Why do I have to hide?

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“speech”

‘thought’

“Kyuubi speech”

‘Kyuubi thought’

(I don’t know Japanese so…techniques are in English and I use honorifics whenever I feel like it…so don’t ask me why, I put them in when they feel right, Sorry if you don’t like this)

A/N: To The Autumn Alchemist …I just can’t resist puppy dog eyes…So I guess I’ll write this as fast as I can…

Oh by the way I got an editor, L33t N1nj4 Boris, but sadly, he’s really lazy.

Also to Dragon Man 180: Your Idea was pretty close to what I was planning…thanks for the idea though…

And finally to Wandering-Nin: Yeah I will try to make sure this doesn’t turn into a fic in limbo but seeing my track record for my Eva story…my update may become very sporadic… due to my work load at school…But I will try to compensate by making short chapters…well short to me…hehe. Also I wouldn’t mind the link you were talking about but I am probably gonna stay with English because I can make funny names everyone can pick up on.

Technically this is all in a flashback; I kind of forgot it would be so this will all be in the past until I specify that in is now happening in the present. So I guess I will make it all Italics (How troublesome) until the flashback is done sorry for the confusion….

Flashback-

In Naruto’s Dream-

‘I have a father…I have a father…I have a father…’ Naruto thought as he sat in a meadow of flowers. Suddenly the girl had been seen here so many times before, walked up to him. She was dressed in a pale blue kimono and dark purple shoulder length hair. But the most distinguishing feature was the pale lavender eyes with white pupils. She smiled lightly and sat next to him. She proceeded to blush prettily and look at a flower a few feet in-front of them.

Soon the thought of Kyuubi had left his mind and was absorbed by the dream. “Hello Hinata-chan!” he said enthusiastically.

“Hello, N-Naruto-kun…” She said quietly. (Yes she still stutters in his dream.)

“What’s wrong, you seem a little blue.” His kind but playful words washed over her. He was trying to cheer her up by referring to the kimono. It didn’t work.

“Naruto! We need to talk!” Her eyes steeled and looked with the determination he had saw at the chuunin exams.

Now he was worried, she had never talked to him like that before…she had even dropped the “-kun”. “A-about what Hinata-chan?” he asked timidly.

“Don’t give me that “–chan” shi-…” she caught her self, “…stuff! Naruto…I-I-I L-l-love you! And I probably always will.” Naruto’s heart jumped at this. “But I know you love Sakura-san…so I have to give up on that and settle for the only other who has been kind to me…” she said while tears ran down her eyes.

Naruto paled, he didn’t like where this was going. “But…”

“Naruto this is painful as it is! Sakura is at Ichiraku waiting for you to show up…” her voice broke. “I-I’ll be going to see K-k-Kiba-kun now…” With that she got up and ran toward the forest and the sounds of her cries following her.

Naruto’s face was the epitome of a broken man. He slowly stood up and looked toward the village and his future with the girl he had always thought he loved waiting for him. ‘This doesn’t feel right. I should be happy Sakura is waiting for ME! But…I…’

“PLEASE DON’T GO HINATA-CHAN!” he found himself screaming and turned on a dime and began to start chasing after the kunoichi with the eyes and smile that could stop his heart.

In the Clearing –

Naruto awoke with a start and looked around gathering his bearings. ‘It was only a dream… thank the kami.’ Naruto sighed to himself, “Hinata-chan would never do that to me…” He then stiffened as he thought, “…would she?” He shook his head and noticed something wasn't right about his action. He began to look around and noticed things seemed to be taller than he remembered them. He went to stand up but found every time he tried to walk forward he fell back into the crawling position. “That’s weird…” he thought. He lazily looked down at his at “hands” and let out a blood curdling roar.

“WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME YOU BAKA FOX!” Naruto screamed into the air. Well he tried but all that came of were a series of loud yips and yelps. His hands were now paws.

If one to look into the clearing, one would see a fox about as tall as mid-thigh range making strange noises and looking like it had a mental problem since it kept trying to walk on two legs. Upon closer inspection one would notice something…odd about this fox. It’s fur was a burnt orange color like most other foxes but instead of having black paws, a black and white tipped tail and white fur near it’s maw it had golden fur instead. Another oddity was this fox had not one tail but three.

