotten yet whole, disproportion-ed yet it had no form, it was all of his friends yet no one he knew, it was all of his fears mashed into one blob like being. And yet the worst part about the creature was its smell, one so putrid, so pungent that the smell coated his tongue and gagged him, it caused his stomach to curl in on itself and his eyes to tear. A smell that was so powerfully foul that it followed him into his consciousness and was all he could smell or taste for the rest of the day.

Naruto shuddered as the false fear that had been clouding his mind was replaced by true fear, causing his pace to pick up.

Once again, like every other time he was forced to have this dream, the black dog appeared in front of him, blocking certain paths and herding him towards the forest.

'I wonder why it doesn't want me going there.' He felt his eyes narrow as another hound appeared cutting him off again.

Making a quick decision, Naruto continued on the path he was going and was completely surprised when he ran straight through the dark hound. He was even more startled when his surroundings abruptly changed, turning from the black Konoha with the red sky and orange moon to a dirty sewer system.

Stopping a little ways from the opening the blond looked back to see the black hound. "Aw come on Naruto-kun, why don't you come back this way so that we can play?" said the dog in a growling voice as it paced at the opening to the sewer.

Shaking his head fiercely Naruto turned and ran down the dim damp tunnel, determined to make it as far as he could from the opening.

(Scene Break)

Naruto huffed in annoyance as he took another turn only to come to a dead end once again. The tunnel that he found himself in was nothing but a giant labyrinth and he was beginning to think that he may never find his way through. Just as his hope was all but lost the blond spotted a red glow at the end of the hall that he was in.

The opening branches out into a large cavern that had huge bars carved into the back wall. Directly in the middle a small paper with the kanji for seal kept the two behemoth doors closed.

Wondering over the nine year old peered into the dark depths of the cage, "W-what the hell!" he yelped when a giant paw landed where he was once standing.

"I missed." A dark voice rumbled as the paw retracted and a pair of huge red eyes appeared floating in the darkness.

"What are you? Where are we, and why does everything try to kill me here?" asked Naruto near hysterics.

"I am the great Kyuubi no Kitsune!" The voice boomed as its owner shifted closer to what little light there was, "We are currently in your mindscape, in the part where the seal holds me to be more precise. As for the last part of that question, don't you ever lump me together with that lowly mutt." Kyuubi sneered down at the blond as a tremble shook his tiny body slightly.

"So you're the reason that the whole village hates me!" The blonde sighed gloomily, turning away from the demonic being in front of him. "They'll never see me for myself if that's the case." He continued not noticing the lights dimming even more than they already were.

"As much as your pain amuses me, I'll have to point out that if you don't stop with the depressing thoughts we won't have any light at all and this place will become even more filthy and flooded." The fox felt slight guilt and annoyance warring inside of him as he watched the young boy in front of him. 'Even if he is that bastards son, he's still a kit therefore he needs to be protected.' He thought grumpily.

"So that black Konoha is a part of my mindscape too, does that mean that that dog is seal within me also?" The blond asked after a while.

"Yeah, he probably means to turn you crazy or something like that. However since I hate his existence I will try to redirect you here whenever he brings you to your mindscape." Kyuubi said as he stared at the boy and his surroundings contemplatively.

"But I have never heard of anything like him before!"

"You wouldn't have, you humans don't really know about much." Letting out a sigh of resignation the feared Kitsune looked down to the young boy in front of him. "If your ever plan on reaching that ridiculous goal of yours, you will need training."

"Are you offering to train me?" Naruto exclaimed in excitement.

"Yes, however I want you to wake up, place some candy out in a corner and leave your window open. The candy should preferably be something that tastes like honey if you have it." The Kyuubi said as he lay down with his paws crossed.

"What for?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Just do it and you will find out." With that the blond was thrust out of his mind.

Naruto woke with a start glancing around, he found that it was still dark out. Sighing the blond went over to where he kept his secret stash of candy, picking out a couple of pieces he went to his messy kitchen and opened the small window near his flower pot. It was behind there that he placed the candy.

With that done he trudged through his dirty room and went back to bed.

Mindscape

"So Kyuubi-sensei what will I be learning first?" Naruto asked as soon as he reached the room that the fox was held in.

"The first thing that you will be learning is that my name is not Kyuubi." The Kyuubi said dryly as he shifted into the light.

