Okami in (yeah i might just say "Okami out" at the end, "Okami in" just sounds ...wrong...and sexual...eugh forget i just said that! erase it from your minds!)

Sorry, I haven't updated this, I've been pretty busy with GCSE's(If you're American, this might not compute)

oh and heres a key :

Thoughts inside someones head..freaky right :P (sorry in a real funny mood today, SEE! that was in MY head, you get it? no? Then you're stupid! for some reason when your reading this type of font on mobiles, it's bold italics which is really annoying, so i'll try and make it clear which ones the inner voice and which ones the user's thoughts.

Conscience (you know that little voice inside your head, as if you've got someone trapped there. NO! it's not the same as thought. Anyway and when someone hears it, they react to it in an instant, so it's kind of like instinct too, no..wait..it's instinct to react to it, yep there we go. This is very important because it is actually something more, for now you will know it as conscience and all will be revealed(much later on), because only Sakura has a true conscience, mwuahahahaha!

" emphasis on a word." (you can distinguish it between thought if there is one word in italics in a sentence where all the other words are normal font, and also if it is in speech, like i just did there. Now you are more stupid, because i probably gave you the wrong explanation.

SHOUTING! (because talking normally is not good enough for some people, often ends with an exclamation mark.

Writing in books, scrolls, sign posts and more. (and also my little intro's)

"Tailed beast speech" coz who wouldn't give them their own font. I mean c'mon! They have this massive booming voice and their not shouting, this is more than appropriate don't get confused with the one above, this one had speech..thingies(this is why i fail at english. Scottish kids should not be made to do such a language! It is against our will... and our fight to FREEDOM! see how i used both shouting and tailed beast speech, because seriously. Scots are made of some tough shit. :P

right lets get on with it. And don't remind my that i haven't capitalized my i's... i am a rebel!


Chapter 2 : "Sorry. My hand slipped."


"quick, this way"

The summer night was eerily still save for the mockingbirds occasionally preening their feathers high up in the canopy of the forest, shrill cries forcing it's way from their throats into the air. A full moon shined brightly and glared down at the three shadowy figures crossing its path. This moon is the first part of a blue moon, which would appear later on in the month, a rare occasion.

The said figures leap from tree to tree, using the branches in order to propel themselves forwards, a much faster and quicker way of travelling opposed to the common method of running on the ground. After all they are ninja

The leader of the three shivered despite wearing an extra layer: a short-sleeved long white haori over his normal attire, decorated by flames-like motifs on the edges, with the kanji for "Fourth Hokage" written vertically down the back, and closed on the front by a thin, orange rope.

Close behind him is a spiky gray-haired teenager, bearer of a mask that covers both his mouth and nose, and shows only his right eye due to covering up his left by sliding down one side of his headband. The leaders other accomplice, placed at the rear is an older man with spiked hair that falls to his waist, accompanied by red markings on his face originating from the bottom of his eyes and vanishing below his jaw, as if the man had been crying blood.

"Minato sensei what is it?" One black eye met that of the fourth Hokage's.

"Stupid brat!" exclaimed the ninja at the rear. "Can't you recognize a baby crying when you hear one?!"

The teen scratched his head. "All i can hear are the mocking birds."

"Don't forget Kakashi, mockingbirds copy the tunes and sounds around them. "Minato replied calmly,his eyes narrowed "We are following the mockingbirds to the source, hopefully we are not too late."

Kakashi gulped as to was his sensei meant by too late. A baby out in the forest? where was it's parents?! There was no chance it could survive alone.

As they progressed the trees thinned out into a small clearing. Placed the opposite side of the area was a large mound of rocks. A small black opening sent shivers down the jonin's back when he heard piercing cries originating from the darkness.

The ninja stood, cautiously on a thick branch, overlooking the situation. Immediately Kakashi leaped forwards "Hurry! It's alive!"

But before he could hit the ground running a hand shot out and grabbed the teens jacket, pulling his back. "Be patient, this could be a trap. Jiraiya-sensei, scout the area and inform me if you spot anything suspicious."The hokage ordered.

"Yeah whatever, who knew the great JIRAIYA would be taking orders from his previous student. " The older nin grumbled as he disappeared from sight using the body flicker jutsu.

At that precise moment several shadows danced around the clearing below. Minato put a hand in front of Kakashi to hold him back.

"Wolves."

His former student looked worriedly at the supposed wolf den. "Minato sensei, what do we do?!"

"We wait."

"but-"

"Shh!" The fourth quieted the jonin.

Down below owners of the shadows finally came into view. The pack were all normal grey wolves and were rather large. Supposedly the Alpha female pricked her ears at the loud crying coming from the den. The wolf entered and returned-only upon her return she carried a newborn baby by the scruff of clothing wrapped tightly around it's tiny body.

The female settled down the baby and curled around it while the rest of the pack looked on. Amazingly the baby suckled from the she-wolfs belly.

"Ewww...gross."Kakashi pulled a face.

"Not so 'gross' if it means survival for the child."

"Well,what are we waiting for?" The teen was becoming more and more frustrated. It wasn't like Minato to neglect a helpless child, then again Kakashi recalled Jiraiya mentioning that the fourth does not do anything without good reason, so he waited for his sensei to explain.

The fourth Hokage signaled at the pack . "If we attack we or the wolves could end up accidentally harming the baby or we could pose as a threat to the pack, it is well known that wolves will kill their own pups to escape. The she-wolf seems to think of the child as her cub. We will wait until she is a good foot away from the baby before performing the flying thunder God technique, otherwise it might turn into a tug of war and the wolves will wound me as well as the child."

The fourth took out two of his special kunai and dug one into the trunk of the tree at the level they were standing. He flipped the other one in his hand anxiously waiting for his chance.

Faint rustling behind them revealed the toad sage to have returned.

"Minato! I've found two bodies close by, possibly the parents of this child. The woman has Okami clan markings, but I can't be sure as that clan is even more scattered than the Uzumaki and rarer, also- EWWWWWW..GROSS" The sage's face distorted and he stuck out his tongue.

Minato sighed and slapped his palm onto his face, letting it slide down. Jiraiya was even more immature than kids at the academy. Then the news settled in.

"Jiraiya sensei, Kakashi, take the bodies back to the hidden leaf. Head straight for the Hokage tower and explain things to the third. I will settle things later."

"Hai!" They replied and took off with Jiraiya in the lead.

