OK, so this is my my second fanfiction that I have ever written, so please bear that in mind. For anyone hoping for an update in Forsaken Legend, the next chapter is almost finished, I am sorry but I had lost my muse for a bit. I would like to make one thing clear, the title of this story WAS NOT inspired by that ridiculous song, I named it this for another reason.
I would like to give a big shoutout to gazz uzumaki whose story "Blood Ties" inspired this fic.
So without further ado, here is the prologue for 'Blurred Lines'
The village of Konohagakure no Sato had seen better days. Most of the civilians of the village had already been evacuated, or had already been killed. There was one thing that marked the unusual nature of the invasion, and that was the identity of the invader itself.
The aggressor of the village was a giant fox.
Despite the fact that the fox was attacking, it could easily be concluded that this was no ordinary fox. First of all, the fox towered over the trees of the forests surrounding Konoha, trees that had been grown by the Shodaime himself using the Mokuton bloodline. The second thing that marked the fox as unnatural was the number of tails it had. Usually, foxes had one tail.
This one had nine.
These tails weren't idle either. The tails were completing three main tasks. They were either swatting shinobi who were foolish enough to attack head on out of the air, slamming on the ground flattening it, or they were swaying majestically behind the massive fox, giving it a sense of regality.
If an stray shinobi should have gotten the time to look in the eye of the giant beast, however, they would have seen a trio of tomoe surrounding a dot-like pupil. It could be logically concluded that the fox did not have its faculties right now, and that it was being controlled.
The gigantic fox looked seemed to look around, as if searching for a specific target. What could have caused this unprovoked and undetected attack? To find that out, the clock needed to be brought back about one hour.
Flashback - 1 hour
"Push Kushina-hime, push!" said an blonde, spiky haired blonde. He was wearing a navy blue jumpsuit along with a haori that had the kanji for 'Yondaime' running down its back vertically. His most attention catching feature other than his hair was his striking blue eyes. Right now however, those eyes were clouded in pain as his wife was crushing his hand as he soothed her during childbirth. This man was Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage and new father.
"SHUT UP MINATO, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS FEELS! I DON'T KNOW WHY I LET YOU DO THIS TO ME. I HAVE TO PUSH OUT NOT ONE, BUT TWO BABIES! TWO! WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER, I AM GOING TO RIP OFF YOUR BALLS PERSONALLY!" yelled a beautiful but fiery red head. Her crimson read hair would usually fall down to her ankles were splayed all around her as she was going through the contractions of child birth. She was panting while moaning and pushing, trying to get her baby out of her as fast as possible. This woman was Uzumaki Kushina, formerly of Uzushiogakure no Sato and new mother. As she finished yelling at her secret husband, she clenched her hand even tighter, with the effect of the said blonde paling further. Despite being in severe pain, Minato made sure to hold the seal of his wife's navel together.
Minato briefly glanced to the midwife and wife of his predecessor, Sarutobi Biwako. "Is she going to be okay? She seems to be in a lot of pain. Is there anything that you can to about it?"
In response, the Biwako just snorted before replying. "This is why men don't give birth, they just don't have the strength for it. Kushina keep going. The baby has already crowned. One more push and it should be out of you."
With renewed vigor, Kushina gave one last grunt until the sound of a baby's wails could be heard piercing the night. As Kushina relaxed in exhaustion, Biwako wrapped up the baby, with one look, she passed it on to the proud father and looked at Kushina. "Congrats, it looks like you are going to have a healthy baby boy."
Minato brought the baby up to Kushina, and started to talk to her. "Hey Kushina-hime, look Naruto has your beautiful crimson hair. He is going to be a ladykiller when he grows up."
Kushina looked over, and gave an exhausted smirk. "He had your eyes though. He also has your girly face, so he will only be a ladykiller when the females figure out that he is a boy. When that happens... ku ku ku ku ku... No one is taking my Naru-chan away."
Kushina started to laugh evilly at the thought of beating the girls off of her little boy. Minato just sweatdropped, until Kushina started screaming again. He looked alarmed, and vocalized it.
"Kushina-hime, what's wrong? Are you okay?"
The crimson haired beauty just gave him a scathing look that seemed to say 'Do I look okay?'
