"So? Tsunade looked urgently at Jiraiya" What was that?

White-haired Sannin sighed and nodded his head, telling them to sit down. When everyone took their seats, he took a deep breath.

"That thing once appeared in our training. I called it the Fox Demon Cloak."

"F-Fox D-Dem-mon?! What does Naruto have to do with K-Kyuubi?!" Sakura was terrified and confused. Frog Hermit looked at her equally surprised. He looked at Sasuke, and when he shook his head in a gesture of misunderstanding, Sannin looked at the Hokage.

"You didn't tell them?"

"I thought they were not ready yet" Justified the Fifth "Besides, I didn't know if Naruto would agree" She looked at the said boy.

"What are you talking about?!" Sasuke couldn't stand the fact that he doesn't know something" What are we not ready for?!

"Calm down, Sasuke" Kakashi put his hand on his shoulder "This is a really big secret. You couldn't know, just like no one else in your age. Now, however," he sighed "since you already heard about it, there is no point in hiding it from you. Am I right?" he looked with his one eye at the Sannin.

Tsunade nodded resignedly and looked into Sasuke and Sakura's eyes.

"Do you remember the story about how over 15 years ago the village was attacked by the Fox Demon?" Team members nodded their heads "To protect our home, the Fourth Hokage, sacrificing his and his wife's life, sealed the Beast in the newborn kid. That child... was none other than Naruto."

The shock is not enough to describe what Uchiha and Haruno felt at that moment. Sorrow, sadness and compassion were visible on their faces as if in an open hand. Sasuke suddenly shook his head, taking back his normal, indifferent face together. He scolded himself in his head for such behavior. He couldn't show his feelings so clearly! It's a crime against the Uchiha! However, he couldn't deny that he was worried about that idiot. The blonde carried a heavy burden on his shoulders, he was also condemned by the villagers, but the black-haired never saw him angry with them or blaming them for something. Sasuke hasn't wondered why people treat this moron so badly. Now, however, when he knew the truth, he wanted to gather them all in one place and cast a powerful and painful genjutsu on them. Seriously, what's wrong with these people ?! Don't they really see that Naruto is protecting them?

"If that's true" he began "why do the residents hate him so much?! After all, by being a container for a demon he defends them all against another such attack!"

"Exactly!" Sakura joined the companion "Naruto doesn't hurt them! So why all this aggression towards him?!"

"That's the problem here" said Jiraiya. "You see, people from the Village do not see Naruto as Naruto, just as the Kyuubi himself. That's why they think everything the Fox Demon did, he did."

"It doesn't make sense!" Sakura couldn't understand how one can think like that.

"You're absolutely right, but these things are really happening" Kakashi said "Residents can't forgive the demon for all the things it did to them, so they attack his "other incarnation" to pick on someone. But back to the main topic. What is this "Fox Demon Cloak"?"

"It's Kyuubi's chakra leaking out, forming a kind of fox-shaped coat" Jiraiya explained. "It looks like it appears when the boy is very frustrated and angry. Depending on the level of nervousness, more tails appear, so I assume that when it reaches nine, Naruto will turn into the Kyuubi."

Everyone in the room held their breath.

"He will change into the Kyuubi?" Tsunade could not believe in what she heard "But what will happen to him if the demon is released?"

Jiraiya gave her a sad look and the woman already knew what the answer was.

"If this happens, Naruto will die..."

There was a deathly silence in the room. Everyone tried to understand what they had just heard. Jiraiya, not wanting to wait, began to talk again.

"That's why I insisted so that we would not leave him alone after that situation. If we didn't do anything, he could completely lose his temper from frustration, and then it wouldn't be easy to keep him."

"You say it like you've seen something like that before" said Sasuke.

"Because I did. About a year ago, during training. I decided that I would try to teach Naruto the chakra manipulation."

~~ FLASHBACK ~~

"Hey, Ero-Sennin?" Blonde boy ran to the white-haired man "What will we practice today?

Sannin thought for a moment. Naruto mastered the Shadow Clone Jutsu, Rasengan and Summoning Jutsu, but these techniques are not enough if he wanted to fight strong opponents. Unfortunately, the boy was still too young to teach him the Sage Mode or the next of the Fourth's techniques. Then, he came up with a brilliant idea, for which he praised himself in his mind.

"I will teach you the manipulation of chakra today!"

