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Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf	By : Pokemaster12 Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 8578 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 11
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Chapter 13: Legacy of the Uzumaki Clan

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

it took two days of running across both water and through woodlands before Naruto found his way back to the Port town where he had first entered Kiri. It didn't look all that much different from when he had come into the country. Still, it was looking a little better, he could see places where ninja and civilians alike had set up food stands so that the people who were without homes or money could get some food, and the place just looked a little less bleak in general.
As he made his way through the town Naruto stopped at a small restaurant, it was nothing more than a little stand that reminded him of Ichiraku's back home, at least in looks. As he sat down in of the chairs a man who looked to be in his mid-thirties or so turned around from where he was looking. "What can I get for ya kid?" he asked.
By now, Naruto had decided to discard his Arashi look, since he didn't want any attention and his red haired persona had become very famous during the war. "I'll have some Udon noodles with a side of fried Calamari," said Naruto after looking over the menu for a moment.
"Comin' right up," the man said as he took the menu and set in inside a rack that held even more menus.
"Naru-kun," Akane said, bringing a smile to his face as she used the new nickname she had given to him. Hearing her voice brought the last few days of travel back to him; after her initial threat of torture and consequent confession of love, the two of them had been exploring their relationship every night when Naruto went to bed. The blond could honestly say that he had never been as happy as he was now. They never went beyond kissing and cuddling but he didn't have any desire for sex yet, aside from the fact that she was in his mind and despite his mental image being fifteen, he still had a ten year old body, thus, some parts of his anatomy still didn't quite work yet, even in the mindscape.
"Yes Benihime?" asked Naruto, using the pet name he had come up with for her. The man who had taken his order set down a steaming hot plate of Udon noodles served in a dashi broth with a variety of vegetable toppins and two boiled eggs, along with a side of fried calamari with a side of some kind of dipping sauce. Naruto thanked the man before focusing on the red head sealed inside of him.
Akane smiled within the seal, "I was just thinking...since we're in Mizu No Kuni, and no longer have any pressing concerns, that you may want to visit...your mothers homeland."
Naruto paused just as he finished breaking his chopsticks for a second, the action was so fast that unless you knew Naruto as well as Akane did, you would have never even noticed something was wrong. "My mothers homeland is near here?" he asked, even as he whispered a quick "Itadakimasu" and began to slowly eat.
"It's a little ways away," Akane said, "Uzu No Kuni was an island that didn't become a part of Mizu No Kuni due to the fact that it was much farther out than any of the other islands. From what I remember of my geology, it takes about two weeks to get close to it and it can't be accessed by boat."
Naruto frowned as he popped a fishcake into his mouth and chewed, "why is that?"
"Because of the whirlpools. Uzu No Kuni is an island that is completely surrounded by whirlpools. That's why your clan came up with the name Uzumaki. The whirlpools were actually one of the Uzumaki clans defensive measures, I remember hearing about how they could actually control the whirlpools potency to become as gentle as a small funnel, to as violent as a raging maelstrom."
"I see," a thoughtful look crossed the blonds face as he thought about the benefits of taking this side trip to his mothers ancestral home. He had always wanted to learn more about his mother, it was the one piece of his past that was still somewhat clouded in mystery. Akane had done what she could to fill in the blanks, but she didn't know everything there was to know about the woman named Kushina Uzumaki. Her past was one of those things.
"Do you think we have the time?" asked Naruto, "we've been gone for eight months, I don't know how much longer my Chishio Bunshin will last."
"We told it to conserve its chakra," Akane said, "it should last until the end of the year, we'll be back at least a month before than." Her voice went from a matter of fact tone to the softer one she often used with him, "I know you want to know more about your mom, Naruto-kun. This may be your best chance."
"Your right," he decided, "it likely is my best chance, maybe my only one. But how would we get there, even if you know where it is I can't walk that far on water, even I would run out of chakra before then."
"We'll hire a ferryman," Akane said, "'Mei' gave you quite a bit of money as compensation for your efforts. You should have more than enough with you to pay for passage."
Hearing the way Akane spat out the name of the auburn haired woman, like it was diseased, made Naruto frown. "Hey, you know that there's nothing going on between me and Mei, right? Just because she gave me that one kiss, doesn't mean I'm going to jump her bones. Your the one I love." It had taken some particularly...thorough "interrogation" techniques to get Akane to reveal the reason she had been so upset earlier. But now that he knew the reason Naruto would do everything in his power to let her know nothing would happen between him and any woman that was not her.
Akane smiled within the seal, even as a slight blush of embarrassment came to her face. "I know, I guess I just still don't like that she stole your first kiss from me."
"Well if its any consolation, your a much better kisser than she is," Naruto replied cheekily, pleased to know he could finally get back at the woman who had been teasing him mercilessly since he was eight.
