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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 3: Beginnings of Power

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"~Naruto-kun~" came the singsong voice of Akane.
"I'm up, I'm up," Naruto grumbled out loud, his sleep addled brain making him forget to speak within his mind. He sat up slowly and yawned, stretching his arms above his head while he smacked his lips to dry and moisten them. For a moment he just sat there, not doing anything until he got a small mental prod from Akane telling him to get up. Getting out of bed he began his daily routine.
It had been a month since he had met Akane and started working on accessing his chakra, and since then the young Uzumaki had fallen into a routine of wake up, eat ramen, meditate in the forest, eat whatever he managed to catch, meditate again, eat some more, then go home and enter his mindscape where he would talk to Akane until he fell asleep in her arms. While the training was good that last part of the day was the best, as far as he was concerned.
"So what are we doing today?" asked Naruto as he began slurping up his morning ramen. He had just managed to gain access to his chakra yesterday, which had been really exciting for the blond and had him jumping up and down for the rest of the afternoon. It had taken Akane nearly three hours to get him to calm down, not that she was much better as she had been just as excited for the blond.
"Today we'll begin the next stage of your training," Akane told him, "Go to our usual spot in the forest and we'll get started."
"Ossu." When Naruto finished with his meal he tossed the empty cup and used chopsticks into an overflowing trashcan. Akane made a mental note to make him clean his house when he got home as the blond stepped out and closed the door behind him. He took off without locking it, there was no need since he had nothing of value anymore and it wasn't like it ever stopped people from breaking in anyways.
He ran down the street, completely ignoring the scowls and angered glares that were sent his way. Now that he had someone who cared about him, the glares sent to him by the villagers were less than meaningless.
Soon enough Naruto was running through the trees and stopped in the clearing he had been using, "ok, so what now?"
"Now we'll begin the second step, moulding and controlling your chakra," Akane commented as Naruto sat down in his usual spot as he listened to the demoness talk. "Moulding chakra involves the extraction of energies from both the body's cells and the mind's consciousness, then mixing them together within the individual. The amount of each energy will differ based on the type of technique the ninja wishes to execute. In other words, a ninja could create too much or too little chakra for a given jutsu, resulting in the chakra being used inefficiently. In addition, even if a ninja is able to mould the correct amount of chakra, if they cannot manipulate the chakra properly, the desired jutsu will not be as effective or will not execute at all. Wasting energy will also create weaknesses like early exhaustion, which would hinder the ninja's capacity to fight long-term battles. General training methods for improving one's moulding and manipulation of chakra are the Leaf Concentration, Tree Climbing, and Water Walking exercises, at least for humans."
"Yeah…" Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "um…"
"Right…" Akane sighed, "needs to be simpler. Ok!" she clapped her hands together, "Why don't we just start with a chakra control exercise and I'll go into more detail behind the mechanics and theories of chakra later. Naruto-kun, I want you to grab a leave and stick it on to your forehead, channel your chakra to your head to hold the leaf there."
Naruto didn't even question her as he picked up a leaf from the ground and put it to his head, he began channeling chakra to that spot, then removed his hand. He was rather surprised when instead of sticking to him, the leaf shot off his head, completely torn to shreds. "What happened?" he asked.
"You used too much chakra," Akane told him, "if you use too much chakra the leaf will shoot off, too little and it won't stick." 'Of course he has so much it actually ripped the leaf to pieces, this is going to take some effort'. She didn't mention that out loud as she continued,"you need to find the correct amount of chakra to use in order to make the leaf stick."
"Ok, I think I understand," Naruto said, he grabbed another leaf and got to work. Sticking a leaf to his forehead proved to be a lot harder then it sounded, usually he found it flying off his forehead with enough force that it the leaf would actually get torn. It took the entirety of his three hour period before lunch to make any progress at all, progress being that now his leaf only flew about a foot away, rather than getting torn to shred from the force of getting shot off his head.
It was a little disappointing that he couldn't complete the exercise by the time he finished, but Akane didn't let him wallow in what he deemed as a failure. "That was an excellent job Naruto-kun," she said to him. "This exercise is actually harder for you than most, because you have so much more chakra then most people. The fact that your starting at such a young age is also a factor to consider."
