Whaz up ladies, gents an' other! I'm gonna give Naruto a deeper side that no one's ever thought of when 'e's like this. Naruto's a kitsune at heart, through an' through, which means...C'mon, y'all, if ya know yer lore ya know what I'm talkin' 'bout. Not much to go over, 'sides we're gonna get an attempt at a lemon, probably gonna suck ass though. I don't own Naruto Shippuden, if I did I wouldn't be lecturin' ya with my shitty stories, now would I? (This chapter's been rated M for the pitiful lemon I purposefully made bad and mature humor that's too crude at times 'cause I'm that much of an asshole)
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(Cue: The Wanted-Glad You Came) Naruto looked to who he'd been assigned as a team, sighing heavily. "Am I the only one who thinks this is kinda pointing a finger at all of us?" Yugito, Fuu, Gaara, Amaru, Utakata and Yagura all nodded. The Tsuchigumo heir, Utakata, looked around at the bar/brothel they'd been assigned for their first exam, "What reason would anyone have to come here? Are people not content to their spouses or lovers?"
He received shrugs from everyone as Naruto shook his head with another sigh, running a hand through his red hair, "Beats the Hellish fuck outta me, all I know's that these places've been a huge part of my life to wash away most of my troubles..." The others looked at him in disturbed shock, "What?! I was molested when I was a Gaiden, and the 'voice' I heard most of the time going through my head kept drawing me to places like this, begging me to start a fight or twenty."
His words made Yagura cough into his hand uncomfortably, "Let's stay focused, shall we, Uzumaki-sa-" "Don't you dare finish that honorific, Yagura!" The Sanbi jinchuuriki held his hands up disarmingly at the accusing finger Naruto pointed at him, "Anyways, we have to gather information before the other teams do. So, who wants to take first crack at this foe's skull?" All he got was a dark chuckle from Naruto, making the others look to him in confusion. Taking a glance at the surveillance camera, Naruto edged towards its blindspot away from anyone else's sight.
The other jinchuuriki followed after him, seeing no harm and feeling a fearful curiosity as to what he was planning. That's when they saw that his body was morphing, not using a puff of smoke, but actually transforming, naturally. His hair grew longer, bluer too, while his whiskers became less prominent and becoming more pleasing to the eye. His chest inflated, becoming less like abs and more like large-"...Boobs...?" He smirked to them as his hips widened while his waist shrank to an appealing thinness. Now more feminine, his-turned-her legs toned in a way from muscular to sensual. Finally, her ass developed enough that it made the others want to say 'dat ass!'.
Tying her hair into long pigtails, 'Naruko' swayed forward, "How do I look?" She said this in a way that made everyone she(He?) asked think of the Hyuga heiress, innocently. Her bosom was an impressive and potentially sinful E-cup, getting the three young women glare heatedly at her for making them look and slightly feel inferior. Her ass was wide, not too fat but just right, while remaining somewhat firm in feeling. The 'best' part of her however, was the fact that her face looked like Fuu's and her hitae-ate was covered in a seal that made it look like Taki's as she wrapped it around her neck like a choker.
Her attire had changed as well, changing from the shirtless man she'd been to the fetching young woman in an orange jumpsuit. "You look slutty and like you need to get laid, along with taken through your wardrobe to change it! Why'd you use me as a basis?!" Fuu's question made 'Naruko' giggle sensually, "I didn't. She's an old toy," She was rewarded with her choice of words with deathly glares from the three real women, "It's a figure of speech, jeez, hehehe. I used to transform into a naked and more me-like version of her when I was younger, it was a way to get at the villagers and weed out perverts. I just needed to touch her up a little, that way no one watching's gonna catch on."
Reasoning through it, they saw no better course of action, so left her to her devices while they oversaw what she did. And she made quite a scene. Naruko sashayed through the crowd, acting like an innocent fourteen-ish year-old girl lost in a foreign place, and it worked as several men and women looked to her with lecherous smirks. Some even went so far as to slap her ass, making the blunette yelp in surprise, awkward indignation, and minor pain.
Alright, Kyuubi, patch me through to the others, please. The daiyoukai grunted in affirmation, "Testing. Testing: Rei, Ichi, Ni, San, Roku, Nana/Shichi! CAN YOU HEAR ME!" His sarcastic tone of voice was painfully obvious, as everyone and anyone who could hear it had ringing in their ears. "We can hear you, Baka-Fox! NOW QUIET THE FUCK DOWN, SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!" Gaara's eyebrow twitched at that, even his prisoner slept while he never got a wink of shut eye! Gaara, are your eyes out yet? A mental grunt was all he got as an answer, Good. Keep 'em open for anybody who might know something, and if you can, read their lips 'cause I'm pretty sure you can't do the same with your ears.
I can read lips, Uzumaki-sa-, Amaru was cut off by an indignant Naruto-posing-as-a-woman, I'm just Naruto, well Naruko at the moment. But no formal shit with me, capiche?! The medicnin nodded with a somewhat fearful face on, Hai! But I can read lips pretty well, if Gaara-san can replicate the lip movements I can probably tell you what's being said. Naruko shook her head with a heavy sigh, attracting the attention of a stupid Kumo Chunin, "And how might I help you my," Taking a look at her hita-ate, he smirked cockily, "fair maiden?" The powerhouse-turned-suddectress blushed an inferno, the Kumonin's smirk growing lecherous as he ogled her, "T-T-T-T-Thank yo-y-y-you, K-Kumo-san..."
He looked left and right, making sure no one was eavesdropping on them, before saying suggestively, "What are you doing in something so tight?! Shouldn't fine, young ladies be doing their job and stay at home?" Even Kyuubi flinched indignantly at that. He was male, of course, but he'd taken the form of a woman once or twice and saw no reason that women were seen as second-class citizens, "Note to self: Make his death as painful as possible..." Naruko inwardly smirked with a nod, Agreed.
"I-I-I was told to come here by my teammates and...and," Tears began to form in her eyes as she curled her arms into herself, hugging herself reassuringly, "And I didn't even want to come here, but they made me-aahhhhaaaaa!" (Bad cryin' sound, I know, but I ain't got much to work with 'ere so cut me some slack) The guy backed up and looked frantically to everyone around him, trying to find something to bring the conversation back in his favor. That's when he caught sight of a bedroom, and his smirk returned at full force, "I have something that'll ease this all away like a bad makeup set..."
