I don't own Naruto or Naruto characters
AN: does anyone remember the name of that thing that attached to Naruto's back for that filler episode?
I don't really have someone who is willing to proof read my chapters
He isn't in the academy yet.
He will have two partners.
Hanabi is in at a year younger than naruto.
Previously
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"Genin are partially under the civilian council so they could revoke your status if you're not Chunin or above. Start reading the chakra control books so you can open that before the end of the month when Kakashi and Anko get back from their mission, but from now until you're Chunin you're living here. Welcome to the family."
Tsume and Hana's home
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It took an hour to fill out all those forms and Naruto was dead tired and hungry. He had no sleep, ran through the Forest of death, and had a small basket of dangos, and a small fight with three older boys; he just wanted to sleep for a while. He grabbed the forms and headed to the kitchen.
Tsume had on a pink apron instead of her Jonin jacket and looked like she was cooking, smelled like it to. "You finished the paperwork?" She spoke without even turning around to look. Naruto said yes and set them on the table. "Good, Hana-Chan took Oni on a run with her two older partners and my Sochi Kiba-Kun is out training with Akamaru so they'll be home later." Tsume grabbed a plate. "You'll be bunking with him, so after you eat I'll take you to the room and you can take a nap." She turned around with an omelet in her hand and set it on the table. "But maybe you should dye your hair before that cause you can't wear a bandana twenty four seven, now sit down and eat."
Naruto felt forced to comply with her command and did just that. Tsume grabbed the documents and whistled. "Now Kuma I would like you to meet Kuromaru." A big dark blue and grey wolf with an eye patch came in and scowled at Naruto. "Wow, he likes you."
"He is giving me the evil eye." Tsume chuckled at the unintentional jab at her partner.
"That look is his smile to strangers." She placed the papers in a canister and kuromaru took it in his mouth. "Take that to the Hokage." With a nod of the wolf's head he ran off. Naruto had just shoveled the last of the omelet into his mouth and swallowed wondering if he could still call him Jiji or if he wanted to after keeping the secret of Kyu-chan from him.
"So what room is Kiba's?" She looked at Naruto and then the plate.
"You gonna put that plate away first?" It was more of a command than a questioned. A sweat drop form on Naruto as he nodded and put it in the sink. "Good, now the bathroom is located upstairs third door on the left." Tsume walked to her jacket and pulled out a hair dye kit. "Anko-Chan slipped this in my pocket before leaving, use It." She tossed it and he caught it with a confused look. "Fine I'll help you just get washed up and I'll be in there in a little bit. Now get."
The Bathroom few minutes later
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To Naruto it was great to get in a bath with actual hot water. Some hookers use to let him use theirs until the landlord found out and threatened to shut off their hot water. 'This feels great.'
'Remember to wash behind your ears.'
'Yeah yeah… You know what I just realized?'
'What, that you don't have any spare clothes?'
'That and that I have to get some stuff from my apartment.'
'Like what?' before he could answer the door opened and Tsume walked in. She expected him to scramble in embarrassment like Kiba when he forgets his washcloth, but he just looked at her as she held a stack of clothes and the kit.
"So what will my hair color be?" He asked with mock interest since all Inuzuka clan members had brown hair.
"Well gaki you seem comfortable being naked around women." She placed the clothes on the counter and walked to Naruto. "Hope you don't mind being a brunet."
It took 40 minutes to dye his hair. "That was relaxing, thank you Tsume-Chan."
"Kinda quick to use an affectionate endings are you."
"You have taken me in, fed me, and now are seeing me naked so it is called for." Naruto stood out the bath, walked past Tsume, dried off, and got changed. He was wearing Kiba's clothes a black short sleeved shirt and grey shorts. "So where's his room."
"Right two doors down Kuma and don't sleep all day."
'I already miss my name.' With that thought he left the bathroom.
'If it weren't for his eyes, the red whiskers, and the fact he's "bigger" he could pass as Kiba's twin.'
Naruto's Mindscape
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"Hey Sochi-Kun." The familiar voice of the fox called.
"Kyuuu-Chan… I am trying to sleep what do you want?" Naruto whined as he rubbed his eyes.
"That's the beauty of this place, although this place is a sewer, being here is like dreaming so when you leave you'll be well rested. Now remember those twinges of pain." Naruto nodded. "Well that was your bones reconstructing, your bones reshaped to make your attacks more affective." Naruto remembered how each boy fell after one strike.
"So they got the ass kicking they deserved."
