As The Kyuubi no Yoko in Naruto

It has been seven years, seven years since the Nine-Tails attack happened.

Seven years since the Kyuubi no Yoko warned the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi indirectly to make Naruto strong. Sadly the old man, even though having understood what needs to be done, did not believe Naruto was ready, so he used external applications.

An Anbu Yamanaka always tailing the boy like his shadow, reporting even the smallest signs of change in behavior, and theorizing what the cunning fox could have done to cause it,

The last wood-style user, the Anbu Tenzo, to always be ready for bursts of demonic chakra, to suppress it. As well, on and off, Kakashi of the Sharingan being one of his tails as well, because of the legend of the Mangekyou Sharingan being capable of taming the beast.

But even with all this unbeknownst to the old man, all was going according to the demon's plan.

These past seven years the fox did not make himself known. He hid deep inside the mind of his jailor, and chose to keep silent.

He knew that inaction would cause far more unease than any action he could take. He knew the best way to gain the loyalty of his little jailor was for him to allow Naruto to experience the absence of love, warmth, and comfort.

The Naruto he knew would die for someone after the tiniest show of affection no matter how badly he was treated previously,

Like a mutt.

He desired, no, he demanded that kind of loyalty. He will be the one in charge, not the other way around. He won't be tamed and made a house cat like how he saw himself become after the brat slowly wormed his way into his other self's heart.

And so he bided his time, but even while doing so he never abandoned his little jailor. Whenever he got hurt from the bullying of the orphanage kids, his warm chakra was always there for comfort and healing.

When he was having nightmares, a visage of him in human form always appeared and sung him a lullaby, like a father, would to a frightened child.

He knew if he truly wanted the boy's loyalty there would need to be no lies between them. The boy would eventually need to know what he is, that he is the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, that he is the one who murdered his parents.

But of course, the otherwordly knowledge he possessed will naturally remain secret, a secret he will keep with him till the very day of reckoning.

The boy though if he hears this, will hate him for being the cause of his suffering. Knows he will blame him. Kurama plans to reverse this. He needs to not hate him, but have his hate directed to the enemies Kurama wants it directed towards- Obito and Madara Uchiha.

He would love to make the boy hate this damned village as well of course, but doing so would raise complications such as not having the needed protection against those bastards and their damned Sharingans.

The boy must know that when the world abandoned him, when the people who were supposed to love and care for him abandoned him, that he was always there. That he is the only one he can truly ever one hundred percent trust in this world.

But that is the long part of his plan- the short part is about to start tonight.

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It was nearing midnight. Naruto is now seven years old, unbeknownst to him there have already been several assassination attempts made upon his life by his village, but the Anbu who saw to his protection made sure he remained blissfully unaware.

The Third Hokage warned them that the beast still lives within the boy, and the slightest crack in the boy's armor, could shift the power dynamic to the beast's favor.

Unaware that he, and his entire village are actually already being played by said demon like a fiddle.

Naruto did not know why he was walking these streets here, close to Sasuke-teme's house- or clan campound or whatever, but something was telling him- no making his body move towards it.

He didn't have the slightest clue why, but he felt the same wamth from this that he felt from the man - the one he began to think was his father- in his dreams.

The one stroking his hair and always hugged him, and comforted him after feeling alone when no one wanted to play with him at the academy.

And so he continued to allow his body to move, until he suddenly after turning an alley saw something horrifying...

Blood, and organs littering the walls, three dead people on the street, Naruto wanted to scream, wanted to run away, but something was telling him he musn't run away, but run towards whatever caused this.

He didn't know why he would even think of that, but he felt afraid and that warmth was going away faster than ever when he tried to run away, so against his better judgement he ran into the street, seeing more and more dead bodies on the way.

Now one may ask themselves, why, why there are no Anbu here, why are they leaving the most valuable asset of the village unprotected, especially on such a night?

