Naruto never learned what the love of a family was. He decides that to never feel that way again, and to never let anyone feel the same he would create a better world. Under his own image.

To Free the Bijū

This story is based on the Fanfiction story 'God of Illusion, Wielder of the Devil's Arm' by Thanathos. If you wish to read his story, I recommend it, stop by his page and read it. He has already given me permission as long as I give him his much needed credit. I'm grateful to him for giving me a chance. Well, I by no means am forgetting my other story 'The Jinchūriki of Ten-Tails, but I recently saw the last movie and with another idea I had in my mind I proposed myself to invent this story. (Except for the parts that are Thanatos')

IMPORTANT

This one is something like the ones I've recently read of when Naruto has a brother or sister and they get the chakra while Naruto gets the Kyūbi per se. if you don't like this type of story I'm warning you now so you don't come back with some flames in the reviews. You can flame all you want of other things but this type of story has a darker Naruto, much darker. In fact this isn't a Dark Naruto at all, this is an Evil Naruto. (Dark= still part of Konoha, badass, all-powerful, etc. Evil= Not part of Konoha, doesn't care they die. Will actually be seen grow more powerful and not get a sudden boost. This story might not end with Konoha haven't every victory certain.)

I found out that making someone the bad guy is easier that finding a good personality, both here and real life, so this Naruto will be kind of the counterpart of my other Naruto. What this one is, the other isn't. I'm gonna write them as I please, maybe two chapters of this one, then three of the other one. But I want somebody to co-write this story with me. The other story only needs a proofreader and idea person (Not the same. You give me ideas, I decide which to put) and this one to have a co-writer (we both decide what to put and how the story goes, but like a company's stock market I get 51% of the share and really take your ideas.) if this person at some moment or other decides to leave and take part of their story to make one like this one then they can. Thanks to anyone that starts to read this one and would someone PLEASE REVIEW THIS ONE AND THE OTHER ONE! Thanks

So, onwards with the show.

"Hi" means talking

'Hi' means thinking

Hi means demonic/out worldly voices or thoughts

HI means jutsu

(HI) means jutsu translation

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Finally the flashback is over and they can continue with the show. I sincerely hope that Sasuke doesn't go all: 'I will help the village. I won't betray my friends. Yadda yadda yadda." Because seriously, he's just scare that Naruto will beat him like the pussy he is. You are going to die Sasuke. Get. Over. It. Now go and kiss Orochimaru like gay boy you are. (I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST GAYS)


"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten." -David Ogden Stiers


On the night of October ten a great catastrophe came to the village, unaware and unprepared the village was attacked by the Nine-Tail Fox or Kyūbi. The village had suffered greatly and many where wondering when and where was their righteous leader to help save the all. To no one's notice, the Yondaime was actually helping his wife through her delivery. He would have gone a long time ago, but he still needed to help bring out his son, he had come after their daughter and by the surprise of the Kyūbi being freed and Kushina being weaken he stayed by her side until it was over. Kushina was too far-gone, only her bloodline gave her the strength to keep her alive until help came. If he sealed the Kyūbi unto her, she would die from the strain.

Weeks before the only thing he found out was that it was impossible to kill a bijū. There had been millions of tries, but not a single success. Sealing was possible, and ironically, it was his own specialty, but sealing a bijū got exponentially harder the higher up the hierarchy it was, and the Kyūbi stood at the very top. Then he found something in the forbidden section. It was a ritual that summoned the Shinigami himself, who then ripped the soul out of your enemy, marking you and devouring both your and the enemy's souls. A last-ditch effort. However, what was the point in marking the user if he died along with his victim? Unless... it was a sealing!

Minato delved into his research with new vigor, and after confirming that it was indeed a sealing-ceremony, he started to make adjustments. Since it was a sealing, it should be possible to control where exactly the target was to be sealed. He knew that if he sealed the Kyūbi into an object, it wouldn't take a week and the beast was free once more, being far too strong to be locked in a teapot like the Ichibi. If an animal was used, the Kyūbi would take control before you could say "Oh shit." since no animal had the willpower or mentality required to keep it at bay. The only possibility was a human. Ideally, he would seal it in himself, and then drag them both to hell, but he wasn't sure if the Kyūbi had a trick that would allow it to escape the Shinigami's clutches. Any other adult was out too, seeing that an adult's, even a child's chakra-network was already too solidified to handle the sudden influx of chakra. The only thing that could adapt... was an infant. 'Maybe divide it? It's possible? It follows the same principal, just gotta change the converter and filter. If I could it would be a huge blow for the Kyūbi, but to sacrifice my own two children for this? Not until I'm sure. Besides Kushina would kill me right now if I told her this.'

Now Minato felt a new height of despair. He would not have hesitated for a second to sacrifice his own life, but to drag innocent lives into this? Especially since he knew that only two babies would be born in time for the sealing; his own.

Kushina's water had broken a few minutes ago. . He was going to have a son and a daughter. Moreover, he would have to seal the Kyūbi in them. Even if another mother gave birth early, Minato knew that he couldn't ask anyone to give up their child if he was not willing to give up his.

