The Eye of the Beholder

Read carefully and you might find something for the future. January 04, 2010

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Flashback

Demon and higher beings

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, plain and simple

Chapter 1: Kaitou Revealed


It's been nearly a year since Kaitou and his students arrived at Nami no Kuni and what he's been doing so far had actually helped a bit of the economy. For starters the local blacksmith was given a few pointers in making better tools, he saw that the smithy was only pounding the metal and not actually shaping it very well, he also introduced the concept of 'Cold Steel', which gave him a little more insight about better lasting metals. With all he'd been doing, he started doing a few carpentry and agricultural projects, and gave a bit of instruction on how to properly reinforce a house's weak points.

They were initially surprised about Kaitou's performance, they weren't expecting his students to be able to keep up with him when he was doing the work.

What really surprised them was when they found out about a friendship occurring with a local fisherman named Kaiza.

Kaitou was having one of his debates about staying with Kaiza and his family.

"Why do you keep insisting on living off the land?" Kaiza was trying to coax Kaitou into building his own house, or at least staying with him. "You've been here a year already, made absolutely no profit, regardless of the work and help with the agricultural aspect of this country. You've taught the local physician more in a week than the twenty-seven years he's been practicing. The carpenters are tearing down less houses due to them staying together more firmly and rotting less. And the blacksmiths are able to give promises about their tools lasting for more that a year." Kaiza paused to let everything sink in, "And after all of this, you still don't live under a roof yourself."

"I understand your concern, but the fact is, I like the outdoors, it allows for more practical living as a shinobi. Besides, as far as I'm concerned, my hammock is all I need and unless someone cuts the forest down, there is no real need for me to burden others with my eating habits," Kaitou explained thoughtfully to his friend. "Besides, with all the creaks in your floorboards Tazuna's sleepwalking becomes unbearable. His snoring is bad enough."

"Hey, I resent that, I don't sleepwalk, I'll give you the snoring," Tazuna said, grumpily.

"Then why do you occasionally wake up with a swollen shin?" Kaitou asked, rhetorically.

Tazuna retorted with a grumble.

Kaiza sighed as he admitted that his friend's logic couldn't be argued with.

"You might want to keep your guard up a bit," Kaitou informed Kaiza as his friend looked at him curiously. "The Gatou shipping company just brought its headquarters here, and I haven't heard the best things about the owner during my travels."

Kaiza nodded, knowing that Kaitou was rarely wrong in these circumstances.

"Now, time to get some work done, I promised to get five houses built within the week, I'll be working non-stop," Kaitou said as he walked out the door. He then whistled for his students, all of whom were nearby, heard him and came when called. "Alright, ladies, five houses in a week, that's seven days, one hundred sixty-eight hours, I'll be doing the brunt of the work to ensure that everything gets done properly. Any questions?" Kaitou asked.

None of them made any movement or indication.

"Let's move out then," Kaitou ordered as he led his students to the area where they were working.

One week later...

During the week Gatou, a short, fat man with messy hair that he was losing gradually was trying to take control of the area with all the thugs he recruited.

Kaiza knew that his friend hated getting involved when he was busy, so he decided to bring the people together.

Needless to say, Gatou didn't like the fact that the people were keeping his thugs at bay so he had them capture Kaiza. He then had Kaiza displayed in front of the people of the town and was about to have his thugs aim their rifles at him.

Meanwhile...

Kaitou had finished working, he had to come up with his own lumber, which he didn't mind in the least. 'I should show them how to properly nurture the tree to ensure that the best ones grow.'

He had just finished eating and was about to lay down and sleep in his hammock, which hung in the forest, high off the ground.

Just as he was about to close his eyes he heard Nami's voice.

"Sensei."

'Whatever it is, I'm sure it can wait,' he thought to himself as he closed his eyes.

But his loud student persisted.

"Sensei!!!"

He just turned over, trying to ignore her.

Knowing he heard her she stomped up the tree and screamed into his ear, "SENSEI!!!"

"Geez, What is it!?" Kaitou said as he stuck a finger in his ear, grouchy due to lack of sleep.

"Kaiza-san is about to be executed," Nami explained to him.

Kaitou just groaned as he jumped from his hammock. "Are Rika, Meimi and Kagura ready?"

"Hai, their the ones that sent me," Nami replied.