"So because I have more chakra, it's harder to control?" asked Naruto as he ate the fish he had caught along with some of the wild berries that Akane had told him were edible.
"Yes, the more chakra you have the more difficult it is to control it," she paused. "I believe that's why humans start teaching children to mould chakra at a young age. Demons do the same thing with their young, especially considering youki is harder to control then chakra."
"Why is that?"
"Because Youki is many times more potent and powerful then its human equivalent, youki from even the weakest demon is about three times more powerful than chakra."
"What about you? How much stronger is your youki?"
Akane smiled as she answered, "oh, about a hundred times more powerful."
Naruto's eyes widened, "you must be really strong."
"Of course," Akane said, and Naruto got a mental image of the red head flipping her hair over her shoulder and smirking. "I am the most powerful Bijuu in existence after all. Now, finish eating so we can get started on your training."
Naruto nodded, even though Akane could not see it and scarfed down the rest of his food before standing up. "So am I going to be doing the leaf sticking exercise again?" he asked.
"No, you're going to be training your body now," Akane said. "Another key to gaining strength is your physical prowess, so I want you to do one hundred push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, one hundred pull-ups, two hundred-crunches and then you're going to run around the forest at full speed until I say stop."
Naruto's eyes widened to epic proportion as she told him what he would be doing, "WHAAAAAAAAAT!"

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"WHAAAAAAAAT!"
The scream echoed all throughout Konoha, causing many people to pause and shiver at the fear in at the shear terror the voice held.
Sarutobi had stopped reading his beloved Icha Icha Paradise and looked out of the window as the shout came, he shivered. Why do I have this feeling that someone close to me is being tortured?

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"Don't complain Naruto-kun," Akane admonished as Naruto began blubbering about the exercises being too much. "If you want to be strong, you need to do as I say."
"But… but…Fine," the young blond child's shoulders seemed to drop.
"Now, don't be all down, this really will help you," the red haired vixen told her charge, "I just want you to reach your goals."
"I know… thank you Akane-chan."
"You're welcome."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Naruto's new training regimen soon began, every morning after breakfast he would begin practicing chakra control exercises. It took nearly a month for him to accomplish the Leaf Concentration exercise, or sticking a leaf to your forehead. When that was accomplished Akane had him move on.
The next step was tree climbing, this step was a lot harder than Leaf Concentration. It required him to channel chakra to the bottom of his feet and walk up the surface of a tree, too much and he was blasted off, and too little he would fall off. It didn't sound that hard in theory, but in practice it was much more difficult.
The thing about tree climbing was that it wasn't just about channeling the correct amount of chakra to his feet, it required more than just that, every time he wanted to take a step, he actually had to cut the chakra to that foot, otherwise, it would simply stay stuck to the tree when he tried to pull it off. This meant Naruto had to not only find the correct amount of chakra to channel, but had to time when he would dispel the chakra on his feet to move up or down the tree.
Akane had him accomplish this by laying on his back and pressing his feet against the side of a tree, he would then channel his chakra and attempted to walk up slowly. She would do what she could to coach him, giving helpful tips like telling him to 'clear your mind and focus only on the feel of his chakra and climbing up the tree', as well as giving him encouragement. Like his other exercise, this one required had taken a month for him to accomplish.
Now he was attempting to walk on water. If he had thought Tree climbing was hard, then this was just ridiculous. To do this exercise, the user had to be emitting a constant stream of chakra from the bottom of their feet and using the repellent force, walk across the water's surface. This technique was far more difficult to master than the Tree Climbing exercise, because the amount of chakra that needed to be emitted changed constantly, meaning he had to monitor the amount he was expelling all the time.
SPLASH!
"WAHH!"
"Keep trying Kit!" Akane said, snickering at her containers plight as he fell in for the sixth time this day.
"Bur…I hate this… so much," Naruto said as he climbed out of the water, shivering as a wind blew across his cold, wet skin. He stood there for nearly a minute, shivering before he decided to try again. "OK, let's do this again." The young blond began channeling chakra to the bottom of his feet, placing his left foot on the water he leaned on, his foot dipped a little but he quickly expelled more chakra to compensate. When he felt ready he placed his other foot on the water, he shook a little as his feet kept dipping in and out of the moving, liquid surface and he did his best to keep himself from falling. When he was ready, he began to move one step, two steps, three, four.