Kushina held her babies in her arms, smiling at both of them. . Naruto looked just like his father but with her red hair, while Tsunami was her spitting image, ironically with his blond hair. They were crying, and honestly, she couldn't blame them, as she could feel the Kyūbi's chakra, the beast most likely approaching the gates at this moment. "Shh, it's okay. Don't worry, daddy will find a way to save the day, that's what your daddy does best. Tsunami, Naruto, it'll be fine."

Speak of the devil; there he came, with an expression appropriate for a funeral. This did not look good.

Minato looked at his wife, knowing this would be the last time he'd ever see her. He forced himself to smile. "Hello Kushina, how are you doing? Are the children alright?"

Kushina gave him a weak smile. "Tsunami and Naruto are just fine, and according to Biwako, I'm out of the woods. What about you? Did you find something?"

Minato nodded. "A few weeks ago I researched, and found out that while it's impossible to destroy the Kyūbi, I can seal it away. I know the jutsu and I've already designed the array."

Kushina smiled, relieved. "That's wonderful darling. Why do you look so down?"

Minato wished he could keep quiet, but he knew that would not only betraying Kushina, but that it simply wouldn't work. Still, how do you tell your wife that you will die sealing a monster into her children? "Well..."

Biwako looked at him. "There's a catch, isn't there?"

She had always been sharp, and as a medic, reading people was child's play. "Yes. There are two."

Kushina looked at him. "What are they?"

Minato gulped. "For the sealing to work, I... I need to sacrifice my life."

Kushina's eyes widened. "No." She whispered. "Tell me it's not true."

Minato glanced at her. "I can't. To seal the Kyūbi, I need to summon the Shinigami."

Kushina sobbed. "It's not fair! After all we've been through, after all we've lost, after the war, now that we finally came this far, it just ends like this? Now that we finally have children, they will never know their father? It's just not fair!"

Biwako looked at him, her eyes sympathizing, yet sharp. "Was that the other catch?"

Minato couldn't look her or Kushina in the eyes. "No." He finally whispered, his voice sounding as if he had fought down a sob.

Kushina was not really paying attention. After this news, what could be worse? Biwako asked. "What is?"

Minato stared at the floor, his voice trembling. "The only thing that can hold, that could hope to keep the Kyūbi at bay, is..." He paused, having to gather all his strength not to break down in tears "...is an infant."

Kushina stared at him, wide-eyed. Then she pulled her children closer to her chest. "No." she stated, her panicked voice steadily increasing in volume. "No, you can't. Not them. NO! I WON'T LET YOU! NOT OUR CHILDREN! NO! I WON'T LET THEM THE SAME LIFE AS ME!"

Minato slammed his fist into the wall, tears now running down his face as well. "DO YOU THINK I WANT TO DO THIS?!" He shouted, before taking a deep breath. "Kushina, I've looked through every possible source. I've searched everywhere. If I seal the fox in an object, the object will break! If I seal it in an animal, the fox will take over! If I try to take it down with me, it may escape me, as it and I would have no time for our souls to connect, so I'd have no hold! And nobody with set chakra-coils could possibly survive the sealing! I arranged it so the chakra and soul dived! There is nobody else Kushina!" He grew quiet, small sobs escaping his lips. "There is nobody else."

Biwako hesitantly patted his back. This once again showed her that the title of Hokage was more of a burden and a curse than anything else just like for her husband. Here stood a man, a loving husband, and fresh father, who had to not only sacrifice his life in his best years, but also damn his own child to house a demon. The job sucked, and that was it.

After a few minutes of pleading, Minato left the room with the twins and a broken heart. He knew that he had to do it, but that didn't make him feel any better about it. If anything, it made him feel worse.


Minato stood on Gamabunta's head, staring at the fox that destroyed his and his family's happiness. He sighed. "You ready Gamabunta?"

The large toad snorted humorlessly. "Nobody is ever ready to face that one, but I'll buy you as much time as I can."

"Thanks. Tell Jiraiya to get you a large bottle of sake, my treat." Minato stated.

The toad nodded. "Well then, LET'S GO!"

With that, the toad charged towards the possibly most dangerous beast on the planet, using his sword to deflect a tail. His entire tactic was based on 'hop around, slash it when you see an opening, don't get hit'. So far, it was working. He was just finishing the seal on his son when the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen appeared on his side.

"Minato, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to seal it! I found out a technique that can summon the Shinigami and by sacrificing my life I will seal it into my twins." His breath strained as he tried to design the seals as fast as possible."

"What!? Don't do this Minato; you are a father you can't just leave them so soon. What about Kushina?

"She knows already! There's nothing else I can do…" He had finished the seal, just a few more seconds.

"Let me do it!" he said hurriedly.

"What?"

"I'm old, Minato. I won't be alive for much longer, let me do this, for all the sacrifices, for the village and for your family."

Minato stared in shock at him. "What about Biwako?"