"Then let's get going," Kaitou said as he focused a bit of chakra to speed himself up.

With Gatou...

The fat business man was speaking to everyone.

"Allow me to show everyone that it is futile to resist," Gatou said as he kicked Kaiza. "This will keep you all in line."

A man then stepped up to Gatou and tapped on his shoulder, "Gatou-sama."

"Not now, I'm busy showing them their futility," the business man told his lackey.

"Gatou-sama," he pressed on with more urgency.

"Later," Gatou told him.

"GATOU-SAMA!!!" the man shouted.

Clearly irritated, Gatou looked at his subordinate with a glare, "What!?"

"INCOMING!!!" the man said as he pointing to the projectile that was getting bigger with its approach.

"OH SHIT, SCATTER!!!" Gatou ordered his men as the weapon reached its destination, Gatou's execution field.

As the huge clump of dirt separated Gatou just looked at his subordinate with serious irritation, "Why didn't you say something sooner?"

Everyone just looked at him with a sweat drop.

Gatou looked at the crowd outside the fence with a demanding look, "Who launched that at us?"

"You mean threw," a female voice said from behind the crowd.

The people split to reveal Kaitou and his students.

Kaitou just walked toward the fence with a yawn as he looked at Gatou with an extremely irritated look.

"Who said that?" Gatou yelled out. "And what do you mean threw?"

"That was me," Rika replied to the criminal. "And that projectile was thrown by hand."

"If you're so smart, then who threw it?" Gatou demanded.

"I did," Kaitou answered with a glare. "I've been up for nearly one hundred sixty-eight hours straight, that's seven days with no sleep, and now I find myself facing a cowardly criminal and my friend tied to a post, about to be executed for no reason."

"I'm not buying that you threw that thing at me, it was far too big and heavy for someone of your build and the angle states that it was thrown at least a kilometer away." Gatou closed his eyes and smirked arrogantly with his chest puffed out, "So there is no way you could have thrown that thing."

"That thing is known as the Doryou Dango," Kaitou said from behind Gatou. "And not only did I throw it, I tore open a hole in your surrounding fence and stepped behind you, all without your notice."

Gatou just turned around and saw that Kaitou was indeed behind him and noticed that there was a hole in the fence, and from the way it was bent it was certainly ripped open. He looked to see all of his men with their jaws agape. "Well don't just stand that, take care of him," he shouted, getting over his shock.

They lifted their weapons only for them to fall apart in their hands.

"Notice anything missing," Kaitou said as he held up a sword.

"What the..." a bulked up man with a patch over his eye looked to see that his sword was gone.

Kaitou looked toward his students, "Okay, ladies, you take care of the thugs and I'll get Kaiza out of here."

It was then that everyone noticed that Kaiza's bonds had bend sliced.

As Kaitou helped his friend, he lifted his hand and threw and sendon in Gatou's direction, giving a slight cut to his cheek.

"Ha, you missed," Gatou said arrogantly.

Kaitou simply held up three fingers, put one down then another and when he just put his hand down, and both he and Gatou fell down.

Kaiza checked his breathing and was relieved that he was only sleeping.

Three years later...

In a village a days travel from Nami no Kuni three kids were positioned in some woods within the walls of the village.

"Spitfire reporting, target spotted," a twelve year old, onyx-haired male with similar colored eyes, wearing a pair of white shorts and a blue high-collared shirt with a red and white fan on the back said through his radio.

"Gale force in position, waiting for signal to strike," a blond boy the same age replied. His hair was messily spiked, his eyes were a deep blue and his cheeks had three marks each on his face. He was wearing a bright orange jumpsuit with a little blue in it.

Both wore a forehead protector on their foreheads.

"Quake in position," a pink-haired girl just barely thirteen with green eyes said. She was wearing a red dress-like shirt that went to her knees and split on the sides at the waist to reveal that she was wearing a pair of spandex shorts to keep her modesty.

"Silver bolt reporting orders, capture target now," a silver-haired man with a forehead protector over his left eye and his hair spiked and slanted to his left told them.

The blond rushed in, and the target started running.

The black haired male cut the target off, forcing it to another direction.

The female surprised the target, getting it to run straight to the blonde male.

The target, which turned out to be a cat, started scratching the blonde's face.

"Spitfire reporting, target capture and confirmed," the black-haired male said as he noted the ribbon tied the the cat's left ear.

