Prologue
Six pairs of eyes watched the fourth Hokage seal the rampaging nine-tailed fox into his own son and heard him name the boy before he passed into death's cold hands. A chorus of voices rose into a song of howls, roars, yowls, and squawks. Different voices rose into a song that enchanted the listeners and had a mythical yet bird-like tone to it.
Yet more voices rose into a song worthy of the angels in heaven and deep-ancient sounding roars that you could feel in your bones. The rodents (raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks…) in the area went completely silent while, from the shadows seemed to hum.
All the songs and silence was for the man who died for a village that, except for a few, didn't deserve such a sacrifice.
Once done, the songs died down till the same six pairs of eyes now focused on the crying infant that the Kyuubi had been sealed into. Six shadowed figures gathered around the infant, who had stopped crying to star at the 'people' around him.
Each one of the figures gave him a 'token' of jewelry that would allow each of them to watch the boy grow and allow their individual armies to understand to protect the boy.
In hearing someone approaching, the six mysterious figures scattered, leaving the infant, Naruto Uzumaki, to wail.
HOWLHOWLHOWLHOWLHOWLHOWLHOWLHOWLHOWLHOWLThe third Hokage, Sarutobi, was completely puzzled when Kakashi brought Naruto back, not because of the seal on stomach but because of the six pieces of jewelry he possessed.
Naruto sported a bracelet on each wrist, a band around both of his biceps, a necklace, and a circlet; and no matter what anyone did to the jewelry (within reason) they would not come off, even when jutsu was used on them (again within reason, he is still an infant).
The circlet was made of pure silver, designed to be delicate looking but durable as hell with a ruby set into the metal like an eye, placed in the middle of the boy's forehead.
The necklace was a type of black metal no one had ever seen before, with over a dozen different types of animal fang spaced evenly on the metal chain, this wouldn't have caused any eyebrows to raise if the fangs weren't three times the size normally found from the animal each fang was said to come from.
On his left wrist was a bracelet made of silver and gold wire, weaved together with a emerald the shape of a small tree fixed into the mesh.
On his right wrist was a bracelet made of white gold, designed to look like angel wings wrapping around the wrist with a yellow gold halo embedded into the spot where the wings come together.
The band on his left arm was made of silver, tinted blue, and shaped like a flying dragon with sapphire eyes.
And the band on his right arm was made of the same, strange, black metal in the shape of a bat with ruby eyes.
Sarutobi had seen the boy before Arashi, the fourth, had taken him for the sealing, so the jewelry must have appeared, the third deduced, after the sealing but before the boy had been retrieved.
Unfortunately, for the old man, he couldn't examine any of the jewelry very well unless they were taken off the boy first, but the seemed less likely than his old student Jeriya, to stop peaking on bathhouses.
So the third sighed and settled down to do the ever-present paperwork that was sitting on his reclaimed desk.