This story is a little...odd. I haven't completely formed the entire idea but I have the beginning thought up. Hopefully this will jumpstart my mind for my other stories.

Awakening

Chapter One

Naruto Uzumaki

Naruto opened his eyes as the plane touched down. He didn't really want to do this, but his parents had made him and all because of that letter he had gotten in the mail.

He had been sitting on his couch when his mother came in, her red hair swinging behind her. She was holding a envelope in her hand. She smiled at him and handed it to him, letting him see who it was from and who it was for.

It was from the Kushiabi Institute. The institute wasn't a school, it was a experimental facilty that had been created to help nurture the greatest minds in the world. It was founded years before Naruto had been born, even before his father had been born.

The Institute had been announced by the world government as a place for people with incredible intellect to exist in peace, no matter if wars or arguments broke out in their homes of Nationality. It was agreed that under no circumstances would the Institute be brought into any conflict not attributed to the world's problems as a whole.

Global Warming, Famine, many of the Global problems were given to the Institute to work toward.

Of course, people began to wonder how anyone became part of the Institute. There were no ways to apply to join. Then the answer came. The Institute would find ways to search for the smartest people they could find.

At times, they would also search for people to work psychological and physical experiments on, hoping to improve the human body. By the year twenty thirteen, they had already found the cure to many STDs and other viruses. The one they first focussed on was Aids which they blew out of the water quite easily.

Other ones followed suit even faster. After that, they began to work on the human mind and ancestry. After the hit game Assassin's Creed took off, they began to design devices to look back into the ancestry of people. They unlocked many mysteries. In fact, they found out who Jack the Ripper was, though they had to erase that memory of the poor girl they found him in. Finding out that your ancestor was a woman killer kind of destroyed the mind.

In the letter, Naruto was invited to come and be part of an experiment to look into the past, further than the middle ages. Naruto's family had a large ancestry, even his name had been taken from an ancestor that no one could completely remember.

Most of the stories about his ancestor was more or less mythological. Some said that he was a man who wielded magical powers and was able to summon giant creatures to do his bidding. That was myth. Some said that he was a great ruler who united the countries he lived in under one name.

That was truth. Of course, his grandfather had a fantastical story about his ancestor holding an ancient demon inside of his body. At the end of his life, Naruto Uzumaki created a magical spell that removed the demon and several other demons from the world.

At the same time, this removed all the magical power from the world, forcing the human race to develop faster to fill the void that the loss of their abilties created.

Naruto just ignored this, though he never told his grandfather that he didn't believe his stories. Who could? They were so far fetched they belonged in a fantasy book.

Apparently, the Institute found out about these stories and took an interest in it, deciding to contact Naruto and offer him a place in their ancestry experiment. All expenses paid. What really clinched it was the promise that he would recieve a fully paid scholarship to any college of his choice. His parents were practically packing his bags the second he finished reading the letter out loud.

The blond boy had been forced to send an acceptance letter back to the Institute. A week later, he was on a private plane to the island the building was built on.

Looking out of the window, he gazed at the large building. It was huge, more like a castle in the design of a giant victorian house. It was beautiful yet imposing. He shivered, having a strange feeling in the base of his spine. It was like a bad premonition.

He was escorted off the plane and up a long road, leading to the facility. Up close, it was even more foreboding. He slowly pulled back the large dragon sized knocker and let it fall back onto the door. It rang out with a loud bang. He could even hear it echo through the door.

A few seconds later, the door slowly opened revealing a girl who looked to be the same as his fifteen years of age. Naruto thought she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

She was slightly shorter than him and had neck length indigo hair. His eyes quickly moved across her body, unable to help it. She was thin, but not overly thin. She was just the right size for a girl her age. Her breasts were about high B size. She wore what looked like white pajamas. They hugged her frame but left enough room to move around freely.

Then his eyes locked on to her face, noticing that it was oval in shape and petite. Her lips were small as well as her button like nose, slightly turned upwards. Then he locked on her eyes..or at least her eye lids. She didn't open her eyes at all as she turned her head to him and began to speak.

"Hello" she said, her voice sounding slightly like silk, smooth and gentle. She smiled at him "You must be Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze"

He noticed that she didn't look directly at him. With a sudden feeling of clarity, he realized that she was blind. It only brought up the question of how she knew who he was. He supposed that they had camera's somewhere around and just told her that he was coming and who he was.

Naruto noticed that he hadn't spoken yet "Um..yes" he said softly "It is nice to meet you Miss...?"

"Hyuuga" she said giggling as if she sensed his discomfort "Hinata Hyuuga" she held out her hand and he took it gently, shaking her hand as his mind ran a mile a minute.

She was one of the Hyuuga. They were one of the richest families around. They helped fund the Institute along with the Uchiha, Sarutobi, and Sabaku. Naruto guessed that it wasn't a surpise that they also worked with the Institute.