"You know that's not the only 'thing' I'm probably better at than her," Akane said, modulating her voice to that tone that never failed to send shivers down Naruto's spine. "Maybe the next time you come into the seal, I can show you some of those...other, talents that I have."
Damn, Naruto swore as he realized that he still couldn't get Akane back without her turning it around on him. Inside of the seal said demoness grinned and gave a victory sign.
After his meal Naruto set the allotted amount of money for the food on the table and left. He made his way to the docks, drawing a few curious stares on his way. Blond hair was rare in every nation except Kumogakure, and his version of sun kissed golden blond was an oddity even there. So seeing a kid wearing black shinobi clothing with a sword attached to his back and bright blond hair was likely a very unusual sight for the mostly dark brown haired people of Kiri.
When he got to the docks it was to see only a few ships were still around. Mei had sent out word to many of the traders and shipping companies that business was open again and that they should begin setting sail and trying to market trade with other countries as soon as possible. After having most of their imports cut off due to Yagura barring most trade, the sailors were quick to set sail and begin working once more.
That didn't mean that everyone had left, Naruto saw a man with black hair, a scraggly beard and an eye patch. Naruto walked up to him and immediately got the mans attention, "Hmm? What do you ye want kid? I'm a little busy right now."
"I was hoping that you could grant me passage to Uzu No Kuni," Naruto said, making the man hault in his tracks to look at him incredulously. "I'm willing too pay a hefty sum if you can."
"No one goes to that place these days, kid," the man said. "There ain't anything there, and even if they did go, there's no way to get past the whirlpools." In the past decade since the destruction of the Uzumaki Clan, Uzu No Kuni had become a death trap for ships. The whirlpools would often pull anything into them and destroy any ship that came too close, along with their cargo. With out the Uzumaki Clan to control them, the whirlpools had simply gone out of control.
"You don't have to take me all the way," Naruto reassured, "I just need someone to get me at least a mile out of the surrounding whirlpools. And as I said, I'm willing to pay a hefty sum of money."
The man gave him a speculative look, "how much are we talkin'?"
"Fifteen thousand yen," Naruto's answer caused the man older mans eyebrows to raise into his hairline.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

It took a total of three weeks to actually get to Uzu No Kuni. Surprisingly enough the small island nation was actually only several dozen miles outside of Hi No Kuni, which was where the ship Naruto had bartered passage on was going anyways.
After disembarking from the ship and surprising all those on board by walking on the water, the only problem Naruto had getting onto the island of his ancestors was the large whirlpools that surrounded and guarded the island. That problem however, had been easily solved by clone hopping, jumping into the air and creating a clone to jump off of, then another and another until Naruto had gone past the whirlpool. Once he got on land Naruto began to journey into the island until he finally came across Uzushiogakure No Sato.
"It's not quite what I expected," Akane said as Naruto stood in front of the ninja village of the Uzumaki clan. In terms of appearance, the village seemed to have been composed of several cylindrical buildings, similar to those of Kirigakure. A wide river seemed to cut through the village and was gapped by large bridges. The surrounding countryside was dominated by steep hills.
Of course, all of that was only what Naruto had been able to piece together from what he could see. The entire village was actually ruins, the buildings were gutted or burnt down completely, the bridges were destroyed, and several section of Uzushio were simply gone, not even debris was left from the aftermath of what ever had destroyed those buildings. What buildings were left of the once great village had vines and other plant life beginning to reclaim it.
"I don't know if we'll actually find anything," Naruto said, frowning at the thought. Never the less he journeyed into the village and began to look around, hoping against hope that something had survived the destruction of his mother's homeland.
The next couple of hours were spent searching the ruins of the village, looking for anything that might tell Naruto a little more about the people who once inhabited the now abandoned streets. He spent much of his time going through ruined out buildings, hoping to find maybe some kind of secret passage that would lead to a library or even just a few scrolls or a journal. What Naruto found instead were the many signs of battle that spread across the landscape, old rusted kunai, broken swords and an assortment of other weapons. It was clear that when the Kiri, Kumo, Iwa alliance had left after destroying the village, they had not taken their dead with them. While there were not many skeletons due to time having decayed most of them, or the plants having consumed and crushed the bones in their attempt to gain a foot hold in the village, there were still more than enough to show that a lot of deaths had taken place here.
"There's not much here, is there?" asked Akane with a heavy sigh.
"No, but we both knew there was a distinct possiblity that this is what we would find," Naruto came out of another building and looked around, his eyes landed on the largest building there. It was obviously the kage building, aside from the fact that it was the largest in the entire village, it was also the one that was the most heavily damaged. As he entered the building he saw what looked like a lobby, there was the ruined remains of a front desk next to a staircase. The entire left wall had been burnt down, rubble strewn about showing it had been hit by some errant jutsu or even done on purpose. There were several hole dotting the floor and Naruto realized there must be some kind of staircase leading down.
