Naruto the REAL Fifth Hokage by Traban16

Chapter 26: Raging Embers, The War On Snow!

Chapter 26: Raging Embers, The War On Snow!

"How pitiful… To have been outwitted by such minor pests." sneered a deep and gruff voice.

Naruto's eyes snapped open to reveal the depths of his cerulean irises. Before his sight was the mighty and monstrous form of the Nine-Tailed Beast sealed within him. The behemoth gazed down at Naruto from where it rested lazily. Its dull crimson orbs were filled with aggression and disgust. Every breath it took drew forth both a foul odor and a cloud of fog to which only came when heat met the cold air around it. The Kyuubi's orange fur bristled with annoyance, its tails swishing in barely restrained fury, but even still the colossus beast tried hard to give off a visage of utter disinterest with half-lidded eyes and dull facial expressions.

"Absolutely pathetic… to allow yourself such an emotional reaction to the death of some honorable fools dying for their even more foolish country." the Nine-Tailed Beast simmered just below the surface, Naruto could tell.

"Why are you like that…? In that form… Kurama?" Naruto asked, ignoring the taunts the beast was using by using his own. He had never uttered the Kyuubi's proper name ever since the beast had first told it to him. Kyuubi had told him at the time of learning the name that he was unworthy of the honor.

The Kyuubi bore its fangs at him, growling with venom dripping from the canines. Its half-lidded eyes narrowed dangerously while it shot up from its lazy posture.

"You DARE-?!" but the beast stopped as its voice boomed and echoed off the walls of the sewer like prison it was held back in. In an instant, Kurama knew what the boy was doing. The beast laid back down, resting its head within its folded arms. "But of course you would dare… As you know, this is my truest form and. It is also this is form I am forced into taking whenever you evoke my chakra… or when you and I are not in tune with the one another…"

"Okay, so what now?" Naruto asked, floating up to be eye level with the beast.

"Oh? You need to ask such mundane questions? Where did the brainy part of you go?" Kurama taunted coyly.

"So we deal with the device over the seal," Naruto proposed, "Why don't you just overload it with your chakra?"

The Kyuubi's laughter was loud and haunting. It crested the waters and waves swelled from where the beast's condensing laughter rang out.

"Those ninja must have smacked you around more so than I thought." The Kyuubi chortled in deep amusement at its container, "Fool! Unleashing my power to destroy the device would be like super-heating a corked bottle of sake! Your pitiful human chakra network would explode from the overwhelming power surging through it before being released. It would annihilate half the country. And that would be only two second after annihilating you and anyone within hundred meters of you."

At first Naruto said nothing. Merely cooling his expression and clasping his arms in a rigid fashion behind him. This was not the time for him to be yelling and screeching as those he were a punk Academy student dreaming of being Hokage. He was the Hokage now! He needed to act like it!

"So then, Kurama," Naruto saw anger flash across the Kyuubi's eyes, "what is the plan to eliminate the device then?"

Kurama scoffed at the boy. "Don't even attempt to appear smart when we both know it literally hurts your brain to try."

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Naruto snapped before he even knew it. Damn, the Kyuubi got under his skin.

Kurama merely went on, as though Naruto had said nothing.

"You may try to act cool in front of the other disgusting mortals, but when its just you and your pathetic friends you don't seem quite so impressive, now do you?"