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A Second Chance 1: the truth (prologue)

Konoha forest

It was just a normal day. Naruto was training; someone in the shadows was watching him do it, no big deal. Naruto was currently about 19 years old, and as previously implied, Hinata would still follow him about. He was still obsessed with his training. Sasuke had killed Orochimaru after the snake man had tried to take his body as his own, but had revealed a technique to Sasuke's sharingan that allowed Sasuke to gain the power he needed to kill Itachi, and retain coherent thought and control of his mind.

It appeared that the curse seal was a mere leech, sucking his sanity away and excreting raw power. Orochimaru's jutsu was one that he had to use to retain his own mind, and it changed the curse's nature from sucking sanity, to giving nothing but power, in a photosynthesis-like way, just without the need for anything to start the process. He used it at just the wrong time, and had given Sasuke an edge that gave him incredible strength. Itachi willingly gave in to death, finally getting hit with the weight of what he had done like a train hitting a wall of pudding, and his mind begged for it all to end, which Sasuke was more than willing to assist with.

After Sasuke had returned, the council tried to peg the loss of the Uchiha's sanity on Naruto, while Sakura shunned him completely, seeing that Sasuke had come back to her, and that Naruto had never fulfilled his promise. Naruto was very angry, and asked Kyuubi what he could do to calm himself. Kyuubi taught him every deep-breathing exercise, yoga, tai chi, and meditation there had ever been, but all it did was assist Naruto in finding a different realization behind all of his fury. Sasuke was gaining power, unendingly, his inner-gates would change to accommodate the power, the village praised him, an innocent girl was there to help his image, and it was so obvious Naruto kicked himself for not realizing it sooner.

Sasuke would become hokage. It couldn't be more obvious, the council loved Sasuke and hated Naruto, the village hated him, Sasuke's power was limitless, and the girl of his dreams couldn't remember him at all. He had no reason left to live. Or at least, not in Konoha. He had made a rather drastic decision. He requested to Kyuubi that the only thing he could do to match Sasuke, and see if it was possible.

First, you should know why he didn't simply find a new dream and ask his old friend to help him achieve it. It was because Naruto had been so angry, that the seal broke, and he learned three very important things. One, the Kyuubi was still in him, by choice alone, having grown fond of the boy. Two, the Kyuubi was female, and now thought of Naruto as her brother. And three, that his intelligence had been sealed within the cage.

This intelligence was not even his, but the yondaime's. he was Naruto's father, Naruto had learned, and he had been awake for an entire year, no sleep, barely enough food and water to stay alive, sitting in his study, trying to find a way to defend his village against demons, short of sealing them in his son.

He was certain that if a beast with more than 2 tails of power were to attack, he would not be able to seal it within an object, and would have to sacrifice some pour soul's child. That was the last thing he had wanted. However, the only thing he could think of that would work was some kind of artifact that might be able to increase the power of a seal, and allow him to seal away the demons if they ever came.

He found no way, and instead, chose to do something he could not bear to even think about doing, at least, not for this reason. He had to have a child of his own, to protect the village in case this happened. He dreaded having to do this only to protect his village, and was actually in his study for an entire week, simply bawling his eyes out when he had gained great, horrible, and simply dreadful information.

The great news, his son had been born and was healthy and his wife had him with her, the horrible news, that the Kyuubi no Kitsune was on it's way to the village, the dreadful news, his son now had to fulfill his purpose, which he severely wished he wouldn't have to do.

And that's how it went down, and Naruto now trained tirelessly to achieve the goal that Kyuubi had laid out for him to fulfill in order to use the technique he needed to save his friend. Why did he need to save his friend? Because Sasuke's chakra gates would grow and it is impossible for them to grow any larger than the coils themselves, however, the curse seal doesn't care about this limit, and would merely open the gates to allow more power through.