"You could have killed those boys." Naruto was shocked he didn't want to kill them just teach them a lesson. "I want you to train that response to be a conscious response instead of subconscious."
"Yes Kyu-Chan." The female fox smile and reached out from the cage to stroked Naruto's cheek making him purr.
"Good let us start chakra control training so you can open that scroll."
"How are we going to train and if we can why not start with the bone thing?" The giant fox rolled her eyes.
"First, everything about a shinobi comes down to chakra control and opening that scroll will help. Second, here you can train, but can't do any physical training." She clapped her massive paws and smile down at Naruto. "So why don't you walk up these bars."
"How Kyu-Chan?" The Kyuubi let an audible sigh.
"Chakra can be used to preform jutsus, increase physical attacks, and used to scale walls and walk on water. Climbing these bars…" She tapped a bar with her claw. "Is the first step to walk on water. Now think of your chakra as explosive glue. Too little you don't stick, too much and you shoot right off. Now begin"
"Yes Kyu-Chan." With that Naruto ran towards the cage.
Sometime in the afternoon
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Waking from mental training he made it up half way and was close to finding the right amount of chakra. The fox was surprised at how quick he picked up on it. Not only did he make it halfway, but he did it without calling on a full percentage of his chakra.
She knew Naruto was smarter than he let on in public or even to people close to which were few, but he caught on quick. If he wasn't being hinder he could go farther than anyone could even imagine.
The fox was right about it being like dreaming, he felt relatively well rested. What he wasn't expecting was a small white puppy staring him in his face. "Hey… uh Kuma is it?"
"Yeah and this must be Akamaru, so you must be Kiba." Naruto turned his head towards the door to see a boy with brown hair, the red fangs, wearing a beige long sleeve shirt, and grey shorts.
"Yeah I am and that's my bed." The Inuzuka pointed with a possessive look.
"Well Tsume-Chan said I could take a nap in here." Naruto sat up as Akamaru leapt off his chest.
"Those are my clothes KA-SAAAAAAAN!" After few minutes Tsume was behind Kiba along with Kuromaru with an annoyed look. "Why is he here?!" Tsume had a sweat drop and rubbed the back of her head as she forgot to tell her kids that Naruto was going to be living with them. Few seconds later Hana showed up to check what Kiba was yelling about.
"Hey Kuma, what are you doing here?" Hana slightly blushed and couldn't meet his baby blue eyes
"Hey Hana-San, Tsume-Chan didn't tell you two?" Naruto looked at them with an inquisitive expression. Hana became jealous about the fact that her Ka-San got the affectionate ending and she didn't. Kiba voiced his own opinion.
"DON'T HIT ON MY KA-SAN! YOU MAY HAVE HELPED MY ONEECHAN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I LIKE YOU!" Kiba was a grade "A" mama's boy seeing he had her brown slit eyes.
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Calm down pup Kuma will be living with us and now since he is awake why don't you show him around." Kiba gave a defeated sigh while Hana turned and gave a victorious smile to the grey puppy in her jacket.
"Fine, come on Kuma." Kiba walked out followed by Akamaru and Naruto.
Hana turned to Tsume. "Why did he call you Tsume-Chan Ka-San?"
Tsume looked at her daughter with a smirk. "His exact words were "You have taken me in, fed me, and now are seeing me naked so it is called for."" She chuckled as she left Hana with an obvious look of jealousy.
Kiba and "Kuma" walking around for an hour
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"And those are our clan's personal training grounds." Kiba was still a bit annoyed.
"At what age do you get your partner?" Naruto was trying to have a friendly conversation with him.
"It's up to the parents. Some don't allow their children because they're too prideful to rely on a partner or don't think they can handle the responsibility." Kiba got over what happened earlier if barely, but what was eating at him was that he had the feeling he knew Kumo and couldn't place it.
"That's him Otou-san, the one with the red whiskers!" Naruto and Kiba turned to see the boy from earlier followed by a tall, fairly muscular, shirtless Inuzuka man with giant red claw on his chest. "He's the one who attacked us." The man looked at Naruto then struck his son.
"You got beat by a pup younger than you shameful, but I can't let someone disrespect my family." He then pointed Naruto. "You're going to apologize to my boy and you…" He then pointed to Kiba. "Are going to tell Hana that Kuzo, will pick her up at seven."
"Now that is a prime example of overly prideful. Kuma meet the scavenger family Kuzon and his Sochi Kuzo."
