Chapter One
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It was a dull cloudy day in the Hidden Leaf Village, something that seemed to put a hamper on the moods of the villagers living there. Within the newly reconstructed Hokage Mansion 15 year old Namikaze Naruto could be seen sitting over a pile of scrolls within the mansions library. It had only been a few months since the deaths of Pain, Madara and Danzo. Tsunade had since awakened and reclaimed her proper place as Hokage and was currently at the Tower with Shizune.
In that time Naruto had begun to train himself into the ground first mastering the Sage Arts and taijutsu style with the help of the elder toad sages. Ninjutsu and Kenjutsu had been next on the list, the ninjutsu having been left to him by Jiraiya while the toads had also taught him kenjutsu. With all that training under his belt, due mostly to large quantities of Kage Bunshin, he finally felt that he was at the level Jiraiya had been on at his age. Unknown to him the toads and Tsunade had opted not to tell him he was actually stronger than Jiraiya was at the time as it gave him something to work toward.
At the moment however the blonde was sitting hunched over the ground carefully drawing characters onto it. Contrary to popular belief he had learned plenty during his time away training with Jiraiya. However they had actually spent majority of the time on fuuinjutsu something Naruto found had fascinated him barely a week into their training. Now the blonde was taking all that training and applying it to the one thing he'd wanted since he was twelve completely blocking off the Kyuubi's chakra.
This however was easier said than done. What he was actually doing was creating yet another seal that would take the foxes chakra that was constantly leaking into him and sealing it away while purifying it for his usage. In this instance the seal would act much like the diamond seal on Tsunade's forehead. Unlike Tsunade's seal however his would convert the chakra into regular human chakra instead of medical chakra. It was his theory that by stopping Kyuubi's chakra from interfering with his own then his chakra control would begin to improve by leaps and bounds.
To top it off he had also created a seal to completely separate his consciousness from Kyuubi's. After the fight with Pein he had realized just how close he had been to losing against the Kyuubi's bloodlust if not for his father's timely intervention. That however had been a one time thing and the last thing he wanted was the fox running around with control over his body, which led to creation of this new seal. What this seal did was create an invisible barrier between his mind and the Kyuubi's. Whenever Kyuubi tried to take over his consciousness the seal would react flinging the foxes mind back much like a trampoline flings people into the air.
Sighing the blonde ignored the sweat trailing off his face focused solely on finishing the seal in front of him. For over an hour he had been carefully drawing the characters needed along the floor so that he could finally apply the seals. Finally he got to the last one and slowly began drawing it putting the same amount of focus on this one if not more.
"Yo."
Jumping at least three feet in surprise the blonde had no idea he'd actually messed up on the last character, nor did he realize his chakra had spiked in just that instance.
"Damn it Kakashi don't do that." Snarled the blonde with a glare as he tried to catch his breath.
For but a second Kakashi froze as Naruto's form was replaced by another man's glaring just as heatedly. Then just as quickly as it came it was gone and Naruto was back in his place.
"Anyway what are you doing here?" questioned the teen calming himself and glancing at the man's feet silently telling him to get off his seal array.
"Actually Hokage-sama told me to come get you." Said Kakashi with an eyesmile.
"Why she knows what I'm doing and its importance." Said the blonde with a frown.
"Don't know. I just know she wanted to see every member of the 11. Also is that supposed to be glowing like that?" asked the masked jounin motioning to the floor.
Glancing down Naruto's eyes widened as he saw the seal glowing a bright green color.
"Shit."
The muttered word left the blonde just before the room was engulfed in light. As the light cleared Kakashi's eyes widened finding Naruto gone, the only sign of his presence being a scorch mark where he'd been sitting on a seal less floor.
"Tsunade-sama is not going to like this." Muttered the scare crow his life flashing before his eyes before visions of his death.
When Naruto awoke it was to the dreary sight of his mindscape. Standing to his feet the young teen found the water now only reached to the middle of his shins and not his knees. Regardless of this he easily made his way through the labyrinth that was his mind walking on top of the water.
"Oi you awake fox?" questioned the teen as he entered the chamber that held Kyuubi.
"This is quite the mess you've gotten us into brat." Spoke a voice from the darkness of the cage, a pair of slitted red eyes appearing in the darkness.
"What happened?" Questioned the teen.
Slowly a form stepped out of the darkness to the front of the cage. The figure turned out to be a man of about six feet in height. He had long red hair that fell down to his lower back, with a pair of red black tipped fox ears poking out of his hair. He wore a pair of black pants with a blood red haori with black flames covering his torso that was left bare. Glancing at his hands one could see he possessed claws instead of nails. Finally he had deep whisker like markings on his face shapped like Naruto's when he was enhanced by youki.
