"Talking, techniques, silent conversations, beings of power not suppressing their power"
I DON'T OWN NARUTO, FLAT OUT
Homecoming
Konoha gates
It's just before noon and Izumo, eternal chunin and gate guard, is bored out of his skull. Seriously how can watching a hole in the wall be made entertaining. He could ask Kotetsu, second eternal chunin and gate guard, but the fool is firmly entrenched in la la land.
Looking towards the main road into Konoha Izumo sees a lone figure that wasn't there a few minutes ago. Izumo takes stock of the strangers mostly black garb and dark weapons pouches. But this is not what has the most of Izumo's attention. No that distinction would belong to the extremely deadly looking lance gripped in the stranger's right hand.
Izumo quickly shakes his partner to try and wake him up. Kotetsu groans and stretches as he rejoins the waking world. When Kotetsu goes to ask Izumo what he woke him up for Izumo just gestures towards the road beyond the gate.
Both guards tense and prepare to challenge the stranger as he nears the gate. But as the stranger steps upon the threshold of Konoha he leans forward slightly while placing his right foot ahead of his left. Right before the eyes of Izumo and Kotetsu the stranger seems to vanish. The only evidence of him ever being there is a small cloud of dust.
Hokage tower 5 minutes later
Hiruzen Sarutobi is known as many things. He is known as 'The Professor', also 'The God of Shinobi', and two a select few 'Old Man'. But the title that gives him headaches of epic proportion is his title of 'Sandaime Hokage'. Currently he is sitting at his desk rubbing his temples trying not to curse his current predicament. Five minutes prior the guards at the main gate raised the alarm because a person of unknown origin bypassed the gate check in point.
Of course Hiruzen knows who it was. He let the person leave ten years ago as well as working out the date of their return. Hiruzen just wishes that he could have informed the gate guards ahead of his arrival. The downfalls of living in a society cloaked in secrecy.
Now his advisers are freaking out and have called in the top jonin of the village. Seriously these two fools always blow everything out of proportion. Now with so many people in his office he couldn't meet him face to face for the first time in ten years in private. Even worse was the fact of the supposed infiltrators description having been given to all ninja in the village that were above the rank of chunin.
Top of the Hokage Monument
On top of the Hokage Monument stands the man in black. He gazes out across the village thinking of things that could be. He nods to himself and whispers "It's time". With this he vanishes into thin air.
Hokage's Office
Hiruzen is about to lose his temper. Just before he explodes the man everyone is freaking out about materializes out of thin air. He has his right knee touching the ground. His left arm is across his chest the hand clenched in a fist. His left leg is forward the joint bent at a ninety degree angle. His right arm is straight down with the tips of his fingers pressing on the floor. His lance lies on the floor beside him.
"Hokage-sama, I have returned." The man says.
All the ninja in the office are in a fighting stance. Every ninja save the Hokage that is. Hiruzen didn't even look phased in the least. In fact the look on his face at the moment is one of amusement. "It has been a long time my boy, how have you been." The Hokage says.
"I have been well Hokage-sama." Says the man, "Permission to speak freely Hokage-sama?" Hiruzen smiles and nods. "You've grown old." He says and releases a slight chuckle.
One of Hiruzen's advisers gasps. She then scowls rather deeply. "Who is this impudent barbarian Hiruzen?" She demands.
Hiruzen just sighs while shaking his head. "Stand and remove your hood my boy." Hiruzen orders.
The man stands and drops his hood. The removal of his hood reveals spiky golden blond hair, a handsome face, slightly tanned skin, and sapphire blue eyes. With the reveal of his face he glances back to the other occupants and almost everyone gasps and mutters 'Yondaime-sama'. The blond chuckles and looks back towards Hiruzen.
"I'm sorry but I am not the Yondaime, you all should take a closer look." The blonde states.
"No but you do look a lot like him don't you think, Naruto." The Sandaime says. This spurs another round of gasps as almost everyone believes Naruto to be dead, so this can't be the same Naruto. A small twitch of Naruto's left hand draws Hiruzen's attention. Focusing his eyes on Naruto's left hand Hiruzen watches as Naruto does extremely subtle versions of the ANBU's hand signals.
