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Chapter 9 – Someone is coming to dinner… Sort of…

After setting up camp and getting the fire going they all got into their sleeping bags. Sokka asked why Naruto and Hinata were in the same bag only to be smacked gently in the back of the head by Katara. "They are married so they can do that. We should talk about what we do next in the morning. I am glad to have met you Hinata and Naruto. We are sorry for things not going well for you both. Good night and thank you very much for the food."

"Lemur!" Aang yelled causing everyone to jump. The lemur from earlier had brought some fruit to Sokka. "Your name will be Momo."

As everyone got settled again Aang went over by Naruto and Hinata. "I can tell there is something different about you. I will not press you but I can tell. You can tell me when you are ready." Aang then smiled and acted a little less serious. "I would love to learn those jutsu thingies. I trade bending for jutsu, deal?"

Naruto smiled at Aang with a foxy grin. "Works for me, now let's get some sleep."

That night Naruto is restless as is Aang. Naruto's demon chakra leaked out thus disturbing Hinata. Aang went into his Avatar state disturbing Katara. Both girls saw this and looked worriedly at each other. "What is going on?" Both ask each other.

Hinata had an idea what was going on with Naruto. She looked down at Naruto and saw that his whisker marks were darker, his hair was wilder and his canines slightly stuck out of his mouth. Katara knew what was happening to Aang but was not sure how to stop it. Katara was looking at Aang, his tattoos were glowing a bright blue white. Both girls jumped when they heard a loud noise. They looked over at Sokka to see him snoring very loudly. Both girls giggled at this. A look of worry returned to both of their faces as they looked at the boy they cared about and were not able to do anything for them.

Aang found himself lying in shallow water in a concrete hallway. He picked himself up and found that he could feel a slight rhythmic breeze. He followed the breeze to its source. He found a large room with a double gate and a piece of paper stuck across the front of the two doors. He also saw Naruto lying on the ground in the water.

Naruto slowly got up. "Hi Aang. You can come in and meet my secret." Naruto grinned and pointed to the gate and back to Aang. "Secret, Aang, Aang, Secret…"

A sinister laugh came from behind the gate.

"Okay Aang don't freak out but my secret is a little weird." Naruto said as he scratched the back of his head.

An even louder cackle came from the gates.

"Shut up you damn fox." Naruto yelled at the gates to the confusion of Aang. Naruto got a serious look on his face and looked at Aang. "You know about demons, right?"

Aang nodded, "I know of them, but they are just legends. I know about spirits more as I am the bridge between the spirit world and the real world, or so I have been told."

Even more laughter came from the gates also some rustling sounds like something was rolling around.

"Well Aang, demons are real. And I have one inside me." Naruto looked at Aang to gauge his reaction.

"How can you have a demon inside of you? I am sure you are not a demon. So how? And who keeps on laughing." Aang asked as he looked intently at the gate.

"Well… You remember me telling you about sealing?" Naruto asked as Aang nodded. "Well a demon attacked our village around the time of my birth, actually the day of my birth. He was called Kyuubi no Yoko, the Nine tailed demon fox. And I got the privilege of having him sealed in me to save the village, by my father. Thus begins the tale of my life."

"Sorry." Aang said softly.

"It isn't your fault. I have had to deal with this all my life. I have known about fluffy…" Naruto said while point over his shoulder towards the gates. There was a low growl from the gates at his statement. "For about two years now. And thus the reason I had a hard childhood. Mistreatment, abuse and attempted assassinations, were the fun I have had."

"That is terrible."

"As bad as you think and worse, than you can imagine. The fox heals me and gives me his chakra. So you want the whole story? I am sure you want to know more about this." Naruto sweeps his arms wide as if showing off the room as Aang nods.

"Well here is where the fox and I converse. He is held by the seal on the gates thus he cannot escape. Even though he is dead, has no body and thus he will not be able to go anywhere, he still wants out. I can control the chakra he gives me up to about two tails worth of chakra. I get hurt if I push it that far for too long. He is the reason I was kicked out of the village, well sort of, it was part of it." Naruto expression turned sad.

"You should tell the great Avatar your story kit. I am humbled at least somewhat to meet an actual Avatar." Kyuubi told Naruto and Aang.

