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Shinigami: Shukaku through Gyuki will appear. Still, Kurama will be mentioned.

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Sinopa Ariyana: I put reviews in the chapter so the reviewer can read my response without sending another email alert to a possibly full email (you don't know HOW FULL my inbox is with chapter update and story alerts from this website. Voldemort is kind of a coward, afraid of receiving death when he serves it a lot. As for Harry, his personality will be a combination of Zabuza's ruthlessness and bloodthirsty attitude to enemies and Killer Bee's fun-loving attitude to his friends.

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Shirley: as I said, when I received word of Nancy's death, I just couldn't bring myself to write any more for that chapter. I will try to increase length in the future.

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Reishin Amara: Gyuki, thanks to the octopus-like tentacles for his tails, can perfectly masquerade as the "giant squid".

Vinyl Pon-3: Harry will be a Jinchuriki, but not for Kurama (Kyuubi)…..

Jfitzgerald: I will. By the way, is the last portion of your name based of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

The Poll is now closed…..26 people voted for people to become Jinchuriki, 4 against. It seems that the Jinchuriki won!

On another note, spokojnyj left a flaming review criticizing everything about the story the day after I got word that Nancy died. I have only ONE THING to say: "If this is not your cup of coffee, switch to tea!"

If you don't like the story, no one is forcing you to read it. Just, DON'T leave a flame so soon after I receive word of a death of a close family friend. Please at least wait a week so I can come to terms with the death.

Chapter 8: Wizards and Jinchuriki.

Term-Jinchuriki (Jin-kur-E-Key): "Power of Human Sacrifice" a term used in Naruto to refer to a person who has a Tailed Beast sealed in them.

That night, as Harry stood outside the Black Lake-where the next task would be-in his pajamas, he saw the tentacles of the Giant Squid disappear into the Forbidden Forest. "What in the name of Merlin is happening? Giant Squids cannot live out of water!" Harry said. Yet, sure enough, the Giant Squid was moving into the Forbidden forest and scaring things out of the way.

As he watched it disappear he did not notice the tentacle wrap around him and drag him into the forest following the Giant Squid.

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Hermione sat in the Gryffindor Common Room polishing Samehada, it started shivering in delight. "That delicious Chakra! The Eight Tailed Beast is nearby! I haven't tasted that Chakra in eons!" So that was what Samehada was so excited about. After all, it wasn't every day the sword encountered the energy of a Tailed Beast. It was then what it said sunk into Hermione's mind.

"Wait. Tailed Beast?!" She asked, and the sword seemingly slithered onto her back. "There are nine Tailed Beasts, monsters made completely out of Chakra, or as you call it, magic. They are incredibly powerful and no ordinary human could handle their power. As I mentioned, there are nine of them-ranging from One Tail to Nine Tails." Hermione realized, with horror that the Eight Tailed Beast was near Harry! With speed she didn't know she had, she ran out of the room in her pajamas with Samehada on her back.

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Harry shook his head to clear it as he held Kubukiribocho defensively in front of him. "So you're the one who awakened me. The one who used the long-forgotten way of Chakra developed by the Sage of the Six Paths." A deep voice echoed from the Giant Squid, which turned and revealed something Harry was not expecting. The eight tentacles he counted made up the lower portion of the creature's body, but the upper half was that of an Ox with four horns with the lower left horn cut off. It had a humanoid shoulders and arms and hands with a spike-like protrusion off the elbows. The entire creature was a purplish-pink color. "I am Gyuki, the Eight Tailed Beast. For many eons, I have slept. However, if I do not find a host soon, my own nature will drive me mad and cause me to destroy everything around me."

"What do you want me to do?" Harry asked, watching as Gyuki started drooling ink from its mouth. That was an interesting sight for Harry. An Ox-beast that had eight tentacle-like tails that drooled ink. That was probably why it was able to disguise itself as a Giant Squid for so long without being discovered for what it really was.

Before Harry could do anything One of Gyuki's tails dipped itself in the ink while another tore the right sleeve off of his pajama shirt and the tail dipped in ink started drawing the Japanese symbol for "Iron" on Harry's right arm. "Kid. Don't just stand there with that stupid look on your face, place your hands in the ram seal and start channeling your magic into the ink! That's an Iron Armor Seal he's making!" Kubikiribocho's voice echoed through his head, and Harry did so. Without warning, Gyuki became completely red. It was his magic, Harry realized. All of a sudden, Gyuki's form dematerialized and a burning pain filled Harry's body as the red magic flowed into the ink and-thus-into Harry's body. Before he passed out, Harry thought he heard Hermione shouting his name.

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Harry awoke in a dark room of a house with the sound of breathing behind him. Turning around, he saw Gyuki in what appeared to be a cage. "What happened?" Harry asked, wondering how Gyuki got in the cage when he had just been standing in front of him.

"The Iron Armor Seal locked me in your body. Now, I don't have to worry about going mad, as we are currently talking inside your mindscape. Now, the true partnership can begin." Gyuki explained. "To start, we must start by working together without the manifestation of the seal blocking me-by removing the tag and opening it per say. It won't let me get out, but it prevents my chakra from tearing you apart." Normally, I wouldn't offer something like this….but….this kid…I see you in him….Killer Bee… Gyuki thought, thinking back to his last host.

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Hermione sat watching over Harry while Samehada had opened up at the tip, revealing a mouth filled with shark-like teeth that was currently drawing in the residue Chakra, and was shivering in delight. The Chakra of Gyuki was a taste it especially liked, but rarely received. Only the bandaged around Samehada prevented it from widening to an enormous size-big enough for Hermione herself to hide in-from the large amount of Chakra it was eating.

This served an important purpose. Samehada had the ability to eat Chakra, but then it could "change" the Chakra to match its wielder's and push it into the wielder to replenish the wielder's reserves when they were low. However, the sword could also store that extra Chakra when it wasn't immediately needed so that it was always there when in a pinch. When it had devoured the last amount of Gyuki's Chakra in the air, the "mouth" sealed itself shut again. That was when Harry opened his eyes and rubbed the now dry Iron Armor Seal that contained Gyuki.

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As Harry explained his encounter with Gyuki, he thought back to what it meant to be "partners" with a Tailed Beast. Not only could they do two versions of a "Chakra Cloak", but they could transform into the form of the Tailed Beast. However, the longer they were in that form, the more magic from his own reserves that Gyuki ate. Absolute zero only resulted in one thing-death. However, control of the body could be switched back and forth-by his will-with Gyuki and himself. This was also a good thing for Harry when it came to learning Lightning Element spells.

The place Gyuki resided in was known as the Land of Lightning, and Lightning Element techniques were extremely common. Kubikiribocho only knew a few that it had encountered. Only Gyuki knew more-even the famed Lightning Armor technique of the Raikage-the Cloud Village's leader and strongest fighter. It even knew the Raikage's "Liger Bomb" and "Iron Claw" techniques. The only things that came close were now wrestling moves.

As if that was not good enough, being a beast with a close association with water, Gyuki's form and level two cloak allowed Harry to breathe underwater.

The second task wouldn't know what hit it!

Chapter End