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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Charming Assassin Charmer

-Chapter 15-

"Seriously! What the fuck is going on!?" Nana demanded at the top of her lungs while grabbing Sephie by the shoulders and shaking her wildly. "Genocidal god beings! Kids you seem to know popping in and out of reality! Secrets upon secrets on even more damn secrets! I can't take it anymore! I need answers!"

"IKSJDGHFOWEIRGOGJH!" The queen tried to say something, but all that came out was garbled nonsense as her daughter continued to manhandle her.

Thankfully for Sephie though, she was rescued a few moments later by Momo grabbing Nana and prying her off.

"Whoa there, chill out Nana!" The busty twin exclaimed as she struggled to keep her practically rabid petite sibling in place. "Would somebody help me already?!"

Right as the words left Momo's lips, several ropes of red hair shot out and wound around Nana's entire body, leaving her looking like a squirming red mummy after just a few moments.

"Haaaah… thank you Mea."

"You're welcome," The transforming redhead said with a grin while hoisting the tied up and slightly calmed down pinkette over to the bed, setting her down right beside her. "But I must admit, Nana brings up some valid points and I would like some answers as well."

"We all do," Yami stated bluntly, staring straight at Sephie as said pinkette regained her bearings, before holding up a familiar folded up piece of paper. "Starting with what is on this?"

"Wha…" Eyes widening, the queen's gaze shot down to her own hand to find it empty before switching back to the blonde assassin who was already reading the note, with Lala, Mikan, Momo, and Mea peeking over her shoulders curiously. "Hey! Give that-"

"'The debt is due when the fox reaches the stars with gold's darkened hue'," Lala read aloud, unintentionally cutting her mother off, a question mark seeming to blink above her head for a few moments as her tail rose up and scratched the side of her head. "I don't get it."

"A riddle, seriously?" Momo groaned while flopping back-first onto her bed. "Why is it always a bloody riddle?"

"That boy must've known we'd read this and wrote in a way we wouldn't understand." Yami said thoughtfully while Mikan nodded in agreement.

"Well if that's the case, he didn't do to good a job at it." An unknown yet familiar feminine voice said coyly, making everyone in the room immediately tense up.

"…Nemesis," Mea muttered in surprise before frowning slightly, her narrowed eyes darting around the room in search of the voice's source. "Where are you? How long have you been here?"

"Oh Mea… Mea… Mea… didn't I teach you better," The now named Nemesis said in a chiding tone before the redhead and everyone else turned around when they suddenly felt something moving on the bed. To everyone but Momo's surprise, the group watched as Rito's unconscious form sat up, an incredibly faint black aura weakly oozing from his skin as his lips stretched into an uncharacteristic smirk and his eyes opened to reveal mischief filled amber eyes. "I've been here the whole time."

"AH! Nemesis!?" Lala exclaimed while pointing at the possessed boy in shock, who's lips curled slightly more in amusement. "You're inside Rito-kun!? Why are you in Rito-kun!?"

"It's nice to see you again as well princess." As 'Nemesis' spoke, the shadow around Rito grew deeper and more defined until suddenly condensing into a circle on his chest as he went limp.

A second after that a pair of small slender dark-skinned arms emerged from the darkness, followed shortly by the upper half of a young girl, looking about twelve years old with raven black hair, amber eyes, and wearing a black yukata. Stopping herself just before her waist was emerged, Nemesis rested her hands on her hands and offed a mischievous smirk. "Be honest, you all missed me, didn't you?"

"As much as one can miss a slimy leech of a headache like you," Momo said dully, getting the stunned group to turn towards her as they finally noticed her lack of surprise. "What do you want Nemesis? It must be important if you were willing to reveal yourself."

"Ah Momo, harsh and blunt as always I see, you might have actually hurt my feelings if I cared about what you said," The dark matter being stated, making a vein bulge slightly on the busty twin's forehead. "Don't get me wrong, I was quite alright just watching as little drama went on at first, enjoying all your silly reactions and such… but then I heard some rather interesting things."