"She will understand. It will be regretful that we will not be together in the afterlife, but she knows that I love the village as much as I love her. She'll understand."

"Minato mulled over it for a few seconds, before slowly nodding his head. "All right, here are the signs."

Sarutobi flashed through the last hand signs as Gamabunta took a hit, not enough to dispel him, but it would leave a scar over his eye. "Hurry! I can't keep it busy much longer!" The toad called.

Seconds later, Sarutobi had already finished and the Shinigami was floating behind him. He looked at the fox and calmly spoke the words that would end his life. "Shiki Fuin!"

He felt like his chest was encased in ice as the Shinigami's arm shot out of his stomach, grabbing the Kyūbi, desperately struggling while Gamabunta kept it from escaping before disappearing with a poof, and somehow transforming it into red mist and a red liquid that it placed in Tsunami and Naruto's stomach respectably . The seal Minato had inscribed glowed, before fading away. It was over.

The moment when it all finished the Sandaime Hokage left this world.

Returning to his abode, he found the medic-nin healing his wife and telling him she would live. He told his wife and Biwako of what happened and although she was scared to leave her son with just the soul, she trusted her husband to protect him as well as all of his family. Biwako had excused herself, no doubt going to mourn her husband.

Not long after the Yondaime Hokage appeared on balcony of the Hokage tower addressing all, both civilians and Shinobi. Kushina was in a wheelchair, cradling both her children. Tsunami bore three whiskers on her face, no doubt because of the Kyūbi's chakra, while Naruto's hair had surprisingly grown a bit, and his ears looking foxlike.

"Tonight, we have suffered greatly. Our forces have diminished with such an attack and those that we have sworn to protect have lost many members." He looked down towards his people, every one of them with their spirits almost broken; he had to do something so that they would thrive once again. "The Kyūbi's attack might have hurt us, it might tell others that we have become weak and ripe for the taken" some actually looked back fearfully at him "but we all know that is not true. We are the great village of Konoha, are we not?" some were beginning to hear his speech, a light coming back to their eyes "We have thrived over many adversaries and always come on top. We have born and breed the strongest Shinobi and the gentlest civilians in the Elemental Nations. We have come on top in every which way: economy, military, culture and much more and we will come back stronger!" by this many had their heads held high and tears of pride falling in the ground. They had already put their fallen comrades on the pedestal, their sacrifice not in vain, now they wanted to surpass this. To make them proud for all that they protected. "We will show the other villages that we are not weak, that they will not push us around and that with this we will come back stronger!" Many were sporting smiles on their faces, cheering him on, praising his strong sense of duty. "Earlier today, one of the many sacrifices of this attack, the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen fell in the line of battle, but he didn't fall for the Kyūbi's attack, no he fell to seal the Kyūbi." Once again, the crowd had fallen into an eerie silence, some looking confused and others sad at the news. "I will tell you the truth. The Kyūbi is a mass of chakra, it can be killed, but it will not die. It would be reborn again sometime later, that is why instead of killing it with his help and sacrifice I made a seal, to which most of you know I'm very experienced with, and using his abilities we sealed the Kyūbi."

The masses were happy to learn that the monster was gone. There happy persona trusting undyingly at their Hokage to keep it at bay. "Were was it sealed? Shouldn't we destroy it this way?"

The Hokage shook his head. "No, if it was done that way it may come back and in fit of anger attack us again." The crowd looked fearfully at him "That is why… I have sealed it into my newborn twins"

Many gasped at this. Most were at him in disbelief. 'The Hokage had children? The Hokage sacrificed his own twins?' the thought running in their voices and minds. "I couldn't dare to ask any other person to do so with their children when I couldn't with mine. Therefore, with the Sandaime's help I have sealed its chakra into my first-born daughter and the Kyūbi himself into my son. This way the Kyūbi is not a danger to us all and we gain a valuable ally in my daughter's strength. With her properly trained she will be a force to be reckon and show those other villages the WILL OF FIRE CONTINUES!"

Many were silent as they digested the information. The daughter of the Yondaime would be somebody to protect her village from any threat. Somewhere in the crowd a few started to clap and that put in swing an effect as every person, man or child, woman or daughter, and all Shinobi and civilians alike started cheering and chanting 'Yondaime! Yondaime!' when the crowd slowed their chanting somewhere in the crowd a person asked. "What are their names?"

Minato smiled at this. "Their names are my first-born Tsunami and my second son Naruto."

The crowd started once again chanting their names 'Tsunami! Naruto!' slowly but surely more villagers chanting more and more Tsunami's name until the only one heard was here name.

Minato felt wonderful. His family was complete, he was alive, and his twins were seen as the heroes that they were. For a moment, he had been worried that they would be unable to tell the difference between the jailer and the prisoner. He should never have doubted his people. Moreover, even though revealing both his marriage and status as a parent may be slightly risky, Minato was not worried.

