Here is another reason why I am taking my sweet time updating my stories! I am going through my oldest stories to see if they need some fixing...and oh, boy if they did! So, here is one of them:

My first try on this Prototype/Naruto Crossover was honestly nice, but also far from being one of my best creations.

I made few choices that at the time seemed good, but looking back now, I fear those same choices dragged down the overall quality of the story.

Like what I did to Kushina and Tsunade and especially my very less-than-brilliant idea of adding all those characters of other franchises even if for a single chapter.

So I finally decided to re-write the whole thing, adding a more serious tone.

But NO Angst, if you like that sort of things, look for another author: I can do serious and/or sad, but 'I cut my wrist' Angst no, I draw the line at that, Life is depressing enough as it is without me adding to it.

It is a complete redoing, the general plot too will change along the pairing, sorry but this is necessary for me to fix this story.

I will keep the character of Yoru though, that was one of the few things that were good in the Original concept of the story.

You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu

"Let's finish this" - dialogue

" Can it get any worse? " - thoughts

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Prototype or whatever I will use and I already used in this or any other story I write, wrote and will wrote.

Killer N: the father of Kumo's Consuming Clan.

Chapter 1: A new Bloodline.

New York – Present Day – Heller Vs Mercer -

"Any last words, bastard?"

"Uh! Yes...Welcome...To the top of the Food Chain." Alex Mercer, Zeus, The Black light virus inhabiting a human body Muttered as Heller, a man also infected by said Virus pierced his body with a clawed hand.

It had been a mad mission the one of the embodiment of the Blacklight virus, the vision of a Utopia where he would have Changed the face of the humanity that he saw as Stagnant, Dying. It was a plan that would have killed millions of unworthy and uplifted the few people remaining into a completely new race.

This changed when Alex met Heller, a man in possession of a particularly Strong, resilient DNA that once infected with the same Blacklight virus, had absorbed it and incorporated in his own biology, thus giving Heller the same powers of the living Bio-weapon instead of falling victim of it.

Interested in what this new development could translate into, Mercer had then kidnapped Heller's daughter in order to use both girl and father to fulfill his dream of HumanEvolution, whatever they liked it or not.

Fighting his way towards Mercer, Heller had used the powers the Blacklight virus gave him to tear to pieces everything and everyone who stood in his way and now, after a strenuous battle between the two powerful beings, Heller had emerged victorious, transforming his other hand into a series of long, jagged blades and pointing them to strike down the monster under him for the final time.

"Tch! Batshit insane to the last breath." muttering to himself and with a series of animal-like grunts, Heller started tearing away Mercer's body, breaking and cutting the man's flesh and absorbing his body and memories inside his own.

"Dana..." Mercer whispering voice echoed in Heller's head as the imemories of the former living virus invaded his mind to join the others of whoever Heller had previously Consumed.

"UGH!...UUUH!...AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" feeling a burning sensation building up in his body, Heller threw back his head to give a roar of agony while from his body a storm of dark red tendrils came out invading every road, every building, every small corner of the city to grab every infected being present in the whole war-zone before reabsorbing everything inside him.

"Hn!" with a last grunt of fatigue the man fell to his knees once finished, and darkness filled his vision as he fell down on the cold floor.

Inside Heller's Mind -

Finally opening again his eyes after who knows how long, the poor soldier discovered that he was no longer on that same rooftop where he fought Mercer, and for some reason, he knew that where he was was a place he was not supposed to be.

"Where the Hell am I?...Amaya?...AMAYA! WHERE ARE YOU?" Heller yelled while searching for his precious daughter.

As he kept looking around he continued seeing the damp walls of the sewer system he had awoke in close on him in a claustrophobic way, he was walking with difficulty because of the knee-high stagnant water filling the place with his sight sometimes blinded by the tick bursts of steam coming from the numerous tubes on the walls. The air while not humid per se, was still hard to breath for the lingering smell of decay and (To Heller's displeasure) rotting blood hanging all around him, the fact that the place was barely illuminated and completely done in never-ending corridors didn't help either in making Heller feel welcomed.

"Your daughter is safe, have no fear. I would be more worried about the state of this place instead, you seem to have a lot of unresolved issues." a male voice said conversationally.

"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?" Heller yelled as he could barely pinpoint the source of the voice.

"You should show some respect to your family, you know? Little Amaya is fine, she is closed somewhere safe with that Dana girl, they are in no danger so I can't see why you have to be this angry." the voice replied.

"Family? Last time I checked Amaya was my only family left. So you either are wrong or I am going finally insane and hearing voices." Heller answered with narrowed eyes making the mysterious voice snort amused.

"Insane?...Insane...Well...Considering the fact that you are my descendant, confirmed by me and you finally having a conversation here inside your head, then...yes, you are a little insane, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to do half the things you have done up until now, but why you see it as a bad thing?" The male voice said.

"That's it! Enough chit-chat and SHOW YOURSELF!" Heller screamed trying to use the claws, but finding impossible to transform himself for some reason.

"Yes, you definitely have the Uzumaki temper down to a T. Can't say if I should be happy or pity you." the mysterious man answered sighing longingly as his splashing steps started echoing all the way to Heller as he clearly started walking towards the man.

"You too would not be friendly after what I went through, buddy." the soldier answered grumbling.

"I am not sure about that, but to each their own, I presume." When the voice owner finally became visible he showed himself being a man in his late thirties with short blond hair wearing a dark-orange coat with black flames at the base above a black-and-orange jumpsuit, black pants and sandals.

"You look like somebody walking out of one of those comic conventions." Heller said amused.

"And you look like something that got puked out by a cat, but I am not complaining like you are doing...God it's so nice to finally meet a member of my family! I was starting to despair about our bloodline going extinct!" the man answered grinning at Heller with his smile twisting his face in a fox-like appearance thanks to the six marks on his cheeks.

To the poor soldier's shock the man, clearly delirious in happiness, dashed forward faster than he could react to grab him into a fierce hug that would have meant his body getting snapped in half had Blacklight not been in his veins strengthening him.

"Can you please tell me who the fuck are you? And why the fuck I ended up in a sewer?" Heller asked with a groan as even his bones had started to whine under the pressure of the fierce hug.

"I am basically your grandpa, name's Killer N. And this sewer, my dear great(x1000)-great grandson, is a representation of your mind...And I would really look for a good doctor if I were you, even in my darkest moments it wasn't THIS BAD for me. Do you suffer of Depression perhaps?" the strange man N said still with his fox-like grin.

"My grandpa? You do know that it sounds less than believable if you look no older than me, right?...And at best I have 'Anger Issues', not depression. NOW PUT ME DOWN!" Heller answered as he finally broke free from the hug.

"You mean to tell me that you find more believable even just half the stuff you went through?" N asked patting on Heller's shoulder.

"..."

"...So?"

"...My grandfather, you say." the man conceded sighing tiredly and massaging his temples.

"There also are a couple hundreds 'Great' before the grandfather part, but yes, that is the gist of it." N replied signaling the man to follow.

"Where are we going?"

"Some place drier, walking with wet socks is lame."

"Fine. But why you are here now? Why I am here now?"

"That would be because of that Virus you have inside, getting a fresh infusion triggered the awakening of our family Bloodline Limit lying dormant inside you." N answered as they finally found part of Heller' mind completely free of stagnant water.

"Bloodline Limit? What's that?" Heller asked.

"How can I explain it?...Thank God I have access to the same memories you acquired Consuming...Take the X-Men or The Incredible Hulk, okay? Same thing, only that Blacklight was a super power you always had but that needed to be switched-on by being infected by the Blacklight." the blond man answered unsure.

