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My Sacrifice

Chapter 12

Hitomi taught him how to go back to a normal human before she dragged him out of the cave. At first, the sunlight hurt his eyes, but he quickly got used to it.

'Kit...there's a second reason why we've left here. We're going back to Konoha. You're going to fake your death with a bushin.' She said bluntly. 'But first, we're getting you out of those clothes.'

Hitomi turned into a human form and they ran to a small village nearby. The village wasn't one that would have shinobi in it, but did have a small shopping area, where they found Naruto some clothes. The pants were black, and his shirt was a fishnet, and a dark blue shirt over it. Turning around, they threw their bags in their cave, knowing they had to get to the forest in front of Konoha before sunset.

After a few hours, they made it. Half the time it took for them the first time. Hitomi stopped him about a mile from the village, and taught Naruto to do what she called shukketsu kage bushin no jutsu. (Bloody shadow clone jutsu.) They ran another half mile and she grinned.

'We're going to spar. When I call time, you're going to do that.' Naruto nodded and they started fighting. The effects of some of their major jutsus brought the attention of the ANBU to the fight. When Hitomi sensed the ANBU coming, she looked at him.

'Do it.' He grinned. Naruto made the clone and it exploded in a mass of blood. Amazing thing was, it was real blood, that had been multiplied from a drop of blood from Naruto. The ANBU members landed and looked at the mass of blood before getting a sample and going back to the village.

Naruto and Hitomi ran, and after they knew they were out of hearing distance, they both broke out laughing. Finally making it back to the cave, Hitomi splashed some of her blood across the top, and they both walked in. Naruto was officially free. He was considered dead by everyone except for two people on this planet.

The ANBU leader was in shock, looking at the results from the blood tests. He couldn't believe it. There was no way Naruto was dead. He got up and knocked on the door, before opening it.

'To what do I owe this visit Kakashi?' Tsunade said, looking up at him. He lowered his mask, tears flowing down his face, and dropped the open folder on her desk.

'My squad heard the sound of a fight, so we went to investigate. We found blood. It looked like someone had exploded. Those are the results of the blood test.' She looked down, and gasped. No. There was no way.

"The blood holds an exact match to Naruto Uzumaki . The amount of blood at the finding place suggests the body of Mr. Uzumaki disintegrated when it exploded, leaving nothing but his blood, meaning that he was blown from the inside out.

Condition: Deceased." Tears started rolling down Tsunade's eyes.

'Go..' She stopped trying to regain her composure. 'Go update the bingo books. Don't tell the villagers.' She said. He put his mask back on. 'Kakashi..' He stopped in midstep for the door. 'Put him on the KIA stone.' He nodded and walked out.

'Okay Kit. Welcome to hell. Activate your weights and double them.' She said. He did, and felt the strain. However she exploded in a mass of smoke. He sighed, and shook his head before remaking the bushin, and this time her face was slightly crimson. He could move even with the doubled weights...just very, very slowly. Then she charged at him. He screamed and ducked out of the way. Lucky he did. The wall behind him exploded in a mass of dust. Looking up, he realized that she had destroyed the wall. Naruto watched as it grew back in place.

'Ok, let's get this straight. The idea, is NOT TO MOVE!' She screamed, kicking him again. This time he swung his arm up in a side block. She grinned. 'Much better.'

She turned and swung her foot at the other side of his head. He caught her ankle. She used his grip to try to kick his other side. He caught her ankle again. She tried to punch his face, but instead she hit a wall of chakra. Even after blasts of fire, she couldn't break loose.

'It's the ultimate defense.' He said, grinning. 'For real this time, not like Neji's Kaiten.'

'I noticed.' She said, packing chakra in her punch and slamming her fist into it over and over again. She didn't expect it to send out spikes, which pinned her to the wall...on the other side of the room.

'You know that I just wear clothes to keep you from freaking out, right?' He nodded. 'Then pinning me up by my own clothing wasn't a good idea.' His eyes widened and the spikes disappeared.

'Good choice.' He stuck his tongue out, but pulled it back in before she could grab it. He swung his leg through her ankles, and she fell unceremoniously to the ground. Looking up at him, she glared. He broke out laughing.

