Monster of the Leaf

by Seoras

One night beaten to the point of death Naruto is bought into the hospital only for the doctor on duty and Sarutobi to discover he isnt the Jinchuriki of the Nine Tails; Cursed and frighted, escaping in a daring attempt at freedom he gains it by hiding in a certain forest, only to become a legend of terror, until his return nine years later during the Leaf Chunin Exams.

1. Chapter 1

I don't own Naruto, only the OC's

yeah that's about it, I'm really bad at forgetting to put disclaimers and stuff like that in at the start of the chapters so I'm only doing this once at the start of the story and maybe three or four chapters in.

Chapter 1: What Have We Done.

The time was midnight. A little boy in his first year of the academy was tossing and turning in his sleep, as nightmares plagued his sleep. Shivering the little one attempted to wrap his thread bare, thin and holey blanket closer hoping for more heat in the cold cellar of the orphanage he was living in.

The walls were leaking and weeping water from the deluge that had set in over the village for the past twenty-four hours. Causing puddles to form in the cold dark expanse that had noting in except for the small cot that the child slept in.

As he slept in a soundless agony as his mind plagued him with nightmares. The red-headed boy was none the wiser of the evil machinations that were taking place just the other side of the cellar door. Slowly the door swung open with a thud as it slammed against the door.

Four men soon walked into the room with sick and twisted grins plastering their faces as they thought of the punishment they were about to doll out on the monster that had taken everything away from them. After all who would care if they roughed up the Villages Jinchūriki he 'was' the creature that had killed thousands of Leaf Village residents indiscriminately.

One of the men allowed a long tongue to loll out of his mouth for a moment as he thought of the power he would be bestowing on the so-called Demon of the Hidden Leaf. And one day in the future he would become a good candidate for a new host body for his soul. Enjoying the fact that everyone was none the wiser that he Orochimaru was back in the Village attempting to put all the pieces in place to manipulate the Nine Tails Jinchūriki to his cause.

But for now, what better way to get revenge on the man who trained him and the man whom had stolen his title as Fourth Hokage. Beat his sensei's newest weapon to within an inch of death. And beating the son of the man who had stolen his position as Kage of the Leaf Village. Yes, this revenge was going to be sweet indeed.

Standing off to one side he grinned with a sadistic glee as he watched the first blow connect with the sleeping child's midriff.

Waking up at the pain that shot through his body wracking him with pain and making the small six-year-old cough blood for a second. Looking about his eyes widened in fear as he saw five deranged sets of eyes staring at him all chuckling sickeningly at what they had done and what they were about to do to him. Raising his hands up to cover his face he let off a scream as the blow suddenly came down thick and fast.

! #$%^&*()

Iruka standing in front of his class for the second day in a row frowned when he noted that Naruto was absent again from class which was strange. While he would freely admit he wasn't the boys biggest fan and still held some resentment towards him for holding the beast that had killed his parents and taken everything from him six years ago.

But it was truly strange. Naruto hadn't missed a day of the academy all year and was showing signs of true potential and promise to be a good shinobi and a possible top five academy ranking by the time he graduated. But for the boy to miss two days of the academy was truly strange. Resolving himself to speak with the Hokage and find out if Naruto was alright continued to teach his class completely unaware of what the Hokage was about to uncover in the next few hours.

"Yes Sakura, what's your question?"

! #$%^&*()

Hiruzen sitting in his office growled in frustration as he searched high and low with his crystal ball hoping to find the lovable red head that was red and purple eyed carbon copy of his father and mother. Growling in frustration at how a six-year-old could possibly evade his sight for so long cleared his throat "Anbu!"

As he said that four figures appeared in front of him all knelt in a perfect line awaiting his orders, these were his four best Anbu. And for the sake of appearance and in an attempt to promote gender equality in his ranks at the behest of a partition put together by the females in his shinobi forces had two of the best female Anbu he could find to fill in the positions that Inu and Itachi had left with there respective departures of the force. Both of them were very young.

Looking at the two purple haired women who ironically both wore cat themed Anbu masks. The other two members were men, and possessed black and brown hair respectively. Tenzo with his Lion Mask and Washi with his owl mask a Hyūga very helpful when it came to perceiving dangers before they came to pass. "I need the four of you to find Naruto for me and bring him to me. I'd like to know why he has been skipping out on his Academy lessons."

All at the same time with little to no inflection in their voices replied, "Yes Lord Hokage"

Watching as they collectively disappeared in a cloud of smoke, took a long pull on his pipe before adding to the slowly dispersing cloud that four body flickers left behind. 'I just hope nothing bad has happened to you. Naruto, where are you.'

! #$%^&*()

Gazeru and Yugao who had a rivalry of sorts due to the fact they were both kenjutsu practitioners. Not to mention they were cousins hence the similar looks due to their mothers being sisters. Gazeru looked at her three fellow team mates as they ran along scanning the area in which they were currently searching for Naruto with the first place they checked being the Ichiraku Ramen Stand in the entertainment district of the village. "Should we not check the orphanage where he resides. It's a long shot but completely worth the trouble of checking, he could just be sick and the Hokage's just jumping at shadows."

Looking at Washi, Tenzo who was the captain of the Anbu who guarded the Hokage nodded "alright G-Cat, you and Washi will check the Orphanage and act according to your own discretion. Me and Y-Cat will comb the training grounds where Lord Hokage has found him before. If we turn up nothing we'll converge on the Hokage Monument and hope he's there otherwise we'll comb the red-light, followed by residential and clan areas before finally checking the merchant districts and market area."

Nodding the four Anbu darted off in opposite directions.

! #$%^&*()

Sitting safely away in an underground cavern decorated to look like a science lab, tables littered with vials and various paper covered in notes, large tubes filled with water with corpses floating in them. Orochimaru grinned a little "hmhmhaha, lets see what you do Uzumaki, run and hide like a dog or come to me for power and learn how to wield the Cursed Seal of Demons hmhmhmhmhm"

Holding the ram seal just to attempt to sense out his newest cursed seal user, the snake like man licked his lips in anticipation as he stared out over his underground lab "Well it seems like the seal is taking a little longer to adapt to his body, no matter despite his Uzumaki lineage. His chakra and will, will be no match for mine."