"Hey!" Naruto smiled, "I think I'm getting the hang of this!"
SPLASH!
"WAH!"
"MhmhmhmhhahahahaHAHAHAHA!" Akane began laughing hysterically as the blond once again fell in. Were any one else inside the seal they would have seen the crimson haired demoness rolling around on the floor laughing as she held her gut, and with tears of mirth streaming down her face. Who knew watching Naruto train would be so entertaining?
"It's not funny!" Naruto scowled, as he climbed back out.
"It is too funny!" Akane shot back even as she tried to regain her breath from all the laughing she did, "I only wish I could see the look on your face, HAHAHAHA!"
"Why is this so hard?" asked Naruto in a complaining whine.
"Well, you can't expect it to be easy," Akane quipped as she got her laughing under control. "This is the hardest exercise humans have, at least I think it is, I'm pretty sure they don't go into any of the other exercises. So you can't expect to just get it right away."
"But it's been two months!" Naruto whined, "the others only took me one month."
"Which just goes to show you that this exercise is much harder than the other ones," Akane said. "Now, let me dry you off then you can go and get some food."Naruto felt his entire body relax as Kyuubi's Youki entered his system, his skin began to heat and steam, drying off as the natural heat from the vixens youki warmed it.
"I love the feel of your Youki," Naruto said with a content sigh, his eyes were closed so he could not see the light red haze of Akane's youki as it flooded through his coils and made it's way out of the pours of his skin. "It feels almost as good as when you hold me."
"W-what?" asked Akane, blushing at his innocent words. He had been making innocent statements like that ever since they met, for someone reason they never failed to make her entire face feel like it was on fire. She was confused as to why those words from Naruto always seemed to affect her so, no matter how hard she thought about it, she had been unable to find the answer. Maybe her biological clock was finally ticking?
She just hoped Nibi never found out or that damn hellcat would never let her hear the end of it.
She shook her head, now wasn't the time to figure out what it was about this boy that affected her so. "Go and catch something to eat Naruto-kun, after wards begin your physical training."
"Yes, Akane-chan."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Sarutobi slowly blew smoke from his pipe as he looked out at the village, the paperwork was done, his secretary had none left to bring him, he had no ninja bothering and the council had been quiet since Naruto's birthday. Days like this, where he could just relax were rare and he was taking full advantage of that fact by smoking his favorite pipe. Ah! This is the life...
Just as he had those thoughts the door slammed open and in walked Naruto Uzumaki, yelling out in a loud voice, "OI! Ojisan!"
Looks like he spoke too soon.
"Ah, Naruto-kun," Sarutobi smiled, even if the boy had ruined the peace and quiet he had been enjoying the young blond always brought a smile to his face. "What can I do for you? You do know that it's not time for me to take you out to ramen for another two days right?" Ever since Sarutobi had found the little blond on his own, hiding from the weather under several sheets of newspaper in an alley he had taken it upon himself to ensure Naruto got at least one good meal when he could.
Sarutobi often wished he could do more for the young bundle of energy, but unfortunately his job as Hokage often kept him too busy to do more than spent once a month with Naruto. Shaking the thoughts off he focused his attention on said blond.
"That's ok," Naruto said as he sat down on the chair in front of the Hokage's desk, swinging his legs back and forth in a childish manner as they couldn't reach the floor. "I'm actually here to ask for something else."
"Oh?" Sarutobi raised an eyebrow in mild curiosity. "And what do you need from me?"
"Well," Naruto gave a sheepish grin and scratched the back of his head, "I was wondering if I could use your library to look up cool ninja techniques!"
"Ninja techniques?" Sarutobi looked both startled and amused, "Naruto-kun, you don't start the academy for another eight months, you'll learn all the ninja techniques then."
"I know, I know, but I wanted to get a head start," said Naruto, "that way I can show everyone how awesome I am!"
Sarutobi chuckled a bit, the boy was enthusiastic at least. "I apologize Naruto-kun, but the Hokage library is restricted to only myself and those ninja who have my permission to enter. You are not a ninja so there isn't much I could do."
"I can't even take a peak?" asked Naruto, with wide, innocent eyes that threatened to break Sarutobi's will.