"Sakura-chan you take this demon of a cat," the blond said as the cat kept clawing him.

"Okay, Naruto," the female, now known as Sakura picked the cat up from the blond, confirmed as Naruto and calmed it down.

"This is just annoying," the black-haired male said as he looked at the cat.

"For once, Sasuke, we can agree on something," Naruto said to him.

At the central office in the center of the village, in the Hokage Tower...

"Tora-chan," the cat's owner, the daimyo's wife crushed the cat in her arms.

The four shinobi just looked at the cat with pity as the lady of Hono no Kuni left the room, not even wondering why it keeps running away.

An old man sitting behind a desk farthest from the door said, "Team Seven, your next missions are babysitting, shopping and helping digging for potatoes."

"Iie," Naruto shouted. "No more of the lower class missions right now, I want something that can test us, oyaji."

'I agree,' Sasuke and Sakura thought at the same time.

The silver-haired shinobi just sighed.

"Baka, you're just rookies," the man sitting right beside the old man. "You have to work your way up." The man speaking had a tan complexion with a scar across the bridge of his nose and his hair pulled into a tight ponytail.

"Demo, Iruka-sensei, most of the missions we get are just crappy," Naruto kept up his argument.

"Urusai, Naruto," the silver-haired man hit Naruto in the head with his fist. "Gomen, Hokage-sama."

"Kakashi-sensei, that hurt," Naruto complained.

"Naruto, let me explain," the Hokage said to the shinobi. "Everyday the village receives requests from babysitting to assassination, each mission's level of difficulty and danger is placed in rankings of A, B, C, or D. Most of the time only Jounin like Kakashi are able to do A and B rank missions while Chuunin are described in being able to do B and C rank mission, you, Sasuke and Sakura can only do D rank and maybe the occasional C rank if you have enough D ranks. If said mission is done successfully then you can get paid. Don't complain so much, it's better to do lower rank missions and get your skill level and experience up rather than die due to lack of either," the Hokage finished looking a Naruto, who wasn't paying attention.

"Last night I had pork ramen, so miso sounds good for..." Naruto mumbled to himself.

"Oi! Listen to me," the Hokage yelled at Naruto.

"All you're doing is lecturing," Naruto said to him. "We've done enough D-rank missions for now, we need something to help gauge our strength against the real world. I haven't caused trouble since becoming a Genin so at least give us something more."

Kakashi sighed again.

The Hokage smiled as Naruto's enthusiasm and said, "We have a C-rank mission, you'll be escorting and protecting someone."

With that a Red-eyed woman with near black hair walked in alongside three Genin the same age as Team 7. One of them was a pale-skinned female with dark blue hair, her hitai-ate around her neck, a tan jacket that was a tad big for her, but her most distinguishing features were her white eyes. The next one was a tanned slightly tanned male that was a few inches taller that her and had a white puppy on top of his head, he wore his hitai-ate like Naruto and Sasuke and was wearing a gray hoody with said hood on his head, the hood itself had black fur lining the edges. He had red triangle marks on both cheeks and with his canine teeth longer that normal and with his eyes looking slitted he carried a feral look to him. The last member was by far the most mysterious looking. It was a male that was wearing a heavy coat like his team mates but this one was high collared and hid his mouth, with his round sunglasses you wouldn't be able to make head or tails of his facial expressions. He carried himself in what appeared to be of utmost seriousness and he wore his hitai-ate like his fellow male team mate.

"Pardon the interruption but Team 8 reporting completion of mission," the woman stated.

"No trouble at all Kurenai-san," the Hokage said as he reached out to receive the documents that the woman, now known as Kurenai, held. "Actually you have good timing, I was just about to assign Team 7 a C-rank mission, how about we make it a joint team mission."

"I have no problems with this Hokage-sama, but it's the Genin who will have to make the final decision," Kakashi admitted truthfully.

"I concur," Kurenai agreed.

They looked at the Genin only to find Naruto and the one with the puppy conversing.

"Hey, Kiba," Naruto told him. "How have you, Shino and Hinata been doing?"

The puppy started growling.

"Oh, sorry," Naruto said. "And how have you been doing too Akamaru?"

"Not bad actually," the boy now known as Kiba answered as Naruto reached up and scratched behind Akamaru's ear, to which the puppy leaned into.

