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Chapter One: Destruction and Death

The Slug Sannin was worried, strike that, she was terrified, if Iwa had done something to Naruto, this display of confidence, was both a slap in the face, and unnervingly telling of the possibility that they could enact a rescue. A month earlier, the insistence that he be allowed to attend the chunnin exams, in the village with the strongest rivalry to the leaf, had seemed an out of place show of faith and support to the Gennin by the council, now she was convinced that it was treason. Regardless of her misgivings however it had been time in the cycles to allow those without teams in the same rank and situation the option of competing for Kage, and Country, Kakashi, was an excellent ninja, Sakura, was moral support, there hadn't even been an issue against sending the entire Rookie Nine, and Guy's Team, as a show of Solidarity, that certain members of the Village Hidden in the Sand had been attending as well had calmed her nerves only slightly, ultimately she had given in only reluctantly, suspicious only that things had been coming together so perfectly, and with Shizune going along for the initial tests, she had even gotten an extra little Sake Vacation. When she had heard back early she had actually been relieved, annoyed, but relieved, until she read the report. Five Jounin, Ten Chunnin, and one loudmouth Genin, had been attacked before they had even reached the border of fire country, by an overwhelming number of Iwa nin from the front, and what from the reports of the Jounin appeared to be two ANBU assassination squads of unknown origin.

The oddest part of the whole fiasco wasn't the betrayal, the attack of what appeared to be most of Iwa's active forces, or even the rear action of the following force. There were no bodies, of all the Leaf nin attacked they didn't kill or capture any but Naruto himself. Putting Tsunade in a delicate position, had they killed the hero Sharingan Kakashi, or taken Sarutobi Asuma, acknowledged son of the Third Hokage, even any of the other young nins of growing fame, the council would have leapt at the chance to start a war, however all members of the party had after being incapacitated been left alone, even going so far as to returning them almost to the village proper, except Naruto. It had been more than one month since he had been captured, and through apparently preemptive outreach to the Daimyo, by the council, even some of the most surprising members they had been successful in preventing 'Unnecessary, expenditures,' in this time of increasingly delicate relationships with their allies. The translation seemed to be, 'Screw the Demon Brat, Good Riddance,' with very few exceptions.

Then came the oddity of the people currently occupying the office of the Godaime Hokage. Two figures, one cloaked in the purest white, she wore her cloak unclasped, around her shoulders, displaying a full head of blond hair, done in a single braid down the center of her back, she wore underneath an outfit of blood red leather, solid save for a design on the stomach, a single crescent moon surrounding a star, on a swirling vortex, in gold. One of the most feared symbols in the ninja world, the sign of the legendary torturers of Iwa, a Twisted Heart. The other figure was obviously a child, no taller than thigh high on the woman, a thin chain extended from her waist to the neck of the figure cloaked in a rich red, the figure was trembling almost unnoticeably, and though obscured obviously staring at the woman's upper back, as though terrified to look anywhere else.

"I would think that while relations between our villages are in such a delicate state you would know better than to come before me in a meeting that you requested, both armed and towing a prisoner, much less a child," Tsunade hissed sarcastically to the Iwa nin with a raised eyebrow.

"Of course, Lady Tsunade," said the woman smoothly, before turning to the child, and removing a short red leather rod from around her neck and placing it around the neck of her companion, before taking their hand, "Go my Pet, stand in the room we passed with the chunnin who is handing out missions for the Hokage, and don't disturb the Hokages people with any, idle prattle, until I've finished talking with Lady Tsunade," a high whimper could be heard from her companion, as they clutched desperately at her arm, her eyebrow raised almost of it's own accord, "Now my Pet," she said harshly, before softening, "Do it for me."

With a bowed head, "Yes Mistress Deanna," her companion was gone.

"Seal your office, so that we might have some privacy for our discussion," the Iwa Jounin said, finishing sheepishly, "Please, Lady Tsunade."

Pulling a small piece of paper from the drawer of her desk the Slug Princess nicked her thumb, and swiped the seal, nodding, "It's done."

"What do you know of Twisted Heart?" Asked the Jounin sitting gracefully in one of the offices visitors chairs

Meanwhile, a childlike figure was standing silently in a room where Umino Iruka, and Miyu Shizune were handling the dispensation of ninja duties, until they decided to discover more about their nervous young visitor Ton Ton had just noticed. "And who might you be?" she asked gently, picking up the pig, and settling a hand on the small shoulder she could see through the cloak, causing a slight whimper as the figure looked down, seeming to shrink into himself, as he trembled, shaking his head, fearing to speak.

"Are your Mommy and Daddy around," Iruka asked gently approaching after he noticed the boys reaction, eliciting only another frantic headshake.

"I'm telling you, we smelled him, he's gotta be around here somewhere!" shouted Inuzuka Kiba from right outside the door.

