The people of Konoha were famous around the elemental nations for being the most kind, and respectful of all the shinobi villages. And for the most part, this was true, exept for when one particular person was involved. Shizuko Uzumaki.
Now, if you had met this girl in any other city, you would have thought that she was the sweetest girl in the world. She was small, bashful and had dark blue eyes, and long ruby hair. Anyone who saw her would immediatly want to adopt her, but everyone in Konoha hated her. A good show of this hate was right now.
"DEMON BRAT!" A villager yelled as they chased a little girl through the streets. The little girl looked to be about five years old, and had ruby red hair. This child was Shizuko Uzumaki "I-I'm-m s-s-sor-ry!" she shouted as she ran. "AARRRGGG!" The villager shouted as he triped. The girl took the chance and sliped into an alley-way. 'd-did I l-lose him-m?' she quietly wondered as she hid behind a dumpster. "AH-HA! Found you, you little demon!" The villager said, smirking evily at her. She tried to turn and run, but found that it was a dead end. "P-please d-d-don't h-hurt m-m-me." she whimpered. The man ignored her, and took out a knife, and jumped at her. Suddenly, some sand covered her, and the knife flew off of her skin like rubber. "What the!" the villager shouted. The girl whimpered, "d-d-don-n't h-hur-rt m-me-e!" and suddenly, the sand flew at the villager, and crushed him. The girl finaly looked up, and saw the man crushed in sand. She stared in horror for a bit, then she fainted.
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The little girl woke up in a small clearing, and sat up. Then she remembered what had happened, and pulled up her knees and started crying. A little ways away, the Kyubi and Nibi heard this, and looked at eachother. They nodded, and started walking over to her. The Nibi spoke first, "It's ok, little one, no-one can get you here, we will protect you." The Nibi soothed. The girl jumped "W-w-who a-are y-you? W-where a-am I-I?" she asked. "I am called Matatabi, the two-tails, and that is Kurama, the nine-tails. As for where we are, we are in your mindscape." Matatabi answered softly. "T-the n-n-nine tails, and the t-two-tails-s?" she questioned. "Yes, we were sealed inside of you by your fourth Hokage." Matatabi answered. "W-was i-it you w-w-who did that with the s-sand?" the girl asked. "No, that was you, now why don't you tell us your name, little one?" she asked. "M-m-my n-name is S-Shizuk-ko." she said shyly. Kurama smiled, and said gruffly, "That is a wonderful name, Shizuko-chan." Shizuko blushed at the comment and the added 'chan' sufix. "Shizuko-chan, why don't you ask your kage who your parents were, tell him that Minato and Kushina said that if he didn't they would, ok?" Kurama said softly. "O-ok K-Kurama-s-san." she said, still not sure about the honorifics. "We will see you later, Shizuko-chan." Matatabi said kindly. "And don't tell him our names, ok?" she added. "O-ok M-m-matatabi-san." Shizuko nodded, and then she fadded out of the mindscape. "'sigh' I hope we can get her to stop the stuttering." Matatabi said after Shizuko left. "It might be possible, but it will take years, and more than just us working on it." Kurama responded quietly. They shared a sad look, and walked to seperate parts of the clearing.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hokage's office~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hiruzen Sarutobi sat at his desk, staring at the unconscious girl who was lying on a sofa. The sand that had killed the villagers was still circling her, and had only let him close enough to touch her, others who had tried had had hands crushed, the only other people who had even come close to touching her were Kakashi, Iruka, Kurenai, Gai, Asuma, and surprisingly, Teuchi, who had come as soon as he had heard that Shizuko had been attacked. In fact, Teuchi had insisted on carrying her all the way to the office. The little girl must have been able to sense people she trusted, even while unconscious.
Suddenly he saw her eyes open. "Shizuko-chan, how are you feeling?" he asked kindly. She looked over at him. "H-hokage-s-sama, I f-feel o-o-ok, b-but, could you t-tell me who m-m-my parents w-were? M-minato, a-and K-kushina said t-that if you d-didn't tell me, t-they would."she said. Hiruzen was shocked, how could they have told her? They were dead! But apparently someone was going to tell her, so he might as well. "Ok, you might want to hold on, this will come as a shock, I imagine. On the night you were born, the Nibi and Kyuubi attacked Konoha. The fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze and his wife, Kushina Uzumaki, went out to fight them. They couldn't kill them, because bijuu are pure chakra given form, so they sealed them into their new-born daughter, you, at the cost of their own lives. Now, they were sealed INTO you, which means that you are the glass, and they are the water, got it?" he explained. Shizuko nodded. Hiruzen smiled. She was very bright for her age, she was just to shy to show it.