Pushing himself out of his seat the slippery Snake Sannin began to leave his lab "I wonder, which prisoner should I experiment on next?"

! #$%^&*()

Gazeru and Washi getting to the orphanage stood in one of the trees next to the orphanage. Looking at her Hyūga partner for this mission she watched as he did the quick hand sign and activated his Byakugan to scan the building quickly. "Oh shit!?"

Hearing her partner curse, she was more than surprised when her usually stoic male counterpart dropped from the tree and bolted towards the front entrance which admitted was a paper door being an old warring clan era construction purely because none of the orphanages were able to afford better accommodation. That and whenever it was bought up at council meetings, well the ones she had been able to sit in on. Most of the civilian representatives and Hokage advisors were of a mind that it made them stronger which was a benefit in the long run for the village. The shinobi clans however argued that it would only breed dissent among the new generations of shinobi that had to live in such squalor and poverty.

She had to admit herself she was happy that her mother chose not to be a kunoichi, it meant she always had at least one parent at home. It was how she got so close to her cousin Yugao, both her parents were Jonin and were off on missions most of the time, so she would always be at her place and they would study and train together. It was how they were both drafted into the Anbu straight out of the academy instead of being placed on teams.

She honestly couldn't imagine living in poverty. Dropping down from the tree she was shocked when Washi didn't bother pulling the door to one side and barrelled through shouting at various people to clear out the way. Finally realising the situation was indeed dire she went straight to her radio "Kitty, Taicho. This is Cat, over...?"

"This is Tenzo we read you copy."

Ignoring the trepidation that was creeping in to her stomach at this point as she realised that Washi was head straight for the cellar entrance "...We found him, but it doesn't look good according to washi reaction. We're about to make contact...Standby."

"Copy. On Standby"

Hearing that and bringing out her tactical flash light that was standard issue, she clicked it on as Washi pushed the wooden door open and stepped in. With her light illuminating the room she and washi were covered in a wave of foul stench that hit them like a wave so powerfully that the charcoal filters built into the masks had difficulty dealing with it. Gagging a little she saw Washi dart to the corner of the room and lift the bottom of his mask up and vomit up his breakfast and lunch.

Moving her flash light around she allowed her eyes to widen in shock, which slowly turned to horror as she saw the edge of what looked to be a pool of blood. Twisting the end of her light she made the light beam wider and almost screamed in horror and sheer fright at the sight she was baring witness to. Blood was everywhere, the floor, walls even the ceiling.

Focussing on the body of the child that lay on the small cot in the middle of the room she quickly lifted the bottom of her mask and understood why Washi threw up like he did. He was hardly recognisable; he was a bloody mess, grotesque would be the right word and, yet his chest was still moving up and down along with a wheezing sound. Eyes swollen shut and crusted with blood and gore, bloody spit and drool bubbling from his slack jaws with every breath. Arms bent at multiple random angles with bones jutting out of his skin, blood oozing out of the ruptures in the skin, beautiful dark bruising covering his torso mix with blood and possibly bone fragments. The smell was coming from the boy's own shit and piss, obviously his body had thought it was going to die and had loosened his bowls. His legs much the same state as his arms. She didn't want to think of all the internal injuries he possibly had at this point it was just too much.

Washi who had composed himself a little had crouched down next to the prone form and was openly crying, she could see it in his shoulders, she could understand his pain, even she was bought to tears by this horrific scene. "How could people of the village do this to him Jinchūriki or not this is just so wrong." She couldn't see it but she was sure more tears had spilled from her friends eyes. "I'll do what I can for him, but it's not going to be much. Get a medical team and inform Captain and Lord Hokage."

Nodding and not being able to take her eyes off of the small boys broken body "On it." Pressing the button on her neck mounted radio she spoke "Yu, Yu, your there right, sis, you read me?"

Hearing her cousins voice sound so distraught over the radio, Yugao and Tenzo didn't even bother to reprimand her for breaking protocol "Yeah, what's wrong, how's Naruto? You found him, right?"

All they heard for a second were a few sobs from Gazeru and the muttered sounds of washi 'hang in there' or 'don't you dare die on me Naruto'

"Oh, god it's horrible, blood everywhere. Who could do this to him, ahohahahahuhah" she started breathing loudly. "For the love of god, get the Hokage and a medical team to the orphanage. Please."

Not one to doubt his Anbu and the fact that both Washi and Gazeru were utterly distraught by the scene they had walked in on Tenzo quickly barked down the line "On it, we're en-route now."

He then turned to Yugao "go the team I'll get the Hokage. He's gonna want to be there."

Yugao nodded and charged off to the hospital while Tenzo headed to the Hokage.

! #$%^&*()

Yugao making it to the Hospital, she grabbed the nearest medical ninja "we have a level five emergency at the White Orchid Orphanage. I need a medical team there stat, Hokage's orders."

The ninja nodded and fled down the hallway "Kinzo-sensei! Kinzo-sensei"

Looking around she saw some of the injured Shinobi look to be getting ready to defend the hospital, after all level five was a level below full-blown invasion protocol, but then again as far as the villages Jinchūriki was concerned he was the villages future pride and joy, in fact the Hokage had been planning on having the boy not go to the academy and train Naruto himself along with the Anbu Commander.

She was pretty sure that she wasn't going to be told off for using the level five protocol to get the best the hospital had to offer for the Jinchūriki boy who could be just the sweetest thing.

All of a sudden, she was met by the hospital head Kinzo Yakushi. Along with the Hokage's personal doctor who had been in charge of all of Naruto's previous hospital visits, Tsugi Watanuki. Along with all their personal assistants who were highly skilled in the medical ninja arts and they all had one thing in common, none of them had attempted to harm Naruto. Well that could be partially due to Tsugi being one tough woman and would probably axe the lot of them if they harmed a hair on Naruto's head.

Motioning for them to follow they took off on the roofs Tsugi who was around forty years of age sidled up alongside Yugao "Well cat what's the matter?"

Deciding to use the adorable codename that the Hokage had come up with when they needed to refer to Naruto covertly grimaced behind her mask "Fishcakes down and G-Cat and Washi are all shook up pretty bad. I haven't seen it for myself yet, but they seemed distraught. Captains, gone to get Lord Hokage."

