Naruto stood with unconcealed hatred next to Kakashi, both staring at the monument of honor to all ninja who were sacrificed under the grand Konoha name. The early morning was always the best time to view the monument. The Serenity accentuated the honorable stone block. Naruto had already stood watching the monument for fifteen minutes and no doubt for another fifteen before he even considered his other problems. While Kakashi had been staring at the object for nearly three hours and another three hours of meditation later, he might actually be late for another meeting with his third generation of genin, since the Rookie Nine.
The Rookie Nine were famous for being the top of the game. The only ones left of the nine were Naruto, Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji. Each stood strong enough to compete with a Sannin at the prime of their youths and each experienced well beyond their ages of about thirty.
Chouji became an ambassador for Konoha shortly after Naruto removed the elders from their stands. His excellent choice in cuisine seemed to make many enjoy partaking diplomacy with the happy Chouji. Shikamaru became Narutos second hand man when it came down to organization in wartime. He was Naruto's Shizune, if you will. At first, Shikamaru doubted Naruto's standing as Hokage, but when he found out the genius inside of the blonde's ability to actually solve problems without thinking, he was envious.
Ino stood in as a special Jounin for missions that are still held under Special Jounin Status. It would take another twenty years and the death of at least 10 feudal lords, including Gaara of the Sand himself, before anybody outside of the Hokage's closest to know exactly what Ino has done.
"so many…" Naruto looked towards his old instructor. The happiness in his eyes still existed, because he always hoped for the best in the future, but the sadness bore down on his facial features leaving wrinkles that one wouldn't think could exist on a person with such child-like innocence. He knelt down to the ground and placed daffodils next to the ones he placed the day before which were next to the ones from the day before.
"Just repaying our debts." Kakashi thinking once more about Obito, Rei, Sasuke, and even the much more recent, Kurenai. "We just have to hope there are enough mornings to do it in."
"I certainly won't live to see it." Naruto replied, blinking away sadness and anger, and stood silent for the rest of his time at the memorial. Kakashi didn't try to break it.
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Naruto watched the Kyuubi with growing interest. He had grown accustomed to the beasts sadism and it's pure evil aura. At this point, Naruto hated the Kyuubi. The only time he never hated it, was when he thought it could bring Sasuke back. It had toyed with him, promised that power would show Sasuke the way. Instead, it sent the boy, or rather the man, into mad rage at his inability, even after years of building on hate, to surpass the blonde. Sasuke forced himself to stay on Orochimaru's side, to prove that his way of life was never wrong. If he, they could kill Itachi, everything would be okay. Orochimaru, who never fully comprehended a bloodline limit, or more particularly, what became known as the Sharingan Exclusive, didn't realize the effect of trying to force his way into the boys body.
The problem was, the Sharingan wasn't like other bloodline limits. It was an Amalgamation of folded over bloodlines. The Uchiha name came from extreme mixed breading from the strongest of bloodlines. Mainly the Hyuuga and which later became known as the Nara. Though no ninja, big or small, knows it is what happened. There is no experimental way to prove the mixing of those two bloodlines according to lead Konoha geneticist, Yamanaka Ino. The cult-like behavior of early ancestors, she believed, left many having strange orgy's based off their blood line. According to her, Bloodlines only possible way of existing was through the offspring of Jinchuriki. Be it one of the legendary Nine-tailed beasts or that of a lesser demon, there was no way to tell. Her and other theories like hers, were proven wrong when Neji had a daughter.
Neji contained no Biju, and he had no known demon with in. Neji himself had went down a the same luring path Orochimaru had taken, except he was pulled out by Rock Lee in a gruesome battle leaving one dead and the other barely walking. Before Rock Lee's final showdown, Neji had captured the famed Zetsu. Using his advanced Taiketsu vision, and going off of pure theory in his ideal behind bloodlines, he had positioned Zetsu's chakra flow to follow his own. For a split moment, their two bodies ran as one, and then Neji ripped away all the demons chakra and contained the beast. He held what he believed to be the original Demon that created the Hyuuga's inside of himself. In his mind, he pictured it to be a butterfly, but in reality it barely came close to a centipede.
The beast inside of him spoke that their overlapping powers could beat even the Kyuubi at full power, he was mistaken when a rival discovered the Hyuuga's plan to eliminate Kakashi. Neji, wasn't insane, his curiosity about Zetsu and their talks before his experiment, weren't known by anybody. Neji never recorded the talks in what he considered his twin. When they aligned themselves into one body, the beast inside each took them and the ensuing insanity of any two beings fighting ensued.
Even though Chaos havocked inside Neji's minds, his genius was multiplied to unreal levels, and the only strange thing about him seemed to be that for a few months, he had won victories in the name of Konoha and the Hokage Kakashi. Shikamaru was worried and he had sent Rock Lee as a spy to see Neji's doings. Rock Lee had stumbled into writings of plans to make unknown correspondence with six countries and eventually lead them into a all out war with Konoha.
Stumbling upon such ideas, Rock Lee didn't understand what had happened to who he thought to be a noble person. Neji had just been arriving back to his lab when he sensed the Rock-nin. The battle didn't last very long, as both Neji and Rock Lee pretended to be heading outside of town as just normal friends going to a fair. Their fight ended in a familiar canyon. Rock Lee had unlocked eight gates, which Neji and his Inside kept detailed memory of, because as far as anybody was concerned, the Death Gate had never been opened. Neji refused to explain to anyone what had happened that day, but he did say it was in his records which he would release after his death. After interrogation and a private chat with Kakashi, Neji was deemed innocent of treachery. Neji immediately shed light on bloodline limits that could only come through insanity or accidents.
His daughter with Hanabi had no obvious defects of a biju. The child was just a plain Hyuuga. Neji and Hanabi both said that she would be the strongest Hyuuga to ever exist. Nobody doubts that Hinata would become strong, Neji was a Legend even under the Hyuuga microscope. His offspring should remain no different.
When Ino had finished with a thorough examination of the baby girl, she decided that her theory was no longer accurate and all likes should be discarded. She claimed another theory that the human genome created the bloodline limits by itself in order to sustain ground when all Nine Biju lived and ran the world. This theory has gained no real merit, and it is most likely inaccurate. She created it until further details came up to show her a correct thought.
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"They're all dead."
"There is no Uchiha left."
"Come Brothers."
"What about the Uzumaki."
"Neither Kyuubi nor the Hyuugas can stop this."
"Even the Akatsuki is gone."
"I feel sorry for them."
"Shut up Sister."
"We don't know if All Uchiha are dead, or even the leader of Akatsuki for that matter."
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