The others had a good connection to what he heard thanks to Kyuubi feeling like justification was needed for what they'd do to this guy, and he got it. Amaru, Fuu, Yugito and Nibi were all held back by the remaining males to keep undercover. "MURDER HIM, KU-" "WHY DO YOU THINK I LET ALL OF YOU HEAR THAT, MATATABI?!" Naruko almost forgot what she was doing at the last part of that, "Uh-uh, w-w-what w-w-would that b-b-b-be, K-Kumo-san...?" His smirk grew even more lecherous as he led her through the crowd, getting the distraught girl by the hand with a tenderness unexpected from someone with a bodybuilder physique.
The only thing I'm getting from this besides information is sex, hopefully it's good... The others, minus Kyuubi, froze at that. WHAT/WHAT?!" Their mental cry made the daiyoukai kitsune wince in minor pain while Naruko rubbed inside her ear, Damn you're loud...I've done shit like this before now, and each time I break my hymen it doesn't get any better. I did you girls a favor, you three OWE ME BIG TIME FOR THIS SHIT, HERE! WHEN YOU DO THIS, THEN YOU CAN BITCH AT ME FOR BEING 'SLUTTY', 'CAUSE COCKS HURT!
Reaching the room, Naruko was quickly picked up with an frightened 'eep' and thrown onto the bed, "You know what happens to girls like you, don't you?!" His smirk was dangerous as he went through handseals and burnt the scared girl's clothes clean off her body while she tried in vain to cover herself, "NO HIDING OR HOARDING BURIED TREASURE!" ...This guy gotta fetish or some similar shit, 'cause that's kinda creepy... Kyuubi nodded from behind his prison cell-like cage, "Indeed." You should cut the link, otherwise our cover's blown and we get kicked outta the Exams, which means we lose, and I for one don't wanna lose to a bunch of kids.
(This doesn't count as rape, kiddies, 'cause 'Naruko's actually wantin' somethin' more than info outta this. So it's basically consensual. Lemon ahead, probably gonna suck complete ass an' if ya're not into that kinda thing, skip through it)The link was severed, and for good reason too, as the man removed his pants hastily, getting Naruko to look on in fearful anticipation. What she got was a shrunken mushroom, making her minutely grimace in horror and extremely serious confusion. "W-W-W-WHat a-a-a-a-are you g-g-g-going to do?!" He smirked ferally, "IMMA RAPE YOU, BITCH!" He aligned himself with her slit, holding her arms by her wrists and wedging himself between her legs, making her create a silencing seal around the room just in case. Couldn't have any interference, now could they?
Not even waiting for her to adjust, he began to piston his pitiful penis in and out of her. She moaned realistically, but was fuming inside, IMMA FUCKING MURDER HIS ASS! FIRST, HE BRINGS ME IN HERE TO PRACTICALLY RAPE ME, BUT HE LEAVES ME UNSATISFIED TOO! HE AIN'T LEAVING HERE WITHOUT DYING A BLOODY DEATH! Kyuubi was actually staring at his container in mild fear, this amount of hate was short lived but it was worse than any hate he'd ever felt.
The man roughly grabbed Naruko's E-cup breasts, making her moan in both pain and pleasure. "WHAT AR YOU-AH!-DOING TO ME?!" Her cry of 'pleasured' pain was music to his ears, "I'M FUCKING YOUR VIRGIN PUSSY, AND YOUR' EXTRA TIGHT! It's clear you broke your maidenhead during training, which is kind of a shame, since I love the screams girls make when they're claimed...!" (I hate myself as much as y'all right now, kids, I really do, but the kitsune need more reasons to kill him than just bein' dissatisfied)
He flipped her and shoved his diminutive dick into her ass, making her scream in 'pain' from the penetration whilst slapping her ass incessantly. "YES, RIDE ME YOU HUNG, BAD BOY! MAKE ME CUM!" Unknown to the two of them, a surveillance camera had been placed in there to show off the methods of candidates, and everybody in the entire Elemental Nations was seeing what Naruko had cooking up. Once more flipped over, she nearly choked on the guys stumpy stick, "YEAH, SUCK THAT YOU DIRTY, LITTLE SLUT!" And that was the last straw. (Lemon, if ya even can call it that, over now. It's short, it's shitty, it's all I can manage 'cause I'm still a new author)
Naruko flipped off the bed, slamming her crotch into the man's face and used her body weight to temporarily crush his windpipe as they toppled off the bed with herself on top of his throat. She did, however, make him ejaculate prematurely in the process, allowing her to swallow it before spitting it out onto the camera lens. She transformd back and swore worse than a sailor, "THAT GUY'S DICK WAS MORE DIMINUTIVE THAN ERO-SENNIN'S ANTAGONIST FROM ICH ICHA: PARADISE!"
Video room
Inu and several others covered their ears as Naruto kept referencing the upcoming books and what happened in the current ones, "STOP SPOILING IT FOR US!" Anko was laughing herself to proud tears, "He took my tips to heart...! THis has gotta be the second best day of my life!" Gai asked quietly, "What is Youthfully the first best day of your life?" Anko got off the floor, pulling her swivelchair up with her, "The day Kashi-kun finally asks me out on a date, of course!" She popped a stick of dango back in her mouth, smiling cheekily as she bent her neck to look at Kakashi with a loving stare, "Any day now..." A shiver ran up the backs of many people in the room after she said that, making her laugh her ass off again.
Back with Naruto
Naruto's list of swears finally finished, he started writing words in blood on the wall. Pleased with his work, he started looking around the room for a camera for his interrogation skills. He soon found the camera and let it show its audience what he'd written on the wall, it read in big, bold letters, 'Beware the Kitsunin's wrath, bitches and bastards!'. Sending chakra through the unconscious man's body, he healed the fucker before transforming a clone to be his five-tailed fox form. The fox's purpose was to restrain the man while Naruto waited 'patiently'. Patiently for Naruto meant beating his hostage awake, which he did with bitch slaps, "Wake up, Dickless! You're a sexual disappointment, don't be a shinobi disappointment too! Do I have to pull the Golden Flash-card?!"
Getting no response, he smirked like a predator as he turned to the camera, "Any parents watching this with their kids had better cover the eyes of children, 'cause the kitsune jinchuuriki's about to kill somebody's brains!" Naruto suddenly started to twitch and convulse uncontrollably, like he was having a seizure, until his bare chest became furred and his body became half-fox. The bones adjusted, grew, shrank, broke and healed. A snout grew from his jaws, making him look like a crazed beast as his eye glowed an angry red with power. His five tails flailed around furiously as he began to beat the man out of his bad acting, "AAAAHHHHHH!"
"NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE IT! I'M GETTING ANSWERS FROM YOU, OR YOU DIE, WHICH ONE IS IT!" The man was then reduced to a sniveling mess at the sight of Naruto's insanely rage-filled eyes, "I'LL TALK, I'LL TALK, JUST DON'T HURT ME!" A sneer made its way onto Naruto's elongated face, making the man cry even more in fear as the clone fox dispersed, "This is gonna be fun...!"
Half an hour later, standing outside the room conspicuously
Yagura lent against the wall with a scowl on his face, "What's taking so long?!" Fuu, Gaara and Amaru exchanged glances but only shrugged. Yugito and Utakata just stared at the door blankly, trying in vain to see what Naruto was up to. It was when the door opened and hit Yagura in the face that they jumped and that they got an answer.
The room looked perfectly clean, but there was an air and smell of something else. "What took you so long?!" The question came from Kumo's nekomata jinchuuriki, "It wasn't worth it," They all looked at him in fear that they'd get kicked out of the Exams, "He was so fucking puny! I mean, five fucking inches! How's that healthy?! Seriously, what woman could get off of that...? Anyway, I've got everything he had, but I think we're gonna need to do that a few more times just to make sure. I'll risk it again if you want, I've got an idea, but it's messed up even by our standards..."
"What's your plan, Naruto-kun?" His smirk had gone for a moment as he placed a hand to her brow, allowing her to see what he wanted her to know. The smirk returned and he was punched through a wall as Fuu transformed into her younger appearance as she walked through the crowd, "I TOLD YOU I'M NOT FLAT-CHESTED, YOU SICK PERVERT!" She ran off into the crowd while everyone in the building looked to him questioningly, "...ehehehehehe..."
As the atmosphere returned to normal, Fuu found a target to screw with. Her appearance was the same as she had been three years prior to any of this, and she seemed a bit smaller than she had originally been when they were Genin. Alright, Nanabi, who's the likeliest candidate to be a pedo?! I'm feelin' lucky! The last word brought out a spark in the daiyoukai kabutomushi, "LUCKY ARE YOU FEELING?! LET US TEST THIS LUCK!"
The others had wide eyes, especially their prisoners, "...oh..." Shukaku's scared tone of voice sent alarms ringing in the heads of Yugito, Yagura, Amaru, Naruto, Gaara and Fuu. "...dear..." Kyuubi's voice was fearful as he curled his tails around himself defensively. "...sweet...!" Reibi, Sanbi and Rokubi all said this with fright. Matatabi, as she'd explained that was her name, said in a yell of terror, "KAMI HELP US!" Nanabi started chanting, muttering, mumbling incoherently and saying things nonstop while causing trouble behind the weak bars of Fuu's seal.
All the while outside of the seal, Fuu was tripping over herself and bumping into everyone in and out of sight! "Gomenasai! Gomenasai! Gomenasai!" She said every time she bumped into someone, that is until she found a pair of familiar faces, "...Kon'nichiwa, Floozy, Dusty Tails...!" Ino and Temari, finally getting a good look at the little bitch who ran into them, glared heatedly at her.
"What are you doing here, Flat-Chest?!" A tickmark appeared on Fuu's forehead as she slapped the slightly taller-than-her Temari in the chest, making the former Suna-nin blush before Fuu started crying realistically. "WHY WOULD YOU CALL ME A SLUT, NEECHAN?! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME!" Everybody looked to the three of them, seeing a blonde Fuu with who appeared to be her older sisters. Fuu's tears kept coming, making her 'sisters' feel even more awkward with everyone staring at them.
"Hey, hey, we didn't say that, Imouto!" Temari's attempt to ease the girl's tears away, but ended up only making it worse as Naruko walked onto the scene, enormous breasts bouncing with each step, with a bit of red liquid dripping from her mouth before she seductively licked it off, "Mmmm...What's going on to bring tears from thy innocent eyes, Chisana ichi?" Fuu looked up to the older woman as she saw the buxom bitch's bosom at eye level, glaring at the 'older' lady's larger rack indignantly, a twinkle of mischievousness in Naruko's eyes as Fuu answered through realistic-yet-fake sobs.
"M-M-My sisters...c-c-c-c-called me a...a...a," Fuu curled hugged herself reassuringly as tears streamed down her face, "What, innocent child? A what?" The motherly, loving tone in Naruko's voice was all too real, unlike Fuu's believable-enough tears as the buxom blonde placed a loving hand on the mintette's cheek.
"a...a...a...A SLUT! ALL BECAUSE OF MY CLOTHES!" And the entire building was staring at the scene with heated glares directed at the two Konoha-nins. Tag, 'Naruko' thought, her thoughts being heard by the two women being glared at as she smirked ever so slightly. You're it, girls, come up with something better...That is, if you can and accept my challenge...!
How are you talking to us with your thoughts? The Shintagu no Jutsu's a Yamanaka clan secret! Ino's thoughts were answered by Naruko's. Indeed it is, Ino-chan, but remember, the Kitsugan sees what I see and transforms what I see into my own tool. Be it a jutsu, fighting style, minor parts of body form, and the ability to see the deceased.
That's when Ino and Temari took notice of Naruko's features, seeing the bust size was a combination of their own and the waist was a medium between them. The facial features were Fuu with Naruto's whiskers, her toned legs were like Yugito's, Naruko's hips were like that of Amaru, and she had Hinata's timid personality as well as the Hyuga heiress' backside. Her skin tone was like Tenten's while her arms and thin hair were Sakura's. All in all, she was a perfect meld of all the girls Naruto knew relatively well or had a connection to that was beyond coworker and a damn good looking bitch.
"YOU'RE," Was the combined yell of the two women, "YAMI!" Naruko now had a hurt look on her face as the soon-to-be mob readied it's weapons, including but not limited to: bottles, chairs, small tables, and other such items. The buxom blonde with pigtails had tears in her eyes as she started to cry softly, making the entire building turn into a cluster fuck free-for-all, which got the jinchuuriki smiling with bloodlust as they charged in as themselves.
Amaru resembled a Lamia again, Naruto a Werefox, Fuu a humanoid kabutomushi and Gaara's sand transformed him into a tanuki. Yugito's smile literally spread from ear to ear as her body started to change. Two fiery tails sprouted from her tailbone, a pair of equally fiery yet bushy ears grew from the top of her head, and her hands turned into large paws. Her legs bent around in places not bent at before, making her legs look like a cat's. She looked not much different, aside from the obvious, but she wasn't an eyesore by any stretch.