"Interesting how?" Momo asked while her frown deepened.

"Well-"

"Uh excuse me," Nana cut in, getting the duo's attention while she pointed a finger at Nemesis and then Momo. "But can we get back to why you're in Rito's body? And how you know she was?"

"Rito was his usual selfless self and saved her life after she fought daddy by letting her live in his body as she recovers, I found out later on," Momo explained quickly, being intentionally vague with the last part so as to not reveal anything about her Harem plan, before turning back to smug ravenette with a firm stare. "Now you, start talking or else."

"Mah, mah, always so serious Momo-san, you should really learn to relax or you'll get all wrinkly," Nemesis said tauntingly while rolling over so she was laying on her back, which looked extremely odd given she was still half-way inside Rito's torso. "If you must know, there has been something that I have been curious about for many years now, ever since the destruction of Eden."

"Eden?" Lala repeated with a tilted head while turning to Yami, who sighed softly in mild exasperation.

"The people who created myself, Mea, and Nemesis, I told you about them before."

"Oh, right."

"Before Mea and I left those desolated ruins, I stopped to salvage several hard drives and files. I needed to ensure that our creators didn't have any… unwanted surprises for us in case any survived and wanted to reclaim or dispose of their creations." Nemesis explained, making everyone else slowly nod in understanding…

"Huh?"

…Except for Lala.

'Seriously, how can she be so smart yet so airheaded at the same time?' Mikan thought with a facepalm that most of the room, even Nemesis, shared. "She was making sure that the guys who made them didn't put a kill switch on them Lala, and if they did how to get rid of or disable it."

"Oh… oooooooh."

"Luckily it seemed that it slipped the men of Eden's mind as well since I found nothing about such a thing," Nemesis continued, smirking darkly as she stared directly at Sephie. "What I did find however was quite the interesting read, wouldn't you say Lady Deviluke?"

"I'm sorry but I have no idea what you're implying." The queen stated with a raised brow, which only made Nemesis's smirk grow.

"Oh really?" She asked coyly before one of her hands detached from her body and shot towards Mea, making the redhead jump back with her hair already turning into a cannon on reflex.

However, she ended up blinking in surprise when the limb zipped past her guard and grabbed her hairclip, pulling it free and retreating before she could react. "Wha-"

"Perhaps this will jog your memory, Lady Deviluke."

In a blink, the floating hand was in front of Sephie with the hairclip held up and the thumb pressing down on the plus sign causing it to split open, revealing the small projector inside that hummed to life and displayed a holographic file.

The instant this happened, the queen's eyes widened to the max and her jaw practically hit the floor as a shocked gasp escaped her lips. "What… but that's… how did you…"

"Project Salvation?" Yami muttered under her breath as her eyes skimmed over the projection, most of which appeared to have been corrupted or deleted given the vast empty and garbled swathes of text. What little she could make out however did set more than a few warning bells off in her mind, things like cellular replication, complex unknown DNA sequences, and limited time.

"Well that doesn't sound ominous at all," Nana said as she leaned in for a closer look before gasping when her eyes settled on something at the corner of the hologram. "Wait, that's the Deviluke Royal Crest!? And daddy's signature?!"

"Indeed it is, quite odd that a group that was supposedly bent on destroying the Devilukean Empire had direct orders from its king, don't you say?" Nemesis asked rhetorically while shutting the hologram off and reattaching her hand. "It simply made no sense, for such obvious enemies to have been working together, especially on none other than the direct predecessor to projects Nemesis and Darkness. But then, then I heard of these Otsutsuki, beings that even Gid himself feared and it all made sense."

Eyes widening in realization at what the ravenette was implying, all the girls snapped their attention back to Sephie, who still looked like someone had just told her she was now a divorced widow. "This isn't possible, we got rid of everything, Gid made sure of it."

