Welcome to the second Naruto/Nanoha fanfic that I currently know of. This is my first official fic, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Nantoka and Naruto both belong to their respective owners, and this is just a sad tribute to their work. Except you, Kishimoto, damn you really let yourself go.


Looking up, the man sighed. He stood atop the Hokage's tower, perched on a pillar, looking over his village.

His village. Konohagakure has been here for a relatively short time, and yet it grew incredibly quickly. In every direction barring the monument, he could see stores, houses, and small parks for kilometers. It was easily one of the largest of the 'hidden' villages. From here, the main walls of the village looked like long, small sticks in the distance. And yet, something towered over those.

Something that he could feel from even here.

A gigantic, nine-tailed fox loomed over the village like a well-used guillotine, awaiting it's next victim. The air was positively thick with killing intent.

The man frowned. There was something completely wrong with that picture.

Konohagakure was indeed a very young hidden village, for a very good reason. The Kitsune of Nine Tails was the land of fire's protector, and had allowed no humans into it's lush forests. Not until the First Hokage and his brother, who would become the Second Hokage, came to it in hopes of starting a new village.

Apparently, they had obviously gained the Kitsune's trust and were allowed to build their village here. And for years, under it's watchful yet hidden eye, the village grew.

He remembered when he met the Kyuubi to become the Fourth Hokage. It was a deeply hidden secret that, in order to become the Hokage, you had to have the Kyuubi's approval. Chuckling in remembrance, he remembered almost passing out in fright when he saw the huge, noble creature.

He frowned again, that which was simply walking over Konoha's walls, leaving death and destruction in her wake, was not what he met.

He looked up at the red-tainted night sky. He slowly broke an old promise to never cry, as he held an infant in his arms. He would have to do this, to someone he found a friend. He would have to do this, to his son.

He wiped his eyes with his free hand. Looking back up, he resolved himself to his task.

"Less stars, again tonight."

"Hmm, gaki, even now you say such silly things..."

"Heh, ero-sennin, even after so long, you never believed me?"

"Who would believe such a ridiculous thing?"

"Maa, I guess that is true... however, be sure to give him my journals, would you?"

The man next to him grinned, his large mane of white hair shifting ever so slightly. "Sure. I'll miss you brat.."

"Same here, ero-sennin."

Both men disappeared soundlessly in a whirl of leaves.

And The land of fire would never be the same again.


7 years later

A young, blond boy looked up at the sky. He shivered in the late October night, his breath appearing in front of him. He was definitely inappropriately dressed.

The sky always seemed a little darker every night. When he asked someone, they just ignored him, or scoffed at him.

But every night he looked at the sky when possible, and wondered why the stars were slowly, but surely disappearing. He watched another softly flare up before winking out.

He even told funny-hat ojii-san, and even though he said it was silly, he had a weird look on his face.

He sneezed. They kicked him out of the orphanage again, but he grinned. In just a short year, he'd be able to go to the Ninja Academy!

Ojii-san had taken him out for his birthday. It was the bestest birthday he could remember! They had ramen, clearly a food from heaven that was made for him, and went to many places in Konoha that he didn't even know were there! And then he sat him down for a chat.

He told him about what he did every day. That he was someone who protected the entire village(even though he was so old) and that he cared about every single person. He told him about how he was a Ninja, and the strongest Ninja was the Hokage.

Uzumaki Naruto looked at him in awe. He of sooo many wrinkles was the strongest, and was his best friend too! Naruto immediately said that he wanted to be just like him.

At that point, he had asked him, "Ahh, you want to be Hokage, hm?" Naruto had nodded eagerly, "Being Hokage is more than strength. More than courage, more than determination, more than intelligence. It is more than caring, more than protection. It is about the sum of those parts in a single man or woman, There are many trials. Many have tried to become Hokage, and yet there are have only been 4 in our history. Four out of a countless number of people who tried. Do you know why, Naruto?" Naruto looked up at his mentor in awe, but shook his head. the Hokage chuckled, "That is something, you will learn as you grow up." he said.

Naruto immediately decided that he would become Hokage. He looked up and smiled, even as the stars disappeared on him, he promised to them. "I'll become the Hokage, and I'll protect this village!" he shouted.

He sneezed again. Sniffling, maybe he should find some form of shelter.

He walked for a while, Konoha's streets were thankfully a bit deserted as he looked for somewhere to rest for the night. It wouldn't be the first time, but he always had to find a new place each time.

He ducked into an alley, and yawned as he found a cardboard box, Large enough infact to sleep under, he turned it over.

An odd book came out of it.

Naruto blinked. He couldn't take his eyes off of it. The book was just.. Odd. It almost seemed to glow in the dark alley.

It was wrapped in small chains, with no visible lock holding them in place. The book was torn, dirty, and in very bad shape. What looked like a gold cross was on it's front cover, he noticed.

Naruto, being far too curious, picked the book up.

He gasped softly, clutching his chest as he too glowed. However, he glowed a red, bloody color that lit up the alley. The book, that he dropped in pain, floated up, stretching it's binds before bursting open, the chains that held it closed disappearing.

It opened. It flipped through it's pages, some with text on it. Most were blank and many of them were torn.

"Releasing Seal"

The book slammed shut, and he faintly noticed that the ground stopped shaking.

Naruto collapsed, panting. He wasn't in any pain still, but he noticed that he had a strange, reddish glow as he looked down at his hands.

The sound of pages flipping made him look up again. The book had opened again, but this time it was on some blank page.

"Linking program executed. Repair program.. operating at 3. Requesting mana. Projection program... disabled. Weapons program... disabled."

Naruto only then realized that it was speaking in some odd language that he never heard before. And yet.. he understood it. It continued to rattle off something about programs and parts.

However that didn't mean that he understood it. What the heck was a program?

Wait a second.

"WHY IS A BOOK SPEAKING?!" He screamed, backing up to the alley wall, pointing at it.