The fourth stood on the branch, patiently waiting once more. Almost two minutes after the other nin left the she-wolf raised to full height, separating herself from the baby. Now

He wasn't known as the Yellow Flash for nothing. He accurately threw his kunai just and inch away from the child, which alerted the wolves so he had to act quickly. At will he appeared among them. As fast as light he snatched the baby and retreated back into the canopy using the same technique with the kunai he had lodged in the tree trunk.

He could hear the fierce growls and snapping jaws from the clearing below.

Minato cradled the bundle in his arms, amazingly the child was silent and instead looking at him with wonder in it's big yellow cat-like eyes and a face as calm as the- WAIT! yellow cat-like eyes?!

The fourth stopped in his tracks, pursuing a second glance at the child's eyes.

"Huh. Green with a normal pupil, I could've sworn..." Never mind. "There are more pressing matters at hand." Looking down at the baby again a smile had lit of it's face, and the hokage thought he saw recognition in it's eyes.

...It took them two hours before they arrived at the Konoha gates. The guards looked shocked to find their Hokage with a baby in his arms.

"I'm guessing your meeting with the Mizukage went well?" one of them volunteered to speak.

"Anything but." Minato smiled cheerfully, strange regarding the situation. "Has anyone else passed through tonight?"

"Only Lord Jiraiya and Kakashi, though they both seemed to be carrying something large-"

"Thank you." and with that the Hokage hurried to the tower.

...

Later on, the council, Minato, the Third,Jiraiya and Kakashi were all seated in the conference room.

Minato was talking. "I found this scroll in the baby's cloth. It is addressed to me, asking me to protect this child as the parents could not. It does state that the child is of the lost clan Okami, and there are a number of secret clan techniques also, only available to the child as it is her birthright. The scroll also has information on that this child carries a special kekkai genkai or chakra of some sort and that this is top-secret information and must be concealed. Our previous suspicions that the Okami did have a special chakra or secret weapon must be true, and part of the reason they went into hiding after the second world shinobi war. It is possible that this is last remaining child of the clan as there have been known to be shinobi hunt down the members in order to gain their special abilities and Clan knowledge and kill them after."

"Tests are being done now to conclude whether the bodies we found are the child's parents. Does anyone have any other information?" Sitting down Minato stared at each of the council members.

Jiraiya stretched. "Both the man and woman we found have substantially large chakras(what I mean by that is they have naturally large chakra reserves, that probably could have grown if they trained as ninja), however it seems they have no control whatsoever, well the man had a little, it seems he performed a sort of sealing jutsu recently, but not one i recognized, meaning they were not ninja, a shame as they would be a great attribute and had good potential. The woman is definitely of Okami relation, she has the distinctive markings under each of her eyes. And the Man must be in the Uzumaki clan."

"And how can you tell that?." One of the council members sneered.

Jiraiya raised an eyebrow. "Well if the Uzumaki clan symbol on his headband isn't clue, then maybe his unusual red hair colour is." He deadpanned.

The council member looked taken aback. "I thought you said they weren't ninja."

"I don't mean the ninja forehead protected , just a headband with stitching."

Sarutobi interrupted the oncoming verbal battle by raising his hand. Then he turned to Minato. "What are we going to do with the child Minato?" he asked in his husked voice.

"Because the parent entrusted to me to protect this child, I will adopt it. I am the Hokage, it is my responsibility to look after the welfare of my people and I cannot see a better protector than myself. I should not burden someone else with this responsibility."

"What about Kushina?! Is she not already seven months pregnant, how can you take up this much responsibility?" Homura asked.

"Kushina will be honored to have a distant blood relative(very,very distant), and you forget that there is two of us, and a lot of parents have to deal with twins. Also Naruto will have a playmate, which is quite suitable considering both their clans originate back to Uzushiogakure, and being that they were both very close and powerful clans."

"Alright." Sarutobi bowed his head in agreement. "Lets put it to a vote, all those in favour of Minato adopting this child as his own and letting the child grow up as a shinobi- if they have the potential- in Konoha raise your-

"I have a proposition." Danzo Shimura interrupted.

"Go on." Minato offered.

"It seems this child has great potential, and could be used to boost Konoha's military force. I offer that she be trained in Root, with me and the rest of root as her mentors. This special chakra or kekkai genkai would be very useful to us." Danzo licked his lips eagerly.

"Danzo as much as I appreciate your concern for the safety for the village, I will not allow this child to be used as a weapon. Every shinobi has the right to decide their fate. Now shall we carry on. Those who agree with my proposition, raise your hand." Yondaime concluded. He raised his right hand as did five more out of the total eleven.

"Thank you for agreeing with me." Minato bowed his head. He stole a glance at Danzo. I will have to watch him from now on.

"You are dismissed, I appreciate you all coming here." Minato waved his hand as he retread back to his desk. "Kakashi."

The Joni stopped in his tracks. "Yes Minato sensei?"

"Come here. Lord Sarutobi, will you please wait also. I need a witness."

The old man nodded and followed Kakashi to Minato's side.

The fourth revealed an adoption paper, which he scribbled down his signature at the bottom. "Hiruzen, would you please?" he asked politely.

"Of course." The previous Hokage did the same.

"Now Kakashi, from your skills in responsibility lately and your good morale's if anything were to happen to me and Kushina, I would like you to look after the Okami child. If you wish to decline, I understand, but keep in mind, I'm not asking you to take responsibility shortly, hopefully I will be around for a long time."

The Jonin stood, shocked, his eye widening from the news. "I-uh..." He had several images going through his head, one was strangely him breastfeeding the baby. To clear his mind he gave himself a shake.

"Of course." he answered, trying to sound firm, but instead cam out as a squeak.

Minato chuckled. "Please sign here then, as her legal guardian" He offered the pen.

Kakashi took it, trembling with fear and nauseousness he wrote his full name along with Minato's and Sarutobi's.

"Now we need a name for this child..."Hiruzen thought out loud.

Minato glanced around his office for some inspiration, until his eyes landed on a photograph upon his desk. It showed both Minato and Kushina smiling and both holding a large white waterlily, so big they needed to hold it together to show of it's size.

"How about..Renata Namikaze."


"So all in all, you performing this jutsu, saved a life, in a way, even if you violated a number of our laws, you should be proud of yourself Naruto."

Naruto stared blankly at the shinobi.

"I don't get it."