"Now, when did you meet them?" he asked. "I-I met them w-while I was a-asleep." she said quietly. Hiruzens eyes widened, then his jaw droped when Shizuko dropped to the ground and two lights appeared, and the forms of Minato and Kushina appeared. "Finally! That seal is stuffy, no matter how much space I put into it!" Minato exclaimed, streching. Kushina bopped him on the head, "Oi! isn't it enough that we basically just popped out of no-where?! Do you have to also imply that we have been alive all along too?!" She shouted.
Hiruzen, who had been staring slack-jawed at the two, started a little at the wording and asked depresedly, "S-so... you aren't alive?" "Oh, we're alive alright, but we decided before completeing the seal to switch our souls instead of just selling them. Turns out that if you are offering evil souls, the shinigami will do that if it is for a noble cause." Minato explained, giving Kushina a look that said, 'Now-who-needs-to-watch-their-wording?' she just stuck her tounge out and pulled down an eye-lid at him. Hiruzen and his ANBU sweat-dropped, 'These are the 'great heros of Konoha?'. Hiruzen sighed, and asked, "If I may ask, which one are each of you?" "Well, I am the Kyubi, and Kushina is the Niibi." Minato answered. "Now, to continue about what the seal did that night, obviously it swiched our consiousnesess perminently, but it also gave us the knowledge of the biiju. So, we know everything that Kyubii and Niibi knew."
Everyone gasped at that, even the 'hidden' ANBU. "Little fun-fact, did you know that the Rikudo Sennin made the bijuu?" Hiruzen shook his head, wide eyed. 'That means that they are technically his children... hehe, he is considered a god, so they would be godlings, and most consider them demons...' "He named them too, and the names are their closest secret, so much so, that I honestly will never tell anyone their names; not even Kyubii or Niibi's names." Hiruzen looked disapointed at this, but nodded. "Our daughter knows us by those two, but she won't tell anyone either." Minato finished, and looked at Hiruzen.
"Tomorow, when Shizuko wakes up, you are to let her live in the Namikaze or Uzumaki estate, which-ever she wants to live in." Hiruzen was about to object, but Minato cut him off, "You will then announce who her parents are to the whole city, but will not allow anyone to see her yet. You will asign three senseis to her, one for taijutsu, one for ninjutsu, and one for genjutsu. There are scrolls in each of the estates on each, so it would be best to have a specialist to teach her. We would teach her fuuinjutsu and Kenjutsu along with shurikenjutsu, stealth, and other things. Unfortunatly, I have to lock the seal up tight, because she can't handle the biiju chakra, her chakra network is too delicate." Minato finished, leaving Hiruzen shocked and sad that she wouldn't have that protection.
"W-well I guess I could, I would guess you want your old position back," but he was cut off by Minato, "As much as I would love to, This is the only time we will be able to come out of the seal, and it will only last for long enough to talk to the senseis, if you decide now who they are, that is." Hiruzen sighed, and nodded. 'Drat, that means that I will have to do paperwork still...' anime style tears started falling down his cheeks, but then he composed himself, and shouted "ANBU! Get me Hatake Kakashi, Yuhi Kurenai and Maito Gai! And tell Kakashi that if he's late, I will personally see to the burning of his books." "Hai!" They responded, smirking behind their masks, and dissapeared. Not five minutes later, they were all there, and Kakashi suprisingly, or maybe not so much, was the first one there. "You requested our presence, Hokage-sama?" Kurenai asked. "Yes, I have a request for you three, from the yondaime." Hiruzen said.
All three were shocked. "Y-you mean that sensei is... alive?!" Kakashi all but shouted. Hiruzen nodded and Kakashi asked, "Where is he?!" "Where is who?" Minato asked, with a smirk on his face, the room face-faulted when Kushina came up behind him and smacked the back of his head "Baka! Stop doing stuff like this! It's bad enough that you did it to Hiruzen, but doing it to your old student?" After she finished, both were tackle hugged by Kakashi and Kurenai. "Sensei!" they shouted at the same time. "Hey there little 'Nai-chan! How have you been doing?" Kushina said. "I've been doing well enough, I even made Jonin, but I've missed you, 'Shina-sensei." Kurenai responded. "So, Kakashi, how's my cute little student been doing?" Minato asked, making Kakashi twitch, but he said anyway, "I've been ok, but I have been considering joining ANBU." "Well, you better postpone that, because we have a proposition for you three." Minato said, finally getting serious.
"Now, I am sure that the three of you know what happened for the most part, but a small recap, the Kyuubi and Niibi attacked Konoha, we sealed them into our daughter, requesting that she be seen as a hero, request ignored, she's seen as a monster, she gets beaten daily, she turns into a stuttering mess, she gets attacked today, unlocks jinton, sand crushes villager, she faints from shock, and that's it for now." when they mentioned the fact that everyone ignored their leaders last wish, everyone looked ashamed, and the three looked shocked that Shizuko was their daughter, and were even more ashamed. They looked outraged that she was attacked daily, and shocked again that she unlocked the Jinton kekkai genkai. "Now, more details. The seal that we used was 'Fuuin: Josetsu bodisuwappu'
It swapped our minds with those of the Kyuubi and Niibi, and then we killed 'ourselves'. We had also gotten seals ready to seal us into our little Shizuko."
