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Hearing his uncle's voice, he paid it no mind until he heard a different voice that he had definitely heard before and wondered why she was here. Opening the door, he was surprised to see Yugito and his uncle talking.
Hearing the door open, both of them turned to see Naruto.
"Good morning, Naruto," Bee greeted him first, but the blonde didn't answer; instead, he looked At Yugito, who was just as surprised as he was.
"What are you doing here, Naruto-Kun/Yugito-Chan??"
Bee looked at both of them, confused for a moment, before smiling like an idiot. "Ohh, you already know each other." He said, raising both of their arms in the air.
"Yeh, I know him/her," both said simultaneously, looking at each other.
Both were taken aback that they both spoke at the same time. They laughed a bit before Naruto decided to address the elephant in the room.
"Yugito-chan, what are you doing here?" The blonde asked his blonde friend.
"To control Matabi's chakra, she's a Jinchuuriki just like me." Bee simply informed him carelessly, pointing a thumb at himself and another at Yugito, not really getting why the blonde girl was finding it so hard to tell him simply.
Yugito looked up at Bee with a cold glare, her eyes turning like a cat's for a moment. She wanted to tell himself not for this fool to say it loud like that.
"Wow, you're the Matatabi Jinchiku!! I'm the Kyuubi Jackass." Naruto shouted without thinking twice but regretted it right away when he heard a loud groan inside him and knowing that he had yet to tell his family that he knew about the existence of Kyuubi.
This made Yugito's eyes spark like stars; Naruto was just like her.
Yugito didn't notice it, but she felt tears streaming down her cheeks; Naruto could be what she had been looking for her whole life. A Dear friend who wouldn't be afraid of her. She was about to ask him why he hadn't told her that he was a Jinchiki too. When Bee-Sensei spoke with a very serious tone, that was very unusual to hear from his mouth.
"Naruto, how do you know about Kyuubi?" Bee asked carefully, stepping forward towards his nephew. The way he always was rapping was gone, now talking seriously. The blonde felt a shiver in his body just by his voice.
"You know that I unlocked my chakra a month ago," Naruto said nervously, rubbing the back of his head. Bee simply nodded, remembering his brother celebrating the occasion.
"After I unlocked my chakra, I fell asleep and met Kyuubi, and he wasn't really that bad. He's actually quite cool once you talk with him." Naruto explained with a broad grin, earning a louder groan inside his stomach.
Bee, on the other hand, could tell Naruto was being honest, and knowing that no one outside of their family knew the truth was a relief.
"Cool! Are we talking about the same Kyuubi because the one I know is not cool." Hachibi spoke in Bee's mind, who chuckled hearing that.
"Mayhaps my little nephew has found a way to tame him." He spoke while mentally moving his arms around like a fool.
Hachibi groaned in annoyance but actually hoped that was the case. "Well, maybe. Last I saw him, Kyuubi wasn't really a big fan of humans. I'm surprised your nephew even had an opportunity to talk to him in the first place. I would have bet that Kyuubi would simply force him out of the mindscape right away." Hachibi said, not saying Kyuubi's real name. He would mention it only if Kyuubi allowed it.
"Well, it is a start. Do you think we should go ahead with his training?" Bee questioned mentally.
"I think you should, and your nephew needs to get stronger. This world is not soft to weak people." Hachibi grumbled.
Bee frowned mentally upon hearing that. He knew his best friend had a good point, but he wished his nephew would be a child for a bit longer and not start training when he was only four years old.
He escaped his thoughts when he heard Naruto ask Yugito something.
"So, have you ever seen, Matatabi?" Naruto asked curiously, leaning closer to the blonde girl who had a dumbfounded look on her face.
"Ahhh, I haven't actually. I have talked with her but not actually met her." Yugito explained, a little embarrassed, before looking at Naruto again.
"You have seen Kyuubi, haven't you?"
"Yes, he looks like a big furball with too many tails," Naruto said with a laugh, not hearing both Matatabi and Hachibi laughing out loud like crazy hearing that description.
"Boy! Who are you calling a furball? Do I need to remind you that I'm the strongest Bijuu in this world?" Kyuubi warned him with a growl.
"That doesn't change the fact that you're still a furball and an old hag on top of that," Naruto said mentally. Kyuubi let out a roar that shook the entire forest.
"Cheeky brat," Kyuubi said with a little smile that he was trying really hard to surpass.
Naruto suddenly remembered why Yugito was here in the first place. "Uncle, you said you would train Yugito-chan, right?"
"Yes, you can come too if you want," Bee said, knowing his nephew liked to start training as soon as possible. Naruto jumped in the air with a raised fist after hearing that, while Yugito was happy to spend more time with her one and only friend.