Just as Minato was about to continue questioning her, Biwako came back and gave one look at Kushina. She looked up and said "Oh, this is a surprise, it looks like you are going to have triplets. You have my sympathy Uzumaki-san."
When this finished processing in Kushina's mind, she turned slowly to Minato despite being in great pain. This was soon followed by her screams of fury.
"MINATO, THAT IS IT! I AM MAKING SURE THAT I RIP OFF THE ENTIRE LOWER HALF OF YOUR BODY TO MAKE SURE THAT SOMETHING LIKE THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN! 'CHILDBIRTH BEING A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT' MY WELL-TONED ASS!"
Minato had a look of great fear on his face, but continued stabilizing the seal. He placed his newborn son next to his crimson-haired violet-eyed older sister, Narumi. Biwako backed off knowing that getting in the way of an enraged Uzumaki woman was just a death sentence. She held on to the baby, who just seemed amused at his mother's rage.
Soon after this, another cry of a baby pierced the night, this time more feminine. In terms of appearance, she was the opposite of her older brother. She had the round face of her mother, but had a little tuft of sun-kissed blonde hair on top of her head. When the baby opened her eyes, twin violet orbs, similar to her mother's, could be seen peering upwards. Minato cried little tears of joy, and welcomed his daughter into the world.
"Welcome to the world, little Hikari."
He passed the baby to her mother, who looked at the newborn with unrestrained love. After passing of his blonde daughter to his wife, Minato reached over and retrieved his daughter in one hand. Just as he was about to rise to take his son from Biwako's care, Minato and Kushina both heard two thudding sounds behind them, just a moment apart from each other. When Minato turned around, his blood ran cold. Standing there was a masked man holding his middle child, with the corpses of both medics on the ground.
"Biwako, Taji!". Just as the hokage was going to continue in his panic, the masked man interrupted and started talking in a calm, crisp voice."
"Yondaime Hokage, step away from the Jinchuuriki unless you want your son to die at the ripe age of 1 minute."
Minato started to panic even more, and raised his free hand to his chest in a disarming gesture while still managing to hold onto his daughter. "OK, let's just calm down, no need to kill my son."
If Minato could see under the intruder's mask, he would see a small, almost unnoticeable smirk. "I am calm Yondaime Hokage-san, it is you who needs to calm down. However, it seems that you are not taking me seriously. Let me give you an incentive to do so."
After he finished saying this, who threw the wrapped baby up into the air. As the baby was still on the journey up, the masked man pulled out a kunai and readied himself to make a swipe upwards.
Kushina, seeing this, cried out in horror. "NARUTO!"
While his wife was unable to move, Minato was not. With his one free hand, he threw one of his famous kunai to the wall directly behind the airborne baby, and hiraishined away, grabbing the baby in his free hand and saving him from the approaching kunai.
The masked man raised a hidden eyebrow and said "It looks like your speed is not just a myth, but tell me, can you get away from this in time?"
As he finished his statement, the swaddling clothes that Naruto was wrapped in started to smoke. Minato, finally noticing a trio of explosive tags on the underside of the baby, pulled of the blanket and managed to teleport himself quickly to his wife and grab his other daughter while the elder redhead was till in shock. He then hiraishined away to a safe location.
Kushina, registering the explosion, just sat there, shocked. She hoped that her babies and love got out of the explosion intact, but she had other problems at the moment. Namely, the creepy man who was advancing upon her, hand extended. He grabbed her wrist, and before Kushina could resist, she was pulled into a dimensional pocket. Before she could concentrate on anything around her, she reappeared in the outskirts of Konoha, chained to a pillar. The masked man put his palm on the weakened seal, and started to focus his chakra.
"Come forth and serve me, Kyuubi!", he yelled, slightly deranged. The seal started to fall apart, and a layer of red chakra could be seen surrounding the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. Soon, a greater amount of crimson chakra started to bubble out of her and into the sky. It coalesced into the shape of a fox with nine tails.
The Kyuubi no Kitsune, greatest of the nine bijuu, was now free to wreak havoc again.
Just as the fox was regaining its bearings, the masked man appeared in front of the Kyuubi and peered into its eyes. The man's sharingan started to rotate, and the same pattern could be seen in the eyes of the fox, signifying that the fox was under the control of the man.
"Come Kyuubi. Let us go destroy Konoha." The fox just let out an ear-piercing roar, and just as the duo were about the depart, they heard a weak voice calling up to them.