Yagura and Utakata did as well transform, but not in a way similar to the others. Their bodies remained basically the same, but no extra appendages grew from them. All that changed about them was their skin complexion and density, as Yagura's skin was little more than a skin tight suit made from turtle shell and Utakata's body became like a slug's, slimy and rubbery enough that damage wasn't very effective.
Naruto's tails flailed behind him in a way that screamed excitement, Yugito's tails swayed back and forth swiftly in anticipation for bloodshed, Gaara's markings were swirling around his body nonstop, Fuu's wings were shivering with bloodlust, Amaru's teeth were being ground together as she prepared to eat and the other two just smiled softly. Handseals were ran through by Naruto as he called out, "Akuton: Akuma Kuro Furea no Jutsu!" He opened his mouth and charged up several black flares before firing them at random people.
Fuu ran through handseals and, as soon as the chitin plates retracted, called out, "Jinton: Hankon Arashi!" She exhaled an insect scale-like dust from her mouth, this dust started to fly around the room like a storm. And a storm it became, as the fighting commenced the dust started to fly faster and faster around everyone while cutting them up. "This is the true Jinton, not that shit you'll see from the Tsuchikage 'cause that's a half-assed attempt at it. The true name of that style's Ryuton. Particles, not dust. The inventor of Jinton resides within me, the Nanabi/Shichibi jinchuuriki!"
Another jutsu came into play at that moment, however, "Hachisasare Hariken no Jutsu! Take that, Kabutomushi-teme-sama!" The jinchuuriki had heard of that jutsu kind, "Kamizuru/Kamizuru!" The name made a woman step out of the screaming-in-pain crowd, "What can I say, I hate anyone connected to the Aburame! Because of you, Nanabi, the Aburame were formed and because of them, my clan fell from grace in our home village!"
This woman had shoulder-length brown hair, her eyes were steel-grey with orange markings at the corners and she wore an altered, purple kimono dress with red trimmings. Around her waist was a yellow sash and thigh-length stockings which for some reason merged with her sandals. She had a hitae-ate sewn into the chest of her kimono, letting all who saw her know she was from Iwagakure. Naruto yowled a laugh as he pointed at her and said, "Oh, come on, that's just a legend...at least it was..."
Out of the crowd came Sakura, "What's a legend?! And what's with all the bees and dust?!" All the while the entire building was still a huge cluster-fuck of a brawl. Gaara spoke up and explained to Sakura as the others got into the brawl, "All clans have a history, and several of them have a foundation based upon the Bijuu. Jinchuuriki have a connection to the Bijuu, it's very weak, but it's there. Be it an encounter or a sealing of chakra, our reserves were boosted by the rampant chakra in the air and we're taunted for it. The Aburame were worshipers of the Nanabi no Kabutomushi, as were the Kamizuru only they went with a different type of insect."
The half-fox Naruto was thrown at Gaara, making him grab the flying vulpine before tossing him back. Sakura looked to her brother-figure with sadness in her eyes, Niisan's...been touched by the...Kyuubi?! It all added up now: the insults, the hatred, the love for kitsune, the foxnip addiction, the bloodlust, the lack of concern for human life! He was born on the day of the Kyuubi Attack, the Kyuubi no Yoko's chakra must have been all over the village that night, so it's no surprise he was a powerhouse and since he was the only child born that night he was that much stronger.
She looked to him as he was dogpiled, making him thrash around rabidly as a foam started to form around his mouth. Amaru bit into someone's shoulder, this caused him to scream as the Reibi jinchuuriki started to drink the blood and eat the man's flesh. Fuu and the Kamizuru lady started to fight, insect-user versus insect-user. Yugito was scratching the lives out of existence of all those she fought. Yagura and Utakata were smacking people up like no one's business, back to back. And Gaara was keeping the girls safe while getting his own fair share of blood as he continued, "The Inuzuka have an ancestry of Kyuubi worshiping shinobi, along with some of the Nibi worshipers of all things. Senju were always close to slugs in one way or another, but their origin is that of Juubi worshiping heretics!"
Sakura, Ino and Temari all had wide eyes at the last part. That was heavy, since the current Hokage was a Senju and now they found out that her ancestors used to worship a-"THERE'S A TENTH BIJUU?!" They yelled as one. All of the jinchuuriki almost unnoticeably tensed up and looked around fearfully, their prisoners feeling terror at the idea of meeting the Juubi itself. It was a cough for attention that alerted them to Amaru, "I'm the Reibi jinchuuriki, so their's already a tenth jinchuuriki. Sorta..." She was then underneath of Fuu, who only groaned and fluttered onto the ceiling, where she stayed...!
Everybody paying attention to the jinchuuriki fighting had gaping mouths, getting a few flies to choke a few of them before the spit out the offending insects. The Reibi jinchuuriki seemed a little sad now, which made the three ladies next to her confused until she explained, "The Reibi was never a part the Juubi before Otsutsuki Hagoromo-sama split her apart into the nine Bijuu, the Reibi's a byproduct of the negative emotions Hagoromo-sama and Hamura-sama gave off from their fight with the Juubi." Naruto skidded from the crowd, digging his claws into the floorboards, right in front of the five of them.
"What?! I'm having fun, at least stay out of the way, Datteboyo!" He was off again, running in place like in cartoons for a second before launching himself into the thick of the crowd. Finally sick of it, Gaara ran into the cluster-fuck with the intent to raise Hell and his Jiton markings forming as as jaggedly serrated armor for his claws to do more damage. It was going to be a long night...
Seventeen hours later. Dawn of the next-next day
Naruto, Fuu, Amaru, Yugito, Yagura, Gaara and Utakata were finally finished with the fighting. It had lasted two days and a half to finish, but it was over, and it was not worth it. Most of those who'd fought were either dead, dying, wounded, undead, walking dead, soulless, and or really beat up. This meant trouble for the girls who'd been given this place as an exam station, leaving them with nothing to do but give up. "Damn it! So close, and we fucked it up!"
A fox-purr escaped Naruto's throat, letting them know he was all too proud of what he'd helped do, "Should've acted sooner, Temari, or you'd have known where the next Exam's taking place. Gotta go, or we're going to fail too!" They were gone in unique shunshins each. Naruto used his normal Kitsune Shunshin, Fuu turned into a cloud of beetles, Gaara became sand, Yugito was engulfed in blue fire, Amaru started to glow before vanishing, Utakata popped like a bubble and Yagura transformed into water.
