WHAZ UP! Ladies, gents and other, I'm sorry for not involvin' Inner Sakura directly. But I couldn't really add 'er in except for that little moment in the fight, so I'm now officially addin' 'er, this chapter's gonna be more character-developin' humor than action. Enjoy!

"Normal speech"

'Paraphrasing or character perceived action, event, object and or person'

Jutsu

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

Sakura's Soul/Mindscape

"CHA! WHY'D NARU-BAKA-KUN KNOCK US THE FUCK OUT!" Sakura looked to her blackboard counterpart. Inner, as Sakura had come to call her, was a mirror image of Sakura but only in black-and-white. On Inner's larger-than-average forehead were the words 'Inner Sakura' written in kanji. "What do you mean Inner? And why did you call Naru-baka, 'Naru-baka-kun'?" Now Sakura was an intelligent person, just not where it counted the most, so her question was answered by Inner's fist.

"OW! THAT HURT!" "DAMN RIGHT, IT HURT! CHA! That's what Naru-baka-kun did to us, you really don't remember?" Sakura had a seriously confused look on her face, "All I remember of Naru-baka was that he stole Sasuke-kun's first kiss! That was supposed to be me, not him!" Inner looked at the original blankly, as if deciding between beating her within an inch of her life or to beat her within an inch of her life. She chose to compromise with her impulse: she beat Sakura within an inch of her life.

"WHY ARE YOU BEATING ME UP?! YOU'RE A PART OF ME! WHY WOULD YOU HURT APART OF YOURSELF?!" Inner's punches stopped as she breathed heavily in the empty Konoha-like village that was Sakura's mindscape, "The beatings are because you're being an unlikable Bitch again! Before Naru-baka-kun left with Jiraiya-ero-sama, he'd taught Sasuke-kun, you and I how to be half-decent ninja. And now, he knocked us out and your memories are shaky if even that...How far back do you remember, besides your fantasy!"

Sakura looked at her like she was crazy for insinuating that she thought Naruto and Sasuke was attractive, "FIrst off: EW! I don't like Naru-baka, and if he stole Sasuke-kun's first kiss I'm going to-Itaitaitaita!" Sakura's right arm was behind her back as Inner sat on her back, "Continue that train of thought, please continue! I'd love to wound you enough where I can talk to Naru-baka-kun on my own!" Her chipper tone made Sakura realize she was missing something important, "What happened?! You hate Naruto, why are you so enthusiastic to talk to him?!"

"Because I need answers, and you're no help at ALL! SHANNARO! YOU'RE INCOMPETENT ALL OVER AGAIN, IT'S BECAUSE OF NARU-BAKA-KUN, THAT WE BECAME A HALF-DECENT NINJA ON OUR OWN!" Inner then did something surprising, she got off of Sakura calmly, this made Sakura's eyes widen at this strange behavior. "W-Why'd you let me up?"

Inner glared at her, "Because I'm not as bullheaded as you are at this point, you've missed a year of training and maturing that I remember. In a sense, you're a year younger than me...And I understand that killing you will only be a means to an end until your personality is restored from inside of me, so it's pointless to fight you!" It was at this time that Sakura noticed the change of attire on her 'darker' self.

Inner wore the same dress, but there was a downward-pointing triangle on her chest and the bottom and top pieces were separated and connected by fishnet. The lower part of her outfit was a combination of a skirt-cloth and a pair of shorts, it was the location of the hitae-ate that surprised her: it was a part of the skirt-cloth. On Inner's left arm was a small tattoo that looked like a shuriken in the shape of two swirls of smoke that connected in the middles, and her hair was a fluffy ponytail that was at her shoulders. "What's with the getup?" Inner then tensed and facepalmed several times as well as slamming her head against one of the buildings in Sakura's mindscape.