A vein bulged in Kakashi's forehead. He took a deep breath.

"Basically, Naruto, using this jutsu while you were being transported to a different location, you had to pass a lot of time vortex's and whatnot, meaning you were passing through time and alternative universes because it is a space-time jutsu, but just before you completed your journey, something interrupted the journey and you got snagged in a world six years in the past."

"Still not getting it."

The hokage gave the jonin a look as if to say ' this nothing compared to what I have dealt with these past years since Naruto has started talking' before turning to the boy.

"Think of it like this, you perform the jutsu to transport you to the special kunai, so you go through a tunnel because it's a journey, however before you get to the end of the tunnel you break away part of the tunnel wall and climb out but into the past because the tunnel travels through time. But for safety measures a rope is attached around your waist to pull you back after a limited time of exploring to finish the journey."

"Ohh - no. Almost...one more try?" Naruto asked.

"Never mind, lets just say you traveled back in time where you safely hid a baby, which had you not done the baby would have been killed. The baby was found by the fourth hokage and Kakashi here, and currently resides in Konoha. " The Hokage finished.

"Wow, so I saved someone's life?! Naruto giddy with excitement jumped up from the chair. "Who is it?!"

"I'm sorry Naruto but for safety reasons I am not permitted to give away any more information about her than I already have."

Kakashi leaned in to whisper in the Hokage's ear. "But sir, didn't you already tell him nearly everything he needs to know?!"

"Ha! So it's a girl! You can't stop me now, I have all the facts...now what was her name again...?" Naruto trailed off in thought as he tried to remember anything the hokage told him, but could only conjure up the information he already had beforehand.

The Hokage whispered back . "This way, he won't have to argue that we didn't tell him everything that he has the right to know of, which he does in a way, but don't worry, that boy has the attention span of a-"

"SQUIRREL!"

Naruto's eyes darted out the window as he spotted the furry rodent and ran off in pursuit of his new target.

"What a retarded kid." The jonin whistled.

The Third just bowed his head in agreement.


After conversing with Sarutobi about the whole fiasco, Kakashi Hatake retired from the Hokages office. After all, he had a lunch date to attend to with a kunoichi at his apartment. Being 19 years old and having his current occupation as a high ranking jonin, the shinobi had brought in a substantial amount of money, enough to make his home, shall I say "more comfortable" and had what many other ninja homes lacked in the quality of furniture department. So his clean,tidy and nice looking home was sure to impress the kunoichi.

After all, he had told her to make herself at home,(before being ordered away by the hokage) so his wealth could sink in. The only room that seemed small and plain was his bedroom.

Well that doesn't matter, it's not like she was going to see it...or will she? Kakashi thought with a perverted look on his face, though only those who know him well enough could tell, due to his face being obscured by a mask.

The Jonin arrived within mere minutes and ruffled through his pockets,searching for his keys, before he remembered it was open. Chuckling to himself at his own stupidity, Kakashi reached for the door knob. What happened instead was the the door flung open from the inside, and holding the handle was Nukoma Mirafimi, somewhat enraged and upset.

The Kunoichi pointed a dangerous finger at Kakashi's face as he cowered in fear, which increased when her glare found his eye.

"You never said anything about A KID!"

Her roar rivaled that of the tyrannosaurus Rex...and Nessie's ;P

The older teen flinched and devoted his gaze to behind and to the left of Nukoma. His eye narrowed when he spotted a six year-old girl smiling nervously and uneasily,trying to divert her gaze to anywhere but him. Noted that there was a frying pan upside-down atop her head. Wonder how that got there.

Nukoma stomped past Kakashi like the angry stegosaurus she was,muttering how she was not ready for this type of commitment.

"W-Wait! Nukoma!She's not my kid!" He yelled in a last effort to redeem himself.

"Thats what they all say!" She retorted and disappeared from sight.

Kakashi groaned as he slowly dragged his palm down his face. He stumbled into his apartment and plopped himself down on the couch.

The girl opened her mouth to speak and shut it immediately after being silenced by Kakashi's raised hand.

"I asked you to do one thing. You had one task...to stay in the cupboard until the date was done." The jonin drawled and sighed as if the world just ended.

The girl shrugged her shoulders apologetically and tried to look innocent.

"Oops?"

"Oops?OOPS?!THAT was the first date I've had in six years , thanks to you." Even though he didn't mean it, and the girl knew that, she still flinched.

Silence passed.

"I needed to pee."

"I gave you a pan, which you are currently wearing."

"It served better as a hat, the pipes were leaking or something."

"Liar, you just "felt sorry for someone that looked so alone" again, didn't you?And because of that it probably won't be years before I get another date."

After many moments the girl sat on the arm of the sofa and chuckled uneasily, trying to lighten the mood.

"No pain, no game right?"

Kakashi glared at her, though it was partly mock. That is until he truly saw what he was looking at.

"How many times have I told you not to sit on the couch arms." He said in a dangerously low tone.

The girl shuffled. "Two?"

"EVERYDAY!" The Jonin screeched. "I ask you not to do one simple thing, one thing!"

"Actually.. you ask me not to do a lot of things, and almost all are not simple." The girl replied in a monotone voice before clamping a hand over her mouth.

Kakashi's face turned purple.

"YOU ARE RUINING MY LIFE!" The usually lazy teen leaped for her. "COME HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!"

Alarmed the girl sprang from the couch and thus began a game of cat and mouse. Towards the end the girl was screaming with laughter and excitement as Kakashi let out his playful side and tackled her to the floor.

"No...Noooo! Anything but-"

" A Thousand Years of Tickles!" the Jonin announced before executing his 'jutsu'.


"I am truly sorry, Nii-san." The girl mumbled.

The 'siblings' were now walking down the main street of Konoha through the marketplace, Kakashi giving the girl a piggy-back, something he did often.

"It's okay, I probably didn't have a chance with her, anyway." Kakashi tried to reassure her.

"Phew, I'm glad you realized, I mean, she was waaaaay out of your league."

A vein bulged in the jonin's forehead.

"Bu that wasn't what I was apologizing for." She said as she pointed to Kakashi's bruised face.

"hmmm?"

"I just tend to strike out when I'm being tickled or something."

"Or something, eh?" The older teen ruffled her hair. He just happened to be stuck with one that had a catchphrase.

"Well that frying pan had it coming for it." Kakashi tried to make light out of the situation. "Anyway, I think it looks better now , with an imprint of my face, don't you think, Renata."