Well that was over way too soon, I was enjoying that fight. Gaara's mental statement was agreed upon by the others as they appeared at a castle-like fortress. They returned to normal in the center of the arena that was the fortress' courtyard. "WHAT'S UP, BITCHES?!" That was Amaru's shout, getting the entire crowd into an uproar of apparent fans. There were fangirls screaming at Naruto to quote; 'screw them into a coma', 'trib with them', and 'come to their houses to marry them', which was his personal favorite at the moment.
"Is being shirtless really that big of a thing? Or is it the fact that I've been in a woman's shoes?" He was caught in a noogie from Yugito who said, "A little bit of both, Kiddo, a little bit of both..." Naruto indignant gekkering made them all laugh at the odd sound leaving such a masculine person, while most of the fans fainted from hearing the 'hottest sound in the Elemental Nations'. As the Kage, from Iwagakure to Soragakure and even Yukigakure, stood up and looked down into the arena.
"I'll be damned, that bastard actually did it..." Doto looked to Tsunade curiously, "Did what, Hokage-sama?" She looked to her right, seeing Koyuki's uncle. "Oh," She said with a nonchalant wave of the hand, "Naru-teme said he'd do this entire thing shirtless, and it looks like he's going to keep his word on that. Little asshole, keeps making me go broke!" The resulting laughter came from Shizune, acting as Tsunade's bodyguard, Tonton, Jiraiya who'd just got there, Zabuza and Doto.
"You actually bet against, the Kitsunin?! Are you insane-HAHAHAHA!" Zabuza's words made a vein threaten to pop on Tsunade's forehead. A looked down to see Yugito, "...Why is it that Yugito's acting so friendly around that redheaded-" His eyes widened as he turned to Tsunade with a stern expression, "Is that redheaded bastard an Uzumaki?!" The two Sannin in the room glared at the Raikage.
"And," Jiraiya said testily, "What if he is? What'll you do? Kill him like you and Iwa did to Uzushio?!" His raised voice was a definite warning, one that went unnoticed by Onoki. "That brat is an Uzumaki?! Then he should die!" Just before the diminutive flyer could fly down, Naruto appeared right in front of A and Onoki, his hair overshadowing his slitted, red eyes.
"If you're going to talk about someone, at least let their opinion be heard, Tsunade!" Said busty Kage glowered at her only living relative, getting the same glare from Naruto before he turned to the two who wanted him dead. "I'm not just any, Last of the Uzumaki, Onoki, A!" They both looked to him with hatred in their eyes as he continued, "I'm the fucking Kyuubi jinchuuriki," That stopped them in their proverbial tracks in caution, "I'm not afraid to kill any who'd attack me. Provoked or not, I'll kill both of you for attacking me or my kindred! Tsunade's my only known living relative, but she's hardly family and nowhere near compassionate towards me, so that only leaves the other jinchuuriki. Hurt them, you hurt me, you hurt me and-Hahahahahahaha! I'll murder your asses...Enjoy the bloodshed!"
Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke, revealing that he was a Kage Bunshin. Naruto looked up from the arena, smiling to the Kage with a bloodthirsty smile that could only be the Kyuubi's. A and Onoki, for the first time in their years as Kage, felt fear for their lives. Killer Bee stepped forward, a serious expression on his face, "Don't pick a fight with that one, Bro, you'll only drag the village into his hatred for the world. He's got the most hatred of all of us, and he's rearing for a village to destroy. Naruto swore to destroy Konoha, the village he's born in, what makes he won't destroy a village that's no connection to him except for hurting his kin?" A stopped gawking and started scowling, "That brat wants to pick a fight with me, he can just try!"
Bee glared at that, "THINK FOR A MOMENT, A!" He'd said A's name, that was cause for alarm in and of itself, let alone yelling at him. "HE'S WILLING TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE HE WAS BORN IN, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK HE WON'T DESTROY SOME OTHER VILLAGE JUST FOR HURTING ONE OF THE JINCHUURIKI?! IF YOU HURT HIM, YOU'LL INCUR THE WRATH OF THE OTHERS, AND I CAN ONLY PROTECT YOU FOR SO LONG FROM THEM BEFORE THEY GET TO YOU! All this time, whenever 'random' shinobi threaten your life, it's not your power that's scared them off, IT'S ME! I'VE BEEN KEEPING THE OTHERS OFF YOUR ASS FOR THE PAST THIRTY YEARS!"
The Hachibi's voice was frightening enough, but Killer Bee's anger was terrifying. Onoki snorted, making Bee turn to him with a glare that his glasses didn't hinder, "YOU'RE NO DIFFERENT! THE YONBI AND GOBI JINCHUURIKI HAVE KEPT THE OTHERS FROM DESTROYING YOUR VILLAGE, SO DON'T GET COCKY!" The Tsuchikage went to make a transparent, ethereal cube when one of Bee's swords appeared at his throat, "Don't even think or breath about it, Onoki, 'cause the Bijuu and their jinchuuriki are not weapons to be 'adjusted' for your convenience. We are living, breathing beings who only want to be left in peace, but you can't have that...You're the cause of your wars. The reason everyone else is watching their backs around you, BECAUSE YOU STAB EVERYONE IN THE BACK! EVEN KYUUBI HAS MORE HONOR THAN YOU SCUM!" Onoki's eyes widened at that, so to did his bodyguards. Kurotsuchi and Akasuchi had wide, fearful eyes as Bee passed them.
Kurotsuchi grabbed a shuriken and threw it at the back of Bee's head, only for Naruto to appear behind him when a tentacle began to grow from the dark-skinned rapper's tailbone. Naruto caught the projectile weapon in his open hand, as soon as it bounced off, "And you still don't learn anything! Why do I even bother talking to humans who are still this stupid?! I made my terms, kid, and if you hurt even one of the jinchuuriki, I'll find out about it. When that happens, I'll destroy everything you know in one fell swoop! Now behave, children, before I make you..." Naruto vanished again, a snarl on his face.
"You see, there's no 'i' in 'jinchuuriki', there's only 'we'. For we are a group of men and women, trying to make the world what it can and should be. We watch you grow, we stop you from dying. But all you can do is think of merely flying...I does not exist with our kind. That is what we are for you: a weapon for you to find! Be children if you must, but do not drag adults into problems you can solve on your own. Or our voice will carry a different tone...!" His rhyming wasn't a rap, it was a poem, and it was well done for a man who couldn't make a good rhyme to save his life.
Down on the arena floor
Naruto appeared at Gaara's side, scowling all the while, "...I really hate the Kage who can't learn from their mistakes...Hey Gaara," Said sand-user looked to his fellow redhead in silent acknowledgement, "Why'd you give your position to Kankuro for this?" The Ichibi no Tanuki jinchuuriki answered simply, "He's only filling in until I become Jonin after this. I couldn't stand the stares and comments about me being only a Chuunin while I become Kazekage, so I decided to take the Jonin Exams to shut them up."