"Wait, wait. You're telling us that you two are now the Kyubi and the Niibi?!" Kakashi shouted. Minato and Kushina winced at the volume "Not so loud scarecrow, that hurt!" Minato whined. Hiruzen, Kushina, Kurenai and Gai all laughed while Kakashi scowled. After everyone calmed down, they continued. "After we were sealed, we fell asleep for about five or six years after that. When we woke up, we started looking through Shizukos memories, and were shocked and outraged at what we saw. We started keeping tabs on what was happening, and last night we had enough and unlocked her bloodline to protect her, unfortunatly, it is now permanently on, it will always surround her like a second skin, keeping her from getting hurt, and keeping off unwanted contact." Minato finished
"Ok, now, YOU TWO ARE THE KYUBI AND NIIBI?!" Kakashi shouted. Minato and Kushina winced again, and sighed. "Yes, Scarecrow, we are the new Kyubi and Niibi." Minato sighed, and everyone but Kakashi started laughing again, and Kakashi went to the emo corner. "Meanie sensei calling me scarecrow, why did dad name me that anyway...'mumble, mumble, mumble'..." Eventually Kakashi came back again and Gai asked "So, are you back for good?" Minato sighed, and said "No, we will be going back into the seal after this, which is why we called you here. We will need you to train Shizuko in your specialties so that she can defend herself, or at the very least get away from attackers. Do you accept?" They nodded. "Good, and it seems that our time is up. We will be going back to the seal now, good-bye Scarecrow!" "Yeah, good-bye, 'Nai-chan!" They said, making Kakashi cry anime-style tears and Kurenai wave while everyone else was laughing.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A few hours later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shizuko woke up, and at first didn't know where she was, but then she rememberd what had happened the day before, and sat bolt upright. "Whoa there Shisuko-chan, it's ok, you are safe." Hiruzen said kindly. "W-what h-h-happened while I w-was out, H-Hokage-s-sama?" Shizuko asked. "Well, your parents came and explained what had happened, and requested that we give you your inheritence and train you. We accepted, and these three will be the ones to train you." Hiruzen explained, and gestured to the three jonin in the room. "These three are Jonins Hatake Kakashi, Yuhi Kurenai and Maito Gai." He introduced them. "H-hello, Hatake-s-sensei, Yuhi-s-sensei, M-maito-sensei." Shizuko said and bowed. Kakashi shook his head. "No need to bow, and at least call us by our first names, ok, Shizuko-chan?" he said with a smile. Shizuko looked at him hesitantly, "O-ok, Kakashi-s-sensei." She quietly said. Everyone smiled at her, then turned to Hiruzen.
"Now, Shizuko, I know you are smart, so you know what you hold by now, right?" He asked, and Shizuko nodded hesitantly. "Now, know that your father sealed them into you so that he and your mother could be with you, and he didn't trust anyone else with the power of the biiju, ok? It wasn't to burden you with the hatred of the village, in fact, he requested for you to be seen as a hero, but everyone ignored it." Hiruzen explained, and Shizuko bowed her head in sadness.
"Now, as for your inheritance, you will now recieve all jutsu scrolls, properties and everything on the properties along with all of the family fortunes. Kakashi will help you to understand the jutsus, but you will be the only one who will learn them." here, he sent a glare at Kakashi, who avoided eye contact, and started whistleing a tune, until Kurenai smacked him on the back of his head, and he nodded reluctantly. "Gai will help you with taijutsu scrolls, and Kurenai will help you with genjutsu, with the same rules. You will also have other physical training that will be overseen by all three of your other senseis." Hiruzen said, and Shizuko nodded slightly, shocked by all the training she would be getting. "Now, how about you go to your new home and rest, would you like for Kurenai to take you there?" Hiruzen asked, and Shizuko nodded slightly, and looked to the woman to see if she was ok with it, and Kurenai just smiled and nodded at her.
"That will be okay with me, Shizuko-chan." Kurenai grasped the little girls hand, and they walked out of the room. "Kakashi, Gai, I want you two to keep a watch over those two to make sure that no-one gets any ideas and attacks them." Hiruzen said, and the men nodded, and left the room also. Hiruzen sighed, then turned to the pile of papers that were on his desk, and his eyes widened, and anime tears started falling from his eyes, "I forgot to ask Minato the secret to paper-work! NNNNOOOOOOOOOO!" He shouted, and inside the seal, Minato heard, and started snickering, then it turned into hysterical laughing, and Kushina rolled her eyes, but started to giggle too.