He had stared both Kyūbi and the Shinigami himself in the face and had somehow managed to make it out. What human did he have to fear? Iwa and Kumo would be too worried that if they attacked the children, their parents would retaliate and bring repeats of the humiliating defeats the war had brought them and their countries. In fact, it was more likely that new alliances would sprout like mushrooms. He would have to deflect the proposals to his children, but somehow, that didn't really seem all that threatening compared to what he had been through. No, the future of his family was very bright.

It's fascinating how a man can at the same time be so right and yet so wrong. This is the moment where the Domino effect started and the repercussions to Konoha in years later came to.


Kushina looked at the two babies that were peacefully sleeping, finally. They were incredibly tiring, as much as she loved those two, her husband was currently busy organizing the rebuilding of Konoha, and so looking after the kids fell completely to her.

She was thanking god that at least Naruto was a quiet child who only cried when he really needed something, as Tsunami was a bundle of energy that couldn't be let unsupervised for even a single second. She permanently crawled around, never remaining in the same spot, and she cried more often in ten minutes than Naruto did in a normal week. Kushina suspected the Kyūbi's chakra was at least partially responsible for the exhausting amounts of energy Tsunami possessed.

Still, her life was going well. She had survived giving birth, her husband had survived something nobody was supposed to survive, and their children were healthy. What more could a mother ask for? Well, maybe that he children got along a little better. They were eight months old, and seemed to get along fairly well, although Tsunami was clearly the more dominant one of the two, except for the odd night.


Naruto was just over 4 years old when he first understood that there was a difference between him and his sister. Of course, there were differences, he was a boy and she was a girl, they had different likes and dislikes, liked to play with different toys, stuff like that. Nevertheless, while Tsunami had never been sick a day in her life, his health was as normal as one of Uzumaki blood, with the occasional cough. Their father had of course explained that Tsunami had the mighty Kyūbi's chakra sealed inside of her, and that it gave her increased healing and better health, while Naruto had its soul inside him. That made it even more puzzling for Naruto for why would Tsunami screamed as if tortured whenever she scraped her knee. Naruto usually tried not to cry when it happened to him, and just went to his parents, most of the time mommy, something she seemed happy about, since she always called him a 'big boy'.

Walking down the street a sight for many was shown. The Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze along his wife Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze and their twins Tsunami and Naruto were seen. The children were walking side by side, proof of their unity for one and another, the girl animatedly talking with her parents of her days play while the boy waited patiently for her to finish. Except for his red hair that contrasted her blond one, both could be said to be the reincarnation of their parents, him calm and collected, always respectful, her brash and bubbly as well as high-spirited. Her attitude sometimes causing her problems that otherwise her brother would resolve and take care of her for, and being fraternal twins both were of almost the same height, with her toppling by one and a half inches.

"And then, and then we raced all the way around the shore of the lake but only I came first! Nii-san came second as always and everybody else behind. I was the only one that wasn't tired and could keep running!" such were the collective stories the girl would tell, never having a clue that her parents had obviously taken to use shadow clones to guard them and knew of said adventures.

"That's very good Tsunami, I'm very proud of you! Just for that you get a treat for that, how about some ramen for dinner today?"

"Yes mom!"

Only now, that they had left the compound together as a family for the first time did Naruto really understand that there was a large difference between him and his sister. Now that Naruto thought about it, as long as he could remember, he and Tsunami had never been out of the compound at the same time, so when he had been outside before, people had smiled at him, and he had thought they'd do the same for his sister, and he was right. What he didn't expect was that they completely overlooked him while his sister was there.

Nobody seemed to notice he existed anymore, as everyone rushed to get a look at his sister. Naruto didn't really mind not been gawked at by strangers, and actually had a bit of pity for his sister that was caught in the center of this human maelstrom, until someone, in his hurry to get a look at 'the Savior of Konoha' ran into him, actually sending him flying with a surprised shout. The muddy ground prevented any serious injuries, but his formerly orange yukata now had large patches of brown. He sniffed. He had liked that yukata.

Minato noticed that the tug on his leg had vanished, and looked down, only to find that Naruto was not there, but a good four feet away, rubbing his head while unhappily looking at his ruined yukata. He saw the man that had run him down, his Shinobi instincts having ensured that he recalled the face of a man who had rushed by him a little too close. He spotted said civilian merchant, elbowing his way through the crowd, and pulled him back by the collar.

"Hey, what's the big...? Oh, Hokage-sama, what can I do for you?" The merchant's face had turned ashen when he realized he'd shouted at the leader of his village.

Minato was annoyed. "Well for one thing, you can apologize for knocking my son into the dirt and pay for the cleaning of his yukata."

The merchant's eyes darted around until he saw Naruto, covered in dirt. Lord in heaven, he had ran the son of the Yondaime over! He wouldn't be able to sell a thing for the next week! "I'm sorry; I was elsewhere with my thoughts. Of course I will take responsibility for this, the cleaning is on me. If there is anything else I can do..."

Minato gave him a cold look, and the merchant shrank away. "You will get the bill in the next days. And that was an expensive yukata, if the stains don't go out, you're replacing it."