"Well obviously not, otherwise we wouldn't be talking now would we Lady Deviluke, or would grandmother be more appropriate, since you created that which created me and all?" Nemesis asked with a coy grin…

"Wait! Mama's your grandma!? Doesn't that means I'm your aunt! Oh my gosh! YAY!"

…Until Lala glomped the dark matter girl and started hugging her really tight while rambling on about always wanting to have a niece and such.

"I'll admit, this was not the reaction I was expecting." Nemesis said as the back of her head was squished against the princess's breast, finally losing her smug attitude for one of pure bafflement while everyone else just stared on with identical deadpans.

"Clearly you don't know Lala then," Mikan said while rolling her eyes before turning to said pinkette's mother curiously, the previous dark mood completely shattered by Lala's usual spontaneous-ness. "So Mrs-erm mother, is it true? You guys tried to make people like Yami to fight those Otsutsuki guys?"

"No dear, while we were doing… questionable research with just as questionable people, I had been adamant against doing such a thing," Sephie said, looking the girl right in the eye as she spoke. "The idea of bringing a life into this world just to make it fight and kill with no other choice is absolutely abhorrent, no better than slavery."

"But?" Mea asked while motioning her hand to continue, making the queen give a long-suffering sigh.

"But some of the scientists we were working with had other ideas and tried to anyway, which we found out after the project was closed down when it was no longer needed," Pausing as a shiver of disgust ran down her spine, Sephie took a few calming breaths before continuing. "Gid had all those responsible executed and the rest were put under permanent witness protection/house arrest just to be safe. All data, research, and traces of Project Salvation were destroyed or hidden away forever, or so we thought."

"Don't feel bad mom, knowing evil scientists, one probably had something saved away somewhere you and dad would have never thought to look, it's kinda their thing." Momo said reassuringly while Nana nodded in agreement.

"And if anything we should be happy they did," Mikan added, earning shocked looks all around until she snuggled up to Yami's side and rest her head on the blonde's shoulder. "Otherwise we'd never have met Yami-chan or Mea-chan."

If one look closely in that moment, they would not only see Yami's lip briefly twitch upwards whilst a tin amount of moisture formed around her eyes.

Meanwhile Nana did the same with Mea, who blinked in mild surprise but otherwise didn't react. "Yeah, that would have sucked."

"This is all so very sweet and touching and all, but I do belief I was speaking still." And just like that the mood was killed thanks to Nemesis, who looked just the tiniest bit annoyed at suddenly being ignored, or it could be from the hug Lala was still giving her as she rambled on.

"Yeah no, I think we've all heard enough out of you. Why don't you go back to cowering in your little shadow." Momo suggested blandly, to which the dark matter girl smirked.

"Alright, if you insist," She said with a shrug before her body lost tangibility, letting her pass through Lala's grasp with ease as she sunk back into Rito's body. However, just as the last part of her, her head was vanishing from view, she quickly added. "I'll just keep the answer to the riddle to myself then."

…

"…Crap, I completely forgot about that." The busty twin groaned with a facepalm, angry at herself for letting her arch-nemesis (pun intended) get one up on her like that.

"Oh well, we can always figure it out later," Nana said before gesturing to the TV as the screen changed. "Besides, looks like the cool-downs over anyway."

"Huh, that's convenient."

"Uuuuh… wha… what happened? And why is my shirt open?" Poor Rito would receive no answer as he groggily came too, everyone too focused on the screen to respond.

"Naruto."

"I don't want to hear it Kyuubi."

Naruto had a lot to think about inside of his mind, and sitting in front of the gates that held back the Kyuubi inside, wasn't his favorite idea of a place to do it.

"Understatement." Momo said with a roll of her eyes. She was pretty sure if she had the mother of all emotional bombs dropped on her head the last place she'd want to be was sitting in front of a massive energy fox that was (mostly indirectly) responsible for a good portion of said bomb's payload.

Naruto sat with his back to the Kyuubi, touching his body to one of the bars of the cage. He didn't remember how he ended up inside of his mind, but he didn't remember much about how he passed out. Other than getting his mother's scarf, and the words on the note.

