What's up peoples, new Fox comin atcha.

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Terra shouted loudly as a kick connected to her stomach, knocking her back. She held her stomach in pain as she looked at her instructor. While she could do without the pain, it was better than having Slade hurt her for no reason. She got back on her feet.

"Come on Terra. I know you can do better than this." shouted Naruto, looking for the entire world as if he hadn't been fighting at all. Getting up, she settled into her fighting stance, one of the most useful things Slade had actually taught her. The man had also taught her to do one of two things. Either wait for your enemy to make the first move, or wait until you can make a move to finish your enemy. However, she wasn't the greatest student in the world, as evidenced by her rushing headlong at her opponent. Naruto merely whipped around and threw a back-spin kick, connecting with her head, and sending half of it flying off, breaking into particles of sand, before flying back to her and forming a new head. Before she could react further, Naruto continued his onslaught, throwing a turning side-kick into her stomach, he hit her with such force that his foot actually went through her. However, quickly compacting the sand, she captured his foot in her abdomen.

Flipping backward at a previously thought impossible angle, she flipped Naruto with her, crashing his head into the ground. Before she could get away, however, he merely righted himself and twisted, snapping his foot free and knocking her on her ass.

"That was good, but even one of the Titans could have turned that around. You control the earth, get creative" said Naruto, before Terra's eyes became glowing yellow voids. Before Naruto could react, the ground around him rose up in two giant slabs of earth, before slamming together, with him in between. Terra looked smug, but only for a minute, as the ground she had used to crush her teacher shook violently before exploding, her teacher inside unharmed, tails swaying elegantly. One of the tails however suddenly shot forward, hitting her head with such force that, while not causing it to reduce to sand, it still managed to knock her unconscious.

Terra, though unconscious, was still working with her mind at an increased speed. Visions passed before her, blurs of colors, before her mind seemed to settle, taking her to a heavily forested area. Trees and hundreds of other plants seemed to take up the entire landscape. And in the center, she saw six people, three of which she thought she recognized. One of the three she was sure she recognized. He had red hair, and carried a large gourd on his back. She couldn't hear much of what was being said, but one of the people threw what looked like umbrellas into the air. They opened and began to spin, needles raining down from each one as though they were being fired from a gun. The needles seemed to impact, drawing a cloud of dust. When it cleared, she saw that the redhead was protected by a hardened shell of sand that had erected around him.

The boy held out his hand and the sand seemed to flow like water to the man who had thrown the umbrellas. It wrapped and coiled around him, forming what looked like a giant cocoon of sand, which rose into the air. Holding his hand out, she managed to catch what the red-head was saying.

"Sand Coffin!" he shouted. "Desert burial!" With that, he clenched his outstretched hand into a fist, before the sand instantly compacted as much as it could, crushing the man instantly, with a scream that would be etched into her mind forever. And as quickly as it happened, it ended, and she returned to the land of consciousness just in time to see Naruto ten feet in the air about to land a knee to her face. She quickly rolled from her place on the ground in time, and Naruto hit just where her head would have been.

As she stood, she remembered the strange vision she had had while momentarily knocked out. Naruto ran at her quickly, but Terra held out her hand, and all the sand her body could spare without deteriorating flew at Naruto, wrapping him up in a smaller, yet similar cocoon to the one from her dream.

Squeezing her hand, the sand imploded, crushing her teacher yet again. Pulling the sand back to her, she saw the utterly mangled form of her teacher. But before her eyes, a red aura surrounded him and he seemed to regenerate, until he returned to the condition he was originally in. Terra resumed her fighting stance, but stopped as Naruto put his hand up to stop her.

"I think that's enough sparring for one day Terra" he said. "I want you to go back to the hotel room and practice simple control exercises."

"And what are you going to do?" asked Terra, her eyes reverting from the yellow light, back to her normal ones.

"I'm going to walk around for a while. My pockets are beginning to feel a bit empty" he replied before turning his back to her and beginning to walk away. However, before he took more than five steps, he disappeared in a swirl of wind and leaves, leaving Terra to walk back to the hotel room the two shared.

