A.N. this is a story I placed on AFF, and it was suggested I place it here too. The chapters will also have my responses to the reviews I was given there too. I don't own Naruo, Sakura or anyone else in the series. Let's rock.

Sakura Haruno was upset. It had been almost a week since she and Naruto had their first mission with Yamamoto and Sai, which turned out to be a failure since they hadn't been able to return with Sasuke, and since their return, Sakura had felt like crap. Almost every day she woke up with a dull ache from the scar on her arm from Naruto's tail, but that was nothing compared to the pounding headache she would wake up to, which would come and go throughout the day, and she kept feeling weird, emotionally. Sometimes she would feel a sort of deep guilt or pain when she couldn't think of any reason for it. Sometimes, she thought she could hear someone faintly talking when she was alone.

Maybe I'm just feeling bad that I couldn't bring Sasuke-kun back, she thought just before she experienced a shot of pain in the back of her head, AUGH, damn it, I need some rest, maybe I should ask Tsunade-sensei about this, maybe she can help, she took some headache medicine and laid down in her bed, and thought she heard a faint chuckle as she drifted to sleep.

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Sakura woke without the splitting pain in her head. Instead she felt the sun on her face and a gentle breeze on her skin.

Wait, I left the window closed, She opened her eyes to find she wasn't in her room, but on a hill in a beautiful enclosed garden. Below there was a small stream flowing from under one wall and around the garden, before going under another wall. There were strange, unknown, but beautiful flowers all around, and even though the sky was thick with clouds, she could feel direct sunlight, and atop the hill she was on was an unbelievably large sakura tree in full bloom. She felt compelled to investigate this tree, and when she got closer, she saw a dark hole among its roots.

What is this place?

She got closer to the hole, and found a strange barred door that seemed like it had been forced open, a broken padlock on the ground nearby.

What the hell happened here?

"I got tired of being locked up, so I busted out."

Sakura whirled around to see…herself!? This her seemed older, though, and more developed under the red kimono she wore, and she seemed to have something written on her forehead, which was mostly covered by her hair, which reached to the small of her back, and seemed a darker pink than normal. But the biggest differences between them were that the older versions darker green eyes had slitted pupils, and a long, elegant red tail swaying behind her.

"W-what are you, where am I," Sakura stammered as she stumbled back.

This other her chuckled, "Well, this is your mind, your soul, this place is within your own subconscious, and as for me," she smiled from ear to ear, "I'm you."

"What do you mean you're me, and how could this be my mind? And how can you be me if you have a tail?"

"I have this tail for the same reason I'm not locked up anymore." The older Sakura sounded angry, "I am your true feelings, the parts of you that you always kept suppressed, kept locked up in there," she motioned to the broken door, "I got tired of being locked up like that, tired of you denying your true feelings, of denying me, of denying your true self. So when you where stuck by the Kyuubi's tail last week, a wave of its chakra washed through here, and I grabbed some of it, and took it into myself." Her smile grew a bit feral, "A new power grew in me, and I broke out of the cage you had me in."

"So, now I have a demon in me? What do you want?" Sakura asked, getting scared. Is this the kind of thing Naruto has to deal with?

"No, Naruto-kun probably doesn't have to talk with Kyuubi if he doesn't want to, but we could ask him," the fox girl smiled at Sakura's confusion, "We're in your head, I am a part of you, did you think I wouldn't know what you're thinking? And as for what I want, I want you to accept me as a part of you. I want you to accept your true feelings, and become the real you."

"What do you mean?"

"There are feelings you have kept down and denied for years, things you need to accept, and once you do, there will be no purpose for me, we will become one."

"What are you talking about? I haven't denied anything."

"Yes, you have, you've denied the most important of feelings, forced it down and locked it away in favor of physical lust and attraction, and in the name of a childish crush you denied our 'True Love'"

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"Sakura, dear," Ayaka Haruno called, opening her daughters door, Oh, she's sleeping, my sweet little angel. She was probably working hard at the hospital again. The mother pulled a blanket over the young woman, I guess it's better than those missions she has to go on with…'it', she left the room, closing the door behind her.

But she didn't notice, as she left the room, a soft, red glowing aura surround her child.