Being shocked that her little fishcake could be in danger Tsugi speed up her pace, out pacing Yugao. After all she was an Anbu medic before retiring to the normal forces.

! #$%^&*()

"HOW THE HELL COULD YOU ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!?" Gazeru screamed at the priest who had taken over the orphanage the first day Naruto had gone missing. "He's just a little boy." At this point she had grabbed the man by the front of his robes.

The mans name was Saemon Aonuma, he had just replaced the previous orphanage director and head carer the first day into Naruto's disappearance. Holding his hands up by his face trying to placate the livid Anbu had gone from hysterics that had alerted him to their presence in the cellar which had struck him as odd "I didn't know his was down there Sharaku-san told me it was just a leaky cellar with no other use other than for being the home of vermin, how was I to know a child lay beaten and bleeding in there."

Gazeru hearing him speak so calmly wanted to curse him to hell for his soothing voice and the fact he was a priest there was no way she would strike one, nearly all religious men and women who wore the cloth of their religion were dam near untouchable unless it was the Cult of Jashin or part of an extremist sect, but even then, it was hard to do so without some form of civil upheaval following in its wake.

Dearly wanting to strike the man, she suddenly felt an overbearing presence behind her "Anbu cat release Father Saemon this instant!"

Hearing the voice of her Kage, Gazeru let the man go and turned to her leader "Get a grip and walk it off, your no good to Naruto or myself in this state is that understood, wait outside and direct Tsugi and Kinzo to the cellar."

Not wishing to argue with her Kage who's word was law for her nodded and walked out "Sorry Father Saemon." As she left she sat down on the front porch of the Orphanage and waited for the medics to arrive.

Hiruzen, nodded towards Saemon "I'm sorry about that."

"No need to apologise Lord Hokage, I must confess I was horrified by what I saw down there. I wouldn't wish what happened to the boy upon even my worst enemy. But he shows great strength of will and soul to have survived and clung onto life so long hovering over the boarder of life and death at such a young age." The young priest said sagely as he smiled to the old kage.

Puffing out some smoke Hiruzen nodded "Well said Saemon-san, would you accompany me to the cellar?"

Placing his hands in his sleeves having straightened out his clothing "Oh, goodness no. I barely stopped myself fainting when I went down there before. I would rather tend to the children and make sure they don't get to over curious about all the commotion."

"That's probably for the best." Turning around he left the priest to walk off and make sure the children behaved.

As he got to the bottom of the cellar stair he stepped around the puddle of vomit on the ground and managed to block the stench of the room by blowing out some smoke and walking into it. Making sure not to block the doorway he watched on with stony look that belied his anger at the scene of the boy before him. Washi's limited knowledge had allowed him to stop the bleeding and do basic first aid but that was all the man was capable of doing, perhaps he could persuade Tsunade to return if he allowed her to start a medical ninja programme. 'I'm so sorry Minato. I'm just glad that our lie to Kushina drove her from the village otherwise we'd have a civil war on our hands. The loyalty people had and still have for the Uzumaki Clan in this village is still staggering.'

He then heard foot steps on the stairway before Kinzo and Tsugi burst through not fazed by the smell at all gasped at what they saw. Before moving into action before Kinzo issued some orders while Tsugi began running a green glowing hand over Naruto "Daisetsu, prepare the stretcher, June the Oxygen mask and IV. Tamami neck brace and bandages we need to brace those broken joints so we can reset them at the hospital lets move people."

Washi at this point stood opposite the Hokage with his head lowered "If you don't mind, could I get some air my Lord?"

"Go ahead and tell the others I want them ready to guard his stretcher from here to the hospital nobody touches him, anyone even tries is to be pushed away."

Washi nodded "And those persistent enough to fight back?"

"Kill them, kill them all."

Nodding again "It'll be my pleasure to pass on those orders my lord."

By the gods was the man happy that he had shinobi like Washi under his command completely docile and nice at one moment and a hardened professional killer the next.

Watching as the multiple breaks were tended to he watched as the five medic carefully rolled the near dead boy onto the stretcher and began moving out of the room. Clicking the button on his throat he made sure to change the channel to the T&I department "Ibiki, this is Fire One, over."

"Fire one this is Ibiki, read you loud and clear." The voice was gravelled and harsh as it rang in Hiruzen's ear.

"I need clean up team for the cellar of White Orchid Orphanage, I also need someone to come interrogate the staff here besides Father Saemon. There's been a nasty attack leaving Fishcake near dead."

"Dispatch Clean up team One and sending Oda Kanai to do the interrogations Sir."

"Copy. Oh, and Ibiki have Oda report to me directly after he finishes this is a level five breech in security. Have him keep that in mind."

"Understood Lord Hokage, He'll operate as if this is a Level Six threat."

"Good, I look forward to the reports later. Fire One Out."

! #$%^&*()

As they were carting Naruto through the streets with no other alternative as it would be to stress full otherwise to travel via the roof tops Tsugi and Kinzo were attempting to treat some of the minor internal injuries stabilising him even more while the others all bustled about pushing and pulling the stretcher and keeping the IV up and wiping bloody spit from his face and making sure that his air ways were clear.

Yugao who was seeing Naruto for the first time was visibly shaken along with Tenzo. Many of the civilians looked away from the horrid seen of the mutilated child being carted through the streets.

One civilian finally recognised who it was "Hey it's the little demon serves him fucking right."

He didn't get to say much more before Yugao's fist landed a heavy haymaker on the mans jaw dropping him like a sack of potatoes "That boy has more courage than all of you combined, he's been clinging to life in this state for two days, I doubt you would last a minute before dying."

She then jogged off after her team intent on giving anyone who caught her ire a piece of her mind. So much so she drew her Katana. Tenzo seeing this thought it was a good strategy no-one under the rank of Jonin would attempt to take on four Anbu and five medics if they had their blades out and naked for the world to see.

Unsheathing his tanto he held it at his side, Gazeru copied her cousin and Washi drew his own Tanto. It seemed to work the civilians all backed well off giving a wide berth. And wisely stayed quiet. The Anbu then noticed the presence of their Kage as he walked alongside the stretcher making sure not to impede any of the medical staff.