Silence answered him. Her turned his head to see her head tipped down so her bangs covered the top half of her face. He carried on pretending not to notice the sudden change in her attitude.

"It's Ren." She muttered darkly.

"But that's not your name."Kakashi teased, knowing full well where this was heading.

"You know very well that's what dad used to call me ." she sighed. Kakashi froze. He still couldn't get over the fact that she was different..in some ways more than one.

"Nii-san?" Ren filled the silence.

"You shouldn't say things like that in public or people will get suspicious."

"Sorry."

"Just keep those plasters on and try to watch what you say, and it will be alright. Just until you get stronger."

"Okay." she whimpered. Then decided to return to the previous topic. "But it's not just because it's a nickname, it's because Renata means flower ,or something. Delicate and fragile. Half the kunoichi in this village are named after flowers, and most are not nearly as half as strong as the men. I think it's also because Kunoichi don't get trained as harshly because they are seen as 'flowers' and don't get the skills they need or something, so they always rely on the men. I want to be an example, that kunoichi can be strong! But having a name that means water-lily...it's just..the whole thing is so degrading, I mean I know dad called me that because it meant something special to him, but I also think he thought the way I did, considering he called me Ren too, unless that was just out of laziness or something. I just want to prove that Kunoichi can be as good as men. And that we can protect this village without being rescued all the time, and gain the acknowledgment we deserve. Thats why...I want to become the first female Hokage! I want to show that I can protect this village, no matter what my gender is. I just don't want anyone to think that we are weak. Konoha will need someone after the Third goes, which hopefully won't be for a while. And I want to be that someone...or something."

Kakashi listened with amazement at Ren's speech. He also noticed some of the other villagers listening and clapped quietly after it it, smiling with appreciation.

Ren ducked her head in embarrassment.

"That was a very fine statement, Ren. And you know what?"

"What?"

"I think you will change the village for the better, even if you don't become Hokage." He eye-smiled at her (because that's what I'm going to say whenever he smiles form now on, because you can't really see his smile)

"Thanks nii-san." She said as she wrapped her arms loosely around in neck in a warm embrace.

A sudden ruckus caught the siblings attention. Further on down the street a young boy was in a heated argument with a civilian. Ren could make out the words "Have you seen.", "baby" and "Eye-dots." The girl stared in confusion, thinking about what to make of the scene in front of them. Ren slipped off Kakashi's back to get a better view while walking beside her brother.

When she heard "Piss off!" from the civilian she noted the boy ducking his head and coming towards the siblings.

Kakashi noticed this too and acted quickly. By acting quickly I mean striking out his right arm and punching Ren in the side of the head.

The impact was so great that the girl was immediately thrown back from the force and hit the stone wall at the side of the street, concealed mostly by the stores and stands. when there was a gap between stalls, the villagers stacked and stored sandbags in that space for later use. These sand bags are what softened her landing as she hit them, then rolled over and landed behind them, hidden from the sight of a certain blonde spiky-haired boy. Unfortunately they only cushioned part of her, while the rest of her body banged against the wall, which formed a crack from the affect.

The whole thing took a less than a second.

Naruto eyed Kakashi warily as he walked passed him, dismissing the sand puffing up into the air to his left. "I'm close, believe it!"

Kakashi just blatantly ignored him.

"Hey! Answer me!" Kakashi flinched. He felt like he was betraying his sensei, but at the moment Renata's safety came first, and he was not going to let a blabbermouth spoil that. He could tell his time travelling story and nobody would believe him, thinking it was an attention-seeking scheme but if he had Renata as proof well then that would be a different story. And the Jonin knew the boy knew that, the only reason for Naruto keeping his mouth shut. For now. But if he did find her, then he would blurt out everything, and people would become suspicious. Certain unnamed people,that is.

"You're just like everyone else!" The boy yelled at him and Kakashi jumped slightly at the statement. "What's wrong with me!" The frustrated six year old grabbed at his head and began pulling on his hair. The Jonin sighted tears streaming down Naruto's face before the kyuubi container ran off. Kakashi sighed for the umpteenth time that day, but this one was full of regret.

"What was that for?" Ren asked, not even the slightest bit annoyed, just curious, as she pulled herself up using the sandbags and started to dust the sand off her clothes. She stumbled back into the street while using her her hands to pop her dislocated jaw back into place. She scrunched her face up during the procedure which only took about too seconds then relaxed.

"Sorry. My hand slipped." Kakashi drawled as he hid a smile.

"Huh. Nice going. You dislocated my jaw and I think I broke a rib against that wall or something."

"Well I didn't think you'd mind anyway, after all you have a particularly high pain threshold."

"Nii-san...I have the lowest pain threshold , probably in this whole village. I just don't let on." Ren smiled. "But then again, I've got massive amounts of chakra reserves to make up for it. You know, by the time I've become a genin, I think we both know I'll have more than you do now, after all my real parents also had mahoosive amounts, and when I train to become a ninja, mine will only grow or something." The six-year old grinned at the thought. "And I'll be the strongest Hokage yet!Excluding dad, of course." she added.

Ren glanced back at the crack her body had made in the wall and cracked her neck, back and finger joints back into place.

"Some would say this is child abuse."

"Others would say it was obedience training."


"OKay open it up."

"You know I swear my birthday was four days ago or something..."

"Do you know what I had to do, to get this for you...do you know what? If you don't want it then I'll take it back!"

"No!" Ren yelled. "I never said such a thing." Clutching the long rectangular box to her chest.

It was the next day after Kakashi's and Naruto's meeting with the Hokage and Ren was still feeling the effects of getting punched by a jonin. The girl had in fact completely forgotten her birthday, and today was the reminder of it when Kakashi presented to her a present.

The Jonin grinned. " Well go on open it."

Ren slid her finger under the lid and pull it up, ever so cautiously, trying to get a sneak peak.

"Squirt, it's not Christmas when I let you have a sneak peak at one of your presents, just open it for Kami's sake."

In a motion the yellow flash would be proud of the lid of the box vanished. Inside were what seemed to be two wooden staffs. Though they were both half the size, if you put them together they would make a 140 cm staff. To Ren, they were perfect.

The six-year old leaped into her brothers arms and hugged him tightly

"Thank you,thank you,than you!" She whispered in glee. She couldn't believe it! Now she would have her own signature techniques as a ninja. The girl couldn't wait to enroll in the academy in three weeks time.