"Ma... manipulation of the chakra? What is this?" Naruto winced in his characteristic way when he didn't understand something.

"Otherwise, the Transformation of Nature. This is an advanced form of chakra control that allows you to create new techniques or improve those created. One of the jutsu that can be evolved thanks to it is Rasengan. If you learn to control your chakra's nature, you will be able to do something that even the Fourth Hokage has not achieved and you will change this technique into something completely new and stronger."

"Really?! In that case, let's get to work!" Naruto looked excited.

"Not so fast" Jiraiya cooled his enthusiasm "The theory first."

The blonde's face has turned into bored. Oh, how much he hated lectures!

"So listen" Sannin sat on the grass, and Naruto followed his example "There are five types of chakra: Fire, Water, Wind, Earth and Lightning. Each of them is stronger than one and weaker than the other" He started to draw something on the ground "Fire is weaker than Water, but stronger than Wind, Wind is weaker than Fire, but stronger than Lightning, Lightning is weaker than Wind, but stronger than Earth Earth is weaker than Lightning, but stronger than Water, and Water is weaker than Earth, but stronger than Fire. Together they close themselves in this circle" he pointed to his drawing:

"Do you understand that?" He asked the jinchuuriki.

"Ymmm... No" the blonde replied honestly.

Jiraiya sighed resignedly.

"Okay, then imagine that each of these elements is a bowl with a different ramen flavor. Their names are: Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth and Water. Each serving is more delicious than one, but less tasty than the other, as I described in the picture. Do you understand now?"

Naruto smiled and nodded enthusiastically. Jiraiya sighed again. This boy was impossible.

"In that case, if we have the theory behind us, we can go to practice" Sannin said, and the blonde almost jumped in excitement "First we have to check what kind of chakra you have" He took out a small card from his pocket "For this purpose, act the chakra on this paper."

Naruto took a scrap between his two fingers and made the order of Frog the Hermit, and then the note cut in half. Blond looked at the white-haired man.

"It turns out," said Jiraiya, "that you have an element of Wind. It is a very rare nature and few people have it."

"Cool! So... what should I do now?"

"Now..." Sannin went to the nearest tree and broke off a few leaves "Now you have to cut these leaves with the chakra alone."

"What? How should I do it?"

"Concentrate. Imagine that your chakra is like a knife, with which you want to cut a cake in half" Jiraiya managed to realize that the instructions reach Naruto only when they are related to food "Only in this case the cake is a leaf."

Naruto nodded his head several times and took the leaf in his hand. Then the white-haired man remembered something.

"Oh! One more thing! Create as many Shadow Clones as possible and have them do exactly the same. Then everything that your doubles will learn will,you will learn too. Thanks to that, you will master it faster."

"Okay!" Shouted Naruto excitingly and created over 200 clones, and then everyone proceeded to the task.

***

Naruto has been practicing cutting the leaves for more than a week, but so far he has managed to reach only half. It was starting to irritate Jiraiya. He stated that he must somehow force the jinchuuriki to act and he even figured out how.

"Hey, Naruto!" He shouted at the boy "How is it going?"

The original blonde stopped working and looked at Sannin sitting on a tree.

"Still only half, Ero-Sennin!" He shouted.

"Huh?... Only that?! You've been doing it for a week!" Jiraiya pretended dissatisfaction and disappointment, but he was really very proud. He himself mastered chakra control only after two months. He just wanted Naruto thinking that Sannin was disappointed with him, so that he will work harder and, thus, learn it faster "Maybe people from the village were right? That you are nothing but worthless?"

Naruto froze. He looked shocked at the Sannin, his eyes showed pain and great sadness. The words uttered by Jiraiya still flowed over his head.

"You are nothing"

"Worthless"

However, the most painful were words related to the inhabitants of Konoha. Sentence "Maybe people from the village were right?" was repeated over and over again in the thoughts of the boy, and the nicknames addressed to him, which he had tried to forget for so many years, were again revived:

"Demon!"

"Monster!"

Did Jiraiya really think the same? That he is just a worthless monster?

Tears welled up in the boy's eyes, and all his clones immediately disappeared. Then the Sannin realized that Naruto took his words very seriously and took them deeply to heart.

"N-Naruto, I-I didn't want to... It's not what you think..." He wanted to explain everything to him, but the boy escaped to the nearby forest. Jiraiya wanted to run after him, but he thought that the blonde needs time alone to think about the matter. Thus, he left him alone.