208. Mindscape shenanigans


    <span style="font-weight:400">Naruko was having a hard time processing everything that had happened in thest few hours. Many things were revealed to her and from the looks of things a few more would be revealed in the near future. She satfortably on top of the bed besides Satsuki who wanted toe along.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Tomoka had talked about the Kyubi and how they could speak with him through the mind escape. Naruko didn’t understand much of what had been said, she would be the first to admit she isn’t the smartest cookie in the jar. No, she wouldn’t admit it to others but internally she understood it was the truth.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Either way, she was feeling nervous. She had a LOT of questions to ask, both to the demon fox and Tomoka. Then again, the answers would probably be a tad tooplicated for her. That is why she was thankful that Satsuki would be with her. She was a lot smarter than herself as much as she detested admitting the fact.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Doing as Tomoka had said she rxed while holding Satsuki’s hand. Meanwhile the red haired menace was sitting behind them while cing her palms on their back. Hinata and Nozomi held Tomoka’s shoulders as they too would being along.


    <span style="font-weight:400">At first Naruko wondered when they would begin. She didn’t feel any different until she found herself standing in front of Tomoka. Behind the girl was an idyllic clearing with a clear waterke. A rather massive building floating a few meters above the water suspended in the air by forces unseen. To her sides Hinata and Nozomi stood with barely visible smug grins.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Even more amazing than that was the sight of a gigantic nine tailed fox napping on top of arge rock jutting from theke’s water. The fox looked ever so familiar to Naruko, yet there were some undeniable differences. For example, this one’s fur looked a shade darker than her own Fox’s. That and there was this weird… slimness to it.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Oi! What is the meaning of this!] Naruko was quickly brought out of her thoughts as she heard a loud rumbling voice behind her. As she turned around she saw another nine tailed fox inside a huge cage. This one, unlike the other one, looked pissed off to the highest degree.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Shut up Yang, can’t you see I am trying to nap over here] To her astonishment she hears the exact same voice with a tiny difference in pitching from the napping fox as itzily opened a single eye. Sure, she might not be the sharpest tool in the shed but even she could tell these two were the yin and yang sides of the Kyubi.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[How did you get out of the stupid seal!] Once again the trapped kyubi shouted as he began to bang his paws against the bars of the cage. His counterpart’s dismissing words doing nothing more than fuel the anger he was feeling.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“He yed nice and now we are pals, I removed the seal just moments after he was sealed in me since we had a heart to heart. Now, as you can see, he gets to chill inside my mindscape.” Knowing her own fox Tomoka decided to answer otherwise these two would start arguing, wasting everyone''s time.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[You would drop so low as to be friends with a human!? You are a disgrace to us!] Hearing this yin kurama couldn’t help but burst intoughter. Heughed so hard waves were forming around the rock he had been using as a napping spot. He even began banging the rock with hisrge paws as heughed like he had just heard the best joke in recorded history.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[A human? She is the farthest thing from a human! She is much more of a monster than me or you. Hell, I wouldn’t put it past her to find a way of killing us permanently!] Yin Kurama shouted whileughing like a maniac. He had full ess to Tomoka’s senses; this also meant he could see through her phantoms as well. He once tried to see and hear through all of them at once knocking himself out.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile Tomoka scratched the back of her head with a sheepish smile hearing Kurama’s im. Especially thest part. She couldn’t help butugh nervously at the statement. Something that didn’t go unnoticed by both Kuramas.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[You actually found a way didn’t you?] Yin Kurama said with a deadpan. He had said it as a joke but he also knew that it was possible. When Tomoka is concerned you better assume she can do what you otherwise would deem not possible.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Kinda? It''s theoretical at best for now since I don’t have anyone to test it on. I mean, there are only nine bijus and you would get very cross with me if I were to kill one of your siblings.” Kurama wanted to be angry with Tomoka, then again he knew her well enough to know she didn’t mean any harm. The girl only asked if she could, which more often than not she could, not if she should.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[As you can see yang me, this girl is scary and I would behave if I were you.] With his part said yin Kurama decided to dip. His tolerance for Tomoka bullshit has reached its limit for the moment. Yang Kurama for his part was having a hard time figuring things out. He could innately know when someone was telling a lie. This ability became even stronger inside the mindscape. Not even a single word the girl spoke was a lie, that frightened him a bit.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Anyway, Naruko, Satsuki, meet Kurama, the nine tailed biju.” Hearing Tomoka so casually shareing his name made yang Kurama want to gut her. Then again, there was little he could do while inside the seal. Also, now that he had a bit more leeway to think about things he was starting to feel pissed off at the fact there were not one but two damned Uchihas here.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Now now Kurama, I know you hate the Uchihas but please behave otherwise I will be forced to discipline you.” Now that was the straw that broke the camel''s back. The warning he had received from his other half fled his mind as he saw red. A brat dared threaten him?


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Fuck you! I don’t know what you did to my other half but don’t think for a second I am the same. Once I get out of this cage I will rip you apart and eat you! I will take my time killing those two Uchiha bastards as-] He couldn’t finish.


    <span style="font-weight:400">The girl had moved too fast for Kurama to follow, one instant she was standing there with a smug smile and the next she was mming her fist on his snout with a frown on her face. The impact rattled Kurama’s brain as his senses went haywire.


