Naruto's eyes slowly opened as he woke up face down in a puddle. '"Damn it." Naruto said as he pushed himself up.

"Why does it have to rain today after I got my ass kicked?" The red-headed said as he sat up fully. Naruto looked into the puddle he woke up in.

His nose was noticeably crooked, his left eye was purple and swollen, his canines were gone, and his hair was soaked. Then Naruto looked at his leg and realized that there was a tone of knives and other sharp objects in his legs.

He could also feel a few broken ribs and would on his back. "How the hell am I still alive?" Naruto thought out loud.

"You're welcome brat." A voice rang out in his head. 'Yo furball, I'm surprised you can talk to me when I'm not in my own head.' Naruto thought.

'DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME THAT!' The Nine-tails shouted as Naruto slowly began pulling out all the embedded objects from his legs.

'So, the reason I haven't bleed out is because of you?" Naruto asked the Nine-tails. 'Yeah. My chakra has healed every wound you've ever had faster than a normal person, especially with the blood flowing through your veins.' The chakra entity responded.

'The hell does that mean?' Naruto asked as he struggled to remove a full blown sword from his calf. Naruto seriously questioned why they were so wasteful with their gear.

'What do you know of your last name?' The fox asked the boy. 'The old man said he randomly chose it, what about it?' Naruto responded finally pulling out said sword from his leg.

'Ha! That old fart was lying out of his ass! That last name of yours, Uzumaki, is a nearly dead clan from the destroyed Village Hidden in Whirlpools. They were distant relatives of the Senju clan, the clan the tree-hugger Hokage was from.

Like their distant cousins the Uzumaki's had strong-life forces and huge reserves of chakra. But unlike the Senju the Uzumaki could heal people by letting others bite them, summon chains that nullify chakra, and most importantly the Uzumaki seemed basically genetically dispositioned to be geniuses in the art of selling jutsu.' The Nine-tails told Naruto as Naruto attempted to stand.

'That's awesome! Kinda figured the old man was lying but hey, if what you told me about the treatment of jinchuriki is true that's just another person to piss off.' Naruto thought as he balanced on one leg.

'I doubt it, the old fart doesn't seem to have that amount of hate in him. Probably just thinks knowing your heritage is better than knowing.' The fix lazily said.

Naruto began walking, well more limping considering how many wounds were present on his legs, towards his apartment.

'Hey, why ARE you helping me out?' Naruto asked the fox. 'Simple, I disapprove of the last Uzumaki being treated like this. My past jinchuriki have both been Uzumaki and while the treated me pretty badly I somewhat respect how terrified others were of their capabilities.

In particular Mito Uzumaki, wife of the tree-hugger, fended me off when Hashirama knocked me out of Madara Uchiha's control and just left to let me rampage.

Mito eventually sealed me inside her when I got too close to the village. And your mother once killed a whole battalion of cloud ninja single handedly. That and like I said earlier, no jinchuriki of mine is going to be pathetic.' The Nine-tails aadmitted.

Naruto stopped dead at his tracks. "WAIT, DID YOU JUST SAY THAT MY MOM WAS YOUR PAST JINCHURIKI!" Naruto yelled out.

'Quiet down brat. I'll only tell you what I know of your parents once you master sealing. After all, what purpose would knowing more about the Uzumaki have if you're a poor excuse for an Uzumaki.' The might beast said as Naruto could almost hear the smug smile on the fox's face.

"Stupid furball." Naruto mumbled as he kept walking. Eventually about a block from his apartment Naruto stopped by the store that he had stolen the apple from.

And he got to thinking, why not steal some more stuff? After all that jerk was the reason for him getting the not beat in.

Naruto also saw some orange sunglasses and realized that he'd need to cover his black eye. The academy literally started the next day and Naruto did not need others getting into his business and did admit, the color orange spoke to him a bit.

Naruto walked into the side of the building. For whatever reason a vent was broken and the owner never fixed. So five minutes later later was strolling back to his apartment with as many pairs of sunglasses as he could carry.

'I don't get your obsession with stealing things." The fox whispered.

'Hey, I only steal from people that have wronged me. That just so happens to be a lot of people. By the way, anything you've can do about my teeth?' Naruto asked, finally standing infront of his apartment.

'They should be back by the morning, but your' nose, eye, and various broken bones will take a few weeks.' The Nine-tails told Naruto. "That's a damn relief. Don't want to look too scuffed on my first day." Naruto said finally in the somewhat safety of his home.

"So, I don't have to talk to communicate with you." The spiky haired redhead said.

'Wow, what a genius observation.' The beast sarcastically said. Naruto simple sighed and set all the sunglasses he had stolen on the table.

"So, should we go steal the books now or later?" Naruto asked. 'You've already stolen enough tonight brat, go to sleep." The Nine-tails said.

Naruto grumbled but begrudgingly did as he was told and crawled into his bed.

'Get up brat.'

"Mmm."

'Get up.'

"Five more minutes."

'GET UP OR I WILL FORCE YOU TO WATCH YOUR MOTHERXS MEMORIES OF WHEN YOU WERE CONCEIVED!'

Naruto quickly jumped out of bed and hopped in the shower, not even bothering to take off his clothes until the water had already drenched him.

After a quick shower of six minutes thanks to the absolute amount of fear the Nine-tails had struck in his heart Naruto rummaged through his drawers and threw on a pair of black shorts and an orange shirt and ran out of his apartment.

'So, just while in transit, we're going to the ninja library right?' Naruto asked.

"Yes but I do think you should buy some weight as well.' The ancient chakra construct answered.

'With what money? I spent the rest of the money the Old Man gave me the day before yesterday on food.' Naruto asked.

'As much as I hate to support this habit of yours, go wild.' The fox said in an obviously defeated tone.

A wide smile spread as Naruto swore he could hear the singing of spirits in his kleptomaniac brain. When Naruto arrived to the academy he was directed towards the classroom he was supposed to go to although noting that the woman directing him was glaring a him the whole time.

When our red-headed protagonist finally reached the classroom he readjusted his sunglasses to make sure his black eye was covered and licked his teeth to see if he canines were back.

Then Naruto opened the door and walked in with one hand in his pocket. Instantly peole looked to observe the newcomer and of course the obviously civilian born of the class glared daggers at him including a pink haired girl with a BIG forehead.

As Naruto walked he noted the ones that didn't glare those being a boy with red fang markings on his cheeks, a girl with pupilzless white eyes, a pudgy boy with red swirl on his cheeks, a boy with black hair in a pineapple like ponytail, a girl platinum blonde hair and pupil-less blue eyes, and a boy with sun glasses and an over mouth collar with a bug on his finger.

Naruto simple made sure his smile could be seen as he sat next to the boy with a bug on his finger. "Nice shades." Naruto said to the boy to no reaction.

The teacher, a brown haired man with a scar across his nose, walked in and glared at Naruto.

Naruto's smile only got bigger much to the obvious chagrin of the civilian kids and the teacher.

'Oh these academy years are going to be fun.' Naruto thought.

The day went by pretty slowly as it was mostly just orientation. Naruto had to strain himself to not fall asleep.

Thankfully around mid-day was lunchtime. Naruto, in his early morning panic, had forgotten to make lunch but that was fine because any excuse to get out of the classroom was good to him.

Naruto walked out side and looked around for a secluded spot to sit. The only place he could find is a swing under a tree.

'Yo, Nine-tails get ready for a few questions.' Naruto thought. The only response he got was a deep grumble. Naruto got to the swing and instead of sitting on it normally, laid face up to the sky before closing his eyes.

Naruto instantly found himself back in a familiar dark location with a red cage.

"So, I have a few questions.