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Naruto heard a knock on the door as he finished sending an email. He sighed and got up, shoo'ing a ghost that was bothering him through the wall. He was in his 6 year old form since most of his tails were out gathering evidence for a case that he was working on. A few humans had gone missing, and there was no evidence at all to find the murderer this time. It was a case that was stunning even him, since even expert murderers couldn't hide bodies from him.

Well, that would be the normal case.

The fact was that the murder victims didn't know who killed them, all they remembered was pain and then passing out. After that, none of them remembered what happened to them. Usually murder victim ghosts knew who killed them, so he just asked the ghost of the victim who the murderer was, or he could smell the murderer on the corpse.

Naruto crossed the room and opened the door.

"... Is... you're so cute!" Miko gushed a little when she saw him in his 6 year old form.

He sighed again.

He snapped his fingers, and he returned to his usual form as his clothes were filled out properly by his body. His tails all returned to him. Miko paused when she saw him return to normal, and just pouted at him for not staying in his cuter form. Miko covered her nose after a moment when she got a smell of his room.

"... What... what is that smell?"

"I've been busy the last week with a weird murder case, haven't had the time to clean. I'll clean while we talk... so you came to visit me for-" Naruto was stopped when there was another knock at the door. He raised an eyebrow at her, and she shook her head and hands, to show that nobody should have followed her to his apartment. He answered the door anyway, and while before he just sighed because he was busy and overworked... this time he sighed in actual annoyance.

"Yo yo, the Nine-o and Master of Disaster-"

Naruto closed the door.

"Ignore that man, he's dangerous." Naruto told Miko the second he slammed the door in the face of the grown man that appeared. Miko hadn't gotten a good look at the man. The man just opened the door to Naruto's apartment anyway and walked right in. "... Gyuki... what do you want?" Naruto crossed his arms.

The man was massive and muscular, but also had a bit of a pot belly. A black man with sunglasses, and blond hair. He dressed like a wannabe rapper, which fit with how he had tried to introduce himself.

"Oh ho... you got an interesting hoe-"

Naruto backhanded the man, and knocked his sunglasses off of his eyes.

His inhuman eyes.

His eyes were pure white, round eyes with nothing human in them at all. Miko yelped and covered her mouth, stumbling back into Naruto. He, for his part, wrapped an arm around her stomach to offer protection.

"Miko, this is a human who had their soul completely taken over by an ancient, powerful spirit... and he's come to bother me today." Naruto moved her so that she was standing behind him. He placed his other hand on Gyuki's chest to prevent him from taking even a single step towards her. Gyuki picked his sunglasses up off the ground, and he stepped back of his own free will, with Naruto lowering his hand.

"You missed the meeting... and who is this girl?" Gyuki dropped the human act.

"None of your business. I don't answer the call of your little meetings with the others... unlike you spirits, I have a real, physical body of my own... I don't need your little cult." Naruto stated coldly.

The air in the room was colder.

Miko could see her own breath as it actually got colder, physically colder. Miko looked around as the walls of the room got darker, and a mist started to thickly cover everything. She heard the sounds of deep, inhuman voices chanting in unison. She shivered in fear and gripped onto Naruto tightly, pressing herself up to her guardian.

'What is going on... Do I pretend I can't see anything... what do I do... They are talking, but I don't understand them.' Miko had heard Naruto and this man talking, but when they talked it was like they were speaking in another language. She couldn't even understand what Naruto was saying, unless he talked to her directly.

They spoke in a tongue she couldn't place.

The mist cleared, and she saw 7 other figures.

Naruto raised his arm up, and the mist completely cleared to reveal they were back in his room. The other 7 figures were gone.

"I don't answer your summons Gyuki. My father might have been your leader, but I am not him, and I don't have his patience with you. Let me live my life in peace... or else I will show you why you never messed with my father." Naruto gave a very clear threat.

Miko flinched when Naruto sounded angry.

What was he saying?

"... Are you as strong as your father... he was able to hold all of us back by himself... and you say you have that power too?" Gyuki stepped forward against Naruto's stretched hand. He accepted the challenge Naruto gave.

Naruto smirked.