"Do you think we'll find something?" asked Akane as Naruto made his way further in. He soon found a door that had been burnt down, leading to a staircase that led deeper into the building.
"I can only hope that we do," Naruto replied as he made his way down. He went down several flights of stairs before finding himself in what looked like a catacomb. Walking down the narrow passage the whiskered blond was surprised that he didn't need to light any kind of torch, thanks to the weird fungal formations that lined the walls and glowed a light blue.
Looking around a frown crossed the whiskered blonds face as he saw a lot of skeletons lying along the wall with what looked like bamboo shafts impaling them. As Naruto continued moving forward his left foot sunk when he landed on a loose tile. There was a light clicking noise and then he heard a loud woosh, suddenly several of said same bamboo shafts shot out from nearly a dozen wholes in the wall, all of them flying towards him.
Gritting his teeth, Naruto pushed chakra into his legs and began running. His body, honed and conditioned since he was five thanks to Akane found himself testing the limits of his reflexes and dodging ability as the shafts rained towards him from the walls, the ceiling, a few times he even found himself having to react in a split second to dodge spears that shot up from the floor. It was just as he was dodging another set of spears that had shot out, jumping and rotating his body to let the shafts pass him by mere centimeters, that he landed on the ground and was forced to make a quick leap up as the floor gave out.
He ran along ceiling now, and continued dodging until he reached the end of the corridor, after which he pushed himself off the ceiling, flipping and spinning until he landed on solid ground. He wiped the sweat from his brow as he looked back to where he had come from, "I guess a lot of the traps are still active."
"The Uzumaki Clan were one of the many bloodline clans who guarded there secrets zealously," Akane recited from one of the many scrolls his mother had that the two read. "If there going through so much effort to protect what's down here than it must be important."
"Those are my thoughts as well," Naruto continued on his way. The area outside of the corridor was a labyrinth of twisting passages and dead ends, a few of which were caused from one of the many buildings top side having collapsed on top of it. The blond Uzumaki was forced to double back more times than he cared to count in an effort to get through the annoying maze.
Along the way Naruto ran into several more traps, several pit falls filled with spikes at the bottom, a few more wholes that launched bamboo shafts at him, he even found himself having to run from a rather large boulder that only stopped chasing him because the blond got tired and blue it up with one of his Uzumaki Kenjutsu techniques. After several hours of traps and havoc Naruto found himself staring at a large double-door.
It was unlike any he had ever seen, aside from the fact that the door was nearly as large as the gates that led into Konoha. It was obviously made of stone, a deep red stone that looked almost like blood. All along the door were chains, six chains that held the door closed, one in each corner and one on the left and right sides. Along the chains Naruto saw the black inking of a seal array, which was completed in the center where a large locking mechanism kept the chains together.
"It's a blood seal," Akane said, surprising Naruto since she didn't know much about sealing as he did, and he hadn't recognized it. Sensing his confusion she went on to explain, "it's a very ancient blood seal, and was one of the first seals ever created. It came from the man who had you given humanity jutsu, the man known as the Rikudou Sennin."
Naruto's eyes went wide as he heard that, "so my clan was around back than? Did they have some kind of relation with the Rikudou Sennin?"
"I don't know," Akane frowned, "they definitely had to have been alive back than, but I don't think they were called Uzumaki at that time. Unfortunately, the Uzumaki name didn't appear until I was well entrenched as Hi No Kuni's guardian and I had only heard about them in passing. I never had time nor the desire after that to find out anything about their history."
"I see," the whiskered blond looked at the locking mechanism for only a moment, bit his and swiped his hand across the seal. "Well, I won't be getting any answers from just standing here."
he stepped back and watched as the blood began to steam and hiss as it touched the sealing array. The part of the seal that the blood touched soon turned red, that red began to spread along to the seal until the entire locking mechanism had glowing red seals on it. Then it began to spread, moving out along the seals on the chains until they all reached the end. Eight bolts popped out of the sides of the locking mechanism after that and the front most top began to spin, until it tumbled to the ground in two pieces. The chains fell by the way side as the door began to slowly creek open, moving inwards.
Naruto walked through and the door and stopped, staring at the room he was in in shock. The room was essentially a large dome that spanned several hundred meters. All around the room acting as supports were large stone columns and archways. The earth seemed to have made its way down here as well, nearly every column was covered from head to toe in vines, making it nearly impossible to see anything other than a few flecks of stone. The entire thing reminded Naruto of this one movie he watched once when he snuck into a movie theater about a treasure hunter who visited ancient temples in search of lost treasures.