"Has nothing I've said passed threw all that dumbass in YOUR EARS?! You can't remember the year Naru-baka-kun was gone, because the memories Itachi planted in everyone Naru-baka-kun knew were temporarily removed. But since the hold on your memories was shaky, if even that, the fake memories are gone! You and Sasuke-kun are younger than Naru-baka-kun and I, and yet...Hahahahaha! We're all the same age, but mentally you two are mentally short a year of age. I'm taking over again, until your memories are restored, you're sitting in the backseat!"

No sooner had Inner said this, than she knocked Sakura out of commission for long enough to talk to Naruto.

The waking world

Sakura had been thrashing in her bed, as had Sasuke as marks began to spread all over his body. "Inu-sensei, explanation. Now!" Kakashi could tell that Naruto's obnoxious vulpine loyalty was kicking in. "During the invasion, Sasuke was bitten by Orochimaru and the-" "Ten no Juin!" naruto's voice was raised and it was starting to echo like it had done in the battle the day before. Naruto looked to the seal and let loose a vulpine howl of anguish from his throat.

Everyone in the car covered their ears and screamed. Sakura's voice stopped that, "NARU-BAKA-KUN, PLEASE STOP!" He stopped abruptly, as he grabbed Sakura by the throat and his eyes turned slitted, "NARUTO DON'T! That's not Sakura, but it isn't not Sakura. It's Inner Sakura, her more crass counter part..." Naruto's eyes were still a glower and they were still slitted, but he let go of 'Inner's throat.

"Why'd you call me that? I told Sakura no-Oh that's right I knocked her out, and since you're apart of her...I'm an ass!" Inner then hit Naruto, hard. "That's for knocking Bitch and Uchiha-kun out of the know! And this," She picked up Naruto and kissed him on the lips for a few seconds, "Is for giving me the chance to thank you for making Bitch a half-decent ninja!" Her change of attitude caught Naruto off-guard, and he didn't like being caught off-guard. He made this clear when he grabbed Inner by the face, and started to squeeze as hard as possible, getting pained groans from her.

"Don't...Don't play with my emotions! You might be a piece of my former-teammate, but I won't hesitate to harm you..." His growl wasn't a threat, it was a goddamn promise. "O-okay...I need to talk to you." He let go slowly, so as to re-grab her if she tried any funny business. "What is it?" Sakura's body suddenly glowed, getting Naruto on high alert even after Kakashi placed a calming hand on his shoulder. When the glowing passed, Inner stood there in her getup from Sakura's mindscape but in technicolor.

"I need to know why you knocked Uchiha-kun and Bitch out!" Kakashi answered Naruto's upcoming question, "She calls Sakura 'Bitch' and Sasuke 'Uchiha-kun'. Sakura, because she makes Inner the crass persona she is by bottling her hostility inside. Sasuke, because she's not as foolish about her closeness to Sasuke. She's also the dark side of Sakura, like you are for-ungh..." Naruto placed sympathetic hands on Kakashi and Sakura's shoulders as he gave them a sad nod,

"I miss him too...I knocked them out so that they're not a liability if they're captured. And with how unstable Sasuke is and because he's been given the Ten no Juin, he might take on a darker path than even me. Now, they also won't be targeted by Akatsuki when they come for me, because they won't know who the 'fox' was when I 'went missing' for three months. I need you to keep this between us Inner, we can't let Sakura or Sasuke show any knowledge of what I can do and what I've done. This is for their own good, and when we get home...The rest of our generation who know about everything I've done and can do, will have their memories-huhhuhhuh!"

Naruto fell to his knees, the pain in his tears was obvious. They could tell that he didn't want anyone hurt because of his problems and that he also didn't want to become the dobe to everybody. Inner knelt down to his side and brought him into a hug, Kakashi did the same while also watching Sasuke with his Sharingan uncovered. Sasuke was silently waking up and he let the other two know this through a code only Kakashi, Inner, and now Naruto knew. It involved hand seals for jutsu and using the first letter from the respective seals' names. (Takin' the first letter from the animal's name that each hand seal represents)

They got up quickly and Naruto called out softly, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu." In a puff of smoke, the three-tailed fox form took his place and made Sasuke wake up fully. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING?!" Naruto, although Sasuke didn't know that, growled loudly at being called a thing. Kakashi saved Naruto the trouble of explaining it to Inner, "This is Uran, Naruto's personal kitsune summon. The contract is strange, Naruto explained it to me while you and Sakura were asleep. Apparently, Naruto has to trade places with his summon for training in the realm of kitsune so that he might be a better summoner. Sakura, here, isn't the Sakura you know at the moment. She has a fairly-troubling case of MPD, multiple personality disorder. This is her alter-ego, Inner."

