He turned a smile her way, only to see her face turn red and for her to duck completely behind that powerline pole.
What just happened?
Naruto managed a yelp before something pulled him inside his own consciousness.
The first thing he noted was that this was NOT a sewer with a big barred door behind which a demon-fox glared at him.
Instead there was a bishonen-looking youth in priest robes, chewing on the end of a piece of hay, walking around him and they were in the middle of a well-kept shrine.
"This is very strange," said the priest.
"Who? What? Where?" asked Naruto.
"Inari," said the priest, making a European-style courtly bow. "The good part of the Ninetailed Demon Fox. Yin and Yang, you understand? Except that the nine Tailed Beasts aren't precisely demons as far as that goes. More like kaiju chakra constructs."
"You're the Kyubi?" asked Naruto, not expecting this at all.
"In a manner of speaking," said Inari with a decidedly foxy grin. "A bit of the original, a bit of something else, a bit of your parents, all come together into another identity altogether. Hmmm. Apparently you made a deal with a god of mischief and chaos, and this is the result."
"I DIDN'T MAKE A DEAL!" Naruto shouted at the sky.
"Well, that being the case," said Inari, plopping down on the steps to the shrine and then pushing himself up so that his foxy tail wasn't pinned underneath him, "we'll move on to your abilities. You're going to have to practice this stuff so pay attention."
"'Abilities'?" asked Naruto, hoping for something awesome out of it.
"Right," said Inari. "Right now you've got really high resistance to poison, good stamina, fair strength, lousy chakra control, and a chakra capacity that is at least jonin level. Because I'm a cooperative and not evil fox-spirit, there's a few benefits you get along with my presence."
"Go on," said Naruto cautiously.
"There's my 'foxhole' ability, which is a short range teleport," began Inari. "There's 'tailspin' where you weaken someone's defenses. When we get your chakra control under control, there's some more manuevers you'll be able to pull out."
"Really?" asked Naruto, hope sneaking up and ambushing caution.
"Of course, in our new past, things are a little different from what I see here," said Inari, holding up a tankubon marked "Naruto #1" and flipping into it. "For one thing, we're eleven and still in the Academy. For another, you're not an orange-clad class clown. No, we're..."
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