I planed to do one of the longest chapters, for at least now. I dont know how well it will be recived, but i will have less time to write soon so i wanted something long, before the chapters will arrive a little later.
I hope you will like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
It was a four week's after Sasuke started to learn from Naruto, and his skills skyrocketed. The first help was that he was forced to unlock his sharingan, by his teachers. The most of the time his first teacher was there, but there was a few special training he was forced to do with the other, like when he told he learned the tree walking from the scroll he was forced to prove it by doing it, while under attack, and the likes, but today was a different one. It was almost the one month's end and the foxes called Sasuke to their Friday combat training as spectator, and he was happy to do so. He only saw once what the two of them can do, and that was brief without his sharingan. Now he was intended to see more.
The location was strangely not on any training ground, but on a random clearing in the forest around Konoha. When he got there the twins were already there doing some warm-up. The two acknowledged him, with a nod before they faced each other and waited for some signal. After a minute Sasuke got what the to wanted.
"Ready? BEGIN!" shouted, after he activated his sharingan, and the two started their destruction. Trees where knocked down around the clearing, from the impacts they made on them, and the clearing ground got a new crater almost every second. Sasuke even with his sharingan only saw blurs most of the time. He saw a few good moves, but wasn't sure if he saw the faint or the actual hit, because those hits can count even if they doesn't connect to the enemy. He still did not found out how they can do this. When he read about it, he actually read something about the first hokage and Jiraya being able to do the same but he did not know how, and even after learning what the two of them can do, did not thought it's the same technique just something similar.
While Sasuke thought about all of that and tried to watch the mach, the two fighting had their best time. Naruto tried to hit Kurama with an uppercut, but Kurama deflected it, and tried to counter with a knee, but Naruto jumped away, and created a shock wave when he landed, whit a stomp on the ground. Of course this did little to Kurama who already knew what Naruto will do. There was no trick they did not played against each other already, but they did not do it, for that… no in reality they waited for someone who is around Sasuke a lot. Follows him in the shadows. After a few minute of fighting the person arrived, and the two stopped and relaxed.
"You can show yourself. We know about your arrival." said Naruto and Dog appeared. The dou tensed, what Sasuke saw.
"So you two are really sensor types. It is one of the many interesting thing about you, like clearly knowing Konoha like you lived all your life there, but noone like you did ever born there, changed like you, or come to the village."
"And doesn't got in to the academy, but we are still students there." answered Kurama. "We look different, and doesn't have this much power because how late we started to train, but we are still around low chunin level on our worst day.
"So this is some kind of transformation? Interesting..." said Dog, while eyed the two boy. "Why where you two there when Itachi did… what he did?"
"We where training outside of Konoha, and we exited close to he Uchiha compound and wanted to come in the same spot we used to exit, but we smelled the blood and sensed only 4 chacra signature. Two more faded away before we arrived." answered Naruto, with anger in his voice. "We saw Itachi and Sasuke, who asked him, why he did that, so we know Itachi was the one, so we attacked before he could kill him."
"They saved me from him." answered Sasuke. Before that night he may should had trouble saying it out loud, but after what happened, he changed. In some way to the better, in some way not.
"What was your intention?" asked Dog.
"We wanted to save a Konoha civilian, and a soon to be comrade, while holding back a traitor, or even put him down if possible. That meat an unexpected end, when he angered me to much..." said Naruto with shame and doubt in his voice.
"What happened?" asked Dog and this time he was curious.
"I unlocked a new level of this transformation, and with one hit I sent him to far away, to be able to capture him… I am to blame he got away the way he did, but I was unable to stand what he did to his clan, and to his brother anymore. If I was able to control my rage he may be in prison right now."
"I doubt it. We was hardly able to hit him, and even if that few did a lot of damage, he trained to be able to take it. He should found a way to escape, or get to Sasuke. It was the lesser bad." answered Kurama on an analytic tone.
"That is something I can easier believe then the first one. We where around the same level, so on the longer term he had more chance than the two of you, in that strange second form you two have. I may have only saw that for a few second, but it's strain your body a lot. You can not use it in a long fight. It is useful if the fight can be ended faster with that, but your only chance was that." said Dog after he considered every possibility.
"I beat you in that form." said Naruto offhandedly.
"You did, after I had less than 1/4th of my reserves, and a few damage, what slowed me down. You meat Itachi in a better stat and he knew you to can be trouble after all everyone heard what you two can do." this surprised everyone on the clearing with a different reason. Sasuke knew that Dog was seen as a rival, someone stronger by his brother, before he went crazy. If the two with him defeated him, even in that state they where still holding back a lot from him, what frustrated him, but he knew he can not handle even 10% of their power. Naruto was surprised Dog told how he was defeated, while Kurama was because he understood if it is true they may will be called to become ANBU members in their twin forms. "Well I will leave you three to do what you need to do." and with that he sunshined away.