"So I already had the Blacklight inside, but was damn unaware of it?" Heller said incredulous.

"Pretty much, hundreds of years of marriages with people without the Bloodline meant that the thing got 'diluted' so much you could no longer access it, but as soon as Mercer got you, he gave you a pure batch of the Bloodline Limit for the strand already inside you to activate. By Consuming Mercer and all his buddies you little by little managed to rebuild the original strand (MY OWN STRAND) of the Bloodline. And since you are a direct descendant...Here I am, I suppose." Killer N answered shrugging.

"So those people working for Mercer..."

"There is a very faint chance they were related to you and me as well, can't say how much far removed they were though. You were just the first to rebuild the progenitor strand or what you want to call it."

"I feel a headache incoming, a big one." Heller muttered with a low groan.

"Take it easy, here Time is meaningless so we are in no hurry."

Sigh! "How did this mess even start? How could you be the first having the Blacklight and be-"

"Few thousands years old, not that with our Bloodline this means anything."

"Few thousands years old when all this shit started with a bio-weapon going out of control barely a couple years ago?" the soldier finished asking.

"Eeeh! It's a long story, let's say that when those scientist where experimenting on Elizabeth Greene they unlocked the long lost Bloodline of our family. Unfortunately they also twisted her mind with their research until she went mad, they never 'discovered' anything, they just played with some mutation outside their comprehension." N explained with a sad tone.

"So the virus is what? A superpower gone wrong?" Heller asked.

"Basically? Yes, in my time my father had few doctors cook this up to heal me after a near-death experience, back in the days 'super powers' as you call them were a real thing before most clans were killed off by wars and the remaining ones simply kept marrying civilians until knowledge about Chakra and ninja techniques went forgotten. The doctors basically took a few bloodlines, mixed them and created this one we both are using to help me.

Our Bloodline Limit, the Black Mass, is highly unstable and it takes a direct descendant of my family to fully use it without repercussions, the fact that you are seeing me means that YOU are my legacy, the others? Bad luck and a modified version of it are to blame."

"Ninja? Chakra?...I still don't understand what the hell you are talking about." Heller answered taken aback.

Sigh! "As I said, it's a long story, luckily you are not exactly in a hurry to go anywhere. Sit down and take a comfortable position, I have to explain a lot of things, so we'll need to go through a small trip through the Memory Lane. You are lucky that between Consuming and whatnot I got damn near the full picture of what was happening back then." N said motioning Heller to sit on the ground next to him.

"Shit will make sense once done this?" the poor man asked.

"Damn I hope so. I never was good at explaining stuff." the other replied sighing as his eyes seemed to focus on a place beyond the sewers they were in.

"It all began in a cold night in the shinobi Village of Kumo..." N started saying with a sorrow-filled tone.

Long Time Ago – Shinobi Village of Kumo – Hospital -

A tall muscular man with broad shoulders, dark skin and pale hair and beard was looking at a sleeping boy with gold-blond hair peacefully sleeping in the bed inside the room ignoring the various tubes piercing everywhere on his petite body.

"Ya know, brother? I have done stuff in my life and fucked-up big time, I cannot deny it, but this beats everything I have done by a mile!" the man's brother, he too pretty muscular and sporting thick sunglasses, said amazed as he joined the scene.

"B the difference is that this thing I did is for a good cause." the man answered.

"Uh-hn." Killer B answered unconvinced and with crossed arms.

"I am still going to say that your admiration for Minato Namikaze was not worth the wasp nest kidnapping his brat will wake-up." a new voice said as an older version of the two men joined the scene.

"It was not kidnapping, pops. Apparently Ay saved the boy." B answered shrugging.

"Uh? Now this I wanna hear." Killer E, Kumo's Raikage, asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I had decided to go pay my respect on Minato's grave early this year, and witnessed the boy explode in front of me...In Biju Chakra." Ay answered.

"So he is a Jinchuuriki? He looks like he went through hell." Killer Bee asked looking at the wounded boy with a more gentle light in his eyes.

"I hope you were going incognito at least when you took him, after the mess with the Hyuga they do not like us very much. You know I don't like you going there just for this, if you respect the Fourth Hokage this much you can just as easy offer a dish of sake to his name from here without traveling to Konoha once a year." the Village Leader said frowning.

"It is not the same thing not doing that in front of his grave the anniversary of his death." Ay answered stubbornly.

"What happened to have the boy turn like that? It looks like they tried to boil him alive like a lobster." Killer B asked sounding extremely sad.

"Apparently somebody tried tampering with his Seal and the Kyuubi tried using that opening to break free, killing the perpetrator, vaporizing a chunk of the Village and burning the boy's chakra coils to a crisp with the backlash." Ay answered making the other two grimace minutely.

"Ouch." B answered eloquently.

Sigh! "Please tell me the whole story, so I'll know where to start doing damage control so to cover this latest escapade of yours before they understand the boy was brought to Kumo." E asked groaning.

"As you wish, father." Ay said never once looking away from the bed-ridden boy he himself took to Kumo.

A week earlier – Konoha – Hospital -

Having followed the ANBU hurriedly escorting the badly-burned boy to the hospital, the still Henged Ay kept observing the group from outside until he climbed the solitary tree reaching right under the window of the room where they deposited the barely-breathing kid.

Thanking his lucky star for the thick foliage of the tree, the Kumo ninja leaned closer to hear the commotion the boy's exploding caused, one big enough to have TWO Sannin and the Third Hokage himself argue animatedly about the whole ordeal in the room next to the one occupied by the kid.

"Jinchuuriki or not, they are taking this too personal, there must be something else to it." Ay thought too curious to let the matter drop, as more than a Village leader being worried about his Jinchuuriki, this looked like a grandfather being worried about his grandson.

Inside the room -

"You can't be serious! I refuse to let you two do that!" An enraged Tsunade yelled glaring at the two men before her.

"You said it yourself, Tsunade, his chakra coils are damaged beyond repair," the Third Hokage said while putting in his mouth an unlit pipe.

"This because YOU couldn't stop that guy from playing with his Seal! We all know it was Danzo to send his pretty lackey to modify the array and the Fox acted on self-defense flaring Its chakra and killing the guy! And now look! A boy lost his occasion in life!" Tsunade said pointing at the old man.

"And as you can imagine Danzo denied every involvement, and for once, I am forced to recognize his innocence. No matter how much I too would love to pin this on him." Hiruzen answered tiredly.

"Hime, please, he can't be a shinobi anymore...At least he will be able to defend Konoha like this," the other man wearing a red Kabuki-like dress said.

"So somebody tampered with a Biju Seal, I knew I recognized the feeling of non-human Chakra from the boy!" Ay thought with raised eyebrows at that tidbit of news.

"Just shut up, Jiraiya! He is MY godson, and I won't let you turn him into your puppet!" Tsunade said enraged and grabbing Jiraiya's collar.

"Whoa! A puppet? Her godson?...WHAT?!" the Kumo nin choked in shock barely avoiding being caught.

"He won't be a puppet, Tsunade, you can trust me as your Sensei AND Hokage." Hiruzen said solemnly.

"Hn! I bet the Elders had a blast hearing that...The Kyuubi brat will have a special seal array on his body able to help him mold chakra only when WE say that he can use its power...I can even see those disgusting smirks on their faces, isn't that so? Sarutobi-sensei?" Tsunade said snorting at the old Hokage with her "sensei" honorific dripping venom.

