Title: Blood Red Ice

Summary: Uzumaki Naruto is gone, vanished just like his mentor. And lately a new power is being introduced to the shinobi world. Konoha, meet Red Ice.

AN: Hello! Just letting everyone know beforehand, this is my first fanfic. So I might have some mistakes. If you see any, please politely point it out in a review. That's politely people. Thank you and enjoy.

Edited AN: Okay. I've finally got this thing revised! I have decided to make my chapters longer, but it might also take me more time to get them updated. Also, I know the story starts off kinda slow. I'm doing the best I can. Hope you like it better.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, Jiraiya would sooooo not have died. Haku wouldn't have either. Or Yugito...Yeah. Kishimoto-sama is killing all of my favorite characters! *sob sob*

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Prologue

12 year old Uzumaki Naruto sat on the rock head of his father, the 4th Hokage. Yes, he knew the Yondaime was his father. He knew a lot of things he wasn't supposed to, thanks to the new desk attendant at the library, a kind young man that didn't constantly find unexplainable reasons to kick him out of the building. (1)

For instance, he knew he had the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed inside him, and that his mother, Uzumaki Kushina, was really still alive and living in Suna with a husband and children in a ninja clan, though he wasn't sure which one. Her own clan was originally from Whirlpool Country, but even though the civilians there had put the country back into shape and recruited shinobi for the rebuilt Hidden Village there, she had wanted to stay as close to Konoha as possible on the off chance that she might be able to catch a glimpse of her son if Naruto was ever to go to Suna. He was still pissed that the Hokage had kept it from him. He had told him that she had died in childbirth and that he was an orphan!

But of course, Naruto couldn't show his anger about it because no one knew that he knew because he wasn't supposed to know in the first place. Besides, he figured the old man had wanted to tell him, but the council decided that he was too valuable as a jinchuuriki to risk his leaving to live with his mother. They didn't want to loose such an asset to Suna, who had already created their own jinchuuriki a month before the Kyuubi attack.

Despite it being extremely annoying, Naruto was good at keeping his emotions well hidden. He'd been doing it ever since he was old enough to understand people, which had come sooner for him than other children. But then again, he was pretty sure those kids didn't have a whole village of grieving adults blaming them for a lot of unfortunate deaths. Everyone thought Naruto was just a stupid, loudmouthed brat always spitting stuff about being the greatest Hokage someday, but he wasn't. In fact, he was quite the opposite. When he was himself, which wasn't often, he thought about what he was going to say before he said it. He was also very quiet, almost shy, and just liked to be ignored. No one glared at what they didn't notice in the first place. And what better way to get people to overlook him than to literally scream for the attention? He wasn't the brightest in his class, but he sure wasn't an idiot.

And he sure as hell didn't want to be Hokage. Well, at first, yeah, he did, but then he started hanging out with Oji-sama and man, did that change his mind! All the Hokage seemed to do was fill out paperwork all day. While the real Naruto may not mind sitting and writing, he didn't want to do it all day every day for years until some other sucker took the job. He had decided to be a hunter-nin and eliminate traitors instead. Still, the whole village leader thing was a good cover as to why he was always at the Hokage Tower and training his ass off every day, not that anyone knew his progress, thank Kami. He thought he was coming along quite well for being mostly self-trained. Yes, Iruka-sensei had helped him as much as he could in the academy, but he had had an entire class to run. Kakashi-sensei was okay, but he focused the most on the rather power-demanding Uchiha. Not that Naruto blamed him, much. Sasuke needed guidance with his Sharingan and the Copy-nin was the only one who could give it. And Sasuke was the last Konoha had of the powerful bloodline, so naturally they would want to do everything possible to keep him from defecting like his brother. Though Naruto still thought they were going about it all wrong.

But the jinchuuriki wasn't sitting there to think about how psychologically twisted his life was. Something very strange had happened during his training last nigh and he was trying to figure out what.

FLASHBACK

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It was late. Ten Narutos were in the training field furthest from the village and prying eyes. (2) They all attacked each other over and over again with all they had, which was a lot. They were at about mid to high chunnin level. After a few doton jutsu attacks and a couple dozen punches and kicks each, there were only three left: two clones and the original. The clones decided to try to overpower the real Naruto. One came at him from the front, the other from the back. Both had looks in their eyes that promise no mercy. Naruto stepped forward to meet the first copy. His plan had been to jump forward and kick the clone in the gut, then push off him in the direction of the other clone and use the momentum to spin a hit to the side.

That, however, did not happen. Instead, Naruto suddenly felt hot. Very, very hot. What is this? Fear began to clench his heart. No, now he was freezing cold. His palms felt like they had been dipped in ice water.

Naruto then realized his clones were still set on attacking. An important shinobi rule: take advantage if your opponent is distracted. He closed his eyes and instinctively raised his hands to protect himself, one facing each clone.