"It's not, than what is your name?" Blue eyes widened in shock at that piece of information.

"My name is Akihiro, though during lessons you will address me as Kyuubi-sensei." The fox waited for his new student to nod in understanding before continuing, "The first lesson will be chakra control, I want you to stick a leaf to your forehead for as long as you can."

"When will I learn awesome jutsu?"

"I'm not teaching you jutsu."

"What, why not?" Naruto exclaimed.

"I'm a demon we hardly ever use jutsu we minipulate our energy to do whatever we want it to, so why would I know human jutsu?" The Kyuubi snorted in irritation, "This brings us to our next topic, I will be giving you some enhancements so that you can do what I want to teach you." Akihiro motioned the blond forward with one of his tails.

"How am I supposed to stick the leaf to my head?" The blond asked as he squeezed into the cage, "And what kind of enhancements are you going to give me?"

"You will need a lot of concentration at first to stick the leaf to your head, other than that just channel your chakra to the correct spot." The Kitsune wrapped a couple of tails around the boy in front of him channeling his youki and chakra into his Jinchuuriki. "As for the enhancements, I will be strengthening your senses, they will be weaker than a hanyou's but stronger than any other ninja's. I will also alter your chakra network slightly so that you will be able to wield some youki without causing as much damage as it will normally. This will allow you to perform some demonic abilities, it'll be kind of like a Kekkei Genkai."

"Kyuubi-sensei, what's youki?" Naruto asked, his voice muffled by the thick fur of Akihiro's tails.

"It is the energy that we Youkai use to execute most of our attacks."

"So it's just a fancy word for chakra?"

"No, it's the 'spiritual' portion that makes up chakra. It's a lot more potent too, that's why it's dangerous to seal us inside of humans because you guys can't manipulate your own spiritual energy never the less handle a demon's." Akihiro stayed silent for a while allowing Naruto to process the information he gave him so far. "Now all of the changes that I made should be done in about a week's time, I don't want you to be overwhelmed so I spread the process out."

"So do you want me to train here or when I'm awake?" asked as the Kyuubi's tails pulled away from him.

"Both places, it would do you good to learn how to manipulate your mindscape."

"How do I do that?"

"It's a simple process, just concentrate on what you want to make it appear."

Naruto nodded as he focused on what a leaf looked like and he was mildly happy when one appeared in front of him immediately. His joy was short lived however when he saw that the leaf had eyes and fangs.

"Okay, this might take longer than I originally thought." The Kitsune said as he watched the leaf try to eat his container.

(Scene Break)

Naruto sat in one of the empty training grounds like he had been doing every day, after the academy let out, for a month. So far he had been able to keep the leaf stuck to his head for about three and a half hours with little to no concentration; he was also able to control his mindscape to an extent. That really helped him get out of those horrible nightmares faster when Akihiro was unable to prevent them.

"I think about another week of this and we can begin tree walking." The Kyuubi said.

'Kyuubi-sensei, how come you know these exercises but not any jutsu?' Naruto thought back as he continued the leaf exercise, determined to beat his record.

"Because demons came up with them, a long time ago our races got along better than they do now and demons taught humans how to harvest some of their energy. They of course went ahead and created jutsu after learning that."

'Oh… I still don't see why you made me leave that candy out by the window.'

"I'm not going to tell you, you will just have to wait and see for yourself."

'But when will I see?'

"You will definitely know when that something happened when it happens."

Sighing in defeat Naruto accepted the fact that he will never get anything out of the fox about that subject. 'So what will I be learning after these chakra control exercises?' He thought as he broke his record.

"I will be training you in the abilities you gained from my Youki and how to properly control my powers." The Kyuubi paused in thought, "Both of those require exceptional chakra control so I wouldn't dare begin on those until you have completed all of the exercises to a satisfying degree."

'When do we start to learn what powers that I received?'

"Well first I am going to teach you how to properly learn to use your senses. I am going to make a mighty fine tracker out of you." Naruto could just image the glint that would light the fox's red eyes. "Then we will see what your chakra affinity is, I believe that shinobi have a paper created to help figure that out. Then after we work on all of that stuff we will begin on your demonic abilities."

Sighing once again the blond looked around to find that the sun had already set and the full moon was high in the sky.

'I can't believe I held it there for about six hours.'

