Chapter two: Hikari comes back.
It had been two weeks since the incident at the Kyuubi festival. Naruto was now completely healed and was out of the hospital much to his happiness he hated hospitals just as much as the medi-nins hated having him there. So here he was walking down the desolate street ignoring the hateful glares and the whispered words or monster and demon. He tried not to let it get to him but he couldn't do it every hateful glance and whispered word was like a knife in his heart. He'd bumped into someone and looked up into the wolf masked ANBU. He was slightly worried because this was an ANBU they were usually the cruelest of all his tormentors.
"I'm sorry sir. I didn't mean to walk into you." Said Naruto smiling nicely hoping that it helped the elite ninja forgive him.
The wolf masked ANBU knelt down and said, "It's alright Naruto. But please be more careful alright. I hated to see you get hurt again."
"Ok sir." Said Naruto smiling even more.
The wolf laughed and said, "What are you doing out here all alone?"
"Oh Lady Aioki told me to leave." Said Naruto innocently
"What do you mean she told you to leave?" said the wolf not liking how this sounded
"She said I wasn't allowed at the orphanage anymore. Something about what happened on my birthday. She said I did killed the ones who chased me and called me a liar when I tried to explain it to her." Said Naruto
"What did you tell her exactly Naruto?" said the wolf
"I told her the truth. I told her they chased me and they locked me in that cage then when they tried to throw the torch at me after pouring the oil on me I screamed and closed my eyes and when I opened them there was a lady with red hair standing in front of me holding the torch. She was really mad at them and she told me to close my eyes because she didn't want me to see what was going to happen. So I closed my eyes really tight and covered my ears with my hands and I still heard them screaming before I passed out." Said Naruto
"Who was the woman do you know?" said wolf
"Uh huh they asked her who she was and she said her name was Yoko Hikari. She said she was Kyuubi's mate whoever that is. The people seemed really scared when they heard his name. So he's got to be strong to scare Nins huh mister?" said Naruto
"Yes he is Naruto. He destroyed over half the village the night you were born. But you said this Hikari woman was his mate?" said wolf
"Yep and she was dressed like a Nin but in white. She was really nice to me too. Do you think she'll come back?" said Naruto smiling
Wolf could see the hope in the boy's eyes and said, "I don't know Naruto. Guess we'll have to wait and see about that. But first answer me this have you eaten yet today?"
"Nope Lady Aioki said I didn't need to. Why?" said Naruto
Wolf gave a sad smile and said, "Come on ill treat you to some breakfast or lunch it seems ok."
"Oh ok." Said Naruto who looked down at the ground
Wolf wondered what was wrong and said, "What's wrong Naruto?"
"Nothing sir." Said Naruto doing a poor job of hiding the fact he was crying
Wolf lifted his face and said, "Why are you crying?"
"I'm sorry I promise I'll be good when I repay you." Said Naruto giving a small smile despite his tears
Wolf then understood what was wrong and felt his anger rise into rage and he said, "Naruto you listen to me alright you don't owe me anything alright and I promise those kinds of people will never bother you again alright."
Naruto smiled a big smile and launched himself at the ANBU and hugged him around the neck and said, "thank you."
Wolf laughed and wrapped his arms around the small boy and picked him up and said, "Your welcome Naruto. Now let's go fill that empty stomach of yours shall we."
Naruto moved to look at the porcelain wolf mask and said, "Ok sir."
Wolf chuckled and said, "You needn't call me sir kiddo."
"Yes I do lady Aioki said I have to call everyone sir or ma'am cause they were better than me. And you needn't carry me sir I can walk. Lady Aioki says that people like me shouldn't be carried everywhere or they'll start thinking that they deserve better and I should be grateful for what I have been given." Said Naruto knowingly
Wolf was getting angrier at this Aioki woman and he said, "Naruto you don't have to call me sir alright in fact I forbid you from doing it. I would much rather you call me Nissan alright. And I don't mind carrying you in fact I enjoy it."