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"W-what do you mean, I've never denied my love, and I told him I loved him, but Sasuke-kun…"

SMACK, the fox girl backhanded Sakura across her face, knocking her to the ground, "Don't you call that vile bastard that again," she growled, a violet aura surrounding her, "not after he betrayed our village, and definitely not after he tried to kill Naruto-kun."

"Naruto-KUN, you're telling me you love HIM." Sakura said, dumbfounded.

Fox-Sakura took a deep breath, and tried to keep as calm as she could, "No, I'm saying WE love him, you're just so far in denial you couldn't find your way out with a map and compass."

"What are you talking about, I love Sasuke-k," she was cut off by a low growl, "I do love Sasuke; he's dark, intelligent, handsome…"

"And he's a cruel, hateful, spiteful, traitorous asshole who never showed a single POSITIVE emotion, always jealousy, hatred, and bitterness. Naruto-kun, on the other hand," the older woman said with a dreamy sigh, "is kind, handsome, cheerful, light hearted, and loving, even if he's a bit dense. He never said a single bad thing about you, although Kami knows we deserved it more often than not. He has done everything he could to help us and the others, with little to no consideration for his own safety. He would happily give his life for anyone he cares about, and the fact he can trust or care about anyone after the life he lived is a miracle itself. Has Uchiha EVER really done anything that didn't directly benefit him? Do you even remember when and why your crush started?"

When Sakura shook her head, she asked, "Well do YOU even remember when you started to like Naruto?"

The fox girl smiled and hoisted Sakura off the ground by her collar, and carried her towards a small circular pond that formed along the stream. "Yes, I do, now watch and remember," she said after setting the kunoichi on the ground. The fox woman dipped a finger in the water, which started to ripple and change, forming an image before them. The pond held an image of a young, pink haired little girl, alone and crying.

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Little Sakura sat underneath a tree crying her heart out. A few girls, who by now had moved across the playground, had been tormenting her again. Sakura just sat with her head on her knees, trying to forget what they had been saying, when she heard a sudden scream. The girls who were tormenting her had somehow become covered in paint, one had the bucket still on her head, and all of them were colored a sickening green all over.

"Heh, guess little green girls won't have any reason to make of people, right?"

Sakura looked up to see a young blond boy standing next to her, he seemed scrawny and underfed, and his clothes were worn and old, maybe even older than the boy himself, but he was wearing a huge smile on his face.

"Why did you do that?" The young girl said with a confused look.

"What makes you so sure I did it?" the boy asked with a fox-like smirk, before sheepishly scratching his head, "Besides, anyone who makes a pretty flower like you cry deserve to look like a weed for a while."

D-did he just call me pretty? Sakura thought, turning a faint pink, "Um…I'm Sakura, Sakura Haruno, I'm pleased to meet you."

"The name's Naruto Uzumaki, nice to meetcha."

"SAKURA!!" The girl looked up to see her mother running towards her, just before smacking the boy on the head, "What did you do to my daughter? You little monster, how dare you make my angel cry," hitting the boy again before he finally ran away. Ayaka turned to see her daughter crying again, "It's okay, honey, he's gone…"

"WHY MOMMY!?" the girl screamed at her mother, "I almost had a friend like Ino, why did you chase him away?" she cried before she ran off. Sakura ran home, locked herself in her room, and cried into a pillow for the rest of the night.

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Fox-Sakura sighed, a sad look spreading across her face, "That was the first time we met Naruto-kun, the first time he went out of his way to make us happy, and the first time we saw how cruel people treated him. We didn't…I didn't know what we felt was love. Then, we went back to the academy, we saw the way all the other girls ogled Uchiha-teme, and were dumb enough to try and fit in by swooning over him, so the other girls wouldn't make fun of us anymore." Tears started to fall from her eyes, "That was a dumb move, it cost us our friend Ino, and worse, we mistreated Naruto-kun just to fit in better. Eventually, we fell for our own act. The true feelings didn't resurface until Uchiha left, and that promise, Naruto-kun made that lifelong promise, completely forgetting his own happiness for our own." She turned to the younger her, "Can you think of any real reason to love the Uchiha? Any real justification for waiting for him, after all he's done?"