"Well he did not attacked us." said Kurama.
"I think Cat told everyone what you told her." said Naruto before turned to Sasuke. "Did you saw anything while we fought?"
"A few things, but most was a blur." answered on an honest voice.
"Don't worry. You just need to unlock the next level of it, and you can see a lot more. Now it's time we talk about your next training session what you start Monday." Naruto and Kurama sat down and waited for Sasuke to do the same.
"Well your speed is increasing as we hoped it will. You are already above average genin speed, while before the training you was just the best in your class, now around the best in the academy." said Kurama after Sasuke sat down.
"I think someone is holding back in my class… he seams faster than he lets on." answered Sasuke.
"Test him out." said Naruto knowing its him. "Your strength is not bad, but it's slower than we hoped, and that is why you nee to do a half longer round around Konoha every day, 100 push-ups, 75 sit-ups, 150 kicks and fist strikes, and 200 meter hand walking."
"So I need to do 1.5 round around Konoha, the double of most except sit-ups, and hand walking as extra? And everything twice a day, except one weekday in every second week to let my body rest?
"Yes. At least for now. If we see that your developments halted, or anything wrong happens we will change it, from now on, but this was necessary to get you to a level well above the academy standards, so we can hammer more into you soon, but before that we need to reach one point, what is not too far away." said Kurama with honestly.
"What is that?" asked the curious Sasuke.
"Well you heard about some of our pranks don't you?" Sasuke just nodded with a blank expression on his face. "We have a lot of test in them for our self, like when we prank the Hyuuga clan, or the Izunuka clan. Those are stealth testes. We nee to spot the guards, and avoid any detection. If we get into one of Konoha's more guarded places that is a test of infiltration, and so on so fort."
"These are self made testes for you? But how do you know they worked?"
"Well the first rule is if we are spotted at any point, we lost, the second, if our prank backfires on us, or can not be done, that is a loss, and if someone discover the prank before the intended time we lost."
"So just the perfect timeing count? But what use this have? I mean we are maybe ninjas, but there are people specially trained for those jobs."
"In the ANBU yes, but before that or without ever becoming an ANBU you can still get missions involving these things. We just make sure we know how to do them."
"And what test this will be?" asked Sasuke somewhat interested in the matter.
"The second attempt to a final test. Last time we where caught while escaping the area, so we need to do a second attempt." answered Kurama.
"That was the time we fought with Dog." added Naruto. "Well him and Cat. I dealt with Dog while my brother defeated Cat."
"When I finished I went to help. It did not took you long enough to enter into the feral form, for the first time. It was a big revelation to us, that we can do that." followed up Kurama.
"I wanted to ask before, but I found it strange you did not wanted to tell me your name, but after today I see why you didn't told me before, but know there is no more ANBU nearby, is there? Said Sasuke, who wanted to know the names of his teachers.
"Well the main reason why we did not told you was that there where an ANBU nearby every time, but it's a sensitive information bout us." answered Kurama. "We will tell you, once, if you don't find out before that, but today is not the day when we can trust it on you. I hope you understand."
"It's strange, but half of the village see you as criminals, and one wrong word can turn everything against you. Am I right?" asked Sasuke. He did not liked it, but there was nothing to be done about the fact, that there real identity is dangerous information for them, and as someone who was thought to understand different directions, he saw why they where secretive.
"Yes. We know you never will tell it to anyone, if you find it out, but this is the safest way for us, at least for now." told Naruto, before he stood up. He hoped Sasuke will not ask anything else. Fighting against him as his normal self will be a test, and a risk at the same time, but he is willing to take it. "Now if there is no more question it's time for us to continue."
A few days later
It was the first big sparring day. Before this there was a few sparring matches, to determent who is on the same level with who, but today was different. Today they will get a grade based on performance, and this was made interesting by the fact, that Sasuke had an interesting question for Iruka.
"Can I fight against Naruto after the initial fight? I suspect he is holding back on his performance in the tajjutsu part of the academy." said Sasuke, what surprised everyone.
"Well I don't know about that, but if both of you is okay with it, than I don't see any problem with that. After the spares the day will end, and I think it's better, if you to will come to terms, with it while someone can watch out for the two of you." answered Iruka.
Most of the spares where boring. First was the girls round, where Hinata was the last one to fight based on the fact, she is the best in tajjutsu, and she fought a clanless boy, who got his ass handed to him, by the girls superior fighting style. Everyone knew there is just a few boy in the class having any chance against her. After that come the clan-less boys, except Naruto, where Shikamaru fought the last one, and won, based on the fact, that his mother don't like when he lose to a clanless boy. After that every fight was more interesting than the one before that, where Naruto and Choiji had an interesting fight, where Naruto almost made a remark on his weight saying "he should be faster if..." and dropped it at that, what started to anger the boy, and made him more aggressive, than normally. When that fight ended, when Choiji stepped out of the ring, come one one sided, but cool looking match where Sasuke fought against Kiba. Kiba had a good and aggressive style, but needed more control, because Sasuke easily deflected, and sidestepped every hit, then delivered a spinning kick, to Kibas side, while he was in the air, sending him outside of the ring.