'Good going, grace.' He snickered at his nickname for her before continuing. 'I'm sorry, but I can only give you a three for that landing.' She ax kicked his foot. 'That wasn't nice.'

'I'm not a nice person. Actually, I'm not even a person! Ha!' She stuck her tongue out, and had to pull it back in before he grabbed it. She stood back up, and kicked his chest. Again it was caught short by a wall of chakra. 'UGH! STOP DOING THAT!' She started attacking him from all angles, using every jutsu in her arsenal, and every form of taijutsu she knew. None of them could break through the chakra.

'This is a hundred times stronger than steel. You aren't breaking through.' He grinned, but it dropped when she kicked him up in the air, using his shield to get a better hit. Strands of chakra shot out around him, and they started spinning. He freaked out. This was the Primary Lotus! He expanded his chakra shield, and covered them both. When they hit the ground, all that happened was a deep hole was made, and a deep bass, like someone hitting a gong was made. He dropped his shield from around her, and she looked at him in amazement.

'How'd it uphold against the Primary Lotus? That's impossible to defend against...' She said, her eyes wide.

'My chakra spins in the opposite direction, slowing down the Lotus. By the time I hit the ground, it's slowed down enough to protect me.' He said, grinning. She shook her head and went to attack him again. It did no good. They continued for hours, their bottomless chakra supply egging them on. Blow for blow was exchanged, before finally Naruto couldn't hold up his shield anymore.

'Good. No shield. Now I'm gonna wipe the floor with you.' He grinned and released his human form for his half demon form. Naruto could feel the power coursing through him.

'Wanna bet?' And again, they went at it. Blow for blow, kick for kick. After another hour or so, they were both battered and bruised.

'You used to those weights yet?' He nodded. 'Good, add another five hundred pounds.' Naruto groaned, but did as she said. He groaned again as he felt the added weight take effect on his battered body. 'That hurt?' He nodded again. 'Good.'

With that, she charged him. He tried to lift his arm to block the attack, but he couldn't move fast enough and got it full in the face. She made a kick to his ribs, but he still couldn't get his arm up fast enough to block the shot. He heard some ribs crack and heal. So it continued for a while. Naruto swore every bone in his body was going to need to be broken and set again. Finally, it stopped. He felt his weights being deactivated and slowly picked his head up off the ground. He was sprawled out on his back at the moment. She had a look of pity on her face, and helped him up.

'I get over one pain, and get another.' He muttered to her. She laughed as he hobbled down the hallway. She walked him all the way to his bedroom, before shoving him into the library.

'Now onto a lesson. You want to be Hokage right?' He nodded. 'Good. Now you're going to study politics. Then we'll eat dinner and you can go to bed.' He groaned. 'This is your new training schedule. Starting tomorrow morning, we'll start kitsune jutsu training.'

The next morning, he was awoken at five AM, according to his watch, and was thrown into the kitchen to eat. He had twenty minutes to find, make, and eat food, before starting training.

'Okay, now for jutsu training. First, you need to learn the demon seals.' She started showing him. In the bird, his middle fingers were sticking up instead of being folded, Boar, his palms were flat against each other facing down. Dog, his bottom hand was out flat. Dragon, his fingers were laced, sticking out above the backs of his hands. Hare, two fingers were sticking out on bottom. Monkey, both palms were flat against each other, fingers pointing in opposite directions. Horse, the pinkies were pointing down, ox, his middle finger was standing up, Ram, three fingers instead of two, Rat, three fingers instead of one, Serpent, thumb and pinkie stuck out, Tiger, pinkie was sticking up.

'Can you remember all of that?' He nodded. 'Good, because I'm not repeating it. Now for a weak kitsune fire jutsu.' She made the demon tora seal. 'KITSUNE FAIA! (Fox Fire)' And she blew out a dark blue flame. 'Your turn.' He grinned, and made the demon tora seal also.

'KITSUNE FAIA!' For the second time that week, this boy amazed her. It was at least twice as big as what she blew out. Apparently, he wasn't putting much effort into it either. She threw a fist sized stone into the fire. He stopped and started blankly at the rock. Actually, what was now a puddle of lava.