Unfortunately the council had persuaded the hokage to hold her back and tried to stop her from becoming a ninja because then she would be allowed out the village and that was 'dangerous' for her, practically meaning they didn't want a weapon in their enemies hands.

Fortunately though the Hokage agreed to hold her back a year he made it clear she would be joining when she was six years old.

Picking up her (I don't know what they're called, if anyone knows please say, or if you can think up of a really cool name for them) half-staffs, one in each hand, Ren placed herself into a fighting stance and beckoned Kakashi to spar with her.

A wild grin lit up her face when he agreed and they both danced back and fourth. While doing so the jonin noted how much potential Ren had as a ninja and how she was a natural, with her movements flowing both graceful and powerful.

"Shame they weren't ninja, they had potential"

Kakashi thought back to Jiraiya's statement of Ren's parents. Looking at her now he could see her parents potential passed down to her. But he also thought of something else, a lot to do with Ren's personality and her attitude to certain things.

She's like a carbon-copy of Minato sensei, Naruto may have his looks, and some parts of his personality, but Renata's got his inner mind and thoughts. Kakashi thought. He still didn't understand why.

3 months old? 3 months spent in his company. That was not enough time to take Minato as a role model and follow his ideals, especially not at that age when the brain isn't fully formed enough to remember. But somehow Renata did. None of them could work it out, him nor the hokage, and Ren was as clueless as they were as to how she remembered everything since she was born, and in such detail, so that things like words she remembered being said around her when she was a baby, she could understand now, and remember it vividly.

Could this possibly be a part of the special traits of the Okami clan?

"Squirt, see those weapons you got there. Did you know that your dad made them for you when you were two months old?" Nope I guess not, he thought when he saw the shocked expression on Ren's face.

"He wanted you to have something from him for when you were older to remind you of your heritage and your clans home. See your clan's main family head often used the wooden staff as their main weapon. When they were young it was just two half-staffs like yours, but as they got older and taller, somehow they would merge them together to make a very powerful staff, I'm not sure how, but I think Minato did. He also said something about how they were made from a sacred Ironwood tree, which he made your own from when he went on a mission to Uzushiogakure."

"Dad knew so much about my clan, what else did he mention." Eager for more and unable to contain her excitement , Ren sat down on the couch to calm down.

The teen did the same.

"Something about how there was a common nature release in your clan, passed down through the main family not a kekkai genkai mind. And how it must be used to connect your too staffs. I think he believed you had it too, After all your real mother was the heir to the Okami clan. And not only do you have strong Okami blood, but your real father was an Uzumaki, though when we compared his DNA to Kushina's , it's seems he was very distantly related,but an Uzumaki nonetheless You have no idea how great a shinobi you can become Renat-Ren. Perhaps even better than me." he said with a smirk.

His sister showed little surprise as he progressed, and the jonin realized she must have heard snippets of it all before but not put together like this so there was no real shock, just her past confusion replaced with understanding. And then something in her face made him think she was going to change the subject.

"You know what Nii-san? I really admire you, even if I don't show it much, and you can be kinda lazy. But the best thing about you is that you never leave anyone behind. "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are trash. However, those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash" or something remember?! I won't forget that ever Nii-san. And you are so powerful! I can see how you made chunin at only 6 years old!" He was right, yet he didn't realize she did it because Ren was suspicious of if anyone listening through the open window on the other side of the room.

At that moment Kakashi had only one thought : Obito

"Hey squirt" he ruffled her hair. " If they had entered you in the academy last year, I'm positive you would've been the same, especially with me helping you along the way." he winked, though Ren was unsure considering his other eye was covered up.

"Nii-san?"

"Hmm?"

"I'm glad your my brother."

Shock showed clearly on his face . Then he eye-smiled.

"Me too. Minato and Kushina were very glad to have you as a daughter."

"Thanks, nii-san. I needed to hear that...hmm...or something" Yawning and stretching her arms over her head, she curled up to the older teen,top half lying on him,while bottom half taking up some space on the couch. Steady deep breathing proved Kakashi's suspicions of her falling into unconsciousness.

He lightly placed his arms around her and shuffled her into a more comfortable position. His eyelid felt heavy with tiredness,

He closed his eye and felt sleep drag him off into a dream.

They stayed like that until the morning sunlight shone through the windows.


Naruto growled in frustration. "ARRRRGH!"he yelled into the sky, gaining him several concealed looks from civilians. How could it be so hard to find one baby.

That stupid jonin! The nerve! He didn't even have the decency to acknowledge him when Naruto spoke to him two days ago. He's hiding something, he must be! Stupid Kakashi,stupid Hokage,stupid baby that I can't find.

Poor Naruto. He doesn't seem to realize that that baby is the same age as him, focusing on the fact Ren was a baby when he met her. The boy just does not understand even the slight basics of time travel.

Naruto kicked at the ground. "I mean come on! How many babies have small black rectangles under their eyes. I've checked every baby with green eyes, but none of them have them! Also none of them had those type of green eyes." He thought out loud to no one in particular.

It's been almost two weeks since he went back in time and he was now hanging about the academy, on his favourite lonely swing feeling miserable.

Shouting erupted from the undergrowth behind him.

The six-year old jumped before deciding to move closer to get a better view as to what was going on.

Three older kids surrounded a little six year old girl with shiny navy hair in a short, levelled hime-cut style just above her forehead, with chin-length strands framing her face. From Naruto's point of view, and almost everyone else at that fact if they were watching, the boys were picking on her and were about to beat her up.

What?! She didn't do anything wrong! Naruto didn't understand. So he did the only thing he could. He stepped in.

In return for his heroic act Naruto got beat up, though he managed to land a good few hard punches. The girl was ushered away by another hyuuga clan member and the bullies ran off. For now. Naruto groaned as he felt a pulsing pain in his head when he attempted to sit up. Trying again he managed to use a nearby tree as support while he grabbed the tree vines to pull himself up to his full height.

Rustling up above snapped up his attention. He turned his gaze upwards and caught sight of a girl -wearing a white clothing- his age standing above on a branch of the tree he using for help. Watching him.

"Are you gonna make fun of me too?!" He yelled at her. " Go on then!Treat me like the outcast I am!"

The girl looked taken aback and instead reach out a hand. "No I don't mean to-"

"Just leave me alone! All of you!" Naruto couldn't disguise the fury and hurt in his voice, he also paid not attention to the hurt on the girls face.

