Chapter 23 - Kyuubi-sama

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*bang*

A deafening sonic boom thundered and a shockwave exploded from the impact of two hard surfaces. It was so powerful that everyone was blown up their feet and thrown towards the edge of the room. It was as though a grenade had been detonated.

At the door, two silhouettes were in a 15 feet in diameter crater, locked in a contest of strength.

The two suddenly jumped back and made some distance between them. In that moment, Amanda Waller was the first that broke out of from her stupor.

"What's the meaning of this?!" she yelled. "Stop this at once!"

But the two looked as if they didn't hear her, their eyes fixed on each other, on guard against a sudden move one of them would employ.

Waller was not used to being ignored. She was a person with authority, to the point that her words could sway even the president. She pressed a button on a remote she always carried on herself. A deafening alarm started to scream and, in a few moments, the door of the now ruined conference room was smashed apart, revealing over thirty armed operatives.

At their sight, Galatea was the first to back off. Her father was just a human. She didn't want him to become the target of a "stray bullet".

Naruto on the other side, looked as indifferent as ever. He simply took a seat on one of the still intact chairs in the room and waited for them to start talking.

Amanda Waller's anger did not last long. Apparently, that wasn't the first time Galatea disobeyed her. General Danzo though, was fuming. He was glaring at Galatea in a way that you'd think he was trying to kill her with his eyes.

Tired to be patient after waiting for a few minutes for one of them to start talking, Naruto was starting to get annoyed. It was already a rather weird situation for so many people to just stare at each other without making a move.

"I want to see my sister. I want proof that she is alive. I want proof that it's really her, that she isn't some clone you created with the purpose of using me. And I want it now."

His words broke Waller from her thoughts. Her eyes narrowed at him.

"We cannot do that now. There are other things more impor-"

Her words stopped in her throat when black lightning exploded from Naruto's body.

"Aside from the clone, I could kill every single person in this room, in an instant, before you'd even have the time to blink. There won't be even a corpse left behind, you will all turn into ash."

"Deadshot!" Waller yelled.

However, in the next moment with a stomp of Naruto's foot, the floor turned into fine powder as the lightning travelled towards its target.

Deadshot had not had the time to even let out a scream. His body dispersed into ash. Even the special laser weapon he had been preparing to shoot at Naruto became nothing but a handful of iron dust.

The people gathered in the room were some of the worst criminals out there. Yet they all stepped back in terror at what they have just witnessed. At how casually a top-tier assassin lost his life. In an instant.

"I think you have forgotten who are you dealing with. I am no hero. I am a murderer. I'll kill everyone that stands in my way. President? Priest? Army general? You are all just ants in my eyes."

"Now...does my request hold importance or you still have other priorities? Should I kill another one first? Hmm...?"

"You won't get away with this, Uzumaki! If I die, your sister will die as well!" Waller threatened.

"Galatea! What are you waiting for? Kill him!" General Danzo yelled.

Galatea simply ignored him but, for good measure, Orochimaru grabbed her by the arm.

"Tea, we should leave."

"Why?"

"Waller is aware that Naruto will start a killing spree if he doesn't get to see his sister. She is going to give in any moment now and when it will happen, they will want to see Misaki..."

"...whom we have moved to our secret base, away from Cadmus. They will discover that you betrayed them." Galatea said, completing her father's words.

"Indeed." Orochimaru nodded.

But as they talked Danzo arrived right next to them and grabbed Galatea by the shoulder, trying to shake her roughly.

"You useless bitch, I told you to-"

The old general didn't get to finish his words as a brutal backhand to his face sent him hurling into the wall on the opposite of the room.

The skin on the right side of Danzo's face got ripped by the force of the blow, and his right eye burst out into a bloody paste.

'How ironic.' Orochimaru mused. 'Just like in my previous life.'

Looking at the situation, Orochimaru made a decision.

'This organisation's days are numbered. And I no longer need it.'

With that thought in mind, Orochimaru said, his voice carrying a hint of amusement.

"Galatea, also break his right arm from the elbow."

The girl looked at her father with her eyebrows raised. Orochimaru was not one for cruelty. But seeing the calculative expression on his face, Galatea understood that there must be a hidden reason behind his actions.

A sickening crack was heard and Danzo's right arm was snapped from the elbow. But there was no sound coming from Danzo, him having lost his consciousness before that.

"Now he looks more like the original. Only some bandages are needed. But I'm sure the doctors will fetch them...that, if he survives. Kukuku."

