The Nine-Tails and a Brand-New Naruto

Naruto's grades were not ideal. The closer the Ninja Academy's graduation exam got, the more panicked Naruto became.

The graduation exam questions are basically all from the Three Basic Body Techniques! The Substitution Technique and Transformation Technique I am not afraid of, but the Clone Technique is what I am least good at!

Having just arrived home, Naruto clutched his head at this moment, feeling extremely apprehensive in his heart. Tomorrow was the Ninja Academy's graduation exam. If he could not graduate, how could he become a ninja? And if he could not become a ninja, let alone his goal of becoming the Hokage.

Naruto suddenly felt some strange smell. Sniffing his clothes, that pungent paint smell made him very uncomfortable. Today for a prank, he bought paint and painted all over the statues of the four Hokages on the Hokage Rock.

After shaking off the Chunin who were chasing him, he was finally caught back by his teacher Iruka. Although he cleaned the Hokage Rock for an entire afternoon, his teacher Iruka treated him to his favorite Ichiraku Ramen.

Changed into his pajamas, Naruto lay on bed. Thinking of tomorrow's graduation exam, he let his imagination run wild and could not sleep, feeling nervous to death. If tomorrow's exam tested the Clone Technique he was least good at, he would not be able to graduate.

"Ugh..." Naruto's eyes widened. His head felt as if it had suddenly been heavily struck by something. He wanted to open his mouth to shout and call for help, yet his throat felt as if a thorn was stuck in it, making him unable to utter a single word.

"What's, going on... I..."

The last thoughts flashed through Naruto's mind as he fell unconscious.

"What's wrong with me? It feels like a long time has passed..." Naruto opened his eyes, wanting to see why he suddenly had a headache.

Yet he saw himself appear in a spatial world filled with orange-yellow tones, where the drip-drip sound of flowing water came over. His retreat was sealed off, the water surface covered his ankles, and there was only one path ahead.

"This is a sewer. Wait... which bastard got me into the sewer!" The words that slipped out of Naruto's mouth surprised even himself.

"Wait..." Naruto clutched his head. Why would he say that? He felt that his head hurt particularly badly, as if he had remembered many things.

"Roar..."

Suddenly, a beast-like roar came from ahead. In an instant, Naruto's scalp went numb, and goosebumps rose all over his body.

Naruto twitched. "Th-th-this... Where on earth have I come to? Is this a monster? Where is Ultraman? Ultraman, Ultraman Tiga, I once gave you a flashlight, hurry up and come!"

"Fool..." The beast's voice made Naruto feel his soul tremble.

"This lord is the Nine-Tails, Naruto, hurry up and come over, there is an important matter!" The Nine-Tails' voice was somewhat impatient, roaring it out almost.

"The Nine-Tails... Kurama!" Naruto's expression suddenly turned startled as he walked forward. He himself did not know why he said that. His head still hurt a lot, and there were many things making him recall them bit by bit.

After walking for not long, a huge iron gate appeared before Naruto's eyes. In the middle of the two iron gates was pasted a paper talisman with the character for seal. Through the cracks of the iron gate, a huge, fire-red fox with a ferocious appearance and vertical scarlet pupils gave people a beast-like feeling, emitting endless terror, its nine tails writhing behind it.

The Nine-Tails looked down from on high at Naruto and said, "Hmph, Naruto, you too have sensed your own changes, haven't you!"

"Change!" Naruto had not yet recovered from the shock of seeing the Nine-Tails. Hearing what the Nine-Tails said, he looked at his own hands, drew a sharp breath, and said, "My head feels so painful."

The Nine-Tails frowned, its eyes narrowing as it said, "Fool, as expected you know nothing. Just a moment ago, a soul from another world attached itself to your body. While fighting for sovereignty with your soul, it was counter-killed by your soul, and everything of that other-world soul was also absorbed by you."

"What??!" Naruto shouted in surprise.

The Nine-Tails continued, "Your headache right now is because you are accepting the memories of that other-world soul yourself. For you, it will be fine in a few minutes."

"Naruto, take a close look, the memories of that other-world soul are very interesting!" The Nine-Tails added another sentence, revealing sharp teeth.

Naruto stood in place, carefully sorting through the memories in his mind. After about a few minutes, his head stopped hurting, and as for the other-world soul the Nine-Tails mentioned, Naruto also understood why the Nine-Tails said it was interesting.

That other-world soul was named Awen. While playing a Naruto mobile game on a bench by the roadside, because he defeated a jerk who turned on lag hacks, before Awen could even feel happy, a helicopter suddenly plummeted from the sky and directly smashed him to death. His soul came here and attached to his body, yet was counter-killed by him.

Because of the connection between the Nine-Tails and Naruto, it also knew the whole situation. However, the Nine-Tails' power was very strong, and Awen's soul did not cause any impact on the Nine-Tails. To the Nine-Tails, Awen's memories were like watching a movie.

"This... impossible. Naruto, Konoha, this world, that's right!" At this moment, Naruto lowered his head, looking very depressed in mood.

The Nine-Tails' nine tails danced lightly in the air. Looking at Naruto's appearance, it said, "Feeling very uncomfortable in your heart? That's right, you are the child of that Fourth guy. Naruto, in order to confirm the memories of that guy named Awen, tomorrow you..."

"Ahahaha... Tomorrow, tomorrow it really is testing the Clone Technique, ahahaha..." Naruto was so scared his soul almost flew away.

The Nine-Tails had black lines all over its face. What Naruto cared about was actually this! He owed it to Awen's memories that he also had other views of Naruto.

"What a fool, you just proceed normally according to tomorrow's situation, won't that be fine!" The Nine-Tails rubbed its brow and sent Naruto out.

Naruto abruptly opened his eyes, and the Nine-Tails' lingering voice finally reached his mind, saying, "Naruto, today is your graduation exam. Let us see the authenticity of that Awen's memories."

"Today!" Naruto had not yet recovered his wits. The sunlight outside the window was somewhat dazzling. Naruto glanced at the alarm clock beside the bed, and instantly his whole person did not feel well.

"Yaah... Crap, crap, crap... It's past eight o'clock, class is about to start, it's over, I'm going to be late!"

Naruto hurriedly got out of bed, clattering and banging together a bunch of things, and changed into a new set of clothes—though speaking of a new set of clothes, the style was still the same as his previous orange outfit. With a buttered toast clamped in his mouth, he sprinted toward the Ninja Academy.

Right now, whatever Awen's memories were, whatever the Nine-Tails was, whatever son of the Fourth Hokage he was, none of it was as important to him as being late.

Naruto, sprinting on the road, while passing a corner, suddenly a young girl with long blonde hair rushed out from the corner and crashed into him head-on. Naruto's head directly struck the other's chin, and the toast clamped in his mouth was also flung onto the other person's body.

The two of them sat sprawled on the ground, Naruto clutching his head in agony. "Ouch, ouch, ouch... Who is it!"

"Ah, dammit, which blind person crashed into this young lady! It hurts, I bit my tongue!" The blonde girl spat out her tongue. That knife-like pain hurt so much that her tears even flowed out.

The blonde girl glared angrily; she wanted to see who on earth the bastard was that crashed into her.

Naruto was likewise the same. The two of them stared at each other with four eyes, pointing at each other in surprise and shouting.

"Naruto!"

"Ino!"