"Leave you alone, eh? Now that wouldn't be very sensible of us, leaving someone alone who deserves to be knocked into tomorrow for punching our brothers and thus is "dangerous" four our village, and we must protect our village."

Naruto whipped around to face three very much newly appointed genin boys. None of them clan, but it seems strong enough to graduate. Fear flashed across Naruto's eyes but only for a second. He change his stance to defensive and spat in the lead boys face.

"Bring it!"

The genin wiped the saliva off his cheek. "Your gonna pay for that brat!" He roared, letting lose a sudden punch that sent Naruto sprawling to the floor. But the kid wasn't done. He started to kick Naruto in the stomach, no matter the attempts the boy made on standing back up again. His stamina was incredible to be able to keep moving like that.

"Had enough, kid?!" The bully wiped the blood of his sandal into the grass.

"I'm just getting started." Naruto smiled, his teeth stained red.

"Alright then, here it comes." Smirking, the genin gave Naruto an upper cut punch under his jaw, lifting the boy into the air, Kicked his stomach once more to maximize the pain, then drew back his fist for a fatal blow. Naruto clenched his eyes shut his he waited for it to connect.

Seconds passed.

Naruto cracked open his left eye, and he saw white and reddish-brown colour's in front of him.


Ren's grip on the genin's wrist tightened. If she had't intervened, she knew Naruto would be fatally wounded. And she was not just going to sit by and watch it happen.

"Thats enough," she hissed through clenched teeth. " Don't you dare harm another hair on his head. We are supposed to be looking out for each other in this village, not beating others to a pulp."

The genin was lost for words. One moment he was about to pound this boy into the next world, the next, he saw a flash of white, and his punch was restricted by a six year old girl! He spluttered for a second in shock. Then regained his balance, as they all landed on the ground, the girl supporting Naruto with her other arm. He felt nails dig into his forearm as she gave him an icy stare.

The genin seemed to remember who he was and ripped his arm from the girls grip, ignoring the pain. Glancing back at the girl, his eyes widened in shock.

"Hey! I know who you are! My dad told me you were adopted by the Fourth Hokage! Guess that means your parents are dead huh? Wait that also means your second parents are dead too!" The boy laughed evilly.

Ren was not amused.

"Until someone stops saying their name or talking about them, then that person is still alive." She said proudly. Kakashi always said she needed to cut down on the amount of older things that come out of that mouth of hers. She was too mature for her age, he said, always spewing such wise nonsense, he said. Ren smiled at the thought of Kakashi's reaction to this new one.

"Pfft, what a load of bull. You wouldn't think the fourth Hokage would be so stupid as to adopt a worthless retch like you."

"It's one thing to insult me. It's another thing to insult my family. I will give you one more chance." Ren said as she slowly reach behind her. Her fingers stroked smooth wood. Getting ready to fight, because for some reason she knew the genin wouldn't back down.

"Ooh I'm so scared, whatcha, gonna do, poke me with sticks."

Ren grinned. "Not exactly."

Her fingers gripped the smooth wood and she pulled her half-staffs into view. One in each hand. She had been training with them eight hours a day since she got them and they felt perfectly balanced in her hands now.

"Bring it." She chose to echo Naruto.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA-" His laughter was cut off after a flash of white and a severe,hard Jab to the stomach.

Ren side-stepped the second genin who was running towards her, jumped up in the air and brought both half-staffs down flat on his back using her momentum from jumping in the air to put a heavy impact into it, using gravity and her weight despite being quite slim.

No.2- Ren named them by numbers in her head- coughed blood and struggled to stand upright after the blow to his back.

Ren looked up just in time to see a punch swinging for her by a recovered No.1- No.3 seemed to be sitting at the side lines, probably there for morale support, afraid to get into the fray- She ducked, No.1 missed and Ren swept his feet out from under him using her straightened left leg by doing a sort of flat roundhouse kick to his shins.

The genin fell forwards, though tried to redeem himself by throwing out three quick punches, before he hit the ground. Ren managed to deflect two of them with her half-staffs and took the third to her stomach which growled in reply.

It was then that No.3 got stuck in. He leaped for the girl in white(Ren) kicking and punching. Ren blocked every one of them. Seriously, these genin were pretty pathetic. Their Jonin must not have given them their test yet, otherwise she was sure they wouldn't be here with those headbands on.

Then No.3 reach in their pouch and flicked three Kunai at her. Kunai!

"That's a bit extreme don't you think." Ren drawled as she used her half-staffs against her opponent. The kunai embedded themselves in the wood,damaging her defenses immensely. Concerned by the condition of her weapons, Ren didn't Notice No. 2 draw his own kunai.

"Look out!" Ren turned in the direction of the voice. Copyright:Naruto. Fortunately this warning gave Ren enough time to pinpoint the enemy and dodge out of the way. The kunai graze her cheek. Not too deep, but deep enough to draw a substantial amount of blood. Some dripped down her white top, staining it. Most of the red liquid covered her hands.

"Not so tough now, are you." No.2 smirked. Inside, Ren screamed at the pain. Outside it looked as if she was being bugged by an annoying fly. She ripped out the kunai from her half-staffs. Taking up her defensive stance again, she smeared her blood along her half-staffs, which absorbed it greedily.

The wound was deeper than I thought it was...good.

She smiled politely while dipping her fingers in her wound, widening it,ignoring the raging pain and gathered her blood in her hands, smearing more of it along her damaged half-staffs.

One thought was running through all three of the genin and Naruto's head:

This girl is mentally ill.

What they didn't see was her weapons gradually start to 'heal' as the slits closed up like some sort of medical jutsu was used on them. Yet the only thing healing those half-staffs was Ren's blood.AN: you will find out more about this later.

So when the girl came at the genin in a flurry of kicks,jabs and swings, they couldn't believe their eyes. Not only did the half-staffs look brand new, but they were not longer soaked in blood, and the girl had extensive knowledge in both taijustsu and kenjustsu (which I think include staffs is well, especially in the way Ren wields them)

She blocked there terribly timed punches with her half-staffs while delivering successful punches and kicking in vital areas such as the kidneys, and *cough* the boys 'treasured parts' *cough*.

At some point she even head-butted one on the forehead, which she found out was not the best idea, considering she was only six and these genin had very thick skulls.