Later
Reaching the training yard, he landed near Yugito while his uncle was busy doing ridiculous poses for some unknown reason?
"Well, kids. The first step to control your chakra is to stick a leaf on your forehead," His uncle-sensei said before he pulled out a book from his pouch and started writing on it with a small pencil.
"I haven't practiced it yet." He replied with his hands behind his head.
"Well. I will teach you how to do it, give you a few hints here and there." Bee said while rapping at the same time.
"Alright, kid, the first step is to take a leaf and use your chakra to stick it to your forehead like this," his sensei said, demonstrating the exercise. Naruto saw with awe as the leaf stuck to his forehead. Yugito smiled, happy to train and get stronger.
Naruto and Yugito nodded before picking up a leaf from the ground and keeping it on their foreheads and imagining their chakra creating suction at the point where the leaf touched their foreheads. After a few minutes, the leaf fell to the ground; Naruto just smiled and picked it up again. Bee was resting in the grass against a tree, writing in his book and looking at Naruto.
Naruto closed his eyes and tried to concentrate and focus his chakra on a single point. Surprisingly, after eight more tries, the leaf stuck to his forehead like glue. Only nine tries to get the amount of chakra right!
Yugito did the same. Her first five tries resulted in the leaf burning in blue flames. The following two tries resulted in the leaf falling from her forehead. The eighth try resulted in the leaf sticking to her forehead.
The leaf quickly stuck to his forehead on the tenth try, and he stood there smiling proudly. Using chakra for the first time felt really good! He had to imagine how his chakra flowed and sort of command it to do so, and voila! Task accomplished.
Bee noticed the leaf had crumbled into a ball the moment his nephew stopped trying to stick it on his forehead.
Bee wasn't sure what to think of it but decided to ignore it for now. He figured he would find out sooner or later.
"Naruto, you did well," Bee complimented him with a smile. But still very impressed with how fast Naruto completed his chakra control exercise.
Bee knew that probably was because of his Uzumaki blood, those from that clan were known to be masters of Fuinjutsu, and to be one, they must have excellent chakra control, not like medical shinobis, but very close to one.
Bee wondered if his nephew could use the Chakra Chains like Kushina was able to, maybe ever her infamous Sword, but Bee decided to ignore that for now, one step at a time, and that sword was currently in Konoha. Not the nearest place to Kumo.
Naruto noticed the way his uncle was looking at him, and he could feel pride but a hint of sadness coming from his sensei.
"Sensei, why are you sad?" Naruto suddenly asked, catching him off guard. Bee knew from his father that Naruto always knew how someone felt as if he could read their emotions, but that was something he had heard that only Mito Uzumaki could do.
"Don't worry, Naruto, you just remind me of someone," Bee replied, dismissing his concerns with a wave of his hands.
"Bee-sensei, when are we going to train in using Matatabi's Chakra?" Yugito asked him, wondering if she and Naruto could train on that.
"Not so fast. First, you must meet Matatabi and become friends before you start using her chakra." Bee informed the girl, who had a downcast look after hearing that.
She wondered how to become friends with a Bijuu; could they ever become friends? Suddenly she felt a hand touching her shoulder. She looked to her left to see Naruto grinning. He looked at her as if he knew exactly what she was feeling.
"Don't worry about anything. You can become friends with anyone, that includes Bijuus as well. You became friends with a blockhead like Bee after all," Naruto encouraged her, earning a 'Hey!' From his uncle that both of them ignored.
Yugito smiled upon hearing that, her heart filling with confidence. "You're right, Naruto. This won't be a problem." Yugito said, turning to look at Bee, who started doing his dances! A victory dance this time!!
"That's The Way, Yugito-Chan. Show everyone your Fire!!"
Yugito and Naruto felt bad for Hachibi; having someone like him as a host must be torture.
After ten minutes of pointless rapping, Bee instructed Yugito on how to enter her mindscape, and after that was done. Yugito was sitting crossed-legged in the grass, both Naruto and Bee watching her closely.
"Naruto, what did you talk about with Kyuubi?" Bee questioned him after a short moment of silence between the two of them. He figured they could talk until Yugito finished her business.
"Well, I asked him if he wanted to be friends, but he said that he doesn't want to become friends with someone who will see him as nothing but extra chakra," Naruto said with a smile, not at all bothered by his words.
This earned a curious look from Kyuubi inside; he could feel Naruto's emotions after all. And it felt good that, so far, Naruto genuinely meant his words.
"I see." Bee thought, slightly relieved. He had been worried that Kyuubi had blurted out that Naruto's real parents were dead, and he came from Konoha.