Walking through the room Naruto's head turned left and right as he looked around in an attempt to memorize the entire cavernous dome. He soon found himself standing in the center, right in front of him was a large stone dais with two items on top of it. The first was a large scroll, much bigger than the usual sealing scrolls at nearly four times the size of one. It was a deep red color and had gold edging. The second was another, much smaller and plainer looking scroll. Both were old, they looked to be slightly worn around the edges and had probably been sitting there since Uzushio was destroyed.
Naruto walked up to the dais when he heard Akane give a sharp intake of breath, "is something wrong?"
"Naruto-kun, that large scroll is a summoning contract," she breathed out. Summoning contracts had first been created during the time of the Rikudou Sennin, when lesser animal demons known as Dire Beasts left the underworld and pleaded with Kami for her help in creating a place for them to live. Kami agreed to do this for them, on the condition that they form a pact with humanity, to help them when called upon by one who held their contract, thus the first summoning contracts were formed.
"So this is a summoning contract," Naruto said as he picked it up, "I didn't think it would be so large, this thing is almost half as large as I am."
"Most of them aren't that large," Akane explained, "this contract must be one of the older summoning contracts."
"Ah," Naruto tied a strand of ninja wire to both ends of the summoning contract and placed it around his shoulder so that it sat on the opposite side of his sword. He grabbed the smaller scroll next and began looking for a way out, he really didn't want to go back the way he came.
It took half an hour of searching, but eventually, Naruto found a passage way out on the wall that was opposite of the door he entered from. It was another exit that required his blood to pass through and led to a tunnel not unlike the catacombs, though he was supremely grateful when this one didn't have any traps in it.
The tunnel led to an exit that led out to the a beach on the opposite side of the shore that he came from. Looking out at the ocean Naruto's enhanced vision could pick out the mass of land that was Hi No Kuni several dozen miles out. He walked further out to the beach taking the summoning scroll off his back and laying it on the ground, unrolling it as he went.
He studied the characters of the seal that represented the contract between summoning creature and summoner. To most it would just look like squiggly lines and would make no sense what so ever. However Naruto was not most people, he could read the seal as clear as if he was reading the news paper. "Interesting, so these seals are in actuality a space-time ninjutsu designed to summon a Dire Beast from their chosen dimension. Some of these seals almost remind me of the ones found on tou-sans Hiraishin kunai."
"I believe your father used summoning contracts as the basis for his jutsu," Akane said, "though I can't be too sure. Anyways, why don't you sign it and give it a go. Just to warn you, the boss of the summoning contract is likely to test you and see if you are worthy of being there summoner. Just sign in your name in blood, after that all you have to do is sacrifice a little blood each time you want to use the jutsu."
Naruto acknowledged her with the equivalent of a mental nod as he bit his thumb to draw blood. As he signed his name on the scroll, his eyes were drawn to those before. There weren't many names on this contract, aside from his now there were only two names total. The first, he didn't recognize. Of course, he didn't know the second one either, but the last name of the second was Uzumaki. Naruto figured this eventually became a scroll that the clan used, like dog contract that was used strictly by the Hatake clan in Konoha.
He had to bite his thumb again in order to draw more blood, since his wound had already sealed up by then. Gathering about one fourth of his chakra reserves he went through the four required hand seals, boar, dog, monkey, ram and slammed his hands in the ground. There was a large puff of smoke that covered nearly the entire beach, and when it cleared Naruto found himself unsure whether to stare in amazement, or gulp in fright at the sight that greeted him.
The first thing he noted was that it was large, able to easily cover nearly the entire beach. It had large scaly wings with three claws that protruded from the first fold at the top. A powerful set of hind quadrupedal hind legs with deadly looking clawed feet. On the front were a set of powerful looking humanoid arms with a hand that had five clawed fingers and looked similar to a eagles talons. The head was streamlined and roughly triangular in shape, with a twin set of horns that moved back behind its head. The had was connected to a long neck that went into a sleek and powerful looking body that had the wings protruding from the shoulder plates, and finished with a tail that was just as long as everything else and had what looked like a sword for the tail end.
The entire creature was covered in dark blue scales that glistened and seemed to have an unnatural glow to them. Its head was covered in some type of golden armor that looked like a crown and covered from the head to the top half of the neck, and then all of the lower half before moving into a chest plate that covered the entire torso and even over three fourths of the tail. The last piece of armor was located on the legs and ankle and looked like a shin guard from a fantasy story with knights and princesses. All told the creature was both awe inspiring in its majesty, and frightening in how powerful it looked.
Naruto knew what this was, while no one had ever seen one for over a thousand years there were plenty of depictions in some of the books he had found in the library of this creature. It was a dragon, a creature of ancient myth that was not thought to actually exist anymore.
