The Kyūbi Jinchūriki had always been rather...melancholic, to say the least.

Perhaps the more accurate word would be really fucking weird, but gloomy or melancholic or mirthless would be the first things to come to mind when you're face to face with the girl.

She was cute, for a monster. Sunshine blonde hair that curled around the nape of her neck, blue eyes that made you think of oceans and skies, and symmetrical scars on her cheeks that made people think of whiskers.

With her summer palette, you would think her personality would be the same.

That couldn't be more far from the truth.


It's only been three days after the events of the Kyūbi Attack, and everything is going to be absolutely fine. That was what the Hokage wanted to believe. What the Third, wanted to believe. Of course, he had no doubts that with time Konoha would be able to recover, their foundations were strong.

But it was difficult to hold onto faith when everything had gone downhill swiftly after their Fourth Hokage and Jinchūriki gave themselves up to the Shinigami and leaving only their newborn daughter, who now had the Kyūbi sealed within her.

Everything within the immediate area of the attack was absolutely destroyed. Multiple buildings with history imbued in their very soil, gone. The more he lingered on that thought, Hiruzen wanted to weep a bit.

And people were starting to speculate on who the perpetrators were. Who could've missed the Sharingan visible for all to see in the Kyūbi's eyes? He tried his best tp have that tidbit contained, but it was obvious that it'd been dashed by the fact that not one Uchiha had been present during the attack. Not one, even though their district had been one of the most affected by the bijū's rampage. They'd been helping civilians from the outer sectors evacuate, and Fugaku reported that apparently that had been an order given to him and his department.

To start with salvaging the situation, he would have to contain the information that Minato and Kushina's daughter was the new Jinchūriki. He just hoped that not a lot of citizens had been paying attention when they sealed the demon into her.


A month after the Kyūbi Attack, it quickly became obvious that the hospital staff that knew of the newborn's existence knew.

She was the new Jinchūriki. She was the one with the Kyūbi sealed inside her.

It complicated some things. He's already had to stop one attempt on her life and quietly sweep it under the rug with the help of the Hokage.

She's been separated from the other patients by putting her into a sector that was only used for contagious diseases. Thankfully, there were no patients there, because otherwise he didn't think the Hokage would've put her in such close contact with them when she was only a baby.

He felt kinda bad for the kid. Putting her there meant the unintended side effect of treating her like a disease although he knew it was for her own safety.

He watched silently as the nurse most amiable to the Jinchūriki, a friend to the previous Jinchūriki that knew of her status, fed the three month old.

He'd heard that the Uchiha Matriarch had pushed for guardianship of her goddaughter but she ws denied. The Uchiha were too suspicious. It hadn't been said in that room but it may as well have been.

The Matriarch back then looked like she was about to knock out a few teeth right then and there. He understood the feeling, he felt it too since they were basically denying a kid the right to have a family just because of politics.

Politics. Ew.

But he could understand denying her guardianship too. He sure as hell hadn't missed the giant Sharingan in the bijū's eyeball. He doubted any of Konoha's loyal Uchiha had actually taken control of the Kyūbi and ordered it to level part of the village, and in the process destroyed their own district, but—

Just to be safe.

To keep the village safe. To keep the Fourth's daughter safe.