As she walked, she began thinking back on the week she had been back in the world of the living. She had yet to see the Titans after the incident on the beach, and since then, had made a far more powerful connection to her past life. She didn't know it at first, but Naruto eventually explained to her that her dreams and flashing images were memories from the past Shukaku. The last one she had seen, however, was obviously a memory of the one Naruto had told her about…the one known as Gaara. But why had she seen his memory? Whatever the reason, she was glad she learned the technique from it. Maybe that was the reason Naruto ended their training.

And speaking of Naruto, he had certainly been more than a puzzle to her. During training, he was perhaps more of a taskmaster than Slade, yet he was doing almost everything he instructed her to do and made it look easy. But when they weren't training, he was her best friend, getting her food, allowing her to sleep on the only bed the hotel room had, which she had tried to give to him several times, yet he rejected her offers. On one or two occasions when her memories of both Shukaku and her time with the titans and Slade became too much, he either attempted to distract her, or let her cry on his shoulder. In a way, he almost reminded her of Beast Boy. Granted, at times he could be more beast than boy, but still, there was that simple innocence that you wouldn't believe was there, yet still shone bright. Yet at times, it seemed as though he were all mischief maker and thief, and on one occasion, which Terra remembered fondly, he had been darker than she thought possible.

Flashback

Terra awoke to the sound of mumbling. Rolling over, she tried to ignore it, as Naruto tended to mumble in his sleep. However, tonight was different than the other nights since she had met him. Getting out of bed, she looked over at Naruto, who was tossing and turning in his sleep.

"Naruto?" she asked hesitantly, but it didn't wake him. She noticed he was sweating profusely, and his face was contorted into a painful grimace. "Naruto wake up" she said louder this time, but still there was no effect on the blonde, who seemed lost in his nightmare.

"Naruto?" she said again, trying to tap the blonde. However, before she reached him, his eyes snapped open and he snapped up.

"NO!" he shouted, grabbing her wrist and gripping it tight with his nails, drawing blood. He seemed to look around, frightened, as if he had no idea where he was. His breathing was shallow and quick as his gave darted across the room, until it met Terra, her eyes flashing with genuine concern, her wrist dripping some blood from where he was clawing her.

Naruto quickly dropped her wrist as though it were a poisonous snake. He looked shocked for a moment, before dropping his face into his hands and sighing. They just sat there for a while, not saying anything until…

"I'm sorry." Terra looked at Naruto for a moment, as if she hadn't heard him.

"I'm sorry" he said again, looking at her, and she was startled at his eyes. They had gone from a blood red, to a cerulean blue color. She didn't know that was his natural eye color, so she was a little shocked.

"Go back to bed. I'm going to take a walk…clear my head" he said, getting up.

"Are you ok? That sounded like something really bad…" said Terra.

"NO!" shouted Naruto, turning to her, showing her his eyes had reverted back to their normal red color. "This is my problem; I have to do things on my own."

With no warning, he disappeared in the way that he does, a swirl of wind and leaves, leaving Terra staring at the spot he had been, her arm already healing and reconstructing with sand.

Flashback End

Terra entered the hotel room, before sitting on the bed and flipping on the TV, before picking up a handful of sand that they kept on hand, before instead of using her natural power, used her chakra to shape and move the sand.

Naruto walked along the street, transformed into his civilian garb. He had to admit, of all his new abilities, he loved shape shifting the most. After picking several pockets, and beating the crap out of some thugs who had tried to rob him. As he walked, his thoughts trailed off to Terra. That move she had used…it was Gaara's. He didn't exactly like the idea of the move, but she had gained one of Gaara's techniques. It was interesting to him.

He continued down the sidewalk, before spying something interesting. The Teen Titan Raven was walking down into a bookstore. His kitsune curiosity got the better of him and he went in after her. Walking in, he noticed how dark the bookstore was. He wasn't surprised, considering Raven was going here, but still…

He found Raven at the counter, speaking with the shopkeeper. His keen hearing allowed him to hear what was being said.

"Hi Raven" said the shopkeeper in an oddly cheery voice considering the atmosphere in the room. "You just browsing, or looking for something in particular?"

"Actually" replied the dark Titan, "I'm looking for a very old book, one that I think might be in your private collection."

"Well, if it's a really old book, then I probably do have it in my collection. What's it called?" he asked.