"ANBU how many, tap the number out." Three taps. "Locations, glance with your eyes without moving you head." Hiruzen glances to the couch by the wall and both corners of the room close to the door. Naruto just nods slightly. Naruto suddenly moves faster than most people can follow and a loud bang sounds throughout the office. Naruto is standing off to the right of the large banks of windows with his left arm buried halfway to the elbow in the wall. From the spot Naruto has struck an ANBU agent with a blank mask appears. Naruto removes his hand from the wall and the center of the dead ANBU's chest and flicks the blood off his hand. Everyone gasps as the body slumps forward and falls to the floor.
As if a switch was flipped the three ANBU Hiruzen glanced at faze into existence while drawing their swords and surround Naruto. Naruto doesn't even flinch as they press their blades against three of his vital points. He then looks to Hiruzen. "Mind calling the attack dogs off Hokage-sama?" Asks Naruto.
"Stand down!" Hiruzen orders.
"But Hokage-sama he just killed one of the villages ANBU." States a woman with wild brown hair, feral features, and black slit eyes with red triangle marks under them.
"No Tsume he hasn't killed one of my ANBU. He just killed a spy within my office." Hiruzen says. "I must thank you, Naruto, but was it truly necessary to do damage to the wall behind this unfortunate soul as well?"
"My apologies, Hokage-sama, I sometimes forget my own strength." Naruto replies apologetically, all the while he is scratching the back of his head sheepishly. All the gathered ninja, the Hokage included, sweat drop and stare at him incredulously.
"Maa maa, it's fine, just learn to control the strength of your strikes better." Hiruzen says while waving Naruto's apology off.
"Hokage-sama, perhaps telling him to not use chakra enhanced strikes would help with his restraint." The same female advisor that spoke earlier says.
"Koharu-sama," A man with gravity defying hair speaks.
"What is it Kakashi?" Koharu replies.
"He didn't use chakra in his strike that was pure physical prowess." Kakashi answers. Again there is another round of gasps in the room as everyone stares at Naruto in shock. Naruto just smirks at them. The gathered jonin start whispering amongst themselves and Naruto's smirk increases in size. Naruto turns to look at Hiruzen again.
"Hey old man, any word on when that perv will be back with my sister?" Naruto asks in a slightly serious tone with a small amount of mocking humor mixed in. A couple people cock their head to the side in confusion. Why would Hiruzen Sarutobi know about a pervert and when he was coming to the village. Hiruzen rubs the bridge of his nose and sighs. Leave it to Naruto to let such information slip.
"Everyone is dismissed!" Hiruzen orders. "That includes you two as well Koharu, Homura." All the ninja leave with a bow as well as the two advisers. "Naruto, Jariaya said that they would be back for team assignments next week." Hiruzen says.
"Okay, I'll accept that but he better not be late." Naruto says his voice taking a threatening tone near the end. Hiruzen just nods his assent. "I should probably tell you the rest of the family will be at our meeting this evening. Well most of it. There are a couple that won't be arriving for a couple weeks. Until the time for our meeting I'll go spend my time in a couple of the training grounds." Naruto turns and starts to walk to the door.
"Naruto, before you leave you may want this." Hiruzen says while tossing a metal plate to Naruto. Naruto catches it and pulls out a five foot length of pitch black cloth. He attaches the plate to the cloth and ties it around his head. The plate is centered on his forehead proudly displaying the symbol of the leaf village. "Good luck, you will meet your jonin sensei on Monday with the rest of the graduates." Hiruzen says.
"Will Sayuri be on my team?" Naruto asks and Hiruzen nods. "Good I'll see you later." With those words Naruto vanishes from the office. In his place a small piece of paper lies. Hiruzen picks it up and reads the message.
Have Kakashi come to your office this evening for the end of the meeting ~ Naruto.
Hiruzen just sighs and shakes his head before pinching the bridge of his nose.
Training ground 44 four hours later
Naruto appears at the entrance to a large forest that is surrounded by a rather large chain link fence. He takes a deep breath and a feral grin spreads across his features. "This will do nicely. Much better than the others." He says before leaping over the fence.
Naruto walks into the forest with nary a care in the world. Not more than a minute into the forest the sound of a kunai parting air is heard. Naruto leaps to the side making a great show of overcompensating the dodge. "You know it's not nice to attack people without a proper cause." Naruto calls to the surrounding forest.
