Fox In The Leaf

New Friends

Deep in the forest just outside Konoha we see something running through the trees with great speed. Zigzagging and dashing with some other animals joining the race we find the that it had blond sun-kissed hair, wearing a short sleeve orange shirt with white stripes going down the sleeves and side, beige shorts and blue sandals flailing around on his shoulders.

Finally stopping close to the gate but still hidden behind the trees we find a now 10 year old Naruto with a huge smile on his face. Looking behind him he saw saw the small group of foxes stop behind him. With a boisterous laugh he spoke "Hehe looks like I win again…..I'll see you guys later!". Waving goodbye as they left back into the forest he pulled his sandals off his shoulders and put them back on his feet and began to sneak through the gates making sure not to be seen coming through. Once he reached closer to the crowded streets he began to walk normally.

It had taken him over 2 months to get back to walking on his 2 feet without tripping all the time an although he could walk normally now he always found it more comfortable to walk and run on all fours. He could not however sleep in the same bed anymore, he had fashioned himself a pile of pillows and blankets in the corner of his bedroom to sleep in so now the bed is just for show and even if he has gone back to acting more normal not everything that happened to him were happy, in fact his life only seemed to get a little bit better on some days and then worse on others. One of the things that hurt him over the 2 years was when Hinata seemed to avoid him after their first meeting and every time he tried to talk to her he felt extreme sadness, depression and doubt, it only made the hurt from losing his first friend even more painful, so now he just let it be and now spends his lunch on his swing.

Another thing that happened was that he no longer had his dreams with Kurama for weeks he kept hoping that when he fell asleep he would see Kurama again and tell him how his day went or play with the fox like before but it never happened and it only made him feel even more lonelier than before because now he felt like he had no one even in his dreams.

He had reached his apartment without much trouble apart from the glares he always got and looked at his clock and saw it was only 6:30 in the morning. "Guess I should go see what Hokage-jiji wanted to talk about" *growl* "...maybe he will offer me breakfast again hehe" he said as he blushed in a bit of embarrassment and rubbing the back of his head.

After putting on a clean pair of the same clothes and throwing his sandals to hang on his shoulders, he left his apartment. Going to the back alley and looking around to make sure no one saw him, he concentrated a bit before he was engulfed in a puff of smoke and out of the smoke came a red 3 tailed fox with long ears that had the inside coated black that went all the way to his blue slitted eyes, encircling them (he only grew a bit so he is about twice the size of puppy Akamaru now). Shaking his body a bit and making sure his sandals didn't fall off his shoulders, he looked at himself, and with his foxy grin he started running through the alleys at a decent speed.

It was a year ago when his class learned to unlock their chakra and about the 3 graduation jutsus, which were the Henge jutsu which was an illusionary jutsu that coats you in an illusion to alters your appearance, the kawarimi jutsu that allows the user to replace themselves with any object in range, and the Bunshin jutsu which creates clone illusions making it seem like there are more of you. Although he tried to learn the 3 as soon as possible he could only get the Henge and Kawarimi and was terrible at the bunshin but it didn't stop him from trying to take the graduation exam early at the end of last school year but he failed because of his poor academic scores and the failed bunshin he performed, that created dead looking clone that looked like it was melting.

Even with that depressing day in his head he kept his smile especially when he used the Henge and Kawarimi a lot, the former more then the latter and even though it is said that the henge is just an illusion, Naruto's henge were solid making it more of a transformation then an illusion. The thing about it was that his first attempt wasn't even what he was trying to turn into. He wanted to turn into some random civilian but when he performed it,closing his eyes from feeling a burning on his lower back and after a minute he opened his eyes he saw that he was a 2 tailed fox. He felt the most natural he has ever been before but after the teacher started yelling at him and punished him with detention for a month he chose to only do it when he was alone and no one could see him since it became his favorite form even if everytime he does it his lower back burns.