Naruto nodded and started to speak. "Well I guess I will start at the end of the academy, where I learned the truth about Kyuubi. One of my teachers tricked me into taking a sacred scroll. I learned the shadow clone jutsu from it while waiting for him to come and get me. It turned out to be a trap and that he actually wanted the scroll for power and kill me so he could cover up his transgression."

Naruto took a deep breath and continued. "I was able help my other teacher capture the traitor. I was then placed on a team. It seemed like I had a place for a little while. We were able to do missions and work together at least on a basic level. Oh and I had a slight crush on the girl on my team, Sakura. She continued to mistreat me, oh well…"

"What about Hinata? You are married to her so what happened?" Aang asked.

"You didn't quite listen too well when Hinata told you did you?" Naruto asked as Aang shook his head. "That is okay. Well we went through the chunin exams. A chunin is the next rank for a ninja. We all failed to understand the test but we did ok up until the finals. Hinata had a hard match against her cousin but I tried to inspire her to continue. I succeeded but she was hurt very badly. I was then matched up again her cousin. Thanks to Hinata's encouragement I won my match against Hinata's cousin. They made up after I beat him in the chunin exams. We are friends now." Naruto happily said.

"My team and I went on a few more missions. One to the country of Snow, where helped an actress who actually was a princess. Then things started to fall apart. I think that that the curse seal was having an effect on Sasuke or something like that. He was always worried about getting stronger but he was changing. Then there was Sakura… She would love to punish me physically for making even the smallest of mistakes, oh and she was infatuated with Sasuke to boot. Some team we made, the loser, me, an emotional wreck and avenger, then there was miss I love Sasuke fan girl." Naruto spoke with an irritated voice.

"We had one last mission before Sasuke tried to leave to that bastard Orochimaru. Sasuke got hurt but as his wounds healed he was not able to take that I was able to increase my abilities so quickly. While he was improving he felt as if he was standing still. So we had a fight, we nearly killed each other. He left the village soon after that. I was sent with some other friends to find and retrieve him. We succeeded but it was costly. While none of died we were all injured." Naruto took a couple breaths in an attempt to calm himself down. He had felt his features changing, his nails and canines were elongating.

He looked at Aang who had a surprised look on his face. "This is what happens when I get emotional and access the Kyuubi's power. I look like a monster don't I?"

"While it is surprising, I don't think you look like a monster. You have not attacked only transformed. I agree that it is different but still it is not that bad. I am sure that the Kyuubi does this to help protect you in times of distress." Aang replied.

"Yes I guess so." Looking down at his clawed hands, "But this is what happened when I went up against Sasuke. I fought him, not to kill him, like he was trying to do with me. I wanted to bring him back not as a corpse but alive. He on the other hand went for the kill." Naruto lifted his shirt revealing three nearly circular spots of lighter colored skin. "See where he put holes in me? Thanks to the Kyuubi I was able to take that kind of damage and live."

"And you would be so lucky to have access to my power kit. I will not let you die if I can help it. You have earned my respect. I still hate you as my jailor but I respect you kit." Kyuubi growled from his cage.

"Straight from the fox's mouth." Aang said jokingly causing a laugh to come from the cage.

"When I woke up I was in the hospital. I was going over what happened when Sakura came in and berated me for what I did to Sasuke. I had fought with all I had and apparently was able to knock him out. She was only too happy to let me know how much she liked what I had done. I was bandaged up and their precious Sasuke had a bump on the head." Naruto was scowling at the memory.

"Now comes the good part." Naruto mood changed to a foxy grin. "Hinata-chan came in and defended me from Sakura. Sakura let it be known that Hinata-chan liked me, I was stunned but happy. Hinata-chan comforted me while Sakura continued to degrade me. Then Tsunade baa-chan stopped her cold. But did my misery end there? No, life had more for me to endure. The village council for what it is worth declared that I went too far in fulfilling my duties in bringing back Sasuke, so I was to be banished. They then had the gall to say that Hinata-chan and others were too be married to that bastard."