Naruto said, "Alright if you say so Nissan."
Wolf smiled and said, "Much better now what should we feed you huh?"
"Whatever you think I should have is fine but I should warn you Nissan that only Ichigaku lets me eat there. Teuchi-oyji and Ayame-neechan are really nice to me and Teuchi-oyji lets me eat even if I can't pay for it because he says I can pay him back by helping to wash the dishes since I'm his best customer." Said Naruto
Wolf said, "So you eat their lot I take it?"
"Uh huh because everywhere else throws me out saying they don't want a demon brat to eat there. Nissan do you know why everyone calls me a demon or a monster and why they are always mean to me? I tried asking some of the people who chase me on my birthday so I could apologize but they just get angry at me even more saying I know what I did. But I don't Nissan. Do you?" said Naruto
Wolf started to walk to ichigaku's and said, "Yeah I know why they call you that and it's not your fault alright. Don't listen to them alright and if someone tries to hurt you again I want you to scream for me as loud as you can alright and ill come get you alright."
"Alright so I don't have to apologize for it then Nissan?" said Naruto
"Nope because it's not your fault. You didn't do anything. You just happened to be born at the wrong time is all. People remember what happened on your birthday with Kyuubi and they get angry cause you were one of the kids born that day but you were the only one who lived through the Kyuubi's chakra. Their just angry they lost so many people to the demon alright." Said wolf
"Oh ok. At least they're not really mad at me. Cause I really didn't know what I did to them." Said Naruto
Once they were at the ramen shop wolf walked in and said, "Teuchi you here?"
Teuchi came out and said, "Well if it's not my two favorite people. Hello wolf Naru-kan."
"Hi Teuchi-oyji. Where's Neechan?" said Naruto smiling a huge smile
Wolf nodded his head and thought Naruto's mouth was going to split if he smiled any larger and Teuchi said, "Unfortunately Ayame is home with a stomach ache. Guess she ate too much ramen."
Wolf understood what Teuchi meant and Naruto laughed and said, "Doesn't Neechan know she can't eat as much as me it'll make her sick."
"Guess she wanted to beat you kiddo." Said Teuchi as he ruffled Naruto's blonde hair making him laugh.
Naruto said, "Are we eating here Nissan?"
Teuchi looked at wolf curiously and wolf said, "yep unless you want to eat somewhere else otouto?"
"Nope I like oyji's food." Said Naruto making both men laugh
Wolf got the food to go and then they went to the top of Hokage Mountain to eat and wolf said, "Alright you can't tell anyone about this kay."
"You don't want people to get angry at you too?" said Naruto not understanding
"No otouto I'm going to take my mask off and I can get into trouble with my boss for doing it." Said wolf
"Oh ok Nissan I won't tell anyone promise." Said Naruto
Wolf took off his mask and Naruto saw that his new Nissan was a teen of at least 17 or 18 years of age with silver hair and black eyes or eye as his left one was covered by his headband and his lower half of his face was covered by a nin mask and Naruto said, "your really young to have silver hair did being a ninja do that?"
Wolf laughed and said, "No Naruto I was born with silver hair just like you were born with sun blonde hair. Their traits from our fathers. And I'm not that young I'm 17."
"That's old but nearly as old as oyji-sama." Said Naruto, "he's really old."
Wolf laughed again and said, "Yeah I guess sarutobi-sama is old for a ninja but he is only 59."
They both ate and then wolf took Naruto down to the ground again with his ANBU mask back in place. He set Naruto down near the playground. Naruto saw the kids playing and wolf saw how people were looking at Naruto and got angry.
Wolf knelt down and said, "Alright well I'm going to leave you here ok. I'll be back after my shift is over alright."
Naruto smiled and said, "Ok Nissan. I'll stay here so you can find me again alright."
"Good cause I really don't want to have to chase you all over." Said wolf laughing
Naruto laughed too and wolf did a jutsu and summoned one of his nin-dogs and said, "This is Kotsu he's one of my Nin-dog summons. He'll stay to keep you company alright."