"Well great performance. You two showed a lot of good move. It was still a bad machup for you Kiba, based on the fact, how good Sasuke is, but you shouldn't worry because of that. You saw a few times how intense Sasukes training is" said Iruka referring one time, when Sasuke was completely covered in bruises.
"Than come our fight." said Naruto on an eager tone. No one know why he was so eager, but everyone saw that Sasuke got into his own fighting style, what Naruto mimicked. The students where surprised to see Naruto doesn't use the academy stance, while Sasuke tensed. He got a feeling this may doesn't end well. Only three people can get this feeling out of him, and none of them was Naruto, to his best knowledge.
"Are you mocking me?" asked Sasuke
"Maybe, or maybe I saw this style enough to learn some stuff from you." answered Naruto with a fox grin, while he waited the start signal from Iruka, who give it to them.
To everyone's surprise Sasuke was the one to attack first, while Naruto was the one, who blocked, and deflected everything he could, but got 3 hit under a minute. That was the time he dropped his orange jacket and his two wrist strap, what no one knew about. Sasuke tensed up, because how familiar those straps where, and if he was right this fight just got interesting.
He was proven right, when Naruto attacked with a new found speed, and wanted to hit him on the face, but he grabbed Narutos hand, who used it to kick him on the face, with the opposite leg, what surprised Sasuke, and the last second grabbed that foot too, but when he did he felt that someone kicked him on the chest, and send him backwards, while Naruto propelled himself away from him, and flipped int the air, to land on his feet, while Sasuke landed on his back dumbfounded. Naruto was beating him, and had the nerve, for show his back to him, for a few second, before turning to him, while he did not broke his basic stance.
"This is everything you can do? I am surprised no one beat you before. I mean I can easily kick your ass, and I am not even trying." asked Naruto, with a disappointed look in his eyes.
"You where using resistance seals." said Sasuke on a surprised voice
"Well they are useful. Not cheap for my standards, but worth the prize." answered Naruto while Sasuke stood up, and dropped his own wrist straps, and faced Naruto that way. "Oh yours where resistance seals too? Maybe we can have some fun." showed Naruto his famous and infamous fox grin, before he run up to Sasuke.
Sasuke was good, everyone knew that, and it was visible on how easily he deflected every attack Naruto used against him, but there was one new thing. He moved backwards. Normally Sasuke just stay where he started, or push forward even when he is blocking, but Naruto proved to be a fine rival to Sasuke. Even the most hardcore Sasuke fan girls where unable to say anything. Not even once the thought they will see Sasuke loosing ground, but they shouts begun, when Naruto missed a hit, ad Sasuke delivered a sharp kick, to Narutos side, who jumped back from the followup strikes.
"Why did you hold back until now?" asked Sasuke, who started to see a new rival in Naruto. The fox twins showed him, there is a lot of strong person, who is strong because who they are, or what they do, and now Naruto proved it to him, to be true.
"Who said I give my all? I am fighting alone don't I?" asked back Naruto hinting, he can do better and not just with Kuramas help.
"Sorry but if Kurama half as good as you are, the two of you could overpower me under a few minute." answered Sasuke, while Naruto and surprisingly Iruka too had a knowing smile on their faces, before the fight resumed. It was now even from both sides, while the two boy was trading blows, but soon everything changed, because a surprising remark, from outside.
"Kick his ass already Naruto-kun!" shouted a normally shy girl, who turned red, when she saw everyone was looking at her. "D-did I s-said I-it o-out l-loud?" asked with a face what rivaled tomatoes.
"Well hime, if you want to see me kicking his ass, then I will." said Naruto with a fox grin before he swished to an unknown style to everyone, but before they could register the new stance, he vanished, and appeared behind Sasuke and kicked him in the ass, than delivered a spinning kick to his side, what unbalanced the boy, before he got a double palm strike to his back, what send him out of the ring. Everyone was stunned by how the fight ended. They just looked to the beaten Uchiha, who was unsure if it was a dream or not. "What do you mean by that? You did not heard Hinata-chan? She asked me to kick his ass, and I did it literally and figuratively at the same time." said this Naruto to Kurama, what got everyone attention. "Of course I know, but you knew this will be the second he asked if we could fight and you did not said anything about it." the class know very well how good the duo's communication skills where with each other, but they where still dumbfounded, by how blatantly can Naruto speak loud, with his partner.
"Y-you are n-not too s-surprised s-seeing the t-two of them a-acting l-like t-this." said Hinata to Sasuke.