'Now for a history lesson. When the Kyuubi's were first on the earth, they learned of their power over fire, however they found that their fire had a weakness. Throw water on it, it goes out. Cover it with sand or dirt, it goes out. So they learned to take a mastery over those elements. Like so.' She made another seal. Demon boar.

'KITSUNE KOUZUI' (Fox Flood) She said, a blast of water shot out of her mouth, slamming into the small puddle of lava. It steamed, and eventually turned back into stone. She found a larger stone and melted it. 'Now for ice.' She made the demon boar and demon dragon seal. 'TOUKETSU KITSUNE KOUZUI!' (Frozen kitsune flood.) The lava turned into a block of ice.

'The difference between a normal version of these, and the Kitsune version is that the Kitsune version has taken the power to extreme levels. Even better, the Sharingan can't copy any demon jutsus.' He grinned. That would come in handy. He had some trouble with getting the ice to form, but an hour later he had it down. She sighed and grinned.

'Last one then.' She quickly did a demon Ox and Boar. ''KITSUNE DOSEKIRYUU! (Kitsune Avalanche)' Mud shot from her mouth, and slammed into a wall with a sick slopping sound.

'Your turn.' He had the same effect on his first shot.

'You've amazed me two days in a row. You learned those four faster than I did.' Hitomi turned and walked out of room, indicating for him to follow. He did, and they walked towards the entrance. She kept going until the got a few feet away from the stairs leading above ground. She bit her thumb and drew the kanji for Kyuubi on the wall.

The outline of a door glowed, before the wall disappeared. In it's place was a row of swords. She reached in and grabbed a simple silver one, and strapped it to her belt loop. (Hitomi's wearing jeans today.) Then she pulled a string attached to the side, and the swords disappeared into the wall. Hitomi then stuck her nine tails into nine holes and then pulled them out after a click was heard. Behind that was a black sword. She reached out and grabbed it, before handing it to him.

'This is yours now. It's name is Desu Kuraikako. (Death's shadowy past).' He held it in his hands. He could feel the power it contained. There was a dragons mouth opening at the end of the hilt, and the blade was jet black. There was a small purple/pink stone embedded under the dragon's mouth. The sheath was also black. He tied it to his pants using the loop that was hanging out of the side.

'So that's why she told me to get these pants.' He realized her plan as he tied it on. She then sealed the door shut, and led him back to the training room.

'From this point forward, we've got a new rule. You are not to speak in any way when we're training, or allowed to make any noise. You're so damn loud, I can hear you coming a mile off. I'm going to add twenty five pounds for each noise you made.' Naruto made to protest. 'You're officially in training at the moment. All protests are to be held onto and said after I'm done with you.' He sighed, and felt his weights get a little heavier. 'Any sound what so ever.' She grinned darkly. Naruto had to resist the urge to sigh again, and nodded.

'Also, I'm adding Kenjutsu training onto your list. By the way, I need you to cut yourself with that sword.' His face was one of confusion, but he couldn't ask why, so he had to do it anyway. The sword glowed red before dimming back down. She reached over and grabbed the hilt. The hilt turned into a blade and cut her hand, she dropped it as four daggers shot out horizontally. 'Now nobody can steal it, or use it. Aside from you that is.' His mouth formed an 'o' shape. She pulled out her own sword, and stared teaching him to fight. After that, they moved on to taijutsu and genjutsu training.

In taijutsu he learned to use his tails and claws in battle, as well as the Kyuubi style. In genjutsu, he learned every form of genjutsu, human and demon kinds, as to how to invoke them with his tails. He learned all of the kinjutsu from every village's forbidden scroll. His weights were increased to the weight of about ten tons, and he learned everything he needed to know about politics.

Hitomi taught Naruto to cook, and in return, Naruto "payed rent" three times monthly. His chakra supply eventually got large enough to keep Hitomi out of her cell for weeks at a time. Also, he mastered Desu Kuraikako, all medical fields, and read the entire Kyuubi family library, and learned his dad's most famous technique. The Shunshin no Jutsu. (Body flicker)

And it only took four years.