The creatures head swung back and forth for a second or two, taking in it's surrounding before its gold slitted eyes focused on him. "Did you summon me child?" asked the dragon, its voice a deep, rumbling basso.
"That's right," Naruto said, squaring his shoulders and looking at the dragon directly in the eye with a "you got a problem with that" kind of look. He didn't care if this was a creature of ancient myth and legend, in about a years time he wasn't even going to be human and he'd be damned if he started cowering like one.
The dragons lips peeled back in a smile, at least, Naruto thought it was a smile. Than again, it was kind of hard to think at seeing all those razor sharp teeth. "You have courage child, to stand up to me like this and not show fear," it breathed out a bit of fire from its nostrils as it spoke. "Tell me boy, what is your name?"
"Naruto Uzumaki."
"An Uzumaki?" the dragon seemed surprised, "interesting...So, another Uzumaki has come to challenge me for the right to use me and my kin as summons."
"How many came before me?" asked Naruto, curious.
"Oh, plenty," the dragon said. "I have had hundreds of your people try and sign my contract, but only two have ever survived my test. I hope for your sake, you survive as well."
"What do you -" Naruto eyes widened as a large breath of flame sped towards him. He pushed chakra into his legs and jumped into the air, just barely dodging the large flame. He was shocked to see that the flame had turned the sand where he had been into glass. He dropped back down and glared at the large dragon, "What the hell was that for!"
"Your test is to be trial by combat!" the dragon said, roaring out the words in a booming voice. "Dragons are warriors, and only a true warrior can be allowed to summon me and my kin! Now prepare yourself!"
"Shit!" Naruto yelled as more flames shot from the dragons nose. Naruto dodged out of the way, racing across the sand and shooting towards the dragons side in an effort to get in the creatures blindside.
It didn't work quite the way he had expected it as the dragons tail shot towards him and he was only barely able to jumped over it. However that wasn't the end as the tail came back and this time the whiskered blond had to duck, even then he could feel the power behind the swing as it rushed passed him. That attack could have easily taken his head off.
Not wanting the creature to get the upper hand Naruto ran towards it. The tails once again came into play but the blond sliced his hand towards it and shot a wind blade that hit the tail and caused it to halt its movements long enough so that he was too far in the dragons guard for the tail to properly hit him. That didn't mean the dragon didn't have other means of fighting him, as Naruto soon found out.
As the dragon turned its head and sent another blast of fire at the blond, it also lashed out with its clawed left hand. Naruto sucked in a deep breath, even as Akane began channeling youki to his throat. He released a pure white ball of flame that smacked into the fire, causing a huge explosion that sent a shock wave at both of them. The dragon stumbled a bit, but Naruto was able to channel chakra to his feet and stick to the ground, allowing him to block the swung clawed hand that had been weakened due to the dragon being knocked a little off balance from the shock wave with his sword.
However, as Naruto came in closer to try and do some damage he could forgot about one thing. It was only after he had been smacked away by one of the large wings that he remembered them. Flipping through air, Naruto landed on his feet several meters away and continued to skid along the ground, leaving small trench marks in the sand.
The dragon opened its large mouth and shot several balls of blue fire at the whiskered blond, who was soon moving across the landscape in a zigzag pattern as he dodged the attacks. Naruto did his best to ignore the explosions going on behind him each time one of the fireballs missed, the heat that washed over him with the gust of wind caused by the blasts. Moving in Naruto went through several hand seals and opened his mouth, shooting out a bolt of lightning.
He nearly cheered when he saw that he had forced the dragon to actually move, figuring it was some great accomplishment since the damn thing had just been standing there the whole time. However his thoughts soon turned dark when he saw the dragon take off into the air and simply hover several dozen feet off the ground. "Oh come on!" the blond complained, "that is so not cool!"
He didn't know whether the dragon heard him or not, but as the great summon began shooting out more fireballs he supposed it didn't matter. Naruto found himself running around, jumping, rolling, twisting and doing everything in his power not to get incinerated by the large balls of flame. All the while trying to figure out which jutsu in his arsenal would be best to hit the now flying dragon.
He had several powerful attacks that he was sure would damage to great creature if they hit. However they had several drawbacks, the key one being they needed to hit their target in order to do anything. There was also the fact that his most powerful jutsu did more damage to him than was healthy, and Naruto didn't want to be a sitting duck if they didn't hit.
Fuuton Jutsu wouldn't work, the dragon was shooting fireballs at him. Winds elemental weakness was fire, and it would strengthen any attacks the dragon sent his way. Lightning might work but he only had two with the capability to reach that high and one was too slow while the other didn't have that kind of reach without using a lot of chakra, more than it was really worth. His Uzumaki Hijutsu might work, unfortunately there weren't that many shadows to use his Yamiton techniques, which only really worked when there were a lot of shadows or total darkness; and his Hiton techniques didn't have the necessary range. The only thing he could think to do was match fire with fire.