"Well I see a lot from this from the fox twin's so I got used to it. Its more like a constant de'javu." answered Sasuke. "What got me surprised was when you shouted to Naruto, to kick my ass. That was something strange." Hinata who still was read, got even more red, if it was possible.
"I-i am sorry. I-i made you l-lose t-the match." said Hinata blaming herself.
"You did nothing. Naruto won, because he was able to adapt to the changes faster. If I recovered faster, I should have been the one winning. This is the natural part of fighting." answered Sasuke, who wasn't happy about his loss, but at least he know someone who he can test himself against. "At least I got a rival." and with that he went to Naruto who ended, his argument whit Kurama.
"Well it's seems I won." said Naruto blatantly to Sasuke, who had a surprising reaction.
"You did, but next time it will be different." said while he showed his hand to Naruto, who shake it.
"I will be ready of it." said Naruto, then departed from him, to search for his cheerleader, who vanished after talking with Sasuke.
It took a few minute to find her, because she was already in front of the academy, when he got there, and seemingly waited for someone.
"Thank you for cheering for me, Hinata-chan. I hope the suffix is okay after all you used a similar one." said Naruto.
"I-it is p-perfect." said the shy Hinata, who did not know how to response to him, or what to do.
"You know you showed a side of yours, what I only saw, when you danced, that one time. It was breath taking. Every time I look at you I have a hard time to imagine the two is the same, in a good way." after Naruto said this Hinata got red again, even if just a lighter shade than before. After this there was a few minute silence, before Naruto broke it again, with a surprising subject. "How your own style is going?"
"I-it's going o-okay I-i think." said Hinata, before she looked at Naruto. "How..." but before she could say more Kurama jumped to Narutos shoulder who was visibly not pleased with Narutos comment
"What? It is Hinata-chan. You too wanted to tell her a few times already." after this Kurama looked at Naruto, who got a bit red after that. "I will!" said Naruto, then Kurama jumped down from him. "You go to the place you found last time." said Naruto, what made Kurama happy, and he run of.
"Where is he going?" asked Hinata surprised that Kurama left Naruto's side.
"He is going to hunt for snakes. They are his favorite meal." answered Naruto before he looked at Hinata. "Do you have a little time to chat? There is a few thing I wanted to talk to you, and I bet you have a few question yourself too."
"W-well I-i have a h-hour b-before anyone w-will c-come for me." answered Hinata.
After this the two started to talk to each other, and Hinata got better and better every second because how easy it was for Naruto to open up for her. She kind of started to get used to speaking to him. After half an hour she was able to speak ONE sentence without shuttering. This was a big improvement even if this did not mean she was too much less shy, just a slightly better than was, but even this was surprising for Naruto. Of course this all did not meant anything, if the next thing broke it all down.
"Here we are. I hope you like ramen." said Naruto out of the blue, at least for Hinata who did not know where they are, but upon realizing what Naruto said, it suddenly hit her, without even looking at the place. Ichiraku ramen stand. If Naruto had spare time, and money, he eat here. It was common knowledge in the village.
"I-i did not brought money with myself t-today." said Hinata in embarrassment.
"What are friends for?" asked Naruto, with his smile what made Hinata got red.
"B-but..."
"You don't like ramen?" asked Naruto, before Hinata could finish her sentence.
"I do, but..."
"No buts. If you really want to give me something for it, you can do it later, but only food related stuff. I know there are people who can go too far with these small things." said Naruto, and thanked Kurama for giving him this idea, accidentally a few week back, when he wanted to give something for his vet.
"Well, I-if you put it like t-that." said an even redder Hinata. She started to see this friendly chat as a small date between the two of them, and now she learned that the two person she admired are one changed everything in her eyes about Naruto.
"Ah our favorite costumer." said Ichiraku, the owner of the Ichiraku Ramenstand. "What can I give you?"
"The regular, but I want the first when Hinata-chans order arrive." said Naruto. He learned that it's more polite to start the meal together, and he knew Ichiraku, he can just roll out his order's before everyone else, because the shear volume of his regular intake.
"Hinata-chan?" asked a voice from behind. It was a woman's voice. She run to the front, after she said it, and saw Hinata sitting next to Naruto. "Hi. My name is Ayame. Its nice to meet with you." after she said this, she looked at the two, and saw how red Hinata was. "Oh I see, so this is your girlfriend Naruto. I did not know you had such a good taste." said Ayame on a teasing voice.
"Its not like that nee-chan. We are just friends, and we are too young for that kind of stuff." said Naruto, after he saw how red Hinata become, and started to fear she might faint because of the teasing.
"But you thought about it, don't you?" asked Ayame, with a big smile on her face.
"I am just 9. 9! And could you already ask for Hinata-chan's order. At the end she will think we are rude and uncivilized." said Naruto knowing Hinata clan status.