Yeah, you'd have to be right proper suicidal now to take on the Kage of the village with four Anbu backing him up along with those other loyal ninjas of his around the place.

Rounding the corner and seeing the Administration sector of the building Hiruzen knew they would be going past the academy just as they children would be finishing their Taijutsu practice he just hoped that they wouldn't attract to much attention to themselves, it was the last thing Naruto and himself needed little children spouting wild theories on how Naruto was injured.

Getting past the gate he saw little Ino Yamanaka by the fence before screaming fright at seeing Naruto "Sensei! It's Naruto he's in trouble."

Sighing he saw Iruka who he knew was starting to like the boy come sprinting over and before covering his mouth at the grotesque sight before him "My god, Lord Hokage."

Pausing and letting the medical group move on ahead stopped in front of Naurto's class mates as well as Iruka whom they had flocked around with the likes of Ino, Sakura and Hinata crying into his leg. "Prepare for the worst hope for the best. I'm sorry Iruka I can't tell you any more than that. Even I'm hazy on the details."

Sasuke who had just lost his entire family a few months ago clenched his fists together tightly, it was happening again, he wasn't friends with the Uzumaki. But he was a decent guy that understood his pain somewhat never having had a family himself.

Hiruzen leaving them, Iruka turned to his class. "Alright everyone into class come on, I'll contact your parents and have them come pick you all up."

He then felt a tug on his trouser leg, looking down he saw Shikamaru looking up at him "Yes Shikamaru-kun?"

"Is Naruto going to be alright?" was all the Nara boy asked.

"I don't know." Was all the Chunin instructor could say as he ushered the shocked children into the building

! #$%^&*()

Watching from behind a glass screen Hiruzen sighed as he watched Tsugi and Kinzo with their aides push bones back into place and reset them before placing them in casts. Pulling a pocket watch out of his Kage robes he noted he had been standing and watching the proceedings before him for about two hours now. The first hour had been sorting out the boy's ribs and punctured lung not an easy task when each rib was broken and fractured in multiple places, not to mention the internal bleeding as well.

Oh, how he wished he could get his hands on the bastards who had done this to the boy. It didn't help that his Anbu had reported that there was a various street parties celebrating the death of the demon. Looking around he could see Washi was inside the operating room in the corner wearing scrubs and clean clothing. Tenzo was at the entrance to the room while Gazeru and Yugao were at the other entrance to this private section of the hospital that was reserved for himself personally.

As soon as he had heard of Naruto's condition he had immediately asked if Enma could get in contact with the Toads and have them deliver a message to Jiraiya asking that he return immediately so he could check on the Eight Trigrams Seal that housed the Nine Tails. Hopefully the man returned soon. Cause if Naruto didn't survive this ordeal then he feared the village would be doomed, he was too old to fight off the Nine Tails and reseal it within another host. And if he died no one at the moment was suitable to take the position as Kage from him, not yet.

! #$%^&*()

Two days later. Checking in on Naruto like he had done the last couple of days Hiruzen, walked into the recovery room that he had been moved to, one that he himself had only used three or four times of which were during the later stages of the first war and again at the start of the second war. It wasn't a place he liked to visit that was for certain. Sitting in one of the chairs in the corner he saw a pile of academy text books sat on one of the side tables. It seemed his Anbu were softer than he thought.

He thought Tenzo was joking when he told him that some of his Special Forces took the time and to lecture the comatose Uzumaki child his academy lessons. Apparently according to Tsugi who had taken over primary care of him at this point. It was good for the child to hear people talking to him and taking a vested interest in his wellbeing. It may hasten his recovery out of the coma which was only a good thing.

Producing a book from his robes he smiled at the title "The Tale of a Gutsy Ninja" not one of his students best works but inspiring to the young ones. Flipping to the second chapter having read him a chapter the day before was about to settle in and begin reading when Tsugi walked into the room with a troubled look on her face before placing various charts and x-rays on the light up board that was in the room.

Tsugi herself had temporarily moved her office into the boy's room to keep him company, had she not been blocked or barred by the Village Council with trying to adopt him she would've an adopted son at this point.

Standing in front of them she hummed as she looked at the chakra network scan and then compared it to earlier ones of the likes if his eyes didn't deceive him Kushina and Mito Uzumaki both previous Jinchūriki of the Nine Tails like Naruto. Fortunately, Kushina had managed to survive having the Nine Tails being ripped from her six years ago, but he and his advisors had seen it fit to deceive her and tell her, her son hadn't survived the sealing and that the Nine Tails Chakra had ripped the boy's body to pieces and that, Jiraiya, Orochimaru and himself were forced to use a teleportation jutsu and send the creature somewhere else.

In her distraught state she resigned from the Corp and fled the village in tears. Wait why was Tsugi comparing the charts of the three Jinchūriki of the Village? "Tell me, my Lord. What do you notice about the chakra networks of Lady Kushina and Mito and then tell me what you see in little Naruto's chakra network chart?"

Standing and walking to stand next to the tall and buxom woman. Looking at the charts closely well Kushina and Mito seemed to have two chakra centres which was understandable, they also had extra pathways and chakra points as well, again understandable. Mito had said as soon as she had sealed the Nine Tails within her body her chakra changed, and she had to retrain everything all over again. The same with Kushina in that regard.

He then panned his gaze over to look at Naruto's own Chakra network chart, he wasn't the best at reading them it was only done very rarely since it was hard to do for a medical ninja. Gazing carefully at the chart he nearly dropped his pipe. Other than him having vast reserves of chakra that was understandable he was an Uzumaki known to be Chakra Monsters. No, what caught his attention, he had no second chakra centre or extra chakra points. He then read a notation stating that the boy's chakra was potent but that was understandable, he was the son of a Jinchūriki he was bound to have some potent chakra being exposed to such a beast while in the foetus.

"Tsugi, you didn't mess the chart up did you?" by the gods he hoped that was the case.