"This is messed up...And why I have the feeling I should recognize that boy?"

"It's for the better of Konoha, Tsunade, a Leader is called to make sacrifices at some point. Naruto won't be able to be a ninja, but like this he will still protect his Home and, one day, earn the respect and love of the people living here." Hiruzen said closing his eyes.

Tsunade's punch hitting the wall a mere inch from his face gave him the message that MAYBE she wasn't as convicted as he and Jiraiya were.

"You are treating him like the future attack dog of Konoah, old man..." Ay muttered unsure, he faintly remembered that few Elders back home wanted his brother Killer B to be treated like that, sure his father then beheaded the idiot saying that with his bare hands, but the fact remained that somebody DID propose it. And Now he was seeing the same thing happen in Konoha too.

"Respect? Love? Mind your words Hiruzen Sarutobi, If I didn't hit you, it was only because I KNOW you will hide behind your position as Hokage of this rat-hole...sometimes I wonder if Orochimaru wasn't right to wish to destroy this place." Tsunade said walking away.

"Don't say that! The villagers are innocents!" Hiruzen yelled angrily.

"Oh, yes! Konoha is so innocent to be free to completely DESTROY the dreams and life of little boy not older than six? You and every other here are just a bunch of hypocrites...Keep him under surveillance, because I may just decide to take him away," Tsunade said as she and a girl holding a pet pig left the hospital.

"What do you think, sensei? She doesn't seem open to cooperate." Jiraiya said looking at Hiruzen.

"With time, I think she will see that this is for the best. It pains me too to turn Naruto into a weapon of the village, but at least he will still be the cheerful, happy boy he is instead of the soulless doll Danzo wished to turn him into," The old Hokage answered sighing.

"We are talking about a boy...A six years old..." Ay thought looking a bit unnerved.

"I hope you are right, the people who hate him may see the fact that he can only use enough chakra to live as an occasion to belittle him." Jiraiya answered unsure.

"He will live in his home then, leaving only for missions, I'll have few trusted ANBU watch over him and help him training, it would be useless send him to the academy in his situation." Hiruzen answered sighing.

"If you said it like that...it's kinda depressing, are you sure he will accept this situation?" Jiraiya asked.

"He will, he will become the protector of this village, he only needs to accept few sacrifices for Konoha...Just like his father." Sarutobi said as he and Jiraiya started leaving the hospital.

"Will he never know? What about his heritage?" the Toad sage asked.

"I think I will tell him his mother identity, just to give him some peace of mind, but the rest will be kept secret, I fear he will try and leave us if he knows," Hiruzen said.

"Now, that is interesting...Who's your father, boy?" Ay muttered while looking at the sleeping blond.

"That's kinda cruel...It's his right to have all that." Jiraiya said looking sad.

"It's for the best Jiraiya, now go and work on those seals, they need to be foolproof."

"Okay...I'll ask a Hyuuga to help me locate his tenketsus, I need to write the main parts over them in order to have the whole thing working properly." Jiraiya said disappearing in a shunshin.

"I'm sorry Naruto...But know this, from this you will finally become the Hero you always wanted to be, maybe not the Hokage, but still loved and trusted." Hiruzen said watching the wall of Naruto's room and disappearing with just a tiny puff of smoke signaling his use of a shunshin to return to the Hokage tower.

"Naruto?...Naruto...Where did I heard that name before..." Ay muttered unsure as the name and the blond hair did sound strangely familiar, it must have been after at least twenty minutes of him just sitting there on that tree branch looking at the sleeping face of the kid when a stray thought ignited a particular memory of times long past making the Kumo nin's eyebrows rose to almost reach his hairline.

"No way..." the man muttered in disbelief.

Several years ago – flashback -

Ay hated his life, no questions, the climate of war was going strong every day more with people just itching for a new Shinobi World War to finally start and 'blow steam' when Grass Village ninjas started adding self-destruct seals to their shinobi so that in case of death they could explode and take everybody around them down to Hell as well.

One of them had in fact used the same trick on Ay himself, and if he had not died it was mostly sheer dumb luck followed by the guy being too much into chakra exhaustion to properly power the seals and that Ay was using his still-a-prototype 'Lightning Armor' technique that managed to protect him from a big part of the blast.

And NOW of all people, the one that had to find his well-cooked body and nurse him back into consciousness had to be Minato Namikaze himself, that by the looks of it had just gone through a blender, only that in his case most of the blood covering him was apparently not his own.

"Good morning!" the blond had said almost cheerfully as he sat near the remains of their small campfire.

"Good morning. Did you try to take a dive into a slaughterhouse?" Ay asked.

"Ah this...Iwa ninja, mostly." the man answered shrugging with a bitter expression on his face.

"Things are not nice nowadays, isn't it?" the Kumo nin said equally bitterly.

"Well, I have something nice to return to at least." the Yellow Flash replied smugly.

"You finally got Kushina-san to notice you?" Ay asked making the other splutter.

"Oh, please, Minato! Everybody knows you have been hunting her for YEARS!" the man said laughing and then wheezing in pain for his wounds.

"E-Everybody!?" Minato asked with wide eyes.

"Ooh, yes!"

"Well, You people are just jealous!...Kushi-chan told me you flirted with her during the kidnapping, you know?" Minato answered making Ay shut-up instantly.

"Come on, man! I was just a brat! I barely had muscles back there!" the now heavily blushing Kumo nin moaned in despair.

"But you were such a great poet! The sonnet you wrote was amazing!" Minato said smirking evilly.

"Oh God! Why didn't I die!" the man said whining in despair.

"Well, it has been nice meeting you again, you should recover swiftly, but I suggest you to not fight until you heal fully." Minato said getting up and leaving few supplies for Ay near him.

"Thank you...You asshole." Ay muttered sighing as he watched him walk away.

When the situation finally calmed down and everybody returned to a semblance of normal life, Ay will later learn that for Konoha things did not get any easier when the nine-tailed Biju attacked, causing the death of Minato himself along many others and thus, once a year, the Kumo nin took visiting the man's grave to honor the only man ever to best him in speed and power.

And during one of those visits, he heard a small bit of trivia, one that at the time he had ignored and that now instead returned to him full force.

Konoha – Hospital – end of the flashback -

"One of the victims was Kushina...Pregnant even if not a soul ever knew who was the father as Minato himself was said to hold the secr...Shit!" Ay muttered with wide eyes as he watched the BLOND kid once again.

"The same night the Kyuubi attacked a kid was born...Named Naruto...And nobody made the connection?" the Kumo nin muttered as he entered through the window to walk towards the boy.

"Nobody saw the similarities? You look just like Minato…And he had always loudly professed his love for Kushina. How's possible nobody guessed who was his father?" he asked again with a low voice as he moved away a strand of blond hair to better look at the kid's face, too filled in painkillers to wake-up.

"The face is all Kushina though, I guess they thought she had a kid with a Yamanaka. There are not many blond people in Konoha, not of this shade at least. And yet this one is an orphan, so they also thought he was a bastard OR son of somebody that died as well during the Kyuubi attack, and in six years nobody tried to adopt him...There is something fishy about this."

It was then that he heard steps approaching, making him dive for the same tree to watch a heavily bandaged man enter the room.

Sigh! "So this is what happens when dear Fugaku tries to have contingency plans and take the mantle of Hokage by force, play with Seals beyond his comprehension using a sub-par Seal Expert so to have a secret weapon to help during his coup. And now Minato's kid is paying the price, is a miracle Kushina herself has not walked out of the grave to enact revenge, I guess the Shinigami is holding her back himself for this to not happen." Danzo said walking tiredly towards the window.