"Okay, how can you do this well with Akamaru but not keep the Daimyo's cat from scratching you?" Sakura asked with a raised eyebrow.

"First, Kiba and I would always hang together when we ran out of Iruka-sensei's class," Naruto told her, this got a pulsing vein from Iruka and a sweat drop from Kakashi, Kurenai and Hiruzen. "I got to know Kiba and Akamaru pretty well, his mother and sister aren't bad either. Second, Akamaru has been trained to interact with people to ensure he doesn't bite the wrong person. And finally that damn cat is a demon incarnate."

"Another thing we can agree on," Kiba said with a smirk.

"I think this will work out well," Hiruzen said to no one in particular.

"What'll work out?" Kiba asked.

"They want us to do a C-rank mission with Team 7," the one with sunglasses.

"You know, Shino, you don't speak much and when you do it's to the point and I salute you for that," Naruto commented. "So as far as this protection mission goes, it can't be a daimyo or hime since it's a C-rank, so it'll probably be an protecting old man from some bandits," everyone in the room looked at Naruto in surprise at how much thought he put into what he just said. Noticing everyone's stares Naruto just asked, "What?"

"That's actually well thought out," Kakashi told his student.

"And accurate too, come on in," the Hokage said as he pulled the scroll out.

A chubby old man stepped in and looked mildly surprised at his escorts, "Which one is the Uchiha?"

Sasuke stepped forward, "My name is Uchiha Sasuke."

The old man looked around and noticed the pale-eyed female, "Hmm, I get a Hyuuga as a guard as well, not a bad deal." He walked over to her and asked, "And what's your name ojou-san?"

She seemed a tad nervous, given the fact that she was twiddle her fingers but she stuttered out, "Hy-hy-hyuuga Hina-na-ta."

The man tapped his chin a bit and took a drink from the flask he was carrying, "Hinata eh, well you might want to take care of that stutter. These eyes have seen a great deal in my lifetime, so I can tell right off the bat that your father will have to beat all the suitors away when you're older, and the stuttering will only hinder their ability to interpret what you're saying, that is if they listen in the first place."

Hinata blushed at Tazuna's compliment while Shino raised an eyebrow and Kiba just chuckled while Kurenai just smiled a bit.

"Pardon me, but how did you know that there was going to be an Uchiha in your escort?" Kakashi asked with clear curiosity in his visible eye.

"He requested an Uchiha escort," the Hokage admitted with a chuckle.

Iruka couldn't help but let out a small laugh as well.

Then Naruto just yelled out, "YOU MEAN WE WERE GOING TO HAVE THIS MISSION ANYWAY!!!?"

That only made the Hokage and Iruka laugh even harder.

"Gomen, Naruto, but I figured this was fair play after the whole incident with the scroll," the Hokage said to the Genin.

'What is he talking about?' Sasuke, Sakura, Kiba, Shino and Hinata were thinking while Naruto just grumbled.

"My name is Tazuna, I'm the super expert bridge builder and I expect full protection from the likes of you," Tazuna told them.

"You only seemed surprised about your protection, not angry or disappointed," Kakashi inquired. "Actually you seemed pleased when you saw Hinata."

"The man who suggested the shinobi told me about the different clans, the Uchiha, the Hyuuga, the Yamanaka, the Aburame, etc, the blond kid resembles someone I know and I know better than to underestimate a female at her age, especially if she gives off the aura of a bad temper," Tazuna whispered to Kakashi.

Kakashi just chuckled at his last comment.

The next day...

As they were traveling they were attacked and the whole incident revealed that there were shinobi after Tazuna.

"So why did you lie about the mission ranking?" Kakashi asked.

"Because the village I live in couldn't afford an A-rank mission without taking it out of the funds we need for everyday life, even if we're doing better than we would have prior to a man and his students arriving four years ago, and this is the same man that suggested the whole situation. He is the same man that Naruto resembles and he isn't stupid enough not to know about the whole situation with the Uchiha clan, which is why he made the request for a Genin team. He knew that at the very least an exceptional Jounin would be apart of the team and therefore, if the Genin couldn't handle it, the Jounin could," Tazuna explained. "From what he described to me, he knew the Uchiha clan personally so that's why he suggested them, his four students are all female that are around the Genin's age so that's why I'm not complaining about the girl, you get on the temper of one of them you better hope for two things, one they don't aim low, and two that you don't go into shock, because that is the biggest indication that you can no longer be happy," Tazuna shuddered a bit. "The whole situation with Naruto is that it's scary how much the two resemble one another; they even emit similar smells."