Inner responded by elbowing Kakashi in the ribs and kicking him in the balls, "You're an ass Kakashi-sensei! I wanted to tell Uchiha-kun who I am! Uran, please don't kill Uchiha-kun, we need him for the mission." Sasuke perked up at that one word, "Mission? What's the mission and where are we?!" Inner opened the curtains of the car and showed Sasuke outside with a smirk, "SNOW IS FUCKING EVERYWHERE!" His shout made the driver hit the brakes in surprise and made everyone fall over, "WHY WOULD YOU FUCKING SCREAM THAT NOW?! YOU'VE BEEN IN YUKI NO KUNI FOR TWO DAYS ALREADY!"

Sasuke looked to Kakashi for an explanation, "We ran into three shinobi from Yukigakure no Sato, they were ordered to capture and kill Kazahana Koyuki. Koyuki is the daughter of Yuki no Kuni's Daimyo, who died a long time ago. The enemy-nin attacked us by surprise and hit you and Sakura pretty hard, Uran here is a relatively decent medic-fox and diagnosed the two of you with a bad case of amnesia. Though, he said-"

"It can talk?!" Sasuke's surprise and calling 'Uran' and it made the three-tailed fox growl louder. "Please be patient Sasuke and don't call Uran an 'it'. That's very offensive, and he's the one who healed you...Anyway, the amnesia seems to have only affect about a year and a half's worth of your memories. The attack was weak compared to how hard you could've been hit. It was the same ninja who attacked you and Sakura, so the case is about the same time-span...Give or take a few days."

Sasuke looked at Kakashi like he was insane, "I lost a year and a half's worth of my memories, and you're so calm?!" Uran's ears folded back and he barked loudly in an attempt to silence the loud human, "If you're so strong, fight me you mangy beast!" That, was the last straw. Uran bit Sasuke's arm, drawing blood and he then bashed Sasuke against the side of his body, knocking him into the wall of the car. "..." Sasuke was gasping now, the bashing against a large fox's body really knocked the wind out of him. "That's against...Huuh! The rules of a medic, 'never hurt your patient'!"

Uran only barked, and then did something interesting. The large fox made a sound similar to a child trying to pronounce a new word, "Y-y-y-yu arrr nnawt mi patint!" Kakashi and Inner looked to Uran in amazement, "Well I'll be damned! You're learning to talk the language of humans, I thought only a five-tails can do that?"

"Mmots tym tat ist tru, but somtyms..." He began to bark again, the difficulty to speak a new language clearly straining his large and already hoarse throat. "Kitsune lern urly...Uzu-sama helpd me." Inner then made a somewhat tomboyish girly-squeal as she got to her knees and began to scratch him behind the ears, making his tongue hang out and his three tails to wag in and out of sync from time to time. Sasuke, looked surprised, "How many tails can a kitsune gain or are you bea-!" The growl from Uran's throat made him stop and try to reword the sentence.

"Are kitsune born with a certain number of tails, or are you able to grow more than the number you have?" Uran shook Inner's ministrations away, "...Wy du yu waunt tu no..?" The growled and rough attempt made Sasuke snort in amusement before Inner smacked him over the head, "Don't laugh! This is a huge step for him, Naru-baka-kun promised him that he'd help him become the summon boss of kitsune, don't laugh at his achievements!"