"Ok Nissan thanks you." Said Naruto who hugged wolf, "Be careful and come back quick kay."
Wolf hugged him back and said, "I will Naruto promise."
When Naruto ran off to play wolf looked at Kotsu and said, "Stay with him and don't let anyone hurt him if someone tries then attack him. You are to treat him as if he is me understood."
"Yes alpha." Said Kotsu as he ran over to where Naruto was sitting and bumped him with his nose making Naruto run after him to tag him back and wolf laughed before leaving the playground.
Naruto played in the playground with Kotsu for hours. It was a little after mid-day when a red haired woman walked up to them out of the woods making Kotsu growl. Naruto looked behind him and saw the pretty lady from his birthday and smiled before jumping up and running to her with Kotsu right behind him.
She bent down and caught Naruto when he jumped at her and yelled, "Yoko-Chan you came back."
That made the adults in the area look at her weird and she glared at them and then looked at Naruto and smiled saying, "Did you think I'd stay away from you huh?"
"No but I didn't get to say thank you for saving me from those people." Said Naruto sadly
"Oh little one I'm sorry I had to go. But I stayed till three of your masked ninja came. One had a tiger mask, another had a ram mask and another one had one that resembled a wolf. You were safe with them there so I left for a while but I followed the wolf masked one all the way to the hospital before I left just to make sure you were alright." Said Hikari
"Oh the wolf masked one is my Nissan and Kotsu here is one of his nin-dogs. He said that Kotsu could stay here with me till he got back. He had to go back to work." Said Naruto and then got a very good idea, "Do you want to play with me Yoko-Chan?"
Hikari smiled and said, "I would love to my precious little one."
Naruto giggled and then squirmed causing Hikari to put him down and he ran off to the swings and chose one Hikari pushed him while Kotsu laid in the sun watching them and making sure no one hurt them he figured this Hikari lady was a friend of the kids so he didn't argue with her cause she was making the kid laugh and Kotsu said, "Naruto my alpha's coming. He'll be here shortly."
"Ok thank you Kotsu-Kan." Said Naruto who had felt wolf coming anyway.
When wolf got back to the playground he didn't have his ANBU gear on. He located Naruto easily and saw Kotsu lying in the sunny grass. It was the woman behind Naruto that made him suspicious until he saw Naruto laugh and noticed she was pushing him on the swing. This confused him because he wondered who this woman was. Deciding he wasn't going to get any answers standing there he went over to him.
Naruto launched himself off the swing on an upswing at wolf and yelled, "NISSAN!"
Wolf caught him and laughed as he said, "That was really dangerous Naruto what would you have done if you missed me huh?"
"Nothing cause you wouldn't have let me fall and get hurt." Said Naruto all knowingly
Wolf laughed and said, "Your right but still be very careful when you do that alright."
"I will Nissan. Oh come see I want you to meet someone." Said Naruto jumping down from wolf's arms
He ran over and got the woman's hand and brought her over and said, "Nissan this is Yoko-Chan. Yoko-Chan this is my Nissan."
Wolf said, "Hatake Kakashi."
The woman smiled and said, "Yoko Hikari."
Kakashi knew that name because of Naruto and he said, "I want to thank you for saving him two weeks ago."
"You are very welcome. I was just glad I got there when I did. I am sorry I had to kill so many of them but they had to learn not to do that to an innocent child." Said Hikari
"Don't be they deserved what they got. I'm just sorry I couldn't help you." Said Kakashi in a slight snarl causing Kotsu to growl in agreement.
They left the playground and got some food before Kakashi brought them to the Hokage tower to talk to the Sandaime. Once there they knocked and waited to enter. When they did Naruto let go of both their hands and ran over to the old man and jumped up on his lap hugging him around the neck.
Sandaime hugged him back and said, "Ok what did you do this time my little sunshine?"