"QUIET DOWN YOU PUNK!" was a shout that came from.. somewhere, before a window shut quite violently. Naruto didn't notice, just staring at the book in fright. Slowly, he inched out the alley.

"Knights program...13 repaired. Protection progra..." The book trailed off as it realized that it wasn't speaking to anyone anymore.

If it could, it would have sighed.

Naruto hauled ass to the Hokage's tower. Before he could get inside it however, he collided with someone, who caught him before he could fall.

"Oi, brat.. where are you going this time at night?" said a feminine voice.

Naruto shook his head, looking up into a white porcelain mask. He blinked, but then started talking at a speed that she couldn't understand.

Uzuki Yuugao was somewhat new to the ANBU. However, among all of them, there was one simple, unwritten rule. 'Respect the Kyuubi-brat, even if you don't like him'. Some didn't like him, and held the respect. Those that didn't respect him found themselves respecting him later on. Unlike villagers, you had to have a level head to be in the ANBU at all.

So, when Naruto looked up at her with red, slitted eyes that just screamed fright at her, she frowned. What had scared the kid so badly?

"Master, please do not leave while i give my report."

It was quite understandable when Yuugao decided to quickly cut whoever just spoke in an odd language, from behind her.

Thankfully for the book, she was aiming at cutting an arm off, and missed it completely.

She stared at the faintly glowing book.

"... the hell?"

"Protection programs... 13. Of all the protection programs available, only the Basic Barrier Jacket is available."

Uzuki Yuugao stared. It wasn't exactly everyday you wind up hearing a book speak in an odd language.

Naruto hit behind her, peeking out at the book. The girl with the mask had done some funny thing with her hands and said "Kai' several times for some reason. She had long sheathed her blade once she found out that she wasn't exactly under attack.

"Brat..." "Hey i'm not a brat-" "... whatever. What is this thing?"

Naruto blinked, "I don't know... why don't you ask it?" He said, staying firmly behind her.

Yuugao sighed, 'Well, this takes the cake.' "Hmm, Book-san... what are you?"

"...programs, disabled. Support programs, 5. Area Search is the only program available. Summoning programs... disabled.."

"Lets just go to the Hokage..."

"74 of parts are damaged, however none are in need of replacement.." The book calmy said, flipping pages as it followed to two into the tower.


The Sandaime Hokage, currently in a losing battle against his daily enemy, didn't look up as he looked over and signed documents on the desk.

He sighed as his door was knocked, but didn't look up, "Come in." he said, putting another pile of work into his out-box. The stack on it was now, finally, larger than the in-box stack, and he grinned in victory.

It would be perfectly acceptable to cry later, then, as Naruto absolutely barreled in, knocking over several piles of work on the desk as he ran to him.

Instead he just sighed inwardly, it was far too late for this. "Ah, Naruto... why are you here, this late?" He said, noticing the ANBU.

"Ojiji, there's this book and it's glowing and it's talking and It's FOLLOWING ME and-"

He blinked as he held Naruto. Was he dreaming or something? He looked at the ANBU for an explanation, but the resigned looking ninja just stepped aside, so that he could actually see the floating book.

'Shock' doesn't do any justice when it began to speak again.

"Parts report complete. Master, requesting mana for the reboot of the repair programs, the support programs, the Knights programs, and the Utility programs." The book slammed shut again.

Everyone just looked at Naruto, as the book floated over to him.

Sarutobi grumbled, but put himself between the book and Naruto. At a closer inspection, the ratty book seemed to be mending itself, although slowly. the cover slowly losing any rips and tears, the odd yellow cross gaining a shiny luster. It stopped in front of him.

"Please excuse me." It said.

Sarutobi didn't move, he had no idea if this thing was a threat or not. He frowned when the book opened violently, the pages flying past until it stopped at a page with one line of text on it. The characters on it he couldn't read, but they glowed, and the book slammed shut again. It glowed briefly.

"interpretation algorithm redefined"

Sarutobi's eyes widened, it was now speaking plain, if overly stiff, Japanese.

"Who, or what, are you?"

"... Error. Designation not set by Main Administrator. Error, Projection and Realization programs are disabled, repairing. Error, repair program not initialized, restarting. Error, not enough mana to restart repair program, requesting mana from Main Administrator."

"Who is the Main Administrator?" Was his first question. Oh he was positive he had several thousand others. He was getting to old for this...

Instead of replying, the book merely glowed, and a soft white tendril of.. something pierced right through him. Yuugao gasped in alarm before getting ready to cut the book in two, but the Hokage just blinked, and moved to the side.

The light was shining on a giggling Naruto, who seemed to be quite.. ticklish.

The light sputtered, however, and winked out. The book however seemed to have trouble floating, seeing as it was rising and falling, it's glow sputtering. Unimpeded, it merely floated over to Naruto, and fell into his hands.

The book was quite large for his size, about as big as his chest actually, and it was quite thick. But Naruto hardly felt it's weight at all.

"Activation program failing. Requesting mana... requesting mana.."

Naruto's eyes widened as he, very briefly saw a girl. She looked barely older than him. Her hair was a soft brown and she looked familiar. But that familiarity didn't seem to belong to him at all. The girl was smiling, and he realized that he was looking at her from the book's point of view.

The words came to him, and when later questioned, he wouldn't know where they came from. His red, slitted eyes looked down at the book in wonder.

"Request for collection... accepted."

"Naruto, wai-"

Anything that the Sandaime said was drowned out as he winced in pain, as two small lights appeared in front of him. one a faint blue, and the other a light pink.

Both hovered between him and the book. The book opened, and almost in relief, it said "Collecting."

Naruto collapsed to his knees as he suddenly felt an incredibly tight feeling around his chest. It felt like he was being squeezed, but something comforting was also there.

The room softly glowed in a soft, white light. Sarutobi just looked in worry, there was nothing he could reference in his mind for such a situation. Of all he knew, who would know about talking books or mana?