All he got was a derisive snort from the woman "Not likely my Lord, at present I'm the most qualified to do them. That chart is accurate, Naruto isn't a Jinchūriki if we go solely off this chart I also went a step further. Seals when exposed to chakra like Naruto-chans Eight Trigrams Seal reveals itself. I carefully exposed it to chakra by placing his hands in the Ram sign and stimulating him to channel chakra and no seal appeared on his body anywhere. Well except on the back of his neck but I'll get to that in a minute." She said before taking a sip of her water that was on her desk.

"What I'm trying to say is Naruto isn't a Jinchūriki, he's a normal child. No special trait about him except for his Uzumaki blood obviously." She said as she sat on the edge of her desk.

Hiruzen who was a seal master didn't need to make Naruto channel chakra to find seals. Running his hand over the boy's torso, finally allowed his pipe to fall to the ground "We have made a grave error it seems Tsugi. I must notify the Village Council. May I borrow these charts as proof, I'll also bring Danzo and Jiraiya along to confirm my claims later on if that is fine with you."

Nodding Tsugi shrugged "it's fine by me, my lord. Just so you know I will be taking Naruto-chan home with me after he wakes up. Would you like to know about the seal on the back of his neck?"

Humming for a second he relented. "Yes, please what is it?"

All the woman did was hand a picture of it to Hiruzen "Your students handy work I believe don't you"

Holding the picture in his hands he stared and the six-piece tomoe pattern that Tsugi had so helpfully labelled for him as a cursed seal. "dam him, dam him. He probably orchestrated this whole thing somehow." He growled as he began to leave "I'll stop by later with Danzo and Jiraiya."

Tsugi nodded and went over to the window of the room and sat on the window sill before pulling out a cigarette "Hope you don't mind Naruto." As she said that she lit the stick up and blew the smoke out the window.

! #$%^&*()

Walking into up a set of stairs on the side of the Hokage Monument. Hiruzen Sarutobi, didn't even need to identify himself to the two Jonin that stood guard on each side of the large double doors that sat halfway between the chin of the First Hokages face and the base of the mountain. Watching as the doors opened revealing a semi-circle table with fourteen chairs lining it while in front of them was a two-tier dais with four seats three on chairs on the first tier and his own over gaudy throne sat on the second. How he disliked that throne made him feel like a tyrant at times but then again when his predecessors were ruling the Clan heads had been much more powerful. Purely for the showing of power. Nothing more, nothing less.

Carrying three manila folders with eighteen copies of Mito, Kushina and Naruto Uzumaki's chakra pathways in each one passed them to three aides that he had cleared to stand in on the meeting those being Kakashi Hatake; one of his Jonin and the last living student of the Fourth Hokage who had died six years ago, that and he was technically the clan head of the Hatake clan in the village even if he forwent his traditional seat between the Akimichi and Aburame clans. Seiho Chino an elite jonin who had been in said position for the past thirty-five years. Lastly was Kisho Takagaki a former Guardian Shinobi of the Fire Daimyo and a Jonin of twenty years.

Nodding to each man Sarutobi took his seat behind his former teammates and best friend who acted as his advisors in most cases. He also noticed that Jiraiya had appeared just off to his left in one of three hidden chairs that allowed for the Sannin to partake in Council meetings. And purely out of habit before looking at his own council he looked up to a private raised booth on the left wall that the Daimyo would sit in when he came to the village for various reasons.

Panning his gaze around the room collecting his thoughts on the matters he would be discussing today, and the fact his student had somehow breeched the Village's security measures and had managed to get close enough to a Level five guarded security target and beat him within an inch of his life with help. Allowing his eyes to drift over the Miniature room tall statues of the First, Second, Fourth Hokage's statues as well as his own which was between the Fourth and Seconds one.

Resting his gaze on the council he noted that everyone who should be present was present all fourteen civilian representatives were present

Councilwoman Mebuki Haruno, she was the lead councillor which was a god send considering she herself used to be a Chunin level ninja before she retired to the reserve forces.

Councilman Benkei Sakurano, minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage.

Councilman Kata Uesato, minister of state owned enterprises and civilian foreign affairs.

Councilwoman Ikoi Nagao, minister of civilian corrections, tourism and village to land of fire relations.

Councilman Ichibei Miyazato minister of Housing and Urban development.

Councilwoman Tamika Umeji minister of civilian education and state services.

Councilman Juro Katsuragi minister of social development

Councilman Nampo Hirose minster of Health

Councilman Toshiki Kawano minister of trade and export growth

Councilman Hajime Ando minister of civilian judiciary systems, courts and justice

Councilwoman Joruri Yamane minister of Civilian police and revenue

Councilman Katai Hamakawa minister of workplace relations and safety and immigration

Councilman Kane Isobe minister of environmental affairs.

Councilwoman Ruru Yokono minister of internal affairs and children

They basically made up the governing body of the civilian side of the Village, but all were answerable to him the Hokage, as it had been since the beginning of his sensei the Second Hokages reign. That and also lightened his paperwork duties considerably, which was a god send if you asked him.

They were on the left side of the table, on the right side of the table there was fourteen more seats of power that held the Shinobi governing body that was in charge of everything to do with the shinobi corps of the village, and in terms of power compared to the civilian governing body. There power was much more extensive.

Aburame Clan lead by Shibi.

Akimichi Clan lead by Choza

Hatake Clan, the seat was currently empty due to Kakashi being the last member and not wanting to have a seat since the death of his father almost fifteen years ago

Hyūga Clan lead by Hiashi, who was currently the most powerful member in the shinobi council in terms of political power being the head of the largest and by extension of numbers the most powerful, due to the other noble clans either being small in number in the instance of the Aburame or with only one living member left in the case of the Uchiha Clan.

Inuzuka Clan lead by Tsume, she had recently taken over from her deceased father Ikki.

Kohaku Clan lead by Tomomi, he leads the only clan to live outside the village limits on the border with the Hidden Rain Village in the Land of Rain.

Kurama Clan lead by Murakumo

Nara Clan lead by Shikaku

Sarutobi Clan, the seat would be occupied by his eldest daughter Rise, but she was currently in her first weeks of maternity leave.

Senju Clan the seat was empty with the only Senju living not being in the village.

Shimura Clan the was empty only because it's leader Danzo was one of his advisors and was sitting in front of him.