"Just wait a second, -ttebane, you two are not going anywhere." The seemingly dead Kushina was propped up against the pillar, and she was panting heavily. Despite trying to sound strong, it was obvious that she was very weak at that point.
The man just looked down on the broken form of his victim, amusement clear in his exposed eye. "The vitality of the Uzumaki sure is powerful. Not even having a bijuu extracted from you is enough to kill you. Still, I think it would be fair if the Kyuubi killed its former jailer. It is poetic, without a doubt."
The Kyuubi in response raised one of its clawed hands and thrusted downwards. Kushina, seeing the approaching claw, just shut her eyes tightly.
"I'm sorry, Minato-kun"
Just before the claw impacted the ground, a flash of yellow appeared. The Hokage appeared, and hiraishined his wife and himself back to the safe house that his children were located in.
The masked man noticed this. He sighed, but then regained his composure. "No matter. While I had hoped that I would kill her, she and her husband will be dead by the end of the night. Come Kyuubi, we have a village to destroy."
At the Safe House
Kushina was laying next to her children, cuddling the three of them of them to her bosom. She looked lovingly at her children, to make sure that they were safe. Once she confirmed their good health, she looked at the love of her life, and started to questions him.
"Minato-kun, what happened? I almost thought that one of the babies had died in the explosion."
Minato looked back and answered. "The explosion nearly got to us, but I managed to hiraishined to the marker that was just outside the cave. After this, I came here and tucked the kids in to make sure that they were safe. I came back to the cave, but you were long gone. By the time that I got to you and saved you from that claw, it was too late."
Minato, not waiting for a reply from his wife, went to a nearby closet and pulled out his iconic haori. His slipped his arms through the sleeves, and gave one look back at his wife. She, in turn, gave a small nod to her husband, an action that received the same response. As he left, Kushina laid there in thought.
"Be careful Minato-kun. We need you. Uzumaki or not, I don't know how long I can last without any help, and our children deserve to have both of their parents with them as they grow up."
Meanwhile in Konoha
The masked man was standing in the middle of Konoha, with no one noticing him. He ran through a series of hand seals and called out his jutsu.
"Kuchiyose: Kyuubi no Kitsune!"
The tranquility of the peaceful village was suddenly broken. A roar tore through the peace of night, shocking a large number of ninja out of bed, and overloading the available sensor nin who were not expecting a sudden influx of potent chakra. The masked man was standing upon his charge, ready to give a command.
"Time to wreck this place. Kyuubi, you know what to do."
The giant fox gave no sign of understanding, but opened its mouth. Balls of positive black chakra and negative white chakra started gathering at a rapid pace in front of its mouth. In less than a second, the attack was completed. As the attack was fired at the hokage monument, many ninja froze in fear as they recognized the attack. It was, of course, the signature jutsu of all the bijuu.
The Bijuu Dama.
Just as the great attack was about to collide with the monument, a barrier lined with kanji erupted from a man holding a kunai. As the attack was absorbed by the barrier, many ninja breathed a sigh of relief. It was the hero of the Third Shinobi World War, it was the Yondaime Hokage.
After the attack was absorbed, the blonde released the kunai in the air. A few moments later, a colossal explosion lit the light sky as many of the greener shinobi gazed in awe at it.
As Minato was preparing to confront the Kyuubi, he felt someone grab him from behind. He hiraishined away, bringing his unwanted passenger along for the ride. When the both of them reappeared, they were at one of the numerous training grounds in Konoha. He realized that the person who grabbed him was the masked man.
The masked man started to talk. "Sorry, Yondaime-san, but I cannot allow for you to interfere. I need the Kyuubi to destroy the village, and you are getting in the way." As he was saying this, he pulled a length of chakra-absorbing chains with two cuffs on each end out of his robe. He attached the chain to himself, and proceeded to charge his opponent without waiting for a response.
Minato was momentarily shocked at the brazen attack. "Is he stupid or something? A head on charge never works. He has to be a good ninja to infiltrate Konoha so easily, so he must want me to underestimate him. I better be careful."
Minato responded in kind, charging his opponent as well. He raised a kunai, ready to slash at the head of his opponent. The moment he thought his attack hit, however, he just phased through the man.