Out from behind a tree steps a rather provocatively dressed woman. She's wearing a burnt orange short skirt that borders on indecent, a mesh body suit that ends at mid thigh, what looks like skin tight flesh colored spandex underneath the mesh, dark shinobi sandals, silver shin guards, and an open tan trench coat. Around her neck is a leather cord with a snakes fang tied to it. She has purple hair held up in a high spiky ponytail, fair skin, light chocolate colored pupil less eyes, and light pink lips. She is of average height, around 5'6". Her body, which isn't to hard to see, is quite voluptuous. She has a high double d bust, thin waist with a toned stomach, excellently proportioned hips and legs to match. If Naruto had to describe her in one word he wouldn't be able to.
Her lips twist into a sadistic smirk as she looks Naruto up and down. "You seem quite cocky buddy." She states. "Maybe you could be fun to play with."
"If you want to go let's do this, but could I get your name first, babe." Naruto says with no small amount of swagger. The woman blushes slightly before regaining her composure.
"Anko Mitarashi. Now how bout you, hunk?" Anko says slipping a seductive underlay into her voice. She appears to be trying to get a rise out of Naruto. Unfortunately for her Naruto has experience with women trying the same thing with him and is completely unaffected.
Instead he returns Anko's actions two fold. "Such a beautiful name for such a beautiful woman." Anko's blush returns but it is a deeper red than before. Anko loses focus for a split second but that is all the time Naruto needs. Naruto moves behind a tree setting his lance against it. He then appears behind Anko and grabs her wrapping his right arm around her abdomen and lightly gripping her chin in his left hand. "You should be more careful Anko. You don't even know if I am a friend or foe. Or what I might do if I where to get the upper hand." Naruto whispers in her ear letting his voice grow husky for the last line. He can feel the shivers run up Anko's spine at the tone of his voice and proximity.
"You're right on the allegiance part but who says you have the upper hand." Anko says before she dissolves into mud. A second Anko steps from behind the same tree as the first is dissolving into mud. She withdraws a kunai and presses it to Naruto's throat. "See having the upper hand is all point of view."
"True, but do you you think your point of view is correct." Naruto smirks as he finishes saying this and bursts into droplets of water. Again Naruto grabs Anko from behind. He takes a deep breath with his nose in her hair and smiles. "Now that I have the real one shall we get back to where we were at." Naruto chuckles to himself when Anko tenses slightly when he says she is the real one. "You have spirit I'll acknowledge that." Naruto leans his head over so his mouth is by her left ear. He shifts his left arm and inadvertently exposes the crook of her neck. A black mark on her neck catches his gaze out of the corner of his eye. "What's this?" Naruto muses while moving his left hand to expose more of the mark. The mark is in the shape of three tightly clustered tome.
Anko tenses and tries to pull away from Naruto. Keyword is tries. Naruto holds firm and keeps Anko pressed to his chest. "You don't like this mark do you?" Naruto asks and Anko just scoffs at him. "Hmm, let's see. Curse mark style fuinjutsu. Slave seal stacked on top a kill switch seal and a medical substance seal mated with a nature energy conversion seal. Oh ho low and behold we have a soul fragment containment seal. Disgusting piece of work this here seal is. So disgusting in fact that I want to eviscerate the bastard who created it." Naruto breaks the seal down like it is mildly interesting. The last part to his little monologue is said with a large portion of venom in his voice.
Anko is stunned as she digests the info of what her curse mark is made up of. Her face turns sour after a couple minutes and she starts clawing at the curse mark. "Easy Anko, you'll only hurt yourself if you keep doing that." Naruto says and puts his left hand over Anko's hands to stop her. "This seal is quite simple in construction and shouldn't be to hard to remove."
Again Anko is stunned. "You can tell all that from just a small look." She asks with what sounds like hope in her voice.
"Yes, like I said the seal is quite simple." Is Naruto's simple straight forward answer.
"Could you remove it?" She asks with hope definitely in her voice.
"Removing that seal would be easy for me, but I would like a more practiced hand to take a look at it and do the removal." Naruto states while letting Anko go and taking a couple steps to stand in front of her. Anko looks up to Naruto with a look of pure happiness. "Could you perhaps tell me who that abomination belongs to?"