It is especially because of this night that the Anbu aren't present. The Third hokage, and the council made sure of that. Nobody must ever know the truth of what was happening today.

Naruto ran deeper into the path that lead to the death of these people, until he eventually arrived and saw... Saw Sasuke-teme on the ground shivering in fear as a man, who looked like the teme was holding a sword to his neck...

Naruto became angry at this.

Unknown to the boy, the demon inside of him has been leading him on for years to slowly form a bond with the little Uchiha.

Kurama knows the best way to fight fire, is with an even stronger fire.

He will mold this little Uchiha and his cursed eyes into his possession, his son... His little protector against the devils wanting to enslave him, and to do so the little Uchiha needs to be alive and grateful.

Kurama does not know how much this world is different than the world he has seen. Does not know whether itachi would spare the brat or not.

He has therefore, for years been thinking of ways to work around little Naruto's limitations if it came down to a skirmish between him and Itachi. 

Unluckily for him, it seems his fears were founded, for the older Uchiha was not looking quite merciful tonight.

With an animalistic growl, red demonic chakra in an instant engulfed the blonde boy as he with speeds far surpassing what any child should have, shinobi or not, dashed between the two Uchiha's destroying the elder's tanto, surprising him quite a bit.

"Naruto...?" questioned Sasuke surprised by the appearance of the dobe.

"Well look what we have here, my foolish little brother, the demon of the leaf has come to your rescue, I did not know you were capable of taming such a beast." Itachi stated as his windmil shuriken shaped mangekyou sharingan stared impassively at the blond seven year old brat coated in red demonic chakra.

"Teme," Naruto said addressing Sasuke - something warning him to never look the man in the eyes, telling him not to, for to do so was asking for death. Telling him to look at his feet.

"Did he hurt you?" the blond questioned breaking the younger Uchiha from his shocked trance.

"Dobe! Run, you're no match for Itachi-nii! He'll kill you!" Sasuke yelled- almost pleading for Naruto to run. He and Naruto may have some sort of animosity towards each other at the academy, but Sasuke still sees Naruto as the only person who looks at him and doesn't either ignore him and see only his elder brother's shadow or fawn over him being a Uchiha heir.

Naruto is the only one aside from his mother, and Itachi-nii who saw him as Sasuke, and he doesn't want him to die at the hands of his insane brother.

"Shut up Teme! Just watch me kick his ass!"

And as he yelled this Naruto dashed forward attacking the elder Uchiha who thanks to his superior capability easily dodged his attack. Yet Naruto wasn't going to stop, and he continued clawing towards Itachi.

"Naruto!" Yelled Sasuke in worry, trying to stand up, but not being able to, his legs were shaking, he didn't know what to do. He felt completely powerless in this situation... If only he had power....

'So this is the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki? Impressive for him to have such control already at his age.' Thought the elder Uchiha as he continued to toy with the blond vessel.

Though eventually, Itachi got tired of this little charade. He was sure soon the ninja of the Hidden Leaf will notice something to be amiss.

Even though he did this with the approval of Danzo Shimura, he was not sure for how much longer he could stay here.

He would prefer taking Sasuke with him, so that he could groom him until he could awaken the Mangekyou, but now seeing the Jinchuuriki before him, and the plans the Akatsuki have for them in the future...

This could blossom into a great tragedy.

Itachi then as if he was swatting a fly, slapped Naruto to the side, causing him to crash in the wall. Though disoriented, Naruto tried to immediately get back up, to continue fighting, but with a mere glare, the elder Uchiha put the blond Jinchuuriki into a genjutsu and put him to sleep, but unbeknownst to him, the demon was still wide awake, and watching.

"Naruto!" Yelled Sasuke, seeing his friend in such a state caused a fire to build up in him, a fire fueled by hatred, and rage, all of what happened today had finally registered, there was no more room for denial.

Itachi was no longer the elder brother who he knew and loved. He was a murderer who slaugtered their clan and killed their parents, and he needed to pay.

