A/n I can't believe it but it is finally here. I give you chapter 6 and I hope it is the start of more. Unfortunately I wrote this while drop dead sick as well as inexplicably exhausted so I apologize for absurd notions or other sorts of rambling as my head isn't quite together during these moments. Either way please enjoy and leave a review. Hope you like it!

With a stir a body began to rise from the wooden floor of the Root hideout, the only light casting its eyes on the figure were that of a small flickering candle from a nearby shrine. Stretching her arms out with a muffled yawn, Kurai looked around her location trying to process the events of the previous night. Arms sinking to her side she realized she was straddling Naruto's sleeping form, gazing down at him she couldn't help but give a forlorn look at her new partner.

Was Haku's death worth a future with this person, arguably a complete stranger. Sure she thought he was charming and attractive but he was just a teen fresh out of the academy. Carefully she reached towards his face, fingers dancing across his face, grasping the edges of his hitai-ate she slowly pulled it away from his forehead. Concern struck her face as she finally saw more of what once struck her curiosity. Completely circling Naruto's eyes was nothing but scar tissue, as if someone had applied a pinkish red eyeliner and weren't aware of how to apply said make-up.

Leaning forward she went to kiss the teen's brow once again only to freeze in place as the redhead suddenly gripped both of her upper arms. Red met yellow as Kurai remained frozen, the genin's mottled but faintly slitted eyes pierced into her soul. In the next moment however he was blinking, shaking his head clear.

"Kurai? What are you doing?"

Kurai's brain took a fraction of a second to process the event before she placed a mask of false emotion on her face. "Nothing, gaki. Nothing at all. You simply startled me when you woke."

'What was that about? That was not normal.' Kurai's mood however changed as she felt Naruto move underneath her, an obvious reaction taking place in the boy. Smirking she tore into the teen. "Oooh? Is that a kunai in your pocket or are you just happy to be mounted by a beauty such as myself?"

The redhead's eyes widened in embarrassment at the remark.

To his immense relief a knock on the door echoed through the room. "Naruto-sama, Danzo-sama wishes to speak with Kurai-sama as soon as she's available."

Kurai raised an eyebrow as she stood, Naruto following as she pulled him up by the arm.

"Wonder what the old man wants from me."

Her redhead companion merely shrugged in return, no wiser then she was. If he was to guess it would be regarding the event of the previous night, and the would-be assassin that had somehow infiltrated such a well guarded location. Kurai glanced towards the place Naruto last stood words already forming, "Think we have time to take showers?" However, she was met to the sound of water running and the bathroom door closing.

"Did you say something?!"

Wide-eyed Kurai's fist raised up in anger, "Why you little, I'm gonna kick your pale white ass!" Her complaints were met with a snicker as the sound of the door behind her opened greeting her with the sight of Kari and her purple hair. With a huff she gave a nod to the purplette Root member.

"Oh you don't wanna join me?! I guess that comment earlier was just a facade!"

The ex AQUA member saw red, gripping the sides of her black shirt and lifted it over her head. There was no way in hell that he was gonna get the better of her. Behind Kurai, Kari's eyes bulged in their sockets as she was greeted by Kurai's bare muscular back. Taking a step back, Kari letting out a gasp, she watched the feminine juggernaut's pants follow. Now clad in only blue panties Kurai quickly opened the bathroom door, the next moment it was closed. Kari shook her head palms to her face before turning around to inform Danzo of what had transpired.

Now in the bathroom Kurai glared at the glass pane between her and the redhead.

'I'll be damned if I let him think he got one over on me.' Grabbing the waist band of her underwear she stripped and opened the glass door. She was immediately hit by the heat of the shower. Having used, and still using, her Silent Killing technique she snuck in behind the teen.

Taking a careful look at his well defined back she almost wanted to purr as she reached out. Moving her arms to wrap around his torso she was caught off guard as some of the water before her changed form and gripped her wrists tightly. Remembering Naruto's powers she almost gave up on surprising him when she noticed he hadn't reacted. He didn't even say anything.