"I need to get stronger, a kitsune summon at your strength and apparent growth-rate could be my ticket to that strength." Uran looked at him with untrusting, red, blue-specked eyes. "Wy du yu nead tis powrr?" Sasuke looked at the fox with a hard gaze, "To kill my brother, he murdered my clan." The fox looked surprised, Kakashi and Inner were mentally applauding Naruto's acting ability. "...W-w-wat dyd yur c-klan du?" Sasuke looked very irate with the Great Dane-sized critter, "Nothing! They were innocent, and he killed them! Now, will you give me your contract or not?!"

Uran looked contemplative, "Nay-m-m-m?" Now, everyone near him looked to the fox in shock, Is he offering? Sasuke answered proudly, "Uchiha Sasuke!" Uran's eyes widened and he growled warningly, "Uran. What's the matter?" "Ukihaw tuk controll ov Kyuu-sama! Nawt me! I willln't bea taykn 'trol of tu!" Inner looked at the fox in confusion before the answer to her question processed, "Which Uchiha took control took control of your previous boss summon?"

"M-m-m-m-Madauraw!" (I know that the words 'Uran' is saying are shitty, but Naruto's trying to speak through a different set of vocal cords. He also needs to act like an uncommon summon that has little to no interaction with humans, so he's acting like talking in humanity's language is hard)

Sasuke, Inner, and Kakashi had wide eyes. Kakashi asked a different question, "How long until Naruto comes back?" Uran then looked to him and whined, "Nawt wauntd...Go ome..." "No no no! It's not like that! We need Naruto for our mission, what would you do with the money when the mission's over?" Uran tilted his head to the side confusedly, "Monie? Wat tat? Nevr hurd ov 'monie'...Wat it?" The words were more guttural now, "Um...This is difficult to explain! Oh, I'll show you what ryo looks like, that should help."

He pulled out a little gold piece of metal. Uran sniffed at the object curiously, "Smel lyke Inu-san. All r-ryo smel lyke?" Kakashi scratched his head in thought, "Um no. This is what ryo looks like, it smells different depending on who holds it. But what would you do with it?" Uran looked at him confused again, "Du wit? Du wat wit? No nead for ist an no waunt." Kakashi nodded with an eyesmile, "That's what I'm talking about. If we finished the mission, and Naruto wasn't back, you would be getting the money. Money, you have no use for and no desire for, so we need Naruto. As soon as you finish healing my students!"

Uran looked at Inner, "Oh wow, Bitch is awake now. I'd better let her drive..." Sakura's shoulders slumped and her body fell, landing on Uran's head, eliciting a loud yelp of surprise from him. When Sakura woke up, it was with a loud gasp and a shriek at the size of the fox, "W-W-WHAT IS THAT THING?! IT'S HUGE!" Uran whined, "Inner nyser...Yu meen..." The fox looked to Kakashi with eyes that asked for him to make the mean girl be nice, "Sakura, I'm going to ask you to do the same thing I asked Sasuke to do: 'Please be patient with Uran an don't call him an it'. Uran, the Great Dane-sized fox here, is the closest we had to a medic when you two were hit. The strike apparently knocked your memories of this past year and a half out of your minds. Inner explained her interactions with you were irritating to say the least."

Uran had three wagging tails again, now that the negative attention was on the 'mean girl'. "Meen girls be nyse now!" Sakura looked at the fox with a glare, "Zip it you! I'm plenty nice, and I'm also going to get some answers from Naru-baka!" That, made Uran growl at her in a dangerous manner, making Kakashi put a calming hand on the fox's head, "Sakura...Naruto is Uran's summoner and his closest friend. Naruto met Uran as a fox cub-"

"Kit." "Wha?" "Kit, fox kit." "Oh. Ooohhh! That makes more sense, also, why is it that you can say 'fox' and 'kit' no problem but have more trouble with everything else?" Uran looked at him strangely, "Arr firss wurds lernd. I lernd whyl Uzu-sama an' I werr wit Ero-sennin." Kakashi nodded and continued, "Uran was in bad shape when Naruto found him, I was watching him because his parents had helped me before they died during the Kyuubi attack, no offense Uran!" "Nun taykin." "When we were walking through the woods one day, Naruto spotted Uran. He was beaten and bruised, every inch of his body was cut up, and Naruto wouldn't let him be. And to this day, I don't regret letting Naruto talking me into helping Uran."