Anko's face immediately looks back down her features becoming despondent. "My former sensei was the one to create this thing." Anko says with venom dripping off the word sensei. "If I ever see that snake bastard again I'm going to kill him." The last bit was said under her breath but Naruto has better hearing than most people. She looks back up with fire in her eyes. "So when can we see this 'more practiced hand'."
"I'll be meeting the old man in a couple hours. The more practiced hand will be there to discuss some things with him." Naruto says while looking deeper into the forest. "You can tag along if you like."
"Fine but you better fill my time until then." Anko says while taking the kunai in her hand and licking the blade.
Naruto chuckles and just walks away from Anko. As he is walking past the tree he set his lance against he reaches behind the tree and grabs his lance. He angles his lance behind his back and stops. Naruto looks over his shoulder at Anko. "Are you coming or would you rather find someone else to occupy your time?" Naruto asks before turning back to the forest and starting to walk again.
Anko blinks and starts to jog to catch up to Naruto. "What are you going to do until the meeting?" She asks.
"Train." Naruto answers simply. He continues to walk deeper into the forest, Anko following behind him.
Hokage Office Two hours later
Hiruzen is behind his desk waiting for Naruto and, if his suspicions are correct, his parents. Hiruzen hears a light swishing sound followed by feet touching down. He looks to the sound and sees Naruto without his lance and, to his surprise, Anko standing in his office. Hiruzen raises an eyebrow and looks at Naruto. Naruto gestures to the left side of his neck and Hiruzen nods knowing what Naruto most likely plans.
"Hokage-sama" Naruto says while kneeling to Hiruzen.
"Stand Naruto. You don't have to be so formal at the moment." Hiruzen says with a light chuckle. Anko's eyes go wide and she looks at Naruto again now just noticing the three distinct whisker marks on each of his cheeks.
"I see that they haven't arrived yet." Naruto says nonchalantly.
"No they haven't, though I don't know who else is supposed to be here, though I have my suspicions." Hiruzen replies.
"You will see old man. But until they get here I guess we can -" Naruto stops mid sentence. The other two visible occupants both share a look of confusion. Naruto suddenly releases a hiss and grabs his left hand and looks at the palm. Naruto mumbles 'Akari' under his breath before he is engulfed in a flash of silver light.
"Hokage-sama did you see his face. He looked worried about something or someone." Anko says while turning to Hiruzen.
"Yes, Anko, Yes he did." Hiruzen replies adopting the same worried look that Naruto wore when he left.
Dark street in Konoha
A flash of silver light precedes Naruto. He kneels down and picks up a beautiful locket. A shrill scream rips through the night and Naruto's head whips in the direction of the scream. He takes off leaving a trail of dust hanging in the air. The only thing going through his mind; ' please let me make it in time.'
Naruto rounds a corner and comes upon a sight that makes his blood run cold. Standing in a dead end alley off of one of the main streets is a mob of villagers. But this isn't what he is most concerned about. No what has his attention is the small girl cowering against the back wall of the alley. She appears to be no older than eight years old. She has long blood red hair, beautiful blue slitted eyes the same shade as Naruto's, lightly tanned skin a couple shades lighter than his and a face so cute it should be illegal.
But these are not her most notable features. No those would be the three light whisker marks on each of her cheeks. The small fangs poking out of her mouth. The twin red wolf ears sticking out of the top of her head despite the human ears on either side. The small claws on the ends of her fingers and the two blood red wolf tails attached to her tail bone.
Tears are freely flowing from her eyes and down her face. She looks terrified as the mob closes in on her shouting things like 'filthy demon' and 'kill the demon'. She's calling out in a weak voice for her 'Onii-chan' asking for him to save her. She is bleeding from a shallow wound in her right shoulder which is staining her royal blue dress with her blood.
Behind the mob the look on Naruto's face goes from one of shock to one of absolute rage. The free ends of his sash and forehead protector along with his cloak float up like if he was falling with his feet straight down. An aura of silver appears around him and his finger nails turn into inch long claws. The whisker marks on his cheeks also darken and become thicker. His canines become longer and thicker. His once round pupils change into harsh slits. Out of the aura fifteen silver astral tails emerge at his tail bone and two astral wolf like ears appear atop his head.