Kakashi laughed and said, "He's fine Sandaime-sama but the orphanage kicked him out today though. So he currently has nowhere to go."
"Why can't I stay with you Nissan?" said Naruto causing Sarutobi to look at Kakashi curiously.
"I would love for you to stay with me Otouto but I live at the ANBU headquarters not an apartment. It wouldn't be safe for you to stay with me there." Said Kakashi solemnly
"You'll stay with me ok Naruto." said Hikari causing Naruto to run over to her and hug her around the waist.
Sarutobi said, "Naruto can you please go wait outside in one of the chairs so we can talk?"
"Ok but can I go play instead of sitting in the boring chairs grandpa?" said Naruto
"Of course you can." Said Sarutobi who turned to the woman as soon as Naruto was gone, "And who are you exactly?"
"I am Yoko Hikari sir." Said the woman
Kakashi said, "She's the one who saved Naruto two weeks ago."
"So you're the one who killed those men? And you three were adamant it was a fox." Said the Sandaime
"Yes I was and it was a fox sir." Said Hikari
"What do you mean?" said the old man.
Kakashi said, "She is a fox sir."
The Sandaime still looked confused and Hikari said, "Let me properly introduce myself. I am Yoko Hikari mate to the King of Biju Kyuubi No Yoko."
Sarutobi looked at her wide eyed and said, "You don't look like a fox?"
Hikari said, "This is my human form I have another that I used that night after I told Naruto to close his eyes. My mate had one too. I know that he attacked your village but he wasn't in control of what he was doing. He was being controlled by a man named Uchiha Madara."
"That's what I was afraid of when I learned my wife was killed by that monster." Said Sarutobi
Kakashi said, "Ok you confused me sir."
Sarutobi said, "Madara used the Kyuubi to fight my sensei in the Valley of the End where he lost because my Sensei's wife Uzamaki Mito sealed the Kyuubi inside herself. Then when it was decided that she would lose control of the seal the fox was then sealed inside of Uzamaki Kushina, Naruto's mother if you remember Kakashi. I am going to assume that Madara released him from Kushina's seal which lead to her death and as you know your sensei, Naruto's father sealed him inside of Naruto the night he was born causing his own death."
"So Naruto's his third Jinchuriki then. And it's been passed down through his mother's family then." Said Kakashi, "But how are they able to keep him from taking them over or dying from chakra poisoning?"
Hikari said, "I can explain that. The Uzamaki clan has been under our protection since it was founded by Uzamaki Haruto and his wife Uchiha Midori. Haruto is our son and Midori was Madara's only daughter. Their marriage was allowed in exchange for the Sharingan they possess. It's passed down from our family from both of us. My mate gave it to Madara when our son was denied the chance to marry Midori. Haruto loved her so much we figured we would give them our family's bloodline jutsu in exchange for their approval to allow our son to marry their daughter. It was allowed and the Sharingan was passed down both families. But unlike our own the Uchiha's Sharingan is defective. Their bloodline can't handle it for long and it causes them to go blind because they do not carry mine and my mate's blood. Naruto on the other hand due to being the last descendent of ours left after Madara slaughtered everyone else has a very strong one once active because he is descended from both bloodlines. Kushina's mother was a ninth generation Uchiha as her father was a ninth generation Uzamaki. Naruto is the tenth generation Uzamaki so his will be even more powerful as it does not manifest in our female descendents like it does males."
Sarutobi said, "Well I don't know if I should really let you take Naruto as your own. What proof do we have that you won't try and free your mate?"
"I would never go against my mates wishes. He asked me when he was inside of Mito not to be released that he could better protect his descendants that way. Only those who were worthy could carry him inside them because their chakra was more like our own. This is why Naruto will never get sick from having my mate inside him. And I can assure you Naruto is stronger than any of our previous descendants have been." Said Hikari, "All I want sir is to care for the only one of my children I have left. Naruto is all the family I have left everyone else was murdered by that traitor Madara. Please allow me to protect my family sir?"