Going through several hand seals Naruto finished and cupped his mouth with one hand. He blew out a large fire dragon that blazed towards the real dragon. Said creature snorted as he let the dragon plow into itself. There was a large explosion and Naruto waited on baited breath to see if his attack had done any damage. He didn't have to wait long as a large fireball flew down towards him, "oh you have got to be shitting me!"
As the large ball of flame grew bigger, Naruto unsheathed his blade and moved into a kenjutsu stance. He calmed his breathing and began channeling a massive amount of chakra through his blade, "Uzumaki Hijutsu: Ranpu Kirite (Uzumaki Secret Technique: Light Release: Light Cutter)!" Letting loose a roar Naruto swung his blade in an upwards diagonal motion, release a powerful crescent moon shaped blade of light. The blade hit the fireball and the two forces pushed against each other, vying the other for superiority of strength. It was the ultimate test of Naruto's power, pitting one of his most powerful bladed techniques, one he had only ever done in theory before, against that of a fireball from a powerful summons. In the end only one of attacks would win.
Sadly for Naruto, it was not his. After nearly a minute of the two powerful attacks pushing against each other, it was the fireball that engulfed Naruto's Hiton crescent moon blade. The whiskered blonds eyes widened as the jutsu continued barreling down towards him, and he had less than a second to react as the powerful fire attack smashed into the ground.
The explosion from the blast rocked the very foundations of the island, a pillar of fire shot up into the air, so high that the people in a small port town off the coast Hi No Kuni could actually see the blast and were left wondering what it was from. A giant mushroom cloud of smoke followed the fire, billowing up from the ground. It took several minutes for the smoke to clear, and when it did the Dragon saw that its attack had left a large crater thirty-feet wide by fifteen feet deep.
"Hmmm...I must be losing my touch," it said in its rumbling growl, "normally my explosions cause a larger crater than that – oh – whats this?" If the dragon had eyebrows, they would have been raised at seeing the young whiskered blond climbing out of the crater. He didn't so all he could do was watch in surprise as Naruto managed to pull himself out, using his sword as a crutch as he climbed to his feet.
The boy had definitely seen better days; his clothes were utterly ruined, half of his shirt was gone and his pants were so short they went up to his thighs, both having been burnt off. What little was left of them was burnt and torn, as if it had faced fierce fires followed by an even fiercer cutting wind. All of the skin that was shown was burnt, some areas were second degree, but more than a few held third degree burns as well, namely his face and upper chest. Yet the dragon received a surprise, not just in the boy rising up from an attack that should have killed him, but also seeing the more serious burns beginning to hiss and steam as they slowly healed up.
"How are you not dead boy?" asked the dragon, his voice sounded more curious than anything. "That attack should have killed a normal human, even an Uzumaki would never have been able to withstand that attack."
Naruto winced as he took in a breath, he felt like shit, and that was being modest. His entire body felt like it had been dipped in lava. Even so, he smirked at the dragon as he said, "Right before your attack hit I used one of my most powerful defensive jutsus..."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Flashback...
Just seconds before the fireball smashed into him Naruto sheathed his blade and began channeling mass amounts of chakra through it, more than he ever had before. The jutsu he was about to use hadn't even been practiced, it was something he had thought about in theory only and the chances of it working were very slim. Unfortunately, he didn't really have any choice, he only had one defensive jutsu and it was a wind jutsu and that would simply make the fireball fry him faster.
"Uzumaki Hijutsu: Hiton: Awai No Tate (Uzumaki Hidden Technique: Light Release: Shield of Light)!" a nearly white film of bright, glowing chakra burst from the cracks of the sheathed blade. He pulled Hikage No Ookami out and sliced down in one smooth motion. A mere second later the fireball hit a large done of light before exploding, protecting Naruto from the worst damage.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"It was a close thing," Naruto admitted, "had I been a second late with that jutsu I would have died. Even with that my jutsu still failed as the explosion was dying down, if it weren't for that the fact that I am the jinchūriki for the Kyuubi No Yokō I probably would have died."
"The Kyuubi No Yokō?" the dragons eyes, despite not really widening, still managed to portray its shock. This child held the most powerful demon in the world? The one who had been instrumental in the many wars that humanity had against demon kind? Now this was...
"Interesting," the dragon murmured as it eyed the boy who somehow managed to lift his blade and get into a fighting stance. It could tell the boy was on his last leg, if the way he was slouched over wasn't enough, then the fact that his eyes were half-lidded and droopy and he was panting heavily did. It was amazing that he had even survived its fireball, much less had the energy to continue putting up a defiant stance.
