WAZ UP ladies, gents and other! I'm back and unfortunately, not in black. I'm gonna be completely random with my references this chapter, I wanted to use this chapter's title earlier on in the series...But I fucked it up. Anyway, on with the confusion of humanity that is my work. Oh, and one other thing, I got a review saying I got Fuu's bijuu mixed up...If you're readin' this guy, I have inconvenient daydreams or 'hallucinations' about this show. I know the difference between jinchuuriki and their fuckin' bijuu. Before I drive humanity to extinction with my madness, one last thing: When I say I've 'hallucinations', I'm just tellin' ye I've got really inconvenient and irritatin' daydreams. If you're wonderin' 'bout the repeating of chapter parts in an earlier chapter, my laptop was bein' weird when I was editin' my chapters' errors and blandness, but my laptop had a serious problem that day and I lost the original chapter I'd been workin' on...So, sorry that I mixed chapters into each FUN READIN'!

'Character perception and paraphrasing'

Thoughts or emphasis

Character/ location of focus change

"Demon or Inner Sakura speech" (Like that ain't a fuckin' demon!)

"Normal speech"

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Naruto was fighting an actor, a shitty fighter if someone asked him, as a three-tailed fox. The director needed a hilarious but still serious fight scene. And he asked Naruto to fill the gap, a Great Dane-sized fox with three tails while fighting a man with a sword in his mouth was hilarious. The large fox could only taste sword hilt at the moment while his opponent was using a frying pan for a weapon. The actor read his lines and said, "YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS IS THE STRANGEST THING I'VE EVER DONE!"

The frying pan was then knocked violently out of his hands and unfortunately into the camera man and director's respective faces. Naruto traded in his fox skin and stepped out of the smoke. His hair was still shaggy, but it was as long as Hashirama's when he was young. He had his hair in a ponytail, or as he called it 'a foxtail'. The camera crew, director and most of the actors haven't seen my little performance yet... Naruto's thoughts were accompanied by nine of his foxes leaving his mismatched-fabric flak jacket as he'd used a special seal to fuse his self-created flak jacket with his chunin vest.

The foxes left the boat and ran on the water, getting gasps from most of those aboard the ship. Inu, Naruto had returned to calling him that, Sasuke, Sakura and Ino were only mildly surprised that they could do that. The foxes stopped about twenty meters away from the ship in a circular shape, when their tails entered the water and the tails appeared as gigantic versions of themselves while the air shimmered. Inu gave Naruto a concerned look, "Naruto...What are you doing?!"

"Giving these amateurs a real act..." Naruto's maniacal grin was terrifying to the people who didn't know him. The air turned darker and sinister music began to play. (Naruto's favorite torture mechanism) "I am the one hiding under your bed. Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red!" Naruto was in his fusion state, making fox jaws appear in front of his actual mouth and scaring the Bejesus out of the rest of the ship's passengers and crew. Naruto's fingerless gloves had metal on the back of his hands like Inu, and his boots had spiked studs on the toes' area. At the end of the song of torment for the weak minded, there was a scarecrow that looked like Kakashi and was fully animate as it set itself alight before being immersed in the flames to reveal a skeletal figure.

"Pumpkin Jack might catch you in the back, scream like a banshee make you jump outta your skin!" Naruto's half human, half demon, voice was unsettling to say the least. The genin had never seen the end of the genjutsu and Kakashi hadn't seen it from the inside at all. It was clear to the Konoha group that Naruto held Kakashi in high regard or with great respect to have place him in the genjutsu he used to...Scare people.

As the air returned to normal and the foxes reentered the scrolls in Naruto's now shortened flak jacket sleeves, he turned to his friends and smiled playfully. "I gave them an act, now they know what to do! Mission accomplished, I'm gonna find something to eat, datteboyo!" Naruto transformed into his three-tailed fox and ran across the waves. The director walked tentatively to the group from Konoha, "H-h-how d-d-do y-you s-s-s-s-survive him!"

It was less of a question and more of a demand. Kakashi would've answered, had his students and Ino hadn't. Ino answered first, "Being nice to him and treating him with a respect that we have to earn." Sakura was next, "The occasional treat that just so happens to be somewhat gory." Sasuke was the last one to answer, "Staying off of his bad side, which is easy to get onto and hard to get off of..." Kakashi widened his arms in a 'there you go' way, making the director make an 'oh' face.