Of course, the talk between the Hokage and the merchant had attracted attention, and Kushina and Tsunami now noticed Naruto was still sitting in the dirt. Tsunami blinked, pointed at her brother, and laughed. It wasn't any bad intention, he just looked so funny.

Naruto stared at his sister, then at his own clothing, and even though he didn't think it was that funny, he had to laugh too. Kushina shook her head, shooed her children back to the compound to be changed while Minato headed to a bakery to get something sweet that his family could eat together, to cheer up his son after that unfortunate event.


A few months later, the family sat together at dinner. Kushina cooked the family's favorite meal, ramen. Tsunami gobbled down the ramen faster than one could blink, while Minato and Kushina, while eating more civilized, were only slightly slower in their decimation of the meal. Only Naruto ate slower, savoring each bite before swallowing it. That was also the reason he had just finished his first bowl, while all others were at least on bowl four.

"Mom, can I please have a..." Naruto started, only to be interrupted by Tsunami.

"MOM, REFILL!" She shouted happily.

Kushina sighed. "Young lady, how many times do I have to tell you not to shout?" Still, she took the pot and poured more into Tsunami's bowl, before looking into the pot with a frown on her face. "Well, that was the last of it."

Naruto blinked. It wasn't fair! He loved ramen just as much as anybody else in his family did! Tsunami was eating her undeserved ninth filling, he had just finished his first, and she got the last bowl?! Whenever Naruto interrupted somebody, his mother told him that that was rude, why was it okay for his sister?

Naruto calmed himself. It was to be expected. Naruto was unusually smart for his age, and he had already noticed that his parents seemed to love Tsunami a little more than they loved him. He wasn't beaten or hated; it was just subtle things that gave it away. They just always cared a little more for Tsunami than for him. He knew that parents sometimes had favorites amongst their children, and that Tsunami was important because she carried the Kyūbi's chakra, but couldn't at least one of his parents love him more?

Minato normally tired and damming all that was paperwork found this moments endearing for his family and himself. He began notice that his daughter was beginning to grow at an exceptional rate and soon he would induce her into the training for her to become a ninja. His son Naruto came behind her, he was good in his own right, calculative, and analytical; if it wasn't because he also had Tsunami he would have thought he was really a Nara. But he wished to wait until he came unto a certain point so that the training would truly commence.

"Kushina, I think it's time." She looked at him, wondering what he was thinking before it clicked in her mind.

"Really? You think so? I don't know…" by this both twins were confused at their expressions and wanted to know what was wrong

"What do you mean father?" Naruto the always courteous one asked

"I believe that in a few weeks we can start your ninja training."

Both twins widened their eyes at hearing this. "Really! Oh thank you daddy! Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is awesome! The others are also starting their training and I was gonna go crazy if you didn't say so soon." Her voice carrying over a few decimals but holding the usual joy that she was.

"Yep, your mother and I will take turns showing you what are the ways of our clans and little by little you'll grow up stronger and stronger until you surpassed your mother and me." Maybe it was the day's work for his father, maybe he was just tired, maybe his mother just wasn't listening well in to the conversation, but Naruto could see it. The moment his father finished talking, those words weren't directed at both of them. No, those words were directed at Tsunami. He would have thought that it was just fluke, that his father would at any second remember his son and look at him and smile that smile that said he wasn't forgotten, but… it never came. He just looked at his father the whole time they ate expecting those simple words to be told right back at him, but once again, they didn't come.

Kushina looked at him. "What were you saying, Naruto?"

Naruto blinked. "Nothing." He stood up, pushed his chair in, placed his bowl in the sink, and left.

Kushina looked at Minato, who gave her a helpless shrug. Tsunami was busy with her bowl, ignorant to the rest of the world.


Naruto opened his eyes, and immediately felt miserable. The glance down was just a formality for him to know that Tsunami had sneaked into his bed during the storm last night. Therefore, he probably had a few hours before it got bad.

Then he noticed the door to his room was open, and his parents were looking at them, doubtlessly finding it incredibly cute.

Fortunately Tsunami woke up, saw her parents, and rushed out of the room. Naruto looked at his mother. "Mom, can't you tell her to stop it?"

His mother blinked. "Why? It's cute, and I like seeing that my children care for each other this much. Most children climb into their parents' bed when they're scared, not their brother's. I'm almost jealous. "

Naruto grimaced. "You shouldn't be mom, it hurts. Every time she sleeps here, I wake up feeling awful."

Kushina frowned. He always said that, and there was nothing wrong with him. She had even gone to a doctor the first times he claimed it hurt, and the man had told her that nothing was wrong, aside from a cold. "You know, I can understand that you think it makes you look less manly sleeping with your sister, but that's no reason to make up stories. As punishment for telling lies, you'll weed the garden." She knew it wasn't that much of a punishment, as Naruto enjoyed working in the garden.

Naruto opened his mouth in protest. "But mom..."