“Is that how you talk to your father?” asked the demon from within Naruto. The demon seemed to take pleasure in this.

“Yes! This is exactly how I treat a father who just turned their ‘son’ into a freaking dog thing!” said a very pissed-off Naruto.

“DOG! DID I HEAR YOU CALL OUR NOBLE CLAN A ‘DOG THING’! WE ARE HIGHLY EVOLVED! MUCH BETTER THAN STUPID DOGS! NEVER INSULT US LIKE THAT AGAIN!” all trace of mirth behind the voice was gone, replaced with raw anger.

Naruto was too scared by the voice to remember his little predicament. Instead he simply apologized not wanting to get on the bad side of his father. “Gomen nasai! F-Father I…I didn’t know you felt so strongly about dogs…”

The Kyuubi took a deep breath and let it out slowly, “Very well. Just so you know, the Vulpine Clan one played a meaningless trick on the Branch house of the Canis Clan…One thing lead to another and soon dogs aided humans to slaughter our weaker brethren. We shall never forget…”

Naruto felt a prang of sorrow for the foxes and wondered what they had done that upset the dogs so much, but decided not to push his luck with his new father. “Well, I didn’t know…but sometimes more death and sorrow comes from prolonged hate.” He stated remembering his own past.

“Maybe kit, but those who live with painful memories have a hard time giving up hate. But that is for another time. Kit, about your new body, do you like it?” He asked with a smirk

“Are you shitting me?” Naruto asked while the previous flare of anger was rekindling.

At this the great Kyuubi began to laugh with in Naruto’s mind.

“Why do you think we Vulpine are known for being tricksters and sly? Of course, this isn’t your true form…I just wanted to see your reaction to this form…No kit this is you demon form.”

Naruto loved jokes…but not ones played on him, he brooded for a moment and then said to his father in a eerie voice, “I’ll get you!” the demon began to laugh even more. Soon Naruto himself, found that he was wearing a smile. “Fine, Fine what is this demon form and what the hell is my ‘true form’ if this isn’t it?”

“I knew you were smarter that most believe!” the giant said between chuckles. “This is your demon form, it is useful when meeting other demons to show your rank and status. It also shows them a sign of respect. When you get more tails this body will be more useful…” said the kyuubi calmly.

Naruto jumped in, “What do you mean ‘tails’?”

“I was gonna get to that! In the demon world tails are rank and shows how powerful you are. 1 is the weakest while 9 is the strongest.” He stopped here seeing a look all too familiar to Tsunade back in Konoha.

“Shit! I’m only a three tails! I would have thought with that Death-Santa power thing I would at least be a five!” Naruto shouted. He promptly began to pout.

“That is no way for a kitsune to act! Besides this just proves my decision to give you three tails: you are too immature to handle their responsibilities. Once I see you begin to grow and prove yourself to me I will give you one of my tails until you have nine…but show a hint of going down the wrong path and I will revoke these tails. Understand?”

“I am not immature…I am just…” Naruto thought and a picture of Gai-sensei appeared “…easily influenced by the flame of youth.”

“That is just another way for ‘the man who has to compensate so much he has to wear a leotard’ to say, ‘I am a loser and never had a girlfriend.’ Trust me his advice is childish too.” The kyuubi said off handedly.

“We need to work on shortening your insults…” mumbled Naruto.

“Yeah…that was lame…but the advice stays the same.” The fox said with a tone of finality.

“So…what is my true from you said earlier?” asked the curious and annoyed Naruto. He didn’t like being stuck as a three tailed fox and he didn’t think the village would enjoy a three tailed demon fox just waltzing into the village.

“Alright, I am going to explain everything now but if you interrupt me once I will stop and won’t tell you your powers or how to change back into human form…Got it?”

“What if I have questions?” asked an annoyed blonde fox/boy.

“Questions will be held for the end of my rant err…I mean lecture…err I mean explanation. Okay? So no interruptions until the end right?” said in an unusually fatherly manner.

“Fine…I don’t gotta like it…”

‘That attitude is why I chose him to be my heir…and my son.’ He reflected. “Good. Now do you have a mirror in your pack over there?”

“Um….I think I do…” said a puzzled Naruto.

“Get it.”