"When Naruto became a genin," Kakashi continued, "He was visited by Uran. Apparently the traditions of kitsune are very intricate in specific points. One such point of interest, is what happens when or if the boss summon of kitsune dies. Any kitsune who want to be the boss summon, must become a nine-tails, meaning they need to train and grow stronger. Naruto is strong because of his heritage from Uzushiogakure, but Naruto is also strong because of his willingness to do whatever it takes to keep his promises! And on that day, Naruto promised a promise of a lifetime, to help make Uran the new boss summon of kitsune."

Kakashi patted Uran's head affectionately, and Uran then held Kakashi's hand in his mouth in a playful way. "Hey Uran. When did you learn to speak, and better yet, when did you get your other two tails?" Uran looked around in thought of the human words, "Last time I saw you, you were a kit and couldn't speak a word!" He looked up to the man with eyes of frustration as he began to make a loud baby crying, whining and squeaking noise. "Ah, don't know how to pronounce the words yet."

The cars stopped abruptly, sending everyone into a floor make-out session. 'Uran' disappeared in a puff of smoke, Naruto appeared in his place. "OW! WHAT THE FUCK, DATTEBOYO!?" The driver ran into the back of the car, frantically waving his arms, "The princess has vanished! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!" His voice was higher-pitched than the average man, making them think he was either sick or had a pocket of air in his throat. He cleared his throat and said,

"You shinobi need to find her!" His voice was only deeper by a decibel. Naruto got up off the floor with a groan and a pissed off face, "I'll find her alright...And when I do, I'm gonna kill her!" Before anyone could stop him, he broke into an army of foxes like Itachi did with his crows. Sasuke and Sakura, having no memories of Naruto's abilities or skills, were wondering something along the lines of, When did he become so dark? And when did he learn to shunshin like that?

The genin looked to the jonin in their group with questioning eyes, "You two never knew the Naruto that had been there in class with you. The happy-go-lucky Naruto...Died." They looked at him in alarm, this was news and news they didn't want or like to hear. "W-Who killed him?" Sakura's innocent question was accompanied by Sasuke's interested nod, "...I killed him..." Now this was news that no one would want to hear, "WHY WOULD KILL HIM?! AND HOW COULD YOU?!"

This outburst was Sasuke's, making Sakura looked surprised at her crush for his display of interest and concern, "I was narrow-minded and biased in my ways, Naruto was and still is the village pariah aside from Mitarashi Anko. When I was assigned to protect him, I saw all that I had lost a long time ago, and I left him to the civilians...When I returned to the site of the event, I found him. But it wasn't the old Naruto; this was his darker side, the side of him that wouldn't bat an eye at someone he'd killed, the side...That held resentment and was untrusting of almost all he knew and met!"

Kakashi looked at them with eyes that were wizened and tired, eyes of a man who'd seen things he shouldn't have and wanted to forget. "Naruto was harsh when you guys became my team, he wanted nothing to do with you, but he opened up to you enough for you two to grow as a team. But then...Itachi came to Konoha the day Naruto and Jiraiya-sama brought Tsunade-sama back, and he erased the memories of everything good and amazing he'd done. He took away the good Naruto had done in the lives of others in our village, and he replaced them with Naruto's happy-go-lucky counterpart. Do either of you remember anything before waking up here?"

Sakura and Sasuke looked pensive, Sakura was the first to have a stroke of remembrance, "I remember Naru-ba-I mean Naruto, fighting a Hyoton-using shinobi. But it gets foggy as I look further into the battle...I also remember Naruto kissing Sasuke-kun! Did he actually steal Sasuke-kun's first kiss?!" Kakashi facepalmed, "Yes Naruto fought a shinobi who used Hyoton, but the fight was all him. And no, he didn't kiss Sasuke. You're as fangirlish as you were before meeting Naruto..." The two then looked to Sasuke expectantly.