The boat suddenly shook, getting everyone to grab something. When someone looked, "IT'S THAT DEMON FOX!" The people who knew Naruto, tried to save the man from saying that but it was already too late. Naruto leaped onto the boat and looked to the floor while he raised his head, until he pulled his eyes from the floor to show his eyes were a bloody-fiery red. That man was then mule kicked into the wall, and then drowned by being thrown over the boat and held under the water before his body stopped struggling and its heartbeat stopped entirely. Naruto carried the body onboard the boat in his tails while in his mouth were fish that were still writhing.

He spit them out and gestured with his head for his friends to eat them, to which they tentatively did so. To push them a little farther, Kakashi said, "If you want to be successful shinobi you'll have to do things you're not going to like. So eat up!" He finished with an eyesmile, making them think How does he fucking do that? When the genin looked back to Naruto, he was finished eating the evidence that he killed someone and wasn't henged anymore.

"Eat. We'll need all of our strength to survive in an environment of eternal winter..." Naruto looked to the sea with a serious face, making the genin look to the food then hesitantly eat the fish he caught. Kakashi followed Naruto's staring, "How did you defeat those jonin..." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki looked to his sensei, "...I didn't." The odd looks he received made him explain, "I didn't use a tail...But I used enough chakra to defeat the jonin I fought. They wouldn't of noticed, it was hardly any, but it was enough to defeat them. Haku was my second biggest challenge in combat, he was serious and didn't underestimate me like Guren or Mei."

"They thought I was just a child, until I explained what I am, and even then they underestimated my capabilities because of my age. I fought Haku and Zabuza with everything I could throw at them without losing my mind," He looked to Kakashi, "That's how I survived. I didn't beat them, not on my own..." The jonin looked to his student-turned-chunin with surprise, "I'd been told by your teammates and your friends that you had defeated those jonin of your own power...How'd even that small amount go unnoticed?"

To answer his question, Naruto unsealed two of his foxes. One of them henged into a cleaver-like saw(saw cleaver-Bloodborne), while Naruto had the other fox transformed into a man with a feathered cape and a cap that looked like it was made from grey wolf fur. (Grey wolf cap-Bloodborne) The weapon user grabbed Naruto's hand and looked to him, as if asking for permission, received a nod of affirmation. The 'hunter' then sliced off Naruto's hand, eliciting a groan of great pain from the kneeling young man. Before the other ninja or the other people onboard the boat could get to him to help, Naruto let loose a pulse of red chakra that began to regenerate his hand.

The sounds of flesh molding, bones creaking and reforming, tendons repairing and stretching, groans and moans of pain, muscles being reconstructed and the fingernail keratin regrowing was sickening to the passengers onboard...And to Sakura, who almost lost her lunch. Naruto got up slowly, inspecting his hand, as if anything would or could be missing. Twisting and turning his wrist, wiggling his fingers and thumb, and finally popping the joints in satisfaction that nothing was out of the ordinary.

"That's not enough chakra to kill a jonin, or defeat anyone of my opponents...It all came down to who would keep fighting and who could keep fighting. I've larger-than-average reserves, as well as amazing stamina for someone of my age. So, I could've kept fighting as long as I didn't die and I could have used more jutsu that I've theorized or tested." Naruto took a breathe, letting the information sink in before continuing.

"I was...Also really pissy those days, so they kinda gave up after a while, hehehehehe!" His chuckling made Kakashi facepalm and the genin facefault. Ino was the first to recover, only half-way albeit, and she then leaped to glomp him. Only for Naruto to sidestep her flight and let her land on her face, "Please don't do that anymore and before you call me that ridiculous nickname, don't." Ino was silent after he finished, Damn! I hope he doesn't d- Naruto then punched her in the face, making her disappear in a cloud of smoke.

"I think she's learned enough on this trip, don't you?" His playful tone was back, but there was an undertone of danger to anyone who messed with him. Sakura looked faint, That wasn't Ino...Oh my god that was close! Sasuke was trying to figure out when Naruto had had the time to either teach Ino or make a kage bunshin. Kakashi looked a little miffed that Naruto had let that slip like that, "Naruto. You said you wouldn't do anything rash, what did you just do?"

Naruto looked to Kakashi with 'innocent' eyes, "Something not rash. I didn't brutally kill it...her...She annoyed me and I told Ino not to do it again!" Kakashi just shook his head chuckling, "You never change Naruto, you never change..." Then they heard that they were about to reach land and get the movie action scenes set up.