The youth had an empty look as she continued to stare into the now blank waters, after hearing all that from the fox girl, she was drawing a blank. She let out a hollow laugh, "You know, I can't think of a damned thing anymore." She rubbed the check that the fox had hit and smiled, "But it is kinda weird literally beating some sense into myself."

"Sorry, I just got a bit upset."

"No, it was the right thing to do, so how will this work out, with me and you?"

Inner-Sakura smirked, "I think it's already begun. When you wake up, you should be complete again, but I'm not sure if my… powers will stay with you," she said, idlely reaching for her tail, "if the fox chakra I've absorbed does take root in the main chakra flows, you may change physically, I don't know to what end though."

Sakura pulled the inner-her into a hug, feeling a strange warmth spread from her belly, "I'll handle that when I need to, right now, I think I just want to go see our Naruto-kun," she looked up into the green slitted eyes, "I'll see you in the mirror." The garden then faded from her vision.

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Sakura woke to notice a few things. First, she herself was emitting a dimming violet glow. Second, her chest felt heavier than before. And lastly, she felt a strange pain in her lower back. She jumped from her bed and stretched a bit before she heard a strange rip and the pain disappeared, she rushed to her mirror to see if something had happened, and was pleasantly surprised. She wasn't quite as developed as her inner self, but her form had filled out more than before, and she had some more muscle on her frame than before. Her hair had darkened a bit and grown a couple of inches, her eyes had slits for pupils, and her ears had lengthened a bit, with pointed tips poking out from her hair a bit. Her new tail, which had torn through part of her shorts to get out, was the same hot-pink color as her hair.

"I wonder if this means I am a demon now. Mom is gonna be pissed," She said to no one as she headed to her window, she was almost knocked on her ass when she opened it and was hit with a volley of smells and sounds. She gave herself a few seconds to get used to it, I feel like an Inuzuka, she thought as she mentally sifted through the scents, trying to figure out what was what, until she came to a faint trail that smelled a bit like a mixture of river water, ramen, sweat, and a couple of things she felt she knew, but couldn't place. Kami, that must be Naruto-kun's scent, she thought when she noticed how… excited the smell made her feel. Sakura jumped out of her window, heading straight for the source of this smell that made her feel so warm.

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Naruto woke, up to his ankles in water, again. This was the fourth time this week he had been pulled to this sewer since he had lost control against Orochimaru, and Sasuke had suppressed the fox, and, as every time before, he walked until he reached the large cage door. Each time he had done this in the past week, he would see the foxes outline in the back, but it wouldn't come into the light, and it wouldn't say anything, not even the usual insult or evil laugh, and Naruto would just have to wait in silence until he woke up. Not this time.

"Alright, fox, listen up, either tell me why you keep bringing me here right now, or stop doing it, I don't like spending my nights here." He waited a few minutes, hearing no response he started walking out the doorway before he was stopped.

"Wait, kit," The beast said before moving to the door of its cage, "I want to speak with you, but I need you to come here."

"Yeah, and I'll bet you think I'm dumb enough to just walk into your mouth too."

The great fox sighed and locked eyes with the blonde, and the shinobi saw something he couldn't place in the eyes that had always seemed to just have contempt, "You have my word, as a fox, as a bijuu, and as your tenant, that I shall do nothing to cause you harm, Naruto."

Naruto was surprised, he hadn't talked to the fox more than a couple times during his training, but it had always referred to him as kit or gaki, it had only used his name when it warned Sasuke against killing him, and Jiraya had told him that according to legend, kitsune feel bound by their own word, and unless they are released by the person they made the promise to, will do anything to keep it, and any who intentionally break that word are considered outcasts. While still cautious, he stepped closer to the door, until he was within arm's length of the bars. Once he had, the fox began to glow, its chakra wrapping around it's now shrinking form and turning the water at its feet to a screen of steam. When the glow died down and the steam cleared, Naruto was surprised to see a woman kneeling in front of him, with her head pressed against a bar.

"Naruto, I wish to apologize," she said with a surprisingly soft voice.

"Excuse me!?"

The girl looked up and locked her red eyes with his blue. She was wearing what seemed to be a small form fitting top and short skirt that ended just above her knees, both made from a collection of fur pelts, and a short blade tied across her back. She had pale, almost flawless skin, and wavy blood red hair down to the small of her back.