'His gourd isn't in here, its on the couch in the next room. Just how is he...' Then it dawned on her, was he always in control of his ability to manipulate water? Was the power sentient? The thought occurred to her, could it detect hostility? Testing her theory she gave out a silent breath of air, releasing the intent she once had to throttle the teen. Relinquishing its constraint on her wrists she slowly wrapped her arms around the teen. Rising from her centre she felt peace flow from the redhead into herself, even as he froze at the contact of something more than water.

For a moment the sound of water was silent, and she could hear the emotion from every breath he took. His soap covered hand gently wrapped around her forearm as he carefully leaned into her chest. So close now that the water washed over the both of them in unison. Close enough to feel her pulsing heart. Naruto let out a shaky breath unsure what to say. While the contact wasn't unwanted he was overwhelmed by the emotions that it brought up, feelings once locked away in his past.

"I haven't felt the touch of a human...in so long that wasn't tainted by the desire to harm me. Not since I was a little kid, I'd almost forgotten what it was like." Sadness broke the silence of the water as she heard the faint sound of sobbing. Her breasts pressed further into his back as she consoled her new companion, arms tightening around his chest. "I told you Naruto, I'd fix you up. If Kami herself wants us together I won't fight it, in fact I must say I actually enjoy your company." Rubbing his chest gently she continued, "While it's clear you're not the most sane of people, you didn't have much of a life to bear sanity in the first place. Saijin-san told me a bit about you."

Still crying Naruto's body tensed for a brief moment, anxiety sinking into his soul. What would she think if all he thought about was a dead woman nearly triple his age. She'd think he was a freak, like everyone else. The freak with the weird hands, the scourge of the leaf. Paranoia sapped the strength from his legs as a pretty face with brown eyes quickly changed to a white and red mask.

It was Haku. He could still practically taste the salt from her skin, the look of terror seared into his memory as he molested her. The echo in his ears from the sound of her neck breaking. For all his arrogance, all the posturing, he was no more than a young man. Even in the haze of rage as he killed her, he could remember everything clearly as if looking at a set of pictures. Nothing could purge that memory of weakness and triumph from his brain.

What was once a slow muffled stream of sounds became a loud unrestrained crying as Kurai followed the boy to the base of the shower, arms still wrapped around his shaking form. Running her hand through his wet, soap filled hair she whispered sweet nothings in his ear, not unlike a lover would. 'I'm a freak, a wretch upon this world.' He thought to himself with self pity.

"I'm a freak." He spoke with a sniffle. Turning his head ever so slightly, he raised his hand into her vision. Tooth filled palm towards her. Opening ever so slightly the tongue recoiled, almost as if to have a muscle spam. The hand immediately tightened and closed up as if the mouth could taste the soap still covering its surface, and found it distasteful.

Rage flowed into her veins at the remark, releasing her grip she forced the redhead to face her, completely turning his body towards her own. For the first time, in all her feminine glory, Naruto was gifted the sight of Kurai's bust, her well toned stomach and the patch of black hair above her woman hood. Completely exposed to him he didnt even flinch at the view, gaze still aimed at the glass behind her. Nary a moments thought crossed him to take a glance as he was still wrapped up in his own thoughts of self loathing.

To enraptured with rage she too did not steal a glance at his exposed state. Quickly her hand, that had once been amidst his hair, was now firmly griping his chin Black nail polish contrasted against his snow white skin. Unfortunately even with his head being forcibly pointed toward, he still refused to look her in the eyes, his sight instead pointed towards the glass of the door as the rivulets of water ran lines down the smooth surface. "Look me in the eyes Naruto."

When he refused her request her face tightened. Like her visage, her grasp of his lower jaw increased in strength. "I SAID LOOK AT ME!"

The words echoed in the small bathroom for a brief moment. Begrudgingly Naruto ever so slightly moved his vision to match Kurai's. When his eyes finally met hers, he was heartbroken as he could feel the tears, not the water, dripped down her face. Though blind he could still see her expression plain as day, and the pain that stabbed its way into his heart with it.