"Given he just suffered from shock induced total cognitive shutdown, it's surprising he can still think rationally at all," Mikan said, earning a curious look from Nana, Yami, and Sephie. "Mom's a fashion designer remember, she has to deal with people having panic attacks and mental breakdowns all the time."

"Fair enough."

"Okay."

"Oh, could you show me some of her work later?"

"A mischievous blue-eyed boy will unite the Tailed Beasts and change the world."

"What are you going on about?" Naruto asked the Kyuubi as he glanced back into the darkness, seeing bright red eyes staring into his blue ones.

"I'm with him, that was a little outa the blue there." Nana said with a raised brow at the multi-tailed fox's random statement.

Since Yami had muttered the word Otsutsuki, the Kyuubi had been awfully talkative, trying to get his attention several times now. Once when the word was mentioned, and now he was speaking without the usual hate and anger. "You've been talkative lately, have something on your mind?" Naruto asked, since it really seemed like the Kyuubi was deep in thought.

"That alien girl mentioned Otsutsuki, and it got me remembering something from quite a long time ago. Something a man, greater than even I, once said." The Kyuubi spoke deeply, gazing at Naruto without all of the usual hostility.

'He must be talking about one of the two brothers who defeated Kaguya, most likely Hagoromo since he was the one who stayed,' Yami quickly deduced as she considered what the Kyuubi was saying. 'And he praises the man highly and speaks with respect, a father figure perhaps?'

Naruto noticed this, the hatred was there, but it wasn't directed at him.

Naruto narrowed his eyebrows.

Everyone was just pushing more and more onto his shoulders now, weren't they?

"The weight of the world bears heavily on the shoulders, always growing and never wavering. Thus is the burden of those who lead and those who help." Sephie said wisely, knowing exactly how the whiskered blonde felt on how people keep shoving their problems and expectations onto someone else. Hell, her husband did pretty much the exact same thing most days when it came to his kingly duties so he could go entertain himself in one way or another.

Though that was usually for the best if she was honest, since his solution for most problems was 'Blast it to a million pieces so it's not a problem anymore, then blast it again for good measure'. 'That reminds me, still need to finish sending reparations to Yopparai-3 for all those taverns Gid destroyed. I told him their liquor was stronger than he could handle.'

It was a planet literally named drunkard in Japanese, the ruler was a fan of Japan culture due to the secretly alien actress Kirisaki Kyoko, it was to be expected that the place had some good booze.

"Must be a great man, if an arrogant fox like you is praising him." Naruto gave a small taunt, expecting the Kyuubi to lash out, and then shut up out of anger. Naruto wanted to get back to his own thoughts, but he couldn't do that with the Kyuubi behind him constantly mouthing off against him.

There was silence.

"Kurama."

"... You're really talkative today. Who are the Otsutsuki, if they are affecting you this much Kyuubi?" Naruto asked the great fox beast inside him.

"Oh yeah sure, let's talk about the self-righteous genocidal murderers while you recover from your breakdown, sounds like fun." Momo said sarcastically with a roll of her eyes.

He didn't get an answer to his question, but he saw the Kyuubi lean forward into the light. His massive body visible to Naruto as he gazed down at him.

"You know, when he's not scowling angrily, he's actually pretty cute." Nana said as she rubbed her chin thoughtfully.

"Just a little bit." Mea agreed while Momo nodded, Sephie hummed in thought, and Yami shrugged with a noncommittal grunt.

"I do kinda wanna pet those ears." Lala mumbled while staring at the massive fox's rabbit-like ears, her tail wagging a bit as she imagined how fluffy they'd feel.

"My name is Kurama... use it. From now on, you will call the Tailed Beast by their names. I've decided, you are the boy of prophecy, the mischievous blue-eyed boy that the great sage spoke of." Kurama spoke down at Naruto, thin anger in his voice. He didn't answer Naruto's question in the slightest, if anything, he raised more questions than he answered.