"I'm sorry," Sarutobi said, doing his best not to look into the blonds eyes. "But it wouldn't be fair to the other students. However, if you really wish to get a head start you could always check out some of the books they have at the library. I believe they have a few books on ninja basics there."
"They won't let me enter," Naruto whispered in a hurt tone, it sounded like someone had kicked his puppy and was enough to make Sarutobi flinch. When the blond looked again there were all watery and had tears leaking out of the corner of his eyes, "the lady there kicked me out before I could even enter. She said demons don't deserve to learn."
Sarutobi felt his will crumble, even as his anger at hearing what someone told the young blond skyrocketed. How could anyone say something like that to a child? Didn't they know how impressionable young children were at Naruto's age? If you tell a child he's a demon enough times than he may believe, and if that happened Naruto would become the very thing this village despised and feared. It would be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"I suppose it would be alright if I let you take a look," Sarutobi admitted slowly. "At least until I have a talk with the librarian," the way he said talk made it clear that he would be doing anything but talking.
He stood up from his chair and walked around the table, holding his hand out to Naruto who took it immediately. They walked out of the office and Sarutobi stopped to look at his secretary, "I want you to contact Ibiki, tell him he's to be at my office in one hour."
"Yes, Hokage-Sama," the young brunette said, Sarutobi had hired her for the simple fact that she was one of the few people who did not seem to hate Naruto, or at the very least, she hid it well and didn't let it interfere with her work.
"Come along Naruto-kun," Sarutobi said as they began walking down the hall.
"Kit, that was some very nice acting back there," Akane said, impressed with how well he managed to create tears on cue. "You even had me fooled for a second."
"Thanks Akane-chan," Naruto said cheerfully, "I aim to please."
He and Sarutobi reached the end of the hall and went down several flights of stairs, through another hall and stopped in front of a set of large double doors. Sarutobi placed his hand on a seal on the left door and began channeling his chakra into the seal. It glowed a light blue for a moment before there was a soft click and the door opened.
Saruto led Naruto through the door and into the room. The Hokage library was not that large, not compared to the public library. That was because the Hokage library contained strictly ninja techniques, where as the public one had a section for just about everything.
Still it was very large, with nearly two dozen rows of shelves filled with books and scrolls, two floors, several chairs and a table for reading.
"Now Naruto," Sarutobi started in a serious voice. "There are a few stipulations to me letting you stay here, first, you can only read from the basic shinobi section, section one. Weasel will be making sure that you do not read any of the scrolls and books in the other sections."
"Who's Weasel?" asked Naruto, tilting his head in curiosity.
"That would be me," said a voice behind Naruto.
"GAH!" Naruto whirled around and found himself staring into someone wearing the traditional ANBU uniform, which consisted of black and grey armour, metal arm guards and gloves, ninja sandals with spikes for traveling into mountainous regions, three ninja pouches on his back-waist and a signature spiral tattoo on his left shoulder. He had a porcelain mask in the likeness of a weasel and a standard black ninja-to strapped to his back.
"I apologize, I did not mean to startle you," the masked ninja, who could only be Weasel stated. It was hard to tell with the mask muffling the voice, and said voice being slightly monotone, but he sounded amused.
Naruto huffed as he crossed his arms and gave the Weasel masked Anbu a petulant glare, "just don't do it again."
Sarutobi chuckled and ruffled Naruto hair, "now then, Weasel will make sure that you only read what I allow you. Also, be careful not to damage any of the scrolls you handle, most of these are originals and therefore delicate. I am putting a lot of trust in you Naruto-kun, don't let me down."
"Don't you worry about a thing Ojisan!" Naruto grinned as he gave a thumbs up, unknowingly giving the nice guy pose.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"YOSH! MY YOUTH DETECTOR HAS GONE OFF!" shouted a man with a bowl cut, large eyebrows and the most hideous green Leotard like spandex anyone had ever laid eyes on. Everyone around this man suddenly jumped in startlement as he enthusiastically pumped a fist in the air. "WHO EVER THIS YOUTHFUL PERSON IS HAS INSPIRED ME! I MUST FAN MY OWN FLAMES OF YOUTH BY CHALLENGING MY HIP, ETERNAL RIVAL KAKASHI!"
with that said the man took off, leaving nothing but a cloud of dust in his likeness behind. The people who watched him shivered in fear as a shout of "YOOOOUUUUUTH!" could be heard in the distance.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Over at a memorial that was made to honor those of Konoha who died in battle, in one the many training grounds of Konoha, Kakashi Hatake shivered. Why do I have this intense urge to kill spiky headed blonds?