"You are not a freak Naruto Uzumaki!" Reaching for his hand she held the appendage up in front of his face, perfectly aware he couldn't actually see, she knew though. She knew he could feel everything around him like a hypersensitive sonar. "This isn't a deformation of your hands, it is a rare blood line from Iwa." A flash of shock marred his face. "It's used to compress your chakra on itself. Effectively tempering and strengthening it in your body. Let me guess you have amazing chakra control right?"

A faint nod was his only answer. Water still cascading upon them.

"I thought so, its labeled as a kinjutsu in Iwa for a reason. It can be artificially created in the human body but at a cost. If done wrong it essentially erodes the person's chakra network until they die, eating itself to death like a confused parasite. Perfect chakra control may seem like a worthy endeavor but not at such a cost. There's a reason somethings are best left hidden and to nature. You just happen to be blessed with it as a gift. So Naruto..."

Kurai's hand finally let go and she placed it and her other at the sides of his face, brushing wet maroon strands away from it. "You aren't a freak. You're something special." Leaning in she placed her lips upon his and kissed him deeply. For a few moments they stayed like this until inevitably they needed to breath, but sadly this didn't have the effect she was looking for. Naruto looked no different. His emotions that of sadness. "Kurai...I appreciate, and even enjoyed that I did, but that's not even the centre of my problems." Motioning to his heart he clenched his fist, his face adopting a look of anguish. "I miss her so much!"

Motioning him towards herself she slid her arms back around his wet torso, pulling his head into her breasts. "Who do you miss Naruto, what is it that troubles you so damn much."

Not a half an hour later Naruto stepped through the threshold of the bathroom into the living room of his "house". Following right behind him was Kurai both clad in towels. Lacing her fingers with his she turned him around pulling the shorter redhead into a kiss. With a much more amused tone than before she smiled into his lips. "I thought the stereotype was the woman were suppose to taste great. I like cherries..." parting she smacked his rear with the back of her hand as he turned around. "We need to get dressed lover boy, the old man won't wait much longer without dying of old age."

A genuine laugh left Naruto's mouth.

Having lived for so long and experienced many complex things, Danzo could say he'd seen it all. At one time the thought of Naruto smiling, with joy of all the emotions, evaded him. It just didn't seem possible. Perhaps he over stepped with indoctrinating the young Yamanaka so soon. 'Time will tell.' He thought to himself. Hardening his gaze he looked the two over, contemplating just how to present his discovery.

"I have you brought you here on the matter of the reports of not one, but two, assassination attempts on both of your lives." The pair nodded in understanding, having both expected this exact scenario.

"After the second attempt I had more to go on then just a mad man spouting out names upon his death bed. Upon returning to your room last night Naruto I sent out Torune and Fu to see if they could find anything that might give us a clue as to what exactly happened. At first it seemed nothing turned up but then Torune's little friends found traces of the assassin on the brick work near the assailant's first appearance." Nodding at this Kurai could see how it had happened.

"When he scaled the wall he had plenty of time to scrape against the brick's roughness. Maybe that old guy was useful after all." Frowning Danzo nodded in agreement before continuing. "Torune and Fu spent most of the night and early morning following what they could."

Surprising even Naruto the grizzled Shinobi's face became more serious, if that was even possible. "They were not the only assassin's, and you were not the only victim's attempted...or otherwise."

"Wait you mean to tell me someone is deliberately trying to kill us?" Naruto and Danzo shared a look of disbelief at Kurai's comment. "Momochi-san you do realize what you just said right? You are a rogue ninja. Do you mean to tell me you haven't once been attacked for being in the Bingo book?" The tall woman shrugged at the notion.

"Now that you mention it, no." Tapping her chin with a thoughtful look she frowned. "It is possible that with everything going on in Kiri they never had a chance to actually pursue me." Shaking her head, "But that wouldn't stop other countries from trying to collect the bounty on my head."

With a whistle of relief she smiled at Naruto, "Damn I must of scared them away, that or I'm just lucky." Danzo coughed lightly into his hand, regaining the pair's attention. "Be that as it may, I urge you and Naruto to take the utmost care for yourselves and each other went going about your day to day business." Stroking his chin, and possibly an imaginary beard, he grew a thoughtful look.

"That leads me to my next and main topic of discussion. Naruto my boy your training, with chunin exams coming in time, will be bolstered further by Kurai and Saijin."

