章 12: A Bijuu
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option."
Naruto
He stood in the Hokage office, and his eyes were on the Raikage and his group. His eyes saw the large man looking at him with a stunned expression, almost as if he had seen him before; Naruto figured that must have been his father, his resemblances were there, even a blind man could see who his father was.
But then his eyes saw the guy wearing weird dark glasses.
"Naruto, be careful, the one with multiple red swords tightened behind his back has Gyuki, the eight tails octopus", Kurama warned him.
Naruto mentally nodded but said nothing. He wondered why the Hokage had allowed a Jinchuuriki of another country to walk inside the village. Still, knowing the Sannin standing behind them was a Fuinjtsu master, he knew The Sannin might be able to keep him in check if he tried to use Hachibi.
Naruto could feel the sadness coming from The Sannin, same from a hidden ANBU to his right, and he figured he must be the Dog ANBU. Still, his senses detected that Itachi and Shisui were inside the room as well, and both of them had activated their Sharingans.
Naruto hoped this wouldn't turn into an all-out war, but he would need to reveal his Sharingan if it did.
Raikage regained his composure, he didn't need to ask who the father was, but despite seeing his hair colour and blue eyes, Ay could see 'The Red Death' glaring at him; his face belonged to Kushina, there was no doubt whatsoever.
'Damn me and my stupid head', Raikage murmured under his breath and remembered the debt he had with both Minato and Kushina.
"Why didn't you finish me?! You beat my speed. So Why?" Ay screamed at the yellow flash, his body barely standing, his sleeve was cut in several places, a deep cut across his shoulder but wasn't a lethal one.
Ay hated this feeling; he hated to be seen as weak; if he died here, at least he would die against a worthy opponent.
"I'm not sure why, but even if I kill you, your brother will never stop; that will only fuel him."
Ay stood quiet and let the words roam around his head; when he had told Bee about it, he first got a good punch in the face for worrying him and a second punch for telling The Yellow Flash to take his life.
Ay knew Bee was probably thinking the same thing.
Bee was about to greet the little Minato when...
"Bee, the kid he is the one ... he's Kyuubi's Jinchuuriki", His friend suddenly said.
Bee noticed a sudden stop and wondered if Gyuki wanted to say something else but didn't ask.
"For real? Damn, I never saw Minato sealing Kyuubi inside his own son, but that's still too much like him," Bee replied, mentally smiling, remembering The Yellow Flash.
"Who's the little fella?" Bee asked, smiling, taking a step closer and pulling out his hand for Naruto to shake.
This caused every Konoha Shinobi in the room to tense, but Naruto could feel no malice or negative emotions whatsoever; on the contrary, he looked and felt happy to see him, which confused Naruto.
"My name is Naruto; Mister Eight", Naruto whispered the last part only for Bee to hear, who laughed loudly.
"I lllikke you Kidddd" Bee started rapping, bringing his fist towards Naruto, who bumped his fist in return.
Suddenly they were both in a much different place, and Naruto saw himself standing at the top of ... Kurama.
"Eeeehhh" Naruto screamed, seeing Kurama, he was about to ask what was happening when an octopus with eight tails and horns at the side of his head, almost like a bull, suddenly came out of a shadow; Naruto noticed there were seven other places, but they were covered in shadows, but he noticed each place had a number in the floor.
From one to nine, he was in front of number nine, and the centre of the room was a symbol he had never seen before, yet he felt like he had seen it before.
Naruto scratched his head, but no idea was showing up in his head; ignoring his gut feeling, he turned to look at Gyuki.
"You must be Gyuki", Naruto exclaimed, not believing that he was seeing another Bijuu; he knew there were eight others but still seeing one was pretty astonishing. The guy with weird Black glasses was standing on top of him.
"Indeed I am young ... young Kid", Gyuki replied kindly, much to his surprise, but Naruto wondered why he stopped mid-sentence...
"You're standing at the top of Kurama; that means you go well with each other", Gyuki continued earning a huff from the demon fox.
"My naaaame issss Killer Beeeee, me and Hachibi..." "Stop it, Bee nobody cares", Gyuki immediately interjected; Naruto chuckled at their interaction.