"I said I wish to apologize to you."

"Um…Okay, but why?"

The fox-woman sighed, "Because it has bothered me, these past few years since we first spoke with each other, I've had nothing but time to think about the troubles I've caused you, the unjust hatred you suffered due to me, pain no child should be subjected to. And I've seen the way you acted in these recent years. You have worked hard to become stronger, and tossed aside your own happiness just to keep your word, to keep your promise to the pink-haired one. That itself is one of the most defining and respected traits among my kind. And unlike the lesser of my kind, you stick to the spirit of the promise, where they would have just followed the wording."

"What do you mean?"

Kyuubi smiled, rising to her feet showing she was a few inches taller than her vessel, "Your exact words were, and I quote 'Don't worry, I'll bring him back. That's the promise of a lifetime.' Had you just followed the promise, word for word, you would have killed the Uchiha, which you were perfectly capable of doing with my power flowing throw you, and returned with his corpse. But in your mind, that was against the promise you made. And when you couldn't bring him back alive, and you knew he would get stronger, you tossed aside your life, your happiness, so you could get strong enough to keep the promise, even though bringing him back would probably result in the girl swooning over him again, leaving you alone, again. You even want to stop using my power, when we accidentally struck your friend during the fight with the snake creature and his bespectacled bitch, not caring that it would mean you would have to throw yourself deeper into training. I must admit, I admire your determination in this endeavor. I also wanted to apologize for the damage to your medic friend, I was blinded by rage at the snake and my eyes saw someone running towards us, I thought it was an enemy. Please forgive me." She said, bowing her head again.

"So, if you brought me here to apologize for that, why didn't you say anything the other times I was here?"

Then, Kyuubi did something Naruto never thought he'd see her do.

Kyuubi turned red, blushing.

"I," she took a deep breath, "I have noticed a few things recently," she pointed to the paper seal of the door, which seemed to be peeling at the corners, "the seal on this cage is going to fail, I don't know when, but it will happen soon."

"WHAT!! You mean you're going to get free soon?!"

"Yes and no," she said, and when seeing his panicked and confused look, she turned around and moved her hair, revealing a seal on her neck that bore a slight resemblance to the one Naruto's stomach, "I noticed this years ago, it seems to be another seal, I didn't know why it was there until I saw that the outer seal was weakening. I suspect that either the Fourth, or the Shinigami who helped him seal me, intended for the seal to change as you aged, and allow me a bit of freedom, enough to have a physical body at least, but I'm not sure to what extent. I know I will still remain bound, but I don't know if I will have my full powers, or if some will remain sealed in you, but you can rest assured that I won't attack the village again, unless you want me to. And since I will remain with you, I was thinking about a few things about you."

"What things?" Naruto asked, a bit wary of the look in her eyes, it was a bit like Choji when he saw an all you can eat buffet.

Kyuubi reached between the bars and rubbed a thumb across his whisker marks, causing him to shiver a bit, "I've thought about you, as a young man, you're strong and getting stronger, you're kind, honest, handsome, you have many traits that are highly valued among my kind, and I thought, since we will have to spend our life bound to each other anyways, I…I," she took a deep breath and braced herself, "I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking me as one of your mates?"

Naruto stood there for a few moments, as he tried to process what he had learned, he could accept that the great and powerful Kyuubi no Kitsune, the most powerful of the Bijuu, was female, hell the Hokage was female. He could believe the seal was weakening, since the fox's chakra seemed to flow into him more easily as time passed. It was a stretch, but he might even understand her not attacking the village, since she was still bound to him. But this, this just sort of short circuited his whole brain. He just said the first thing that came to mind.

"What do you mean mate, what about Sakura-chan?" he still held a place in his heart for the pink-haired teammate.