"Seems fair enough, Gaara-san." Amaru's statement was followed by a speaker being turned on. "And we're back, let's start the last Exam before it starts us, am I right?" The hinting at the destructive nature of all the jinchuuriki, making them smirk proudly."Let's start this off with an old rivalry. Spanning the years, Kitsune meets Ice. Trickster meets Glacier. And Konoha meets Kiri. Here he is, Yuki Haku vs Uzumaki Naruto! Hajime!"
Up in the crowd
Sakura, Ino and Temari landed on the roof and climbed down to sit next to the Konoha no Juichinin, most of whom had made it past the first Exam. "How's it looking?" Kiba spoke up from behind them, "They're just getting started. Hey, gals," They looked to him oddly at his apologetic expression, "Saw what happened to you three for your exam, sorry to say it but, you three are actually in a better place than we are..." Before any of them could ask what he meant, a voice piped up, "Move it, bitches, that's our seat!"
Standing there was one miffed looking, Hanakero Tayuya. Temari was the first one to react, "You kidnapped the Uchiha-" Kiba stopped her from grabbing her fan, "Don't. They're allowed in Kiri and they're legally allowed into the Exams as much as the rest of us, even if we have a problem with them." Tayuya smirked as the rest of her group came in, healthier than ever and ready to kick ass. "We got you in, Suna-whore, we're gonna rumble later! And trust me, you're not going to blindside me like you did with the weasel and the wind like last time..."
A fox crawled out of Temari's kimono, making her blush and made everyone look at her with eyes that asked, 'What else have you got in there?'. The fox grew larger until it started to look human, "Oh, Kami, no." Tayuya's complaint was met with a hand taking her cap, "Hey there, cousin!" She glared at him as she kicked him in the balls and took her cap back, before smiling kindly at his whimpering form. "'Sup!" They started chatting it up, like they'd not been enemies a few years ago and that their two villages hated each other.
Not long afterwards though, the battle actually started. "I," Naruto said sadly with a soft smile, "gotta help out down there, sorry cousin..." He caught her in a hug, and her struggles were less than strong before she gave in. "Go, before I beat your ass!"
The arena floor
(Cue: TFK-E for Extinction/Meg & Dia-Monster:DotEXE Dubstep Remix/Skillet-Not Gonna Die)Haku appeared in front of Naruto as the other jinchuuriki got to the top of the ramparts above the crowd. "Let's make this fun, hopefully you've gotten strong enough to keep this interesting!" He received a goodnatured smirk from the last Yuki, "Let's see if you can back that up with something powerful. Hyoton: Hyogan Domu!" A dome of ice surrounded Haku before he started rolling it at Naruto, making the Kitsunin yarp as he transformed into his fifth-tailed state, which looked like a hybrid of his werefox form and his original Yugo: Go no Katachi form.
He jumped back a few feet before catching the sphere and keeping it in place, "STRIKE!" Throwing the large ball, he barely missed the crowd, which made most of the nearby civilians run away for their lives. The dome melted away, revealing a slightly surprised Haku, "How'd you do that?" Naruto's response was to show him chunks of ice before jumping and spinning in midair, "Hyoton: TSURGA!" His spinning form flew right past Yagura without even nicking him or making him flinch.
His twister-like form hit Haku head-on however, "I picked up plenty of shit like this from Yuki no Kuni, and more from my three year training trip around the Elemental Nations. All five of the major villages were open to me, now willingly's another ballgame altogether..." Naruto stole a few more pieces of ice from the dome and leaped back to the ground level where he made two clones who he gave pieces of ice.
They started to spin around each other in Tsurga before fusing as one cyclone and reveiling themselves as a there headed fox with white fur. "Hyoton: Yugo-Santo no Kitsune!" Was heard in Naruto's voice while the fox didn't speak, only snarled threateningly at his opponent. Haku smirked, "I see I can't be mediocre against you, I have to go all out! Very well then. Ice crystals started to form around him as the dome melted and transformed into the armor it had when they were Genin, "LET'S FINISH THIS QUICKLY, NARUTO, NO NEED TO BORE THE AUDIENCE, YES?!" The sounds of honestly amused laughing was heard from the jinchuuriki's area above the audience and below the Kages.
Naruto quickly returned to normal and focused all of the youki he'd generated into every fiber of his body, readying something he probably shouldn't have. His body was soon covered in fox bones that covered most of him. The youki flowed over every inch of his skin, his face included as his eyes became a bright white and his mouth became jagged teeth with light within. A fox skull formed around his head before snapping open at his mouth and letting youki flow over it as well, fusing with his Version 2 jinchuuriki form and leaving the rest of the bones untouched by the bloody chakra-like liquid. Five tails stopped swaying, making some of those around the arena worry for his health when a sixth tail sprouted from his tail bone, surprising everyone except those that knew him at least a little.
Haku's armor had changed. His trenchcoat was no longer just ice and snow woven as a fabric, water had come into the equation as well while remaining unfrozen. His combat boots looked like they were made of a foreign metal instead of just the previously mentioned elements being woven together. A helmet in the likeness of a wolf formed around his head and looked like eastern country knight helmets in form. There were senbon of ice dangling at the end of strings from his trenchcoat and acting as claws at the fingers of his fingerless gauntlets of woven and weaved ice and snow. But the design on his clothing was of the ocean and ice coexisting as one and the same, that caught the audience's attention.
"MIRUHYOZAN!" Was Haku's warcry as a ball of spinning ice formed in his hand and morphed into glowing, ever-shifting spear. Naruto ran at him, a Bijuu Rasengan forming in his bony maw. The apprentice of Zabuza threw one of the spears he'd made while forming another one when Naruto dodged it. Said kitsune-hearted-redhead ran, four legs blazing while he dodged spear after spear in a sporadic manner and used a chakra infused jump to reach Haku's level. Seeing his opponent not five feet away, he readied one, last spear to be used.
A flash occurred at the moment of impact, causing everyone in the arena to close their eyes and the cameras transmitting everything to the other countries go white with a ringing. The light subsided and revealed Naruto standing there on all fours with the ball of youki still spinning in his mouth and Haku behind him, his stance wavering as his spear kept swirling before shattering in every direction. The last of the Yuki clan knelt to the ground before slumping down and falling, making Naruto run down the wall and catch him as he ran around the walls of the arena towards the ramparts. You're not dying yet, kid. No way in Hell are you getting off that easy!