As Naruto's transformation finishes Hiruzen and Anko appear on top of one of the over looking buildings. Naruto's sheer presence starts to press down on Anko making her eyes go wide and her breath start to become ragged. Most of the people in the direct vicinity don't seem to be receptive to Naruto's increased presence.
One of the mobs braver or stupider individuals steps forward with a knife in his hand. Anko and Hiruzen watch in horror as the man brings the knife up to deliver a blow upon the little girl. At that instant Naruto disappears without a trace only to reappear in front of the man gripping his wrist in his left hand.
The aura no longer surrounds Naruto. Instead the tails and ears that were once astral are now solid. Naruto's pure white wolf ears are pressed back against his scalp and all fifteen of his snow white tails are waiving behind him agitatedly. Naruto's face is twisted into a feral snarl with his teeth bared at the man in his grip. Naruto's right hand is drawn back with the fingers flexed so that he can claw his enemies throat out.
"You will not harm my sister!" Naruto snarls out through clenched teeth, his voice deeper and more gutteral. "I'm going to say this only once. Leave before I do something I'll regret." For extra effect Naruto flares his killing intent and a quarter of his power.
The entire mob runs like the Shinigami himself was after the screaming things like 'a demon has come to take vengeance for it's fallen brethren' and other such nonsense.
Once the mob has vacated Naruto quells his anger and turns towards his sister. Even with his anger gone his appearance doesn't change. Naruto crouches and reaches for his sister and places a hand on her shoulder away from the wound. "Akari?" He says his face taking on a look of concern and his voice quiet and soft losing the deep and gutteral inflections. Almost immediately the little girl, now known as Akari, stops trembling and looks up into the sad face of her 'Onii-chan'.
"Onii-chan?" She says in disbelief. Naruto gives her a warm, gentle smile and nods. "ONII-CHAN!" Akari shouts and tackles Naruto in a bear hug. She immediately winces and lets go.
Naruto leans over and fully uncovers Akari's wound. Hiruzen and Anko watch in stunned silence as he licks the wound clean and it starts to sizzle and close. Once his task is complete Naruto wipes his chin of blood. He embraces Akari who starts to cry into his shoulder. "It's okay Akari-chan you're safe now, everything is going to be alright." He says while stroking Akari's back to comfort her. "You two can come down now." Akari tenses and starts trembling again.
Hiruzen sighs and jumps down onto the street with Anko following. "How long?" He asks.
"Since the two of you got here." Naruto replies while still looking at his sister. "It's alright Akari you can trust these two they are friends." Naruto says changing from stroking Akari's back to her hair. "Even if I'm enraged sneaking up on me is almost impossible."
"Wait so you knew I was there in the forest!"Anko states with a small amount of anger in her voice.
"Yes, but playing with you was so much more fun."Naruto says. Anko mock pouts and looks away from Naruto. "Now let me introduce my baby sister, Akari Namikaze." Naruto stands up with Akari in his arms and gestures to her.
"Hey, Onii-chan I thought I told you to stop calling me your baby sister." Akari whines.
"But Akari you'll always be my baby sister no matter how old you get. Just the same as I'll always be your knuckle headed big brother." Naruto says while patting Akari's head with his right hand.
"Did you say Namikaze as in the same last name as the Yondaime Hokage?" Anko asks.
"One in the same." Naruto replies.
"But she can't be older than eight!" Anko states screaming out her disbelief.
"That's right. If you're wondering how the reason concerns how I look to be in my mid twenties when I'm only twelve." Naruto retorts.
"WHAT?" Anko cries out.
"Quiet Anko. I'll explain everything when we get back to the Hokage's office." Naruto says. "Now you get over here and grab on. I know there's a marker in the office." Anko and Hiruzen move over and grab onto Naruto's shoulders. Naruto and everyone else are engulfed in a brief flash of silver and the alley is left empty.
Hokage office
A quick flash of silver signifies the arrival of four people. Anko releases Naruto's shoulder and stumbles slightly. "Sorry about the dizziness that technique tends to catch first timers off guard." Naruto says apologetically.
"Was that what I think it was?" Anko asks as she rubs her temple.
"If you're thinking that it was the Flying Thunder God technique, then yes it was." Naruto affirms. "It would only be natural for me to know that technique." Naruto states matter of factually seeming to predict Anko's next question.