The blonde kage was shocked yet again. He was knocked out of his shock when he noticed that the chain was starting to encircle him. He hiraishined away, this time to a marker that was on the opposite side of the field.
"What was that? I just went right through him! That was probably why he was not scared to charge like that, he knew that he would phase right through the attack. I bet though that he needs to be tangible to touch me, otherwise he probably would have grabbed me just as I was passing through him. Let me try this..."
The cerulean-eyed fighter raised one of his kunai, and threw it at his opponent. He followed soon after, forming a rasengan in his hand. In return, his opponent just snorted. "You have already tried something similar to this. Why do you try doing this again. Here I though you were a genius."
As the kunai passed through the head of his opponent, the masked man reached out to grab his adversary. Just as he was about to make contact, his opponent teleported out of his sight, leaving him stunned. Just as he was about to turn to try and find his elusive pray, a great pain started growing on his arm. He let out a scream of pain as he was blasted away.
Minato did not waste any time and closed the distance between the two when he had the chance. He pulled out a seal, and placed it on his opponent while activating it. When this happened, the masked man noticed his connection to the Kyuubi disappear.
"A contract seal, eh Yondaime-san? So you have severed my connection to the Kyuubi. No matter, it will still destroy the village and you will be dead by my hand by the end of the night. Nothing will change."
Minato took this chance to address his adversary in turn. "You have the sharingan, and you were able to slip into this village so easily and kill the anbu with minimal trouble. You were also able to place the kyuubi under your control. There is only one Uchiha that I think has the power to do all this. Isn't that right, Uchiha Madara?"
The masked man made no visible reaction to what his adversary had said, until he started speaking.
"It is as you say, Yondaime-san. I want to see this village destroyed after everything that it had done to me. Who are you to deny me?"
Minato just gave an impersonal response. "I am going to stop you for my village, for my wife, and for my children. None of them will die today, and they will not die before I do, if I have anything to say about it."
The masked man turned around, ready to leave. "Well, my work here is done. I wish you luck in your endeavors." With that, a vortex seemed to swirl around him, and he disappeared.
The blonde leader just looked at the spot where his recent enemy had just been. "Damn it! He got away! Well, that does not matter right now. I need to get rid of the beast that is trying to tear apart my village right now. Then I can worry about the masked man."
After the young hokage finished his mental tirade, he hiraishined to the area where the Kyuubi was at. He needed to get the fox away from the village, and then seal it away.
"I hope Kushina is okay right now."
With Kushina at Safe House
Kushina right now was holding onto a small scroll with the kanji for 'learn' upon it. She was using some of her spilled blood to write a blood seal on the upper arm of Naruto. After she had completed this task, she sealed the scroll onto his arm. She proceeded to lay back down, trying to preserve as much of her strength as possible. She started talking to her son in a quiet voice.
"Naru-chan, I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling about today. This is just in case that neither your father nor I make it through the day. It will be your job to protect and teach and protect your sisters like every brother should do, do you understand -ttebane?"
Naruto, in his innocence, just giggled a bit and moved his head in a nodding motion almost as if he was assenting to the request.
"Too bad we only have one copy of the scroll." Kushina mused. "But then again, we were not expecting three kids to come today. I guess life is just like that."
Flashback End
With Minato
Minato was not having a good time. Upon returning after his brief scuffle with the masked man, he discovered that a great many of his shinobi were dead or dying, which just enraged him. Now, he was trying to dodge the swipes of the confused yet angry kitsune.
When he finally got near the Kyuubi, he jumped towards his head, narrowly dodging a swipe aimed to rend him in two. He took a deep breath, gathered his chakra, and prepared to use his famed space-time jutsu. When the jutsu activated and he felt him and the fox being pulled towards the destination, he only had one though running through his head.
"I hope Kushina-hime doesn't rip me apart for this"
Clearing near the Safe House
As Kushina was about to doze off, she heard a crash coming from the outside. Just as she was going to summon her strength to find the source of that sound, her beloved husband came back into the house. Slightly relieved, she started to questions him.
"Minato-kun, what was that sound? And why do you look like you just did something stupid?"
Minato just gave a sheepish smile and rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry, Kushi-chan, but I needed help in getting rid of the Kyuubi, so I brought it here."