"I wouldn't worry about that, Bee, Kyuubi might not like humans, but he prefers not to interfere in their business. The only way Kyuubi could tell him is if Naruto himself asks him about that." Hachibi spoke, reassuring him that for now, Naruto wouldn't know the truth accidentally from an outside source.
Bee felt relief. He knew sooner or later, they would tell him the truth. But he preferred to be them who would tell him, not someone else.
"Don't worry, Naruto, sooner or later, Kyuubi will see what an incredible kid you are," Bee said, rubbing the top of Naruto's head, who laughed but tried to move his hand away.
Suddenly they both felt a burst of Bijuu chakra coming from Yugito. Both Naruto and Bee stood up; the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki put his hand on Naruto's shoulder and put him behind him.
They both saw Yugito's nails growing, looking more like knives, and the grass around started burning out of nowhere, her tails dancing with the wind. Suddenly the chakra burst stopped, taking both of them by surprise.
For a minute, there was complete silence as the wind stopped moving so fast; Naruto stepped forward, her eyes were still closed, and her nails slowly turned back to normal.
"Yugito-chan?"
The moment he called her name, her eyes opened, but instead of her usual black eyes looking back at him, they were mismatched, one golden and one green, with a slit in the center that reminded Naruto of Kyuubi's eyes.
"Naruto-Kun! It worked!!" She suddenly shouted, throwing herself at him in a bear-like hug.
"You were right, Naruto-Kun. We became friends." Yugito shouted, holding him tightly, not noticing his face paling the more she had him.
"Yugito, he can't breathe," Bee said, pointing at the pale Naruto.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Naruto." Yugito apologized, pulling away from him, the blonde boy desperately trying to catch his breath.
After a minute of breathing heavily, Naruto turned back to normal now that his nephew was no longer in danger. Bee asked Yugito what had happened between her and Matatabi.
Yugito simply explained that the big cat wanted to be able to talk with her and to be able to have access to her dopaminergic receptors, Yugito explained, scratching her head at the end, not really sure what the last one meant.
Bee rolled his eyes hearing that, and Naruto could swear he heard Kyuubi murmuring. "Typical Matatabi."
"Hey, Bee-sensei, now that I've got it, what's next?" Yugito asked with a grin, excited to get stronger.
"Your next exercise would be to climb this tree with only your feet," he instructed both of them, pointing at a tree behind him.
Naruto and Yugito gave him a quizzical look, "Isn't that kind of impossible, sensei?"
Bee's eye smiled and lightly bonked him at the back of his head, "With the aid of chakra. Honestly, where does your intelligence sometimes go, out of your head?"
Naruto rubbed the back of his head and laughed sheepishly.
Bee then demonstrated the exercise, "This is kind of similar to the leaf sticking exercise, except you are sticking yourself to a tree instead of sticking a leaf to you. If you use too little chakra, your foot won't stick. You use too much chakra; you get blasted off the tree. Begin. You can use a running start if you want." He showed him climbing the tree and throwing an actual kunai in front of them.
Naruto and Yugito grabbed their respective kunai. He walked to the tree and put his right foot on the bark, regulating the amount of chakra required to stick.
Sadly it turned out not to be as easy as they originally thought; by the time night came, both Yugito and Naruto had bruises all over their bodies, yet, none of them could walk on trees.
Soon it was dark, and they went home; Naruto said good night to Yugito before following Bee to their home.
Once arriving there, Bee told A and Ay that Naruto knew about Kyuubi, and they both told him that he wasn't under any pressure to use Kyuubi's chakra as soon as possible. Even if he never managed, he could still become a great shinobi on his own.
Naruto then, like the idiot he is, along with his father and uncle, challenged Ay to an arm wrestling match.
"Your Doom," Ay announced with a cold calm voice that sent shivers into their hearts. Ay, put a barrel in the center of the room.
The moment it started, Naruto, A, and Bee tried their best to beat him, but Ay's arm just wasn't moving, not even an inch, their bursts of chakra caused the house to start shaking. A and Bee clenched their teeth to the point that they would break at any second. Naruto was trying his best along with them.
After one minute of trying, Ay grinned. "Kids." He murmured before, with one move, beating all three of them, the moment their arms hit the floor, one-third of the house broke down. As if a bomb had been suddenly set off inside the house.
Naruto coughed loudly; having debris on top of him wasn't exactly ideal, not counting both his uncle and father. Ay simply shook his head in amusement. Despite no longer being in his prime, it seems he was still powerful.
"You three will clean this whole thing," Ay ordered, standing in front of them. This made all three gasp.
"AHHHHH! That's not Fair!"