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Sarutobi grimaced as he saw the pose Naruto had taken; he hoped that Maito Gai never got his hands on the impressionable child. The horrors that would come of such a meeting were too terrible to imagine.
"Then I will leave you to it, meanwhile, I am going to go speak with a subordinate of mind and have him "talk"to the librarian you were telling me about." He did his best to shake thoughts of a Naruto wearing green spandex with a bowl shaped hair cut and large eyebrows out of his mind.
"Ok! I'll just get started on learning awesome ninja powers, the next time you see me I'll be ready to take that hat!" Naruto shouted enthusiastically.
Sarutobi chuckled, "I'm sure you will." He said, not too concerned, after all, how much could a child like Naruto really learn in the few days it would take for him to straighten out the library?
He nodded to Weasel who nodded back and left.
Akane sighed, "Not quite what I had hoped but at least he gave you access to the library, we should be able to learn more about ninja techniques then we can at the academy, even with the restrictions."
"Naruto-kun, go grab a book on shinobi basics."
"Ossu!" Naruto ran to the section Sarutobi had pointed out and immediately began scanning the titles of the books and scrolls in that particular area. It was only then that Naruto realized they had another problem.
"Uh… Akane-chan?"
"Yes."
"I uh… I can't…
Akane blinked curiously as Naruto's voice was too soft for her to hear, like a whisper across the mindscape. "What it is Naruto-kun?" she asked.
"I can't read…" he mumbled, feeling ashamed of himself.
"What?"
"I can't read."
"But didn't –" she stopped herself from speaking any further and nearly kicked herself, of course that hateful bitch of a matron that had kicked him out of the orphanage hadn't taught him how to read! Why she even thought that he might be able to despite this was beyond her, she knew that everyone hated Naruto enough that they would do all in their power to block him from learning. Knowledge is power after all, and they wouldn't want the "demon" to gain any of that.
Kyuubi felt a growl escape her throat as the desire to tear out the matrons throat nearly overwhelmed her. But she forced the emotion into the back of her mind, it wouldn't help right now. She needed to help Naruto.
"Naruto-kun," she said softly, interrupting the boy who had begun to softly cry at his lack of ability. "I want you to allow me to take control of your body, I can memorize all of the scrolls here and manifest them in the mindscape, then I'll teach you to read. Ok?"
"M'kay," Naruto sniffed as he wiped his eyes, "Thank you."
"Don't mention it,"Akane smiled before she exerted her will through the seal, without Naruto's express permission what she was about to do would be impossible. The seal that held her was stronger than any she had ever seen, held together by the powers of the Shinigami, the Avatar of death himself. Even with Naruto's permission this would be a tad difficult without alerting the ANBU to any change in Naruto's chakra.
Slowly, she seeped her chakra through the seal and established hold of Naruto's own chakra, exerting more will over it to bring it under her control. Naruto, whose head had been bowed down lifted it up to reveal red eyes with black slits.
Grabbing the first scroll she saw Akane began to read over it, thanks to what she was she could do things like read a lot faster than any human could, and she had eidetic memory so she never forgot what she read. Going through the first book as quickly as possible she soon went on to the next.
All the books she read only had the standard information in them, what a ninja was, basic skills in stealth, tracking, tai, nin, and genjutsu, chakra and hand seals along with many other subjects that academy students were expected to know. There were a few jutsu that she got, but they were fairly weak and wouldn't be as useful as what she had hoped to find. Other books held content she already knew herself, like chakra, she had more knowledge on that subject than any scroll a human could write ever would. But others she didn't know and was quick to absorb the contents of those scrolls for later use. She didn't get as much as she had hoped out of the scrolls, but it was better than nothing.
Over by the door Weasel watched as Naruto ran through the books faster than an Akamichi ate food with an amused chuckle. The kid was definitely interesting, though what he hoped to accomplish by looking through a bunch of books without reading their contents was beyond him.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Later that night Naruto was back in Akane's laps within the seal. She had secured her hands firmly around his waist as she pulled him to her and set her hands on his lap.