On the shore, the movie cast was saying their lines and acting out their roles, when suddenly an explosion occurred and caused an avalanche on the mountain behind the cast. In the cloud of snow, stood three figures. There was one woman and two men in the trio, one was wide in form while the other two were more lithe. The woman had pink spiky hair that stuck out of two holes at the top of her grey cap, making everyone think of pigtails, and her eyes were a grass-green. The man in the middle was, "Roga Nadare!"

Kakashi's outburst made his students look to him, Naruto's eyes were now slitted but still blue as he stared at their soon-to-be enemies. The man had purple eye-marks looked like Jiraiya's in his youth and he had pupiless, teal eyes. His hair was greyish-blue and it was in a ponytail, his face was framed by a mask-like hat. The last one, the wide one, had a short crop of purple hair and dark eyes. The three of them had four things in common: their eyebrows were small and circular, they wore a similar white and blue outfit, they had a strange armor on with a symbol like the sign of Taoism and finally, they each had a hitae-ate with an insignia that the genin and chunin didn't recognize.

"Nice to see you again, Hatake Kakashi! It's been quite some time now, hasn't it?" Instead of Kakashi's calm voice, there came Naruto's echoey, demon voice, "When you get to Jigoku...Tell 'em Naruto sent you, DATTEBOYO!" And Naruto was gone, everyone looked around surprised, when the sound of a feminine scream came from the enemy pinkette. Looking in her direction, they all saw Naruto's clawed hand, with kunai tied to each finger,in her stomach. "Do as I said, believe me. They've been and they're still, waiting for me down there!"

In a small cloud of snow, the enemy kunoichi was replaced with a large chunk of ice. "This is gonna be fun..." The Cheshire Cat smile Naruto made got shivers from the running actors/actresses, director, camera crew, and special effects experts. The only person who wasn't a ninja and still on the snow-covered shore, was Fujikaze Yukie. She stared at the ninja of unknown allegiance with terrified, wide eyes. "Yukie!" Sakura's voice didn't reach her, she heard Asama Sandayu's calls for her.

"Sandayu...What are you-!" Another explosion occurred, this time it was from the large man's snowboard speed. Naruto then crashed into him, "DAMN IT! THAT HURT! AAAHHH!" His battlecry sent a shockwave no one was prepared for, sending debris everywhere. Yukie was then slapped, hard, across the face by one irate Haruno Sakura. "WAKE THE FUCK UP!" There was the sound of an object being unsealed and when Sakura looked, she saw Naruto wearing a clawed gauntlet on his right arm.

"HIDZUME!" Naruto slashed his arm across the air as the gauntlet was set ablaze. The attack hit the large man, but didn't do any damage. "What?!" Nadare answered the question, "Chakura no Yoroi, it defends us against any attacks using chakra...This armor you see before you is enhanced by this," He pointed at the Taoist-like symbol, "Allowing us to be protected from projectiles, even if they use no chakra at all!" The man had a condescending smile on his face, which faltered when Naruto cackled.

"HAHAHAHAHA! GOOD, I love a good challenge...Different tactic then, we'll use BRUTE FORCE!" Naruto transformed into his three-tailed fox form and rushed the large man. Nadare called out to his comrade, "LOOK OUT MIZORE!" It was too late. Naruto had rammed him in the chest, right on the enhancing symbol. The armor looked ready to rupture before chakra visibly left Naruto's form, taking one of Naruto's natural tails and reverting him into his second-tailed form.

Mizore punched Naruto in his furry face, knocking the now boxer-sized fox back a few yards. The ancient and evil voice left Naruto's throat now, "What is you name, human?" The large man looked surprised before answering, "Fuyukuma Mizore, and yours?" The fox chuckled an evil noise from deep within himself, "Just a humble kitsune looking to survive and protect that which it holds precious...Is what you would be told, if he were talking to you!"

