Chapter 173

Y returns to which Naru-nii laughs.

'Yeah, I kinda did the same,' Naru-nii sheepishly admits. 'But you know, I want you to do something I never did.'

'What's that?'

'Tou-chan and I didn't have a lot of time together, but since you already know everything he's going to tell you, you can ask him a question I've been dying to know.'

KURAMA

"I don't want to see him," Kurama huffs to an eye-rolling Naruto as soon as the blond enters the large chamber. "I will never forgive him for sealing my power."

"Aww, come on," Naruto contends. "Naru-nii said if it's possible to learn it, then this would totally help us against a lot of really strong bad guys."

"I know what the future brat said," Kurama growls. Getting up, he prowls in a circle as he adds, "I still hate the yondaime."

"Are you going to give me eight tales or not," Naruto plainly puts. "I only need it for a second," the blond adds, however, Kurama isn't convinced. It isn't until Naruto mentions, "this could also help me possibly get a girlfriend," blushing a bit at the thought. Though Naruto may not blush quite so easily when it comes to physical intimacy with a girl, talk of girlfriends and matters of the heart can still rush the blood to his cheeks easily. "I mean, the Fourth is still like, really really popular; what with the way he took out entire armies by himself and such. And I look a lot like him. It would only make sense if I were to become just as popular with the same technique-"

"Get two girlfriends," Kurama counters demandingly.

"What! Two?" Naruto questions incredulously before sternly arguing, "you know this isn't like ordering at a restaurant, right? You can't just say 'I'll take two of those.'"

"Why not," Kurama argues, moving closer to the gate. "If the Yondaime is as popular as you claim, that would mean multiple females are willing to be his mate. Just accept all of them."

"That's not how love works!" Naruto contends. "It's supposed to be between two people."

Kurama tilts his large head with a measure of confusion before he asks, "and you're an expert on how this love works?"

Pulling up short with halting thoughts of Sakura, Naruto fumbles as he responds, "well, no… I guess not." Shaking his head he hotly contests, "but neither are you!"

"I'm not human," Kurama plainly states. "Also, my father never spoke of this subject…"

Kurama fell silent and Naruto wonders if he's thinking about his father, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo; especially since Naruto is moments away from meeting his own. Naruto reasons all this talk about fathers might make anyone miss their own. Naru-nii often mentions the more they got along, the better it'll be and Naruto really wants to be Kurama's friend, so, with a long exhale, he tells the giant tailed beast, "I'll ask." When Kurama focuses on Naruto again, Naruto elaborates, "I'll ask Nai-chan if multiple, uh, people relationships is possible. But I swear to Kami if she ends our sessions because of this, that's on you!"

Kurama smiles before he cautiously amends his demand. "Ask someone else then. No need to risk the willing mates we already own." 'We? Own?' a wide-eyed Naruto curiously notes when Kurama continues, "I demand you dress in his style as well," Kurama asserts. "If that miserable pest's reputation can attract more females, we must take advantage of that and look the part."

"I don't necessarily mind dressing like a badass," Naruto asserts. "But would it kill you to ask for things normally?"

"Yes," Kurama easily answers before asking, "have you secured the room?"

"Yeah," Naruto states, recalling twenty separate memories of his clones completely sealing his assigned room within the tower. It was Naru-nii's idea since the output of so much of Kurama's power will be felt tens of miles away. Still, Naruto thoughtfully claims, "I don't think it'll be enough to hide your chakra from being sensed."

"It'll only be for a couple of seconds," Kurama declares. "That won't be enough time for them to do anything more than question it."

"Or lose my mind in the process," Naruto mutters in humorless jest.

"Since I'm cooperating, that shouldn't be an issue. Ready brat," Kurama calls, raising himself on all fours while his many tails whisk and sweep excitedly behind him. Naruto lowers his center of gravity and stands ready before nodding to his partner.

Kurama's red chakra quickly seeps under the tall gates and surrounds Naruto, building and rising so as to give him immediate access to the raw mind-deforming power behind eight tails. With a nod from Kurama, Naruto's hand touches the violently fluctuating energy and instantly his mind burns, his vision darkens and his stomach is replaced by agony.

NARUTO

A pat on the shoulder snaps Naruto out of his painful daze, allowing him to witness Kurama's sinister chakra receding from his weary body and into the room behind the large golden gate. Naruto feels like he's been running all day with a sword through his stomach but his mental senses are shoved into clearer awareness after a growling Kurama angrily retorts, "you!"

Naruto focuses on the other, taller, blue-eyed blond in the room, wearing a standard Jōnin's uniform with a high-collard white cloak with red flames at the hem. A shocked Naruto into stating like a question, "you…you're really the fourth."

Minato smiles at his son as he begins to explain, "the seal is set so if eight tails are released, I'll appear within youUMPH!" Minato grunts when Naruto punches him in the stomach.

"HAHAHAHAHA," Kurama laughs loudly snapping his head back happily. "Serves you right, Yondaime," Kurama happily asserts, eventually adding, "hit him again, hit him again," as Naruto wipes the tears beginning to trail down his cheeks.

Though his tearing eyes are covered by his forearm, Naruto tearfully bemoans to the chakra image of his father, "I already know all that! I know I'm your son, so, so, you don't have to say it. And before you ask, I'm sixteen… Nnn-nnmmh," his crying voice murmurs sadly.

"Wow, sixteen," Minato empathizes with quiet comfort. "You must've gone through a lot."

Clearing his cheeks of moisture, Naruto shrugs, adding, "whatever. I'm an Uzumaki and a Namikaze. I can take it."

"I'm so sorry, son," Minato solemnly apologizes.

"I know," Naruto says with a sniff. "I know you are, but we don't have time for all that. Listen, I already know about the masked man who controlled Kurama-"

"Kurama?" Minato asked, tilting his head a bit confused.

Naruto thumbs in the direction behind him toward the very large and snarling Kurama glaring at the fourth Hokage, asking, "you didn't think his name was actually Demon Fox did you?"

Blinking wide eyes between Naruto and the now widely grinning Kurama above his son, Minato starts, "he… well… I see. You seem to have the situation well in hand."

"Not really," Naruto responds, shaking his head. "Tobi, the masked guy, is still out there, so I was hoping there was enough time for you to teach me the Flying Thunder God technique."

Blinking wide eyes again, Minato doesn't need long to think as he replies, "I… no, of course. Of course I will, son, but, it'll have to be fast, and, I won't be able to write it all out. I can already feel my chakra begin to deplete, so I'll only write out the segments you can't find in scrolls."

"I may as well bear witness just in case the brat forgets something," Kurama adds from behind Naruto.

Eyes flickering from Kurama to his son, Minato seems skeptical until Naruto adds, "I doubt I'll forget, but, it's okay, tou-chan. Me and Kurama are teammates."

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