Eventually, this would make Sasuke explode in a massive surge of chakra, destroying the village, and everyone in it. Therefore, he had to do what was originally conceived as impossible, and go back in time to get rid of the curse seal, to save his friend. The Kyuubi had refused to allow this unless he was strong enough to stop Orochimaru, as the curse seal could not be removed, so he had to keep it from being placed on Sasuke in the first place.

Kyuubi's original angel fox chakra had started to come out, making the time travel jutsu possible. You see, the Kyuubi was a being that was originally an angel with the emotions of a human, and the form of a fox. The Kyuubi became stronger, and her tails signified her strength. When she reached nine tails Kami decided enough was enough and removed her ability to get stronger, and replaced it with the ability to attain a human form.

The Kyuubi was very happy with this, but quickly became a victim of male lust, and ended up being raped due to her gentle angelic nature. This sent her into a deep depression and rage, causing her to become a demon. The seal the yondaime had created had removed the tainted essence of the Kyuubi's soul, restoring her former kindness.

Now, the Kyuubi was going to merge her body with Naruto's, fuse her chakra with his, and send him back in time, fusing his younger body with his now 19 year-old body. This would give him 4 forms, his weak, 12 year-old form, his strong, 19 year-old form, a half demon-fox form, and a full demon-fox form. He had no angel form because the taint from the Kyuubi's emotions had leaked into Naruto's dormant animal instinct, causing him to become more feral, and assault anyone who he hated truly, verbally assault those who actually tried to hurt him emotionally, and become incredibly protective of his true friends.

The Kyuubi dreaded one fact, however, and that fact was that Naruto would not have a strong enough will to instantly become a 9-tailed demon/human hybrid, he would only be able to handle 5 tails, he would have to gain the other 4 on his own, and he would have to find a second person to give the rest of Kyuubi's power to.

Mind you, Naruto was not actually going to be half-demon. He was literally a being with a total DNA count of 200. 100 human, 100 demon. This is not possible however, and he would only retain his human side until the process of his organs being mutated into demon organs was completed.

Until then, he would be in incredible pain from having a body with twice as much density, and therefore, twice as heavy. Along with the fact he would feel like he would explode at any minute until the extra human mass is burnt off. This process could be forced, but it would cause incredible pain. Sheer will would not be enough to survive, he would have to have the only force that was stronger than the will of Uzumaki Naruto, mixed with the will of the Kyuubi no Kitsune.

Love. He would have to fall in love with someone, or rather; he had to realize that he loved her. Over the years, his best friends had become Hyuuga Neji and Hyuuga Hinata. Why? He didn't know about Hinata, but as for Neji, the reason was that he shared a similar curse, only his could and would kill him at any time, Naruto's curse had only the former, and the Kyuubi would never kill her dear otouto. Blood relation or not, they were still siblings, and unless you're an Uchiha, siblings don't murder one another.

Kyuubi realized that, although he himself didn't know it, he and Hyuuga Hinata had ended up loving each other. The next piece of Naruto's struggle will be his realizing his love…

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A Second Chance…

Ch 1 – Naruto and Hinata, Gobi and Yonbi…

Naruto's Training Area, after the workout suggested in the prologue above

"(Sigh), I'm really getting tired of living around here. It just depresses me so much. I wonder when we're going to leave finally." Naruto said to himself, Hinata becoming confused by his statement. She then became fearful, at the thought of her love and inspiration leaving her; after all, she had yet to tell him of her feelings for him. She was about to step out when she heard him continue. "What the hell do you mean, 'We'll leave when you find the one you love.'? I know who I love Aneue, and I only love you as a sister, I don't feel for anyone else that way anymore." Naruto said, seemingly to himself again. Another pause of silence and Naruto spoke again. "You know what? Why don't I pull you out here so you can say that to my face huh? I think I'll do just that," Naruto said, biting his thumb, drawing blood, slamming his hand onto the ground, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu: Kyuubi no Kitsune!" A puff of smoke about the size of a person Hinata's height appeared.