Kakashi looked terrified as the fox ran at Mizore again, this time with the red chakra making Naruto revert and look like a human fox. "I'm back bitches and bastards! Get ready for the fight of your life..." Naruto ran at him, his hands and feet were a blur. Naruto's hair lengthened and looked like fox ears, his eyes were red and had black sclera, his vest/flak jacket seemed to vanish and his chest was bare...But what drew everyone's attention was the seals lining Naruto's shoulders, back and chest. The seals were a combination of lines beginning at the seal on his stomach, and indiscernible writing on his body that also started from Naruto's stomach. He had two tails of bloody liquid-chakra wagging behind him excitedly. (His tails are like when he entered four tails form, his body was covered in a light level of fur but you could only see the chakra moving over his skin)

"Yugo Keishiki: Dai Teru! Our powers become near indiscernible from one another, and with our power drawing closer...I am stronger!" Naruto vanished again and went after Mizore again, this time actually being able to fight back properly. Team 7 shook themselves out of their funk and charged, Sasuke attacked the pinkette while Sakura went to help Naruto if possible. Kakashi and Nadare stared at each other silently, daring the other to move...This fight would be their hardest yet.

Sakura reached behind her back within the cloak and pulled out Fuma shuriken, "SASUKE-KUN!" He looked to her, "CATCH!" The shuriken unfolded as it flew threw the air, and as it looked like she was trying to kill Sasuke, he caught it. "THANKS!" Sakura grabbed nine regular shuriken and threw them at Mizore, "Sakura Shuriken Sutoka no Jutsu!" The moment they shuriken bounced off of Mizore's armor, and she called this out, they stopped flying off and zeroed in on the caught-off-guard shinobi.

Sasuke threw the Fuma shuriken at the woman before him, she wore a condescending smirk on her face that pissed him right the fuck off. Sasuke's hands flew through the seals as he called out, "Ratto, tora, inu, osuushi, usagi, tora, saru! Katon: Hosenka Tsumabeni!" His cry of the jutsu's name made everyone's eyes widen and think, HE'S SKILLED ENOUGH TO PULL THAT OFF?! Suddenly regular shuriken appeared in puffs of smoke around the now ablaze Fuma shuriken. The other shuriken were alight with fire now after Sasuke breathed out several fireballs.

"H-HOW CAN YOU DO THAT?! THERE'S NO WAY A WEAKLING LIKE YOU COULD EVER PULL OFF THAT JUTSU! AND WHERE THE FUCK DID THE SMALLER SHURIKEN COME FROM?!" Everyone else's stopped, not even after the shuriken Sakura threw hit Mizore did they continue to fight, they were all too curious. "My blond teammate's descended from a clan of fuinjutsu, and to a minor extent kenjutsu, masters! What would that mean..." Silently asking her name, "Kakuyoku Fubuki." "Right. What would that mean, Kakuyoku Fubuki?!"

Her eyes widened after he spelled it out for her, "Y-Y-YOU"RE USING FUCKING SEALS?!" He nodded proudly, when she jumped out of the way, making the smirk disappear. Naruto suddenly appeared, "KATON:SHURIKEN-TSURGA!" His self-produced vortex entered the Fuma shuriken and spun it even faster as he spun the opposite direction, sucking the flaming shuriken into the twister and spinning them faster until the flames were a part of the cyclone of death. He kept going, spinning faster and faster, making everyone watch in amazement at this young man's ingenuity...When he hit Fubuki with the burning vortex, hard!

"AAAHH!" Her pained cry, even though it had come from above the conflict, made her teammates exchange look, when they heard her begin to sing a song out of the blue, "This is the last night you'll spend alone! Look me in the eyes so I know you know, I'm everywhere you want me to be!" Naruto and a bruised-up Fubuki fell to the ground, they landed and didn't get up out of exhaustion. The respective teammates of the fallen shinobi rushed over and took their downed fighter, glaring at the Konoha-nin, the trio disappeared in a cloud of snow.

Kakashi's single visible eye narrowed in realization, It's Nami no Kuni all over again! I've got some choice words I'm going to use when I talk to Sandayu...

Onboard the boat

"YOU FUCKING LIED TO US!" Sakura and Sasuke cringed at Kakashi's raised voice and killer intent, "This was supposed to be a simple guarding mission in case of pirates oversea and bandits inland, you said NOTHING about enemy shinobi targeting the main actress! Who, by the way they targeted her and how she reacted, is more than likely of noble descent!" This statement made Sandayu's eyes widen and the two genin nodded in agreement as they mulled over everything that happened.

Before the being-chewed-out-Sandayu could respond, they heard a scream. Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke ran to the room where Naruto was being watched over in. When they got there, Naruto was attacking all of the people in the room, plenty of them were trying and failing miserably to hold him down to sedate him. The people trying to keep him down were being flung everywhere, and it was clear Naruto had the intent to kill, judging by the kage bunshin with the weapons he'd collected as trophies.