"I said one of your MATES, plural. Naruto…" she grabbed his shoulder and spun him around so his back was against the bars, and wrapped her arms around his neck before speaking softly into his ear, "Naruto-kun, because of me, you missed out on a lot of things in your life, most notable is a lack of love, and if it means you get all the love you deserve, I wouldn't mind sharing you. Besides, with your stamina, even without my help, I don't think any single mate would survive very long, although it wouldn't be such a bad way to go." She added with a smirk, before a strange look crossed her face, "I believe it's time for you to wake up, we seem to have a visitor, but please, think about what I said, don't forget," she said, reaching down and squeezing the front of his pants, "Living in your body has given me a lot of intimate knowledge about it, and I can put that to VERY good use."

Naruto let out a small moan as the redhead and the sewer faded from view.

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Naruto opened his eyes to his dark apartment and looked around, There's nobody here.

Careful, Naruto-kun, I sense a chakra signature near, it seems almost familiar.

Woah, Kyuubi how are you doing that?

I've been able to talk to you like this for a while. I just preferred speaking to you face to face.

Naruto then heard a knock on the window and turned to see a pair of seemingly glowing green eyes staring back at him.

"Naruto-kun, can I come in," a sweet voice said as she opened the window.

Naruto turned on the lights, and was surprised by what he saw, "Sakura-chan, is that you!? What happened?" He was wondering if this could possibly be the same girl he had seen only a few hours ago. She had grown, enough so that it seemed her normal clothes were greatly strained to contain her newly enlarged assets, but the biggest changes were the almost glowing green, slit pupil eyes and the slowly swaying tail behind her.

"Yes, Naruto-kun, it's me, I'm sorry to bother you so late, but I just needed to see you, so much so it hurt," she said, walking towards her blond love. "Please, don't be afraid, it's really me, I've just…grown a bit." She said, smiling sweetly.

Kyuubi, what's going on, do you have something to do with this?

I didn't do this, at least I don't think I did, I'm not sure how, but she seems to have somehow become a hanyou, a half demon.

This is bad, this is very bad, he thought as Sakura sat next to him on the bed, taking hold of his arm,"Sakura-chan, what happened to you?"

"Well, it's a bit of a long and crazy sounding story, Naruto-kun, do you really want to know?" he nodded, "Okay, you see, I've sort of kept a lot of emotions bottled up in my life, and kept them locked away in a corner of my mind, and I bottled things up for so long, they developed a mind of their own, and became a second me. Until last week, she was locked up in my mind, but when I was hit with the Kyuubi's Chakra, she took some of it into herself, and it grew, until earlier tonight, when she broke out and confronted me. She showed me the mistake I've been making for the years, and when I accepted her, accepted my true feelings, the ones that were suppressed for so long, I became one with her and, it seems, the Kyuubi chakra she had absorbed."

"What do you mean, what feelings are you talking about Sakura-chan?"

She looked at him and smiled, happy tears falling, "Love, Naruto-kun, love for you. I, Sakura Haruno, love you, Naruto Uzumaki. I love you with all my heart and soul, with every fiber of my being. I want to be with you forever, no matter what." She started to rub against him, one of her hands moving towards his groin, "I want to have your children, to watch them grow into strong shinobi while we grow old together."

"Sakura, wait!" He yelled, trying to keep control. He sighed when he saw a sad look in her eyes, as he cupped her cheek and calmly spoke, "Sakura-chan, you have no idea how happy it makes me to hear you say that, and I would like to be with you, but not like this, and I don't mean the way you look, but I can't be sure if this is really you, or if Kyuubi has affected your mind. I want to be sure this is what you want. We can go to see obaa-chan in the morning, and get you checked out, to make sure you are all right. But, even so, are you sure about this Sakura-chan, if you are with me, things could get bad for the both of us, people will think that I, the demon, corrupted the Hokage's apprentice in order to get power, and they will hate and insult you for joining with me, and they may even hate you more than me, to them I was never human, but you would be a human who abandoned her race to become a demon. Are you sure that's what you want? To be hated and feared, ignored and insulted, for the rest of your life."

Sakura didn't even blink, "Naruto-kun, as long as I can be with you, I couldn't care less about the village. I know you didn't do this, and I know you aren't someone who would do something like this to get power for yourself, like the Uchiha bastard. And if they do anything stupid, like try to hurt you, I will pound them so far into the ground, not even the most powerful earth jutsu master could get them back."