"That does seem to be the theme for today, doesn't it?" Mea asked jokingly, to which the rest nodded or grumbled in agreement.

Naruto stood up and turned around, now fully looking at the fox.

The Tailed Beasts had names?

"Well of course they have names," Lala said like it was the most obvious thing ever. "That would be kinda silly if they didn't."

"Can't really blame him for not knowing though, given their chats till now were sparse and probably consisted a lot of insults, death threats, and angry yelling." Sephie added, making her eldest nod in understanding.

"Good point mama."

"Fine, but answer my questions too. What are their names?" Naruto asked Kurama, who looked at Naruto, seeming to decide if he were serious or not.

Naruto's eyes didn't hold deception.

"Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobu, Son Goku, Kokuo, Saiken, Chomei, Gyuki, and I already told you my name, Kurama. Those are the names of the Tailed Beasts... from weakest to strongest of course." Kurama spoke with the arrogance that Naruto knew him for. Based on that, Naruto guessed that it meant that the order was based on tail numbers.

One by one, each a picture of each tailed beast was displayed along with their names, much to the group's awe and amazement.

"Awww, they're sooo cute! Especially that one!" Lala gushed while pointing at the image of Matatabi the two tailed fire cat. "I just wanna hug it and snuggle it and-"

"…She does realize it's a cat made of fire, right?" Rito asked Sephie, putting extra emphasis on the 'made of fire' part.

Giggling softly under her breath, the queen shook her head with an amused smile directed at her future son-in-law. "Probably not, but even if she did I doubt that would stop her from trying anyway."

"Hmmm, they are… interesting to say the least, and I can see why most regular people would be a bit put off by them." Mikan said reluctantly as she glanced from one tailed beast to the next, each one looking pretty cool in photo form but they'd probably be at least a wee bit scary to see in real life.

He took a moment, but he memorized the names.

"Fine, I'll remember them... What's gotten into you then Kyu..." Naruto took a deep breath, before he decided to follow through with what the Kyuubi asked of him. "Kurama." Naruto finished as he looked back up.

He had never known the tailed beast in him to be this forthcoming with any information before, it was strange.

"One thousand years ago, there existed a tree... the Shinju, the God Tree. That tree became the Ten Tails... and it was sealed away into the 1st Jinchuriki, my father... Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the Six Paths Sage." Kurama got right into the story, from what he knew of the story at least.

"Wait, the tree came to life!?" Nana screeched in shock as the pictures of the tailed beasts were replaced with old artwork depicting a colossal wooden beast with a single massive Rinne-Sharingan eye. "Oh great, like that thing wasn't nightmare fuel enough."

"Agreed." Momo muttered with a shiver, glad that she had never met such a horrifying plant in her life.

'So the tailed beasts are fragments of the Tree's spirit itself?' Yami thought as she read over the text beneath the image, which told of how Hagoromo trapped the Shinju within himself and then spilt it apart upon his deathbed to prevent it's escape. 'No wonder they have so much power, even a fraction of that much raw energy would no doubt be devastating.'

Remembering the Otsutsuki name forced him to remember his creator, and by remembering that man, he remembered the last words the man had ever told him.

Then, he remembered the kind of person that Naruto had been all of his life, and upon thinking about it... he decided. He decided that Naruto had been the one that his creator had been referring to in his last prophecy. Naruto, the one who would call out the names of the tailed beasts, and change the world.

Naruto was a mischievous blue-eyed boy, who had already proven his strength as stronger than somebody who could use the Rinnegan. With the power to change the hearts of others.

"I'm not really one for prophecies, but he does kinda fit the bill to a tee." Rito said while Lala nodded, having finally snapped out of her 'fluffy cat' trance.

"That he does." Sephie agreed with the young man, an edge of sympathy in her voice as the screen changed back to Naruto and Kurama.