And promptly felt the chill flow right out of his hands!

The jinchuuriki heard two yelps of pain, but more so of surprise.

When Naruto opened his eyes, he saw twin trail of ice, everything in their paths frozen solid. He knew the ice had been manipulated by chakra, though he should have known that only because of his clones' memories. They each recalled a burst of ice pushing out of Naruto's hands and capturing everything in its path. But the strangest part was that he seemed to be able to remember it himself,, even though his eyes had been closed. Not only had he seen it, but he had seen all of it with perfect clarity, as if he had looked at it all n a colored version of the Hyuga clan's Byakugan, which he definitely did not have.

Naruto stood there in shock of what had just transpired. What had just happened?

After a while of just staring into space, Naruto eventually shook his head, deciding to think about it tomorrow. He was just too tired right then after a full day's training.

Finally having a course of action, Naruto slowly walked through the streets of Konoha to his apartment. This turned out to be a good idea. By the time he reached home, he was exhausted, though he hadn't put much energy into the simple task. The instant his head touched the pillow, he was out, but that was to be expected after three weeks in a row of the grueling training he put himself through when he wasn't on a mission or doing team training with Team 7.

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END FLASHBACK

Needless to say, Naruto had woken up at his usual ungodly hour of the day rested but confused. Right after a quick breakfast, instead of going to train before meeting his team at the bridge, he had come to the Hokage Mountain, where he always went when he needed some peace and quiet to think. And right now, he really needed it.

The blonde reviewed the night before in his head over and over again. His naturally good memory was enhanced because of the fox, so he could remember it perfectly; more perfectly than he should have since he supposedly had his eyes closed and should only be able to see it from his clones' memories. (3) But that seemed to not be the case.

Naruto had once asked Hinata-chan what everything looked like with her Byakugan. She had said that it was like being inside of an x-ray, only instead of bones, she can see a person's chakra flow. She also claimed she could see everything at once if she focused hard enough and can look through objects or people to see what's behind them.

It seemed like Naruto had been able to use something similar to the Byakugan. The biggest difference, of course, being that it wasn't like an x-ray, but rather he had seen everything clearly in color the way it was as it was happening, and all inside his head. Now that he thought about it, he could remember exactly what everything in the area had looked like. And it wasn't like he had viewed it from only one direction. It was more like time had stilled and he had examined everything from every angle before anything continued.

Then there was the ice. Where had it come from? How did he get it? How did he use it? Why was it so familiar? (4) How was any of this even possible? As far as he knew, there had never been any record of either of his parents possessing anything genetically special like a bloodline limit, yet that was the only logical explanation as he didn't think this was a side affect from Kyuubi.

Those were the thoughts floating around Naruto's mind. He didn't have a clue as to how or why any of this happened or how to trigger it again to find out. It didn't seem likely that having his clones attack him again would work.

He now contemplated getting help to figure it all out, but quickly dismissed the idea. Who would he tell anyway? The only people who could do anything about it that he trusted at all were the Hokage, Kakashi-sensei, and Jiraiya of the Sennin, but he couldn't tell any of them. Ero-sennin was away checking on his spy network, and neither Oji-sama nor Kakashi-sensei knew of his true personality or skills; no one but the Kyuubi, Iruka-sensei, and Ero-sennin did. The scarred chunnin only figured it out because the two spent so much time together over the course of seven years, give or take. And the old pervert taught him some jutsus and things about the fox, so Naruto felt like he had to give that training everything he had. Though the old man and his genin sensei both had strong suspicions that there was more to Naruto than meets the eye. After all, he did hold the title of 'Number 1 Most Unpredictable Ninja.'

The problem with telling Kakashi-sensei would be that he would insist on changing Naruto's training and treat him differently, exposing him to everyone with more than half a brain. Which, luckily, wouldn't be too many, but still. It would alert Sasuke-teme.

Telling Oji-sama had a similar problem with greater consequences. If he knew, no mater how hard he would try to keep it a secret, sooner or later the council would find out. The biggest issue with that, though, was that old bastard sneak Danzo. He would probably find out before the rest of the council and try to use it to his advantage, probably come up with a totally bizarre but totally Danzo scheme.

Maybe he would try to blackmail Oji-sama into resigning as Hokage so that he could take over. He'd known since the bond had started how close the Professor was to Naruto. All he would have to do is threaten to spread Naruto's little secret around the village and make it appear that Naruto had been deceiving them all in order to buy some time to get powerful enough to take revenge on the village for the fox being sealed inside of him. Oji-sama would either have to accept defeat to protect Naruto or let Danzo spill the beans on him to protect the rest of the village from an unnecessary war that Danzo was bound to start. Either way, the result was not good.