"Hmm, maybe we can start the tree climbing exercise tomorrow, you will of course still have to continue this one too."

Grunting in agreement the ninja in training stood and carefully made his way home, he didn't want the leaf to fall off now after so much progress was made.

"I'm home!" Naruto called out uselessly as he made his way through his messy living room to the equally dirty kitchen.

Eating a quick dinner of a couple of cups of ramen the blond trudged through the stuff on the floor to his bed.

With another sigh he flopped down on his bed and fell asleep quickly.

Mindscape

Naruto made his way down the familiar tunnel ways to the cavern that Akihiro's cage was held in.

"So what are we going to be doing tonight?" Naruto asked as he squeezed through the bars to sit right in front of the large fox.

"I want you to make this place into a forest so that we can begin the tree climbing exercise."

Nodding the blond concentrated hard on what he wanted his mindscape to look like, he smiled in satisfaction after opening his eyes, not even realizing that he had closed them, to find a stunning forest clearing.

It was surrounded by beautiful colossal ancient trees, each with the kanji for seal carved into its trunk. In the middle was a gorgeous tree that appeared to be a weeping willow, it was also a very old tree judging by how tall and thick it was.

To the right of the willow was a crystal clear stream that branched off from a small lake that sat directly under a waterfall.

To the left of the willow tree was a lush field, with soft green grass and beautiful flowers decorating it here and there with splashes of color.

He and Kyuubi were sitting in the entrance to a large cave that sat at the bottom of an enormous mountain.

Looking around the Kitsune grinned, "Not bad Kit, this place is actually wonderful you should keep it like this!" Akihiro watched in slight amusement as his kit practically glowed with the compliment.

Naruto was startled as a flash of light suddenly engulfed his mentor, when the light faded away it revealed a young looking man where the fox once stood.

The man had flowing long burgundy hair that complimented his flawless tan skin that was wrapped around a lean figure. Golden cat-like eyes stared at the blond out of an angular smirking face. The only way Naruto was sure that this was the Kyuubi, besides the fact that he watched him change, was the red fox ears poking out of his hair and the nine red fox tails swishing merrily behind him.

Akihiro smiled revealing sharp fangs, "Are you surprised Kit? This is one of my more humanoid forms."

"I didn't know you could do that." The blond said with a frown.

"Why not? Kitsune are expert shape-shifters and illusionist."

Shrugging Naruto changed the topic, "What do I have to do?" He asked as they walked towards the willow tree.

The blond absentmindedly noted that there was a stone path leading towards that large weeping tree. As they neared it both were mildly surprised when the hanging branches in front of them parted on their own. Inside of the curtain of leaves was a large space, it had medium sized smooth rocks in rows with one up front near the trunk, it reminded Naruto of a class room.

"For this exercise you will need to direct a certain amount of chakra to the soles of your feet to stick to the tree. Too much chakra will propel you off and too little will cause you to slid down." Akihiro said as he sat on one of the rocks lotus style.

Naruto nodded as he walked through the rows towards the tree, stopping a little ways away he began to channel his chakra to his feet.

"Here's a suggestion Kit, take a running start it makes it easier."

With a look of determination the blond charged at the tree, barely making it a foot before falling back down to the ground.

'Well this is going to take forever!' The kitsune thought as he watched his kit once again try and fail.

Morning

Naruto woke up feeling grumpy; he barely made any process with the tree climbing exercise and he had a mild headache. Stumbling out of bed, sill mostly sleeping, he made his way to his bathroom for a steaming hot shower, or an icy cold one as the landlord usually cut off his water heater.

After he showered, brushed his teeth, and dressed, the blond went to the kitchen to have a breakfast of ramen. He was half way through his third cup when something finally registered in his brain.

"My house is clean!" He exclaimed in shock as he turn away from his food to inspect the shining surfaces of his counters and table. "I didn't have to trudge through mounds of trash, or search for the least dirty outfit to wear!" Momentarily abandoning his ramen the blond thoroughly explored his sparkling apartment.

"I think you should give up your hopes of ever becoming a ninja if this is how observant you are going to be." The Kyuubi chuckled out.

Huffing in annoyance he finished his food and rushed out of his house, not wanting to be any later to the academy.

'I wonder how my house got cleaned?' Was the last lingering thought as he docked the rock that sailed towards him.

TBC

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