"The Tales of Jiraiya of the Toads" replied Raven, almost making Naruto trip. There was a book about the Pervy-Sage? It could be his chance to know what had happened.

"Hmm, I have a couple actually. Really interesting book. Took me a while, but I got the damn thing translated to English and I've copied them down. You should be able to find one around here somewhere. So is this business or pleasure?" he asked.

"Business. I have his later book, but it doesn't go into detail about his lost apprentice" replied Raven, sparking Naruto's interest even more.

"Well, if it's the apprentice you're looking for, you'll find it in this book" replied the shopkeeper, reaching onto a shelf and pulling out a copy of the book. "Really interesting book. It talks of things that wouldn't even exist for millennia as if they had them at their disposal. There's even a mention of a movie theatre in here. A movie theatre, can you imagine?"

Raven merely took the book from the man and paid the cost, before leaving the bookstore. Little did she know, she had an uninvited guest. As Raven made her way back to Titan's Tower, walking instead of flying, she suddenly got a strange feeling, as if she was being followed. Turning around, she saw the street packed with cars and the sidewalk filled with people, but couldn't find anyone watching her. Seeing no one, she turned around to continue on her way, but suddenly felt something wrap around her waist and pull her into the alleyway. Looking down, she realized what had grabbed her before she was slammed into a wall and pinned against it by Fox's tails.

"Well well, fancy meeting you here, Raven. I saw you get a book from the store. I hear it's a good read. Mind if I borrow it?" he said, before reaching with his tails to try and pry the book from her hand.

"I know who you are. Your name is Naruto Uzumaki, apprentice to the Toad Sage" said Raven.

"So what if I am? What's it to you?" said Naruto.

"Why are you here? What happened to you?" asked Raven, watching before her eyes as Fox's mask became a red mist, before disappearing completely.

"If I knew that, why would I want this book? Fact of the matter is, I know what happened, I'm just trying to figure out what happened after I left" replied Naruto, ripping the book from Raven's hand.

"What did you do to Terra?" asked Raven.

"I simply allowed her to realize the life she once lived. She is the reincarnation of the Shukaku, and therefore, as Kyuubi, it is my duty to show her how to be the new Ichibi" replied Naruto. "Don't look at me like that" continued Naruto, as Raven glared at him with utter hatred. "We're not so different you and I."

"Yeah right" retorted Raven, only for Naruto to get in close.

"For one thing" he said, "Our powers are both demonic in nature. Yes…I can feel the demonic energy flow through you, half-breed."

Raven looked angry for a moment, before beginning to chant.

"Azerath Metrion Zin-"her chant was cut off however when Naruto pulled her in and kissed her. She attempted to fight it once the shock had worn off, but something in her seemed to accept it. As much as she wanted to, she could break away. She felt herself getting lost in the kiss.

During this time, her intense emotional control slipped, causing her powers to be unleashed on the world around them. Parked cars and mailboxes, windows and dumpsters in the alleyway, began to be enchanted with Raven's dark power, shaking violently before exploding or being picked up and thrown. As quickly as it had begun, the kiss ended, leaving a Raven stunned for a moment.

"What was-"she tried to say, before she took a rather intense uppercut to the stomach, and was released from the grip of Naruto's tails as he walked away, book in hand. As she was about to pass out from everything happening, she saw Naruto walk away, before disappearing in a blast of wind and leaves.

"Well" said Naruto to himself. "While that did stop her from using her powers, it seemed to have an adverse effect. But, at least I distracted her long enough."

"Yes, well, that's all very good, but when you got close to her, her power seemed unbelievably familiar to me. Don't ask how, but I feel like I've felt it before" came the voice of Kyuubi from the recesses of his mind.

"Well, we'll just have to figure that out, won't we?" said Naruto, as he opened up the book and began to read.

Chapter end.

Ok, so we've established now that Raven and Naruto are now curious about the other. I've had it asked several times if the reincarnations of the other tailed beasts are going to show up, and the answer is yes. However, the pairing is already set, so any other girls outside of the pairings that are reincarnations will not be put in the harem. I will point out that Jinx, Cheshire, Blackfire, and Mammoth are all reincarnations, and I may let one more show up. If you didn't read this note, it's your loss.

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