Naruto smiled and sighed, "Well then we will go see obaa-chan in the morning, you can stay in my bed, I'll take the couch and…"

"No, I want to stay with you, tonight. Just because we won't sleep together, doesn't mean we can't sleep together." Sakura said as she wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled Naruto into the bed, "Besides, I don't want to leave you side tonight, and I think I will sleep better if you're with me, okay," she said as she laid him down and started nuzzling into his chest, deeply inhaling his scent.

"Fine, but let's just sleep," the blonde said, defeated and tired, as the two of them drifted to sleep, neither noticing a red light emanate from Naruto's stomach and make contact with Sakura.

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Sakura felt water on her back when she heard Naruto yell, "How is Sakura here, Kyuubi, what are you up to?"

Sakura started to pull herself up when a female voice spoke, "Naruto-kun, I just wanted to do a quick check on her myself, before you took her to the sake woman."

Sakura stood and saw Naruto talking to a woman who was on the other side of a large barred door, and they seemed to be in a sewer of some sort. "Naruto-kun, where are we?"

"Oh, Sakura-chan, you're awake, well…"

The woman interrupted in a voice that was strong and full of authority, "Sakura Haruno, you are currently within the mind of our beloved Naruto Uzumaki, and I am the great Kyuubi no Kitsune, the most powerful of the nine bijuu. I have brought you here because…"

"Hey, calm down, you're gonna scare her."

The fox woman sighed, "I'm sorry, Naruto-kun," she turned back to the guest, "as I was saying, Naruto-kun was worried about your recent…changes, so I thought I would check on you myself before you went to visit your master tomorrow. Now step closer to me."

Sakura was a bit hesitant, on the one hand, this was a demon who had almost destroyed her entire village, and had struck her down barely a week ago, but on the other hand if she hadn't been hit, she may not have had her revelation so soon, the fox protected Naruto when she needed to, and it looked like Naruto trusted her. Sakura walked to the cage and the redhead placed her hand on Sakura's forehead, and a slight glow enveloped them for a moment, and Kyuubi released her hold.

"Well, do you know how this happened to Sakura-chan?"

Kyuubi thought for a moment, before looking to Sakura, "When you met this 'inner you', where were you?"

"Well, she said it was in my mind. It was this beautiful enclosed garden with a giant sakura tree, and there was this door with a broken padlock that she said was where she was stuck until your intervention."

Kyuubi faced Naruto, "If I had to make a guess, I would say that cell was a natural equivalent to my seal, it represented a mental block she had containing her emotions, and her chakra flow was slightly altered in that area of her mind, slow flow of chakra went into that area, but not out, it was only normally used to keep her emotions bottled up, but when some of my youki got in, it couldn't flow out like it normally would, if it had it would have simply joined her chakra flow and acted like a poison like it normally does in humans. But, stuck in that block, like water in a stagnant pond, and joined to the other her, it grew in her, nourished by her human chakra, but diluted by it as well, until eventually it fused into her main chakra coils, and changed her into a hanyou. I'm afraid it can't be reversed, and I don't think it has truly changed her mentally, although you may still want to visit the slug woman, I think personally that this is nothing but an improvement," she turned to the new hanyou, "as a half demon, your human abilities should be enhanced. Your energy reserves should increase greatly, and since it is the chakra of a half demon as opposed to full demon youki, your normal human healing jutsu will still work, so you wouldn't have to learn anything new, in fact, because yours is that of a human and a demon, it should work even better on Naruto-kun here than anyone else. With your larger reserves, you may need to work on you chakra control again, but that strength of yours should increase greatly, as well as your normal, chakra free strength. Your senses should be enhanced as well."

Sakura finally spoke up, "I noticed that on my way here. There were all sorts of sounds and smells and sights, I could see just fine in the dark, I could hear so much better, and I could pick up Naruto-kun's scent trail from all the other peoples in the village."

"Hey, are you saying I stink, Sakura-chan?"

"No, actually, you smell a bit like river water, ramen, sweat and," she looked to the Kyuubi for a moment, "you smell a bit like her, too. I find it to be a strangely attractive combination."

The Kyuubi smiled, "That's just the enhancements, and you may even start to develop all new abilities."

"Like what?"

"Well, off the top of my head, you may get Naruto-kun's transformation ability."

"But I already know the Henge no jutsu."