Naruto walked over on all fours to his pack that was resting on the ground about four feet away. Naruto reached to take the zipper but he noticed his paws couldn’t grab it. “Father! HOW DO I OPEN IT?”

The Kyuubi began to maniacally laugh. “Figure it out kit! I won’t tell you another thing until you have a mirror.”

With several curses Naruto continued to struggle with the zipper. “AH SCREW IT! YOU OWE ME A NEW BAG!” and with that used his claws to rip open the bag.

“You know you could have just stuck your claw through the loop on the zipper pull…”

“Shut up!” said an angered Naruto.

“Okay if you don’t want to know your other forms…”said in a sly voice.

“Sorry” he said between gritted teeth.

Naruto proceeded to take a mirror from a shaving kit the “Super pervert” got him on his fifteenth birthday saying he would need it soon. He looked down into it and saw a lone fox staring back at him.

“Great…just what I always wanted…to be a ‘cute’ little fox…what’s next a pet shop?” Naruto stated sardonically.

“Unlike dogs…we don’t demean ourselves by allowing our kin to be property of humans…” the great one said sourly. “You might one day find that being “cute” can be helpful…”

“Wha-?”

“When you hear the vixen’s wail you’ll understand…but as I said we shall talk about mates later. Now I am going to explain your powers so no interruptions.”

Naruto sighed with relief he didn’t feel like talking about relationships or the birds and the bees with his “father” who lived in his head…that would become…awkward. Instead he settled to remain quiet and hear what his father had to say. He nodded his head and the voice began to talk again.

“I have pretty much covered the demon form. I might have left out that the more tails you get the bigger this form gets so after you get a tail make sure you’re outside before using this form to see how tall you got.” He paused here clearly trying to think of anything else important. “Alright now you next form is your true form. It is where your chakra feels most natural. To access it all you have to do is let your chakra do its own thing. Since right now for our little joke I am controlling your chakra flow I will do it for you. You should feel the difference.” After saying this, Naruto felt as if his body had been pulled in all directions and suddenly it was released. He looked into the mirror and at first glance it looked as if he had changed back to normal. But upon closer inspection he noticed his eyes were slit like all foxes but they were still his normal blue color. Then he felt something odd hit his shoulder. He turned and looked and he still had three long burnt-orange and golden tails sticking out from under his clothes. He almost screamed but remembered the Kyuubi’s warning and kept his mouth shut. Returning to his mirror he noticed with a gasp he no longer had normal ears…instead he had the ears of a fox on the top of his head. They were orange and gold also. After his inspection his father continued.

“Now that you’re done fawning over yourself I will explain everything about this body.” He smiled at the unflattering thoughts of Naruto but he didn’t mention it. “In this body your eye sight is much better than it was, as well as your hearing, speed and strength.” The fox laughed at Naruto as he flexed his muscles at hearing the word strength.

“Now I am guessing you’re wondering what you last form is?”

Naruto nodded. “Ah this will lighten your spirits. The last form is your weak human form.” Naruto’s face light up at hearing he was still able to blend in with his friends. “You’ll probably be the only kitsune who does this by choice…normally it is done to blend it with humans for reconnaissance or as punishment for minor crimes…” the voice said thoughtfully. “Anyway, you just mask your chakra by reducing the flow until it is near it bear minimum flow… try it now.”

Naruto complied and began slowly decreasing his chakra flow as the Sannin had taught him to evade the Akatsuki. He noticed his vision and hearing become weaker. Soon he himself began to feel weak and tired. He looked into the mirror and saw his eyes and ears had changed back to how he remembered them. He quickly turned and looked at his backside and sighed seeing he no longer had tails sticking out his pants. Returning to the mirror he noticed slight changes though. His jaw was more pronounced and he had lost the boyish look and had been replaced with that of a handsome man. He bared a striking resemblance to a certain previous Hokage…but he let that slide. His shirt felt tight has he noticed he was now more toned then he remembered.

“I see you had noticed the improvements. Yes this form is weaker than your other two but it is still two times stronger than you old form, including your senses, since now you have demon and human blood running through you veins.” The demon chuckled. “Your sensei will probably take credit…silly human. But his books were good…”

Naruto couldn’t hold his tongue any longer. “What? YOU read the pervert’s books?”

“I said we kitsune would take human form for… reconnaissance. Why else do you think I learned it…do you think there is a book store in the demon realm?” he acted offended.