Kushina stopped him before he could say more. "Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, I suggest you be quiet before you make your punishment worse than it has to be."

Naruto closed his mouth, got dressed and marched towards the garden, past a smug-looking Tsunami.

The storm had not completely passed, and Naruto spent the first quarter of his time in the garden soaking in icy-cold drizzle, determined to finish the task, no matter how unfair it was to be punished for telling the truth.

He spent the next days in bed with a high fever.


It was Naruto's and Tsunami's fifth birthday. Normally they visited all the different clans that day, spending time and getting presents with each one before moving on, taking the children and those adults who wanted with them until they finally reached the festival that was held annually to celebrate the defeat of Kyūbi. At midnight, they launched fireworks that lasted over an hour, with all children excused from school the next day so that they could watch them. But because Naruto had just recovered from a heavy fever, Kushina and Minato decided that it might be better if they asked the guests to come to their house instead, so that Naruto would only travel to the festival and back, to not completely exhaust him.

Naruto smiled happily, as he took congratulations from all sides, and even got to cut the cake. He gave his sister an extra-large piece with three strawberries on top, as it was her favorite kind of cake, although the congratulating masses didn't leave any time for the twins to actually exchange words.

Naruto opened his pile of presents, being happy for each one and not at all jealous of his sister. He knew that his sister would get more presents than he would, as everyone in the village seemed to want to send her a present. He was happy with what he got. From his father a blunt set of kunai and shuriken next to a big bag of sweets, while his mother gave him a shiny wooden sword for training, as they would start with Shinobi-training after their birthday, which really was the biggest present he could ask for, well, aside from the free-meal-coupon Ichiraku's ramen had sent him. Tsunami got the same gifts, plus a few more, and was loudly cheering in happiness.

After the gifting and the meal, it was decided that Minato would activate the security-seals to keep uninvited guests out and over-enthusiastic kids in, before the two age groups separated. The adults stayed in the house, talking boring grown-up talks, while the children went to play in the yard and training-grounds, after they had made sure there were no forgotten pointy things lying around. It was a warm, sunny day, so the children were very happy to oblige.

Naruto had lost himself in a book he was given as a present, so he was surprised that when he looked up no one his age was near him. He left the sanctuary of the chair he sat in and made his way to the backyard where he heard voices. He was surprised at the position of the Sun; it seemed a few hours had passed. When he looked back towards the ground a little piece of him fell apart. In the backyard, he watched his sister and all of their friends training and playing around. He was forgotten once again. None looked at him when he came closer, none even registered his presence. All were around his sister, playing, making fun of each other and the girls even gossiping about Kami-knows-what.

Nevertheless, Naruto didn't notice, he didn't care for that. He wanted to know why they hadn't told him about this. Sure, he sometimes enjoyed more to read a book than play, but many were shy, the Hyūga princess and Aburame heir where among the ones. Why wasn't he told?

He put the thought s aside, confident to join the playing, to join his friends and maybe get answers. "H-Hey guys, how's it going?" they seemed to not hear him. Therefore, he tried once again, louder this time. "Guys?! Tsunami?! Are you listening to me?" once more they were on their on world. He got fed up and yelled. "Tsunami!" That got them to stop. Tsunami looked back to him, a small smile appearing on her face, yet it was somehow different from always. It seemed wrong.

"Naruto, where've you been?"

"I was reading some stuff in a book I was given."

"Jeez, little whirlpool your always such a bookworm, can't you do anything else than study?" Some of them snickered at the nickname.

He scowled at that, she usually did it in private, her little joke. "It was about Genjutsu, I found it interesting."

"Why?"

"It doesn't matter, anyways what's everyone doing? You didn't tell me our friends were back here. No one said so." A few had the decency to look sheepish

"Oh, come on, little whirlpool, it's not their fault. Dad arranged it."

"And what about me?"

"I don't know. Same as always, he thought I should be first" Naruto scowled at the jab. "You know I'm more social than you, he just didn't want to wait and wished to get me something to occupy my time, until you got your sorry butt in gear." A few chuckled at that he sent a glare that shut them up, but Tsunami didn't notice.

"The only reason you are more social than me is because you barely practice your katas before dad starts training us next month and go hang around with them. And you can't say that you are better than me at training because if I remember correctly I'm better than you in Kenjutsu katas." The jab felt like a punch to her. She didn't like it when he brought that up. It was one of the few things he really was better than she was. Their mother started teaching them a few weeks ago and when Tsunami found that her brother was better than her and her without progress she demanded to train katas in another thing and her mother complied, much to the shock of Naruto, who always believed his mother was on his side. They didn't touch the bamboo swords again for some time.

Tsunami suddenly clapped her hands, pulling the attention to her. "I just wanted to say something. Thanks for coming!" The children cheered and smiled at her, but Tsunami wasn't done. "Wait, wait. The second thing is, because Naru-nii said something mean about me, I'm not going to play with anyone who plays with him!"