Kurai raised an eyebrow at the idea, not against it truthfully but still caught a smidge off guard.

Nodding, Naruto liked the idea, he'd be able split away from any of the training provided by Kakashi as between him and Sasuke the two were sure to be taught similar methods of engagement. If Kakashi was as fabled a shinobi though, it might allow Sasuke to stay as level in capabilities as himself, something that drove Naruto mad personally.

A thought came to him.

Turning to Kurai the woman took a step back, hand separating from his. "Oh Kami, whats that look about?"

Practically cackling Naruto rubbed his hands together. "You're gonna teach me your Silent Killing technique." Kurai hmmm'd to herself in thought at the idea. When she learned it it had nearly doubled her potential in fights, if you can't hear or see your opponent in a fight you generally died unable to fight back. Naruto would have a potent ace in the exam's if she taught him.

'Maybe I'd let him touch my sword too.' She chuckled to herself at the joke before nodding at Naruto. "I also would like to see Saijin train you as I think I know why the old man has picked him."

Nodding in understanding Danzo grabbed Naruto's attention, "How perceptive. Saijin is one of the toughest children I have ever met, his durability is both natural and learned. I hope that Momochi-san's offensive abilities will be matched and balanced by Saijin's defensive talents in turn."

Naruto nodded his head in acceptance, "Then if my training room is prepared then we shall begin."

The only sound in the room was the periodic drip drop that came as the mist filling the room occasionally gathered enough on the rooms wooden surfaces before falling to the stone floor.

The mist was an imperceptibly faint pink all throughout, feeling his surrounds he was still dismayed to feel nervousness at the lack of vision. Not because of darkness, as he'd once interpreted this sensation as, but rather constant brightness overloading his senses. No different then losing focus when being hit in the face his surroundings were a repeating source of information that prevented him from feeling Kurai's movements in his sphere of influence.

Stepping to his left he took his stance again think Kurai would come from the front, being the brazen woma. she was. A groan left his mouth as he felt a poke to his lower spine. Shifting he took his stance again. Another poke to his stomach, just beneath his sternum.

"This isn't working Kurai, he cant feel anything shifting, he can't see you. It's still not changing."

Sighing Kurai broke the jutsu off pulled Naruto into a one armed hug. Bonking his forehead with the bokken in the hand she had wrapped around she pecked Naruto on the cheek.

"What was it that time, still "bright"? "

Shrugging her of Naruto shook his head in agreement. Their goal was to find a way for Naruto to detect anything in the mist. Sort of as a starting ground to removing its effects on him as a whole.

Saijin stepped forward from the shadows, dwarfing Kurais height. "Perhaps your just trying to blanket the mist. When you use your veil of energy it seems to fall on top of its surroundings. But why not try separating the energy as small as you can and blend it with the mist Kurai produces."

As a if a light bulb turned on Naruto nodded in agreement, beginning to focus he slowly felt the blinding pressure around him fall away. Slowly but surely he was able to make out the features of Kurai hopeful face as she silently crept up to his front. With no sound to be heard Kurai reached forward towards his groin.

Rather than the teasing poke she expected, a hand found its way atop her left boob. "Must we be so perverted my dear Kurai? I thought we'd gotten plenty of that out of the air earlier. "

Squeezing he patted her on the shoulder with his other hand. Standing up Kurai frowned as she turned to look at Naruto past her shoulder.

"That was quick Naruto, but I gotta say nicely done I wasn't sure if you would get it right away. Too bad coulda been fun. Just me you and the water again." Winking she bumped hips with him before she motioned for Saijin to give her a bottle of water.

Taking a swig of water, she then squeezed the bottle out onto the stone of the floor. Motioning to Naruto he got the clue and started reforming the mist.

"Now that you can see through it you've completed part one of the Silent Killing technique."

Naruto stilled his breathing for an instant before rushing through the mist repositioning himself. Trying to distort his voice and throwing it he spoke as he reached forward.