Uchiha Clan, the seat was empty due to the clan's downfall a few short months ago. And the only members alive were either too young or on the run as a missing ninja.

Uzumaki Clan, the seat was empty due to Naruto being too young and his mother well he had seen to it that she was run out of the village.

Lastly the Yamanaka Clan lead by Inochi who had five seats between him and his close friend Shikaku which were currently unoccupied.

Clearing his throat and deciding to get the proceeding out of the way spoke with authority that had been bestowed upon him many years ago by his sensei during the Second Shinobi World War. "Lord and Ladies of the Council, thank you all for coming at such short notice..." he then motioned for Kakashi to step forwards and hand out the contents of his manila folder to everyone. "At this moment Kakashi is handing out copies of Mito Uzumaki's Chakra network and centre."

Giving them all a minute to look over the charts they had been given "Lord Hiashi, you are the most acquainted with the bodies chakra network and points, could you tell me what is unique about this particular network?"

Looking at the man confusedly at the question "Of course my Lord, it's the network of a Jinchūriki, this is denoted by the visible second chakra centre in the centre of the body, also by the fact there are extra pathways and chakra points all over the body. It's one of the reasons why Hyūga's are warned not to engage Jinchūriki..." frowning at the chart once more "may I ask who conducted this chart, and what are you trying to reinforce here my Lord?"

Blowing out a plume of smoke from his pipe Hiruzen smiled "you may, that chart was done by the First Hokage himself for his wife after he was victorious against Madara Uchiha, in fact I was present when he was doing it with the aid of Tetsuzan Hyūga an ancestor of yours I believe Hiashi." He saw Hiashi nod at his answer it was a good one. "As for what I'm getting at it will become clear in time my lords and ladies."

He then motioned for Seiho to hand out his folders contents "Now this chart is of former Jinchūriki and Kunoichi of the Village Kushina Uzumaki, this chart was created about four years after the Nine Tails was sealed in her and done by Tsunade Senju with the help of Taura Hyūga..." he then looked at Shikaku. "Mind telling us what you see in this chart Lord Nara?"

"Troublesome, there near identical. Makes sense both were Uzumaki and both were Jinchūriki hosts. Am I right lord Hiashi?" the Nara patriarch asked looking completely bored with everything.

Scanning the document for a little longer Hiashi nodded "More or less identical, but some of the extra pathways are in different locations. But that's to be expected, there are always variations between individual even in clans." He thought he should add that last bit on in case it confused some of the civilian minister who could and would interpret that very wrongly.

Nodding at what he had heard, Hiruzen motioned for Kisho to hand out his charts to the council "this last set of charts is of Naruto Uzumaki's chakra pathways, our current Jinchūriki, also I would deem it prudent to add he is the son of Kushina Uzumaki and the Legacy of the Fourth Hokage as well, these charts were made a day ago after Naruto was admitted to hospital, done by my personal physician Tsugi and my personal Anbu Washi who happens to be a Hyūga clan member." Waiting again for the collective council to look over the chart he saw Danzo turn in his chair and look up at him with a very displeased look on his face. He also noted that looks of shock were passing over the faces of the various members of the council.

Clearing his throat Hiruzen spoke clearly and without emotion of any kind "I a seal master when I saw this checked his body for his Jinchūriki seal the Eight Trigrams Seal. I found nothing of the sort nor did Tsugi who stimulated and manipulated Naruto's chakra towards where the seal should've been positioned over his navel. Lords and Ladies of the Council. Naruto Uzumaki is not the Nine Tails Jinchūriki but a normal child of a noble clan that has been treated heinously for the past six years of his life. I have summoned Jiraiya to verify my discovery and I would also Danzo to take a look at his body to find the seal."

The council at that grew deathly silent, they had all heard rumours and scuttlebutt of what had been done to Naruto, and they all sure as hell knew about his hospitalisation almost four days ago. Standing up Hiruzen threw one of his arms to the side "from this day forth all those who have unjustly harmed one of our own will be hunted down like the dogs they are. Those of the extremist group Fox Hate, shall be hung by the neck till death outside the front gate of the village. Any found to have aided and abetted these extremists shall be punished accordingly."

! #$%^&*()

Late at night on the fifth day of Naruto's hospitalisation, Hiruzen was sat in his office with Jiraiya opposite him "it seems Minato duped us all doesn't it. By the looks of things, he took the Nine Tails into the belly of the Reaper."

Jiraiya nodded "it does look that way Sarutobi-sensei, but what worries me is that curse mark on his neck. You were wise not to show Danzo. He may have tried to use it for his own gain. Maybe we should find Kushina and tell her what has happened here, tell her we...you screwed up and that you were thinking of the betterment of the Village when you told her the lie."

"It's to late for that now Jiraiya, due to my plans and machinations that boy has managed to wind up in hospital, I had hoped if I showed him some positive recognition and praise while the rest of the village scorned him he would become zealously loyal to me and me alone. And now look where that has gotten us, a little boy in hospital and no Jinchūriki and Orochimaru waltzing in and out of my Village freely." At that he threw his sake cup at the wall.

Looking sadly and down at his own sake, Jiraiya downed his cup "You're not the only one to fail, I promised the kids parents that I would be his godfather should anything happen to them. And I failed that one miserably didn't I."

Cleaning his pipe Hiruzen sighed "the only silver lining here is that the village is openly denouncing the acts of Fox Hate now and the fact that we have the leader in custody already is a bonus. Dam fool thought he could buy of Gazeru and Yugao when they arrested him."

Giving a rumbling laugh at the thought of Kizashi Haruno attempting to pay off the two-purple haired Kunoichi, and not to mention that his own wife was the one to dob him into to the Hokage as well as cough up a hefty reparation fee for what he had done to Naruto. That and she offered to buy him a nice apartment in the nice part of the Village when he woke up. Not a bad idea, he could have it empty till he moved out of Tsugi's place when he was older. "Now there's an amusing image sensei. Does Tsugi know when the kid will wake up?"

"Not the slightest clue although his brain is functioning fully according to the monitors she has set up." He then placed his pipe down on his desk. "when he does though, I'm going to take him on as an apprentice and teach him everything I know. You can help."