She didn't like it that he was making her look bad in front of their friends so she wanted to get revenge, no matter how hypocritical she was being as she had done the same not long ago. She turned towards their friends and clapped her hands. "Did everyone hear him? Little whirlpool is being a stuck-up and bullying me, we are twins and he's being mean so anyone that thinks he speaks the truth I'm not gonna play with them anymore, they can all be friends with my brother the bully."

Naruto looked in shock at his sister. Never once had he done something so out of place as bullying her, sure he said things to shut her up when she commented about him, but never bully. He looked around many had faces like a deer caught in headlights. Looking back and forth, it didn't seem like much of a contested, with the way she phrased it, anyone that took his side would be by association a bully and besides she was the more outgoing one of was no competition which one they wanted to spend more time with. The crowd started walking in her direction, no more than two or three looked behind them to send an apology, although the general opinion was that Naruto deserved what he got if he was being mean, leaving Naruto standing alone, gaping like a fish. He could not believe his sister had just done that. He knew she wasn't happy that he said that her crawling into his bed hurt him, but it was true!

Naruto looked more shocked that they listened to her. Never once giving him the doubt of being like that, at that moment their father came back outside sorting the refreshments and some chips for them on the table. He didn't look back at Naruto; he just continued to look forward, focused on how the kids kept playing without a care in the world, all but one. Because he was forgotten.

The next two or three hours, Naruto made multiple attempts to play with the other kids, but they sent him away. He tried to talk to Tsunami, but his sister ignored him completely. Eventually, Naruto just gave up, sitting alone in front of the small, shallow pond on the grounds, flipping rocks over its surface.

When the parents came to take their kids to the festival, Naruto said he was tired and didn't want to go. His parents assumed that it was because of his fever and allowed him to go to bed, leaving him some medicine and tea he later poured down the drain, while the rest of the children headed off to the festival, Tsunami being the only one who felt a slight twinge of guilt from her brother's absence, before the festival washed those thoughts away.

She spent the evening at different stalls playing games and winning toys with her friends, falling asleep at the end of the fireworks and being carried home. Naruto had long since cried himself to sleep at that point.


Weeks later as promised by their father and mother a training set was shown for inducing them into Shinobi life. He hoped it was for both of them; lately his father had more time for his sister than him. Sure, it was little things at first, like speaking or asking her something and forgetting to integrate Naruto into the conversation, but Naruto being Naruto, just took it in stride and simply read books, he had on his person. Then came when his father only made barely enough food for four, with Tsunami having the Kyūbi's chakra she needed more energy to keep up with the process of transforming the chakra into hers. She hadn't notice, neither did his mother, but he did. Then on the days when their parents were picking them up from a friend's house, they would barely wait for him, once again, he took it in stride. They hadn't forgotten him, just that they walked faster that he did. That was what he told himself, nothing farther than the truth.

Today would be the day they would be inducted formally into their training regimen. Tsunami was jumping up and down barely containing her glee. She was sure that she would make them proud, nothing but the best for her parents. Their parents then ask Tsunami to step out to the backyard. A simple terrace made in white marble. The door opened to a corner of said terrace, four feet away from the door a diamond-shape pool with three feet deep on the shallow part and almost six on the deeper side were the south edge of the diamond ended. At the right end from their side, a few toys and chair were placed to accommodate their needs and friends whenever they came. On the left side, a small passage came to a large rectangular table made out redwood where their parents were waiting for them on the benches on either side while on the shorter side simple reclining chairs waited.

"Good you're here. I was beginning to think you didn't want the training." Their father said with a hidden smirk.

"No way daddy, I've been waiting for this since you promised me. I'm doing this, not even little whirlpool would stop me." A small tick appeared on Naruto's forehead. Jeez, just because she was born first didn't mean he was anything worse or smaller than her. Ok maybe she was taller than her, but he got the intelligent side of the deal, if anything went by as example of their lives.

"Tsunami, unless the next time you get stuck on a 30 foot tree and no way out you wish to stay there, shut it or a won't help you."

"Waa, daddy did you hear that? He said he wouldn't help me for anything!"

A small frown made its way into the Hokage's face. "Naruto" that voice was stern, never had Naruto heard his father use it against him. "How can you say something like that? Apologize to Tsunami this instant, how can it be that a brother wouldn't help his own sister."

'What?! How the heck did it come to this?' She had made fun of him and like always he responded with a witty retort. It was a first, but it wasn't shocking to the young blond. For some reason he couldn't hope but to believe it would be just like that for some more time.

"I'm sorry?" From the corner of his eye, he saw Tsunami smirk at his predicament and looking at his mother he could see that she wasn't even listening to their conversation.

"Good. Now here I have the training list for you to do. While I'm working on the tower and your mother is here, she will teach you everything she knows about chakra, its components, how to mold it, how to control it, and how many different types of chakra there are. By her side thanks to a bloodline their seems to be certain aspects that differ from other clans and people, she will explain and show you guys and maybe verify if any one of you has these abilities. When I'm here I will show you how to use chakra, the training parts and using it for jutsu. We will start on also exercising your bodies. By the time you reach the Academy you'll be better than any of your classmates!" Once again, Naruto noticed it. His father wasn't looking at them, he was looking at her. Tsunami, the same as always horded all the attention, she didn't care and it seem to make her ego bigger than it was.