"Well Hinata's father was not going to have Sasuke as a son-in-law if he could help it. So he came up with the idea for Hinata-chan and I be married. Hinata-chan is the sweetest girl in the world and I would never want to hurt her. She wanted me to be her husband, she loves me, and I have only begun to understand why. As it stands now I am beginning to love her in return but I am not sure on what it all entails as I grew up alone and despised by most." Naruto continued as his emotions were on a rollercoaster from retelling his experiences.

"We were married that day to save her from a life with that bastard. We left the village a week later as proscribed in the exile proclamation. We have been together ever since, training and helping me try to understand what love is. I do know that I could not live without her anymore. She is all that I could hope for and know that I am so undeserving of her." Naruto's frown turned to smile, "But I try to be worthy of that love, as she loves me and there is nothing that can stop that. I look forward to every day I get to spend with her."

Aang wiping tears from his face as the fox is laughing in his cage.

"That is so…" Aang says but does not continue his thought.

"Come on kit, take your prize she is your mate after all!" The fox chimed in.

"Shut up you damn fox! We will deal with that when the time comes!" Naruto yelled shaking his fist at the cage.

"You know you want too… She is a fine vixen… You won the lottery in game of love kit." The fox continued to taunt Naruto.

Aang started to laugh at the two arguing back and forth. "You guys sound like Sokka and Katara when they fight. Like siblings I guess."

"Great I am related to a stupid fox." Naruto crossed his arms and huffed. He did smile after a moment realizing how silly he and the fox were being. The fox was rolling with laugher in his cage. "So do you hate me for not telling you it all to begin with?"

"No Naruto, I do understand why you have kept this… Secret." Pointing to the cage, "That is one heck of a secret." Aang stood and bowed to the cage. "It was nice to meet you all powerful Kyuubi and prisoner of Naruto. I am sorry you are imprisoned."

The fox chuckled, "I too am honored to me an Avatar. As for being a prisoner I was tricked into this by someone and I was not pleased but I have become used to this existence as I had the one before. Naruto I will tell you of this later, when I believe you are ready."

Both boys woke to find their heads cradled in a female's lap, Naruto in Hinata's and Aang in Katara's. Both girls seemed to be crying. Naruto reached up and attempted to wipe away Hinata's tears.

"I am so sorry if I worried you Hinata-chan. Aang got to meet someone." Naruto weakly smiled.

Hinata leaned down and kissed Naruto on the lips. "Of course Naruto-kun, I was just worried because you were leaking red chakra. And Aang's tattoos were glowing. We were both worried. I was worried that I would lose you."

Naruto slowly sat up and moved into a hug with Hinata. "I am sorry, so sorry. I didn't know that this would happen. I don't even know what happened." He squeezed Hinata again. "Aang do you think Katara and Sokka should know also?"

Aang smiled and nodded. "I think we should tell Katara now, but Sokka can wait until morning." Looking up at Katara, "Katara listen to him before you judge anything. He has quite a story to tell. And you will be both shocked and amazed."

Katara nodded as she wiped the tears from her face and listened to Naruto's story. And she was shocked and amazed. Shocked by how callus people were to him and that he carried a demon. She was amazed that he carried the burden of a demon his whole life. She was angered with the treatment he received and happy that he turned out to be such nice guy.

Sokka woke the next morning to a shocking sight. Hinata was sleeping on top of Naruto in their bag. But what shocked him even more was that Katara was snuggled up against Aang. He started poking Aang with his bone hammer. This disturbed Katara waking her up.

"What do you think you are doing Sokka?" Katara asked while gritting her teeth.

"Trying to figure out what he did to you so that you would be cuddling with him." Sokka ask nonchalantly.

"We had a rough night, which I might add you slept through. I needed comfort almost as much as Aang did. So let us sleep." Katara laid her head back down and pulled Aang even closer to her just to spite her brother.

"So what did I miss Appa?" Sokka asked the sky bison.

Appa just let out a low bellow.

"Oh is that all? Well I guess I just wait until they wake up and inform me." Sokka said as he went over to Appa and lay down against his tail.

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A/N: Hope you enjoyed the meeting with Fluffy… Oh and no nothing has happened yet in with Naruto and Hinata in the lemon department. Hey they are only thirteen so they should wait a little longer.

Next chapter the fun causing Zuko to go crazy…