Naruto's eyes were the slitted blue, a sign he was pissy at least, his killer itnent increased as he transformed into his three-tailed form and charged a ball of chakra. His teammates and sensei then took action, "NARUTO!" "DON'T!" "THEY'RE INNOCENT!" They then detained him in a headlock, tackle and full-body holding of his agape maw. His struggles were trying, but after a while he calmed down. Kakashi looked to Sandayu with a heavy glare, "YOU SEE WHAT KEEPING VITAL INFORMATION LIKE THAT DID?! HE HATES HOSPITALS OF ANY KIND AND WE HAD TO GET HIM IN HERE QUICKLY OR HE'D HAVE DIED OF CHAKRA EXHAUSTION, BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T FIND THE DECENCY TO LET US KNOW AND GIVE US THE CHANCE TO PREPARE! INSTEAD, WE WERE TAKEN COMPLETELY OFF-GUARD AND WE HAD TO FUCKING IMPROVISE!"

Sakura, Sasuke and a now normal Naruto all said one thing in raised voices, "It's just like fucking Nami no Kuni!" Naruto kept going, "An old guy, an important person, a bunch of incompetent workers!" Someone in the background yelled out an indignant, "HEY!" Then Yukie walked in, "But you can't tell me that someone lost their fa-!" "AND A MOTHER FUCKING PERSON WHO ACTS LIKE A PRICK JUST BECAUSE THEY LOST A PARENT?! IS SOMEONE WRITING A PIECE OF FICTION?!" (...He's on to us!)

Sandayu looked to Naruto incredulously, "What are you talking about? There's no way this could be a literary fiction, if it were a fiction at all...It would more than likely be made into a comic series, a show or movies obviously." "THAT'S NOT THE GODDAMN POINT, DATTEBOYO! THE POINT IS, WE'VE NO OBLIGATION TO CONTINUE THIS MISSION! HAHAHAHAHAHA! You lie to a Kage about a mission, endanger their shinobi when it could've been avoided...HAHAHAHAHA! Tsunade's gonna love this, datteboyo." Although Naruto was still underneath Inu, Sakura and Sasuke, he was finding a great deal of entertainment in this conversation.

One of the bunshin slammed a table, "Boom boom, fight the power!" He hit it again, "Boom boom, fire power!" Once more, "Boom boom, I love food that's sour!" The real Naruto felt pity on the people of the boat at that moment, and let them suffer his clone's insanity. While that clone was filling silence he spoke up, "So if 'Yukie' is of blue-blood, what's her real name?" "Kazahana Koyuki." "No duh, Dipshit. It was rhetorical, it's kind of obvious that a missing daughter of a Daimyo would return to her homeland, of or against her own free will. You guys suck at hiding things you know that? And I'm the stupid one of our team!" (I mean no offense in this next bit, it's for comedy only and no hatin' to the soon-to-be mentioned peoples)

"I'd suggest a change of lesbians." "Naruto I think you mean thespians..." Naruto's face morphed into one of shock, "Wait that's the word they use?! DAMN IT! WHY AM I ALWAYS THE LAST TO FUCKING KNOW, DATTEBOYO?!" He calmed down after a moment, "Anyway...trade her as the main lesbian actress with Sakura!" Said pinkette punched Naruto over the head, "CHA! Naruto, I'm not into girls, I'm in love with Sasuke-kun!" "I rest my case."

It took a moment for it to sink in, before Naruto was then punched by two pissy genin. "I'M/SASUKE-KUN'S NOT A GIRL!" Sasuke and Sakura's irate voices yelled at him in tandem, "Oh...Please! Don't kiss or I'll p-UGH!" He was once again punched, but by only Sasuke, Sakura had starry eyes at the prospect of kissing Sasuke. Naruto recovered quickly however, getting serious, "What's your hidden village? They wore hitae-ate with an insignia I don't recognize and I've been places this past year, I know what I'm talking about!"

Kakashi answered this time, "More than likely, I'd say they're from Yukigakure no Sato. They didn't use any, but that village excels at Hyoton jutsu and they're technological advancements are a wonderment in and of themselves..." Naruto looked to his sensei with a cheeky smile, "You sound very fond of them...Almost starstruck I'd say, or is it crestfallen?" Kakashi chuckled at Naruto's 'nicer' attitude, "Well I've run into them enough times to figure out that not having any respect for them is a death wish! Hehehehe...Since we've been deceived again with a similar scenario, I'll let my students and former-student decide again!"

Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke exchanged looks of thought. "Inu-sensei...You said that this mission was an low A-rank, but I'd say that this situation just 'evolved' to a new level of A-rank. How much do you think we'll get from this, seeing as how we're lied to?" Kakashi looked thoughtful for a moment, "It started around 155,382 ryo. But now...I'd say it's about a million ryo at the least!" His students and former-student looked between each other, spurred on by the pay-grade. In unison they said, "Let's do it!" Sasuke was smirking at all the chances to learn new jutsu while potentially getting a field-promotion and grow strong enough to beat Itachi, Naruto was thinking of the pay and the chance to possibly earn a field-promotion or better...Getting new jutsu so he could move up a rank in the Bingo Book. Sakura was more sympathetic to the princess, but her experience with Naruto and Sasuke had showed her that people acting like Inari used to wasn't a healthy practice and definitely not something to encourage in any way. Sakura was more hoping for a field-promotion.

Their reasons varied, but their main goal was to climb up the ninja ranks. Sasuke wasn't given the rank of Chunin because his performance was less than stellar, Sakura was fully capable to become a Chunin but she hadn't taken the exams again with her training in the way and Naruto just wanted to spread his name and become a respected shinobi one way or another. Naruto then had a stroke of genius, "Inu-sensei!" Said ex-Anbu looked to his former-student curiously, "Do you know that technique, um...What was it? It was a special genjutsu, an 'Uchiha special' so to speak. If you learn it, then Sasuke can and you'll both be reaching your goals! You want to honor your old teammate, and Sasuke wants to kill Itachi, these two goals intertwine!"

Naruto's stroke of genius made Sasuke and Kakashi look thoughtfully before facepalming in synch. "Naruto...Sometimes you frighten me!" Sakura's concerned voice made Naruto smile in a cheeky and somewhat adorable manner, getting Sakura to noogie him, hard! "Itaitaitaitaitiaita!" Team 7 had totally forgotten about their mission at the moment. Naruto then kawarimid with one of his clones. Naruto's voice was heard as a battle cry, "SUITON:TSURGA!"

That made everyone run outside, Kakashi was trying to figure out What the fuck is he doing now?! When they got outside, Naruto was under the ice, and he burst through the icesheet as a vortex of water...A vortex that went directly for Koyuki! Kakashi got in the way of the incoming attack, "NARUTO! CALM DOWN! I know your rearing for a fight, but you can't fight her, she's the daughter of a Daimyo..." These grunted-out words went without saying, but Naruto replied in kind.

"She thinks she's better than us! It's time someone put her in her place, datteboyo! I'm not going...to...be...LOOKED DOWN UPON!" Naruto summoned out some foxes that dropped their henge and called out, "SUITON:BAATSURGA!" The kage bunshin drilled through the ice and soon-after joined their creator in going after Koyuki. The water kept coming up to the cyclones, their chakra was flowing through their(his?) entire bodies and pulling the water with chakra being pulled back into their bodies as it entered the water, resulting in more water coming to each individual drill and making the attack very chakra efficient.

Kakashi held firm, although the combined power of the three drills was pushing him back he wouldn't let Naruto pass him. Naruto for his part was getting pissed at his sensei, "SCREW IT!" A pair of clones dropped out of the center and grabbed slabs of ice and threw them into the vortexes. The ice became shards and began to condense the water as the twisters joined together. Out of the iced over water, came a white three-headed fox, "Hyoton: Kitsune Yugo Henge-Santo no Kitsune!" The voice came from one of the kage bunshin that had thrown the ice. The two bunshin then used Tsurga and went under the ice as well, this combination rose up from the water and as the ice and water surrounded the duo, they called out.

"Hyoton: Ikkaku Hakugei Henge!" The ice and water condensed around the two as they spun faster and fused, crashing into the water and resurfacing as a white whale with a horn. Sasuke then voiced his irritation, "That's not Hyoton, that's just a lot of henge-usage and kage bunshin! Quit screwing around Naru-UNGH!" The three-headed fox then hit Sasuke and Sakura over the head, hard. When the five Narutos returned to normal, Kakashi asked the big question, "Why would you hit them? They're your teammates."