"Ok Naruto-kun," Akane held out her hands and materialized a book within them. This one was not one of the ninja books, but a basic book with the human alphabet and some words and sentences on it. It was a book that held a compendium of knowledge that Akane had on the human language, and would be what she used to teach the young blond how to read with. "We're going to start by learning the alphabet, now Japanese is anagglutinative language and amora-timed language. It has a relatively small sound inventory, and a lexically significant pitch-accent system. It is distinguished by a complex system of honorifics, with verb forms and particular vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned in conversation. Japanese vowels are pure..." Noticing the look on Naruto's face that let Akane know he had no clue what she was talking about she decided to go a different route.
"Why don't we start with the alphabet..."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

The days wore on and became weeks, and the weeks became months as Akane continued helping Naruto. Teaching him to read was not all that hard, he could already talk so it was easier than teaching someone who was younger than him. All in all it only took two weeks within the seal before the young blond was capable of reading fluently.
Afterwords Akane had Naruto add in learning one of the jutsu she had found in the Hokage library with his normal routine. Sometimes it would take only a day to learn one of the jutsu, and sometimes it would take a month, however, he learned all the ones that she had to offer.
All except one.
"ARGH!" shouted Naruto as he looked at his half dead clone, he couldn't understand it, why could he learn every other jutsu, yet this one technique was giving him problems?
"You stupid Bunshin! Work, damn you!" he tried to make the clone jutsu again, and again, and again, but no matter how many times he tried he always ended up with the same half dead clone. "Why can't I do this!"
"Because you have too much chakra," supplied Akane who had been watching in amusement for a while before deciding to take pity on him.
"What? Too much chakra?" asked Naruto in a confused voice.
"Yep, remember what I told you about the more chakra you have being harder to control?"
"Yeah, you said that when someone had more chakra it was harder for them to use, and if they didn't have enough control they would… that's it! I was overloading the jutsu, even using the smallest amount of chakra I possess is still use to much for this technique."
"Excellent Naruto-kun," Kyuubi said, pleased to find that her host was finally retaining and even using the knowledge she had given him. "Yes, your overloading this jutsu, the problem is, even if you have perfect chakra control there is no way for you to learn this particular technique, since the lowest amount of chakra you can emit would still be too much for you to handle."
"So what I do?" asked Naruto, still feeling a little frustrated,"I don't want to just give up."
"And you won't," Kyuubi assured him, "we just need to find another technique that's similar to this one, something that allows to the same thing, maybe something even better than this technique. After all, this clone is just an illusion so you can't do much with it."
"That would be awesome, but how are we going to find a jutsu that could replace the Bunshin?" asked Naruto. "Ojisan won't let me into the Hokage Library now that I can go into the Public one, and I already read all of the books you memorized."
"We'll think of something," Kyuubi said, confident that something would come up to help them with this problem. Something always came up sooner or later, all they would need was patience.
"Why don't you head home now," she suggested.
"I suppose that would be for the best." Naruto channeled chakra into his legs and was soon hopping through the trees, making it out of the forest in only half an hour despite the ten mile difference.
"Naruto-kun," Kyuubi said as Naruto was walking through the now abandoned streets of Konoha, "someone is following you."
Naruto stopped and stiffened, prepared to run if someone was attempting to kill again. So far he had been able to outrun and hide from any and all the mobs that might have formed recently, since no one would expect him to know tree climbing, and he was sure he could outrun whoever was following him. But he didn't really want to run, he had been doing that all his short life and he was sick of it.
"Whoever is stalking me, I suggest you show yourself before I shove my foot off in your ass!" Naruto shouted.
Akane sweat dropped, "Did you seriously just say something that stupid, really Naruto-kun?" The kid may be getting better but who ever this person was was using chakra, she could feel it, and that meant he was ninja. Naruto stood no chance against a ninja right now.
Naruto ignored her in favor of the figure who had just jumped down from building. He had dark grey eyes, black hair that hung near his cheeks to frame his face and kept the rest of it in a ponytail at the back. His clothes consisted of a black shirt with a high collar that somewhat covered the lower half of his face, it had a large red fan on the back, and black pants with a weapons pouch strapped to his back.