"... The Shinju... and Ten Tails... Ah, so that is where the Tailed Beasts comes from. Why does any of this matt-"

"Shut up and allow me to finish brat!" Kurama snapped at him, roaring in anger at being interrupted in his story. He settled back down when Naruto motioned for him to continue, before he got comfortable once more. "... If the Tailed Beasts are all sealed in that statue, then the Ten Tails will be reborn once more. 7 of us have been sealed already, with only myself and the Eight Tails remaining." Kurama pointed out to Naruto, and Naruto frowned in thought.

"And of course someone is trying to bring it back, because why shouldn't you resurrect a murderous monster of mass destruction that wants to literally suck the life out of the planet and everything on it?" Mikan muttered sarcastically while rolling her eyes. "I mean seriously, why does every bad guy think that's a good idea? If it's been locked away or something like that, then it's probably for a good freaking reason."

"Well to be fair, most bad guys are either egotistical jerks who think they're above such problems, total morons that don't bother reading the fine print or tricked into doing it, totally insane and just don't care, or some strange combination of those things." Momo listed off with a shrug, idly tapping a different finger with each option.

"You forgot think they can control it for their own use despite the numerous warnings of it being uncontrollable." Nana added offhandedly, making Momo pause and recount her fingers.

"Oh right, and that, thanks Nana."

Pain... Nagato said that sealing away the Tailed Beasts would create a super weapon, he spoke nothing of it creating an ancient tailed beast.

He didn't doubt Kurama though.

"Well, you being sealed doesn't exactly bode well for me anyway." Naruto mentioned to Kurama. If he had his Tailed Beast stolen, then he would die from it. So he wasn't about to let Kurama get taken from him, meaning that so long as he lived, the Ten Tails wasn't going to be summoned again.

"Can't argue with that logic." Mea said with a nod.

Kurama huffed.

"Fool... The night of your birth, the man the Fourth Hokage mentioned, is the same one with the orange mask. If he gains the Rinnegan, he will gain the ability to control the Ten Tails. I want you to free the other Tailed Beasts from the statue... and to do that, I will help-" Kurama wanted to say, but Naruto raised his hand up and stopped him.

"-I'm not letting you take my body." Naruto stopped that line of thought.

"I don't think that's what the big fox was going for." Nana stated dully, earning a soft chuckle from her mother.

"Relax Nana, I'm pretty sure Naruto's just making sure Kurama knows the boundaries."

...

"... I will help you gain control of my power. I will teach you what you need to know to master using my strength... but if you fail, only if you fail to meet my expectations, will I take your body and rampage once more." Kurama finished what he was saying with narrowed eyes. If Naruto was truly the boy from the prophecy, then he would be able to master his power without losing to his hatred. For that purpose, the purpose of fulfilling his father's prophecy, would he help Naruto in this endeavor.

"So Kurama is only helping because he thinks Naru-kun is this special person his papa told him about?" Lala asked her mother, having a little trouble keeping up with the fox's explanation.

"Yes dear, that's correct." The eldest pinkette confirmed while ruffling her daughter's hair, making her giggle happily as her tail wagged.

Naruto gave his own suspicious eyes to the great beast.

"What if I don't believe you?" Naruto asked Kurama.

"Good question." Yami muttered approvingly, since as far as her fellow blonde was aware this could all be some complex scheme of the Kyuubi's to get him to lower his guard.

There was a rumble.

"One day, you will have to master my power, and I will fight you with all of my strength. You don't have a choice. If you accept my help, you will still have to fight me, and I will still fight with all my strength... but I will help get you prepared, and teach you the steps to fighting me for my power." Kurama's offer wasn't exactly helpful to Naruto, since it sounded like either way, he was going to have to fight Kurama. It didn't matter what he chose, because he was either going to have to find somebody to help him, or he was going to have to accept his tailed beast's help.

"Damned if you do, damned if you don't," Momo quoted while pretending to stroke an imaginary beard, ignoring the playful swat she got from her mother for cursing, before pausing with a thoughtful expression. "Or would 'Stuck between a rock and a hard place' fit better?"

Tilting her head in thought, Mikan shrugged noncommitting. "Eh, I'd say both fit pretty well."

