Kitsune can be like Phoenixes chapter 4 - The basics and the risks

"…Well, you won't get the full story, but you will get the basics."

"Why do we only get the basics?" Gwen inquired.

"Because the entire story isn't mine to tell. Basically, where Naruto here originally lived was a world with hardly any technology and was constantly at war. There was a single Tailed Beast at the time, so powerful it could easily move continents, create massive tsunamis, and set off catastrophic eruptions, and it possessed 10 tails in all. A man, the Sage of the Six Paths, or Rikodou Sennin, sealed the beast within himself and split it into nine pieces. Each had a different number of tails. Kurama here-" Kami gestured to the kitsune.

In return, the massive humanoid raised his hand with a "Yo."

Kami continued. "-is the ninth of them. The Sage spread bits of his power and techniques, which were turned into chakra and jutsu over the years. Skip forward to around Naruto's time. His parents were the leader of his village, Minato Namikaze, and the holder of Kurama at the time, Kushina Uzumaki. They were powerful shinobi, ones that you would never want to cross. Each was capable of taking out an entire army by themselves."

Many eyes widened and jaws dropped at that.

"They were married in secret, and somehow it was kept secret that Kushina was pregnant with Naruto. The birthing was also supposed to be kept secret, but somebody somehow found out where it was taking place. A female Jinchuriki's seal - that is, a female tailed beast container - is weakened during birth, so Minato, one of, if not the most adept seal master, had to be by her side to keep the seal firmly shut. Kurama didn't help matters whatsoever."

"Hey, one, I was close to freedom after maybe 150 years, and two, I wanted to get as far away from a psychopath asap."

"Going on, long story short, Kurama was put under a Genjutsu, an illusionary technique, Minato and Kushina died of sacrificing their soul for Kurama to be sealed into Naruto and the repercussions of having Kurama be ripped out respectively, and Naruto was left an orphan, with nobody but a select few knowing who his parents were."

The finally named Naruto spoke up. "It wasn't fun. At all. It sucks to be an orphan, and if I could, I would be strangling a psychopath. Sorry, continue, Kami."

"Alright. Skip about 12 years. Naruto was never told about Kurama, or his parents. He had failed the academy test for graduating to become a ninja three times due to being sabotaged. For example, being taught the wrong fighting form, and being shown the wrong hand seals for a jutsu, along with being told the wrong chakra output. Just so you know, too little chakra, you'd get a small version of the technique, the slightest spark of energy, or even nothing at all. Too much, and it can blow up in your face. Literally.

"Moving along, events led to Naruto getting in a team. A very dysfunctional one. The teacher and leader was a lazy man who gained too much of an ego due to his accomplishments, one of his teammates was a girl who was a screeching fangirl of the final member, a boy who grew up with just about everything given to him. After some more events, which brought upon tension within the team, it all led up to a fight. A pretty massive one."

"What do you mean, massive? What did they do, punch each other? Do the duplex maneuver?" Gwen questioned.

"Ah, it was bigger than that. It, uhm… involved throwing each other into cliffs, firing, well, fire at each other, lets see…Naruto here nearly having his heart punched through, but instead being hit through the shoulder, and I mean through. Oh, and even underwater battling, and possibly nearly destroying a waterfall."

Everyone's eyes were wide (again) and their jaws were trying to catch flies (again) Gwen managed to compose herself enough to ask Naruto: "…Be-Naruto, really?! What-how the heck did you-?!" Well, try to ask. It was a good attempt, the two beings and the reincarnated soul understood what she wanted to ask.

"There's something you apparently don't truly understand, Tennyson. Chakra is a very powerful energy. You compare it to your Mana, but it is much more. While chakra is in every living being, like mana, chakra is much more versatile. You do remade spells with mana, and usually have to speak in incantation. Chakra can be directed through hand seals to make techniques, or even be formed by pure will. One can breathe fire, rise chunks of earth to make a wall, make dragons of water, even hold lightning in the palm of their hand with chakra. There's a single technique my container knows, where you simply hold pure chakra rotating in all directions. The technique, called a Rasengan, can drill though solid stone when it's just the size of a baseball. Oh, and Naruto can currently make one the size of an elephant. Finally, chakra grows in amount and power as a ninja grows." Kurama then gave a small smile, as if it were normal for a single person to be so destructive. Well, it kind of was, considering the fact that Naruto was just one of many ninja, and just a chūnin in unofficial rank, which these people didn't really need to know at the moment. Or was he of higher rank? Kurama checked, and his eyes widened unnoticeably so. Yep. He was definitely a higher rank.

Back to the people, the plumbers looked just about ready to faint, Gwen and Kevin were looking at Naruto incredulously, Billy was thinking that trying to de-age 'Ben' was either the best idea he ever had and the worst, Max had run out of stuff of bang his head against, and Rook was just standing there with his back slouched, eyes wide, his pupils mere pinpricks and his tail hanging limp.

There was silence for a minute or two, before Kami decided to finish retelling the basics of what happened. "Long story short, Naruto died of his injuries, and Sasuke either escaped or was caught by other ninja. It's most likely the latter, since his injuries would prevent him from moving quickly. Now that story time is over, do you think you can get that stopwatch from Billy now, and possibly lock him up? I'm gonna just send all these robots back to their dimension."

With a wave, the robots were gone. Kami saluted, and faded away, taking the city's damage with her.

"…just so you know, that's gonna be the one and only time Kami helps. As a Goddess, she has restrictions, one of them being to not interfere too much with mortals. So if s*** hits the fan, we're on our own. And somebody handcuff Billy before he goes through with any ideas."

Everybody whipped their heads to Billy, who had been trying to tip-toe away. Gwen adopted the 'Scolding Mother' pose, and an eyebrow rose. "You still need to turn my cousin and his partner back to normal."

Billy slowly turned around and straightened his back, before clearing his throat. "W-well, I hadn't thought of Ben possibly being a reincarnation. As such, I have no idea how aging him back into a 16-year old will effect his body. He could go to look like not-no-regular looking 16 year old Ben, or he could turn into what Naruto would've looked like at 16, or he could turn out as a mix of the two. And even that could go in many ways. It could range between being a simple hair and eye color difference, to growing extra limbs. Re-aging him has many risks, but the most likely outcome is him being aged into Tennyson, with a slightly different color, since 16-year old Naruto technically doesn't exist. At least, physically. Are you willing to risk all that?"

I never really have anything to say here, so I'll just say this. Please please please PLEASE review! Tell me if I made any mistakes, what you think of my story, any of that jazz. Have a nice day. ~Wulfie