He had thought that Bijuu were supposed to be big and scary, but so far, this one was kind.
"Is good to meet you Gyuki and you... Killer Bee was it?" Naruto questions, not understanding what the guy was saying.
Bee was about to speak again when Gyuki said. "His name is Killer Bee, and don't listen to him, he still a child and hasn't learned how to talk yet," Gyuki said, earning a 'Hey' from Bee who was insulted that his friend wasn't backing up his fantastic singing voice.
Naruto laughed. "Now, not that I don't enjoy having a conversation with you two but weren't we talking about whenever or not we will start a War," Naruto said, looking at them curiously.
"You don't need to worry, mister nine. I will talk with my brother; he won't dare to start any War", Bee claimed and didn't try rapping like usual, something that Gyuki found surprising.
Naruto raised his eyebrows in confusion, while he was happy to hear that his Uchiha Family wouldn't have to go to war and risk their lives, which brought a question to his mind.
"Why?"
Bee grinned and crossed his legs. "Let's just say it is a debt my brother and I have to The Yellow Flash and The Red Death."
Naruto understood that he meant his father and mother but didn't say aloud; despite promising not to start a war, he still didn't exactly know Killer Bee. Therefore he just nodded his head in appreciation.
"I appreciate it," Naruto said; while this was happening, both Gyuki and Kurama were having a conversation that neither Naruto nor Bee heard.
"The Kid? I saw his palms! He's the One?" Gyuki asked, still wanting to be 100% sure that he wasn't dreaming.
"Indeed he is; I have seen him being able to talk with Ashura and Indra, He has already awakened the Rinnegan, but he's not strong enough to hold it for long. I'm sure he will be able to use Rinnegan the moment he awakens his Mangekyo Sharingan," Kurama replied with a hint of pride in his voice.
Gyuki frowned; while he hadn't spent time with the Uchiha clan, even he knew what needed to happen for Naruto to awaken it.
Kurama knew it as well, but with what Itachi said when Naruto was sleeping and not mentioning subtle hints here and there, the Uchiha clan situation was not going well.
But he wasn't sure what to do, he could tell Naruto, but that wouldn't help much, Naruto wasn't strong enough yet to do anything, and even if Naruto tried to use his power, that only would cause more chaos, Kurama wasn't sure what the future held, but he hoped for the best.
"You know how strong he can get?" Gyuki asked.
"I know Gyuki, and Naruto has my full support; he needs my help", Kurama stated.
Naruto suddenly returned to the Hokage tower and saw many were looking at them strangely; their fists were still connected; Moving his hand away.
The Raikage looked at his brother with a knowing look, he had seen him do the same with Yugito, and Konoha had only one Bijuu.
"You're the one who killed my Shinobi," Raikage asked but more like a statement. Naruto turned to look at the Raikage, and to his surprise, the Raikage held no malice; he wondered what was up with people of a foreign Village being more friendly towards him than most people of his village.
Naruto just nodded his head, and Raikage left out a huge breath.
"Inoichi Yamanaka had scanned naruto; your Shinobi was found holding Hinata Hyuga in a bag over his shoulder", The Third stated with a much more dangerous tone, his tone slightly higher, his pipe no longer on his mouth.
While Inoichi didn't actually scan Naruto, the Raikage didn't need to know that part; the third wanted to show Naruto that he trusted his words and forcing him to have his brain checked by Inoichi wouldn't help with that.
Raikage said nothing but turned at The Hokage, and he took his seat.
The Hokage gestures for Naruto to leave, the blonde left much to the disappointment of Bee.
Training Yard
After leaving the Hokage tower, he reached the training yard, and Naruto created 1000 clones all around him.
"Now, all of you will beat me up until I can't move", Naruto shouted with a fist up in the air.
"Yes, Sir", the clones shouted back with fists in the air.
Several clones rushed at him, Naruto activated his Sharingan and jumped away, his moon started shining in dark colour.
Immediately he did several hand seals that were nearly impossible to trace, and he intertwined his fingers as he took a deep breath, drawing upon the Chakra within his chest.
"Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!" he called out as he then unleashed a torrent of flame from his mouth.
The blast of flame, so hot it was red in colour, had a massive range and covered the entire training yard. The sea of flame towered everything; the very heat turned the ground into hot melted rock. The same air sizzled from the heat as the Clones began a counter-attack.
Several clones jumped forward and synchronised their Chakra.
"Suiton: Suijinheki (Water Release: Water Wall)!"
In response to Naruto's sea of flame, a massive amount of water was expelled from the clones to meet his attack. Super-heated flames met cold water, and the effect was explosive! The temperature change caused the air to suddenly expand and contract and unleash a shock wave that threw the nearby clones off their feet before a massive screen of steam obscured their view. Then Naruto himself rushed through the mist and was completely unaffected by the sheer heat, and he got right into the sea of clones.
Startled, many of the clones rushed to attack him from all sides. His Sharingan seemed to glow as his eyes darted back and forth and read their movements. Predicting their entire method of attack, he sidestepped the slash from a clone with ease, grasped his wrist and kicked upward to break his elbow and force him to drop the sword he was carrying. He grabbed the sword before it hit the ground and spun and slashed the blade into the shoulder of another clone that tried to stab him from behind with a kunai, and then Naruto kicked him away.
"Who wants to Dance."
Several clones rushed forward and tossed several shurikens at the Uchiha, who effortlessly blocked with his stolen sword and ran at them before they could counter-attack and beheaded them with a single slash of his stolen blade. Their bodies puffed immediately.
Like a demented dance, Naruto cut a swath of death and destruction through the Clone Army without even taking a single scratch. Like a twisted dance, the Uchiha spun, dodged and sidestepped attacks while deftly landing devastating blows. Another clone, in desperation, then tossed a kunai with an explosive tag in it, and Naruto then caught the kunai in mid-air with a finger and slapped the paper bomb onto an unfortunate clone and kicked him into the crowd. He desperately tried to take it off, but the bomb exploded, destroying several clones while he jumped into the smoke and destroyed several others.
Another clone jumped at him when Naruto jumped high in the air, his hand signs, his Sharingan shining.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu" a massive ball of fire collided with the ground causing a huge explosion that threw the clones everywhere; the shockwave ripped apart trees. Naruto calculated that less than half were left.
He landed on the ground and waited as the clones rushed towards him.
Later
The training ground was desolated to wasteland, smoke coming out of several places around the battlefield, rocks and earth itself was red and glowing in several areas.
Naruto was lying on the ground, his limbs spread, his chest rising up and down; after defeating his clones, he created 1000 more clones and used only cold weapons, no jutsu and no Sharingan.
Kurama was refuelling him with Chakra since Naruto had decided to train harsher than ever before.
"Kurama, that guy Bee, he can use Hachibi's chakra to the fullest right?" Naruto asked thoughtfully, and he noticed the Chakra of Bee.
Despite being a friend with Kurama from the very beginning, Gyuki's whole Chakra was freely moving around Bee's chakra network.
"Indeed he can, I haven't seen him, but if I had to guess, he might be able to control all tails worth of Chakra and even transform into Gyuki", Kurama replied, thinking that it might be about time to start training Naruto in how to use his Chakra.
Naruto figured that he might need to use Kurama's Chakra, of course only with his permission.
"Kurama, would you allow me to train in controlling your chakra" Naruto requested.
"You can brat, but we will start with only one tail, having too many tails immediately might be an overdrive even for the likes of you", Kurama responded, not mentioning that Naruto needed to get rid of his Dark Side to fully be able to use his Chakra and get access to KCM (Kurama Chakra Mode).
Naruto mentally thanked his furball friend for allowing him.
"I can still hear your thoughts Brat, Who Are You Calling a Furball."
After One Month
Naruto was looking outside the window; it had been three weeks since The Kumo team had left.
Itachi told him that Raikage admitted the order and took full responsibility for it; in return, Hokage wouldn't spread the word, and Kumo wouldn't be shamed in the process.
Raikage signed an agreement to be in neutral friendship, and it meant they weren't enemies but neither allies.