"I met Kuzo earlier didn't care to get his name when I tossed him and I can tell the only thing big on Kuzon is his ego." Naruto's jab hit to close for Kuzon's liking and it didn't help that many Inuzuka members who heard it had started laughing.
"You little bastard I'll…" Kuzon was about to verbally try and put Naruto in his place, but was cut off by Naruto.
"I know your type, can't fight the big dogs so you get your ego boost from taking scraps from pups and beating them to try to make them fear you probably why you can't get one of these dogs to be loyal to someone so weak." Now everyone was laughing at the fact the little boy had hit the nail on the head and it made Kuzon pissed.
"You little FUCKER I'll show you who's WEAK!" Before he could dash at Naruto, Kuromaru and three grey puppies appeared one was Onimaru. Few seconds later Hana and Tsume appeared.
"This is embarrassing for you Kuzo seeing your Otou-san being put in his place and you Kuzon-Baka trying to fight a kid how low can you go?"
"That Gaki needs to learn respect."
"You need to grow a pair." Naruto interjected
"You're lucky Tsume-Samma is here protecting your ass." Kuzon tried to intimidate Naruto.
"Fine, Tsume-Chan I wish to fight him." Tsume looked at Naruto and smiled a bit.
"Are you sure Kuma? Even though his is a weakling, he is low chunin level." Tsume stated not seeing an ounce of hesitation.
"He is still a pussy set it up." Kuzon was getting more and more pissed as Naruto talked.
"Fine training grounds ten minutes get whatever you need ready." With that the crowd dispersed as people could be heard making bets. "Kuma, Sochi, come here." They both complied. "How did this escalate?"
"Because he's an ass and thinks too highly of himself." Naruto was agitated to say the least.
'Like the attitude Cubby-Kun, but are you sure you haven't bit off more than you can chew?' Waking from her nap after helping with his training.
'I can't stand people like him.' The mob that came for him was made up of nothing but people like Kuzon and those who couldn't grieve.
"Like the attitude gaki, but did you bite off more than you can chew?" Tsume asked as Naruto chuckled.
"He disrespects Hana-san by implying that she would date that coward of a boy he has." Hana was slightly blushing at his words though it went unnoticed by the boy, but not Tsume. Kiba was growing to like Kuma.
"Then let us prepare for your fight." 'Hope you know what you're doing Naruto.'
Ten minutes later
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Everyone who was interested in the fight gathered in the clearing that was their training grounds. There were four trees in the clearing surrounded by a forest.
Tsume was in between Naruto and Kuzon who were standing in the center of the field. "Welcome everyone to a friendly little spar between Inuzuka Kaguya Kuma." Some cheers were heard from those who betted on him and from Kiba and Hana. "And Inuzuka Kuzon." A mix of boos and wimpish cheers. "Now I am the proctor of this fight so I will call the match understood." Tsume received nods from them both. "Okay begin."
Kuzon closed the gap quickly and thought that if he landed one hit it would end this insult on his pride. Naruto saw the wheels turning and spaced his feet to balance himself. Kuzon swung his hand in order directly into Naruto's face. Naruto again felt the twinge in both of his hands as they grasp the arm whipping him over his shoulder.
The Inuzuka contorted his body to land on all four instead of his back. He scowled at the fact he was thrown by an eight year old with little effort. He didn't let the boy enjoy the small victory as he closed the gap again. Swiping in close combat as Naruto either blocked or dodged the attacks. He couldn't get through Naruto's defenses. "You have given up on training have you Kuzon?"
"Shut up brat!" Kuzon started attacking faster and a bit sloppier. He swung wildly with his left. Naruto ducked under and jumped forward delivering a solid blow to his kidney before Kuzon backpedaled.
"Is it because too many people have beaten you to the point you given up?" In the stance Kishimaro taught him.
"Four Legs Technique" Chakra enveloped Kuzons body as his nails became claws, eyes became feral, and his teeth turned to fangs. The speed increase was obvious along with an increase in strength as the assault began once again.
None of his attacks were landing on Naruto, but Kuzon's reach was far greater than his. 'Damn I can't fight back.'
'Right now it is a waiting game just wait for an opening.'
'Not many other options, but his attacks are getting heavier.'
'You can take it; you've been through far worse.' Naruto was brought back to the fight as he noticed he was in the shade of a tree.