The book was filling itself up, pages upon pages of blank text refilling themselves with data as fast as possible. Surprisingly, it only took about a minute before the book shut again.

The differences were extraordinary. Where the book looked like it was left in the trash for a good few years, it now looked like it was just made, the brown leather cover looking just made, and the shining gold cross on it's front seemed to glow with energy.

"Repairs completed nine-hundred and seven hours ahead of schedule. Parts E0001 through J43, and specialty parts ES402, CVK-792 and ARK-32 are all green. Performance is at maximum, operations check completed. 80 of all programs are operating within set... master!"

The Hokage had already caught Naruto before he fell. "He's still alive... just sleeping.." he said more to himself. Sighing, he lifted the sleeping boy into his arms, "I may as well take him home..." he said, looking at his desk. He smiled. He can always put off the paperwork.

He looked over at Yuugao. She seemed to have a headache, what with how she was rubbing her head under her mask. "Sigh.. It goes without saying, but lets just keep this a S-class secret. I don't know what just went on, but I don't need that... council.." he spat out the word like it was a terrible taste in his mouth, "Hearing about anything that concerns him."

Yuugao nodded. "Yes, Hokage-sama."

"Come, I'm going to take him to my house. Get that book as well. For now, you're on guard duty for Naruto."

She just nodded, and both of them disappeared in a silent swirl of leaves.

"... why am I always forgotten?" the book echoed, before what could only be described as seals appeared under it. They glowed white briefly, and the book disappeared, following them.


"Master..."

Naruto snored on. He'd been sleeping here, in Sarutobi's house all night, quite peacefully actually.

"Master..."

Naruto stirred a bit, "Mmm, ramen..." he turned, drooling a bit.

"Master... please wake up."

Naruto slowly woke up, yawning softly. Sitting up, he heard a soft yelp, and something fell into his covered lap. Half-asleep still, he stretched. Yawning again, he suddenly remembered last night.

"Mm, must have been a dream..."

"Master, I'm not a dream!"

He looked down.

Floating in front of him was a young-looking girl. The odd thing was that she couldn't have been more than eleven or twelve inches tall. She wore a very short, deep black shirt with no sleeves, lined with gold. It reached down to just above her bellybutton. Under that were some skin-tight black spats that ended just above the shirt.. She wore no shoes, and didn't seem to have any accessories. Her hair was a calming sky-blue, her eyes matching it.

Understandably, he was wide awake now.

"... Who are you?"

"Ah, You haven't named me yet master, but my default name is the Tome of the Night Sky."

Naruto's eyes widened. He knew that name, somehow. He didn't know how, he just did. And somehow, he knew that it wasn't her real name either. More like.. a designation. Tilting his head, he blinked, "That's odd.. isn't that a.. title?"

The girl blink, and tilted her head cutely. Almost as if it didn't happen, her eyes seemed to develop a static, which disappeared as soon as it appeared.

"AH! You're right! How did master know?" Naruto frowned. He didn't know how either.

But it seemed that he knew a bit more, the more he stared at the girl. She blushed a bit, as he did. "Uh.. I don't think your voice is supposed to sound like that either..."

Again, the girl sat still for a few seconds. "Oh.. that's better..."

"Guh, that's completely different from before!"

"Well this is my voice! Deal with it!"

"Bah fine!"

"Master, name me already!"

"Wait, why in hell do you keep calling me master!"

"Because master is master!" She emphasized this by pointing right at his nose.

"Quit calling me master!"

"What am I supposed to call you then!" She said, putting her arms on her hips.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage! Believe it!"

The girl smirked slightly, tilting her head, "Ok, Master is 'Uzumaki Naruto Future Hokage, Believe It"

Immediately Naruto raised his hands in front of them, forming an X. "Wrong! Just Uzumaki Naruto!"

"Just Uzumaki Naruto?"

"No, you idiot, Uzumaki Naruto!"

"You idiot, Uzumaki Naruto?"

He hit her on the head, lightly. "Stop messing up my name, I'll hit you!"

"Ow! You hit me anyway!"

"Bad girls get the fist!" he said, swiping.

"Ahh!" She yelled, dodging, "Ok, ok, Naruto! Uzumaki Naruto! I get it stop trying to hit me!"

He grinned at her suddenly, and stopped trying to tap her. She looked at him again, blushing lightly, "Umm... would you name me already!"

"Hmm, I wonder who she's talking to..."

Her eye twitched, "Would you name me already, Naruto?"

He smiled again, and looked at her.

"I won't let anyone call you the "Book of Darkness" or the "Cursed Tome" any longer..." Naruto's eyes widened out in alarm, that wasn't his voice, or the girl's in front of him. He looked up slightly, and in the corner of the room was a young girl, with soft brown hair. He didn't have time to make out any other features, since when he blinked, she was gone.

"In the name of the Mistress of the Night Sky, I grant you a new name. One who supports others with strength, the tailwind of fortune, and the blessed air.."

"Reinforce.."

The girl's eyes widened. And she let out a smile so wide and brilliant that Naruto completely forgot where he got the name from.

"Reinforce is recognized as my name, Naruto-sama!"

"Hey, what did i say about bad girls!"

Naruto got out of the bed, finally noticing that this in fact wasn't his very small room at the orphanage. No, in fact this room was pretty big. It was obviously morning, the light shining through the strategically placed windows right where his head was previously.

The mini-girl was oddly quiet, and he turned to her, wondering what was wrong. Her skin seems to have changed color from it's pale complexion to a deep red.

"Nee, are you okay?"

Reinforce could only gape. Only when he started waving his hand in front of her did she collect what was left of her wits.

"Ahh, um, uh... Naruto-kun sorry!" She said, as she got out of the bed and flew out the room, somehow nudging the door open along the way.

Naruto blinked, but shrugged, and then started to look for the bathroom. Just where was he anyway?

Reinforce floated on the other side of the door, panting slightly and still sporting her full-body blush. 'I don't think they're supposed to be that large...'