    <span style="font-weight:400">As he fell to the ground dizzy from the attack he saw the girl standing on the bridge of his snout staring directly into his eyes with a pair of haunting pink eyes promising hell. This made his anger resurface with a vengeance. It was just a fluke it must be. He had been unprepared, he would admit he had underestimated the pipsqueak. Now however, he would get serious.


    <span style="font-weight:400">He moved his paw with unbelievable speed for his size. Yet the limb was intercepted by a strange ck tentacle made of pure yin energy. It felt wrong on so many levels he quickly moved his paw away as if burnt by boiling hot water. Things, however, were theplete opposite. The limb felt cold, numb and unresponsive.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Huh, that is new.” The girl said, ignoring the now terrified Kurama as she inspected the pitch ck limb. Like a child with a new toy she began moving it around testing its range of movement. The limb hade from her back and yet it could glide all over her body as if it had no physical attachment to her form.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Wonder if I can pull it out in the real world as well.” Mumbling so Tomoka pulled back the new limb inside her body. It felt like an extension of herself, no different from an arm or a leg. Something within her told her that this strange tentacle was nothing more than an extended piece of her soul. That would also exin yang’s sudden reaction to the limb. Not like it matters right now.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Now, where were we? Right, you began talking smack so I smacked you-” Hearing the girl’s words Kurama''s anger began to resurface only to be extinguished by the memory of the terrifying limb. His arm was still recuperating and something told him that should she want to the girl could harm him permanently using whatever the fuck that was.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“-I didn’te here for a fight but if you don’t behave I am very much willing to smack you around until you feel like talking. So now it’s your choice, either we talk and maybe you can get out of this awful cage or, I can smack you around some more.” Kurama really, really wanted to hit Tomoka right now but he stayed put. Might makes right and right now she is way stronger than him, the stupid seal restricting him too much.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Fine.] Like an admonished child Kurama sat down with a pout, not like anyone noticed besides Tomoka and yin Kurama who was watching from afar. The sheer schadenfreude he felt seeing his counterpart being smacked around made dealing with Tomoka worth it… almost.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“With that done, Naruko, ask away. I know you have a bunch of questions so we will try to answer as best as we can.” After saying that, Tomoka gave yang Kurama a nce. He understood instantly that he should cooperate.


    <span style="font-weight:400">It took quite a while to exin everything Naruko wanted to know in a way she would understand. Tomoka did most of the talking, only asking for yang Kurama’s confirmation when needed. She also answered some of Satsuki’s questions with said Kurama’s confirmation as well.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“With that done, here is the deal yang. We can release you and you y nice with Naruko. Like with yin I will make a body for you to inhabitter. Yin already has his body made and now it''s just a matter of establishing the necessary connection. Aside from that I will have people help Naruko make her mindscape more hospitable. So, do we have a deal?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Yang Kurama thought about it for quite a long while he really wanted to ept but his pride was getting in the way. He was flip flopping between epting and not. In the end yin’s shamelessly doing whatever he wanted in the background made the bnce tip towards epting.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Fine, I’ll ept] With the deal now finished it was time to free yang from his prison. Tomoka took this moment to tell Naruko about the seal and what would happen once she tried to remove it.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Wait! So you''re telling me both my parents may appear?” Naruko was just a moment away from bolting towards the seal and reaping it away. Seeing this Tomoka and yang could help but share the single thought. Yang could have easly tricked Naruko into fiddling with the seal if he had told him about this. Then again, how was he supposed to know?


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, but they aren’t really your parents. Just a chakra imprint that acts like them.” Hearing this Naruko’s excitement diminished a little. However, even if they weren’t the real thing she still wanted to meet them, talk to them, get to know them.


    <span style="font-weight:400">With her excitement properly managed now Naruko marched forward. As she stood in front of the seal she took a deep breath before tearing away the piece of paper… or trying to. As soon as she tore a bit of it a hand took hold of her wrist preventing her from pulling the whole thing off.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Naruto, I don’t know what Kyuubi told you but he is lying. As soon as you remove that seal he will try to escape and you will die.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Huh, that''s the same you said to me back then word for word.” Tomoka couldn’t help butment as she saw a picture perfect repeat of what had happened back then. Minato on the other hand was super confused after hearing Tomoka’sment.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Wait, what? Tomoka? What are you doing here, what is going on?” Minato asked as he looked around, seeing a bunch of other people he didn’t know. Well, kids really, a Hyuga and two Uchihas. Wait, was that the freaking Kyubi on a beach chair drinking lemonade with sunsses on his face? What the actual fuck.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“So, I am helping your daughter get rid of the seal on the kyubi since we are all pals now.” Hearing Tomoka’s absurd words, Minato''s mind nked for a moment. As soon as his mind began working again the first thing toe out of his mouth was.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Wait, daughter?” As soon as he said that, a chorus of facepalms resounded through the ce. Even both of Kurama''s facepalmed. The only one to not do so was Naruko who was too busy containing the deluge of happy tears forming on her eyes.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Really? Like father like daughter I guess. TLDR shit happened and Naruto got gender-bent alongside his, now her, entire team.” Once again Minato’s mind nked for a moment. All of this felt like a badly rehearsed joke. However, as he turned to see his… daughter, he saw it was real.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Uh, this is awkward.” Tomoka was a moment away from saying: no shit sherlock. However, she didn’t get the chance as Naruko hugged her father with the strength of a hydraulic press. Good thing they were in the mindscape otherwise the man would have all of his bones broken.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[This will take a while, here.] Yin Kurama said while passing a lemonade to yang Kurama who felt left behind and forgotten.