Naruto was in a bad position as he felt each of his own steps was painting him in to a corner. The Inuzuka clan were not tacticians and he could see the only the thought in the man's head was crushing Naruto. The crowd was a bit rowdy with those who were betting. Some chanting for Kuma to turn it around and others saying Kuzon you worthless bastard knock the kid out.
It didn't take long for naruto's back to touch bark. An unsettling smirk graced the man's face. He jumped back and shouted "Tunneling Fang"
'UP THE TREE NARUTO!' Without a second thought he ran up the tree to Tsume's surprise.
'Since when did he learn that?' She thought as Kuzon slammed into a tree tarring through the trunk. As the tree toppled Naruto jump and was over the man's head. He could feel the twinge in his feet as he planned to land square on Kuzon's back, Naruto started channeling chakra to his legs and started falling faster to his own surprise.
Kuzon got a whiff of the boy overhead and tried to dodge left, but his right leg didn't get out of the way fast enough as Naruto landed hard on his calf. Everyone cringed as they heard a loud sickening crack and scream of pain.
'Naruto, do you know what you just did?!' Naruto couldn't answer as this was the first time something like this happened for him. 'You crippled the bastard and I am happy about that, but YOU SHOULD NOT TRY NEW THINGS IN THE MIST OF BATTLE! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!"
'I-I just w-wanted to knock him out so I channeled some chakra to make sure I did."
'When you focus your chakra to scale a surface it is like anyone else's, but when you focus it into an object or limbs it makes them become denser along with becoming heavier.'
'Why didn't you, tell me this?!'
'I wasn't expecting you to do something you haven't really been taught in a fight.' Tsume called the match naming Kuma the winner as Kuzon continued to scream in pain with his sochi trying to calm his Otou. Some Money exchanged hands as the crowd dispersed not caring that a man was crippled. Tsume dragged off Naruto as she told a man to take Kuzon to the hospital.
Back at Tsume's home
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"Okay spill it kid when did you learn tree climbing?" She wanted to know and was interested to find out how a child learned a technique that fresh Genin didn't know.
"Not too long ago." That answer just raised more questions.
"Who taught you, was it Iruka-san?"
"No, it was someone who wants me to be a great shinobi." That answer didn't narrow anyone down because even if he didn't know it there were many who would want that. The only thing it gave away was the fact he was a fast learner. Tsume could see he wasn't going to give a name and his eyes said even with if you threaten me.
"Fine I won't push any further, but since you got tree climbing down which requires a degree of chakra control." Tsume grabbed the scroll and tossed it to Naruto. "See if you can open that." Channeling his chakra to the seal it began to dissolve. Tsume eyes widened when he opened it.
Alright Kuma-Kun
These are a few jutsus that Kakashi, Hokage-Sama, and sexy and single me want you to learn. With your chakra reserves should come in real handy. When you have learned the jutsu put a drop of blood in the box next to it and they will disappear.
Shadow Clone justsu: Kakashi
Mass Shadow Clone Jutsu: Me go big or go home
Shadow Clone Bomb Jutsu: Me again
Chameleon Jutsu: Hokage-Sama, but if you peek on any woman in the village I'll castrate you
Body Flicker Jutsu: Kakashi
Below are the jutsus and their descriptions just wanted you to know who to thank. Also, by opening the scroll it has alerted a pretty damn good Kenjutsu specialist codenamed Neko. She'll start teaching you the day after you open this thing or when she has time.
Side note she doesn't know that Kuma is Naruto and this sentence will disappear after ten minutes of being open.
Once all jutsu are learned the scroll will destroy itself.
See ya when we get back
Anko baby
'Anko, you are a crazy bitch.' Tsume thought looking after reading the letter over Naruto's should. She then noticed that Naruto was heading to the door. "Where are you heading gaki?"
He stopped at the door and turned with the scroll in hand. "I am going to train there is still plenty of time left in the day." With that he left leaving Tsume admiring his dedication to hard work and hoped that it would rub off on Kiba.
'Hope he returns in time for diner don't want to be wasting good food.' "Hana, Kiba I want you two training till diner time got me?"
"KAAAAA-SAAN!" Both pleaded
"Don't Ka-San me. I don't want my kids being slackers."
Later that night
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Naruto came back tired, dirty, and bruised. The only ones up to greet him were Hana and Tsume while Kiba went to bed straight after diner. "You're late getting home Kuma-Kun." Hana stated not catching her ending.
"You're late Gaki eat up, clean up, and go to bed you have school with my Sochi in the morning. What's in the sack?" Noticing that he was carrying, something over his shoulder.