At Orochimaru's words, the corners of Naruto's mouth involuntarily raised up in dark amusement. But then, the reality hit him and he looked at the scientist sharply. The smirk he sported made Naruto understand the message Orochimaru had wanted to transmit.

'He knows who I really am. He knows about my past life. He remembers his own past life.'

"Galatea, we're leaving." Orochimaru said casually, as if there wasn't a dangerous person capable of killing him in an instant in front of him.

Waller looked back and forth from Naruto to Orochimaru. She couldn't understand what was the odd feeling she got that the two of them somehow knew each other.

Before anyone had the chance to stop them, a small metallic ball fell off from the scientist's hand. Grey smoke burst from it and by the time it dissipated, Orochimaru and Galatea were no longer there.

On the floor, a note was left:

Cadmus doesn't have your sister. I do.

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In the forests of Appalachian Mountains, Naruto was barely controlling his anger. He went away from civilization so he wouldn't unnecessarily hurt random people in his rage.

"I could've killed them all! I could've slaughtered everyone there!" he said through gnashed teeth.

Although it was in his power to do so, the circumstances forced him not to. What if Orochimaru killed Misaki in retaliation? What if they planted a chip inside her brain, set to explode at their command? He hated it. He hated the feeling of playing into someone's hands.

Leaping into thee air, Naruto started to jump from the branch of a tree to another. Although he had the experiences of his past life, shinobi-travelling through the trees was much harder than it seemed. The reason for that was that the trees on Earth could hardly compare in height and thickness with the towering trees in his previous life. Given the insane speed with which he jumped from a tree to another, Naruto felt as though each one of them were just a second away from snapping under his weight. It required a great deal of concentration from him. And because of that, he inadvertently calmed down, his mind becoming serene again.

Suddenly, the sound of a familiar voice rumbled in his mind:

"Naruto."

His focus lost for a moment, Naruto's landing on a branch was a tad more forceful than it should have been.

*crack*

The tree branch snapped under his feet and Naruto found himself plunging towards the ground.

Right before crashing, a massive amount of chakra was expelled from him, stabilizing his body in mid air, at a very odd angle.

"Kurama!" Naruto exclaimed, his tone not managing to hide the genuine happiness he felt at hearing his old companion's voice.

Naruto adjusted his position in mid-air and started to gain altitude, levitating himself at great speed towards the summit of the mountain. The peak was devoid of any trees, short grass being the only vegetation given the altitude. He sat on the grassy ground, his eyes admiring the beautiful scenery spread below him.

"Where have you been, Kurama? Nearly two weeks passed since what happened on the island...I ...I thought you died."

"Did you just admit you were missing me?"

"Yes."

"Tsk, you're no fun." Kyuubi said in dissatisfaction. There was no fun in teasing someone about something when said person was so openly admitting it.

"I actually nearly died back then." Kyuubi said.

Naruto kept his silence.

"However," the fox continued "the saying that sometimes disasters might be blessings in disguise was true this time."

Wondering what Kyuubi meant by that, Naruto didn't expect his following words.

"I have gathered nine tails' worth of chakra. I am ready to regain my own body!"

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On a plane plateau, a powerful looking silhouette landed a bit roughly.

"Look at you! How did you even get the ability to fly?"

"Well, perks of being awesome. You wouldn't understand that so don't try to."

"Tsk! You'll be calling me Kyuubi-sama by the time I finally regained my body!"

"Yada-yada. Even in our previous life, you've never been able to fly."

Kyuubi growled.

"You call flying that shitty flailing in mid-air? You lost half of your chakra reserves just by flying a bit more than 5 miles."

"You know the saying - the fox that can't reach the grapes says they're sour. Haha!" Naruto burst into laughter. "Can't believe just how well it fits the situation."

"Shut up!" Kyuubi shouted and growled in embarrassment. "Get on with the sealing ritual already!"

Naruto stopped making fun of him and got to business.

A long and deadly-looking bone protruded from his palm until he held a 3 feet long sword-like bone. However, this time it looked way too different from what Kyuubi had expected.

"What the hell is wrong with your bones?!" Kyuubi asked alarmed.

"Oh, you didn't know that?"

"Of course I don't, that's why I'm asking, idiot. I've been hibernating the entire time, does this not ring a bell to you?"

Naruto ignored the fox' snarky sarcasm in favour of taking the opportunity to gloat a bit in front of him.

