Chapter 6- Meeting A Fox

"User Has awoken the nine tails, because he showed suicidal tendencies."

Seeing the message my blood instantly ran cold. That's right. Thinking back to my status I recalled being a Jinchuriki. Another thing I had kept noticing was the word Biju. The newest message thankfully cleared my mind up and made me concentrate on, and figure out my current situation. It turned out Bijus were creatures such as the Nine Tailed Fox. I wondered how many other Biju's existed in this world. Hearing of their power from the stories of that night it was obvious that thankfully there wasn't to many, otherwise the world would have long since been destroyed.

Realizing this same great being of power that was spawned in this world was about to meet me, and was currently inside my body somehow. I began freaking out in a semi-controlled manner. I was currently still a weakling unlike my previous life. I instantly started planning, and trying to find a way to survive this encounter from the encroaching overwhelming fear. Thankfully Gamer's mind kicked in and calmed my fear at this moment and let me think about this situation with a completely peaceful mind. Looking around I could see a mixture of a sewer, one of the few places my newest self felt safe from the villagers, and my old home with rooms jutting along the side of the walls of the sewers with doors into them. It was at this observation I finally put two and two together, and could tell I was in my mind. I was also able to finally figure out why the villagers considered me a "Demon" with my situation.

Setting down on the ground and starting to meditate I stayed on the ground unmoving even as the jaws of The large fox started to surround me. After a moment I opened my eyes to see the entire city where I originally lived and large white teeth belonging to a large orange creature surrounding me. Smiling for a second forcefully I felt a particular feeling from this situation. What was it? Helplessness? Some weird mixture of emotion that had Exasperation as part of it. The feeling was one of warning, yet it seemed to also be one that invited me in further and further in to the heart of the creature before me. My danger senses were telling me he was dangerous, yet my instincts were screaming at me to try and one day earn the trust of the being in front of me and help heal his broken heart.

"Congratulations Host For Entering The user's Semi-MindScape This is a special Dungeon that can be shaped within the users mind and it will form identically as your mindscape, but your true mindscape will be one without the Nine Tails. Creatures will form in this place that you or the fox can kill to then increase the max chakra the Nine Tails can hold without messing with the other 8 linked Biju's storage.

Thinking for a quick second I wondered if I could appear in front of where the fox was. With that thought I closed my eyes and opened them to be greeted with a foxes eyes staring into mine as I stood on the beast gaping maw. Feeling the non-killing, killing intent, and yes I know how that oxymoron sounded aloud, I realized the fox didn't actually hate me or even want to kill me in the first place. It was just that it hated it's situation of being forcefully trapped within this place that was basically a sewer most likely for most of my newer self's life. I also bet there was likely previous Jinchuriki's before me that always trapped it in some tiny claustrophobic causing space. This emotional sensing, and instinct I used in this situation hadn't been turned into a skill believe it or not. It was just a natural talent of mine that had stayed with me after my rebirth.

"Soooo, do I introduce myself to you, or do you already know about me," I asked feeling curious about how this would all go. The fox was, while obviously not evil, completely willing to aggravate me in minor ways to increase my annoyance because I was in a sense this creatures jail and warden. I was the being that was currently taking away it's ability to truly be free in the world. I also assumed the only reason the beast hadn't actually tried to do anything major was that I had allowed it a semi free space to walk around in.

Waiting a second the fox seemed to finally partially relax and decided to actually answer me "I'm the Kyuubi as you have likely already figured out Brat, or should I call you something else? Frankly, I'm no longer sure whether to treat you as who you once were or not. Curiously I couldn't help but ask how the fox had figured out I was another person. However after his explanation I felt idiotic for asking. "The first thing I noticed was the new memories that flowed into your head. While I couldn't read these new ones I could tell they obviously belonged to a very old being. Secondly though a pain the kid obviously wouldn't act as you did when you first came to.. Still even with this I can also tell you know things only he would know, I can tell you have inherited his memories, so tell me. Are you Naruto, or some great being from beyond my understanding, and if it isn't one of these things just what are you."

Thinking over the situation and how to answer I finally decided upon the best semi-truthful explanation I could give. I didn't want the creature knowing everything that I had done, but I also knew I needed to be truthful with what I told it. I could easily tell that the fox could ascertain information about things that were happening outside of the body thanks to the healing skill. The only problem with my situation was that I couldn't tell how much the creature knew. Finally Deciding to just bull my way through it I started my path of no return. "I am not allowed to tell you what I am (For my own potential safety), just know that a certain person left me in this situation so that I may live (Gaia). To answer your question of whether I am Naruto or not, well you can consider him a part of me. I now have all his memories that he had living on within me." The answer obviously made the fox curl his eyebrows in slight distrust, and minor relief as some of his questions were answered, but not the one's it worried most about. "I see so your souls have fused together have they," he decided after hearing what he could make sense of. "I haven't seen that happen in a very, long time."

Smiling I nodded in conformation finding a likely explanation for my situation that I could agree on using for now. "Indeed, I am a bit of a special case." Getting up I waved my hands in a goodbye motion showing I needed to leave and head to the real world. "Well I need to get out of here before the teachers get here, and start lecturing me for ignoring them." With a flick of my hand in a salute, I left a bewildered fox thinking to himself, but before I fully disappear I did hear one message from him as his farewell "I find you interesting Reincarnator, if you ever need some chakra just give a call and I'll be there. Well on one condition. You tell me a bit about your other self. The non-Naruto side. I'm curious what your previous life was like after all."

