AN: so this is my first attempt at a fanfic, so I hope you enjoy and the reviews aren't too harsh !

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Naruto groaned as he woke up in a dark room, the last thing he remembered was collapsing in pain after fighting Zabuza on team sevens way to Tazuna's house. As he made to get up a blond head entered his vision, " stay down, your suffering from chakra exhaustion" spoke the head as he pushed Naruto back on to the bed.

" Gah, the Yondaime!" Yelled Naruto in shock, " am I dead? The Shinigami sent you back for the Fox didn't he?" questioned Naruto as he stared at the supposed deceased legend with wide eyes. " You had to ruin my life and now you want my soul don't you, you basterd? Well you won't take me without a figh…" Clamping his hand over Naruto's mouth, he interrupted the tirade of words, " you're not dead and neither am I" he snapped, " now shut up and let me explain." Still in shock and with a hand covering his mouth, Naruto just nodded as the man began to talk….

"Thirteen years ago," began the Yondaime, "when the Kyuubi attacked, I could have killed it with the 'Dead Demon Consumption Seal', It would have sealed it within myself and summoned the Shinigami to take both of us to the afterlife"

"Then why didn't you?" Naruto broke in angrily , "Why put it in me? Why make my life hell?"

"Because it was being controlled" answered the elder blond shortly. "I noticed during our fight that it's eyes were Sharingan eyes and it was being controlled by a masked man with one visible Sharingan eye. That masked man also killed your mother that night," said the Yondaime softly, " but she lived long enough to help me finish the seals to hold the Kyuubi in you."

"Why would she do that," whispered Naruto softly.

"Help design the seals?" Asked the Yondaime, unable to speak Naruto just nodded, "because even if it was being controlled the Kyuubi is too dangerous to be let loose," he replied, "and because the she was the Kyuubi's previous container," he added softly. "She died from the Fox being ripped from her body." "The Kyuubi has always been held by an Uzumaki, no other clan is strong enough to contain its potent chakra or has the inherent ability to heal themselves from it and restrain it if necessary." Stopping for a second he looked Naruto in the eye, "the Kyuubi has been passed down from the wife of the Shodaime, Mito Uzumaki, the then sister of the Uzumaki clan head, to her brothers granddaughter who was your mother Kushina Uzumaki, to her child, you.

Pausing for a moment to gauge Naruto's reaction to the story so far, he took in Naruto's look of awe at a small portion of his clan history. Carrying on with his tale he took a deep breath and started talking again. "In order to break the Fox from the mans control, your mother and I devised the Eight Trigrams and Four Point seal to trap the Kyuubi and seal it in you, both freeing it from whatever control it was under and taking it away from the man as well was containing it again, all in one swoop! The effort of this put me into a thirteen year coma, so old man Sarutobi took up the mantle of Hokage again. I woke up some three months ago and left on a training trip to get back into shape, after all, the leaf can't have an unfit Hokage can it? He said smiling sheepishly. "And then when I heard your mission was upgraded in rank I came out here to find you," he grinned, straightening up in his seat.

"But what could be so urgent that you have to come all the way out here to see me?" Asked Naruto, tilting his head to one side as he stared questioningly at the Yellow Flash.

"Ah, Well you see, before I collapsed I wasn't sure how the villagers would treat you, nobody knew that Kushina held the Fox, but people would want to know how I defeated it and the Old Man would tell them… So I added an extra protection seal,"

"Didn't do much good" muttered Naruto, not meeting the other mans eyes.

"It mightn't have kept you as safe as I'd have hoped" replied the Yondaime, "but it did its job."

"Oh and what job was that?" jabbed back Naruto indignantly.

"It locked away your gender Naruto," replied the man softly, holding Naruto's gaze. "When you were born, you were the most beautiful baby girl I'd ever seen your mother and I were so proud." Shaking his head as if coming out of a trance, still in shock from the realization that he was female, "why would you be so proud of my birth?" he/she asked quietly, as if fearing the answer, looking away from the Yondaime as she asked the question.

Taking hold of her chin and raising her head, he looked Naruto in the eye and asked "what father wouldn't be proud of the birth of his daughter?" At this Naruto broke down into tears and let her newly revealed father hold her while she cried.

After a time, she settled down and asked "are you going to break the seal now?"

" I am" he nodded "and break the side effects along with it," sensing what his daughter was going to ask he told her " because the seal was rushed it unfortunately disrupted your chakra stunted your growth and locked away your bloodline, it also slowed down your brain speed, so with it off you should be able to have better control catch up on your lost growth easily enough as well as think quicker, learn faster and plan better and be smarter in general, as well as having access to your bloodline.

Lying his daughter flat on the bed he raises her shirt and channels some chakra to make the seal visible, making several hand signs, a strange design wrote itself on his hand and arm and the tips of his fingers lit up with an ethereal purple chakra flame, he pressed his hand into the centre of one of the outside circles of the seal design. The two designs slotted in to one and other like a lock and key as he twisted his hand around the seal the script flowed and moved as it unlocked and disappeared, with a gasp from Naruto and a sudden flash of light the seal was broken and in Naruto's place was a petite red-haired girl with violet eyes and hair down to the small of her back and without Naruto's defining whisker marks.

Just as she was about to drift off to sleep, exhausted from the exertion of the seal unlocking, she yawned out to her father as he was leaving to let her rest, " Wait otou-san, what's my name? It can't be Naruto, that's a boys name."

Just at the door, her father turned and smiled softly at her, " it's Suiren, Uzumaki-Namikaze Suiren.