"I am just teasing you too. You don't need to be so dramatic. It's not like you."
"Well most of the time, I am not with the princesses of Konoha." when he said this Ichiraku, and Ayame looked at him like he grown a second head. "She is Hinata Hyuuga. The hire of the Hyuuga clan. She is the closest Konoha has to a princess." said Naruto, but ti his surprise Ayame got a wide smile when he said it.
"So she is the princess you want to save, when you become a shinobi. I knew there is something." she said, while having an inner victory dance.
"I am sorry that you need to go through. They normally arent like this. It's just rare I bring someone here with myself." said Naruto to Hinata, who just nod, but get slightly even redder than before.
"Well what is your order "princess"?" asked Ayame.
"W-well… I-i will eat a m-miso ramen, w-with extra n-naruto in it." while she said this she fought to not faint. Luckily for her Ayame just smiled, and went to help his father to make all the ramen Naruto will eat. "T-they really like you. A-aren't t-they?"
"Well they are the closest thing to a family I have, expect Jiji, and they know it, so yeah, they are kind of protective, and family like for me." answered Naruto just looking in front oh himself.
"Who is your Jiji?" asked Hinata. She heard him referring to his Jiji before, but never knew who it was.
"Well he is the Hokage." answered Naruto the question like it was obvious.
"W-wait. Y-you a-are telling me, Hokage-sama I-is the one p-paying f-for your apartment, a-and e-everything else?" asked a surprised Hinata.
"Yes." coma the short answer from Naruto. "He takes care for me the best he can. He said he knew my parent's and that is why he feel responsible for me, but he doesn't tell me anything about them."
"I think he has his his reasons. I-i mean h-he is the Hokage. He cant d-do anything w-without a good r-reason." said Hinata while she started to gather herself together after the little surprises where dropped on top of her.
"Well you can say that, but he could tell me at least something… but we did not come here to talk about this… Do you think I can see some of your own moves anytime soon?" asked Naruto excitedly after he dropped the depressing subject.
"I-i don't know. M-maybe next time we c-can talk like this, w-we will have t-time for that."
"I hope so. I am really interested what did you made for yourself. You saw a few of my own moves today." said Naruto, but before Hinata could reply their ramen arrived, and Naruto was lost in his own little world.
After they finished they wanted to walk away, but a Hyuuga member arrived, who did not said anything, just looked at Naruto with anger and hate. He clearly had something against the young boy.
"Hinata-san. What are you doing here with someone like… like him. You know he is below you." when he heard this Naruto knew the hyuuga in front of him have the same problem with him, the villagers had before.
"She was polite and did not refused to speak to me, and did not refused my invite for a ramen." said Naruto, but the Hyuuga had none of it.
"I don't remember giving you permission to speak." come the answer.
"I shouldn't speak like this to someone stronger than me, in your place." said Naruto and saw he had the reaction he wanted to see. Anger.
"You little…. I will show where your place is!" the angered hyuuga run at Naruto, and tried to hit him, but Naruto grabbed his wrist, while something hit him from the back enough, to make him lose his balance, what Naruto used, to drop him overhead and he landed on the ground. The next thing he know was that an angry fox looked at him, while Naruto grabbed one of his hands, and stood on his back.
"And I thought you are an intelligent, strong, and calm clan, but its looks like I overestimated you, because of Hinata." said Naruto, while he pulled the hyuugas hand a little upwards. "Now I think you don't want to go back with a broken arm, so be nice and promise you don't tell anyone that I spoke with Hinata, because your clan should have problems with it."
"Why should I do that?" asked the defeated Hyuuga.
"Well if you want to tell them, that an academy student kicked your ass, with a little foxes help, you are welcome. I am sure they will say you are one of the strongest clan member." answered Naruto, and pulled the branch members hand a little further up, while pushing his two arms into different directions, to amply force on the arm further, and showing if he wanted he can brake the arm, whit one swift strike.
"Okay, okay, just let me go!" come the answer. It was hard for him to admit defeat, but when Naruto released him, and he stood up, he launched a juuken strike at Naruto, but he soon regretted it, when his foot was bitten by Kurama, and his strike evaded by Naruto, who's answer was a swift strike to his chest, what was followed up, by his arm being grabbed and the he felt a sharp pain, when Naruto hit it whit his other hand, and delivered his knee at it the same time, using the force, from two different direction, to brake the arm.
"I told you I will brake it, but did you listen? It was your choice, but I hope now you learned that you and me aren't on the same level." said Naruto, who than turned to Hinata. "I am sorry you witnessed this, but I don't want to give your father any reason to make your life harder than it is now. I saw what he teaches you, and I don't like it. I hope you understand." said Naruto on a clearly honest voice.