"Put away your sword child," the dragon said, confusing the boy. "You have proven yourself to me, I, Bahamut, King of all dragons grant you permission to be our summoner."
"Really?" asked Naruto, too tired to actually give any emotion other than exhaustion. Bahamut nodded, amused when the blond fell onto his back side and breathed out, "thank kami."
"We dragons shall fight beside you, young one," Bahamut continued, "should you need us, just summon us and we shall fight for you." Noticing that the boy was too tired to pay attention, the great dragon let loose a chuckle and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Ugh..." Naruto moaned pitifully, "I think this battle was worse than fighting the Sanbi..."
Akane shook her head and smiled, even as she released the breath she had been holding for nearly the entire fight. "You did an excellent job Naru-kun, to be a summoner of the dragon contract is probably one of the greatest honors. In fact, the dragon contract is one of four legendary contracts and holds the most powerful fighters, and...Naru-kun?" she questioned when she noticed that she could no longer see out of his eyes. It was than she realized he had passed out and she snickered a little, "I guess he's all tuckered out, then again, he did just fight the dragon king. I'll inform him of the dragon contract later."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

it was two days later that Naruto found himself in the port town that was closest to Uzu No Kuni, a small port located off the edge of Hi No Kuni. After waking up the blond had cleaned himself of the grime of battle and thanked the high heavens that he had the forethought to bring several sets of clothing. If not, he would have likely been the center of attention when he came into town. Or it would be more accurate to say that he would have even more attention than he already did, thanks to a lot of people having seen him running across the ocean to reach the town.
Now he just had to find a place to stay, having water walked across a twelve mile expanse of ocean Naruto was dead tired and wanted nothing more than to rest. He walked around town until his eyes landed on the first hotel in the city. He opened the door and walked in, renting out a room and marching upstairs. He didn't even bother to take off his clothes as his head hit the pillow and he past out.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

almost too soon Naruto woke up due to the light shining in from the window. He let loose a groan before rolling out of bed and entering the shower. After turning the water on to its hottest setting the still tired blond proceeded to strip out of his clothes from yesterday before taking a long shower. Getting out only after he felt himself waking up fully.
After getting dressed again he went downstairs and was about to sit down at one of the tables in the bar too get some breakfast when his eyes landed on a family of three. A man with dark brown hair and grey eyes was sitting with a woman that had light brown hair and brown eyes, both of them looked to be in their mid-forties, though they seem to have aged prematurely due to the lines around their eyes and mouths. A little boy of about eight sat with them, looking like a combination between the two.
Naruto changed directions as soon as his eyes had landed on them and he was standing in front of the man, "excuse me?"
The man blinked as he looked up at Naruto, who right now was looking like a man in his mid-thirties with jet-black hair and black eyes. "Yes? Can I help you?" he asked.
Naruto shook his head, "no, I actually wanted to give you something." The words seemed to confuse the man until Naruto pulled out a locket with the word Carla written on the back. The blond heard the woman gasped and watched as the mans eyes began to water, even as he took the locket from Naruto's hand.
"Where... where did you get this?" the man asked, his voice quivering and it wasn't hard to see the man was just barely holding himself together.
"I had actually heard about bandits raiding the town where your daughter was kidnapped," the blond said. "I had managed to find them and take them and found that locket, but by the time I did you had already left," Naruto's eyes softened as he watched the woman and man start to tear up.
He turned around and was about to leave when a hand rested on his shoulder. Naruto turned his head to see the man, tears unabashedly running down his cheeks, clutching the locket to his chest. "Thank you," he croaked out, "for allowing us to at least know the fate of our daughter."
Naruto closed his eyes, he had already shed his tears and he would be damned if he began crying over this again. "You don't need to thank me, I was unable to save her, the very least I could do was avenge her death," he said quietly.
"Did she suffer?"
"No," Naruto lied. He didn't tell the man that his daughter had been desecrated in the most disgusting way possible, it was bad enough they now had absolute proof of their daughters demise that he wouldn't add to their pain. "However you can be assured that the people who killed her did."
The man seemed to nod and Naruto was almost sure that the merchant knew he was lying, but he seemed to accept it and smiled at him. "Then I do owe you my thanks, for avenging my daughter," the man tried to pull out his wallet but Naruto's hand stopped him.
"Keep your money," Naruto said, "if you really want to thank me then just protect your son. I have no need for money and wouldn't think to take it from you."
"If... your sure," the man said, taking his hand out of his pocket as Naruto let go, "thank you again."
nodding to the man Naruto left the hotel, his appetite gone.
"Are you alright, Naru-kun?" asked Akane, concerned this might have opened up an old wound.