As Minato finished this statement, he felt a great killing intent (KI) hit him. As he was cowering, he felt the KI rein itself in. Just as he was about to release a sigh of relief, he heard something that made his blood freeze.
"Minato-kun, let me get this straight. You brought the dreaded Kyuubi no Kitsune, one of the most dangerous entities in this land near our recently born children who could be killed easily by that overgrown furball. Did I get all of that right?" Kushina said in a voice that was way too sweet to be sincere.
Minato, now scared for his life, stuttered "H-h-hai."
Kushina threw him an overly sweet smile and said "I will beat the crap out of you later for endangering our children. Right now, we need to deal with that oversized carpet rug."
Minato paled a bit, but just retorted, "I can seal the Kyuubi away, but I need a newborn baby to seal it away into. Anyone who is older than that would have their chakra coils explode from all the extra stress."
"I know that Minato-kun, but where are we going to get a..." Kushina trailed off, and a sudden look of horror crossed her face as she realized what her blonde husband was trying to imply.
"No, no, just no Minato-kun! I will not condemn one of our children to the life of being a jinchuuriki! I know how it feels to be alone, and that was when no one knew that I was a jinchuuriki! Let me drag the fox back into myself so that I can die with it! That will delay the Kyuubi for some time, enough time for you to find some way to defeat the Kyuubi when it comes back!"
Minato, who had somehow managed to keep a calm mind throughout this night, finally snapped when his wife started to yell at him.
"Do you think I want this? I have an idea that could save your life, and if I am right, preserve mine! Now let me explain my plan before that giant fox manages to regain its bearings!"
Properly admonished, Kushina just closed her mouth and gave her husband a look of affirmation.
"A week ago, I ran into a seal that could contain energy constructs like the Kyuubi. The catch is that I will need to split the Kyuubi into its three component parts-the yang chakra, the yin chakra, and the soul. I will save your life by resealing the yang chakra into you, which is known to be the most troublesome. You have experience dealing with the Kyuubi, so you would be the most logical choice for this part."
Noting that his wife had not blown up at him yet, he continued onward with his plan.
"The yin chakra would have to go into a newborn. I am choosing Narumi for this. Yin is the calmer and more controllable side, so she should be alright with this. Finally the soul. This should be the easiest to contain because it will have no power. I have to choose a newborn of the same gender for this one, which means that the soul will go into Hikari. Luckily, Naruto will not need to deal with any of this."
Kushina, after reviewing the plan, had to admit that not only was it sensible, but it was also practical. She gave a small nod, and summoned her iconic chains to wrap up the Kyuubi as it started to regain its bearings. Minato, not wasting the opportunity that his wife opened up for him, started to inscribe the required seals on the ground, leaving three circles of seals open.
Kushina knelt down in the first circle and placed Narumi in the second circle, while Hikari was placed in the third by Minato. The famed blonde ran through several hundred hand seals, and jumped up to the face of the restrained fox. With a hint of victory in his voice, he intoned the name of the seal that would spell the eternal defeat of the blasted fox.
"Fuinjutsu: Kihon Tekina Kaitai"
With this action, the fox started to fall apart into three pieces. The enraged beast gave a roar of defiance as it tried to resist the change, but to no avail. A bright red stream of energy started to coalesce around Kushina, entering her body. a similar yet darker shade of red did the same for Narumi, while a small red light entered the youngest of the three.
Just as Minato and Kushina were going to celebrate in their exhausted state, they heard a slight tearing sound emanate from behind them. When they turned around to investigate the source of the sound, they froze and their skin paled.
What Minato forgot about splitting energy of the size of Kyuubi was that nature would suffer because of it. The giant removal of energy from the Kyuubi and subsequent tearing of that energy put a great toll on the space-time barrier, which finally caused a tear. The thing that caused them to panic though was that the tear was right next to Naruto.
Minato wanted nothing more than to flash to his son and save him, but he knew that doing that while the space-time barrier was already stressed could make things worse. He and is wife could do nothing as their only son was sucked into the tear, with the tear stabilizing and disappearing soon after.
Kushina and Minato collapsed to their knees, knowing that they had just lost their son, and that he was most likely dead. Kushina buried her face into her hands and wept, while Minato just pounded the ground with his fist. The two daughters of the couple were still in their respective circle sound asleep, unaware that they had just lost their brother.