"D-don't worry. I think I should do the same f-for you." said Hinata with a red face. She saw how brutal and cold Naruto was, but understood that it was for her safety.
"I am glad to hear that." answered Naruto. "Well see you tomorrow." said the boy before he and Kurama took of.
A little bit later in the Hyuuga compound.
Hinata was called to his father, with her guard, when he heard that the guard come back with a broken arm, and a bitten leg. The two stood in the office for almost ten minute before the clan leader spoke up.
"Well witch on of you will tell me what happened?" asked the man, on a strict voice what promised pain.
"I injured myself while I was training. I got to carried away, and when I saw how late it was, I miscalculated the power of a strike, and that broke my arm."
"And what about your leg?" come the next question what made Hinata feel uneasy.
"It was while I run back to the academy to get to Hinata. I forgot the traps I and my partners crated before training, and due my byakugan being inactive I did not saw the trap in time." come the somewhat believable answer coming from the man, who is Hinata's bodyguard, only because he is as weak as Hinata is in her father's eyes.
"Well any other time I should believe what you said, but not long ago I had a meeting with one of the academy teachers, who had a feeling that Hinata is hiding her true capability's in tajjutsu in the class, being her reaction time and reflexes are a lot better, than what she uses in the sparring sessions. I too suspected something, so I went to the academy to elaborate what could caused this, and I saw Hinata and the Uzumaki boy leaving the academy together."
"H-he offered to help me, w-whit my my shyness." said Hinata on a strangely calm and collected voice compared to other times she talked to her father. "He too saw t-that I can be better, t-than I am, and he t-thought the only problem is that I am t-too shy. He offered h-his h-help so I can become stronger, a-and a-access my f-full potential."
"Ko you can leave now." said the clan head, and the man followed the order before the man punishes him on any way, or form. "What you said is true, but only half true. The other half must to be connected to your secret training. Am I right?" at the question Hinata was surprised. "You taught I did not saw one of the foxes that day? That they where able to hide themselves while talking to you? I was interested in what he was doing here, so I used my byakugan to read his lips. Tell me did you followed his advice?" the question was strange. Different from his normal demeanor. This time he did not cared for any lie. Only the truth mattered.
"Yes father. I-i tried to create an n-new juuken style. I-it is s-stile r-rough b-but I am better w-with it, than the c-clan style." come the answer after a few minute of silence.
"As the clan head I don't approve of this training." the answer was fast, straight and unnerving for Hinata. "But I am not only the clan head, but your father too. I saw a lot of other woman struggle to learn the juuken, and most never got as good with it, as the man, and you, and your mother are the two worst case ever recorded in the clan's history, because how agile you two where. Did you found her diary?" asked Hiashi not as clan head, but as a father.
"N-no father. W-why?" asked Hinata with a concerned look.
"In that diary there are a few special technique she come up with. We never showed them to the elders, but we were working on them in our free time before you where born. If you reach a point, where you feel like you could show me your stile, both as to your father and the clan head, and you are good enough, I will show you what I can, but if even one of the elders learn about it, you will lose not only your hire status, but you will become an outcast."
"I-i u-understand f-father." answered Hinata.
"Now could you tell me what kind of connection is between Naruto and the twin foxes? Based on what you said, and I saw back then, there is must to be one."
"I-i am sorry f-father, but t-this information c-could endanger h-him greatly, a-and our c-clan to." come the calm answer from Hinata. She will never reveal who the Twin Foxes are.
"How so? I think all the ANBU should be great-full learning how to get them."
"W-well y-you see f-father, a-at first you a-are right, b-but after t-time they c-could question h-how did w-we come t-to this c-conclusion. " said Hinata, who started to fear she can not hold the secret.
"We tell them our Byakugan lead to the revelation." coma the answer fast, and mercilessly. Hinata almost give up, but she remembered who is she protecting. The boy, who don't know the meaning of giving up. The boy, who tried his best to defend her, and most likely changed her forever, and there was a good chance he doesn't even tried to do it, just did it.
"But they can say otherwise." come the answer from Hinata, after just a few second. "They can tell the truth, or lie, to make thing worse for us. They could corer us and destroy our reputation, you and the elders fight so hard, to hold into and improve. They can destroy our clan name, just one swift sentence, a good half truth, and the clan can not even try to say otherwise, before our name is forever tainted." Hiashi was surprised, and he showed it. Hinata did not just refused him, and not even just said more to him, without shuttering than he ever heard her speak, but come up with an argument he was unable to criticize.
"Well if it's true, then it's your duty as a member of our clan to protect that secret, even from me." said Hiashi after a minute, shaking of his surprise. "Now on a side not, what I said about your personal training is true for the Uzumaki boy to. Now you can leave." said Hiashi, and Hinata took the chance, he had given her.