"Now comes part two..." He whispered to himself, the trick to part one was simply obfuscation of the enemies visual sense. The second was the more difficult step, completely silencing every movement his body create. While this was in all sense a chakra control exercise it was a matter of dampening the sound each of his moves made, like trying to capture a very fast insect before it could move again.

Rushing Kurai's side he lashed out with his bokken aimed for her side. Smiling Kurai grabbed his wrist and pulled him into a kiss before twirling him away. Wide eyed Naruto jumped back and repositioned himself once more.

"That wasn't half bad Naruto. You almost had it but you forgot something. Centering his focus he pondered what he might have failed to silence. Trying again he appeared behind Kurai aiming for her lower back, intent on hiting her spinal column.

His body quickly twisted as Kurai booted foot lashed out and struck him beneath Naruto's shoulder. In an unfortunate twist his upper arm made a sickening crack and the bone beneath shattered and ruptured the skin making itself seen.

Biting his tongue Naruto shrply gasped as the pain coursed through him into his torso. "Son of a bitch!"

Kurai's took a look of panic and guilt as she rushed to his side.

"Oh Kami I didn't think that angle would be so bad! Naruto I'm so sorry!" She made to place her arm around his good side in an attempt to console him. Furrowing his brow he shrugged away from ber touch, the pain on his mind.

"Back off, I'm fine!" Kurai flinched at his scathing tone. Her eyes widened briefly before narrowing as a red chakra began to surge from within the wound. Sickening sounds came from beneath the skin as Naruto's eyes widened in shock, before slowly going INTO shock. His eyes rolling back into his head.

As the chakra thinned out the arm slowly repaired itself before it became a slow process. To Kurai it seemed he had tried to heal it with the potent chakra but even after his conciousness faded the arm continued to heal it albeit much slower than before.

'Purple energy and now red chakra what the hell is going on?' Looking up she noticed Saijin was kneeling on his other side. Meeting eyes Saijin saw the unasked question, the ROOT member shook his head as he made to lift Naruto bridal style, carefully avoiding the arm.

"This is to stay between us, Naruto has another more malicious power within himself that his is still unaware of. Danzo-sama would very much like it to remain that way until it is absolutely necessary." Hefting the boy up once more, readjusting, he moved from the water drenched room into the torch lit hallway. Looking back to Kurai he frowned slightly before taking a gamble.

"You may have guessed it but he's a Jinchuuriki Momochi-sama. The number nine specifically."

Her eyes softened as she thought back to her homeland of Kiri, images of the Mizukage Yagura coming to the fore of her mind. "That is... a terrible burden yo place on a child, any child."

Nodding he began walking. "Then you understand why Danzo-sama wishes to keep it from him for much longer. Naruto-sama has never asked and thus Danzo-sama has never had to lie to him."

Following into the base Kurai grimaced as the arm finished healing itself and a wisp of red escaped the wound as it closed.

Grimacing at a foul taste in his mouth Naruto realized it was a blend of his saliva and blood, he hadn't realized how fast he bit his mouth shut. Running his tongue along his teeth he flinched at the spark of pain.

He'd bit the tip of his tongue off.

Looking around after filing the mouth situation away he noticed he was no longer in the ROOT hideout. Instead he was in a brick walled passageway, thick tubes of blue, red and purple energy coursing over them. His eyes narrowed as he speculated about his dilemma.

He couldn't have gone far as he was just beginning to heal his tongue, as he usually would any other wound. Arm included as the skin was just starting to seal itself up.

Frowning he shook his head, long ago he'd realized that he could coerce the wounds he received to heal faster. Every time was followed by red chakra bubbling up from his inner coils becore flooding the wound.

And everytime his anger boiled beneath him only held back by the pain he suffered through as his body would reconfigure and squirm beneath his skin. Usually it would end with him falling unconscious from the shock as his nerves were played upon by lightning.

This lead Naruto to come to the conclusion he was dreaming, or something similar.

Coming to a crossing he looked left and right. Breathing deeply he tried to extend his senses. Left and right were nothing of note but forward he felt something he couldn't quite put his thoughts on. It felt angry and bored. Or maybe Angry because it was bored.

Walking forward he was met with a giant gate before him, a tag at its centre read 'seal'.