Finally overcoming the shaking of his legs, he stood up, with a one tomoe sharingan glaring back at the apathetic windmill shurkin mangekyou of the elder.

Itachi as he saw this though he didn't outwardly show it in his expression was quite pleased,

"Foolish little brother... It seems there is hope for you yet..."

Sasuke as he heard his brother's cold tone, grit his teeth in rage, "Why!? Why Itachi!? Why did you do this!? Why did slaughter our entire clan!? Why did you kill our own PARENTS!?" Sasuke yelled enraged, tears streaming down, his sharingan eyes.

"To test myself." Itachi replied coldly.

"To...Test yourself?" Questioned Sasuke, shocked, confused, and horrified at the same time.

"Yes, my foolish little brother, your feeble childlike mind may not comprehend it now, but it may in the future." Itachi stated as he turned around starting to walk away, completely done with this conversation. He needed to leave now, any moment now, the Anbu would arrive.

Sasuke seeing Itachi leaving, became once more shocked, and then enraged as he charged at him yelling, "Where do you think you're going!? Come back here!"

Itachi turning back with a mere look, whispered in his own mind,

'Tsukuyomi,'

And Sasuke froze where he stood solid, unable to move as the world started distorting, and the sky turned blood red...

Itachi disappeared in a swarm of black crows as his voice started to reverbarate from every direction in the world, "My foolish little brother, you truly believe you have the capability of taking me off the board of the game that is this world? No, you are weak, far too weak.

Why are you so weak? Because you lack... hatred. If you want to kill me... curse me! Hate me! And live a long and unsightly life... Run away... run away... and cling to your pitiful existence. And then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me." As he finished Sasuke's suffering started.

For the next three days in the world of Tsukuyomi, he was tortured with watching Itachi slaughtering his entire clan...

Kurama as this happened merely continued to watch silently. He had been watching the elder Uchiha's emtions carefully for the past three years, and came to the conclusion that Itachi in this world truly does despise the Uchiha clan.

Letting Naruto come here tonight, and intervene in this was a calculated risk.

Kurama needed Sasuke to remain alive, he needed a pair of sharingan on his own side, one loyal to a fault.

But even so, Kurama was still hesitant in putting his vessel's life in danger, but he eventually still chose to do so. He knew if Naruto died, the Akatsuki's plans would be pushed decades back, and that was the least of Itachi's problems.

If Naruto, the Jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tails died, or was kidnapped, the world would fall out of balance as the leaf either tries to reclaim the kidnapped Naruto, or be gazed at like sheeps by hungry wolves for having lost their tailed beast, starting the 4th Great Shinobi War.

Kurama betted on Itachi's rationality, yet he also had countermeasures in place if he needed to truly flee.

He had already devised a plan for the Amatersu, by coating Naruto in a layer of demonic chakra and if attacked with it, planned to shed the cloak like a snake does its skin to survive, and thereafter seeing the killing intent of the eldest Uchiha fleeing with all his might.

But luckily that was not needed, and everything went according to plan.

Itachi now believes he himself chose to spare Naruto, and not take Sasuke with him, but no, it was all a part of the Fox Demon's scheme.

He needed to do this to strengthen Naruto's and Sasuke's bond to its peak, and even though it won't show immediately, Kurama absolutely succeeded,

He made all of them play to his tune,

All according to plan...

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(Author note: Hello guys! This is another chapter, found some free time. I hope you enjoyed it! As you all see Kurama is as I said in the previous chapter a great and old cunning fox, as he should be and will continue to be, thoroughly manipulating everyone to meet his ends.

But more on that later, tell me how did you find it, was the dialogue between Naruto, Sasuke, and Itachi in the charachter?

Itachi is an actual villain in this. I always was fascinated by the idea of itachi actually being this psycho who killed his clan to test himself.

So yeah,

was it good?

was it bad?

I'd like to hear your opinions.

See you all later,

Bye!)