Needless to say, she didn't even notice the ANBU right in front of her. Until she cleared her throat.

Reinforce looked up, into the white porcelain cat mask that encompassed her entire view.

"AHHHHHHHHHH"

Naruto jumped, almost slipping as he entered the bathroom that he found was connected to the bedroom. He contemplated going to figure out what Reinforce was screaming about, for all of 2 seconds. Instead he just went about his business.

Sarutobi just yawned, looking over some early reports in his living room, sipping some coffee. He was running low on it, he noted.

"Hokage-sama. This... thing... came out of Uzumaki's room."

"I'm not a thing! Let me go, I'm delicate!" Reinforce was firmly in the grip of the ANBU, not too tightly, but she couldn't move her arms or legs.

He looked up from the reports to Reinforce.

Thirty seconds later he stared at his coffee, before getting up and pouring it down the drain in the kitchen nearby.

Yuugao refrained from sighing. She had a look to maintain after all.

"Ahh, Ojisan!" came the yell from the stairs.

Naruto ran down the stairs, as he finished pouring the coffee out.

Reinforce was still trying to wiggle her way out of Yuugao's grip, when she saw Naruto again.

Yuugao swore later that she heard the little... fairy.. girl.. thing.. blush. However she didn't notice at that moment due to the state of Naruto's.. undress.

Sarutobi had looked up at him and almost immediately looked away, "Oh god, that's the last thing i needed to see this morning..."

Fortunately for him, Yuugao caught herself a bit quicker than Reinforce would. "Uzumaki, I believe it would be better for all of us if you were to get some pants on." she said, laying the nearly comatose Reinforce onto the kitchen counter.

Naruto looked down.

Oh, so that's where the breeze was coming from.


Sarutobi had decided to have some tea. If one was to look, all the coffee in the kitchen was tossed into the garbage.

Yuugao had escorted Naruto back downstairs, this time making sure he was fully dressed.

Reinforce floated over to the table, and was contemplating on how to steal one of the Hokage's waffles.

Naruto was grumbling about being unable to find his orange pants, and having to go buy new ones later.

Both Yuugao and the Sandaime shared a look of long, long suffering. Their thoughts were synchronized, 'we're not letting him near that orange monstrosity ever again'.

Sarutobi cleared his throat, "Well then, lets just get to business, shall we? I'll be rather blunt seeing as being subtle is just giving me a headache. What are you, why are you here, and what does Naruto have to do with it?"

"Oy.. that is blunt.."

"Rein, what did i say about bad girls.."

"Why are you calling me Rein?" she pouted.

"'Reinforce' is hard!" said Naruto

Sarutobi cleared his throat.

"Oh. Um, well, I can't really say unless Naruto-kun gives me his concent..."

"What's a consent?"

Sarutobi sighed, "Naruto, consent means to allow..."

"Oh, I knew that, after all the future Hokage needs to know these things! Go ahead, Rein!"

"Okay, I'm Reinforce of the Tome of the Night Sky. Hmm, the tome's long-term memory is still in disrepair, but that information should be available soon."

"Alright, what is the Tome of the Night Sky?"

"It's an ancient Belkan Intelligent Device, It's original purpose... i can't access that right now. However, Intelligent Devices are items that help control one's power, as well as aid in using it while held. Where a program can be run by itself by a person, the ID can make it far easier to do so by a factor of seven-thousand percent, depending on the device. Also, a device can cast many support and defensive spells by itself, to aid it's master."

Sarutobi was writing this all down in a scroll he got from.. somewhere. Even Yuugao didn't notice, as what the midget was saying was interesting.

Naruto though, "Um, what?"

"Did you hear a word I said!?"

"Umm, i remember something about ancient..."

Rein gave him a flat look, and pointed a finger at him. "Divine Shooter."

Faster than he could blink, he was pelleted by stinging pink balls.

"Pay attention, I'll shoot you!" Rein said, putting her hands on her hips.

The Hokage smiled, "Ok, so you are the book? In fact, where is it now?"

"Oh, no, I'm more of a program. There are five others sealed within the tome, but only I have access to any information within it. Well, except for Naruto here. The other five though... only one other can really come out now. As for the book, Naruto-kun is currently wearing it."

"Eh? Where?" Naruto said, looking around himself.

"It's around your neck. Why am i unsurprised you didn't notice it yet..."

"Hey, I can still hear you.." he said, slipping the necklace off of his neck. It was quite simple, a solid gold chain. The headpiece was solid gold as well, three arrows pointing to either side and down, with a small circle behind them.

"Eh, it's kind of small.." he complained.

"Well, she's still repairing. so it's only obvious she'd take a resting form."

"Hmm. so what is your goal for Naruto?" Sarutobi said, before Naruto could reply.

"Naruto-kun is my Master, and despite being DUMB-" "I'm still here!" "I'll protect him as much as possible..." she said, blushing a little.

"Feh, I guess I'll do the same.. he is kind of stupid, though." Came a voice from his necklace.

"Hey, I'm not... who are you?"

"Ahh, That would be Agito.. awake I see." Rein had a surprisingly smug look on her face as she floated up closer to the necklace. It shimmered a bit. "Hehe, you're last on the queue, hm?"

"Oy, don't act so smug just because your body was repaired first... flat-chest"

Reinforce developed a tick in her left eye. The room seemed colder for a reason. "Oh ho? Says the girl who's chest is a steep as a cliff-side..."

"...I'm going to kill you."

Naruto, Sarutobi and Yuugao all just stared as what seemed to be a bickering match started between the small girl and the necklace.

Naruto came back into the dining room about ten minutes later. Leaving the Tome on the table so that Rein and Agito supposedly could argue, he came back to the same sight, except this time he was carrying a plate with some waffles on it, and a bowl of ramen.

'Hm, I don't recall even having ramen...' Sarutobi thought. Then again, one knew not to get between Naruto and his breakfast ramen.