"I remember...Naruto's Uran isn't he?" Kakashi's visible eye widened almost unnoticeably, "...Yes, but don't tell anyone! Either of you!" He fixed them with glare, making them flinch. "Hai. But, why can't we tell anyone Kakashi-sensei?" His question was met with a warning glare, "Because. If anyone knows that Naruto's the fox, then they'll be targeted for information on him and being as young as you are...You wouldn't last an hour."

Sasuke looked indignantly at his sensei, "Wrong! I'm an Uchiha, an elite, I can take anything you can dish out and throw it back at you tenfold!" Sasuke activated his Sharingan in a deliberate threat, only for Kakashi to lift his hitae-ate and reveal his Sharingan. But to the genin, there was something wrong with his red eye..."Mangekyo sharingan! I acquired this eye, losing a teammate and with this eye, I've witnessed things that would make even some of the most hardened shinobi pale in horror...So if you think that you hold a candle to Naruto, or me! Think again..."

Kakashi was glaring irritably at Sasuke, "My teammate was an Uchiha. But unlike you and the rest of your clan, he wasn't stuck up and he didn't have a stick up his ass! He was the deadlast, the dobe, and he dreamed of being Hokage someday. In essence, he was Naruto's original personality. But he died before he could fulfill his dream, and I failed to keep the promise I made the day I got this eye! I don't want to hear about how 'the Uchiha is superior to everyone' or why 'the Uchiha are better in everyway', so drop that state of mind before you get yourself killed!"

Sakura looked to her teacher, awestruck. "Hahahahahaha...It's about time that prick was put in his place, shannaro! Hahahahahahaha! I still kind of feel like it should've been me, but eh, can't complain too much when I had such a great seat!" Sakura then found irritation evident in herself, as she entered her mindscape.

The empty Konoha-like village scenery of Sakura's mindscape was as empty as ever, but there seemed to be an overpowering emptiness. "Inner! Where are you so I can beat you?!" That only seemed to make her laugh harder, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You-hahahaha-beat me?! Oh that's rich, you can't. And you wanna know why? You don't remember anything and I've all your reflexes that you'd developed over the passed year, your skills are shitty again..."

Inner's voice was everywhere, making Sakura look anywhere she could see. "It's pointless fighting me, I know! But at least woman-up and fight me..." Sakura's voice was diminutive as she attempted to find her courage and spunk. This was not lost on Inner, "You're still trying to fight after all that's at stake? Still after it's obvious Sasuke won't accept a weakling for a wife, and you're the pinnacle of weakness...Meaning, Uchiha-kun's mine!" That, made Sakura fume, "HE'S MINE YOU BITCH!"

The sound of Inner's cackles were coming from behind her now, "You really think he's-HAHAHAHA! He's going to take a weakling, bitch like you?! Haha, don't make me laugh. He's an Uchiha, an 'elite' as he says, which means only the best are good enough for him!" Her words were full of anger at the bigotry of the Uchiha clan. Sakura turned around and found, nothing but an empty street. "Why do you want him if you hate him?"

"I don't hate Uchiha-kun, I hate the Uchiha clan. They're mostly pompous pricks who can't get their heads outta their asses! Now, if you're done asking stupid questions..." Sakura was then once again knocked out, "Too easy..."

Naruto

"Running away isn't doing you any good. It's just inviting more trouble, trouble that you'll suffer worse from...Believe me, I know...Now, let's get you back to Sandayu and the others." Naruto picked up the exhausted princess with a pissed off look on his face, "What do you care, you don't seem to care about anybody but yourself?" Naruto then threw her onto the ground, "If you want me to act like that...Then I'll gladly oblige, because I'm resisting the urge to kill you and eat your still-warm-corpse! I put up a mask, to protect myself from heartbreak and rejection, I do care about others. Unlike you..."