"Well it was clearly unexpected. The boy achieved in one day, what I could not in five year. I am in his depth, and I think he will continue what he started. This one boy may have ensured Hinata position as hire to the position of clan head, without knowing how close Hinata was to lose it. The elders may don't say it, but I think in the next 4 year they planed to strip her from that chance, but now, she is strong enough to hold into it." thought Hiashi, before he continued to work.
At that night, with Naruto
Naruto was sure he was sleeping, but it was like he was in a real place. It was looking like a sewer, with different direction to go. He did remember when he went to bad, to sleep, but somehow know this wasn't a dream. It was too real to be a dream. After a few minute, of thinking, where he could be, he chose to go a random direction, what was forward. After a few minute he started to feel the power what gave him his feral form, and it had a strange calling to it. Like the source wanted him, to go there, and he found it hard, to not go there. It took him a while to reach the end, where he found a gigantic open area. He did not saw the ceiling above him, and the side walls was around the edge of his vision too. In front of him, was a gigantic gate. It was from wall to wall, and most likely it reached the ceiling, but he did not wondered about it for too long, because two red dot appeared on the other side, and somehow it felt like it were the eye of… something, but that should be impossible. Those orbs where at least human sized.
"No one taught you that tarring was rude?" asked a dark, and deep voice. It confirmed his fear that those things where eyes, but what could have so massive eyes?
"W-who are you, and what are you?" asked Naruto, who already started to think about possible ways of escape. He saw the gate, but it was better to be safe than sorry.
"It's rude to ask about someone without telling them before that." said the voice back, but it was apparent that the creature on the other side did not wanted to answer, even if he got it from him.
"I am Naruto Uzumaki. Academy student and master of prank's." answered Naruto. He did not wanted to piss of someone who was tat much bigger than him… at least for now.
"I am The Kyuuby." answered the fox, who was still hiding in the shadows.
"So you are the strongest biyuu? And what is your name? I mean the Kyuuby is good and all, but… it's the name what humans call you, and not your own… at last I hope I am right." said the boy, who saw the eyes looking at him, in a more threatening way than before.
"Why should I tell my name to a pitiful creature like you?" asked the demon fox, on an irritated voice. "You are weak. Even with the extra power your other form grant's you, you are still too weak to understand the potential inside it. All you are doing is using it for pranks, where you already should have reached a point, where you could destroy the entire village with one blow."said the Kyuuby with a darker tone than before, but this time it was similar somewhat to a disappointed parent
"Kyuuby-sama. Please allow me to come to you." come an other voice. Naruto recognized the voice, but did not believed his ears. It was Kurama's twin form voice. So similar to his, but strangely different. No one could describe the difference, but everyone know there was one. When he looked behind himself, he saw Kurama bowing to the Kyuuby. It wasn't surprising based on what he already know about the strongest creature who ever lived on the planet.
"I allow you to come closer, and stop bowing. You are one of the few who I waited patiently for, unlike your human partner." it somehow felt right that the Kyuuby was thinking like that.
"As you wish." said Kurama while he slowly looked into the cage. "You are truly the Goddess all fox desire to serve. I am honored to be in your presence." said Kurama, what slightly unnerved Naruto.
"Don't worry boy, the only reason he can be here is the strong bond between the two of you, what granted him this chance. If he even think about serving me, even if it meant to abandon you, the connection shatter at that instant." said the Kyuuby, but Naruto's strange look on his face did not changed for a few more second, before he looked serious.
"Well I always know angry woman where the second scariest thing in the world. Only second to the Biyuus so it shouldn't surprise me that the strongest creature is a woman. It's fitting for a world where most of the powerful people, being ninja, politician, noble's, or wealthy people, where man." said Naruto what impressed Kurama.
"So my presence inside here is rubbing of on you, even if we aren't in our twin form?" asked Kurama, and Naruto just nodded. There is no way he can say anything just remotely as intelligent as that long and overdid sentence was, but his knowledge, taught to him by Kurama, led to the conclusion, but he should have needed at least a year to come up with that sentence.
"You two are still as entertaining as you where the first time." said the Kyuuby. It was like there was something bugging her tho. "Kurama. Did you come up with any explanation about your forms?" asked the demon fox.
"Well I found something similar It's called Sage mode, what is using natural energy to create senjutsu, but we did nothing to achieve that, and it's more drastic transformation." when she heard that, the Kyuuby come out of the shadows. She was massive. She was bigger than the hokage monument.
"You are half right. Its similar, because it IS sage mode, but it's not strange for the exact same reasons." when she said it, the two boy was dump stuck. They reached sage mode, without any training, or knowledge about it? Kurama's research showed that there is a connection, but to this extent… "To be exact it is the fox sage mode, where a fox summon and their summoner, or an other fox summon fuse temperately, but in that case one need to concentrate on the natural energies, while the other fight, and control the body. In your case, it's different, and for that the reason is you Kurama. Your chakra is natural energy."