Naruto looked disgusted. ‘Great I finally have a father and he is a pervert like Ero-Sennin and Kakashi!’ “Alright pervert Fox…I don’t need to know. But is there anything else I need to know about this body?”

“No but now you get all that comes with being my heir. Including jutsus…” he was rudely cut off

‘Awesome! YEAH! TEACH ME! TEACH ME! TEACH ME! TEACH ME!’ Naruto screamed in his head.

“SHUT UP! Kit, I will teach you on the way back to that rat hole.”

Naruto paled, “DON’T EVER INSULT KONOHA!”

“Whatever! As I was saying you will learn how to manipulate fire, many useful genjutsus and countless ninjutsu during training with me while you sleep.”

Naruto was still angry with him for insulting Konoha but that was pushed away when he found out he was going to learn new skills. He wore a big smile. Then the fox decided to get ruse from Naruto. “Sorry, But you’ll have to dream of the white eyed-female after training.”

Naruto scowled and yelled, “HEY! WATCH IT!”

Upon seeing how easily Naruto switched faces the Kyuubi laughed again, something he had never done often before but has been doing it a lot lately.

“Ah...that’s right!” said the demon after having an idea. Soon a large, green scroll appeared before Naruto. “As part of my kin you are already part of the summoning. If you need help, do the same things as the frog summon but you don’t need a blood sacrifice for foxes and you think ‘fox’ and one will appear. It you want a frog you do everything you used to do including the blood sacrifice and think ‘frog’ got it?” asked the kyuubi.

“Yeah I got it but if I am already in the summons why did you bring the scroll here?” asked Naruto.

“See! You aren’t too stupid. I was the first and last head of the Vulpine clan. As such I was in charge of what alliances we made. Since I felt humans were unworthy of summoning our greatness I never allowed anyone to sign the summoning scroll. But since you are my heir you now have that responsibility.”

Naruto was stunned, “So I am kind of like Gamabunta?”

“Well right now the summons are really screwed up. Since there isn’t a nine tailed fox any more there isn’t a boss. But since you’re the heir, you technically are the boss…but you still only have three tails…so the summoner will spend more chakra to get you, a three tails, than a eight tails or a different three tails…so the summoner would have no reason to send for you until you get stronger. Still I guess by definition you are the boss but my old aide will be doing your job because no one will listen to you until you are at six tails…” said his father.

“Um…” Naruto stood there with a blank look.

“Well let me put it is this way, in our clan you have the rank of hokage but you are as skilled and are looked at as a genin. So they will respect anyone you let sign that and any minor decisions but the main inner workings are handled by an old friend of mine. You still have to earn their respect.”

“It is like how it is in the village, but I already have the position but I need to be strong to get their support.” Naruto smiled

“Bingo! Now guard that scroll with your life and only let a FEW people you trust sign it. All RIGHT?” asked in a grave tone

“Yeah sure!” smiled Naruto. “Hey how does summoning work anyway?” he asked.

“Err… quantum physics!”

“Wha?”

“Never mind. Any more questions?

“Nope.”

“Good! Now let’s talk about your clothes…”

End flashback- The road to east gate of Konoha

Kyuubi smiled at his son who walked beside his sensei. He had grown so much ever since that day and he hated to admit it but he was proud. Right now the kit and the Sannin were arguing over Naruto’s recent choices.

East gate-

There stood Tsunade along with many other ninjas awaiting Naruto’s return. Among these ninja were Sakura, Kiba with Akamaru, Kakashi, Shino, Lee, Tenten, Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, and Hinata. Ino and Sakura were having a heated debate of what Naruto would want to do. While Chouji, Lee, and Ten-ten were talking about where Neji was, Shino, Kiba and Akamaru were just standing in silence while Kakashi was reading his orange book. Shikamaru stared up at the clouds, obviously bored, and Hinata stood behind Tsunade with her finger up to her mouth showing she was nervous.