"You're by yourself right now Gyuki... even if I was only half the Kyuubi my father was, you wouldn't be able to stand up to me. You're just a wee little Ushi-Oni, who attained a human body and got stronger... I'm the real deal... with power you couldn't even dream of in your fanciest daydreams... back the fuck down now." Naruto smirked when Gyuki looked away from him, and he did back up. He couldn't maintain eye contact with Naruto.

Miko really wished she knew what was happening.

"... Damn son, acting all high and mighty just because you're a Kyuubi... you've got all your father's arrogance."

"It's only arrogance if I don't back it up. Test me, test me right now... get your little group together and see what happens to you all." Naruto offered a chance. Gyuki turned and left the room without another word being said at all.

There was a long pause.

"That was unpleasant... so what brings you here Miko?" Naruto changed the subject.

As much as Miko wanted to ask what all of that was about, she was perceptive enough to understand that Naruto wasn't going to tell her if she did ask. She backed off of him and ran her fingers through her hair, trying to get her thoughts in order. Her mind was a little hazy, the fear hadn't left her system.

Naruto sighed.

"That was a Jinchuriki... they call themselves Jinchuriki. They are a set of 9 Powerful Spirits who had taken human bodies... my father was their leader. They expect me to become their new leader, and attend their little meetings... to become their leader, I have to become a Jinchuriki too... but I don't want to do that." Naruto sat on his bed and talked about it.

Miko listened as the fog over her mind began to settle.

"The Power of a Human Sacrifice..." Miko mentally wrote the kanji in front of her.

"They gain power by crushing the souls of humans, and taking their bodies. Remember how I possessed you... when I pushed your soul out of your body?" Naruto asked her.

"... That was weird."

"Well, they can't do that... they have to mentally torture and drain their human hosts. They share the body with the human... but the human has long checked out. I removed your soul from your body so that your soul wouldn't get hurt... my father used my mother as his human host... but he... he never did what they do... my father was evil to the core, but he loved my mother and removed her soul from her body... she was the only human he liked." Naruto gave a bit of an example to help her understand what he was talking about.

Miko remembered the weird sensation of being out of her own body, like she did and didn't exist.

"... So your evil dad... kept those evil guys in check... so now you keep them in check?" Miko asked him.

"If I fought them, I would destroy them all... but this human form of mine might be done for... the most I can do right now is wait for their human forms to die, and finish them off between hosts... is your head all cleared up?" Naruto asked her.

She nodded.

"... I stopped by today, because... the new teacher in my school, he's got... well... a lot of angry spirits around him... I think... I think he might be a murderer..." Miko couldn't help the bad feelings that she got from her new teacher. She couldn't get any proof or anything to take to the police, but she was sure that Naruto could do something about it. "... please... help me... Naruto?" Miko felt him slap his hands to his knees and stand up.

Naruto took a deep breath.

"Miko... sure... sure, I'll help you out."

"Am I asking too much?" Miko asked, since she heard Naruto's tone. He didn't sound happy to help her.

"No, no... it's fine... I'm just, very busy lately. Business is picking up, and I can only spread myself-" Naruto created 8 foxes and reduced his body to his 6 year old form again as the foxes spread out. "-so thin before I end up in this form. Also, this isn't exactly a matter of dealing with spirits... this is a living human you want help with." Naruto grabbed his pants before they could fall as he walked around his room.

A living human and bad spirits were different matters in how he could go about helping.

"So... do I have to pay you... I have some allowance saved up. If money is an issue, I could even..." Miko stopped what she was saying. "... I can work for you. Part time work... to help you so you aren't spread so thin. I can see spirits too! You do your detective work by seeing spirits right... you can help me if you aren't spread thin right... and it won't cause any problems for you?" Miko wasn't confident in her appeal.

Her school allowed part time jobs.

If her teacher was a murderer, then she needed to expose him.

"You're adorable-"

"You're adorable." Miko spoke out, only to cover her mouth when she realized that she said it out loud. She giggled under her breath when Naruto threw his arms up into the air.

"This is why I hate this form. I was a runt as a kid... but damn if I wasn't adorable. Fine. You can help me with my work. I can't pay you much for your help though." Naruto couldn't help but smile when Miko smiled.

'I'm Detective Miko now... wait...' Miko realized something.

Did this mean she was going to see a lot more scary spirits?

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