A/N: Next chapter… to anyone who reads it. Chapter updated!

Foxy Problems

He was lying on a bed, that much he knew. His eyelids felt like stones, but managed to lift them.

He was in a small room with a bed, a desk and a lamp but other than that it was empty. His acute hearing allowed him to hear voices from another room.

He heard Kakashi and Tazuna, and there was occasionally a woman's and boy's voice. He propped himself up onto his elbows and slid off the bed.

After he went down stairs and past the small hallway, he saw another door where Kakashi and the others were. He opened it. He looked at the dining table and saw his teammates and Kakashi there, as well as Tazuna and a woman and a boy younger than himself.

(Earlier)

Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura, Tazuna, a young woman and a small boy are sitting around a table.

"Ok, Naruto is not dangerous, so no need to worry. But I will have to tell the Hokage about this." Kakashi said.

Everyone nodded, except for the small boy. "Mama, what demon is he? Aren't demons bad and kill people?"

Tsunami looked at Inari and smiled, "No Inari, the demon wont kill you." Then looked at Kakashi with a look saying 'Right?!'

Kakashi looked at her seriously. "Of course, remember, he is just a boy."

That's when the door opened.

"Uh, hi." Naruto said weakly. "Hello Naruto, how are you feeling." Kakashi said.

"Oh, uh, yeah I feel fine Kakashi-sensei." He replied looking sad. "I'm sorry about before, I guess I went a little overboard."

There was a pause. Naruto studied their faces. The small boy was looking at him curiously, but seemed to be depressed from something inside, the young lady who he assumed was the boy's mother studied him for a threat but apparently only found a boy.

Sasuke and Sakura were slightly frightened, but the days of doing missions together had decreased their fear.

Since Kakashi's face was covered, it was hard to tell what he was thinking, but his eyes were soft and caring, one of the few people who saw Naruto as a regular human being living in this world.

"Naruto," Kakashi started, "did you purposely transform and were you in control the whole time?"

Naruto thought back, when he was watching Sasuke getting hurt. He realised that, deep down, he did want to transform. No, he needed to transform to save him.

"Yes." He replied.

Kakashi smiled. "It's alright Naruto, you aren't in any trouble. Anyone who doesn't like it can go talk to the Hokage about it. And me for that matter."

"Thanks."

"You still won't be able to beat him." Said a small voice. They turned to see Inari had spoken. "You'll all just die, Gato will kill you."

Naruto glared at Inari. "Listen kid, do you really think a mortal like Gato could kill me? And I've already beaten one of his highly classified ninja."

Kakashi sighed. Naruto's boastful nature was seeping through.

"He won't let anything stop him! He'll hire a hundred ninjas to beat you if he has to!" he cried out and ran upstairs.

"What's wrong with him?" Sakura asked.

Tazuna replied with sadness, "It's a long story. Ya see, Inari's father died a year ago, and Inari missed him terribly. One day, he jumped into the sea after a bully threw his dog in, but he couldn't swim. Then a man named Kaiza swam in and saved him. From then on, Inari thought of him as his father."

"He was considered a hero because of the many times he saved our village. But then Gato came. He found Kaiza a threat and crucified him with the village and Inari watching. Now he has lost all hope."

Tazuna and Tsunami both had their heads down in despair.

Sakura spoke first. "Don't worry Mr Tazuna, Mrs Tsunami, we'll set you free."

"Ofcourse will beat him, we're ninja!" shouts Naruto.

"Humph." Sasuke says.

"That's the spirit." Kakashi said with a closed eye smile.

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"All right team, today we're going to do a simple tree climbing exercise." Kakashi said.

"…Kakashi-sensei, you do realise I learnt to climb when I was five, right?" Naruto says. Well, since I've been human of course.

"Yes Naruto, I think I am aware of it.' Kakashi says playing along. "But did you learn how to climb with feet only?"

Sasuke and Sakura looked surprised, while Naruto looked suspicious. Then he suddenly jumped. "Ohhh, I get it!!" And promptly walked to the tree, surrounded his feet with red chakra, lifted his foot parallel to the tree and stomped as hard as he could.

The chakra instantly drilled into the tree and once out on the other side made a sort of hook and held. He did it with his other foot and repeated until he was up to the first branch.

"See, easy as pie!" he shouted.

Kakashi sighed and shook his head. Well that's what you get when you agree to train an powerful demon. "Naruto, although that is very original, I was thinking of a method that won't kill the tree." He said as he pointed to the holes Naruto's chakra had created.

"… Oh." Naruto said and jumped down off the branch and landed beside Kakashi. "So how do we do it?" he asked.

"Well, you've got some of it right, we're going to use chakra. But unlike Naruto, we are going to surround our feet with chakra and use it like glue, sticking our feet to the tree trunk, like this"

Kakashi walked to the tree and made the ram sign, making light blue chakra surround his feet and, to the amazement of the genins, walked up the tree… without killing it.

"There," Kakashi said looking down on them upside down on a branch, "now try that."

"Easy!" Naruto exclaimed and walked to the tree, made chakra surround his feet and put his foot on the tree.

Unfortunately, Naruto's chakra was so powerful he immediately burst of the tree and creating a huge hole in the poor tortured tree in the process.

When the dust settled from his landing, Naruto, who was blown off his feet, looked at Kakashi and said, "Great. Now I definitely killed it!"

Kakashi jumped down and looked at Naruto on the ground. "Hmm, this could be a problem."

"I'll probably be able to put less chakra in, but that will take time."

"Then you can learn water-walking."

"What! But I hate water!"

"It's an important skill to learn, Naruto."

"Argh, fine."

A/N: So sorry it took so long. This chapter has been updated after my 15th chapter. Much of the information in this chapter is very different from the original.