Ren was getting rapidly tired and the genin still had energy to spare, not to mention the blood-loss she experienced. Ninjutsu was out of her league and she didn't have enough experience to use chakra, considering she doesn't know how.

Already she made three mistakes due to not being able to concentrate, costing her another encounter with the Kunai and some small strands of her hair(which she could care less about anyway).

Kakashi always warned her that with sloppiness came a price. Knocking them unconscious was the only way. I mean it's not as if their going to get killed if I just leave them there, we are in Konoha for Kami's sake! Ren debated with herself while she continued to defend both her and the boy.

Okay, deal with No.1 and No.2 first, they'll just get in the way when I go for No.3 who seems to be the strongest -surprisingly- and I need the extra space and time to defeat him.

3.2.1...NOW!

And with that thought Ren threw her Half-staffs with as much strength as she could muster, managing to add some of her chakra into them too, each one of her weapons hit No.1 and No.2 directly in the forehead, effectively knocking them out. Naruto who has been watching the whole fight, failed in resisting to laugh and chuckled to himself.

"That was the funniest thing I have seen! Two genin, taken out by sticks!" Naruto pounded the ground,unable to keep his laughter to himself. This affected Ren and she too couldn't help but giggle as she thought about it for a second. The scene did look quite idiotic, especially after all that cool fighting that was commencing before.

Once again Ren was distracted, but this time she didn't mind, especially if it was by the boy. However a kick the in the back in the knees is a sure way to get your opponent down to the ground and No.3 was trying to make Ren eat the dirt.

Literally.

He had his hand pressed firmly into the back of her head pushing her face down into the mud. Bringing his arm under her body he delivered several upward punches to her unprotected stomach, causing Ren to cough up blood.

She was in complete agony. Damn my low pain threshold, I can barely move. I will not scream or beg. Don't cry. Don't gasp. Don't scream. Don't scream. Don't give in. Ren kept repeating in her head as she received the beating of her life.

"Nobody messes with me or my friends!" She heard Dickwad growl through gritted teeth. I got tired of calling him No.3 and Dickwad suits him so much more. And the other two. hmm... maybe Twig for no.2 and Thud for no.1, yeah he seems like a Thud..or Oof for that matter?

Yeah I was so wrong the first time. This guy isn't the morale support, he's the ring leader.

What he didn't know, and Ren for that matter, was that Naruto was sneaking up behind them.

WHACK!

A larger clanging noise radiated from the impact. Hit on the back of the head, Dickwad lost consciousnesses and fell limp onto Ren, who spluttered and started coughing and wheezing.

"Can't...breathe...get..him..off... me...please." Never forget manners, number one rule in Minato's book, no matter how dire the situation.

"Oh right sorry." Naruto replied scratching the back of him head in embarrassment before he started pulling Dickwad off the six year old and dumping him beside her. Ren struggling to stand, spluttering blood down her chin. She was a mess, covered in dirt mixed with blood, though most was hers, she'd managed to wound the genin quite a bit.

Suddenly her legs gave out and she fell backwards, only to he caught by another pair of arms. Ren's forest green eyes looked up into Naruto's bright blue ones and she smiled. "Hey," she noticed. "You look right as rain, you sure do heal quick or something, don't you?" her words slurred.

Then Naruto gave her the biggest Ren she had ever seen. "Heh, I guess I do."

"Hmmm, I like rain. It's cool and refreshing. I wish it was raining now or something."

Delirious is what came to mind as Naruto continued to stare back at her.

Several silent moments passed as they both just looked at each others eyes and faces. Naruto still holding Ren by standing behind her with his arms hooked under hers and her feet trailing in the now muddy clearing.

"Thanks, ya know," Naruto scratched the back of his head again diverting his gaze. Ren almost found it cute." For uh..saving me back there. That was some sweet moves you pulled! And those sticks of yours! They're awesome." Ren winced in pain as Naruto jostled her in his arms in excitement.

"Whoops sorry." Then his face drained of colour as Ren saw realization eat away at his eyes.

"What?!" She demanded. The girl felt weak. "Whats wrong. " Her voice was nothing more than a croak.

"You're covered in blood." He told her straight. "You've got cuts all over you and this massive one on your cheek." Which you made worse by sticking your fingers in it ,he silently thought it wasn't a good idea to mention that part.

Ren flicked her hand. "Aah ..I'll be alright," she drawled. "your over-reacting or something, it's probably nothing." The girl was no stranger to blood, but she's never seen so much when she caught sigh of her reflection in Naruto's eyes.

"Oh."

And then something dawned on her. "Wait a sec, how did you knock out Dickwad, I heard a clang."

"Who?"

"The guy I was fighting with, in my head I called him dickwad, the skinny one 'Twig' and the other one 'Thud' or 'Oof', can't decide which."

"Good names, I thought he looked a bit like a dickwad."

"I know right!"Ren grinned. "So how about it.

"Oh, I used this!" Naruto pretty pleased with himself, pulled out something shiny.

"Where the fuck did you get a shovel from?!"


Since they established that the shovel was in a very camouflaged shack that had been there the whole time, Naruto thought it was a good idea to move there to get Ren cleaned up. Containing snacks, hot water,blankets and towels, the shack had everything they needed for now.

Naruto wiped away at the grime and blood from Ren's face with a hot-water soaked flannel, though, it took a long time because every time Ren winced in pain Naruto stopped, even though Ren insisted it didn't hurt.

He was most hesitant to clean out the wound on her cheek, but Ren said it need to be done otherwise it would get infected and she couldn't do it since she feels it near impossible to inflict pain on herself willingly due to her low pain threshold.

She had to bite down on a thick piece of cloth to keep herself from screaming out in pain. Naruto decided it was best not to tell her how deep the wound really was. It was definitely going to leave an ugly scar.

"No offense, but you not the best at cleaning cuts with care." Ren half-joked giving him a weak punch to the shoulder,

Naruto returned the hit, but more more delicately "Says the one who just got her ass kicked and in the end saved by me." The boy stuck his tongue out at her. "Ya know, I've never seen you around before."

"Weird I always see you. You're the kid that always pulls the pranks or something right? I saw you a couple days ago having an argument with a civilian when I was out with nee-san, you passed by but you didn't see me, since nee-san decided it was time for some "Obedience training"." Naruto frowned at the quotation marks Ren made with her fingers, but he didn't ask what they meant. He wanted to look smart. After all she was a girl. Who seems kind of pretty, has killer moves AND she's funny.