"And why is that?" Anko asks. Anko's question seems to amuse Akari for just after Anko finishes her question Akari begins to giggle.
"It's quite obvious silly. He is my Onii-chan and my tou-san is Minato Namikaze." Akari explains with logic only a child could portray. Anko looks absolutely flabbergasted.
"In other words Anko, Naruto is the son of the Yondaime." Hiruzen states with finality.
"But that can't be possible! The Yondaime died twelve years ago! And this guy can't be that little boy that went missing ten years ago. It's just not possible! HE has to be lying about his actual age!" Anko shouts out while waving her arms around animatedly.
"Calm Anko, all will be explained shortly." Not long after Naruto says these words the room is engulfed in a flash of yellow. Naruto and Akari both smile brightly. After the light dies down a familiar blond man and fiery red headed woman stand in the center of the room.
"Man it's been a long time since I've seen this office." Minato says.
"Well of course Nato-kun we were dead for two years and then training for the last ten." Kushina responds.
"Yondaime-sama, Kushina-senpai!" Anko says a little louder than necessary.
"You two are late." Naruto tells his parents dryly.
At that moment Kushina looks at her son and the cliché light bulb turns on in her head. "Naruto! Akari is... missing..." Kushina trails off mid sentence realizing Naruto has Akari in his arms. Kushina then sees that Akari's dress is torn and stained in blood. Kushina is at Naruto's side fussing over Akari so fast it almost looks like she used the Flying Thunder God. "Akari my baby are you okay? Who hurt you?"
"She's fine Kaa-san. She was attacked by a mob but I arrived before they could do to much harm." Naruto speaks trying to appease his mother. "I believe they attacked her because she forgot to hide her extra features."
"Onii-chan you can't scold me right now." Akari says while jabbing Naruto with on of her fingers.
"And why not?" Naruto asks while leveling his eyes on Akari.
"Because you have your extra features out too Onii-chan." Akari answers while she grins like the cat that ate the canary.
"She has you there Naruto." Anko says.
"No she doesn't because there is a difference between me and her." Naruto retorts to Anko's attempted jab at him. "Now Akari can you tell me that difference?"
"Um.." Akari says while adopting a childish thinking pose. "I don't remember."
"Let me remind you. Beings of our type like myself that have gained more than half of our total possible tails are immortal and reform if we are killed. Beings of our type such as yourself who haven't gained half of their total possible tails are not." Naruto says taking on a lecturing tone. "So if someone like yourself, Akari, were to be attacked and killed they would not reform and therefore no longer exist. Do you understand what I am saying Akari. If you were to be attacked by someone they could kill you and that would hurt me, mom and dad quite deeply."
Akari's face dropped taking on a very despondent look. "I'm sorry Onii-chan. I'll try to remember from now on." Akari says rather meekly.
"I'll accept your apology but I'm going to hand you over to mom for punishment." Naruto says with a wicked light in his eye.
"No Onii-chan don't give me to Kaa-san please." Akari pleads while activating the dreaded 'puppy eyes' technique. Naruto makes the mistake of looking into her big watery eyes and his will power crumbles instantly.
"Fine, you know full well I can't be angry with you Akari. I just get so worried about you sometimes. I can't lose my baby sister." Naruto says to which Akari smiles at and hugs Naruto.
"Um, didn't we come so you guys could give the Hokage an explanation?" Anko asks interrupting the family moment. She deadpans when all three of the adult members of the family scratch the back of their heads in the same sheepish manner.
"Right you are. Perhaps I can get an explanation as to who you are and why you are here." Minato states coolly.
"Oh, yeah dad this is Anko Mitarashi. She-" Naruto starts but is cut of by his mother.
"Little Anko-chan. Wow you grew up to be a fine woman." Kushina says. "Though I wonder about your choice of wardrobe." Anko has the decency to blush. She rubs the back of her head in the same manner as the Namikazes.
"Mom that is enough. Now as I was saying she has a small problem I want you to look at." Naruto finishes his previous statement.
"Oh and what problem would that be?" Minato asks.
"Just a small Juinjutsu, that's all." Naruto states nonchalantly."It can wait until after the explanation."
"Understood." Minato replies.
"Now Anko, I believe I owe you an explanation." Naruto says while turning to Anko.
Finally got it out. Sorry for the wait but I can't type to save my life.