Hinata gave him another of her heart wrenching beautiful smiles and waved him in "I will lead you to the room you will be staying in" with confident steps, she walked toward an elevator on the far wall and pressed the button.

As Naruto followed her, he observed the foyer. It was large a painted mahogany brown with a dark red carpet down the middle going up a flight of double stairs. Other than a gigantic chandalier attached to the ceiling, there were no other things in the room.

It was bare as a new born baby. Naruto quickly surmised that these people weren't much for decoration. He actually asked Hinata about the decor.

She laughed "It was my father" she said "He said that any decoration would take away from their studies" she shook her head "Though Mr. Uchiha firmly disagreed with not decorating their rooms, he said that how they had their rooms was none of my father's business" she gave a small frown "Wish I could say that, my father is lenient with me about some things, but my room is still bland"

The blond boy blinked and opened his mouth before Hinata spoke again.

"Yes I am blind, but look at where we are" she smiled at him.

He saw this moment as a time to crack a joke "An elevator?" he asked, grinning.

She giggled "No, the Institute" she said softly "They designed an optic viewing device that takes images in and transmits them straight to the brain allowing me to see them" she shrugged "It is large and best used in my room because it is a burden to lug around"

Turning to him, she smiled "They show me pictures of things in my room so I know what they look like later, just like I know what you look like, and might I say, you are quite handsome"

He felt his face turn red and was glad that she couldn't see it "You are very beautiful as well" he said grinning as her porcelain skin turn red.

She turned and walked out of the elevator just as the doors opened and he followed quickly. She led him to a simple door with his name written on a small sign next to it.

"This is your room" she said, doing her best to hide her embarassment. She pulled a small key out of the pocket of her pants and handed it to him. He opened the door and walked in, hearing her footsteps folow behind him.

Bland was not the word for the room he saw. The room was blank except for one window, a clean white bed, and a bedside mahogany table with a lamp on it. He was happy to see a dresser on the other side of the room "You think your room is bland" he said.

"Is it really that bad?" she asked, looking toward the direction of his voice.

"Very much so" he said softly "If I get a camera, I will take a picture for you" his heart leaped when he saw her smile at him.

"Thank you" she said "Though I guess it won't be much to see" she laughed.

He chuckled "Yeah, so what next?" he asked "I mean, what am I doing here exactly?"

One of her eyebrows rose as she looked toward him "Well, we are going to look into your ancestry to see why we all seem to have the same name as our ancestors" she smiled "You see, in any of our families, our names were picked out in the face of incredible odds and none of our parents can give a good reason why they decided to give us our names, or the fact that they have the same names as our ancestor's parents" she shook her head "It is as if the names of our ancestors seem to repeat now"

"Mine did" Naruto said, seeing her look surprised "Yeah, my grandfather is obsessed with my ancestor Naruto and he wanted his name to be mine as well" he shrugged "I have no idea why"

Hinata nodded "Well that is interesting" she said softly "Why are you different than anyone else?"

"I don't know" Naruto said as there was a buzzing. Hinata blinked and pulled out a small phone and answered it.

"Hello? Yes, he has been brought up to speed...you want to start now...but none of the other's are ready" she listened silently "Well I suppose I can go in as his partner, I do have some experience with it" she smiled and hung up "Alright Naruto, come on, we are going to show you a part of your ancestor's past"

She led him back to the elevator and they went back down, deeper than the first room he had been in. When the elevator stopped. Naruto gawked.

They walked into a circular room with several oval shaped containers with glass domes over them. Two of the containers were already open.

The room was solid white and showed no edges. When the doors of the elevator closed, they became part of the wall.

"Please get into the devices and we will begin" a calm voice said. It sounded as though someone was hissing into the microphone.

"Yes sir Mr. Orochimaru" Hinata said as she walked toward one of the pods and climbed in. The glass dome slid down over her and closed with a hiss.

Naruto started at the man's name. Orochimaru was the man who invented a skin cream based off a snakes shedding ability. It helped the skin wrinkles just fall right off. His mom loved the stuff.

He climbed into the pod and laid down as it closed around him. He was a little nervous because he wasn't sure what was going to happen. What did happen was completely unsuspected. He fell asleep almost instantly.

First it was black, there was nothing around him. Then he felt a weight in the pit of his stomach as he dropped down into a forest. He turned and looked around, noticing that his normally long hair that reached to his eyes was now standing straight up. He looked down and saw that the blue jeans and gray shirt he was wearing was gone.

They were replaced by a pair of black and orange pants, a black shirt and a black and orange jacket. His shoes were also gone, replaced by black sandals. He looked up, wondering what was going on.

"That is what your ancestor wore at your age" a voice said behind him. When he turned he saw that it was Hinata. She was wearing a white and violet jacket and a pair of blue pants and sandals.

Her hair was long, reaching almost to her waist. Her breasts had doubled in size, much to his own embarassment as he looked at them. He looked up and blushed again. Her eyes were open and it was obvious that she could see him now.

Hinata's eyes were such a light violet that it was almost white.