When it cleared, there stood a girl Hinata's height, with an identical figure, wearing a slightly larger version of the clothes Naruto wore when he was 12, except that these hugged her figure, showing the curves that Hinata hid. This was actually rather, shall we say, appealing. Hinata wasn't ugly or chunky by any means; she was actually very beautiful, just tremendously self-conscious. Her hips were fairly wide, without being huge, and her breasts were actually a size down from Tsunade, she just hid them under that huge bulky jacket for her whole life. Back on subject, the difference between Hinata and this other girl was that Hinata was a shade or two paler than this girl, but this girl was by no means tanned. Her hair was as long as Hinata's, reaching her waist, only red. Her eyes were red, and they had slitted pupils. When she smiled, her canines were about an inch-long and razor sharp. She opened her mouth as if to say something, but what came out was a shout.

"OTOUTO YOU IDIOT! YOU SHOULDN'T SUMMON ME OUT HERE! SOMEONE COULD FIGURE OUT WHO IS LIVING INSIDE OF THAT SEAL ON YOUR STOMACH YOU DUMB-ASS!!" The girl screamed, Naruto rubbing his ears, having been right next to her.

"Geez Aneue, (by the way, Aneue means older sister, while otouto means younger brother) sometimes I could swear that you're louder than I am." Naruto said as the girl seemed to calm down with a sigh. "Why are you so worried about anyone finding out about you way out here anyway, Kyuu-chan? There's no-one here!"

"What about your little Hyuuga friend behind that tree over there? Does she qualify as someone to be worried about?" Kyuubi said flatly, Naruto paling slightly.

"EEP!" came from behind a tree as Naruto turned around and saw Hinata cower behind the tree.

"Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked fearfully, Hinata activating her Byakugan to know when he finally left. She saw Naruto vanish, and she turned her Byakugan off with a sigh of relief, only to look up and see Naruto looking at her.

"EEP!" She seems to do that a lot, and Naruto thought she was scared of him.

"Hinata, it's okay, I'm not the Kyuubi, I'm not a demon…" Naruto said pleadingly, as if praying that she wouldn't hate him. Dude has some seriously low expectations of people.

"N-n-naruto-kun, I-I-I…" Hinata said with a terrible stutter, Kyuubi stepping in to help the poor girl.

"Otouto, she doesn't think you're me, she's probably the only person that you could tell about the sealing that would be even friendlier to you because of it." Kyuubi said. "Hello Hinata, I'm the Kyuubi, and we have a little explaining to do…" gives the explanation about the tainting of Kyuubi's emotions, as well as her original species "… And here we are, Otouto here is still dense having not figured out your feelings, I'm back to being a Tenshi Kitsune, and we're going to be going back in time to save Sasuke, also, we need someone else to absorb the rest of my power and become a demon as well. I'm sure otouto could use more company than his Aneue in his head nagging away at him." Hinata giggled at this. Throughout the explanation Kyuubi had been using a Kitsune technique to remove most of her shyness. This would make it easier for her. However, she would still be very shy about telling Naruto of her feelings. She had also been using a technique to make Naruto realize his feelings more easily. Now it was just a bit of an awkward silence. "So, now the only question is who cracks first…"

Both teens blushed when they managed to decipher what Kyuubi was implying, and they had mixed thoughts.

'Naruto-kun likes me too? No, that's not right, when he goes back he'll be able to get Sakura, they just need me to make sure he doesn't die…'

'Aneue, what are you trying to pull? Hinata-chan can't like me, we've specifically pointed out that I'm going to become a demon, why would she love someone who has actually decided to become a demon?'

"Hinata-chan, if you don't want to go back in time, then I won't force you, we can find someone else if you don't like me that way…"

'He cares? He's giving me a choice? He's implying that he does like me the way I like him, I can't mess this up!' "Naruto-kun, I-I d-do like you that way, I-I've just been too shy, and thought that you would only go after Sakura, I never thought that you would actually feel that way about me…" Naruto's view on life had just been blinded. Hinata liked him as well? Since when? Naruto was so confused that he lost coherent thought up until the point when Hinata hugged him. "I love you Naruto-kun…"