Rein immediately stopped arguing however, when she saw the small stack of waffles. Faster than he thought, she was standing on the plate next to them, and held one up, biting into it before Naruto had even put the plate down. However, to the dismay of his aging ears, she and Agito started up their argument when Agito mentioned something about fat. He sighed mentally.

Another thought came to Sarutobi's mind however, and he voiced it once Naruto sat down, "Naruto, where did you find the book in the first place?"

"Oh, I found her in an alley! I was looking for a place to..."

Naruto actually looked down, frowning. Sarutobi frowned as well, that wasn't something Naruto would usually do.

He mumbled something, and Agito stopped talking suddenly.

"I'm sorry Naruto, what was that?"

"...I was just looking for somewhere to sleep..."

Under her mask, Yuugao frowned.

"Uzumaki-san, I was under the impression that you were currently housed at the orphanage..."

"Oh.. they just kicked me out again, It's no big-"

Sarutobi had slammed the table down hard, making everyone jump. He stood, not caring about his chair.

Naruto couldn't recall the old man looking so angry, but before he could even shrink back a bit, he spoke.

"..Again, Naruto-kun? This has happened before?"

"Ahh, well... yeah.. but it's not a problem, unless it rains, and even then I can usually sleep in a box or something.."

Sarutobi held his head in his hands now. Gods, to leave a child on the street like this...

He sighed. Naruto won't be going back to that orphanage again. Looking at the boy, he smiled, even if it didn't quite reach his eyes.

"Hmm, Naruto-kun, that reminds me, that I do owe you something for your birthday?"

"Ahh, really old man! Sweet!"

Sarutobi chuckled, "I am going to go out, and I'll be back within the hour. I hope you'll be ready by then, Naruto?"

"Sure thing, old man!"

"Great, Cat, if you would stay for a while longer?" It wasn't a request.

However, she smiled under her mask, "No need to ask, Hokage-sama."

The Hokage just smiled before taking his leave. He had work to do, after all.

"Master... that they would do that to him." Agito was in an unusual mood.

"Yes, something is terribly wrong... Humans don't normally do that to their children..."

Reinforce had a serious look on her face. If Naruto was looking, he'd probably find it terribly out of place.

However, Yuugao was looking. She happened to find it out of place.

Reinforce and Agito were communicating telepathically, mostly about their concerns for Naruto. Said master in question was just eating his breakfast happily, the entire dreary subject behind him.

There were also other concerns that they were wary about. The book had said it had drawn from Two linker cores.

Two. Nothing that exists has two linker cores. One was Immense, with a capital I, and it had mostly drained from it. The book said it tasted like strawberries, which was odd. Linker cores don't have much of a taste.

The other one wasn't nearly as large, Oh, it was impressive by itself, sparking a memory within the book about someone, but not much else.

"This is just odd, Agito. He's definitely odd.. those whisker marks, and his eyes.. everything about his DNA says his eyes are supposed to be blue, but they're red..."

"Until the book awakens later today, we can't do a more thorough scan of master. I guess we'll have to wait until then..."


A large, rather overweight woman waddled her way across the room to the door.

"I'm coming, you shit, have some damn patience!" she yelled. This wasn't probably a good idea, for several reasons,

The first being that she ran out of breath far quicker than usual.

The children closest to her(which wasn't very close at all) decided that extending the distance between themselves and her would probably be best.

This woman was in fact the manager of the Bright Leaf Orphanage. Somewhere around 50 years old, at some point in life she might have been called a kind person of some worth.

However, as the ANBU broke the door in, conveniently slamming it into the rotund woman as she neared it, they could immediately assume the worst.

The inside of the building was almost sickeningly clean. Probably free of dirt and stans everywhere.

The children, however, were dressed in rags not fit to even step on. Most all of them in the room weren't even wearing shoes. Pants seemed to be an option here too, though thankfully the rags seemed large enough to cover them to their knees.

Most of the children carried brooms or other cleaning instruments. Some were ignoring the ruckus as they cleaned. They all looked like they haven't bathed for a good year, either.

All of them were painfully thin. Many had bruises on them, especially some of the girls.

The ANBU, of course, were appalled. A rather tall man wearing a hood and a rat mask, had to step back outside, complaining that the stench from the back had been absolutely terrifying. The leader, one in a dog mask, apprehended the wide load, and quickly tied the woman's arms behind her

"What are you doing! Release me this instant! You.."

The woman shut up as soon as the man looked at her. She also pissed herself, and probably would have done worse had she not passed out from the amount of killing intent that was focused on her.

The man frowned in disgust, holding the blob away from him. "Weasel, Boar, See that these kids are watched for a while. And, of course, investigate." he said, before disappearing with the woman.

Said Weasel and Boar were now surrounded by at least a dozen kids, all of whom seemed eager to find out exactly what every little thing they had were.

Oddly enough, Weasel was smiling behind his mask, answering their questions.

Maybe joining the ANBU wasn't such a bad idea after all.

Uchiha Itachi would thank his father later.


Yuugao was conversing with another ANBU as Naruto was watching the television. In the back of her mind, she always thought that 'Ninja News' was easily the silliest name for a television show.

The ANBU nodded before disappearing.

She walked into the living room, where Naruto was on the couch. Rein was above him, sitting in his hair and complaining about it.

"The Hokage will be late, so I am going to escort you to where we'll meet him."

Naruto tilted his head back at her, "Huh, ok, Cat-girl!"

Yuugao's posture didn't change, but the room did get quite a bit colder.

Naruto, being Naruto, didn't notice as he left the room to get his jacket.

"...brat's just lucky because he's seven..."

And the room warmed up.


Hyuuga Hiashi smirked.

No one saw it, however.

At the moment, at Sarutobi's request, he was taking care of some paperwork.

Now, normally when a sane man is given the Hokage's paperwork to do, the last thing they would do is smirk.

However, Hiashi was a Hyuuga, and mere paperwork was not something that a Hyuuga quailed in fear at. Oh they didn't smirk at it either however.