"That lightning changed my entire body. Not only I became taller and got more physical strength than ever, I feel like the very essence of my body was changed. My chakra reserves reached the level of the ones I've had in my previous life, without taking count of yours and all my internal organs were strengthened - I don't think poisons work on me anymore, I can hold my breath for more than an hour and the stamina of my body is limitless as long as I still have chakra. And I know that this is not everything...the more I study my own body, the more I discover."

Kyuubi was deeply amazed at the changes in Naruto's body. The speed of his chakra's regeneration alone was crazy, to the point that Kyuubi managed to gather in two weeks the amount of chakra that he had struggled to gather for years, prior to the change.

"What about the bone sword in your hand?" Kyuubi asked, his initial question having remained unanswered.

Naruto glanced at the bone he conjured in his hand. It looked as if it had been cut from a diamond. It had an azure-blue colour and it was nearly transparent, like a crystal. The sharp edges of the bone blade, however, were giving off a deadly vibe, looking as though it could cut through everything.

"I think my bones are no longer bones in the familiar sense of the word."

The crystal-like bone blade in his hand was suddenly engulfed in black lightning. Just by doing that, the clothes on Naruto's upper body were scorched and turned into ash, revealing his muscular torso.

"They feel now as if they are made of pure chakra. The way chakra flows through them is just like it flows through the meridians of my body."

"Naruto...are you turning into a tailed beast?" Kyuubi asked in a weird tone.

Naruto fell silent at Kyuubi's words. The tailed beasts were beings consisting of pure chakra. Every part of them could be transformed into chakra - that was the reason they could be sealed despite their humongous size. If his skeleton was now made of pure chakra, then what was next? Naruto didn't know what to feel about the matter.

"Anyway," Naruto concluded "we should focus on the matter at hand. We'll have time to discuss more about other things later on."

Crossing his fingers in a hand seal, 4 clones puffed into existence. The 4 clones slammed their palm into the ground which started to show signs of cracking. Four crystal-like bones with the size of a tree trunk burst from the soil, raising up until they reached over 50 feet in height.

The clones shunshined on the top of the gigantic bones.

"We're ready boss!" one of them shouted.

Using the crystal-like bone sword in his hand, Naruto started to draw a very large circle. From time to time, one of the clones from atop the bone pillars created another clone next to it and dispelled afterwards, informing the original that way of the mistakes he made in carving the circle.

Kyuubi insisted on the fact that the circle had to be flawless which made the simple act becoming much more difficult, that being the case especially given the size of it - when Naruto finally finished drawing it, the circle was 60 feet in diameter.

The clones dispelled and Naruto made 29 more clones.

"Now which are the kanji we have to carve?"

The image of a different kanji appeared in the mind of Naruto and each of his clones. With azure-blue bone swords in their hands, Naruto and his clones began to carve deep into the soil.

Eventually, after hours of meticulous work, the sealing circle and its formulae were finally finished.

"Now we only need one more thing: a live and healthy fox."

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"Are you fucking serious, Kurama?! This is the 9th fox I caught today, what the heck is not good about it?!"

"The snout is too pointed, it looks like a female. You think the great Kyuubi-sama will accept looking like that?"

The 30th fox Naruto had caught was a quite large specimen for its race. It was even bigger than some of the mid-sized races of dogs.

"Turn the fox on its back so I can see its genitals."

"...I can't believe this..."

Naruto was at a loss of words. Ignoring how the fox tried to sink its sharp canines into his arms, he turned it on its back.

"Its penis is too small compared to the size of its body. Next."

Naruto couldn't help a frustrated yell.

"Argh! Are you frigging kidding me?!"

He felt like strangling both Kyuubi and to fox in his hands to death.

Kyuubi, however was not one to back down in that moment.

"Shut up! I did not care about such things before as bijuu were not beings that could reproduce. But now, to regain my body, I need to use an anchor in the material world. A fox. This anchor is going to provide most of the characteristics of my new body! That means that I would also get its reproductive system!"

At the end of his small rant, Kyuubi nearly shouted due to embarrassment:

"So, if I have to do it anyway, then I need to be the best at it. I don't want a small dick!"

The ridiculousness of the situation proved too much for Naruto's exhausted nerves. He burst into a crazed laughter.

"Hahaha! Kyuubi no Kitsune, the mighty and all-powerful Demon Fox is worried about having a small dick!"

"This is gold!"

"I-I can't... help... I'm dying!" Naruto barely gasped as he was rolling on the ground, clutching at his sides and howling with laughter.