"you sure do say 'or something' a lot."

"And you don't say 'ya know' every two minutes, kiddo." Ren smiled. Naruto looked offended at the kiddo remark, but brushed it off.

"Everyones gotta have a catchphrase, ya know!" he grinned and they both laughed.

"So do you go to the ninja academy?"She suddenly asked him with a bright spark in her eyes.

"Yeah,why?"

"What's it like."

Naruto was oblivious to the dreamy look Ren conjured upon her face, thinking she was in awe of him, not the academy.

"Well, so far it's pretty boring, but we just started learning the transformation technique...

Ren listened through hours worth of information, her interest only rising, while Naruto was also taking in her appearance Long straight light brown hair with a hint of red, apart from her bangs which curved around her face. (exactly like Kushina's hairstyle when she first joined the academy)

Her eyes were mesmerizing. Naruto could stare into them and get lost in those green leaves, not knowing if days have passed. They were eerily familiar, but he pushed that thought out of his mind.

Unlike his though, she had sharp eyes, almost like they were constantly narrowed, which made him laugh when she actually narrowed them because she would look extremely angry and dangerous without intending to. Her face was also sharp, there was not soft edge to it whatsoever.

Again he was yet to find a girl he liked who was smaller than him. Ren was at least ten centimeters taller and she had a lithe build with long legs. He wondered if she trained, then dismissed the thought. She was the same age as him and yet not at the academy, meaning she was just an ordinary civilian, yet how did that explain those awesome moves he saw today and the weapons she's used, not to mention how she fought hard not to scream out in pain.

He was about to ask her that very question when he noticed a very notable feature on her face: plasters.

One long horizontal rectangular plaster under each eye, with only about half a centimeter of skin between the plaster and the lower eyelid. This intrigued him. And he was ready to ask a question about the plasters when Ren spoke first.

"I'm entering the academy next week. We'll be in the same class or something I think! won't that be cool!" She burst out.

His mind wiped clear at her statement and then commenced to leap up and fist-pump the air

"That is so awesome!" He was finally going to have someone to talk to in class. No more kids picking on him for being who he was, he now had someone who liked who he was. Beeping interrupted his thoughts.

Ren stared in annoyance at the digital watch clasped around her wrist.

"Stupid nee-san, always ruining everything," she grumbled before realizing Kakashi had said the same about her not too long ago .

"Sorry I've got to go, thanks for the help." She said as she started to climb out the window .Naruto had barricaded the door in case the bullies woke up and found the shack, and Ren really didn't have enough strength, or blood for that matter to move the items out of the way.

"H-hey! Wait" Naruto cried. He stared at the back of the girl. He didn't noticed her light brown leather straps around her back and chest, forming and X shape on her front and back. Two loop holes originate at the center of the X on the back where Ren had stuck her half-staffs,which also followed the shape of an X on her back in the same fashion the leather straps did. However from the front view you could see parts of the half-staffs sticking out over her shoulders and out the side of her hips.

Ren looked back, crouched in the window sill at the boy with the big blue eyes and intriguing whisker marks on his cheeks.

"Who are you?" He asked, hoping for a name.

Ren smiled with her eyes close.

"I'm your friend...or something"

Then she was gone.


"Gotta get home or nii-san's gonna get annoyed and he'll give my dinner to pakkun." Ren told her self to motivate her legs to run faster through the patch of trees and undergrowth. That dog is fat enough already. Leaves,twigs and thin branches were whipping her in the face but she didn't care. She was ecstatic!

She had made her first friend. Well yeah...all the civilians knew her and were nice to her, and a lot of ninja too, they had all taken a liking to her, especially since she was kind of the fourth hokage's daughter and tended to share a lot of his personality traits. And of course Kakashi -who was also quite popular- was her guardian/brother.

Stinging like someone had sprayed lemon juice into her wounds Ren scrub harshly at her face with her hands, still running, trying to wipe away whatever it was was making her face hurt. She felt a slight bit of a pain under her left eye and the stinging subsided. It must have been a sort of acidic liquid on the leaves.

She finally got out onto the street where no one was paying much attention to her, they were all used to seeing her run home covered in dirt, probably after a self-training session out in the wooded area. No one that is except for a certain shadow in her life.

Ren huffed, and wheezed when she allowed herself to break. She was going through oxygen debt after doing anaerobic exercise. Taking an alley route as a shortcut was the right idea considering her current state. Already half-way through the way she felt someone breathe on the back of her neck.

It was only when someone grabbed her arm and twisted it painfully behind her back did she immediately stopped breathing.

A mans face. Inches away from her own stared down at her in glee. But Ren knew it wasn't the good kind of glee.

The ninja -since he had a leaf headband- ripped off the plaster under her right eye, and it was only then did Ren's fear really take form. Her other plaster. She must have scrubbed it off! how could she be so stupid!

Seeing those markings under her eyes made the ninjas smile stretch even wider and she heard him speak before she was knocked out.

"I found you, little Okami."


DUN DUN DUNNNNN

8000 of those words took me the whole of this morning from 1 in the morning till 7. flipping heck I did't realise it would be more than 10 flippin thousand words!

anyway, no she is not a mary-sue:

1. she practically got beat up.

2. those genin were non clan and just scraped by the exams and yes they later on fail the test their jonin gives them because they are seriously weak.

3. She has been training for 8 hours EVERYDAY! for the past 2 weeks and

4. she has flippin kakashi as her guardian, of course he's gonna teach her a few moves! and last of all

5. now the amount of chakra she has. Naruto has four times more chakra than jiraiya at age 12 and that was his own chakra, not the kyuubis. So the fact that Ren has loads too is not big shocker considering she's from two great clans, don;t worry Naruto's is still far greater than hers, though hers is defitnitly much larger than sasuke's and will be about 2 and a half times greater than Jiraiya's when she's twelve..

oh yeah, everyone know minato adopted her and whatnot, after all her registered sir name is Namikaze.

Also i own the Okami clan and everything about them. Also i Own Renata/Ren Namikaze/Okami. and those Half-staffs

(chapters are probably not gonna be this long, though i will make sure they are at least 5000 words each :)

Also if you are confused with what's happening and have quite a few answers, (hell i know i would be if i didn't know everything) then feel free to ask questions and I'll answer them as best as i can. If you don't understand the whole time travel thing then you don't need to. he just did it, end of. :)

Okami out~