"Chakra coils burned to a crisp and probably impossible to recover, and Fugaku is now suggesting transferring the Kyuubi in a new Vessel while Hiruzen and Jiraiya are pushing for the seal array with the notion that at least the boy would not die...As if the life of an attack dog was any better..." the old man said shaking his head as he walked back towards the door.

"..."

"...If you have any real respect for Minato and his legacy." the old man said stopping right in front of the door making Ay's eyes widen.

"You'll know what to do, Ay-san. Just do not make me regret this." Danzo then finished saying leaving the room.

"Big deal, I am not even sure I won't regret what I am about to do..." Ay muttered to himself.

Konoha – in front of the Hospital - Night

It was around midnight when Ay finally decided to enact a plan that honestly was making him wonder if he was actually going insane, only to find that he was not the only one that thought about a night visit to Minato's kid.

"I can't believe them! They want him to just forget about his life and liberty and just be their Pet to unleash on their enemies! All with the promise of what? Love and respect! As if those idiots will ever respect him due to the Kyuubi!" he heard Tsunade say enraged as she and her assistant too were stealthily moving towards the hospital.

"Tsunade-sama, please calm down!" the other woman begged while following her.

"Shut up, Shizune! I need a plan, I won't let that old fool and that pervert transform the last remnant of my family into a damned weapon!" Tsunade said.

"Maybe we can help each other then, or better, you'll be my source of distraction as I take the kid with me then, contrary to you, they won't immediately suspect Kumo to be behind the boy's disappearance." the Kumo nin muttered to himself as he blended better with the shadows around him to follow the two women.

"First the Byakugan and now this, one may think we have something against Konoha." Ay thought grimacing as he infiltrated the hospital.

When you have a father deadly afraid of others attacking the Village, seeing him forced to cast aside morality just to get a tiny bit more power to be sure nobody would get an Ego big enough to attack Kumo was not a surprise; the only consolation young Ay had was that his dad tried to take the Byakugan simply out of paranoia, more than thirst of power.

"Third floor." he muttered looking behind himself in apprehension just in case somebody noticed him while the corridors looked deadly silent as Ay moved through, scanning the rooms just in case somebody or the nurses were around, and lo and behold, another shinobi in that exact moment decided to come along uninvited by forcing open a window to sneak inside.

"There are more people here now than normally during the day, it's ridiculous." the Kumo nin muttered in disbelief as he saw Tsunade near the new intruder with clearly unhealthy intentions.

"And who are you?" he heard her growl.

"Nothing of your business," the man answered flashing a telling red eye with a black swirl on it.

"Uchiha, and dressed in full battle gear, why so?" the Sannin asked with narrowed eyes.

"Nothing you should concern yourself with." the man replied.

"Tsunade-sama, that is sealing equipment." the woman's assistant hissed and pointed at the short brush and the small ink container dangling from the man's sash.

"Here for a second go, don't you?" Tsunade asked snarling.

"A blunder's a blunder, I won't make the same mistake my predecessor did." the Uchiha answered.

"Then you shouldn't have told me, now you'll die." the woman answered roaring.

"My mission is too important to let you stop me." he answered taking a fighting stance.

"And that is my cue to act." Ay muttered leaving behind the idiot with a death wish and Tsunade to play while he moved rapidly towards Naruto's room, once took a couple oxygen tanks along the way for further diversion of course.

Konoha – Hokage Tower – Hiruzen's Officein the meantime -

"I'm sorry Minato, I couldn't protect him enough, but like this he will finally be the Hero you always wanted him to be." Hiruzen said while watching The Fourth Hokage's picture at the wall.

Sarutobi didn't know if it was because of his old age, but the Yondaime and the others seemed to scowl at him in answer to that statement.

"Sensei?" Jiraiya said entering from the window.

"Ah, Jiraiya! Are the seals ready?" Hiruzen asked.

"Of course, I even added a tracing seal so to know always where he is...Sensei? Are you sure this is okay? I am his godfather...I feel like a bastard doing this." The Toad sage asked.

"It's for the best, Jiraiya, if he wants to be a hero and a shinobi he has to make sacrifices, a little bit of freedom in exchange of his friends safety." Sarutobi answered with a sad expression.

"If I have to listen what Tsunade said...He didn't have a lot of friends here, maybe he doesn't have friends at all,"

"With time people will learn to look beyond the Kyuubi and see that he is still a kid, I am sure that his cheerful attitude will make breach in their hearts! Naruto just needs to wait," Sarutobi answered with a small and unsure smile.

It was in that moment that a tremendous explosion shock the tower making the two men's heads snap towards the windows.

"It came from the Hospital!...NARUTO!" Hiruzen screamed as he and Jiraiya bolted out of the tower and a little while later a pig wearing a red jacket entered the room with a slug on top of him crawling over a hidden lock and somehow opening it.

"Here it is!" the little slug said looking at the huge scroll with Forbidden written on the plaque right under it.

Konoha – Hospital -

The fire was everywhere, patients were running away helped by the doctors while nurses were trying to help the wounded and in all that chaos Naruto's room was the epicenter of that blazing inferno.

That was the scene Jiraiya and Sarutobi found once arriving, Tsunade in front of the door crying, being held in place by Shizune and a dead Uchiha that had been literally torn in half not too far away from the two women.

"LET ME GO! LET ME GOOO! I CAN SAVE HIM!" The woman yelled in desperation.

"TSUNADE-SAMA, IT'S USELESS! HE IS DEAD!" Shizune yelled trying to stop the woman, she too was crying.

"TSUNADE! What happened?" Sarutobi asked, in answer Tsunade's punch travelin towards his face went barely blocked by Jiraiya who felt his arm's bone shatter like glass under the pressure of the hit.

"HE IS DEAD! HE WAS KILLED!" Tsunade yelled trying to strangle the old Hokage with Shizune and Jiraiya struggling to hold her back.

"IMPOSSIBLE! I had several ANBU watching him! No-one would have been able to do that!" Hiruzen answered.

"You old Fool! There was not a single guard around! Whoever did this they were free to act as they pleased." Tsunade said now breathing deeply to calm herself.

"I will make sure sure that people will learn about the mistake they did, we just need to explain them what they did wrong!" Hiruzen said.

"We? Here there is no We...I'm leaving, Sensei! You and your village took away everything I hold dear, I won't stay here another minute." Tsunade said walking away.

"You can't! Konoha will need your talent as Medic!" Sarutobi said in horror.

"I don't care! This place was founded by my Grandfather and Granduncle, but you all ruined the dream that Konoha was at its birth, I won't stay here and get infected by your idiocy!" The Senju woman said keeping walking until Jiraiya grabbed her arm.

"If you leave I'll be forced to mark you as Missing-nin, Tsunade. .stay!" Hiruzen commanded.

"Tell me Jiraiya...You were jealous of Minato, right? You wanted Kushina for yourself...That's why you kept training him for so long." Tsunade said coldly.

"I can't see how this fit in this situation" Jiraiya answered frowning.

"You were happy of this outcome don't you? To use Minato's son as a puppet, to get revenge on the man that stole the only woman that you never could fuck!" Tsunade said angrily punching him near the door of the burning room.

"AAARGH! T-That's not t-true!" he answered.

"DON'T LIE TO ME! LOOK YOURSELF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!" Tsunade said grabbing his head and forcing him to look inside.

"Did you see that bed? The boy was there! Broken, defenseless! A KID, FOR GOD'S SAKE! What has he done to earn your hate? NOTHING!" The woman screamed, forcing the Sage's head inside the room.