"What do you mean similar smell?" Sasuke asked, clearly curious about this.

"Aside from the obvious height difference, he has spiky blond hair that's very messy, deep blue eyes, the skin tone is almost exactly the same and finally he has the scent of grain, salt, egg, pork, beef, chicken, shrimp and miso," Tazuna explained even more.

"Wait a minute, grains, salt and eggs are essential ingredients for making ramen from the basis and the rest are flavors," Naruto commented, thoughtfully.

"Those are some of the many scents among you, Naruto," Kiba admitted.

Sasuke couldn't help but a his own two cents, "And that's when you actually bathe."

"Well that's..." Naruto paused and then got into Sasuke's face. "Are you saying I have bad hygiene?"

"Not in so many words, but the insinuation is there," Sasuke replied with a smirk.

"Somehow I'm not surprised that he knows about the basics of making ramen from scratch," Tazuna commented as he watched the two at each other's throats. "Anyway, the guy can't get enough of the stuff, it's actually one of the only ways we've been able to bribe him to stay and keep us protected."

"Who is this guy?" Sakura asked.

"You're all going to meet him soon anyway, I'm meeting him after we take a boat across," Tazuna told them.

Shortly after they entered Nami no Kuni they came across a lake, after a few events and a fight between Kakashi and Momochi Zabuza while Kurenai kept most of his mizu bunshin at bay. He saw Kakashi finish his seals and did something unexpected, he jumped out of the way and took out his sword, Kubikiri Honchou and was about to slice Tazuna in half when Sakura pushed him out of the way.

"A noble sacrifice," Zabuza said as he followed through with his swing. "But a foolish move," he finished as he sliced her in in half.

What everyone saw as the dust cleared could only be described as inconceivable, if not impossible.

Sakura stood there, completely unharmed.

"WHAT THE HELL!!!?" Zabuza said as he went for a horizontal slice.

Sakura just closed her eyes instinctively until she felt something move through her, but for some reason there was no pain.

Since there was no smoke or dust everyone had a clear view of what happened.

The sword didn't slice her, instead it just went right through her.

Everyone else just looked in shock.

Zabuza saw Tazuna again and decided to get the job done. When he finally neared Tazuna he found that he couldn't move his sword. He looked behind him to find it tangled in Kaitou's cloak.

"Hey there," Kaitou said with a smirk.

"You," Zabuza said, clearly remembering the man as he tried to get his sword untangled from Kaitou's cloak.

"Me," Kaitou taunted. He took his cloak off completely to reveal a black trench coat underneath it. He then rushed forward and struck Zabuza twenty-three times in almost a blink of an eye.

"Ugh," Zabuza groaned.

Kaitou approached Zabuza and snatched a sendon out of the air, "No need get desperate, young one, I'm not going to kill him." Kaitou pulled a sendon of his own and stuck it into Zabuza's shoulder. He then threw Zabuza into a nearby tree.

A shadow jumped out and headed into another direction.

"Are you sure that was wise?" Kakashi asked as he pulled his hitae-ate over his Sharingan. He stumbled a bit.

"About as sure that you've overexerted yourself and that that slime ball Gatou probably isn't going to fulfill his end of the contract if Zabuza did succeed," Kaitou answered as he picked up Zabuza's sword and sealed it in a scroll. He then ran over and caught Kakashi as said Jounin was falling over. "Who told you to exert yourself this much? Your situation wasn't that desperate. You've made good use of that gift, but really, you'd think after a few times you'd have trained your body to be able to take this amount of time."

"Why didn't you help sooner!?" Tazuna snapped at Kaitou as said person hefted Kakashi onto his back.

"I was sleeping, so sue me," Kaitou answered bluntly.

"I would, but the village owes you too much, not that we could get much from a lawsuit anyway," Tazuna replied with a chuckle.

"You slept through that whole battle?" Sasuke asked in disbelief.

"Out of everything what woke you up?" Sakura asked, now curious about what could disturb this guy's sleep.

"The Suiryudan clash splashed some water on my face," Kaitou answered simply.

"That's certainly stereotypical," Sasuke mentioned as he followed the bridge builder and the older shinobi.