The other Narutos returned to being foxes with masks and reentered Naruto's 'flak vest', as he'd come to call it. He then answered after he was sure his foxes were in their scrolls, "It's for that reason that I knocked them out. If they know all of my jutsu, then if one of us is taken hostage, then my jutsu could be countered. It also relieves them of knowing that I was the fox that was seen in the village, I hit them hard enough to knock 'em out, datteboyo!" He sounded somewhat proud of his genius plan until Inu ruined it by asking in hand gestures, "What are we going to tell them if and when they see you as a fox?"

Naruto took a moment to think before snapping his fingers and replying in hand gestures, "We'll say that it's a special summoning contract: where, whenever I summon a fox with more than one tail, I trade places with it! It makes perfect sense, because I can remain with visibly there when I 'summon' my foxes and since this is a 'fox contract' it's different from other summons." Kakashi looked surprised that Naruto even knew how to communicate by hand movement, until he said, "I read in the library in my free-time during the month long wait between the preliminaries and the finals in the Chunin Exams." "Aha!" He looked to the other people around them, "Don't worry about what you've seen here, it's shinobi training and disputes. This happens all the time!"

That fooled them but Kakashi had one verbal question left, "How do you know that they'll forget about you having been the fox?" Naruto looked to him with a cheeky smile, "You said that Ino's dad, Yamanaka Inoichi, figured out something was wrong because Ino wasn't being annoying with ramblings of a fox and that since he never knew me that Itachi didn't erase his memory...And after he went into Ino's mind to fix the problem, that he decided to restore everyone's memory and that their memories would still be hard to reach and harder to keep, so with that knowledge I knocked them out, datteboyo! Now, when we get back home, I'll ask Yamanaka Inoichi to restore their memories but leave out my jutsu and my being the fox..."

Naruto looked up in contemplation, "Actually...I'll ask for him to erase the memory of me being a fox from the others' memories, it's for the best, this way they won't be a liability and they won't be targeted for information." He said the last part in a sad tone, he'd just started to break out of his shell and began to take apart his mask, now he had to repair it and start all over again with his friends. Kakashi placed a comforting hand on his former-student's shoulder, "You've matured, in more ways than one! You're slightly taller, but more importantly you're wiser and more forward-thinking. These are great traits to achieve your goals, which you have my support in."

Kakashi received a surprised look from Naruto, "Yeah. After I gave it some thought in the past year, I came to the realization that you were right about everything regarding our village. Hashirama-sama and, Ashina-sama?" He was given a nod and a slight smile, still cautious of Kakashi. "Would be ashamed of what their village has become. Hashirama-sama and Madara had built our village to stop the fighting and the Uzumaki Ichizoku was called in to be a mediator between the rival clans. Uzumaki Mito was the first recorded Kyubi jinchuuriki in Konoha's history, your adoptive great-grandmother if I remember what what the journals said! Anyway-"

"No tricks this time, datteboyo!" Naruto's accusing finger made Kakashi raise his hands in an 'I am unarmed' fashion, indicating he was serious about this. "No tricks this time. Now, I have a feeling you have more questions?" The passengers of boat and the movie crew had returned to their work in making the movie on the shore, leaving Naruto and his former-sensei to talk,

"Yeah, how did my parents meet? Did my dad ever tell you?" This question sent Kakashi into fits of laughter, a strange and somewhat alarm-raising occurrence in Naruto's opinion. "Your mother, Kushina-senpai, apparently hated Minato-sensei when they were in the academy and that carried over into their genin days. She then 'tolerated' him after she was kidnapped by Kumo-nin and shortly there-after rescued by Minato-sensei."

Naruto nodded interest in his eyes, "Sounds like I take after my mother...Hey you know that enemy-nin Mizore?" "Yeah..." Kakashi had a bit of a concerned tone in his voice, "He was morbidly obese. I'm serious, he could've dropped dead at any moment!" He began laughing his ass off at the thought of that happening, while Kakashi was trying to stifle his chuckles, but it was a loosing battle. Naruto then went to the boat, saying he was going to read. Kakashi's only response was to nod, Speaking of reading...

He reached into his kunai pouch, intent on reading his smut, only to find it missing! Where-Naruto went behind me! "NARUTO!" In the boat, Naruto was reading the book and hid it when he heard his name get yelled out,"Ero-Inu-sensei..."

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THAT'S A MOTHERFUCKIN' WRAP! Ladies, gents, and other, whatcha think? R&R, no flamin', constructive criticism, and SEE YA!"