(Uncue music) Naruto appeared/arrived at the Kage Box, Haku on his back before setting the young man down at Tsunade's feet and nodded to at the down fighter expectantly and patiently, a very uncharacteristic act without a doubt. "Oh." Seeing what he wanted her to do, and since it was part of her code as a medicnin, she began to heal the young man before her.
I made a good decision! (That's a reference to any of ya who don't know. Cue: Position Music-Road to Victory) He thought with a smile gracing his jagged toothed maw, running the walls of the arena down to the ground, when the audience started applauding. The happy looks in their eyes was a message of thanks for sparing his opponent, getting him to yowl in pride and triumph. Soon the entire arena was applauding, even in the other countries with that display of mercy and understanding. (Uncue inspirational music)
Naruto's pointed ears twitched, the sound of applauding him instead of people tormenting him was a new phenomenon and he felt a strange emotion build within himself. This is uncorrupted and unadulterated joy...I kinda think I like it! He took a bow and blew a few kisses out to the crowd, making his fangirls squeal and make grabbing gestures as if his kisses were tangible, getting him to smirk at many of them enough that they fainted.
His fight over, the arena shook, literally. On the ramparts across from the jinchuuriki and the arena, stood seven of the Akatsuki. A hunched-over man, a blonde guy with an odd gleam in his only visible eye, a person wearing an orange mask, a man with a triple bladed scythe, a half-masked man with Taki's insignia on his hitae-ate, Kisame and Itachi all stood at the other side of the fort on the ramparts with the intent on capturing the jinchuuriki.
Naruto ran up to his kindred jinchuuriki and stood on the raisings on the ramparts, his arms crossed with his Kitsugan blazing at level two while he smirked bloodlustingly at his old-"NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN, FARUKON! HOW LONG'S IT BEEN, FOUR YEARS?" Itachi let a very tiny smile grace his lips as the other jinchuuriki who didn't have handlers stand beside him on the risings. The skin on Naruto's body grew angry red and orange fur. His head now had a fox skull engulfing it as a helmet, a face and a mask. His tailbone sprouted six tails, while bones formed over his now youki-covered fur and skin.
Fuu stood next to him, her armor dawned and her wings quivered in...'excitement'! She opened her chitin mouthguard and smiled arousedly, "I'm so hot right now, let's get started now, please!" Her anticipation made Naruto growl out as the jaws seemed to melt back to reveal his natural mouth, "As soon as the others have had their fill you can take your pick of which one to screw, Fuu! Be patient, child." His snickering ensued after saying that with a lady voice. He received a glare from the temporarily insectoid young woman. Gaara was engulfed in sand once more, a cruel smile on his face, "Let's just cut the chitchat and get to the slaughter already!"
"Jesus, are you that hungry after the feast yesterday and that snack, Gaara?" Yugito's silky sweet voice made said tanuki vessel turn to look towards the voice to see her in her fused form. I still say she looks like a fetishist, guys. Fuu's thoughts were heard by the jinchuuriki clearly, making the focus of her attention grit her sharper-than-before teeth, "Shut it, Hooker!"
They were literally butting heads now, "You wanna go, Tailsy, than bring it!" Before they could get into a fight, Naruto picked Fuu up by her scruff and placed her back at his left side, growling at her to stay put which made her blush cutely and return the chitin plates back in front of her mouth to hide it. Gaara growled impatiently as a semi-shelled Yagura stood to his left. "Easy, Gaara, we just have to wait for them to get the stupid out and they," He nodded his head at the Akatsuki members across the arena from the. "have to make the first move. If we attack prematurely they'll defeat us and we'll die. For now, we wait."
A rubber- skinned Utakata took his place at Gaara's right, he and Yagura were sensible enough so they would be able to keep Gaara on a leash long enough to let the Akatsuki to make the first move. Amaru landed at Naruto's right, her legs fused together and coiled beneath her body like a slippery snake as she smiled something disturbing. (Cue: Fall Out Boy-The Phoenix) The face of each jinchuuriki in the line was zoomed in on and moved over to the next with the cameras. It went from Yugito to Yagura to Gaara to Utakata to Fuu to Naruto to Amaru, exactly in that order! The cameras zoomed out from them after they passed Amaru and were floating to the right and above slightly, making an awesome visual. They stood there, arms crossed and serious looks on their faces.
The Akatsuki lined themselves up behind the risings of the ramparts, making the camera zoom in on them before the hunched-over one shot a kunai at its lens until Killer Bee came in and caught it. "Yo say ho, let's get things started NARUTOOOO!" Said kitsune smiled inwardly while Yugito grimaced at his rapping, "SHUT UP, BEE!" "YO, WHAT'S UP, YUGITO! WE'RE GONNA KICK SOME ASS AND DO IT FAST!" The younger jinchuuriki smiled at his sorry attempts at rapping.
Acting in premature excitement, Kisame lunged forward towards them with a chakra infused jump which got Fuu flying at him with a punch readied for his skull. Itachi followed the suit of his partner, leaping at an equally revved Naruto, meeting him in the middle of the air in the arena. "Nice to see you too, 'Hige'!" Naruto's fox skull grinned something malicious, "You do know that Beri-chan's here, right? Also, 'Farukon', your baby brother decided I was enemy number one point five since you're the one who 'screwed him over' first. He's with your group's old flame, Orochi-teme, too. Also, why haven't you checked in in the past few months?!"
Itachi grinned sheepishly, "Uhm...I've been busy?" They then landed on the ground after kicking the absolute shit out of each other's blocking arms. Naruto ran at his first friend with the intent to make a good show as Itachi pulled out a kunai and blocked Naruto's fox skull-enhanced headbutt. "...I can't talk, old friend, we're here to capture you guys and I can't let them suspect anything..." A growl left the throat of the audience's beloved kitsune as a light escaped his mostly closed maw, making Itachi say with an 'I am not amused' look on his face, "Oh no!" Naruto opened his mouth and shot his old friend with a Bijuu Dangan, making the crowd wince in sympathy of Itachi even though they had reason to hate him.
In the Kage Box
Shibuki looked down to the arena walls to see Fuu heatedly fighting Kisame, a blank expression on his face. Tsunade was glaring Hell's daggers at the fox Naruto was as he had won in her favor for once. Can't you ever lose, you little bastard? I get it that you don't want to lose to one of your rivals, but seriously?! Her thoughts were practically read by Kankuo, "You shouldn't blame him, you know."