"And I'm telling you Baka no Dog breathe, if you think it's funny fucking around with me and poor Hinata about Naruto, I'm going to Smash you so flat that Shisui won't be able to identify you, with your Mother's help!" Haruno Sakura was heard to reply.

"P-perhaps, Kibakun is right Sakurachan, we should go to the Hokage with this as soon as we can, maybe he's escaped and come back," Hyuga Hinata intoned ever the voice of reason, as they opened the door, allowing the entirety of the remaining rookies through.

"Hinata-Sama, you must not get your hopes up, without more definite proof, we all know what captured Narutokun, and I'm sure we all remember how many people have ever escaped from their clutches," the deceptively calm voice of Hyuga Negi interrupted gently, with a hand on her shoulder.

"Nonsense, my most unyouthful rival, Narutokuns fires of youth burn with a brightness that is almost unmatched, even by my own, and Guy-Sensei's, Guy Sensei told me himself, if he has not escaped and come back here on his own, then I will go and retrieve him myself, and then take one hundred laps from here to Suna on my hands while yodeling!" Yelled Rock Lee, flashing a nice guy pose, and causing the rest of 'the rookies' to face plant.

"You said he smells like blood, and fear Kiba, psh troublesome, no matter who's right, hopefully he's back, and we won't even have to worry about it anymore," Nara Shikimaru, sighed, not quite covering his genuine concern.

"We unassigned, ninja on administrative leave, due in part to our respective outbursts at the council, who were only and completely understandably acting on behalf of the Daimyo's interests, in a series of actions that though they were started preemptively, and precipitated in the large scale attack of a group of our ninjas by both a force that was assigned from Konoha proper, and our most bitter enemy Iwagakure no Sato, were perfectly legal and justified, and not in the least bit a vicious piece of treason that should result in the immediate slow execution of any and all council members involved, perhaps a piece at a time, by Rasengan, right Jiraya Sama, are returning from our slight vacation to one of the surrounding hot springs of Fire Country," said Hatake Kakashi, both with a straight voice and a raised eyebrow drawing both a kneeling Iruka, and Shizune's attention temporarily away from the small figure, "We have nothing to report."

"You're back awfully early from your, vacation," Iruka said hopefully, "Are you sure there's no news at all?"

"We came back early, because on a sweep through the area between Konohagakure, and Iwagakure, Akamaru and I picked up Naruto's scent heading back here, and-" Kiba reached down to ruffle Akamaru's head only to notice that his companion wasn't there, and was quickly approaching what appeared to be a small child in the corner, "Akamaru, no come back!" He shouted to late as Akamaru leapt at the small figure knocking him down, and his hood back to reveal the bright blonde hair of what appeared to be a younger and uncontrollably panicked Uzumaki Naruto, who was being mercilessly licked by Akamaru.

"Merciless killers, you are ninja who ruthlessly serve the Tsuichikage unto death, no one has ever survived your attention, and you all specialize in torture, and interigation," Tsunade said sardonically, with a raised eyebrow, "Am I close?"

"I'll have to go back farther than I thought, do you know where bloodlines come from?" The Jounin said briskly, receiving only a gesture to go on, "The Family that ruled, or rules my homeland has been ninja for thousands of years, we are tied to them by our loyalty, and have been for many thousands of years, but even more than that, since the great father of their line, we have been tied to our rulers through love, our love of them, and theirs of their people."

"And how exactly was he a 'great father,' if he didn't begin the line?" Tsunade prompted impatiently.

"Let me tell you as we are told, upon the commencement of our training," she said sitting up straight in her chair, "There was a great evil, when the initial bond was created to protect those who were loyal to the ancestors of my lord's great father, however over two millennia they became corrupt until an act of rape, and the escape of his mother with the help of her father led to the raising of the great father as an honorable man, and the most powerful ninja ever seen till that point. He met a woman with a bloodline, that was a powerful weapon amongst women, but completely unstoppable when inherited by men, all males born in her line were killed, and their bloodline was so powerful, that they could not help but destroy any they lay with. Their bloodline was the power to induce love in others, all encompassing love, unquenchable, and unstoppable."

"Love," Tsunade rolled her eyes.

"Anyway," Deanna continued, "The evil father of the great father killed all but one of her line, and had intended to take her bloodline from her, gain a son with unstoppable power. She met his son, who with his mother's father worked together to stop him, many years later when they wished to bear children, they could not kill their son, so he changed her bloodline in their children with the help of the original bond, he did not want to leave his children helpless to the world, but neither did he wish to leave them with the power to subjugate the world on a whim. He made the power a whirlpool within their hearts."

"Nani?"

"I'm not explaining this well, the power to begin with grew in all children, and had to be held back with iron will at all times, and that is why any man they lay with, or woman, they wanted would be lost, the great father made the power dependent upon the state of the user, love for love if you will, but the power leaked…"

"Leaked how?" Tsunade asked, "Assuming I believe you."