As the sun rose the group’s eyes caught on two specks that were slowly growing in the foreground. The first to come into view was Jiraiya. He looked his normal jolly self. But the crowd gasped, that would mean the figure next to him had to be Naruto…and the blob was the same height as the legendary Ninja. Soon the sun cast its magic and the figure came into view. He was tall with blonde hair just as they remembered. He still had the blue eyes but his face had more regal look to it. His clothes had changed as well. His fore-head protector was still proudly in place upon his forehead. Instead of the orange and black/blue jump suit he now wore a black shirt that was edged with orange trim and black pants, but on the bottom of the legs the were red flames licking the way up toward his knee. On his right breast was patch. As he came closer it became clear what was on it. It was a red circle with a nine-tailed fox leaping out of it.

“I-i-is that Naruto?” asked Sakura in an awed voice.

Hinata smiled, ‘Everyone is looking at you Naruto…the way I have seen you for years.’ “I b-believe so…” mumbled Hinata.

“What has he done to my brother?” asked Tsunade

At that moment the person waved and screamed, “HEY GRANNY! HEY EVERYONE!”

“HIS FLAME OF YOUTH STILL BURNS BRIGHTLY!” Yelled Lee as he sped off to greet the friend he had not seen for three years. “LEE GET BACK HERE!” yell Sakura but she was too late. Lee ran up to Naruto and gave him a bear hug, which subsequently made them both fall to the ground.

“Oh for the kami’s sake!” said an annoyed pink haired girl. Soon the whole group went to meet their long gone friend.

Naruto was lying on the ground with a VERY heavy Lee on top of him squeezing him like there was no tomorrow. “Good to see you too Lee and it seems you a supporter of the man hug eh?”

“Ah, I see you are good at the verbal jousting! Your flame of youth has increased!” Lee quoted with sparkles in his eyes. They both stood and the group crowded around them. It had been a long time since he had seen them. His eye laid upon Lee first because it was kind of hard to ignore someone who just hugged you. He was taller than before that and a small mustache was the only difference with him. He still had the same green jumpsuit, bowl hair cut and bushy eyebrows. If it wasn’t for the mustache and th age difference he looked just like Gai. He gave Lee a smile and said, “I see your “flame of youth” bestowed a mustache to you! Other than that you’re the same, my friend!”

“YES! I HAVE BEEN VERY BLESSED” shouted Lee “THANK YOU GAI-SENSEI!”

Suddenly a loud pop was heard and out of nowhere Gai appeared. “LEE!” he said in a deep emotional voice. “Gai-sensei!” Lee shouted. They ran to each other and gave each other a hug. Afterward Gai stood up and said, “You’re welcome Lee” and then he gave him a “nice guy” pose. And he was gone just as fast.

“Wha-?” asked Naruto

The whole group shook their collective head and they all said, including Shino, “Don’t ask.”

“Oh…” mumbled Naruto. Soon his eyes began to move around the group. Sakura stood wearing the normal gear of a konoha nurse. She had let her hair grow long once again and it was still pink. She had matured rather nicely as well. She wore a smile but her eyes seemed tired.

“Hey Sakura-chan. How are you?”

She looked at him and said in a tired voice, “Hi Naruto! Welcome Home. Sorry but I just got back from a long shift in the hospital so you can tell me about your adventures tomorrow. Okay?”

“Yeah, you go get some rest!” said Naruto with concern. She smiled with gratitude and bid everyone goodbye and left toward the village.

Next person to step forward was Kiba. Kiba had gotten taller and wore the normal gear of a ninja now, he had lost his old jacket and let his he grow a bit, but Akamaru was another story: he had grown three times his size. “Hey baka! What took you so long?”

“Yeah hello to you too asshole…” Naruto said in a low voice.

Kiba held out his hand for a handshake and Naruto smiled and took it, “I guess I can forgive you…” finished Naruto.

Akamaru began to growl the minute they had gotten close enough for the dog to smell Naruto’s scent. “Huh? What do you mean he smells different?” asked Kiba surprised at the way the dog was acting. The dog yelped at bit. “What do you mean he smells like a fox?”

All eyes turned to Naruto who began madly to find a way to around this with out his secret being reveled to everyone. ‘If they knew they would hate me.’ “Oh that’s nothing it just a side effect of a Jutsu I learned.” He said defensively

The younger ninja accepted the answer but Tsunade, Kakashi and Jiraiya all gave him a skeptical look.

Ten-ten and Ino both walked up to him and gave him a present. Ten-ten looked the same but older while Ino had longer hair now about mid-back in length. He took the box and smiled. “For me?” he asked in awed and emotional voice.