Calmly walking forward his mind was assaulted by the same vision of red eyes like back in Wave. Shaking his head he tried to remove the uneasy feeling that entered his heart.

Slowly a ruby red eye opened practically piercing his soul. Another soon followed.

A rumbling voice as loud as thunder reached his ears maoing his body shiver.

"At long last I meet my jailor. Tell me Ningen, what pitiful failure brings you before me again."

Trembling with excitement and fear Naruto's right eyebrow quirked up at the question.

"Oh dark entity in my dream, I think I'd recall having met two giant glowing eyes before."

A snort of amusement reached Naruto as he felt movement before him. With a sudden snap fire erupted behind the being, peeling away the shadows that once concealed the creature. Before him stood a massive red furred fox, nine magnificent tails swayed across the bricks beneath their weight. Instantly it clicked for the teenage shinobi.

The reason he was scorned by a majority of the village day in and day out. There was a tailed beast sealed within him.

"So thats how the yellow haired bastard did it." Narrowing its brows the fox glared at Naruto upon mentioning the Fourth Hokage.

"Considering his relationship to you Ningen I'd expect less of a bite when mentioning that man." Naruto felt the growl brush over him as the fox mentioned Minato. Harrumphing Naruto shook his head as he spit on the brick floor.

"What relationship, I have no father fox." The fox laid itself down head resting upon its massive forearm. Laughing to himself be nodded with amusement.

"You know Ningen Kushina-dono would be proud of you for that statement." Hmming to himself he barely noticed the tremble of Naruto's lip at the sound of his Mother's name.

"How did you know my mother beast?" Naruto matched the nine tailed beast's gaze.

Raising his unbound hand the fox motioned his claw to the seal above him. Then it clicked for the redhead.

"She was my previous jailor, a beautiful woman no doubt but her temper left much to be desired." Naruto's face became sad, but it was quickly replaced by curiosity. He wanted to know more.

"Tell me about her." He demanded, but it was met with a bark of a laugh that echoed through the chamber.

"Ningen do not mistake my familiarity with your Mother as compliance. You do not intimidate me and you are far to weak to be demanding anything of me!" Rising slightly he reached a claw through the bars and scratched the brick in front of him.

Growling the fox penetrated Naruto's spirit with malice and hatred.

"I am the Kyuubi no Kitsune, Kurama! I am the strongest of the tailed beasts and you shall respect me as such Ningen if you ever hope to wield my infinite power!"

Naruto began breathing deeply as purple energy enshrouded his figure before it erupted in purple flames, seals appearing across his body. "I take what I want when I want it 'Kurama', I am the master of myself!"

Unaware of his power unfolding and his anger leaking forth from him, chains shot ul from the ground, purple and covered in seals they wrapped around Kurama's limbs and torso. Stepping forward, Naruto's power pulled Kurama towards him and the bars of his cage.

Malice still seeping forward from him Kurama glared at the boy, the situation reminded him all to much of his previous jailor.

"You think you can control me, that you can harness my power with force? But you will never reach my feet or gain my favor like this child. Not everything is available to those with power!"

The chains beneath Kurama's head branched and wrapped around his snout before his mouth closed with a snap.

"I did not permit you to speak." A rumbling laughter came from within the fox at Naruto's statement. The chains began to strain as the Kyuubi's body tensed beneath them. Slowly cracking, Naruto's eyes began to close as exhaustion rapidly took over, his restraints on Kurama weakening.

Finally shattering, the Kyuubi slammed his furred hand upon the ground throwing Naruto away from him with the shockwave.

"You are amusing Ningen, but remember this. " The purple energy faded from Naruto's body as a chill bled into his soul.

"When ever you fight, love or even eat. I will always be pulling your strings from the darkness. Your hatred is my hatred, and I control you." Closing its eyes, Naruto faded from his mind, anger tearing through him before he blacked out from fatigue.

A/n

So finally the next chapter is here I think I cut it a bit short but I got what I wanted in regardless if this whole chapter feels rushed too me. Leave a review plus and give me some thoughts/critism and I'll see ya as soon as the next chapters finished. Which I have no clue how long it could be :/ Til next time