It had been a few years since then. Naruto was now in the Academy and was around the age of 10 with his classmates. No one knew he was blind, as it was an S class secret. Only the 3rd Hokage, Kakashi, Kurama, and himself knew this. He had nearly mastered his own chakra and maybe 1% of Kurama's. In the academy, he was pretty decent at physical exams and chakra exercises. He didn't do so well on exams thanks to his lack of sight and failures of the teachers to accomadate his texts in Braille, but Kakashi helped him after school to study and work on exams where he could actually feel them with Braille. If he was truly given a chance, he would be at the top of his class.He could hear everyone talk about him, though. He wanted to show them how skilled he actually was.... but he couldn't. He couldn't let them know that he was entirely visually impaired, or that he was actually much stronger than he let on. He knew what the villagers thought of him. The beast, the monster, the nintailed fox. Naruto, however, never let them see his smile fade.

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'Kurama.... what did we do to deserve this?'

"Nothing that you have done, brat."

'Kurama... you act like you hate me, and yet you would not have wasted  6 years training someone you wanted to kill.' Naruto thought, now sitting on his bed in his room.

Kurama scoffed. "Think what you want to think, kid."

'Hey... do you know a way to get you out of that sewer?'

"....Naruto, come into your mind-scape. "

With reluctance, Naruto laid down, closing his eyes. Soon enough, the complete blackness was turned into the view of his mindscape. He sat on a platform above the sewer water, looking at Kurama.

Kurama reached out, placing a claw on Naruto's head. "You're mind-scape can look however you want it to. It can be a training area or even a forest, you just have to imagine it. "

Naruto nodded softly. He began to think, and soon enough...

The sewer water drained, the bars disappearing and reappearing as a red and black collar around Kurama's neck. After Naruto saw this change, he began to grin. The sewer changed into a beautiful meadow, one with a lake, plenty of trees, and a small training area.

Kurama looked around. "This... isn't exactly what I had expected. No time to waste, though, let's begin your training."

With that, Naruto began to train on transformation justu, something Kurama told him he would need in the near future. Soon enough, Naruto was resting against one of Kurama's many tails, fast asleep. Kurama resisted the urge to end his life now. However, if Naruto died now then he would most likely die as well. He flicked a free tail impatiently, but soon found the scenery lulling enough to succumb to sleep as well.