And I'm back! Just like I promised!

Now, I'm not sure if you guys know, but I still have no idea where I'm going with this. I'll just go along with canon and change minor things. No biggie!

Anyways, I don't own Naruto. If I did, I'd give my best friends sneakpeek of the manga.

As they sat across from each other on the ground in front of the house, Kakashi nodded, still digesting everything the demon just told him. It made sense now. Naruto's control over the shadows, the way he was actually able to outrun every single ANBU in the village and barely even be out of breath. And when he was listening to how Akyo met Naruto, he thought it amusing Naruto could talk to foxes and dogs. Only the Inuzuka were known to do that, and he was sure he had seen something like it somewhere. When he was still a teenager...

He shook his head, filing that thought for a later time. He turned to the funny demon, who began cleaning his canines with his claw on his index finger and asked, "So you're not going to kill us, nor try to free the Kyuubi, correct?"

Shishi nodded, then said, "Yes, but if the Uchiha finds out about this and asks to have our power, he will suffer. I don't care if your his brother, his uncle, his brother's roommate, his sister's husband, his father's cousin's boyfriend, or even if your just his friend. He'll be in for a world of massive pain. It's just that I hate the Uchiha clan and they're motherfucking eye! I hate that eye with every fiber of my being. They go all around, thinking they're all high and mighty, just because they have their stupid Sharingan. Stupid damn temes." he mumbled the last part with his eyes closed.

Kakashi once again shook his head and asked, "How do I know you're no making all this up?"

Shishi looked at him slightly annoyed and said, "Don't worry, the only reason I would kill you is if you did something horrible to Naruto and Akyo. Now, don't tell the Uchiha about this, and you wont bleed. Not only that, you can tell your Hokage this and that's it. And also, I'm telling you this so that you can watch the bratty pussy boy you labeled an apprentice. If he sees my sister in the wrong way, he'll die. Even Akyo gets antsy if she's in her fox form for too long, and she might cuddle with Naruto alot in her human form, making the Uchiha most likely get the hots for her. Now keep that Uchiha away from Naruto, and maybe he wont demand for power from the blond idiot." Shishi was glaring daggers at the poor cyclops, who was cowering in the fetal position, sitting in front of him with a cloud over his head.

Kakashi nodded quickly, afraid for his life. 'Kami, all demons are as scary as a rampaging Kunoichi, and I should know thanks to Rin.' Kakashi thought, as Shishi pulled what seemed to be a piece of paper out of his cloak. He slapped it on Kakashi's forehead, and almost immediately, it disappeared and Kakashi no longer felt tired. He felt alot more awake then ever, and even his eye widened more than its usual lazy self. He was pretty sure this was how the hyper-Naruto once was.

"This might help, since we were talking most of the night and it's almost dawn." Shishi said, as he looked up at the sky. True enough, the sky was a deep purple with the few streaks of sunshine peeking over the horizon. "At the end of this day, be sure to make up for the sleep you skipped. This will only work until you go to sleep, and you'll be sleeping for alot more than usual. Now remeber Hatake, one word of this to the Uchiha and you both suffer more than you can imagine. Be happy Kyuubi-sama isn't able to hurt you, or she'd most likely leave you crippled."

Kakashi nodded quickly, then what Shishi just said sunk in. "Um, Shishi-san? Did you just say 'She'? As in, the Kyuubi is a... g-girl?" asked the confused jonin. Shishi blinked a few times before sighing.

"Damn sexist humans. We'll talk about that later, now: we have something better to talk about." Shishi got a grin similar to Naruto's and asked, "What do you know about that Sakura girl?"

It was almost noon when Naruto woke up in his futon in the corner of the room. He blinked at the sun coming in through the window and hitting his face. He groaned, ready to turn away from the light and continue sleeping, when the sound of a door crashing and a woman's scream reached him. This also awoke Akyo, who was sleeping right next to his head, as they had been attacked many times and were awake in a second. He quickly looked to his side and found Merciless there and grabbed it before sprinting downstairs. Just as he got downstairs, he found Tsunami tied by her wrists being dragged out of the house by two thugs.

Inari was across the room and shouted, "Let go of my mom!" before charging at them. One of the thugs looked annoyed and was about to slice Inari's head off, when a blade was placed right under his neck. He looked to see a blond teenager holding a katana up to his neck and adding pressure, some blood coming down from the small cut under his head.

"I suggest you leave her alone, unless you wish to die." came a cold voice you wouldn't expect from a boy his age. The thug didn't buy it and was about to slice Naruto instead, but two 'thuds' made them look down at the blades that were once on their swords. All they were holding were the hilts, and Naruto's blade seemed to be glowing a light blue. The one holding on to Tsunami grabbed for a knife he in his pocket, but soon found that he had a black spike going through his lower left ribs and coming out of his right shoulder in a diagonal way. When the spike retreated from the thug, his body slumped and the spike returned to being Akyo. The thug in front of Naruto thought this to be a good time to leave, but was stopped as he turned around and was met with Inari's bow and arrow.

He suddenly felt a sharp pain on the back of his neck, then everything went black. Naruto looked down at the thug and began to tie him with some ninja-wire (AN: Is that what it's called?) then looked at Inari with a form of pride. "Not bad squirt. You rushed in to save your mother, even willing to give your own life. That's what a true hero would do. Though next time, make sure you're armed and not fight with just your fists. Which reminds me..."

Naruto rummaged through his pockets for a while, then took out a scroll and unrolled it. In a puff of smoke, he had a knife that was around a foot and a half long. The handle was a black leather with the blade being around a foot. It had red markings that vaguely resembled fox scratches all along the blade, and the butt of it was a fox's head. It's sheath was next to it, a brown leather with a yellow sash around it.