“Of course it’s a welcome home gift.” said Ino. “Yeah me, Ino and Neji pitched in for it.” added Ten-ten.

“Speaking of Neji, where is he?” asked Naruto curiously.

“That’s what I want to know!” asked Ten-ten rather angrily. Seeing Naruto take a step back from the angry kunoichi she regained her composer. “Sorry about that. Well are you going to open your present?”

Naruto blushed and opened the box. Within it was a box of instant ramen and decorative Kunai. Naruto smiled a wide grin. “Thanks this is the best gift I ever got!...Actually this is the ONLY gift I ever got. Thank you!”

The rest of the group seemed saddened. ‘That was his first gift ever!’ Thought most people in the group

The girls blushed a bit and said in unison, “Your welcome!”

“Welcome home Naruto…you are so troublesome…” murmured Shikamaru. Nothing was very much different about the boring boy. “I’ll take that as a compliment…” replied Naruto.

The sound of loudly crunching potato chips alerted Naruto that chouji was near by. The boy waddled up to him. The boy had gotten…bigger…much bigger. He looked just like his father but with a lot more red. He even wore a breast plate with the kanji “eat” on it. “Hello Naruto! We must eat ramen later!”

This brought a spark of enthusiasm back to kitsune. “YEAH! THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!” he shouted like he was eight again. Everyone sighed except for Chouji. “That’s naruto for you…three years and with the mention of ramen he reverts back to a child” Tsunade murmured and everyone left in the crowd nodded their head.

There was a pause and Naruto began to look for the person he had come back to Konoha to see. He didn’t see her anywhere. “Hey have any of you seen Hinata-chan?” asked a confused Naruto. ‘-CHAN?’ thought Ino who smirked evilly.

‘Did he just call Hinata “Hinata-chan”? No he wouldn’t…but he did…dose that mean he finally noticed her?” Tsunade began to wonder.

“H-h-hello N-naruto-kun.” Said a very timid voice he would recognized anywhere. From behind Tsunade stepped a very well built girl with mid-back length dark purple-ish hair. Her eyes were light lavender as always and her face had an even gentler look to it. She wore a light purple jacket with lilies decorating it and black pants. Upon the right hand corner was the Hyuuga flame, her clan’s symbol. Her face was red with a furious blush.

Naruto stared for a moment taking in the girl who looked better than his dream. He quickly caught himself before anyone noticed. Too late he forgot kyuubi lived in his mind. “I win. I told you, you’re smitten with her…” laughed the demon.

‘Shut up!’ said an embarrassed blonde. “It’s good to see you again, Hinata-chan” he finally said warmly.

‘He asked for…me! Then he…he called me –chan. Now he said, he was happy to see ME again…this is too much…’ she though while the faint feeling she hadn’t had in three years came back. “A-A-Ariga-to” she managed to get out before she fainted before being caught by Kiba and Shikamaru.

“Looks like for I’ll be doing this for the first time in three years…” muttered Kiba.

“He is so troublesome” replied Shikamaru. “We’ll be taking her home now!” the ysaid loudly before they left with the unconscious girl on Akamaru.

Naruto stared blankly at the spot where the girl had fainted… ‘What did I do wrong?’ he thought to himself. “Nothing kit, she just is a shy one that’s all…” ‘Hope she doesn’t die when he tells her how he feels…’

Shino then broke him out of his trance by walking up to him. Shino stood a little taller than before and was wearing a black sweater instead of his old grey one. He had his dad’s shades on and a brown hooded jacket. “Hello Shino. You look well.” stated Naruto.

“So are you naruto.” the normally silent ninja murmured.

They both nodded their heads to each other before Tsunade broke the silence.

“Alright squirt Kakashi and I wanted to talk to you in my office for debriefing…you too Jiraiya” she said the last part sternly. This was due to the fact at that moment Jiraiya was slinking away to probably peep into the hot springs.

“Can’t I get some ramen first?” whined naruto.

“Can’t I go stare…er…I mean conduct research first?”

“No.” simply stated Kakashi.

Both Teacher and student hung their heads.

Hokage office

Naruto sat in the office waiting for Kakashi, Jiraiya and Tsunade to show up. Finally the door opened and in they walked minus Kakashi. Tsunade walked up to Naruto and gave him a stern stare.