"I..I" Jiraiya tried saying.

"LOOK INSIDE, YOU DIRTY ASS-HOLE!" Tsunade ordered forcing his head to watch the room.

The Image of a crying boy getting enveloped in flames entered Jiraiya's mind, the inhuman screams of the boy echoing in his ears as the smell of burning flesh filled his nostrils.

"STOP THIS! PLEASE STOP!" Jiraiya pleaded.

"NO! YOU HAVE TO SEE WHAT KIND OF BEAST YOU ARE!" Tsunade yelled kicking him against the burning wood causing the man to scream in pain.

"TSUNADE! STOP! THAT'S AN ORDER!" Hiruzen yelled furious.

"FUCK OFF! I'M LEAVING! You want to mark me as a Nuke-nin? FINE! I am curious to see how Konoha will fare when their best hunters and ANBU are dead by my hands! Remember, I have nothing more to lose so I won't go gentle on the ones hunting me," Tsunade answered.

"STOP THIS INSTANT!" Hiruzane tried saying a last time.

"No, and by the way...I took few confidential documents from your office, if I die the slug Summoning Clan will make sure that EVERYONE will have a copy of your secrets. Now try and send hunters, Hiruzen Sarutobi! I dare you! And Jiraiya, Katsuyu will soon tell Gamabunta and the other Toads about how you all treated Minato's son, I'll leave your punishment to him." Tsunade said, shocking the two men.

"I-I-I'm sorry." Jiraiya said clutching the burned half of his face.

"Too late, he could have been your student, the best shinobi of this village, but we will never know now, thanks to you idiots. I hope the boy you chose as student will die painfully soon after starting your training, Jiraiya, you only deserve this." the woman said finally leaving with the fire behind her now finally extinguished.

"What are we gonna do, Jiraiya?" Hiruzen asked at the now scarred Sannin.

"I'll get my face healed, then I'll get ready for Gamabunta's judgment, Minato was their favorite summoner...They won't like what Katsuyu and Tsunade will tell them." Jiraiya answered.

"And then?" the Hokage asked.

"I'll go back to being your spy. Nothing more and nothing less...I won't take an apprentice, Sensei." the man said.

"WHAT!? WHY?" Sarutobi gasped in shock.

"I remember the Elder Toad saying something about an apprentice of mine changing the world...After hearing about Naruto being alive I thought about taking him as my new apprentice...But now I am not so sure to be worthy of being a sensei anymore." Jiraiya answered in a whimper as he walked away.

"Why? You can still find someone else to pass your knowledge to! A new summoner for the Toads!" Hiruzen said making Jiraiya let out a bitter chuckle at that.

"The Toad contract? You really think that the Toads will let me or anyone else summon them after today? We will be lucky if they don't storm here demolishing the village, for them Family and Friends come first, then Honor and only after that may come the village of Konoha, we stained their most cherished values...and I won't teach Minato's techniques to anyone else...They belonged to his family and I'm sure Kakashi will be with me once he knew WHO Naruto's father really was." he answered.

"He will never know! No-one will! We can't make the news about Minato's son death by our hands become of public knowledge!" Hiruzen said, again with Jiraiya laughing at him.

"Bwahahahaha! Stop this, sensei...We fucked up and we WILL pay the price for it...soon everyone with a summoning contract will know of this, and then Konoha's name will be put in the same line as the term Traitor, I can already see a new dictionary being written like that...Hahahaha! I can't help but find this funny...Maybe I got wounded deeper than I thought. I'm leaving, sensei, I'll send you the new report of my spies next week...It will be long before we see each other again, by then maybe I hope I will have stopped hating myself for killing a kid enough to not try and kill myself anymore." Jiraiya said disappearing with a shunshin, he will cure himself alone apparently.

"ANBU! Go and fetch whoever was responsible of this! They can't have organized everything without leaving a single trace! I want every responsible in front of me in twenty minutes!" Hiruzen yelled angrily.

Not too far away -

"I hope you know what you are doing, Danzo." Tsunade muttered from her hiding place close to the hospital.

"I always know what I am doing, Tsunade. Always."

Kumo – Present day – Main Hospital -

"Done with the fire I used the chaos of that AND of Fugaku Uchiha massacring his clan to come here, no stops and no rest, just a beeline for Kumo at top speed and without looking back. Luckily the boy was still heavily sedated so he didn't even notice." Ay finished saying sighing.

"That is good and all, but if TSUNADE SENJU of all people has doubts about him recovering, then I would start to think about trying the seal array plan like Jiraiya suggested." E said shaking his head.

"I acted on instinct, I know! I saw him there and heard what they planned to do and I acted the first plan I came up with, okay!?" Ay answered angrily.

"Yeah: jump into the fray without a shred of plan! You took that from your mother, may God have mercy on her soul as she is probably starting fights with everybody in the otherworld. Now be quiet and let me fix your latest mess." the Raikage said sighing as he snatched a near medic as soon as he exited the kid's room.

"You. How's the boy?" the old man asked.

"It's bad, sir. Even if we heal his wounds I don't know how to actually Re-Build his chakra network, it's a miracle in itself if he is alive." the doctor answered watching through Naruto's file.

"Find a way to fix him all the same. Keep me informed." the Raikage ordered.

"Yessir." the Medic answered nodding before hurrying away.

"The same eyes and hair...You really have brought here the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki and Minato Namikaze's son..." E asked with is eyes scanning every inch of the boy's body.

"Yes he is, but right now the Kyuubi can't heal him, during that messing with his Seal the Fox used its power in a burst to get free, destroying the chakra coils has a result." Ay answered.

"I see, B, see if our eight-tailed Biju can talk with the Fox, we may need its help to heal the boy." E said looking at the sun-glasses-wearing man near him.

"I'll try, but I want you to know that I believe this to be a bad idea." Killer B answered.

"I will make sure the future generations will know you voiced said opinion, now get in there!" the man's father answered rolling his eyes and shoving him inside.

"I'm going! I'm going! Slave driver..." Killer B said indignant as he grabbed Naruto's hand to fist-bump the still sleeping boy.

Kyuubi Seal – Boy's mindscape -

In a thundering cacophony of sound the giant Eight-tailed Ox landed inside the ruined Seal to meet the disgruntled Kyuubi looking at him in utter contempt and crossed arms.

"Long time no see, Kurama." the Eight-tailed Ox said watching his brother sitting behind the cage while looking at the pipes adorning the room cracked and in some cases broken or simply bent in odd angles.

"Hachi, I see that they finally tamed you...How disgraceful." The Fox said shaking his head in mock sadness.

"They didn't Tame me, B gave me the option of being more than just Jail and Jailer and after a while I accepted it," The Ox answered getting a cruel laugh in answer from the other.

"What are you two? Friends? Don't make me laugh, Gyuki!" Kurama answered.

"Oh spare me the machismo! You were the one that took the Old Man's death the worst, is this the reason you hate everyone and everything?" Hachi said looking at the pained expression on Kurama's face.

"I don't have to answer your questions! And stop talking about him, he was just a filthy human like everyone else! He too treated us like weapons!" The Kyuubi yelled, in answer the Hachibi punched the gate keeping the Fox trapped while showing an angry scowl on his face.