The bijuu woman chuckled, "That low level illusion, that doesn't deserve to be called a transformation. What Naruto does is what we kitsune do, it's an actual physical shape shift. He actually changes his physical body into what he wants, but changing to something larger or smaller than yourself is difficult for novices, but Naruto-kun can help you with it. You may also grow into other kitsune powers as well, but we can discuss that later, it is almost morning and I would like to talk to Sakura alone," she turned to her blonde vessel and smiled, "Naruto-kun, can you leave the room for now, please."

When he finally left, Kyuubi's expression turned serious, "Haruno-san, I'm going to be frank, Naruto-kun has been through a lot because of me. He has been ignored, insulted, beaten to within an inch of his life, starved, poisoned, and hated. The one who sealed me here wanted him to be seen as a hero, but he has been treated as anything but. He has been denied almost everything in his life that he should have been given, and I seek to change that. Not long from now, I will be free from this seal," she saw a fearful look on the girls face, "don't be afraid, I do not want to do anything that would make Naruto-kun's life harder, unless the villagers try something stupid, in which case they won't live long enough to regret their mistake. But besides that, I want to tell you, the same way you wish to make him your mate, I want him as mine as well. Naruto has been denied love for most of his life, and I want him to have all that he deserves, even if that means sharing him with you and some select others. I want to know, are you willing to do the same?"

Sakura had to think about this for a minute, she loved him, but was she willing to share him. She knew that if he did such a thing, he wasn't the type of guy who would pick favorites or choose them just for sex, he would chose them because he felt for them and cared about them, and he would do his best to love them all equally. Then she thought about her friend, Hinata, it was no real secret, except to Naruto himself, that she was so deeply in love with the jinchuriki that she might never get over him, and she might be willing to share if it meant she could be with him.

Sakura smiled, "As long as Naruto-kun gets what he deserves, I will always be there for him."

"Good answer, now it's time to go, take care of him until I can help," the fox woman said as things started to fade to black, "and be thinking of more possible mates for our Naruto-kun."

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And there it is, the first chapter of the story. This will be a harem fic, and it WILL bash the living hell out of Mr. Emo loser bastard himself (Uchiha Sasuke for those of you who didn't get that). Naruto and his girls will become hanyou in this. I have already put some thought into the harem members, but I am open to suggestions.

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Kyuubi no Kitsune-Definitely In- I've already started her out in this, and I will give her a name later on.

Sakura Haruno-Definitely In- She has already changed species for him, and she will probably be ostracized by her family for that, no way Naruto would leave her out after that.

Hinata Hyuga-Definitely In- Two reasons: 1. Naruhina is one of my favorite pairings. 2. Given recent developments in the manga, I just can't see her with anyone else.

Isaribi-Definitely In- I like the girl, in human or fish form. She won't be cured yet, and that will affect her hanyou form and abilities. I also want to use her because, as a filler character, I can have a lot of leeway as to the way she acts.

Moegi-Highly Likely- Like Isaribi, I can have some leeway with her actions, plus I think she's cute, and I can't find ANYTHING with her, which I think isn't right (don't worry, the transformation will help her develop a bit).

Tsunade-Likely- If I do include her, the hanyou transformation will lower her physical age to a reasonable point.

Anko Mitarashi-Likely-They seem like a good couple to me, since they both went through a lot of crap in their life for stuff they couldn't control.

Temari-Likely-Naruto has pretty much saved her brother's life and that probably tends to leave an impression on people.

Ino Yaminaka-Possible-I think Sakura could help her 'see the light' about Naruto.

Shion-Possible-I plan to watch the movie before I even think of planning with her, but it's possible since I am also an Inuyasha fan (Half-demon and a priestess) but I would have to think if her powers would counteract a half-demon transformation.

Ayame Ichiraku-Possible- I am not sure if she will be with Naruto, if not, I'm putting her with Choji.

Shizune-Slightly Possible-She happens to be one of my favorite Naruto girls, but I'm not sure about her yet.

I won't revive the dead (sorry Haku and Kin fans) but if that person only had an implied death (like Tayuya) I might use them (I am thinking about including her).

Please, tell me what you people think. The more reviews I get, the Faster I'll Update.