Koyuki didn't even seem to care, "And you've no conscience. Another reason for me to hate you," She looked at him with angry eyes, "Then why don't you kill me and get it over with?!" Naruto then bitch-slapped her into a tree, "I don't because I believe in redemption and I believe that everything has a chance to change before dying. If I kill you, what makes me any better than a monster or another human? I'm a kitsune at heart and in spirit, but I'm human, so I try to treat humans decently...But every time I've tried, I've been beaten and abused in almost every way possible so far!"

"I won't become the very thing I hate, for then I'm nothing more than a monster. Let's hear your moral standing on everything so far, yeah?" The princess looked to him in shock, "Y-you're actually willing to talk to me without attacking me?!" Naruto's eyes had a mischievous gleam, "I could change that..." "No no! It's fine, it's fine...I just, wasn't expecting that!"

She took a deep breathe to calm her surprised nerves, "I see this whole thing as pointless and that I shouldn't be he-OW! WHY'D YOU DO THAT!" Naruto had punched her in the face this time with a blank expression, "Your're right." "Huh?" "This is pointless, talking to you is a waste of time and energy that I could be spending killing you! But, I've a conscious and it's gonna be the death of me someday...I'm trying to help you see that there's more to life than yourself, I can tell that you're makin' yourself out to be autistic, and I don't care. We're breaking that shell no matter what it takes, datteboyo!"

"Huuuhhh! You're a wretch, I used to be like you, I wanted nothing to do with what hurt me...But then I found something, something to make all the hurt worth it..." She looked to him expectantly, even after he walked away as if his explaining was done. "GET THE HELL BACK HERE AND TELL ME YOU SONUVA BITCH!" That was the wrong thing to say again, for as soon as she said that, she was being held against a tree by the throat. "Don't insult that which you don't know...Or I'll kill you!" His eyes were slitted and piercing blue, making her feel into her soul.

He covered her mouth as the sound of voices carried over to them, "Damn it, and I was just getting into 'character'..." The primal and sadistic smile on his face made her skin crawl, "We'd better get going!" He picked her up and slung her on his back, then ran like Hell. When they entered a tunnel, Naruto's ear twitched, "Hey Koyuki."

Her shocked expression made him groan, "WHAT?!" "You called me by my name..." "Wha-no I didn't! Ever heard of the Polar Express?" She looked pensive for a second, "No." Her answer made Naruto look at her like she was an abomination, ...Anyway. I'll give you a short synopsis: the main character is a magic train that kidnaps children for a night and takes them to a winter 'wonderland' before returning them home and leaving."

"Okay...How's this relevant to the situation at hand?" A train whistle blew, "BECAUSE THE POLAR EXPRESS IS TRYING TO KILL US!" He ran on all fours, a fox's teeth came into existence in front of his mouth and an aura of orange surrounded him. When the edge of the tunnel was in sight, he leaped to the side of the field and landed on his side. The train stopped and revealed "Kazahana Doto I take it? And with Roga Nadare no less, where's Fubuki-san and the morbidly obese Mizore-san?"

Nadare chuckled condescendingly, "Oh they're taking care of your teammates as we speak..."

Team 7 vs Fubuki and Mizore

"Sakura Fubuki no Jutsu!" Inner and Sakura were working as one this time, resulting in a merging of skill and enemy knowledge. The blizzard of exploding papers didn't damage the morbidly-obese Mizore. (He is really fat, I mean no offense to any person or persons reading) Though he was distracted long enough to be shoved into his teammate, creating an explosion that killed the two of them. Inner, Sakura and Sasuke exchanged a fist-bump of accomplishment.