Much to his surprise, Raikage had asked about Naruto and if it would be alright to develop their friendship in the near future.
Sadly in that part, Hiruzen had ordered all his ANBU except Shikaku to leave; whatever offer Raikage suggested, no one knew. Naruto didn't ask them.
While he stayed in the village, Bee would spend every day with the little blonde, much to his happiness.
I have another friend.
Naruto thought happy, much to young Uzumaki's surprise, Bee told him about a girl named Yugito.
Apparently, she was the Jinchuuriki of Two Tails Cat; when Bee mentioned her, Kurama had started grumbling.
'Naruto was walking around the Konoha streets with Bee, the blonde, of course, could feel at least 7 ANBU following them from the shadows, and he could tell one of them was Shisui, who was staying in guard all the time, especially when Bee sometimes would slap his back in a friendly matter.
"So, Naruto, do you know any place worth visiting?" Bee asked with a carefree tone. Usually, he would try rapping, but Naruto was only a kid and probably wouldn't understand half of his words.
Bee couldn't help but notice the glares coming from the civilians; some were glaring at him, most probably they had heard about what Kumo tried to do to the Hyuga Heiress, but much to his surprise, almost everyone was glaring at the little ball of sunshine walking beside him.
Bee felt terrible for him; it didn't take long to realise that Naruto wasn't living with anyone. And if people glared at him every single day like this, he wondered how this would affect him, or maybe it has already affected him.
"Ichiraku Ramen is a good restaurant; they make the best ramen in the world", Naruto stated.
"Then let's go, little blonde, lead the way", Bee shouted with his fist up in the air.
After eating, Naruto figured Bee might like the shops around the village, perhaps buy a souvenir or something, or purchase extra weird glasses.
Both Naruto and Bee spent the entire day together; Naruto was busy telling him about his life; by half of the day, Bee started teaching him the art of rapping.
At first, Naruto was sceptical but decided to listen to him.
At the end of the day, Naruto could sing something; Bee called it progress and promised to teach more in the future.
"Tell me, young Sunshine, have you thought to start training in controlling Kyuubi's chakra?" Bee asked with a low tone.
"Not yet, Kurama says I will start once I'm ready, according to him", Naruto replied.
"In that case, let me give you a few tips. First, the hardest tail to control will always be the first, in your case, the fourth and the ninth tail. Once you control the first tail, you can easily go up to three tails, but four tails are where it gets tricky; going from three to four tails is much harder than going from zero to three. Second advice, since Kurama is your friend, will make it a bit easier not to go berserk, but don't think that won't happen, so don't go overboard. Third, only try in a secured environment. Fourth, think of good memories whenever you try to use an extra tail," Bee finished, and they bumped their fists.
"Thank You, Bee-Sensei," Naruto said smiling.
Naruto remembered the day with a smile, and Bee promised to meet again as soon as possible; Raikage had taken a week to make a deal with the Hokage, whatever that meant.
The blonde just hopped that The Hokage wouldn't force him into anything. Now soon, the Academy would start, Naruto wasn't that much looking forward to it, but he figured he could make new friends.
To save Hinata Hyuga, her mother and father visited his home one day; they were both surprised to see an actual clear home with nothing on the carpet or just in a mess.
Both had personally thanked him and told him that Hyuga Clan would always be there for him if he ever needed anything.
Naruto said that it had been nothing and he just protected someone when they needed help; Hiashi also told him that Hinata would be in the same year as him in the Academy.
Naruto just nodded his head at that, and they soon left home.
Just like that, a year passed away, Naruto slowly reached seven years old and one year spent in the Academy.
After One Year
A seven-year-old Naruto was making his way to the Academy; he looked forward to spending time with the brains of the school, Shikamaru.
With a smile on his face, he turned around and saw trees with red leaves in the Uchiha compound; the leaves were falling in the ground, he couldn't help but feel dread suddenly. Almost as if something will soon happen, deciding to ignore it, he kept walking towards the Academy.
From a tree, one Uchiha Shisui looked down at his little brother with concern.
"This is why I'm doing this"
A Reincarnation Arc is Completed
Next is 'Pain and Lose' Arc
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