"Oh, and what about mom's sword style? I wanna train in it like her."

His father chuckled. "If your mother finds you worthy and good at it, and wants to I don't see why not. That's all up to her." All eyes turning to her, she made an annoyed look at him she knew her daughter was not ready for the style, she may never be.

"We'll see. First all off this, then Kenjutsu." She said.

"Yes! Now come on I want to start!"

"Hai, hai." Being pulled by his daughter they made their way further into the backyard were their training field was. Kushina followed, she also barely gave him a glance.


Naruto was pissed. Sure anybody that looked once at him wouldn't notice, he had a poker face that would rival an ANBU mask, set in stone. In his eyes it was another story, they looked pissed, annoyed and angry. He was sure that another second of that and he would have lashed out at anybody within 5 feet. The reason: he was forgotten in any sense of the word, however you wanted to express, the truth was, no matter how you put it, he was forgotten. His 'father' as he would call him in his presence had once again started training his sister before he had return to his home. His mother had to take a deep undercover mission that would last a few months, depending on any hassle. They were now six years old. His stature was now on par with his sister but he was sure that she would surpass him once again she hit puberty. However, that didn't matter to him, he would catch up. It was the fact that thanks to 'her' he couldn't do anything he usually did. His father had taken to sending a shadow clone to the tower, while he was with them, and personally train Tsunami in her glorious and spectacular way. Once again, it didn't faze him much; she really needed the help with Ninjutsu because of her huge chakra pool. It almost rivaled her fathers, but with the little control she had she constantly over saturated her jutsu. When they first did the Tree Climbing Exercise, she had fallen on almost every part of her body, repeatedly whining that it wasn't working, while Naruto did it in less than twenty tries thanks to his smaller pool. She had been furious, saying he was cheating and once she had it down, she asked to move to another thing without practicing. Their father complied but Naruto declined, he wanted to perfect it.

Once he finished doing so for one whole hour, he then started using the katas his mother showed them for another hour, and then he did the same with leaves on his face and neck. Afterwards he did the same spinning them and moving them up and down his body.

When he was satisfied he move on towards Water Surface Walking Practice, his sister had done fairly better in this one since she had bundles of chakra, and yet he did it faster than her, which irked her to no end. Their father to please her started training her in a few simple E-rank jutsu: the Body Replacement Jutsu and the Transformation Jutsu, the Clone Jutsu was out of her reach with such crappy control and once again, she wailed and whined until her father promised to train her in the Shadow Clone Jutsu. Naruto, kept it inside, not wanting to express his thought on the matter, experience had shown that doing so would have a reprimand on his father's part. Once more, he did the same on the Water Surface Walking Practice as he did on the Tree Climbing Exercise and even found that it seems easier than anything else, perhaps he had a Water-affinity, because he was pretty sure that no matter what, his feet should get wet when he walked on the water, yet when he reached the shore they were as dry as sand. He had decided to keep quiet about it, no doubt another thing his sister would complain about, and he did not want the attention on him.

Now, what irked him, was that he had gone to the Library, looking up on Genjutsu practice, sure he was only six years old, but his mind and imagination had so many ideas. So many ways to incorporate them into Genjutsu that he wished to experiment on, when he wanted to leave the librarian had actually the galls to stop and him and call him a thief, he had told her that he wasn't and that he just wanted info on Genjutsu, she snorted at that saying children wouldn't comprehend such material. He retorted saying he was smarter than he let on. When she said she would call the police he told her that he was the Hokage's son. She laughed, laughed, at him calling him a liar and saying that only Lady Tsunami was born and she hadn't heard of any boy being the Hokage's son. He started yelling, losing his cool, something he had never done in his life, and was thrown out of the library.

That was the boiling point. He had a plan to break into the library at night and thanks to knowing the Shinobi schedule for their patrolling, he had it all planned out. So when he arrived at his home he felt a piece of him fall apart, watching his 'father' and his sister practicing her Shadow Clone Jutsu. She seemed to have a better grasp in control as she barely summoned a hundred. He talked to her for a few minutes; Naruto barely heard what he was saying before he saw it. The Rasengan. Naruto wasn't stupid, he knew what this meant. His father was going to teach her one of his most precious Jutsu! HE DIDN'T CARE NARUTO WASN'T THERE! He left, he couldn't see this. He would throw himself into planning the heist. Carefully observe the patrol, to watch if any shifted or if an individual did something out of the norm.

This was the first shift that happened in his unfair life. The one of many dominoes that would come tumbling down. Possibly one of the most influential, one that at a deep glance you could see how his irises shifted elongating, turning from black to red while the rest of his eyes kept blue. They may have noticed his ears looking more refined and the low, almost imperceptible growl that escape from his throat.

The Kyūbi was awakening.