As Kushina was crying, Minato finally managed to pull himself together somewhat. Even though he was still crying, he managed to choke out a sentence.
"The village...the village deserves to know what happened...and they deserve to know who we had lost because of this."
Minato walked over to his still-weeping wife and wrapped his arms around her, trying to console her in any way possible.
Despite all the horror that had occurred that day, one good thing had happened. This splitting of chakra was irreparable, meaning that the Kyuubi would never again become whole. This, in turn, meant that the plan of Madara Uchiha to revive the Juubi was permanently destroyed. A lot may have been lost, but the rewards were ever greater.
Outside of Staff - Claymore Universe
A man dressed from head to toe in black was staring down at a baby. Next to him was the current number 13 of the organization, Joan.
The man, giving to noticeable expression of emotion, turned towards his companion. "So, what can you tell me about this baby, 13?"
The silver-eyed sword wielder looked back at her handler, surprise evident on her face. "This should not be possible. This baby has some form of energy flowing through his body. It does not seem to be as powerful or as dense as yoki, but it is more flexible. This cannot possibly be right, I need to go and check in with my superiors"
She turned around and was about to leave, but a black glove stopped her departure. Looking up, she received an answer. "Normally I would agree with you, but you are my second opinion, and a much better sensor than my first. Let's go, Staff awaits."
The handler reached down and picked up the baby, knowing that his boss would be interested in this.
At Staff
Rimuto, the aging leader of the organization, steepled his hands if front of his face and looked over to his subordinate. It was a testament to his experience that he was not freaking out over the news he just received, and the request that was put forth.
"So, you want to do what with this infant, Dae?"
The now named Dae looked at his boss, with a slight manic expression in his eyes. "This baby has a lot of potential, and I can just feel it. Never mind the extra energy source. The fact that he was able to stay in the presence of a claymore without any reaction is a clear indicator of what he can become.
"Dae, you are our top scientist. I will allow you to go through with this. I just have one question though. Considering how you were ranting about this infants potential, I know you are not going to use regular yoma flesh. Tell me, whose do you have in mind?"
Dae smirked at the intelligence of his immediate superior. His smirk grew a little devious as he said, "over the years since his defection, we have painstakingly managed to scrape together enough flesh and blood of the Silver King, Isley for one transplant. Usually, a candidate cannot take the sheer power of an Awakened Being's flesh, much less an Abyssal One's, but I have a good feeling about this boy."
Rimuto nodded and looked up at Dae. He asked, "And what of number 10 and number 13?"
Dae's devious smirk never left his face and without a beat said, "Well, we can't have an information leak, now can we? Besides I think that there are a couple of warriors that deserve a promotion."
Taking Rimuto's silence as one of affirmation, Dae left the office and headed into his laboratory, located deep within the earth. He headed to a small preservative container that he had, labelled with the words 'Silver King-Isley'. He opened the lid, and upon completion of draining the fluid, placed the flesh upon the baby. Reaching for a vial, he repeated the same process for the blood. The flesh and blood was immediately absorbed into the baby, leaving no sign of what had just happened behind.
Dae raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Huh, no patch of rotten flesh huh? Come young one, you will be our weapon in the war against the Abyssals." He left the laboratory with the baby in hand, walking towards an empty room. He knew enough to raise a baby, and he planned none else other than the boy's trainers to have access to the baby.
The dawn of a new warrior was fast approaching, and it was a warrior that would surpass in power all of his predecessors.
Whew, finally finished. It took some re-writing, but I finally solved my dilemma of whether Kushina and Minato would live or die. I added another child, and Minato and Kushina would live, but the youngest would be disliked by Konoha for hosting the soul and for one other reason. Don't worry, it will not be cliche in the least.
Since I first started writing this with only two children, please PM me if you notice any problems.
Also, give me feedback on how the story is going. I want to know what you all think of this story compared to the last.
Also, I am sorry for you people who dislike this, but Naruto will be extremely powerful in this story. At the peak of his power, he will only be equaled by Priscilla. When he goes off to the Elemental Nations, only the Abyssals and Priscilla will be able to match of beat him.
Also, I have opened the poll of who Naruto will be paired with in this story. I will try and keep the poll open for at least a week, or whenever the next chapter comes out, whichever comes first. The results of this poll will have a large impact on this story.
Till the next chapter then.