Naruto began to feel nervous and began to squirm in his chair under the gaze. He couldn’t take it anymore. “What’s wrong granny?” he asked tensely.

“What’s wrong! This!” at this point she bent down and gave him a hug. “You didn’t say hello! And I was so worried.”

Naruto gives a nervous laugh, “Sorry…”

“You better be!” she gives him a smirk.

Suddenly a pop was heard, “Yo!” said Kakashi with a little wave.

“Good as we are all here.” Tsunade said in her “I am hokage: fear me voice”.

“Naruto Uzumaki I hereby-“ she rudely cut off at this point by a cough from Naruto.

“Sorry but I am no longer Naruto Uzumaki I now go by my father’s name…” he began to say.

‘He found out his father is the Yondaime…this could be bad…” thought all the Ninja in the room.

“…Naruto Uzumaki of the Vulpine.” finished Naruto with pride.

All the Ninja face vaulted and screamed, “WHAT!”

“My father said I am allowed to keep the name the village gave me but I had to add the clan name too, so that was the best I could do…” he laughed sheepishly.

“Naruto who is your father?” asked a cautious Kakashi.

“I would rather not say…” murmured naruto.

“I as hokage order you to tell me!” said an angered Tsunade. ‘Who the hell had the gall to claim the Yondaime’s son theirs?’ she thought.

“I would feel more comfortable with a sound barrier and a promise that what I tell you shall not leave this room.” He stated seriously.

Neither Tsunade nor Kakashi had seen him act this serious before while the other ninja had only seen him act like this recently but none the less, it had an impact on all three of them.

Kakashi went to work on the sound nullification of the room as Tsunade cleared her voice. “Alright what is discussed from now on is an S-class ranked village secret, understood?” said Tsunade with an air of authority. The others nodded their head. “Alright Naruto, what’s going on and it better be important for me to do all of this!”

Naruto smiled, “My Father is the Kyuubi! I am his son and hier!”

“Very good my son, don’t be ashamed of your proud heritage!” ‘Sorry pops if the village finds out you and I are dead. These three will be the only one to know for now…’ “Whatever at least you say my name with pride…”

All the ninja paled and stuttered. “W-wh-what!” screamed out Tsunade.

“The kyuubi offered to make me his son and I accepted! Why else do you think I wear the symbol for the Nine-tailed fox on my chest?” Naruto stated simply.

“Jiraiya! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU LET HIM DO!” screamed the hokage as she started to strangle the man.

“I- Ack -Didn’t- ug- know!” stated the man being strangled.

“Surely the Demon wouldn’t accept a human into his clan” stated Kakashi oblivious to the two fighting former teammates.

“That’s right” sighed a relived Tsunade. While Jiraiya just gasped for breath on the floor. She then turned to Naruto, “Never fool around like that” and she began to walk toward him with an evil glint in her eyes.

Naruto put up his hands in a defensive position. “I-I-I am not joking! Watch!” Naruto proceeded to allow his chakra to flow at it’s own pace. The other the ninja stared as the boy now a man who they all cared about suddenly got silted eyes. Then his ears disappeared and new fox ones appeared on the top of his head. The icing on the cake was when three tails sprouted and began to wave behind the Kitsune.

“Surprise?” asked Naruto in childish voice.

All three promptly fainted.

The end for now….yes evil cliffhanger of sorts….Mwhahahaha!

Hey

I am glad you have joining us for another installment of this critically semi-acclaimed piece of junk! YAY! I really enjoyed writing this and hopefully this holds up to the standard you were holding…but I did write this in a day so I am not sure how it turned out…oh well I think it is pretty good. Well depending on my schedule the next one will be out much later than this one…please be patient. Read and Review: Please be kind.

Joe

Note on the summoning: They way Naruto summons foxes is kind of like a telephone. The other fox with get the messeage and show up and will obey Naruto becasue he is the heir. Also he can't summon himself. But if someone signs the scroll they are ASKING for help and the fox doesn't have to listen.

Ich werde Sie später sehen!

Just before I was going to post this chapter, I found out that Steve Irwin had died so in the memory of a great conversationalist and a good man who taught the world about animals I dedicate this chapter to him. I know it isn’t much but it is the least I can do.