The fact that this man had jumped from the roof told Naruto that he was a shinobi, making the blond tense. He knew that he wouldn't stand a chance against a ninja, the whiskered blond was now cursing himself for being so stupid, he had only just started his training a little while ago and he was only five going on six years old. He had no chance in hell of defeating a trained ninja.
Maybe he should have listened to Akane after all.
"Who the hell are you and what do you want?" asked Naruto with false bravado, preparing to run in case things got bad.
"I mean you no harm Naruto-san," the man said, and the five year old blond blinked as he recognized the voice.
"Weasel-san?" asked Naruto uncertainly.
"I'm pleased to see you remember me," Weasel said, giving the blond a small smile, it looked decidedly odd considering his voice had somewhat of a monotone. "However, my real name is Itachi, so you may call me that when I am not on duty."
"Itachi…" Naruto tried to the name out before shrugging. "So, what exactly do you want with me Itachi-san? Why are you following me?"
"I was just heading home after a mission and saw you coming out of the forest," Itachi said. "I guess I became curious and followed you, again I apologize for startling you."
Naruto slowly relaxed, after his last beating he could tell when people wanted to harm him, in large part due to Akane pumping his eyes and nose with her Youki. The results of which gave him increased vision that allowed him to see in the dark, and made his nose nearly ten times stronger than an inuzuka's. he could literally senses the pheromones on people and Akane had taught him to recognize them and what they meant. For the most part, there were some things she hadn't taught him yet, like that honey smell he had caught wind of when he passed a house where odd sounding shouts were coming from. When he asked her about that she had just said "I'll tell you when you older" and left his curiosity unsatisfied.
"In that case, is there something I can help you with?" asked Naruto, feeling better now that he could tell this man meant him no harm.
Itachi shook his head, "I was just heading back to my own home when I saw you and decided to make sure you got home safely."
Naruto blinked for a few seconds before shrugging, "well ok, thanks I guess."
"You are welcome Naruto-san," Itachi said.
Naruto looked at him for a few more seconds before he began his walk back to his apartment. Itachi watched as the young child of the two people he had respected the most in this world walked off, a thoughtful frown on his face.
That whole conversation had been both surprising and interesting. Surprising because Naruto had been able to actually sense him, despite the fact that Itachi was one of the few Anbu whose stealth skills were good enough that only the best Inuzuka trackers or a Hyuuga could find him. He hadn't been hiding or anything, but the fact that the blond had good enough senses to find him was still impressive. And it was interesting because of how the young blond had reacted when he showed himself.
The way Naruto had tensed his muscles, a sign that he had been coiled and ready to act if Itachi had shown any sign of attacking. It was both depressing and impressive; depressing that a young child, and the hero of Konoha had gained self-preservation abilities like that. Yet impressive as well, since while it was disheartening it showed just how powerful the young boy could become, if he could get proper training that is.
He might already be getting training from somewhere, Itachi mused, he was consciously channeling chakra into his legs. That he can access his chakra at such a young age…
Itachi would have to watch Naruto more closely, maybe he would find some way to help him. He owed it to the boys parents after all.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"Naruto-kun, come into the seal, I want to speak with you for a second," Akane said as Naruto finished his after-exercise stretches.
"Sure thing," Naruto said, shrugging off the odd request since she could talk to him without him entering the mindscape. Not that he would ever complain about being near the one person who had helped him more than the Hokage.
He sat down under one of the trees and closed his eyes. He pictured himself entering the mindscape and willed it to happen.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Opening his eyes again Naruto found himself standing just outside of the cage that held Akane. He looked at it for a moment with frown before moving through the bars, and walked over to where the red head was sitting. "Akane-chan," he greeted as he sat down next to her.
Akane smiled at him, "Naruto-kun, now that you are going to be starting the academy in a few months we need to talk about your persona."
"My what?" Naruto asked, blinking in confusion. What was she talking about?
"Your persona, how you act in public," she said, "I've been thinking about it for a while now. With how the population of Konoha see's you, we need to hide your abilities and make sure they don't think you're a threat."
"Um…ok, that makes sense actually," Naruto thought about what his the red haired demoness was telling him. "So, how do you think I should act?" he asked, because honestly he had no real talent in subterfuge.
Akane smiled, "well… I was thinking of the best way to make you seem harmless, as well as get back at a few of the villagers…"
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