"Is that what your eyes look like?" he asked softly.

She shook her head "All white" she said shrugging "Blind eyes are like that, my ancestor's eyes were different, they had some strange pigment alteration that made them like this" she smiled "Their pupils were covered but they could still see, it is amazing"

Naruto nodded "My grandfather once told me that the Hyuuga Clan had special powers related to their eyes" he said "He said that they could see through walls and even see in a complete circle" he chuckled "it sounded amazing"

Hinata blushed, giving him the thought that she had gotten the same image he had gotten when he first heard it.

He grinned "My grandfather didn't mean it like that, though he did make a joke about them being the most perverted people around"

The girl began to laugh "My father is going to flip when he reads the report on this" she said giggling.

Naruto chuckled and looked around "So what do we do here?"

"Well we are going to first get you used to moving the body you are in as there might be some slight differences" she said "Like your muscles are a lot stronger here..either that or gravity wasn't as strong back then" she then leaped up toward a branch and grabbed it, spinning around to land on it.

The blond boy's mouth dropped when he saw it "That was incredible" he said laughing "How did you do that?"

She shrugged "We believe that because there weren't many types of travel during their time so everyone pretty much walked everywhere, showing that the lands were completely different than even pangea was" she grinned "That and the fact that the profession that many people had during the time was that they were..." she giggled "Ninja's"

Naruto blinked "Are you serious?" he asked "Our ancestors were Ninja's?" he laughed "That is messed up" he bunched up his legs and shot into the sky, amazed at how light his body felt. He landed on the branch next to Hinata "But I suppose I can believe it, I mean Ninja's did exist throughout time"

The girl nodded "That is right, but in this time, most ninja's were more like our soldiers now, though their were types that practiced subterfuge" she shrugged and then froze, her body flickered slightly, like a bad picture. He blinked and waved a hand in front of her face.

When she didn't blink or move he raised an eyebrow "Ok..what is going on?" he asked softly. Then he heard a deep rumble come from down the path.

"It has been many years since I have heard a human voice, let alone two" a deep voice said softly.

Giving Hinata a single glance, he hopped down and walked toward the sound of the voice. As he walked, the soft dirt of the ground slowly became wetter and harder. Soon he was sloshing through a thigh high water "Who are you?" he asked softly.

"Hmm, that water used to be lower, interesting" the voice said softly "and as for who I am, I am dissapointed. Have I been asleep for so long that my name isn't even written down any more?"

Naruto came around a corner to see a large cage there. He fell back almost immediately, landing into the water, not caring that he was getting soaked. He was staring at a pair of large red glowing eyes.

The voice began to laugh, booming and echoing throughout the cavern like place "Best reaction yet, Kushina yelled at me the first time we talked and Naruto did the same" it snickered "He even ordered me to pay rent"

Slowly, the information entered his mind "My mom and I?" he asked "I-I know that neither of us have met you"

"No no, the original Kushina and Naruto, your ancestors" a large set of white teeth appeared as the creature grinned "And now it is your turn to know me"

A large furred paw that looked suspiciously like a hand came into view as the monster pushed open the cage and walked out, nine tails flowing behind it. It was a fox, huge and demonic. It looked down at the young boy "I was freed, yet now I am trapped again, this time eternally" it sighed softly "I guess it is both of our bad luck that you had to look through your ancestors life and accept his burden, oh well, accept my power and awaken that which is locked away"

The fox leaned forward and snapped Naruto up in a single gulp. The boy screamed out, feeling his body bubble and burn. His eyes squeezed shut, then he heard voices.

"What is he?" a deep voice growled out "Do you see what he is doing to the room, why don't the damn tranqs work?"

"Naruto" he heard Hinata shout "You have to wake up, now"

His eyes snapped open, though everything was in a red haze. A red tail flowed slightly in front of him. He looked at his fingers, seeing them and the rest of his body covered in a visible red aura. When he looked at Hinata, he saw something odd.

Here eyes were open, and he could see the whites of her blind eyes. He cocked his head as he saw deeper than that. He could see some sort of energy inside of her eyes. The energy moved toward her pupils and diverted away before they touched them.

Naruto suddenly knew what he needed to do. A flick of his wrist sent the energy from his hands toward Hinata. The energy turned thin and swipped through her eyes, grabbing hold of the energy in her eyes and pulling it free. He felt the connection and heard Hinata gasp, her eyes widening as they changed to the same as her ancestor.

"You monster" a man with close cropped hair and light blue eyes was wearing a crisp suit as he stood in front of Hinata "How dare you harm my daughter" he pulled out a pistol and pointed it at Naruto.

Naruto growled and the energy knocked the gun away just as Hinata spoke "No...father...I can see" she said softly "He..he fixed my eyes" she was crying with happiness.

The glowing red boy smiled softly, his slitted eyes turning back to their own bright blue. Slowly they drifted shut and he fell forward, hearing Hinata say his name as he was caught. Then everything went dark.