"These are the clothes Shi-niisan got me. I can't just wear Kiba-san's clothes."
"Okay then I will be going to bed night." Tsume waved as she headed upstairs. "Don't stay up late you two." She disappeared upstairs as a pillow hit the wall leaving Hana blushing in the living room.
"I can put the bag In Kiba's room for you, if you want?"
"Thank you Hana-Chan let me just take out my pajamas and you can take it." He took out a lavender pajama suit and a goofy hat, and then handed the bag to Hana.
"Well I'll head to bed, but I'll drop it off Night Kuma-Kun." She headed upstairs lugging the sack.
"Night Hana-Chan." As she disappeared to the upper level 'So I get to go to school.'
'Yup Cubby-Kun, but there are two things I want you to promise me.'
'What are they?'
'One keep your bloodlines hidden they could raise too many questions and two don't be too good or too bad just fly under the radar okay.'
'Yes Kyu-Chan I promise to be unremarkable at school. Also, have they made it to the Library?'
He felt the fox smirk. 'Yeah Sochi.'
'Good.' Naruto headed to the kitchen with a smile.
Outside the Shinobi Library
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Three figures were perched on the roof. "Remember Boss want affinity training books, elemental jutsus, some more Fuinjutsu books, Kenjutsu books, and possibly a hobby."
"The two ANBU on guard leave forty-eight second window every twenty minutes. The two on guard are Hawk and Falcon both sensor Nin so we'll have to stay in that state when we're in there. "
'I really hate how it feels, but is extremely useful so when you're in there find a book on human anatomy by Tsunade.'
'Why her is she special or something?'
'She is a sannin of your village, considered the strongest shinobi, and world best medical ninja. Also, learning about the human body could help with perfecting that.'
'Fair enough Kyu-Chan.' they closed their eyes. "Remember the feeling of death." Their eyes were now glassy, skins were cold, the sound of their breathing had stopped, and their hearts stopped pumping as they vanished.
The fox shuddered as the feeling reached her. 'This technique utilizes your bloodlines in order to mimic a dead body. How can you stand this?'
'Necessity called for Boss to play dead in order to live, but it does feel slightly different.'
'Probably because now your bones are lighter, seriously you need to train can't go on with just raw talent alone.'
'We'll keep that in mind.' The three figures entered through the window.
Inside the library
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"Okay I'll head to fuinjutsu. You go find kenjutsu, and you find the elemental affinity." As one figure whispered to the others as they nodded in agreement. "Once we locate those then I will find the books on human anatomy, you check for a hobby, and you grab some elemental jutsus just wind, fire, water, and lightning. Alright let's go."
It took eighteen minutes for them to locate the first set of books and began looking for the second set didn't take much longer for two of them, but the one searching for a hobby was taking some time.
He was wondering through different aisle searching. Knowing it had to be something that could transfer over to field, but able to be just for fun. Without realizing he wandered into a wing for the village's allies the Suna section.
He remembered the day a puppeteer came to the village when he was six watching from the alley because the parents didn't allow him near their kids as the woman entertained the children. He was captivated as the woman made the toys dance. It was probably the only decent memory of that year.
The figure grabbed the books of basic puppet constructions as he made his way back to the other two.
"You get what you wanted?"
"Yes."
"Okay, Boss is waiting for these let's move out." The three waited for the forty-eight second gap.
Tsume's House
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Naruto now dressed in his pajamas reading the chakra control book he skipped over. Going over multiple exercises other than tree climbing it was like a starter book for doing and creating jutsus.
'Naruto the clones are back.' He closed the book and walked to the back door. Opening it the light showed the three figures were exact clones holding a bag.
"It seems you guys had fun." Naruto smiled at them.
"We did Boss here are the books you wanted." They tossed the bag of books, to their creator with a smile.
"Thanks guys." With that he dispelled his clones and he was flooded with their memories. "Oh I already love this jutsu."
'You got your books now get some rest Cubby-Kun. You have your first day of school.' He smirked as he headed to the stairs.
'This is going to be fun.'
'You can't prank anyone it could give away who you are.' Naruto pouted at that fact.
'Okay less fun.'
'You could think of this as a giant prank on those who are trying to hold you back.'
'Okay, that's even more fun.'
END
AN: Next chapter you'll find out what they told Iruka to cover Naruto's disappearance.
Naruto can pretend to be a walking corpse unable to be sensed if they don't focus enough.
How he came up with will be explained in the next chapter.