"Yeah, but it's not the safest method," Tazuna mentioned with a shudder. "This man is not a morning person, and splashing him will only make him irritable."

"Then what is the safest method?" Sakura asked, clearly curious.

"No one in the village has figured that one out yet," Tazuna admitted. "So far, the safest for civilians is mentioning someone in trouble that's too much for the people to handle, if it happens to be thugs causing the problems, they're the only ones that aren't safe."

"That joke gets old after a while," Kaitou told them in irritation at the memories. "Tazuna, do you remember the story, 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'? That'll eventually happen if you do that too many times."

They all headed toward Tazuna's house.

As everyone entered the house, a young boy, about eight ran and hugged Tazuna, "Jii-chan, I prayed to Kami-sama that you would come back okay."

"That's enough Inari, do you have that little faith in me?" Kaitou said to the boy.

The only response Inari gave to Kaitou was pulling his bottom eyelid down and sticking his tongue out.

Kaitou just turned to the Genin and said, "This some of the stuff I have to deal with every day." Kaitou then took Kakashi up to one of the rooms.

Naruto stepped forward, "Inari, was it?"

Inari just nodded as he got a good look at Naruto, "Are you related to Kaitou-jiisan?"

"Actually, I'm not really sure," Naruto admitted. "I've been an orphan since the day I was born so I really don't know if there is a blood relation."

"Just be happy there's a possibility," Sasuke told Naruto.

"What's with him?" Inari asked.

"Sasuke lost his parents at a young age," Kaitou said to them. "I believe it's been about four years."

"How did you know my name?" Sasuke asked.

"I knew your father," Kaitou answered. "He told me that if he ever had another child, the name would either be Sora or Sasuke."

"What was he like?" Sasuke asked, clearly interested.

"Later," Kaitou told him as he walked to Naruto. "Follow me," Kaitou said as he turned to walk up the stairs.

As Sasuke and Sakura were about to follow.

"Just him," pointing to Naruto.

"I have a name, you know," Naruto said, annoyed.

"May I have it then, surname included?" Kaitou asked Naruto.

"Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto replied.

Kaitou then made a follow gesture and Naruto did so.

They went into the room next to the one Kakashi was currently resting.

Kaitou locked the door and walked toward Naruto. "May I have the knowledge of your age and birth date?"

"I'm twelve and my birthday is October 10," Naruto answered, unsure of where he was going with this.

Kaitou then lifted the front of Naruto's shirt and said, "Pleases, mold some chakra, Naruto."

Naruto was confused about his request but did so.

Kaitou saw a spiral seal appear on Naruto's stomach and let go of his shirt, "That's enough."

"What exactly was this all about?" Naruto asked curiously.

Kaitou sat down and patted a spot right beside him.

Understanding the gesture Naruto sat beside Kaitou.

"The first thing you are entitled to know is who I am," Kaitou said to Naruto. "But before that," Kaitou walked to the door and slammed his elbow against it and opened it right after to find Sasuke, Sakura and Kiba rubbing their heads. "Mind your own business," Kaitou told them as he walked back in and closed the door, locking it again.

Naruto just sweat dropped.

Kaitou walked back to Naruto and sat back down, "I am Namikaze Kaitou, and your father was my older brother."

"Were you half-brothers?" Naruto asked.

"No, Uzumaki was your mother's maiden name," Kaitou said, figuring that was source of Naruto's question.

"If you're the younger brother of my father, and your surname is Namikaze, then that makes my father..." Naruto trailed off as he placed his hand on his stomach.

"So he was the one that sealed the fox in you," Kaitou finished.

"How'd you figure all that out?" Naruto asked, seeing that Kaitou wasn't the kind of person to shirk his duties to family if he was aware of them.

"Your birthday and age specify the the exact date of Kyuubi attacking Konoha, the seal on your stomach appears when you mold chakra," Kaitou explained to his nephew. "And finally, I knew Minato well enough to know that he wouldn't put you in this situation if it was avoidable, but the fact is that I don't think he wanted to put this kind of burden on his son, let alone someone of which he had no relation or responsibility to, because I doubt you were the only child born on that day."

"How did you know that the seal was on my stomach?" Naruto asked.

"That was a guess," Kaitou admitted. "Since the stomach is where chakra is produced for the body. I figured that would be where he put the seal. You know, I would just love to punch the lights out of your godfather for not even taking any form of responsibility of taking care of you growing up."