"I'd stick with the first, it has a more serious tone to it." Mea chipped in while Nana nodded in agreement with the transforming redhead.

"Prove it."

"Come into the cage... and I will not attack you."

"…Scratch what I said, you should have gone with 'walking into the belly of the beast on blind faith'." Mikan muttered softly, unable to help gulping nervously.

"Agreed." Yami said with a short nod.

Naruto hesitated for a moment, before he looked up towards Kurama with narrowed eyes.

"All of this... just because Yami-chan mentioned Otsutsuki. You must have really loved him, huh... and here I exist... denied the same love that you got." Naruto muttered to himself, when he remembered the scarf once more. Kurama looked down at Naruto with narrowed eyes for a moment.

Sephie clenched her fists, anger flickering across her face briefly as she was reminded of that atrocity someone had dared commit. Meanwhile, Lala, Nana, and Momo all snuggled a bit closer to the queen, the former pulling Rito into the group hug in the process.

Within moments, he watched as the emotions Naruto was feeling, were once more bottled up like they always were.

Naruto slapped his cheeks.

"If it were me, I would kill anyone who wronged me. We can still do that." Kurama pointed out, and Naruto gave him a glare.

"That doesn't solve anything." Nana muttered with a roll of her eyes.

"I don't know, worked most of the time for me." Mea chipped in cheerfully while Yami nodded, causing the petite pinkette to blink in surprise before facepalming.

"Right, forgot, intergalactic assassins."

Naruto walked into the cage.

"No, it's true that the villagers used to hate me... but if I hated everyone who hated me, or did me wrong, then I wouldn't have anybody. I would be alone forever." Naruto stated as he jumped up so that he was standing on Kurama's cheek, staring into his eye. Naruto gave him a look of sheer determination, and Kurama glared back into his eyes.

The two of them were silent.

Kurama looked into the mischievous blue eyes, and he once more remembered his father's words. Words that he had always truly forgotten were it not for the alien girl. Now that he remembered those words, he knew what he had to do. He would help Naruto, but he would test Naruto, and the second Naruto failed even a single test, he would take over Naruto, end of story.

*Gulp* "Talk about make it or break I-"

"We get it!" Nana shouted, making Momo jump in surprise as the petite girl fixed her with an annoyed glare. "Enough with the freaking quotes already, it's getting old already."

Huffing in annoyance, Momo glowered at her twin for cutting her off. "Oh come on Nana, that was too perfect for me to pass up. Right Mikan?"

Turning towards the brunette for support, the busty twin was in for a let down when her crush's sister waved her off with a bland look. "Sorry Momo but it was getting kinda repetitive."

"…Party poopers." She grumbled while flopping onto her back.

"You're a fool... trusting anybody but yourself. Prove to me you're worthy of my power then, and get the key to this seal from the toads. Then, I will tell you what you will need to do next." Kurama stated harshly to Naruto as he shook the boy off of him. Naruto landed outside of the cage, and turned his back away.

He turned his head and stared at Kurama.

"Fine, but you better prepare for our fight... because I'm not going to go easy on you, and I don't want you underestimating me." Naruto threatened the Kyuubi.

"Ooooh, giant monster fight~!" And just like that Momo was all hyped again, sitting up with a grin. "Naruto's gonna kick that fox's ass!"

"Hopefully so," Sephie said with a nod, swatting her daughter's head as she spoke. "I don't wanna think of what would happen if he loses."

"Like that'll happen! Naruto's too awesome to lose!"

Kurama gave a dark grin as he sunk back into the darkness of his cage.

"Fine, but I'm not the only one you have to fight... first... you must defeat your true self."

His true self?

"His true self?" Lala parroted, her head tilting in confusion before turning towards Sephie as the screen faded back to its cooldown mode. "What's that supposed to mean mama?"

"I'm not sure dear," Said queen said with a shrug. "We'll just have to wait and see to find out."

"Awww… I hate waiting."

-End Chapter-