She turned her head to look at the temporary Kazekage, "What and who do you mean?" The knowing expression on his face added onto his superiority at that moment, "You can't even fool yourself with that act, let alone someone else, Tsunade-sama. So cut the act: Naruto's never going to do what you want unless he has a desire to. That's how jinchuuriki work, stubborner than Hell and looking out for their own. His pride drives him to do whatever it takes to survive, that means your orders are below his concerns. To him, you're just another pretty face..." Her glare at him for the 'just another pretty face' comment made him chuckle condescendingly, something he'd found easy to do thanks to Gaara.
The newly named 'Takikage' spoke up at that point, "He's right, Tsunade-sama. Jinchuuriki never listen to what they're told to do, not unless it coincides with their desires. Trust me, we know," Kankuro, A and himself groaned at the memories of trying to get their respective demon vessels to do as they'd ask. "We've tried. Fuu's a perfect example of this: Stubborn, untrusting, beholder to no one, and a survivor. You can't make them do anything, you have to ask or hope they do something you want them to do. They don't care about the village that abused them itself, they care about the people who were their tether to sanity in it. Your authority isn't recognized by them because what you want doesn't connect to their survival. They're above you. You can be a Kage all you want, but you can't do shit to them or risk making your village go down in screams!"
A, Onoki and Tsunade glared at the younger shinobi in their midst and were about to speak up, when Amaru was thrown through the wall and into her sensei and Kage, Shinno. She also hit Onoki and A, making her hiss at them for, in her opinion, getting in the way. Shinno place a hand at the end of her tail-like lower body, making her look back to him and bow in apology. "Gomenasai, Sensei-sama!" She looked to the two Kage who had tried to kill one of her kindred's family with hatred as she lunged at them and held them against the wall by the throat as she hissed out loudly, "STAY OUT OF MY WAY!" A, not going to take this shit from younger shinobi, threw her out of the box and went to attack her when Orochimaru appeared and caught him in a snake binding.
"Don't hurt them!" The urgency in his voice made A look to him with a quizzical glare, "And why shouldn't I?!" Tsunade looked to her old crush and former teammate with a glare. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, TEME?! YO-" Zabuza interrupted, "Legally allowed here, Hokage-sama. He's done nothing to hurt my village or my apprentice, nor will he, right?!" His eyes took on the look of a demon as he glared at Orochimaru in challenge, making the Snake Sannin nod with that damnable grin.
"Of course, Mizukage-sama, I am only here to watch my shinobi become Jonin. But since the Akatsuki's here, we might as well get some facts straight, kukuku!" He looked to A and Onoki at that comment, "You two need to leave the Uzumaki alone, he is my second apprentice's quarry, not yours. Also," Orochimaru then stopped smiling to glare at the two of them as he yelled, "DON'T HURT THE JINCHUURIKI! DO YOU WANT YOUR VILLAGES TO BE LEVELED DOWN FARTHER THAN HELL?!" Jiraiya and Tsunade's eyes widened. In all their years as former teammates, they'd never known Orochimaru, the Rookie of the Year and Snake Sannin, to raise his voice for anything.
Out of nowhere, Anko and Isaribi appeared next to the sadistic scientist with glares on their faces as they held kunai to his throat. "Gotcha, Teme/Teme!" They said as one, their Killer Intent being released and making some civilians pass out. Their 'prisoner' chuckled at them, "Kukuku...Anko-chan, Isaribi-chan, it's been far too long since I've seen you two. I know why you've chosen to kill me, and I respect that, but you cannot kill me or you will start a war with Otogakure no Sato, an enemy you have no idea of where is. So I'd suggest you wait for the Fourth War to start before you kill me, alright?" His calm demeanor made even Zabuza and Shinno uncomfortable.
Before Tsunade, being the idiot she was Kage-wise, could ask what he meant, the sound of a loud, pained vulpine yelp was heard all across the Elemental Nations as the orange masked-person knocked Naruto out while the hunched-over man bound and muzzled him. The Akatsuki, seeing that the other jinchuuriki were upon them, shunshinned away, taking with them their first prize.
Isaribi's hatred skyrocketed as she went to chase after them, her chakra surrounding her body ready for slicing through anything that got in her way. But when she landed at their previous location at the center of the arena, their was no trail to follow, making her slam her fists down on the ground, cracking it in the process as she cried out, "SENSEI!"
(Uncue music)Miles away, a large fox stirred within himself with a larger one readying itself for a fight...
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That's. A. Motherfuckin'. WRAP ladies, gents and other! I'm sorry this chapter took so long to come out. Summer's almost over, an' my sleep schedule's really fucked up. My school's half an hour away from my house but I've gotta wake up at six while I can barely wake up at eight anymore, so I've been a little bit sleep deprived in tryin' to reset my internal clock. I know y'all're gonna say 'go to sleep earlier', an' I'd've agreed with ya had I not known the truth that wakin' up earlier actually fixes it.
This ain't an excuse, just a reason so y'all understand my problems. I've a feelin' that y'all hate this chapter 'cause the action wasn't that great an' that I made our favorite kitsune-at-heart the Akatsuki's first victim. If that's the case, I'm sorry but I've gotta go with what I've planned out. At first I didn't know what this chapter had in store for itself 'sides Naruto showin' all of us that folklore ain't just stories that keep children inside at night and the fight 'tween Itachi and Naruto to explain their connection.
I've the feelin' some of ya're kinda confused with the connection I just mentioned, well don't be 'cause it's right in your faces. Naruto's twenty in this story, an' Itachi's 'bout the same age, so they'd be friends durin' their Academy days when the rest of the Konoha no Juichinin were still unborn brats. When Sasuke an' his generation were born, Naruto was picked up by Mebuki to help her watch over Sakura while Itachi helped Mikoto with Sasuke. Bein' close friends they helped each other out where they could. Since Mebuki didn't trust Naruto alone with her daughter, she asked for a bit more help, an' Itachi signed 'imself an' his brother up 'cause he wanted to see 'is childhood friend and help his baby brother make friends.
Sakura learned to speak before she learned to walk, that's why there are nicknames she knows for kids that helped Naruto out. Itachi and Sasuke were 'Farukon'(Falcon) since at the time Sakura couldn't really tell them apart with them bein' related an' Naruto was 'Hige'(Whiskers) 'cause of his whiskers. The other two were in her age group. 'Koton' was an infant Ino, an' the nickname'll be explained later on don't worry, while 'Unikon' was Hinata for her shy nature.
Anyway, as usual: R&R, no flamin' my ass, constructive criticism, an' SEE YA-GOOD NIGHT!