Tossing away the cup he was holding and picking up his bottle Jiraiya grinned lopsidedly "look at us two old men trying to repent their sins by training the kid."

! #$%^&*()

Six months later. Midnight, all was quiet in the hospital, Tsugi Ogami was sleeping at her temporary desk that was still in Naruto's med bay. Gazeru was now the only Anbu spared to stand watch over his room, the only noise that could be heard was the odd pitter patter of orderlies moving about during their night shifts.

That however was about to change. If one were to look at Naruto's sleeping coma form at that very moment a fog of black and green vile feeling chakra had begun to leak out of the boy. Who had been savagely beaten six months prior. 'I feel so, so angry...why. Oh, that's right they tried to kill me. I want my mommy, where is she, mommy where are you? I need you!'

As his thoughts began stirring so did the monitors hooked up to the young red head. The beeping quicker and much more violent as the dark fog of chakra began swirling about his body as he lay there. Tsugi being woken by the beeping couldn't help but look concerned. Standing and moving over to his prone form she tried reaching out only to be stung by the potent and vile chakra that surrounded the little one.

Just as quickly as it had appeared the chakra dispersed. "What on earth is going on. Gazeru could you find me an orderly please."

The only indication that her request was being seen to, was the sound of a shadow clone popping into existence. Turning her attention back to Naruto she began busying herself about the bed checking his IV's and drips as well as the various pads that were stuck to his body monitoring his heart, brain functionality and breathing as well as blood pressure and such.

While she was doing that an orderly popped her head through the door and started to help having bought her small trolley of various things, like extra morphine, chakra pills, plasma pills, stitches, bandages, water, cloths and many other things. "What can I help you with Lady Tsugi?" was the woman's kind question as to her summoning. Truth be told she was absolutely giddy to help in the treatment and recovery of the Fourth Hokages son. Let alone the next head to the illustrious Uzumaki Clan whom had brokered the peace treaty between the Senju and Uchiha clans so that the founding of the village was possible.

"Hmm, I'm not sure what happened but his heart rate and everything has increased he could very well be waking up in a few minutes. Now I should warn you, he could act violently when he wakes up, or act like a scared timid child and try to shy away from us. Whatever happens it is not his fault but those that put him here and there is also the possibility that Orochimaru's Curse Mark could hold some sway over him." Was all she said as she continued to watch the monitors and the boy at the same time along with the orderly "What's your name any young lady?"

"Oh, um Toki Utada."

"Well it's nice to meet you Toki." Was all the elder woman said... it was all she could get out before a small fist hit her in the side of the head as she had bent over Naruto's body to attempt to hear his heart beat. 'such strength!' it was the only thought that ran through her mind before she blacked out for a second as she staggered over to the wall of the room to hold herself up and shake her head to get rid of the fuzziness that clouded her vision.

Toki acting straight away tried to restrain the boy, but black Tomoe marks had appeared all over the right side of his face and body. He was already flying at the poor un-combat trained orderly and pushing her into a still disorientated Tsugi making them both fall to the ground. With a wumph and thud.

Hearing the commotion from inside the room, Gazeru began opening the door out towards her only to have a small almost rocket propelled weight impact against her stomach making her fall backwards with the little thing that hit her. Out of reflex and trying to catch whatever had hit her she shouted out in pain as her arms were scratched and bitten by whatever had attacked her finally getting a good look at the thing on her she saw a familiar mop of red hair and tried to hug him closer "Naruto calm down, please, calm down!" she all but shouted only to get a knee in the kidney for her trouble making her loosen her hold on him 'dam I forgot he learnt the basics to the academy Taijutsu.'

Feeling him wiggle free and have a foot hit against her face, Gazeru scrambled to her feet and chased after the boy hoping to have him cornered at the end of the hall way "I need back-up not Naruto Uzumaki is attempting to escape the hospital and by the looks of it is being affected by the curse mark." She began shouting down her radio.

"Copy that Anbu squad Jungle is inbound. ETA five minutes."

"Rodger!"

As she neared Naruto who was still running full tilt towards the window her eyes widened they were on the fifth floor of the hospital "Naruto Uzumaki don't you dare jump out that window!"

CRASH!

"He jumped" was all she could say in exasperation.

At that point Tsugi and Toki came out of the room with Tsugi having blood coming from her hairline and Toki having a lovely bruise on his cheek. "Follow him Gazeru, we'll be fine here."

Nodding and jumping out after the boy she went to her radio again as she saw Naruto darting down some side streets and buildings "Anbu Squad Jungle copy?"

"This is Ino of Squad Jungle read you loud and clear Fire Five."

"Fishcake has broken the perimeter and is headed west, with a two-minute head start on me and seven minutes on your team, have your sensor locate the biggest chakra source after lord Hokage. Over"

"Read you loud and clear Fire Five we'll be at the hospital in two minutes from there we'll head west." Was all the Jungle Squad Captain said as he clicked off his radio.

Happy with what she had heard Gazeru noted she hadn't been gaining on her target at all 'dam that curse mark sure gives him a boost to overpower Tsugi and myself so easily and escape from the fifth floor of the hospital, don't hurt yourself Naruto, please.' She then picked up the pace.

Naruto who was running along the alleyways suddenly felt his chakra surge and jumped onto a roof top with ease before continuing to run as fast as he could...the only thoughts running through his head was to escape somewhere.

While she was running and finding herself chasing the boy across the roof tops of the village still heading west she had to admit if Lord Hokage got his hands on the boy and trained him up he was going to be unstoppable that was for dam sure.

She then heard a crackle in her ear as her radio came to life "Fire Five this is control, over"

"This is Fire Five please advise."

"...by order of the Hokage I've dispatched Squads War Dog and Glory to your general position as well as Fire Two, Three & Four Over."

"Rodger that Control, still in pursuit of Fishcake, have visual on target. Running along roof tops in west of the village."

"Rodger, will update other squads. Control out."

Running along she watched him jump down onto the road again.

Naruto jumping onto the ground again stumbled and fell on his front. Picking himself up and hiding he waited for the right time to strike. Watching as the masked woman jumped down onto the street he waited to have her back turned before launching himself out from behind the skip bin he was behind. Seeing her begin to turn as he dashed at her he jumped into the air and with a crazed and frightened look in his eye he connected his elbow with the side of her head before kicking her in the kidney and pushing her into a wall.