The source of Hiashi's entertainment came from the floor below him. The Byakugan, the bloodlimit of those with Hyuuga blood, was just so good at both being able to finish paperwork, as well as watching entertainment.

Watching the Village Council quail in fair was probably up there with Icha Icha Paradise in quality and value.

So Hyuuga Hiashi signed away, and chuckled.

He would have to thank Sarutobi later.

"Severe Malnutrition. Some of them can't remember the last time they ate."

ANBU were outside the door, so even if one of them decided to burst through the locked door, they wouldn't be escaping anytime soon. Two of the forty-three men in the large room already tried, and were currently tied to their seats faster than they saw.

"They also seem to have absolutely no clothes to call their own. Despite the manager having somehow finding clothes to fit her size, no doubt custom-made..."

Three ANBU were stationed outside the wide window. One man tried to jump out, only to be caught and placed back in his seat, tied up. No one decided however to pick the pieces of glass out of his arms, though.

"Of the 1.3 million ryou put into the Orphanage fund, four-hundred thousand went to this specific orphanage a year."

The lights were on, however, the room was almost completely dark. He walked around the room, slowly and deliberately. The people in the room winced every time he spoke. He changed pages, no emotion on his face nor his voice as he recited.

"According to testaments from the children, they were to either clean the entire orphanage themselves, or stay in their rooms. No toys, no books, just work, or sleep."

One of the people in the back had passed out, but was rudely awakened by an ANBU.

"And finally.. This caretaker, whom has no qualifications whatsoever, is in fact a wanted criminal in several outlying towns and cities in the Land of Fire, for crimes far too heinous to even repeat."

Sarutobi slammed the papers onto the desk. The desk itself, while it didn't crack under the blow, instead it's four posts sunk right through the floor. Everyone in the room jumped.

"Explain.".

Hyuuga Hiashi was no longer laughing as he made his way to the council room.

He saw something he personally trained himself to recognize. And then it almost all fit.

But first, answers.

He stormed into the room, leaking killing intent. He was sure he saw at least two or three people urinate themselves as he looked directly at the individuals he was after. Their eyes widened in alarm.

However, The esteemed Hyuuga clan head had moved through the room quicker than almost all of them could see. Before Sarutobi could say a word, four men and a woman were unconscious.

Many people wonder why most Hyuuga are not medical ninja. They, more than anyone, had a history of incredible chakra control and their sight beyond sight was something that could save more lives, especially on the battlefield. With the superior taijutsu of the Hyuuga, and even rudimentary medical skills, they'd be a force on the battlefield.

However, to this day only around 6 of the Hyuuga have become Medical Ninja.

The Byakugan's abilities are well known. Heightened eyesight, ti the point where one could see a being's chakra circulatory system. Telescopic, three-hundred and fifty-nine degree sight. However, what isn't well documented is the side effects.

There is a point where too much control over one's chakra can lead to forcing the brain to focus far harder than it was built for. The mind of a Hyuuga is already stressed, for their vision forces them to focus on far more things than their brains could focus on. A normal human could focus on sixteen different things within their field of vision. But when that vision could be zoomed, not to mention expanded, the mind could only adapt to it.

The odd thing was that chakra control did not help this problem at all. It added to it. Being able to focus even harder taxed the mind far much more than it was built for. For many Hyuuga, this led to blindness, hallucinations, and in some cases insanity, or worse, the mind shutting down.

Medical Ninja were required to have an extreme amount of chakra control. This, for a Hyuuga, led to Strange Things happening. A few claimed to have actually seen down to a level reserved for microscopes, and some even far more.

Hiashi had, at one point in life, wanted to become a medical ninja. After the first week, he quite smartly abandoned that idea. However, unlike many other Hyuuga who went down or around that path, he chose something else.

Hiashi was one of the villages few masters of poisons. After much training, he was able to classify many different poisons, assigning them to a color sometimes. Unlike specific medical ninja training, this actually required little control, just patience, stamina, and an open mind.

So, imagine his surprise, that while looking in on the hilarity of the Sandaime chewing out the absolutely wretched village council, he found people with a very specific, and very familiar poison hidden in their teeth.


It was an unusually cool morning, Naruto discovered. He shivered slightly as he fell in place behind Cat-onee-chan.

He was somewhat excited, to a degree. His understanding of things wasn't all there, having no one to show him the lefts or rights of life. But he could understand that he had something that could be thought of as AWESOME. Oh it was a magic, talking book, but it came with friends! Before today, he could have counted his friends on one hand. Now, he apparently could count them on both!

He shivered again, but was happy. Not many people were outside yet, though some stalls and stores were open. Many of the shopkeepers glared at him, not noticing the ANBU escort. It was almost as if they were daring him to come up to their stall and buy something.

Inwardly, he grinned. He had friends now, who needs their stuff!

Yuugao frowned as the brat cackled behind her. What was on his mind now? God it had better not be another prank.

Naruto sneezed.

"Hey, Naruto, are you cold?" Rein looked absolutely fine in her flimsy clothes, as she sat on his shoulder. He looked at her incredulously, he was wearing more clothes than her and he was still shivering, and here she was fine.

"Rein, how come you're not cold?" He asked.

"Ah, my armor is pretty comfortable."

Both he and Yuugao stopped and stared at her, blinking.

"...Armor." Cat-san was always straight to the point, Naruto thought.

"Yep, how do you like it! I changed the design.. well you've never seen the old one, but that one used to be so stuffy and I didn't have as much mobility in it. This is much better!"

Both of them looked at the mini-girl wearing, almost literally, two small pieces of clothing.

Yuugao, as a testament to her training, just turned around and walked away.

Naruto just sneezed again, upsetting her perch.

Rein gained some understanding, "Ohh, I could tell you how to summon your own armor!"

Naruto stared at her. "I won't have to wear... that... would i?"

Rein shook her head, smiling, "Oh no, It can be whatever you want it to look like!"