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT HIM LIKE THAT! Look at you! Mister I hate everything...Me and the others were destroyed too at the Sage death, but we didn't let that close us to the world! Tell me the truth, have you tried reaching them within that very same connection the Sage left us? Have you tried to talk to your brothers and sisters? NO! And look now, Shukaku went mad after his village used a wrongly-made seal while you decided to hate the world. Me and Nibi have good Vessels, you know? We tried to know them instead of trying to take over their bodies, never tried that?" Gyuki asked while still glaring at Kurama.

"..." whatever the Fox said was so low to be impossible to hear.

"Speak louder, I can't hear you from here." the Ox said crossing his arms.

"Will...Will they hate me in Kumo?" The Kyuubi asked.

"No if you don't give them a reason, like you did with Konoha." Hachi answered.

"Konoha was beyond my power, I was under Genjutsu the whole time. The boy instead can't use my power, he will become a fool bent on world domination or a spoiled brat ready to gloat about being the strongest ninja around." Kurama tried saying.

"Are you sure that will happen? Did you really try to talk to him?" the Ox asked.

"Mito, one of my previous Vessels, used to say that I was a being of destruction and hate, that it was my punishment to be imprisoned forever...Kushina hated me because she always feared that people would have tried to kill her because of me, and when she discovered that during pregnancy the seal was at its weakest she started hating me even more fearing the life of her kit in case I managed to get free...The boy won't be any different, especially since I am the one responsible of his current state." Kurama said looking around the damaged body.

"Yes you almost killed him, but are you sure he will actually, positively hate you?" Hachi asked

"..."

"Kurama? I asked you if you are absolutely certain that he WILL hate you." the Ox asked again but with a more gentle tone.

"...I don't know." Kurama finally said shrugging helpless.

"Give him a chance, he may finally be the right one to take away your loneliness,"

"I'll try...But I will kill him if he pisses me off!" the Fox countered in rage.

"No, You won't. I know you too well, you will never admit it, but even THE MIGHTY AND POWERFUL KYUUBI has a heart, just try to befriend the boy, it won't cost you anything."

"At least he won't rap!" Kyuubi said smirking.

"How do you know this?"

"We can share memories when in contact like this, I only happen to know HOW to actually do that," Kurama answered simply.

"Smart-ass." the hachibi muttered before ending their contact.

Real World – Kumo – Hospital -

"He said that he will try and help us, but before that I think we'll need to heal him fully." Killer B proclaimed sighing as soon as he cut the connection.

"So? What are we gonna do? Any ideas? We can fix almost everything bar his chakra coils, I don't think those are fixable." Ay asked as he and his father joined B inside the room.

"I think we should start with healing the body and then focus on the rest, even if I have no idea of How to actually help him, the Kyuubi may try and regenerate the coils by himself, but the risk of further damaging them as a result is still too high." one of the Medics present suggested.

"What a mess...But maybe I know something that may help us" E said scratching his chin deep in thought.

"What do you mean, pops?" Killer B asked.

"Some time ago, during a patrol mission in the borders, we stumbled on an old lab of a certain Sannin, we managed to take away everything before Konoha's ANBU flooded the place. Maybe he had something able to help the boy." the old man answered.

"You mean Orochimaru?" Ay asked surprised.

"Exactly him, and while not as famous as Tsunade as a Medic, he is infamous enough for his unethical human experiments to make me wonder if he discovered something 'Less than Normal' about chakra networks and genetics...Then maybe we can take ideas to fix the boy...IF you are so adamant on doing this." E answered with crossed arms.

"Kumo will get a third Jinchuuriki as a prize if we help him...And maybe I will be able to finally pay my debt towards Minato Namikaze for saving my life instead of giving me the finishing blow years ago." Ay answered unsure.

"Then let's try going through that madman's stuff and see if we find anything." Killer B proposed.

"With all due respect, Killer B-dono, we would be dealing with dark researches here, and the boy needs serious help too. We'll have to focus plenty on healing him first before trying anything extreme like that. We are talking about Orochimaru, we don't know how far he went in his experiments or how dangerous the results can be, nothing can be left unchecked, God knows what may happen otherwise." a Medic nin said worried.

"It will take time for the ANBU to go through everything before we get any result, in the meantime focus on fixing everything you can." The Raikage answered waving him off.

"Of course, Raikage-sama." the doctor replied bowing.

"We have a plan then, you doctors will take care of his body while I'll have some experts sniff around Orochimaru's old researches to see if we have a way to repair his coils." E ordered walking away.

"Of course, sir!"

"I'll go organize group that will deal with the Sannin's researches, you keep me informed on the brat's health."

"Yes, father/pops!" both Ay and Killer B answered.

Konoha – the next day – hidden location -

"So?"

"They are still searching, Danzo-sama. They finally noticed that no body was found matching Uzumaki-san's and are still looking everywhere for possible leads and culprits other than the Uchiha Clan since bar the two heirs and Mikoto-sama there are no other survivors, along the Elders."

"Do they have any clue about him being in Kumo?"

"Not to our knowledge, sir. Me and Sai are still keeping our eyes open just in case, but we think Kakashi-san will soon make a scene now that we alerted him about the identity of the boy's parents."

"It was his right to know, just like Tsume's. The old coot instead?"

"The Third Hokage seems to be none the wiser and we are trying to make it seem like the boy simply ran away on his own."

"It is not the best alternative, but making it appear like any other Village did the kidnapping would have been even worse. What about the Hyuuga?"

"Still pretending Kumo to give back Hizashi's body...Should we..."

"Tell them we have it? No. Just like with Hakai, I made a promise to Tokimaru and I intend to go through with it to my last breath. News from Itachi?"

"He is recovering well after the fight against his father and has already moved to take the mantle as Clan Head, but the Uchiha Elders (May the devils drag them to Hell) are still making pressure for him and Mikoto to...You know...Create Pure-blooded Uchihas."

"Disgusting. As soon as Itachi's brother snaps out from that Tsukuyomi have him dragged to a Yamanaka, last thing we need is a brain-damaged Fugaku Junior. An Uchiha Missing-Nin is enough already without another going on a quest of Revenge. We'll deal with the Elders soon enough, be sure they do not discover what happened to the eyes of their dead, make it so that it looks like Fugaku stole them if the need arise."

"Of course, Danzo-sama."

"Very well, Tsunade did her part, now it's up to us."

"We'll do whatever it takes, sir."

"Good, now go. I still have to talk with a few people before we reach the next stage."

"At once, Sir. Honor and Glory."

"Honor and Glory."

Kumo – a week later – Raikage Tower – Storage room -

"Keep searching, we need everything even remotely useful." E the Raikage ordered annoyed.

"Maybe we found something, sir." An ANBU said showing a folder she had filled in notes just few minutes prior.

"Spit it out."

"Okay, so, we have..." the masked woman said flipping through the pages until she found what she needed with a subtle 'Ah-ah!' of victory.

"From the Kaguya bloodline: bone control BL (BL: Bloodline Limit) with a personal note of Orochimaru detailing how it was impossible to remove the hereditary illness coming with it."

"Okay, go on." The old man prompted.

"Yes, then there is the BL of the Shiniohana clan about muscle manipulation, then the one from the Sendou clan, part of the boy's optical nerve seem damaged so we thought that their heat vision-like bloodline could be useful."

"A bit of a stretch, but if it help strengthening his eyes...Sure a Byakugan would have been better, but beggars ain't choosers. Anything else?" E asked making Ay next to him roll his eyes at his father's fixation for the Hyuuga Clan.

"Well, some of us wondered if the Seysaku Clan memory/ability stealing bloodline could be useful...You know...It sounds cool." the ANBU muttered shyly.

"If the boy doesn't want it I can take it though." she then added with an even lower voice making the Raikage and his two sons facepalm at the childishness of the thing.