"I have a godfather?" Naruto asked.

"One who would have known who you were at first glance," Kaitou told him. "That pervert is probably spying on a woman's onsen as we speak."

At an unknown hot spring...

A man with long spiky white hair sneezed, blowing his cover as the women started to cover themselves and check who was there.

Back at Tazuna's house...

Kaitou told Naruto everything about his parents.

"Minato, in short, was a genius," Kaitou explained to him. "His thought process of how to get through most situations was nothing short of spectacular. He also had two specific techniques, one of which he could not complete," Kaitou then held his left hand out and demonstrated.

A ball of compressed chakra that was spiraling appeared in his hand.

"This technique is known as the Rasengan. I'm still trying to figure out the best concept to complete it myself," Kaitou admitted as the technique disappeared. "That being said I did make two other techniques that although look like almost exactly the same, but work in different ways than it. Their base concept is exactly the same, but their results are drastically different. Now I'll teach you Rasengan, but you'll have to train heavily in order for it to work properly, and when I say that, I mean you need complete control over your chakra."

Naruto nodded and asked, "What was the other techniques that tou-san used?"

"His main fighting technique, this one actually gained him the name Kiiroi Senko," Kaitou answered Naruto. "It was the Hiraishin no jutsu, he wiped out a serious portion of Iwa shinobi during the Third Shinobi War."

"Suke," Naruto said in amazement.

"I actually have the scroll for that technique on me right now," Kaitou said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out said scroll. He moved it toward Naruto and said, "I must give you two warnings about this technique, 1. You need to perfect every ability as a shinobi to be able to use this technique properly, and 2. You must only use this technique as a last resort. Only when I think you're ready will you read this scroll, promise me."

"I promise on the honor of my father's name and my future position as Hokage, I won't read this scroll until I meet your approval," Naruto swore as he took the scroll from his uncle's hand. As Naruto thought for a bit he asked, "Kaitou-ji, what's to stop someone else from reading this in the future?"

"A very good question," Kaitou commented as he explained. "This scroll has a seal that requires blood and chakra from one of the same bloodline as the one who set it, which was me. So no one that isn't blood related will be getting into that scroll any time soon."

"What was Okaa-san like?" Naruto asked.

"Truth is, she was like a raging hurricane," Kaitou told him. "She was one of the most powerful kunoichi that I knew. She even scared my sensei from time to time," he admitted.

"Who did teach you?" Naruto asked.

"The Hebi Sannin, Orochimaru," Kaitou answered with no shame. "He offered me a chance as his apprentice, but I couldn't take him up on it."

"Why is that?" Naruto asked.

"I wanted to make myself known for being more than Orochimaru's student," Kaitou said with a serious look. "You of all people must know what it's like to live in another's shadow, so what I did, I just kept up a training regiment for every aspect as a shinobi. I studied up, learning what I could about medical practices and techniques. I figured out different kinds of poisons and drugs that could be effective for interrogation. I learned every aspect of being an all around shinobi, and that's when I found out about what this family can really do."

"And what is that?" Naruto asked.

"It's a kekkei genkai," Kaitou told him. "As a medic I had to do autopsies of different bodies, under some circumstances a full body autopsy is required, my skin brushed against the cerebellum of the body of an Uchiha who had awakened his sharingan and immediately, not only did I know how the sharingan worked, but my body readjusted itself, and before I knew it," Kaitou looked at Naruto and his eyes changed from blue to red and had three tomoes in them. "I copied the bloodline completely. So far I've only copied the sharingan and the byakugan."

"Do you think I'll be able to do that?" Naruto asked.

"It's possible, Minato was never a medic, which was why I was the only one to notice this," Kaitou told him. "I like to call this bloodline the Koukishin Kaishin. I'm still trying to figure out the best method of copying without the person in question dieing, which might have just revealed itself today."

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.

"I'll explain later," Kaitou told him as he walked over to unlock the door. "Now let's get something to eat."

"Ah," Naruto said, excited about all the information he just received.


End of Chapter...

An odd situation, I got the idea about the bloodline explanation from 'Heroes', you'll see what I mean. Now what did Kaitou mean 'Just revealed itself'? Read carefully or wait for future chapters. I like constructive criticism. Just no flames please.