"Fine," Naruto said, "strangely, I feel like like I've been given some kind of closure, or maybe like an old wound has finally healed."
Akane poured in her love and compassion through the seal, "I'm glad." Naruto smiled as he made his way out of the town, just as he was leaving a strange wind blew across his path. He couldn't be sure, but Naruto could swear he the wind sounded like the voice of a young woman saying "Thank you".

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

After Naruto got home the first thing Naruto did was have his Chishio Bunshin dispel. Due to the amount of time he had spent away Naruto had to meditate in order to sort through the memories of his clone. Both he and Akane were greatly amused by some of the pranks his Bunshin had played on the people of Konoha, particularly on the Clans and one Sasuke Uchiha. They spent a good few minutes laughing at certain instances in the clones memory before they were finished.
Later on Naruto worked on the issues of Arashi Kazama, creating two hundred clones to begin making seals that he could give to Kaizuki. Hopefully by this time tomorrow they would have the one thousand seals that the man wanted for his store. With his affairs in order Naruto finally allowed himself to lay down on his bed and enter the seal.
He appeared next to the lake with the waterfall that he had first seen Akane nude in, blushing a bit at the memory that the sight invoked. It took a bit of walking before he found where Akane was. Sometime during his stint in Mizu No Kuni she had fashioned a small hut made of wood with a traditional Japanese sliding door.
Walking up to it Naruto slid the door open and stepped in, taking off his shoes and setting them aside just after he closed the door. He turned and looked into the room.
It was very spartan in the sense that there was not that much decoration to the room and only a few amenities. It had all the standards of a bedroom, a dresser, a night stand, a desk, a book shelf filled with books, and a bed. Despite the fact that it didn't hold much in it, everything it did hold was extravagantly done. The wood was all some kind of very rich looking dark wood that was polished to a shine and had golden inlays of the Uzumaki Clan symbol in them, and the bed was large enough to hold six or seven people easily, with very soft, velvety looking crimson sheets and the plush pillows.
And lying on that bed was none other than Akane, sleeping soundly. Naruto smiled as he crept over to the bed and sat down, sinking into the mattress slightly and causing the vixen to shift in her sleep. He took in her form, running his eyes over her body. She wasn't under the covers and her choice of clothing was just a sheer nightgown that allowed Naruto to see every part of her as clear as if she were wearing nothing at all. He easily noticed that the only other piece of clothing she was wearing were black, lace panties.
Reaching out with a hand he moved his fingers into her hair and began to run them along the red of the woman's crimson locks. Akane's face lit up in a small smile as she moved into his hand and Naruto grinned as he heard her begin to purr. He looked at her lush and full looking crimson colored lips. They were slightly parted in an adorable expression and Naruto couldn't help himself as he leaned down and kissed them.
Though the touch was feather light Akane hadn't been sleeping that heavily at the moment, having only been taking a small fox nap, she refused to call it a cat nap for reasons she wouldn't tell Naruto. Thus it wasn't surprising that she woke up to feel his lips caressing her own.
A smile found its way to her face as she began to kiss back, wrapping her arms around Naruto and pulling him down on so that he straddling her. The position didn't last as she rolled them over until she was on top of him, situated between his legs as they continued enjoying the feeling of being so close and open with one another. When the broke the kiss Akane smiled at him, "I hope I can expect that kind of wake up call from you all the time."
Naruto grinned as he gave her a small peck on the nose, "if that's what you want I'd be more than happy to oblige you."
Akane's smile grew into a grin that matched her blond lovers and she twirled a strand of hair between her fingers, "so is there a reason you woke me up?"
"Honestly?" Naruto shrugged, "I simply couldn't help myself, you just looked so adorable that I felt this overwhelming urge to kiss you."
A small blush grew over Akane's face but she kept up her grin, "just kiss me? You don't want to anything more? You know as a kitsune I know much about the art of... intimacy?"
Now it was Naruto's turn to blush, "I – I think I'm a little too young for that." He saw Akane pout and said, "I mean we just got together a few days ago and all so..."
"Yeah, yeah, I understand," she laid her head down against Naruto's chest and closed her eyes, "your just lucky I love you enough that I'm willing to wait..." she lifted her head and glared at him, "just know that once I turn you into a Hanyou we are not waiting any longer. Got it?"
"Got it," Naruto said with a beat red face and, much to Akane's amusement a trickle of blood from his nose.
She laid back down and closed her eyes again, "good. Now, get some sleep. We've got a long two years ahead of us."
"Right," Naruto's arms pulled Akane into a tighter embrace, one the vixen welcomed as the two of them went to sleep. It would only be two more years before Naruto's graduation from the academy and his ascension into demon hood. Akane would have to teach him just what being a Hanyou meant during that time. Hopefully, he would be ready for some of the consequences that came with it.
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