"Well, we basically have a lot of samples of bloodlines from deceased clans, none of which we ever managed to splice into babies since we kinda have morals, but anything about chakra and/or the coils?" Killer B asked as he looked at the various vials with curious eyes.

"Few of them could help us in that regard: the Tenshin Clan seem able to reinforce their bodies by hardening their skin while the Kyouharu clan was able to instead do the opposite and turn their body into a semi-liquid state. Maybe we can try fuse those two with the Hokuo Clan's bloodline...Like that he should become able to avoid damages during fights and heal the worst wounds by regenerating, but..." one of the Medics present said unsure.

"But?" E asked.

"He will be forced to eat the enemy's flesh and absorb its components inside him and his Biju should be able to enforce the bloodline by making possible a greater healing with lesser Food. And we believe the Biju should be able to block the Kaguya Illness as well." the Medic answered.

"Turning him into a cannibal? Are you sure he will accept it, pops?" Killer B asked.

"He'll have to deal with it sooner or later, we'll just make sure he won't get depressed for it, and we'll try to keep it hidden from the population as well." E answered unconcerned.

"All those bloodlines won't go into conflict?" Ay asked confused.

"Normally yes, but many of us believe that with the Kyuubi regulating the body's transformation and his innate Uzumaki healing and Durability, we are positive this will work...If Luck will be on our side, that is."

"He'll pull through, doing the impossible it's in his blood, his mother's Clan has survived worse things through the ages." E replied nonplussed.

"Then we will start organizing everything, Raikage-sama." the Medic answered.

"Good! Be ready, boys, we are making history here! We'll create a new Bloodline! Bwahahahaha!" E said with a cruel laugh as he walked outside.

"Really, and he was the caring one between him and mom." Killer B said with his shoulders dropping slightly.

"It's tough love, B. Tough Love." Ay answered sighing.

Kumo – Hospital – day of the operation -

"Everything is ready, the body is now in perfect conditions, it's up to you now." E said watching the boy being carted to the operating room.

"Will it hurt?" Naruto asked scared.

"Just a little, but don't worry, it will be over soon. Then you will be fine again." Ay answered watching the boy nod unsure before the doors closed.

"Damn brave boy, and he took his staying here quite well." E admitted humming.

"Is not like he has any choice, the Kyuubi thought it was a good idea telling him they were about to either rip him out of the Seal OR add a seal array and go through Sarutobi-san's plan. With no chakra and no Village to return to...It was no surprise he accepted being here, he has not much choice." Ay answered shrugging.

"We will now commence with the injections of the various solutions made from the bloodlines, as I said before, this operation is possible ONLY because of the Biju inside him and his being a Uzumaki Clan member, every other attempt will end with the death of the patient since nothing will prevent the tissues from decaying. So if you dream about Fame by injecting lost bloodlines on patients then just forget it, you will just kill innocents and most of all force Raikage-sama to kill you in a painful and gruesome way, understood?" The head Medic explained helped by E glaring at the staff from the overhead observatory window making the doctors flinch in fear under the man's piercing gaze.

"Glad to see you understood, now lights on! We are starting!" the head medic said giving the order to the nurses as everybody got to work as one.

Kumo – Hospital – viewing window over the operating room -

"What do you think, father?" Ay asked while watching from the glass panel the doctors running back and forth to heal the boy.

"I don't know, transferring a bloodline it's something unheard of in terms of success, let alone all the ones she is trying to give the boy at once." E answered.

"What if we manage to make it work?" Killer B asked.

"We will try to see if the boy can stay here in Kumo and join us, in Konoha or everywhere else they may try to use him for breeding, hoping to pass one if not all the bloodlines he will posses to his kids, here at least he will be somehow protected from it while still creating a Clan, we'll be both happy." the Raikage answered shrugging.

"Are you sure?" Ay asked.

"If we say that he is a kid one of you two found during a mission and adopted then he will be under our family direct protection, like that we will be sure he will be safe. The revelation of his being Minato's baby can come later when he will be able to fend for himself." E answered.

"Killer B will be the father then, he is famous for being...Eccentric, adopting a kid just for the Hell of it won't raise suspicion, just don't make him rap." A said laughing at B's shocked face.

"M-M-Me!? B-But I d-d-don't know how to be a father! You were the one saving him!" B tried objecting.

"I saved him, yes, and I will help rising him, but you have a Biju yourself and are good with kids, so you are the best candidate." Ay answered.

"But! But!"

"I'll give you few tips, I raised the two of you by myself and look how well you two grew up!" E said in pride.

"Now, that's scary." A muttered before E's punch almost flattened his skull.

"I heard that! What about the name? Uzumaki or, God forbid, Namikaze are out of the question since his parents had a lot of enemies around the Nation and Konoha ninja will come rain on us like vultures if they get the news." E said scratching his chin.

"I'll just call him N then, after all...Killer N...It has a certain ring to it." B said smirking.

"We already suffered for that style of name, at least let's spare him that…Ah! Whatever! Let's go with that, but teach him to Rap and I'll turn the boy orphan all over again, because I'll use your spine to choke you." Ay said in a dark tone.

"Okay-Okay, ya win! No need to get angry." Killer B's answer went though eclipsed by the agonizing scream of the kid down on the operating table, creaming in agony even though heavily sedated right before his body started swelling like a balloon.

"AAAAAAAAAAH!" Naruto's scream went clearly heard even through the thick reinforced glass separating him from the Raikage, and as soon as his chest finally ruptured a black tendril erupted from his body to break the glass, trying to catch the three and capturing a group of ANBU instead and absorbing them inside the boy.

"WHAT'S HAPPENING!?" E yelled as a doctor went flying through the window as well.

"RUN AWAY!" the woman wheezed grabbing E's ankle before dying and getting captured by a new tentacle.

"RUN!" Ay yelled with wide eyes as he dragged his brother and father out of the room an instant before they too got grabbed by the same tentacles.

Right outside the operating room the screams of terror and anguish of the staff were filling the corridors as apparently the boy was eating whoever stood too close to the room and the guards trying to save the victims.

"I don't know what happened! A moment everything was fine then the boy started screaming in pain, before I knew it he started devouring everything!" a completely traumatized doctor missing an arm was heard saying in hysterics to an ANBU patching him up.

"The Jutsu stop being effective after three strikes! Whatever that bloodline is it can adapt at an astounding rate! Switch element! Switch tactic! Do not repeat the same pattern!" An ANBU said in horror as her Lightning Bullets started dispersing aimlessly on the incoming tentacles, but even if ineffective, the attacks still managed to throw the appendages back.

"Keep attacking! Keep attacking!" Another shinobi said as the barrage of jutsu kept pelting the tendrils until after half an hour of endless 'battle' for containment the whole Black-and-red mass quietly returned inside the room by itself.

"Okay...It seems it stopped...What happened!?" E said asked looking ready to spring at the first noise interrupting the unnatural silence now reigning in the corridors.

"Apparently the bloodlines, the Kaguya Clan's Illness and the Kyuubi chakra reacted in a way we could never predict, Raikage-sama." the doctor missing an arm answered.

"Is the boy dead?" Ay asked.

"Hard to say, Ay-sama."

"No bro, I can still sense his chakra signature, but it seems...Altered? Mutated? I don't know how to explain...it's...Different than the usual chakra signature." Killer B answered.

"Ok now! No more questions until you all explain to me why over fifteen medics, one ANBU squad and the Heir of Minato Namikaze were apparently Swallowed by a monstrosity born from ungodly experiments on unstable bloodlines!" E said in rage making the whole hospital tremble with his voice.