Understanding rose in Naruto like the morning sun.

Yuugao froze in mid-step, terror halting her steps as she heard that line.

A while away, Sarutobi's eyes widened as he felt a cold chill run along his spine.

The smile on Naruto's face was not a good thing.


Hiashi glared at the rest of the council, most all of which had backed the heck away.

Sarutobi came over, "Hm, I take it there's a reason for this?"

Hiashi nodded, "Yes, but this will require.. privacy."

"Hm, I see." Sarutobi called an ANBU over, "Please bring me Dog-kun and Weasel-kun, and have them take these five to my office. Do not let any of these.. people.. leave this room."

The ANBU nodded, vanishing. One of the ballsier council members spoke up, "You can't do this to us! And besides, I have to use the bathroom!"

Sarutobi glared at the man, who suddenly had his personal space expanded beyond reason. "As of right now, this.. situation, has been upgraded to military class. Consider yourselves all under detainment until further notice." He smirked a little, "You can leave your filth right here, along with the rest of this waste. The rest of you shouldn't complain, you're used to shoveling bullshit anyway."

He and Hiashi vanished, with Dog and Weasel, who entered the room to carry the four unconscious members.

For some reason, no one on the council decided to refute him. Odd that.


Naruto rubbed his hands evilly. He almost cackled again, but decided against it. Yuugao, for all of her training, could not hold in the shiver.

She just knew her imagination would be insufficient in predicting the horror that Naruto would probably create.

Naruto was currently thinking up his idea for his armor.

Armor was a pretty loose word in this case. Rein had said that it could be cloth if he wanted. It was made purely from a portion of his mana, and that portion wouldn't be accessible to him when he had it on. So whether it was made from cloth or steel, it was just as unyielding. It protected from both physical and magical damage. It would be extremely resistant to heat, cold, and other elements, and would be hard to tear or pierce.

In an unusually bright moment, he had asked what would happen if he got stabbed.

"Well, it wouldn't go through. It feels and moves like cloth, but it's your mana. And this mana has been purposely designed to protect you, so it wouldn't let it past you. However, don't think that this is some incredible armor that can protect you from everything. If you're hit, stabbed, or otherwise beat upon, chances are you'd at least feel a fraction of the damage anyway. The excess energy has to go somewhere, and it takes an incredible amount of it to completely nullify such physical damage."

Naruto nodded, even he knew that everything can't be perfect. Because if everything was perfect, he'd be Hokage.

"Cutting you would be a bit more difficult, in fact the armor is more of a second skin to your body. Completely invisible, extends an inch or two out, but doesn't interfere with you at all. It's a pretty complex program."

And that explained away her clothes. which was how she was able to wear so little and not be cold at all.

Yuugao interrupted, however. "We're here."

"Eh?" Naruto looked around. When did they enter the forest? They were on a small path, very small actually, and he could see a river and a bridge in the distance.

"Wait, when did we leave the town?"

'And this kid wants to be a ninja?' Yuugao didn't get the chance to reprimand him, however.

"Ahh, Master is an idiot! Pay attention to your surroundings more!" She said from atop his head.

"I was paying attention! You were lecturing me!"

"So? How did you not notice us enter a forest of all things!"

"Ahh you're so noisy! Who would notice anything when you're yelling so much!"

"I AM NOT YELLING!"

Yuugao hoped that this could be considered hazard pay. There had to be a clause on the ANBU contract for this.

Hiashi slapped his head, grumbling.

The five councilmen, still unconscious, were in some cells near the interrogation rooms. Despite some oddly consistent begging, the Sandaime did not let Ibiki have his way with them.

A medic-nin had been called in to remove and identify their suicide capsules.

The results were not very good at all. Most especially after they brought a Yamanaka in to see why they would have ANBU-only class suicide capsules.

The civilian council was a recent addition to Konoha. Before, it would be part of a clan head's responsibility to help govern at the village level. However, the number of clans was greatly reduced by not only the Hidden War, but the Kyuubi's sudden attack as well.

Very few investigated the Kyuubi attack. It truly came without warning. Literally, it appeared not a kilometer from the east wall, and in all it's anger, it's pride still showed through, as it didn't run or even leap to the hidden village.

It walked, leering down at it.

But to this day no one could figure out where it came from. There were no sightings from patrols, no other villages or outlying towns even touched.

It just appeared.

But just as soon, they were attacked, and that night went down in history. With the severe decrease in suitable clan heads to help with the village, the reinstated Hokage had little choice other than to start a council composed of non-ninja.

He never regretted that decision more than today. Hiashi and Sarutobi both shared many a drink over 'those council bastards' who, in just a year thought that they as a collective could hold more power over him.

In fact, they were sharing a drink right now. The mood was somber, and neither broke the silence.

Under the jutsu of the Yamanaka, one's mind was just a book. And these civilians had no training in even resisting.

On the table between them was a list of names. Almost all of these people were on the village council. A few were ninja.

They had called in all of the ninja and immediately sent them in for questioning.

Now there was little doubt.

The Hokage stood, finishing his sake, and nodded at Hiashi.

The lavender-eyed man grinned and disappeared.

At the top of the list was a man both knew very well.

To be honest, Danzo should have planned an uprising a bit better.

Sarutobi snorted. The man had supposedly 'left to see some daimyo.'

Sarutobi looked down at the list again. He smirked.

Danzo was a fool, to have underestimated him.

He pressed a button under the desk, that was hidden in a genjutsu of his own making. It was something he prepared for this very moment. The button set several important things in motion, to guarantee what he would be doing today.

Danzo had spies, most definitely. The council, some ninja, and his personal little 'root' platoon. But Sarutobi had spies as well. Spies not raised out of fear or money, but loyalty.

The 'Silent High Alert' button was one of his best works of art yet. With the press, almost all loyal Jounin, Chunin and ANBU were given one order.

'No one leaves Konoha.'