"Well as you can no doubt guess the seal activated when that sorry excuse for a teacher surprised you. However it didn't work exactly as you intended it to, this was due to a messed up character and an overload of chakra. While it did place a barrier to separate our minds that's all that really went as planned. As far as the chakra seal, that damned thing didn't work right at all. In fact the damn thing actually took two of my tails, specifically my wind and water tails." Said Kyuubi with a growl at the end.
Naruto held back a wince at that one. After he'd killed Madara, Kyuubi had lightened up majorly to the point he was willing to share information, including how Bijuu ranking worked. Apparently Kyuubi had mastered all nine abilities he could gain. Master of regular chakra, illusions, Fire, Earth, Water, Lightning, Wind, darkness or yang chakra, and finally light ying chakra.
When Naruto had completed the seal he'd given Kyuubi back his light, illusion, water, lightning, and earth tails. Naruto himself had gained Kyuubi's ability to manipulate raw chakra, cast illusions and awoken his affinity for water. Despite this however Kyuubi was still not above trying to hijack his body.
"Thankfully I can already feel my regeneration kicking in and my tails returning. On the other hand what the seal took was immediately absorbed into your body. My chakra however is composed of youki which that seal neglected to purify so I wouldn't be surprised if you turned into a hanyou." Said Kyuubi causing the boy to sigh.
Once upon a time Naruto would have had a fit if that had been said. However he had learned after fighting Madara, that he'd already been about one eight of a demon since the sealing, much like anyone living now with a kekki genkai. It was why he healed like he did since he actually regenerated if slowly and the reason he was still alive after losing all that blood for his four tail transformation, much less the eight tailed one he did when fighting Pein.
As such all being half demon told him now was that he was at the same level of those who first possessed bloodlines. Basically he may actually be in a position to start his own clan.
"Also all that chakra control training went out the window since you have more chakra than before. Other than that however the seal is in place stopping anymore of my chakra from bleeding into you. That however is minor considering the fact that your seal imploded and we've somehow been flung into a different dimension." Finished Kyuubi causing Naruto to blink and stare at him in shock for all of five seconds
"NANI."
Every person within the room winced at the dual screams from Tsunade and Hinata. Kakashi himself was on his toes as he eyed the murderous expression on the Godaime's face. At the moment Tsunade was using all of her restraint to not kill Kakashi at his idiotic move. She had told him quite clearly that Naruto was working on a new seal that he would be applying to the one containing the Kyuubi. She had gone further telling him explicitly not to disturb him until it was completed.
"Kakashi as of this moment you are herby stripped of your rank and demoted to chuunin. Furthermore you are banned from ever seeing, touching, or reading another Ichiha Ichiha product. Every single one you own will be confiscated and burned while you will be strictly on D-ranked missions for the next 18 months." Hissed out Tsunade causing the jounin to pale.
"Tsunade-sama cant we discuss "
"ENOUGH." Bellowed the woman slamming her fist into her desk and reducing it to sawdust.
"Because of your lack of focus Konoha may have just lost it's strongest shinobi and I may have to organize a funeral for my son, the one I just had approved as my successor not even two hours ago!"
As these words were spoken every pair of eyes in the room widened, except for Hinata's the girl having fainted after her shout.
"Not only that but I have to explain to the Kazekage why his best friend is gone, explain to both the Queen of Spring and priestess Shion why Naruto won't be around to care for his children. I have to explain to the villagers why their newfound hero, the son of their beloved Yondaime no less, is gone and may not be coming back. I'll also have to tell Hinata that this wasn't a dream, and that Naruto won't be here to propose to her tonight like he had planned to. Finally I'll have to explain this to his children. I'll have to look into their eyes while I explain to those little girls why they won't get to see their father anymore and in one why she'll never get to know him all because one of my jounin would rather have his nose buried in pornography than listen properly to his Hokage." Screamed Tsunade.
By now both Sakura and Shizune were holding onto Tsunade for dear life using the strength technique she'd taught them to keep her from killing the man. Kakashi himself was as pale as a ghost and everyone in the room was glaring at him in rage none more so than Hyuga Neji who'd become one of Naruto's best friends and was being restrained by both Gai and Lee while Shikamaru was holding him by shadow. At that moment everyone conscious in the room including Kakashi had the same thought; he'd better pray Naruto is still alive.