Grunting in satisfaction, Naruto jumped back onto the rooftops and made a bee line for the exit of the village.

! #$%^&*()

Hiruzen who was sitting in his office with the Anbu commander who was acting as command centre for the teams to chase after Naruto had as soon as Gazeru radioed in sent Anbu Squad Ro, Ghost, Nightmare, Ranger to secure the gates while Anbu squads Pirate, Shock and Phantom were to bolster the west wall while Anbu squads Fire, War dog, Jungle and Glory would be in pursuit. "Don't worry lord Hokage little Fishcake has nowhere to run now. We'll have him recovered in no time at all."

"For your sake Commander I hope that is the case" was all Sarutobi said as he waited for another report in.

! #$%^&*()

Naruto running saw the gate before darting to hide in the shadow of a building when he saw more Anbu at the West gate and again more on the walls. Moaning in fear and annoyance "I just want to leave and never come back!" the six-year-old bemoaned.

Turning down a side street, Naruto continued to run north towards that gate. While he was running however he forgot that the north of the village was where all the training grounds were. Coming across the training grounds pretty quickly Naruto decided that he would just hide out and wait to run away.

Moving quickly along the forest floor he ignored the odd sound of animals. The main thing was he had lost those that were pursuing him for now. Looking about now thoroughly lost he stumbled across a fenced off area of forest. Deciding it was fenced off for a reason and that not many people would willingly enter, it would be the best place to hide out from his pursuers for now.

! #$%^&*()

"Ah Control this is squad Jungle, copy?"

"Yes, Jungle this is control."

"We've found Fire Five and she's out cold, we need a medic on sight she has a head wound repeat she has a head would leaving Jungle Four here to watch while the rest of us try pick up the trail any word from the gates and walls?"

Closing his eyes behind his mask the commander opened them and looked at the Hokage "No word yet Jungle, continue pursuit."

Clicking his radio off and looking at the Hokage "there's a possibility someone's helping him escape the village an inside ally of Orochimaru perhaps."

"True that could be the case Commander, double the wall guard, I highly doubt they've yet to find another exfil point in the village with the west being blockaded."

"Of course, Lord Hokage, I'll get right on it."

Hiruzen stood and walked to the door before opening it and speaking to his secretary "Koko be a dear and send a squad of Chunin out to round up fifty of my jonin."

Nodding Koko, stood from her desk and went to one of the standby rooms for Ninja who had pulled the short straw and were given a night guard rotation or first response position.

With that sorted Hiruzen went back to his desk while he heard the Anbu Commander issuing orders down his radio and dispatching more teams to the walls, Naruto Uzumaki would not escape this village. He would make sure of it.

! #$%^&*()

It was early evening forty-eight hours after Naruto's escape from the hospital. A village wide search had been executed one that included civilians and Genin and not just the upper echelons like it would normally be. Yet, with nearly the entire population of the village searching for Naruto, they were still yet to find him. Forty-eight hours and not a word about him.

Tsugi was distraught over his escape and disappearance, Gazeru felt thoroughly embarrassed having been beaten and surprised by a six-year-old academy student.

If there was one silver lining it would be Anko a newly promoted Tokubetsu Jonin at age eighteen. Was one of the people searching hardest knowing she could be of great help in monitoring the little boy with the same burden as her. It was quite heartening to say the least really.

The civilians had taken to the streets on mass in an attempt to find the boy they had wronged. Hell, the academy instructors were using this opportunity to test the students on teamwork and using their budding ninja skills to aid in the search effort. It was all very nice.

Sitting across from him again was Jiraiya this bought back some form of déjà vu for the old Sarutobi elder. "So, when are you going to call off the search Sarutobi-sensei?"

Taking a puff on his pipe Sarutobi hummed in thought "I'll give them another twenty-four hours to try and find him then we'll have to call off the search. It's ironic really the night he goes missing is the night my grandson Konohamaru is born, makes me wonder if he is actually alive right now wherever he is."

Jiraiya looked down at that "there is a possibility he could be dead; the cursed seal has a high death rate after all. Perhaps it would be best not to hold out too much hope for his emergence as an alive and well child for all we know the curse mark may have burnt him out. He did take out two jonin level ninja after all." As he finished he rubbed his chin and took a sip of his sake as he thought about finding his godson's body washed up on some river bank or being carrion for birds and other scavengers.

Pursing his lips at that Sarutobi sighed "He had so much potential and like with all our gifted ninja we've somehow managed to lose another one due to my negligence."

! #$%^&*()

Boom first chapter done, what do you guys think was it alright or nah. I know Naruto didn't have much of roll in this chapter, but he was in a coma basically for the whole thing. And running away from who he thought were bad people while under the influence of the curse mark.

I know some people might be annoyed that he managed to beat an Anbu at age six but remember curse mark increases his body's capabilities a lot as well as the fact he had the drop on them and none of the people involved expected a six-year-old to pose a threat to them.

I hope everyone's fine with him not being a Jinchūriki and the fact Minato sealed the entirety of the beast in himself and took it into the belly of the reaper.

At the moment I'm trying to come up with a pairing; Naruto is slightly older than his class mates so by the time he re-emerges again he'll be roughly 15. I was thinking, also I'm not pairing him with his mother even if she is alive.

Naruto x Hana

Naruto x Anko

Naruto x Shion

Naruto x Ayame

Naruto x Fuka

Naruto x Guren

Naruto x Koyuki Kazehana

Naruto x Kohada

Naruto x Kotohime

Naruto x Mabui (She'd be de aged a little a lot to maybe 20 for part II)

Naruto x Otoha

Naruto x Ryuzetsu

Naruto x Samui (She'd be de aged a little a lot to maybe 20 for part II)

Naruto x Shizuka

Naruto x Ino

Ps; I'm still working on my other stories, and an update with the stuff that got corrupted I have a copy of all of them on my other laptop which is at home, while I'm away at university. But fear not for I will have access to it in a few short weeks, so I can continue on with those ones Yay!