In Naruto's inner words, Kyuubi felt like wanting to die right then and there. He had never felt more shame in his entire life.

"SHUT UP!" Kyuubi roared. "At least I have plans of using my dick for something, unlike you, virgin lord!"

"What was that?" Naruto yelled back at him, his laughter dying out abruptly.

"You heard me. Baaaaka! Technically you're 36 years old, counting your previous life and you still haven't even seen how real pussy look like!"

"You don't even jack off. Is your dick even working properly? Are you impotent?"

Under Kurama's vicious slaughter of words, Naruto did not even know how to respond.

After a long while, he said:

"So that's how it is, huh? Ok then. I'll look for the fox with smallest dick possible."

"YOU DARE?!"

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The 47th caught fox...

"Its fur looks like a frog pissed on it."

Naruto refused to create a mental image of how would something like that be even possible.

The 55th caught fox...

"Not bad looking beauty-wise... but too young."

Hearing Naruto's animal-like growl, Kurama made a compromise.

"We'll keep it as a plan B, ok? Just in case we don't find anything good by the end of the week."

"End of the week?" Naruto yelled in outrage. He and his clones had already swarmed over a quarter of the Appalachian mountains' surface for the past three days.

"I'm getting really tired of your shit, Kurama... you're not the only one that is on my mind now, you know? It's been 3 days since I found out who does actually have my sister, yet I have not even had the chance to search for her whereabouts. I've been chasing wild foxes instead, for 3 days straight, because your standards are too ridiculous to be met!"

Seeing the truth in Naruto's voice, Kyuubi did feel a bit guilty. But then again, he reminded himself that he was going to be stuck with the new body for an eternity. He was in no way going to settle for anything less than the best.

"Tell you what, Naruto. Sacrifice these two remaining days of the week for me. I understand how much you wish to find your sister, but it's been years without her. What's 2 more days? We're partners, aren't we? We help each other in times of need."

Naruto sighed but didn't say anything else in return. He recalled how Kyuubi almost sacrificed his life in order to save him.

For the next 5 days, not 2, not even once a complaint has left from Naruto's mouth again. Diligently, him and nearly more than a hundred of his clones scurried the entire Appalachian Mountains, all the way to Canada and back.

Eventually, what could be considered as the perfect specimen in Kyuubi's eyes was finally captured. Naruto found the fox in a trap near a small village at the foot of the mountains, near the border between USA and Canada, on his way back. The fox's size was perfect for its species, indicating a healthy diet, its fur lustrous fur had not even a scratch on it and its tail was long and beautiful. Furthermore, it also met Kyuubi's standards regarding its genitals.

It was the 144th fox Naruto had captured.

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"W-What is this?" Kyuubi cried out.

However, instead of a mighty rumble worthy of a demon, it was a squeak that had come out.

"Is this the fierce Nine-Tailed Demon Fox?" Naruto asked, his face red from the strenuous effort he exerted to reign in his laughter.

Kyuubi himself barely registered Naruto's mockery. He was too shocked.

"You'll be calling me Kyuubi-sama by the time I finally regained my body." Naruto repeated Kyuubi's words from a few days, using a gruff voice, a poor imitation of Kyuubi's previous demonic-sounding voice.

Previously, when Naruto poured his chakra into the gigantic sealing array, the scene was spectacular to say the least. A crimson energy burst from the sealing circle high up into the air and the sky was instantly covered by dark clouds cackling with lightning. It looked like one of the scenes Naruto saw in an anime where a demon lord was summoned.

And when he thought that the result of that badass scenes was the...thing in front of him, he burst into laughter, not able to hold it in any longer.

"Bwahaha! Wha-What is this?!"

Wobbling on his feet because of laughter, Naruto went in the middle of the circle and grabbed Kyuubi by the scruff of his neck.

"Is this pupper you, Kyuubi-sama?" Naruto asked before starting snickering again like a hyena.

"These cute paws, this adorable little snout, the fluffy tails and the squeaky voice... After seeing you, I need to fight bare-handed a grizzly bear to get some of my manliness back."

"Bwahaha!"

"You'll be calling me Kyuubi-sama!"

"Bwahahahha!"

With a length of 1 foot (without the tail) and a height of 8-9 inches, Kyuubi had the body of a fox even smaller than the specimen Naruto had captured for him. Just a bit bigger than a fox cub. A nine-tailed fox cub.