He tied it around Inari and said, "Only if necessary, use this to protect those you care for. It's alot stronger when the sun is hidden, so use it wisely, got it?" Inari nodded, happy with the gift, and strapped it to his waits so it hung by his left hip. Naruto nodded then returned upstairs to get the rest of his things. When back downstairs, he quickly went over to Tsunami and asked, "Where are the rest?"

She turned to him and said, "They went with my father to the bridge." Naruto nodded and ran outside, where he noticed that Shishi was growling at a few more mercenaries coming out of the woods, his five tails exposed.

The black fox sensed Naruto's presence and barked out, "Go! I'll take care of Tazuna's family!"Naruto and Akyo nodded and they were off in a swirl of black smoke.

Kakashi was surprised and thrilled wit the power surging through him. He felt like a little boy on sugar high, almost every movement of his was a blur. Zabuza was equally surprised, since he had to make sure he wasn't stabbed by the strangely hyper Kakashi. Sakura was in front of Tazuna with a kunai in each hand in reverse grip, and had her chakra ready for a water jutsu if necessary. Sasuke in the meantime was fighting against the ice user, and was faring well... barely... okay, he was getting his ass handed!

He had needles coming out of most of his body, making him look like a giant standing porcupine. He gritted his teeth and glared at the mirror in front of him, which was reflecting the hunter-nin's reflection instead of his own. Even with his Sharingan awake, he still couldn't track and attack the Ice person through the dome of ice. Haku sighed, quite unsure what to do now. She didn't want to hurt the guy, but knew he was the type of pricky one. She sighed, slightly relieved.

At least Naruto wasn't there. And as if to mock her, just as she was about to throw another barrage of senbon, a wall of shadows appeared to cover up the Uchiha. She looked from one of her mirrors to her left to see Naruto there, his hand inside a shadow that extended to the one in front of the Uchiha. Her eyes widened slightly. 'Naruto-kun.'

Naruto sighed and said, "As much as I hate the Uchiha brat, I can't let you kill him."

"Shut up dobe!" hissed said Uchiha brat. "I don't need you here! I can take care of myself! And if you really were going to help me, why didn't you just attack while he didn't notice you!" he scolded Naruto.

Naruto looked at Haku and shrugged before entering the dome lazily and mumbled, "'cuz I have a better defense than you, and might be able to pull something off. Now, get ready to use that eye of yours for something useful and keep your mouth shut." Sasuke begrudgingly did so, but not before mumbling, "Dobe." at the blond boy. Naruto just sighed and began to spike his chakra, ready for anything. Akyo was still outside the dome, looking for anything that might help Naruto.

So far, Naruto had one advantage: The senbon couldn't penetrate his shadow shields, meaning he was pretty darn safe from the senbon. Now Sasuke... Although he disliked him, he was one of the few that understood how lonely it is to have no one.

He sighed and returned his attention back to the ice user, who immediately threw a barrage of senbon at the two, hopping to at least place them in a death-like state for a little while. Again, with Naruto placing shields of shadows up, the clanged of the shield that was harder than metal.

Unfortunately, Naruto was getting tired. The shield may be strong, but he was tiring, and Sasuke was already down on his knees. Suddenly, another barrage to senbon were heading their way, this time too fast. Naruto was barely able to place up a shadow wall, before one senbon was able to lodge into Sasuke's neck. Naruto's eyes widened as Sasuke's body fell head-first. Or at least, that's what it looked like before in a puff of smoke, Sasuke disappeared and in his place was... Akyo.

As Shishi slashed the head off of another bandit, he suddenly felt weird. It was like someone just sent a cube of ice crawl up his spine then stay in his stomach.

'Akyo...?' he thought, wondering why he felt this way. He shook it off and tried to get back to sensing if there were any more enemies.

Naruto watched in horror as Sasuke suddenly appeared where Akyo once was, right outside the ice dome. Haku herself couldn't believe what this Konoha ninja just did. She remembered the small pup on Naruto's chest, and made more senbonready to kill Sasuke for what he just did to save his own hide. But before she could even throw them, a huge mass of KI was felt throughout the whole bridge. It was enough for both Zabuza and Kakashi to witness their own deaths, and it wasn't even aimed at them.

Naruto's body exploded in red chakra, all of it showing a furious fox face above him. His eyes became red and with a slitted pupil, his fangs and nails grew to become canines and claws, and his whiskers became darker and more defined. In a blink of an eye he socked Sasuke right across the face, breaking the Uchiha's jaw and sending him a good twenty feet. He then turned to Akyo to see that she was barely breathing with the senbon being so close to her heart. Naruto's attention was turned to Haku in an instant.

His anger wasn't gone, and so far Haku was the only one close for attacking. Haku wasn't prepared for the hit that came towards her, and barely made it out of the mirror as it was shattered by Naruto's punch. She entered another mirror and threw more ice senbon at the blond in hopes of at least immobilizing him, only to have the foul red chakra blast them away and melt them. She quickly exited the mirror and aimed to enter another one, but her left ankle was caught by Naruto's hand, who flung her face-first into the ground.

His hand still around her ankle, he pulled her until she was right below him and turned her around. He lifted his fist, ready to pound the ice-nin'sface into the ground, but stopped when he saw the last of the cracked mask fall off of her face. He gasped as he looked at her somewhat dead eyes, just staring back at him. He calmed down somewhat and the red chakra receeded.

"I-it's you. Haku-chan!" Naruto whispered.

Cliffy!

Sorry, but like I said they're gonna be alot shorter. And if you don't notice that it's shorter, that's pretty nice.

Also, I'm stuck with a few things, so if I ever stop writingfor about a year, assume I abandoned this or I actually died.