Now back out in the open the first thing I did was leave a gift for the fox. I imagined the surroundings of my secondary mindscape changing into a forest around my city. In fact it was a copy of one the forests I had been inside of, during my previous life when I went on a journey to take down a nine tailed based monster inside one of my own dungeons. Finishing up I opened my eyes to finally see the class start walking out the door arriving perfectly on time. Seeing Iruka Walk up to me at a faster pace than the rest I tried to say something, but unfortunately he was to fast. With a fist imprint buried upon the surface of my head, I was knocked into the ground face first tasting the oh, so "wonderful" taste of dirt once more.

Shaking my head a few times to get rid of the pain and the constant ringing in my ear I took a stand once more. Looking around I noticed Iruka had already run away from my wrath which would have broken out at my pride being attacked head on. I would need to prank him later I decided the memories of my new life becoming stronger and stronger. Walking over to the rest of the kids and getting in line I grabbed my favorite Kunai and felt something wrong with it. Testing out the rest I felt the same heavy weight from each and everyone one of them that obviously shouldn't be there according to my skill. Looking closely at skills description I noticed the line talking about my long term use of faulty kunai. Waiting to point it out at a better time in front of Iruka so no other teacher would try and trick me I waited for my turn to finally come. Getting called up to score my Kunai throwing techniques I put my hand up in a please pause motion.

Looking over at Iruka I decided to voice my doubt about my kunai "Hey Iruka-Sensei could you check out my Kunai and see if their supposed to be this heavy. The man obviously took it as a joke until he registered the fact that I had said sensei with a neutral tone. He had never heard Naruto ever call him sensei in such a serious way unless they were somewhere private such as at training field discussing his major problems in school or in the middle of an important subject that was a bit more personal like their family situations and how he understood the boy's pain. Taking the Kunai from my hands Iruka checked the balance and weight and could immediately tell where these kunai came from. They had been thrown away Kunai the Academy used. Did the boy try and scavenge these for himself. The thought immediately made him worry for the boy's economical situation this week and his future safety. He hoped the kunai hadn't been used to long and ended up altering the boy's ability to aim correctly with a Kunai.

Looking at me I could tell Iruka was going to give me a lecture for using such poorly made kunai irresponsibly before he noticed the innocence in my eyes at my situation. Showing it was truly out of my control. Thinking over who had most likely stuck me into my current situation, he knew one of the teachers had most likely sabotaged the boy. Wondering over what he could do to help me without drawing to much hate from other people he took out his pouch and handed them to me in order to replace the messed up weapons. Taking the rest of my Kunai out I also handed them over to Iruka to be thrown away as well sadly missing the look of anger that kept growing more and more defined on the face of Iruka. Smiling he nodded allowing me to go ahead and show what I could do now that I had properly made and taken care of Kunai.

With a flick of my wrist I nailed 4 out of 10 of the targets 2 better than my usual score focusing on one Kunai at a time. Going to do the same thing for the Shurikens I noticed they were to heavy as well. Going up to Iruka once more I got a new bag of Shurikens to replace the obvious sabotage on my learning. This time Iruka was absolutely livid at whoever was messing with me. Clearly it was an attempt to have the boy die in combat, or worse yet weaken him until they could attack him when he was thought to be somewhat safe with his training and practice weapons. If you think about it for a second it is obvious that even a sub-par weapon could kill. You didn't need to have the greatest blade to cut through the neck of someone as long as you had enough strength to perform such a action. My Practice weapons however were so dull compared even other blades that instead of cutting they would most likely tear wounds open before they cut. It would be more effective to instead just pick up a bat and use it to beat their enemies to there death.

Taking the second test for my Shuriken skills this time I actually ended managing to hit 5 out of the 10 targets. Obviously I had been slightly luckier with getting this score, thankfully however the others didn't seem to notice my slight surprise and instead played it off as my skill. Witnessing and discovering the sabotage I was facing in my studies, and how good I actually was with these weapons.

They started worrying for their own studies and how they could have been affected as well. They weren't all this dumb though. They knew that someone had sabotaged the blond and his learning because of what was inside of him. Some of the kids after seeing this hatred actually felt a need to ridicule the kid a bit less. Of course it wouldn't stop everyone though, in fact it wouldn't even fully stop their own actions as they had their families who hated the fox and they couldn't go against their parents on this. Other less kind hearted kids, on the other hand gained ammunition to taunt the kid with even more. It even sparked a want to target the boy in their hearts as they knew some teacher was on their side.

For me however, well I didn't care about my situation. There was nothing I could do about it for now. Walking over to a tree I used Chakra leap and made my way to the top one one of the few sturdy branches. Taking a seat I started taking a few leaves off of the tree and practicing my chakra control before I was forced into a brawl with another kid. I knew it would most likely once more be a kid named sasuke Uchiha, which I was constantly forced to constantly pair off against. So with my goal in mind of improving my chakra control I blanked out my mind ignoring the sounds of flesh hitting flesh.