So what could he do? For now he decided to ask the oldest being he knew of for some information on bloodlines.

'Oi, fox! Wake up.'

While he and the demon were not friends, they had come to a mutual agreement of sorts. The blonde only hoped he wasn't overstepping his boundaries here, waking the beast so early.

Naruto heard some grumbles in the back of his mind. He couldn't understand it all, but he managed to catch a few words.

...Insolent pink pig...grumble...no fear of their betters these days...grumble...little human talking to me like that...

'Quit your whining for now. I have a problem.'

Is that so? And you bothered to come to me? I'm touched, Kyuubi mocked. Why should I care about a child's little problem?

'This problem is not so little. I have no idea what to do about it.'

The fox let out an irritated sigh. Do about what, mortal?

'I don't know. Something happened when I was training last night. I was hoping you might know what it was.' Naruto showed his prisoner his memories of the strange event.

When he was finished, the beast was silent. After a while, Naruto started to think he had gone back to sleep. It was still pretty early. The boy hadn't needed much time to come to this bloodline hypothesis earlier. It really did show how much smarter he was than he let on. He could find the answer to most problems about as fast as any chunnin.

Finally the Kyuubi spoke up, slowly at first, as if he was still uncertain. Well, kid, I'm fairly sure you don't want to tell anyone about this. You should keep this to yourself as long as possible.

'Do you know what 'it' is?'

Not precisely, but I have a good idea. It appears to be some sort of kekkei genkai, though I'm sure you already guessed that. The remarkable thing is, I've never actually seen this particular kind before.

'What do you mean, this kind?'

Kid, I've seen all sorts of bloodlines used in all kinds of ways by a variety of people, but I have never seen one quite like this. I can recognize several traits linking it to several other bloodlines.

'Wait. You think that it's some sort of mixture of bloodlines?'

Exactly. Whatever this is, it seems to have come from more and more different bloodlines being passed down though the generations and mutation to form a whole new kekkei genkai...I think.

'Wow. So how many bloodlines do you think made this?'

Well, obviously it is from at least two. One dealing with the all-seeing vision you received and another giving the blast of ice you shot from your hands. Aside from that, I haven't the slightest clue. It could be only two of the lesser-known, secret bloodlines or it could be a mix of every known one out there. It depends on how many generations it passed through to get to this stage and how many of your ancestors had an ability. Though I'd say the latter possibility is more reasonable.

'Come on. Don't you have any guesses? What are all of the traits similar to other bloodlines that you can see?'

Well, it certainly appears to have some tie to the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan.

'Nani?' Naruto blinked in surprise. 'But how could I get part of the Hyuga bloodline? I thought they never let their children marry outside of the clan to protect the Byakugan.'

That's true. How it happened is none of my concern, and no matter how, it was done. You are indirectly related by blood to the great Hyugas. Don't that make you feel special? The fox scorned.

Naruto didn't respond. How in Heaven or Hell did one of his ancestors manage to have a kid with a Hyuga?! Obviously either no one knew about it or everyone thought the child had been eliminated, because there was no way that the Hyuga elders would let an outsider's child have their precious kekkei genkai without a huge fuss and a bunch of council meetings to decide the kid's fate. But Naruto had never seen a record of that ever happening whenever he had gone to the library or slipped into the Hokage's office to keep himself up to date. And yet, Naruto had been born with a mutated form of the bloodline.

Eventually, Naruto pulled himself out of his thoughts. 'So what other links can you find?'

Hm...as far as I can see from that ice, you are capable of Hyoton techniques, so you might have strong affinities to wind and water to be able to manipulate them together. As for the heat you felt at first, I will have to ponder that.

'...Wow. This is...impossible.'

Kid, if there's one thing I've learned in all of my years, it's that almost nothing is impossible. Now if that's all, I'm going back to sleep.

Sorry the chapter just sort of stopped. It was the best I could come up with. Just a heads up, the next chapter will be when Tsunade's the Hokage.

(1) In my fic, Naruto likes to read, so when he goes to the library, he actually learns stuff. Almost all of his ninja-related knowledge is from reading old history books. You never know what a curious kid could find in the old abandoned section in the back.

(2) Just saying that in my version, Naruto's regular Bunshin had been less than perfect, but passable. Though of course Mizuki-teme failed him anyway cuz Iruka-sensei wasn't there. Naruto had had an idea that Mizuki-teme was up to something fishy, but didn't know what, so he went along with it. That is how he found out about the fox and learned the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu.

(3) Naruto has a good memory; remembering things is fairly simple for him. So if the Kyuubi can enhance his body, I figure he can get a better memory, too.

(4) Team 7 already went on the Wave mission. In this fic it was the same as in the cannon. And now Naruto is familiar with Ice Release because of his fight with Haku. I really wanted to make Haku live in this fic, but it didn't turn out that way, did it?