"Hmm? What do you mean?"
"This," Naruto said, gesturing around the room and then between them. "Since I'm stuck with you I may as well get to know you, right? I think I'm going to enjoy our time together if we're planning on doing this on a regular basis."
The boy's approach regarding him had the Kyuubi's frown deepen. "Don't make light of my strength boy. You're only deluding yourself if you think I will allow you treat me like some common house pet. I'm the nine-tailed demon fox; a living mass of malevolence and the most feared of all the biju. There's no way a powerful entity like me will be swayed by the likes of you."
Naruto giggled and saluted, "It's worth a shot though, right? I'll get you to see how awesome I am soon enough, big guy." He then turned around and began walking away, waving over his shoulder at the fox. "Well, I guess I'll see you when I see you… uhh…" Stopping on the water, the jinchuriki then looked back at the kitsune still sitting behind his gate. "Hey. What's your name?"
"I just told you, the Kyuubi no-"
"No, no, I meant your actual name. I'd hate to have to call you nine-tails all the time. It's kind of strange," Naruto said while rotating fully, where he saw a momentary look of surprise come across the demon's face before the fox turned away sharply. "Come on. Don't be like that…"
"Forget it," the Kyuubi snapped, closing his eyes.
Huffing, Naruto smiled and turned to stare back ahead of him, "Alright, if that's how you feel. It was nice meeting you, fur ball."
He heard the fox growl in response, which brought a wider grin to the boy's face.
Man… he couldn't wait for the next time he came here. Having someone else to talk to and get to know was a really refreshing change of pace, even if it was a colossal demon fox. Still, even with this mind-blowing discovery the boy felt that it was probably best not to go around telling everybody about it. That would just mean more trouble for him than he could handle, and he knew how to handle trouble. It's been his way of life since the very start.
Naruto opted to keep the information in a tight circle… and go to Hokage-jiji to ask him more about it later on.
The demon fox, the very being that attacked Konoha all those years ago, was sealed inside of him. No way was that not important…
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Waking with a start, Naruto blinked away the spots from sitting up too quickly and stared through the darkness in awe. Looking around a few times and towards his bedroom window, the blonde then heard a low murmur and looked down to the bed beside him to see Tayuya sit up.
Clearly showing the signs of being woken up prematurely, the red haired musician blinked as her eyes were filled with the night sky outside the window beside her before looking up at the upright Naruto. Both taking in the other's haggard appearance, Tayuya reached up to rub her eye slowly before deciding to ask the question that was now bothering her.
"What's with all the noise, shithead? Bad dream?" the musician asked.
Letting out a yawn, Naruto shook his head, "Nah, just an inside body experience. Nothing to worry about."
Tayuya blinked, "Ngh… well… if you need to go to the bathroom, then could you do it a little bit quieter?"
"Sure thing," Naruto mumbled before looking back down at the girl. He then blinked when he remembered the incredibly strange dream he'd just had, "Oh yeah, I just found out that I'm the Kyuubi's jinchuriki."
Tayuya raised an eyebrow, staring at him silently for a moment before looking him up and down. After several seconds of careful study, she then turned to look back at him seriously… or as seriously as a tired girl with bags under her eyes could get in her position, "Really?"
"Yeah."
"No joke?"
"Nope."
"Are you going to grow an extra pair of ears and tails one day?"
"Probably not."
"Am I in danger?"
"Not at all."
"Then go back to sleep," Tayuya groaned, dropping her face down into her pillow to snuggle back into him.
Both she and Naruto had been sharing the same bedroom with each other for the past two years, every night either crashing in the separate beds they'd arranged for themselves or in the same one when they couldn't be bothered falling asleep in their respective areas. If she didn't have anything to worry about back when they first started this whole routine, then she didn't have anything to worry about now.
Even if the bedroom was filled with all sorts of crap like some common college dorm, with pillows, blankets and futons strewn all about the place from their continued desire to create the perfect den and the largest pillow fort ever conceived, it was still their sleeping area. It was more like a bear cave filled with mattresses than anything else and that's how it was between them; complete and absolute trust in one another.
Yawning again at being woken up so suddenly, Naruto slumped back down in the bed alongside his flat mate and the two went back to sleep.
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The very next morning…
After waking up real early to get some extra training in before the Genin assignments at the end of the week, Naruto soon found himself trudging back to his apartment covered in all kinds of crap and reeking of sweat brought on from hours of performing backbreaking exercises. He'd practically spent the whole of dawn lugging all sorts of heavy stuff up and down the woodlands as well as pounding the crap out of a variety of inanimate objects ranging from boulders to tree logs, and experimenting with his signature jutsu on the same material. Burning chakra to come up with some new ways to use his Jet Hand in the most imaginative ways possible, contrary to popular belief, actually did make the boy sweat a little, since he was practically forcing himself to change its shape, direction and execution.
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