"What? But that should be impossible. If someone has too much natural energy that person dies!" said Kurama.
"But still it's true. I don't know the reason. Maybe the fact that your body was interacted with my chacra, to an extent no other creature expect my jinchuurikies." when she said this, Naruto suddenly fell back.
"Y-you mean to tell me that… I am your jinchuuriki?" asked Naruto, but he know the answer already.
"You took your time./Took you long enough." said the two fox together.
"It's not like it was THAT obvious. I mean don't even Kurama know before he arrived here." said Naruto while he looked at his partner "I know because you would tell me, if you did, and never even come up any idea when I asked why the village could hate us. Our other forms were obvious, but that wasn't."
"Even after you learned so much sealing you did not know. Even after reading about it in an advanced sealing what was speaking about a mind connecting fuinjutsu."
"Well, sorry to don't being a genius like Sasuke." when Naruto said this the Kyuuby had become really angry.
"And care to share why are you training him?" asked the demon fox.
"He is a fellow citizen soon to be shinobi, like me, so why should I not help him, when he started to suffer from something similar to me before I meet Kurama…" then Naruto started to think, what was surprising considering how much thinking he had already done.
"He will become just like his brother, or like Madara. Every stronger than normal Uchiha become a traitor sooner or later."
"Why are you giving up on him so soon Kurumi?" asked Naruto innocently.
"You forget how old I am? I saw every… wait what did you call me?" asked the Kyuubi on a surprised voice.
"Kurumi. It was the first name I thought for Kurama, but it wasn't a male name, so he got the Kurama. Just slightly different, but connected to the original idea. I assume that is your name."
"Well I can not argue with MY logic." said Kurama, who know how much more intelligent he was than Naruto, even if Naruto wasn't stupid, these kind of stuff were above his level. He was good when he needed to fight, or when cornered into a situation, and that was why he was the leader out of the two. He thought too much on stuff, while Naruto come up with interesting tactics, on the fly.
"YOU…" started the angry Kurumi, but Kurama jumped onto the gate.
"Please, Kurumi-sama, don't be angry at him. If we did not have this connection he never find out your name on his own, and whit his reveal of your name, I learned it too." said Kurama, what somewhat calmed Kurumi.
"Human! You have no right to say my name until you prove you are at least as strong independently, as Minato Namikae was. He was one of the few people I respected for his strength. Until that only Kurama, or other foxes can call me on my real name." said the proud beast. She will not allow weaklings to call her by her name. It was infuriating that a boy was able to learn it, in itself. If he called her that in public… no that is something she will never allow to the boy.
"Now could we get back to the matter of sage mode? What it is, and how it does work with us?"
"Well based on what I learned about the two of you, in your case it's different because Kurama's chacra is natural energy. It's makes the two of you able to share your abilities, while hide the weaknesses to some degree. It's also allow Kurama to tap into my chacra what you two use, for your second and third transformation, but its also speed up the natural energy output, to balance the sage mode, because if the Natural energy become too low in your body, the mode deactivates, but even with increased chacra, you don't lose it." said Kurumi on a way to help even Naruto to understand it to some extent.
"Well that mean we are cooler, than the fox summons" said Naruto, but he soon regretted, when Kurumis killing intent spiked.
"What did you said about my precious child's?" the manner, and the voice she spoke should have made even her father fear her.
"I-i am sorry. I-i did not know you where related. I-if it's true I am sure they are stronger than us." said Naruto as fast as he could. He did not wanted to die, but while he did this Kurama jumped inside the cage. Until now Kurama slowly got closer and closer to Kurumi, but when she become angry, he did a bigger jump towards her. Naruto somehow know it's better if he leave the goddess and her faithful servant alone, so he left the way he come in, with the intent of exploring the seal placed on him, from the inside.
Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I had bigger brakes between a few part's than normally but I hope it don't changed the quality in any way.
About the Kyuubys gender. She was the Yang part, which is the woman if I remember right, and that gave me the idea to make it a woman, and not a man.
Kurama interested in his goddess? Time will tell, but I think it would be too weird to make a relationship between the two special foxes, so before anyone start to ship it, if you can get her out and leave her out, without cutting Narutos power, and without breaking the rules in the world established.
The Sage mode was inspired by the anime, when Naruto receives the training and first hear about how the frog sage and he will fuse, so he can stay in sage mode. He imagine it will turn him to a half frog creature.
Well like Kurumi said Naruto and Kurama did not mastered their form, and it is shown in their look too. I already have an idea for a final look, and I will ask some of my friends to make a few picture based on my idea. If they do I will post it in my profile, but I can't promise anything… for now at least.
I hope you will wait for the next chapter. I plan on to do some time jump, and a few interesting fight, where is will try to show how big difference there is between the normal Naruto and the Twin sage mode Naruto.
See you next time!