He vanished, he had some grim work to do today, but he ought to at least start with something better.

Around the village, almost a hundred ninja mobilized to guard it's walls.


Hiashi had a very creepy smile as he entered the room.

Very quickly, he called the command ANBU to him.

The ANBU was shocked, but understood. The council grew more nervous. They had been in here for half an hour.

The door slammed shut. The ANBU relayed his commands to the rest. They were shocked as well, but orders are orders.

Hiashi smiled as a hidden wall sprang up in the back, completely blocking the windows.

He unfurled a scroll to them all. Immediately, he spoke the orders of the Hokage.

There would be a lot of paperwork for this, he thought,

Fifteen minutes later, Only Hiashi and the ANBU that were on guard left the room.

There was nothing left to guard, after all.


Sarutobi appeared in a tree above the path, conveniently, right behind Naruto.

He sat there for at least 5 minutes, just watching him. Rein had already saw him, but he just gave her the universal sign to be quiet about it, and she grinned at him, nodding.

Yuugao had also noticed him, but decided not to say anything either.

On some subconscious level, both knew that Naruto had been planning something Truly Horrendous. It was time for payback.

"Naruto-kun, good to see you."

Internally, he grinned. Surprising the boy was getting harder these days, but he still had it.

Naruto recovered quite quickly, but had already disrupted Rein's perch atop his head. "Ahh, Ojisan!" he yelled. "Don't surprise me like that!"

"Pay more attention this time!"

"I always pay attention!"

"He was there for FIVE MINUTES!"

Naruto just folded his arms and pouted cutely.

"Don't give me that Naruto." Said Rein.

Sarutobi cleared his throat, "Well then, lets just get on with it. Catch."

"Eh?" Naruto turned to face him, only for a key to hit him on the head. He picked it out of his hair, "Eh, a Key? What's it for?"

Sarutobi just pointed down the path at the bridge.

Naruto turned to look. He blinked, and rubbed his eyes, looked again.

"...where did that house come from?"

Yuugao blinked. House?

Rein palmed her face, "You didn't see that big house? It was always there!"

"No one said anything!" Naruto said, "All that was there was a river and a bridge to more forest!"

"How can you miss something so big!" she said, floating in front his face. She looked at his eyes, "Hmm, do you have an eye problem?" she said, poking an eyelid softly.

"Ahh, knock that out!"

Yuugao decided to speak up, "I'm sorry, but I don't see a house either."

Rein looked up at her, confused.

Naruto grinned triumphantly.

Sarutobi chuckled, jumping down to them. "While it's interesting to know that you can see through it, No one who hasn't touched that key can. Probably one of the most impressive set of seals i've seen, I say."

They all looked at him.

He smiled and walked to the house. When he opened the door, Yuugao's mind snapped into place as the genjutsu fell. After all, one does not just open a door out of nothing.

"Are you going to come into your new house, Naruto?"


Danzo had smirked to himself as he and a few of his ANBU flew through the trees, on the way to Konoha.

It was hard to start a hidden village. Imagine his surprise when Orochimaru, of all people, decided to start one.

It was perfect, really. In exchange for killing Sarutobi, he just helped the man begin his village, slowly giving him either ryou or some of his ninja to start training. simple.

With the Sandaime dead, he could step in, either as Hokage, or if a new one was admitted in, control and coerce them to shape the Leaf how he believed it should be.

Right now, the senile old fool thought he was meeting some daimyo, to strengthen ties or get more missions or some such drivel.

Everything was perfect, and in a few years, Konoha would be his.

He cackled, startling his ANBU.

They never got used to him cackling.

The house wasn't exactly large, but it was oddly spotless. A quick tour found an empty fridge, two bedrooms with bathrooms for each of them, a kitchen and a living room. There was a lot of room around the house, and it was quite secluded, though the village wasn't very far from it. A stream ran across it's backyard, and behind it the forest began again.

They were currently in the living room, and Naruto was still in a bit of shock.

Sarutobi just smiled at him, "Seeing as the.. orphanage.. isn't suitable anymore, I decided to just give you this. Do you like it?"

Naruto was a bit put out, "Ojisan, a house! Of course i like it! How did it hide from me!"

He chuckled, "Well, this was one of the Yondaime's several safe houses. He had some... ahem, women problems back when he was a Jounin, so in his spare time, he had these built by a friend of his, and created a seal to hide it with. The genjutsu is quite complex, as is the seals for it, but it's self-sustaining as long as they aren't broken."

Rein was impressed, but held off of commenting.

Naruto frowned though, "Ne, what about the other kids in the orphanage, are they getting houses too?"

Sarutobi blinked. He wasn't quite expecting that question. "Hm, well, for the moment, they're all going to be spending some time with some ninja. In fact, I have good word that some are going to be adopted."

Naruto grinned. While he wasn't friends with most of the kids, they didn't outright ignore or hate him like what all the other kids and adults did outside of it. Some of them even shared food with him, and food was already rare.

Sarutobi smiled. The boy was, despite all the grief that's plagued him, concerned about others. This was a good sign, right?

"Hey, Rein, how about we try to summon my armor now?"

"Okay, I think you can do at least that for now." she said, agreeing.

Suddenly, the room had gotten a terrible chill.

Sarutobi and Yuugao shivered.

"Ah, that reminds me, i have some more business to do. Cat-san, I would like you to accompany Naruto to help him get anything he would need for here. Effective immediately. Later!" He vanished.

Under her mask, Yuugao was crying. Abandoned, she was abandoned! The old man will pay for this!


Danzo was concerned as he neared the gates to his village. They were closed.

He signaled his ANBU, and they all went to the road. Crossing the tree cover, they saw that there were no ninja outside of it, save one.

Sarutobi sat on the ground, his summoned staff leaning on him. He was in his full battle regalia, and his eyes were closed.

His words cut through the air, sharp yet quiet.

"Danzo. How was your time with Orochimaru?"

/-/-/End of Chapter.