"The scions of this new power loved uncontrollably, they cared for people, without reserve, and as they loved so was their love returned, and even in that way they inoculated those they cared for against the ultimate use of their power. There were other balances that had to be made from a power that had to be brought forth from one that must be held back, they developed the ability to change themselves and others, physically, not genjutsu, but physical changes, they could for all intents and purposes make bloodlines among those they cared for, or themselves, but the transformations were complete, and permanent when used on others."

"Nani?"

"For instance, a line of trusted diplomats could be given the sight to stop the lies in a rivals throat, or a spy eyes that will remember all they see, even imbue a line with an unparalleled mastery of the chakras of life, even if they divided their powers so as to believe they were no longer the same." She finished purposely, "Of course my own powers are gained through the bond of love and loyalty to my master's family, as long as they live I can gather expressed chakra used against me, and control all from that ninja, any Twisted Heart can, we volunteer to serve our lord out of love from the time our training begins, and we are taught to break any who would harm our masters."

"If you're so loyal to the Tsuichikage, what is the point of your coming here now?"

"Lady Tsunade, you misunderstand me, Tsuchi no Kuni, is not and never has been the homeland of the Twisted Heart, Uzu no Kuni is," she finished to the reddening face of the Slug Sannin.

"You kidnap my so-," she stops herself, "Naruto, presumably you've tortured him for the last month, all for who his father was against Iwa, and now you come to me with this wild cock and bull story about being from his mother's homeland, well presumably if you still have your 'powers,' you didn't betray your great leader, why are you here?"

"I'm here so you can kill me-"/CRASH/

He wasn't laughing, he looked terrified as he scrambled away from the giant dog, tears coming to his eyes, standing and backing away from the dog, still not daring to speak. "Naruto, Akamaru, are you sure that's Naruto?" Kiba asked disbelievingly, "He sucks at genjutsu, so who's keeping this up?"

"Kai!" tried most everyone without a Byakugan in the room, "It's not a genjutsu, confirmed Neji.

"It's Narutokun's Oiroike no Jutsu," said Hinata blushing a deep maroon, "Sort of."

"Kya, Baka! Release that stupid perverted Jutsu, right now!" Sakura shouted advancing menacingly on the trembling figure, winding back to hit the now cowering, and shaking figure, who just looked pitifully up at her.

"Shintenshin no Jutsu," / "Kage Mane no Jutsu" / "Baika no Jutsu"

"You two got forehead?" Ino said from Sakura's mouth, gaining confirmation, before she left her friends mind, "Good, now Forehead, assuming this is Naruto, who seems absolutely terrified, and is crying, maybe we should try for information before injury, Ja ne?"

"Naruto?" she asked gently approaching the frightened figure, kneeling to do so as her team mates released a chagrinned Sakura, and he backed slowly away, looking more and more terrified, "Naruto kun, we're your friends, remember we're not gonna hurt you, how'd you get back?" Naruto only continued to shake his head not saying anything. "Okay, now here comes the hard way, Shintenshin no Jutsu" Naruto's body screamed and fell to the floor as she entered it, retreating immediately, sobbing to her own body.

Hinata approached slowly, the boy she had so long admired, gently placing her hand on his small arm, "Na-naruto kun, can you tell us anything?" she asked gently, frowning, as he shook his head desperately, and almost crying out at the terrified shudder he gave upon seeing her frown, "Why can't you tell us?" she asked leaning in as closely as she could to hear just the tiniest whisper, "Mistress Deanna told me not to talk to anyone, till she's done with the nice old lady." At everyone's surprise, and no longer being restrained from greeting his old friend, Akamaru doesn't even bother going around the table, instead going through, before knocking down Naruto to again taste his face./CRASH/

Upon entering the mission assignment room the Slug Princess, and the Jounin found a dog as big as a lion holding down a childlike version of Uzumaki Naruto, and making his face quite damp, immediately springing into action Deanna tackled Akamaru, and pulled up Naruto roughly by his cloak, "Are you uninjured after your little game Pet?" she said disapprovingly.

"Yes Mistress Deanna, Thank You Mistress Deanna, I'm sorry I failed you Mistress Deanna," he said in a rush, pleadingly hiding behind her.

"Stick your fingers in your ears and hum, my Pet, it appears I can't trust you alone for even a minute," she said wryly, taking a chair, and pulling the unresisting young man into her lap, "As I was saying, I want you to kill me to free my Master, Uzumaki Naruto, the last remaining scion, of the Uzumaki Clan, and rightful ruler of both Uzu no Kuni, and Tsuchi no Kuni. My Lord and Master, my only love and reason for living, and," she finished sadly, "The man whose very mind, and spirit I've broken over the last month."