Back with Naruto

"Eh, they've more than likely got it handled!" The two Yuki-nin looked surprised at his aloof attitude and 'clearly' apathetic personality. They then realized that Naruto had disappeared, when Doto was kicked in the face. "WHEN YOU GET TO HELL, TELL 'EM NARUTO SENT YOU, DATTEBOYO!" Before Naruto could continue his assault on Doto, Nadare came out of nowhere and grabbed him by the charm on his vest. (The Uzumaki charm from his old orange jumpsuits)

When Naruto struggled to escape, the charm was ripped off and discarded with a face of disgust, which rubbed Naruto in completely the wrong way! His body glowed an angry-red and his eyes were downcast, but when he looked up, Nadare's heart stopped. There, right before his eyes, were the eyes of the Kyuubi and its vessel was pissed. "You hate my clan, you're going to DIE! RRRAAHHH!" Naruto's fox teeth spread to his jaw and his nose had bone covering it now. Another tail sprouted from the the cloak of chakra, and said cloak became little more than blood and chakra with a hint of fur.

His eyes turned darker and the next thing they knew, another tail burst through the cloak. "Our power draws ever closer, almost one but never the same but almost...We fight as one and the same, now suffer for the deed you have done! RRRRAAAAAWWWW!" Naruto ran, his hands turned to claws and his feet turned to paws while the fox teeth and jaw became almost indiscernible from his face. Naruto's killer intent was palpable as at that exact moment, Koyuki faceplanted gasping for breathe.

Naruto's speed increased, and when he was within ten feet of Nadare, the kunai with exploding tags hanging on his vest caught fire and he called out, "BAKUTON: TSURGA!" The quadrupedal-running jinchuuriki leaped and spun in midair, with explosions commencing around his body. Nadare, Doto, and Koyuki stared, awestruck and scared of this powerful young man before them. Foxes exited the vortex Naruto made and pulled out different items. One fox transformed and equipped the Moeru Tsume, the flaming and clawed gauntlet, which he used to created a fire that was absorbed by Naruto's vortex. Another fox transformed as well and grabbed a water bottle, that he opened and threw into the vortex with rocks close behind. The last fox transformed and channeled chakra into his hands, before a gust of wind left him and entered the cyclone of explosions. Doto's thoughts were, He just made a jutsu out of a Chakra nature he's probably never encountered! He's using the less effective, but still useful;Water, earth, wind and fire approximation...

Nadare had the same idea as he painfully grunted out, "How do you...know about Bakuton? And how'd you know the...formula to approximate it?!" One Naruto answered excitedly, "It makes sense! Earth and water make wood, so wood plus wind makes paper, and paper bombs plus fire equals...BOOM!" That word set off the explosions into larger chain reactions all over Naruto's spinning form, and in a split second, Nadare and the original Naruto's eyes met as the world seemed to slow down. Naruto's eyes portrayed disappointment and distaste, like he'd been expecting more and like just looking at his opponent made him sick.

This didn't sit well with Nadare of course; he went through the hand seals of rat, hare and dog before he called out, "Hyoton: Roga Nadare no Jutsu!" That's when he realized that the other Naruto's had done the exact same, "YOU SONOVABITCH! YOU STOLE MY JUTSU, YOU'RE ALMOST AS BAD AS THE COPY-NIN!" No sooner than he'd said this, five sets of avalanches occurred in the forms of running wolf packs. Nadare's wolf avalanche was destroyed by three of Naruto's, seeing as the clone had sent chakra throughout his entire body instead of molding it the way Nadare did, but he didn't have the Sharingan and couldn't see how chakra was molded to copy it the same way.

The avalanche-wolves Naruto made ran down the mountainside and hit the rear of the train, when the sounds of charging was heard. The original Naruto stopped spinning and looked up the hill to their left to see Sandayu and a lot of soldiers running down the hillside in armor and armed with ninja-to. They didn't get far, for the train carts' sides opened up, revealing slotted openings where kunai flew out of and into the warriors.

The Narutos had one thought, Leave it to the kitsune to do the work, as per fucking usual!

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THAT'S A FAN-MOTHERFUCKIN'-TASTIC WRAP LADIES, GENTS AND OTHER! PHEW! That took a lot longer than usual, an' I don't regret one sec' of it, this chapter just feels more accomplishing...No flames, R&R, constructive criticism and SEE YA!