"You see, Raikage-sama..." the doctor tried saying.

"Yes?"

"O-One moment it was all going well, we started infusing the boy with the bloodline mixture and as soon as they started taking effect the Sensor you sent us reported the boy's chakra starting to be overcome by the Biju one, thing our other Medic Nin confirmed."

"Uh-hu."

"T-Then we started phase 2 and injected the other batch so to speed-up the coils regeneration and strengthening the body to withstand the changes, b-b-b-but then the nurse that kept checking the boy's pulse reported him flat-lining, and when we tried to reanimate him...T-The boy's heart simply melted." the doctor answered with haunted eyes.

"Melted?" Ay asked confused.

"I-It was there and yet it wasn't! As if his whole body never was supposed to have one, then it seemed liked every inch of his body acted as heart, lungs or stomach at the same time, the poor nurse had to re-start the technique several times believing she was doing it wrong...Then Naruto-san simply...Died...I think."

"You think? I am no doctor, but if one dies they die, there is no maybe." Killer B said frowning.

"I know! But...But the tests gave result of somebody deprived of organs, as if those had been removed brain comprised, and yet he still registered as 'Alive'. Then his chest swelled black and ruptured to free those things...M-M-My assistant was the first to be torn in half, then those tentacles took my arm as I tried to escape while dozen more started attacking everybody and even launched one of the nurse up and through the glass towards you! Then the ANBU came and-and-and."

"It's okay, you are safe now. Calm down and try to explain what must have happened to have this mess start." E ordered sharply.

"I-I-It was terrible, Raikage-sama. M-M-Maybe that was the reason Orochimaru abandoned his experiments on the bloodlines. Maybe he understood that something like this would have happened," the man answered unsure.

"Raikage-sama!" an ANBU yelled as she ran towards the group.

"What's happening now?" the old man asked tiredly.

"That thing reached one of the sealed rooms near the Hospital storage!" the masked woman said horrified.

"So? Are there any victims? If no-one else died then you can relax, property damages are the least of our worries now, we'll deal with this later." E answered looking extremely annoyed for the interruption.

"You don't understand, Raikage-sama! In that storage room there were the other bloodline samples and experiments of Orochimaru we had discarded for this operation! That thing has absorbed All of them!" the ANBU said in panic making the others pale into chalk-white masks of horror.

"Is this bad news?" Killer B asked as the doctor next to him simply fainted at the news.

"H-How Much? HOW MUCH STUFF WAS IN THERE!?" Ay yelled grabbing the woman and shaking her wildly.

"O-Over one-hundred bloodlines and just as many mutations and variations the Snake Sannin had apparently tried creating artificially, like something he had cataloged under the label Cursed Seal." she answered weakly.

"Dear God," E muttered in shock while watching in the operating room's direction.

"We need to enter there. That Thing has just absorbed every bloodline we had in storage and yet looked still raving hungry, we need to kill it before it starts attacking everything on sight again and save the brat...If he is still alive." Ay said marching towards the room.

Kumo Hospital – operating Room -

The room was in complete disarray with the floor, walls and the ceiling covered by webs of a black substance that was slowly pulsing in tone with a huge cocoon that was resting on the central bed, not a single hair of young Naruto or the doctors and ANBU that used to be there were in sight.

"There is no-one here...Where are the bodies?" Ay said with a low voice.

"Probably Inside that thing, whatever it is the boy must be there, it's the place from where all this stuff comes from, luckily it looks asleep somehow. Probably is still digesting all of them." Killer B answered nearing the cocoon to touch it.

"NOOO!" E said trying to reach for the man, but a tendril of black goo immediately detached from the wall as soon as the cocoon went touched to grab the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki around his chest.

"B!" Ay yelled while trying to pry the thing off to no avail.

"Calm down! It's doing nothing, it knows me, look!" Killer B said calmly as the tendril seemed to taste him for a moment and then move away from him to return to the wall and simply rest there.

"The boy must be in control now. What we do?" E asked nearing the black cocoon to caress its hard surface.

"We can try to open it! Delicately though, the boy's control may be fragile, a shock too great and this thing will attack even us." An ANBU offered entering the room and leaving the tendrils check his identity.

"...I bought the boy a lollipop the day before the operation." the masked man said in answer to the curious looks of the Raikage and his two sons.

"He looked depressed, and when I am depressed I go for a lollipop...It works." he added shrugging.

"Whatever. Fine, I'll try open this." E said coating a finger in lightning chakra.

"Pops, there may be a kid in there, be careful with your 'spear'." B said unsure.

"Tch! I know what I am doing! Let's see how hard it is." the old man answered grumbling while lightly 'Poking' the shell containing Naruto's body.

To the others surprise the finger barely pierced the outer layer as the material was clearly dense enough to stop any fracture to easily form on the black mass.

"...Eh! Sure it's resilient, last time I did this I pierced through an iron shield and the head of the man hiding behind it all the way through. Surprising." E said looking particularly impressed.

"TOO STRONG! TOO STRONG!" Both Ay and B yelled with bulged-out eyes.

"Pfeh! It was just a love tap, you sissies. If the brat has to become my grandkid he has to withstand way more." the Raikage answered haughtily.

"Old crazy bastard. Okay, let me try...BOY! WE ARE GOING TO GIVE A PUNCH TO THE COCOON, WE MEAN NO HARM, WE JUST WANNA TAKE YOU OUT OF THAT THING! KEEP IT UNDER CONTROL!" Ay yelled hoping to be heard by the boy.

Having waited few seconds just to be sure, both Killer B and Ay took several steps back before both charged towards the bed with their fist raised high and coated in lightning.

"AAAAH!" both men yelled punching at the same time.

With a deafening BOOM! The two were sent flying back with their attacks barely cracking the surface.

"And I was the one overdoing?"E asked laughing.

"SHUT UP! At least we managed to damage it!" Ay answered nearing again the bed.

To their dismay though the damaged part seemed to liquefy before re-compacting to repair the damages in a matter of seconds.

"Ow come on!" Killer B yelled in petulant rage while throwing his arms up into the air.

"Maybe we'll need to wait until it opens by itself?" One of the ANBU present tried saying sitting on a chair he took outside.

"What if it takes months or years?" Ay countered while sitting down on the floor.

"I have cards?" Killer B answered shrugging.

"Idiot." E muttered as the three started playing while the ANBU left to be sure no more victims or damages happened during the initial outbreak.

Several Hours Later -

"HEY! IT'S OPENING!" A Medic Nin that was curiously poking the cocoon yelled ecstatic as the thing was gradually melting into tar-like sludge.

"W-W-What!?" E said waking up with a line of drool still dropping from his mouth.

"It's opening! That thing it's releasing Naruto-san!" the woman said again.

"Finally! Wake up you two!" E said kicking awake both his sons that were sleeping on the floor next to him.

"Ok, ok, I'm awake..." Ay groaned while reaching the bed.

Once the final part of the protection was re-absorbed inside Naruto, the others could see the boy still soundly asleep with no wounds to be seen, but on the contrary looking in extreme good health and at peace.

"Okay, he is fine and alive...What now?" Killer B asked unsure as only the boy was there and nobody else.

"Eh..." was the only answer E and Ay could actually give back.

This is the best I could come up with for a rewrite, I liked the core of the whole project, but other than that, I decided to change a lot of things, pairing comprised.

I hope this new version will be of your liking, thank you for reading me.

I will see you around the net.

Tr230.