Posted December 3rd, 2015

Fakhouri: Here we are again! First off I'd like to that those of you who reviewed! It really motivates me to know that this has caught your attention!

*A yawn is heard in the background*

Fakhouri: Secondly, I was planning on waiting a week to write and post this chapter, but seeing how much interest this has raised, I've started writing like crazy! Lastly There will be romance in this story but I most likely won't have it happen until at least after the Academy. Just to let you know what to expect!

*Another yawn is heard*

Fakhouri: *Anime tick mark forms on her forehead* Anyway We have a guest to say the disclaimer. Welcome Shikamaru Nara!

*She turns and looks at Shikamaru...who is asleep on the couch...*

Fakhouri: SHIKAMARU!

Shikamaru: *groans and opens one eye* Troublesome woman...What is it?

Fakhouri: Say the disclaimer...

Shikamaru: *sighs* What a drag...Fakhouri doesn't own Naruto or any of the Naruto Franchise. If she did, she'd actually have something to do besides write. *goes back to sleep*

Fakhouri: *eye twitches* I'd strangle him but I need him...Anyway, Here's By Chance?

'Speaking'

'Thoughts'

'Demon/bijuu'

'Demon/Bijuu Thoughts'

-6 years after the Kyuubi Attack-

Within the Hidden Leaf village, a six year old boy with spiky blond hair was...

"Get him!" "You won't get away this time, demon!"

..Running for his life.

'Why?' thought the boy as he ran from the small mob behind him. 'Why do they hate me?'

This boy's name is Naruto Uzumaki, jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi. Not that he knew this due to the Third's law about his status never revealed to him.

Naruto sighed mentally as he turned into an alley but stopped as he realized it was a dead end, 'Crap!'

"There he is!" "We have you now!" "Demon brat, You cost me everything! Now you die!"

Naruto barely turned and proceeded to assume the fetal position, waiting for the stabbing and excruciating pain to start...

But it never came. 'Huh?' he thought as he look up. When he did, he saw a female ANBU with a Dove mask. He could tell she was a she due to his knowledge of genders. That and the long raven colored hair.

The few shinobi in the mob glared at Dove while the civilians just gulped. "Get out of the way!" One of them yelled. Obviously not the brightest one among them.

Dove spoke in a monotonous tone, sending chills done some of the civilians backs, "You will cease your current actions and leave this area.".

One of the braver shinobi started walking towards Dove, "Oh yeah? And what are you going to do ab-" He would never finish that sentence due to the kunai that lodged itself into his neck. "This is your final warning. Failure to comply will be met with force..." Dove said with her arm extended. The civilians and shinobi gulped as she was still speaking in a neutral voice. They knew that if she killed one of them, she would bat an eye at kill them all. SO they did the most logical thing they could collectively think of...

They ran as if Anko was after them.

Dove lowered her arm and turned to face Naruto, who had lost consciousness soon after she arrived.

She sighed as she went over and picked him up, "Let's get you home...". With that she shunshined to Naruto's apartment, which was given to him a year after getting thrown out of the orphanage, placed him on the bed, and shunshined to ANBU Headquarters to make her report.

-Later...Anbu HQ, Locker room-

Dove sighed as she sat on one off the benches in the ANBU locker room.

"I know that sigh. What's wrong, Mikoto?"

Mikoto Uchiha, mother of two and wife to Fugaku Uchiha.

Mikoto sighed as she removed her mask, "I thought I told you to call me by my ANBU codename, Dolphin..". Another ANBU, now Identified as Dolphin, sat down next to her, "You did. I just choose not to.".

Mikoto rolled her eyes as she set her Dove mask on her lap. Dolphin continued, "So what's up?"

Mikoto looked at her mask, "Naruto got attacked...again..". Dolphin sighed, "Was he hurt?" Mikoto shook her head, "No.". Dolphin nodded, "Good."

For the past year, Dove and Dolphin have been Naruto's protection detail. Since they were put on the job, they've stopped forty-one mob attacks, seventeen assassins, and one arsonist. Unfortunately, this if just a small fraction of what has been done to Naruto that they couldn't stop.

Mikoto sighed, "Yeah..". A peaceful silence was there for a few minutes until she spoke again, "Hey Dolphin."

"Yeah?"

"I'm thinking about retiring from ANBU...and from being a ninja.."

"What?!"

Mikoto looked at him, "You heard me."

Dolphin, if he had his mask of so she could see his face, had a confused and frustrated expression, "But what about Naruto?! I can't protect him alone!"

Mikoto chuckled, "There are more experienced ANBU who could help. In fact, ask Dog. I'm sure he'd help.".

Dolphin sighed, "That's not the point! Naruto has grown to trust us! He even call you Dove-nee-chan last month! Also why after seven year do you decide now to leave?!"

Mikoto ran a hand through her hair, "I need to do something for Naruto that I can't do in ANBU...".

"And what would that be?" Dolphin said, as he was now curious.

"To fulfill a little prediction Kushina and I made 6 years ago."

Dolphin, who was hard to surprise, was shocked.

Ever since Kushina's death 6 years ago, every ANBU learned that badmouthing her was taboo around Mikoto unless said person would want extensive injuries. Talking about Kushina just brings Mikoto down and, therefore, puts her into a ticking time bomb state. To make matters worse, when there were recovering their dead, they never found Kushina. There have been rumors about what actually happened to her, but all have been proven false.

"And what would that be?"

Mikoto grabbed her mask off her lap as she stood, "You'll see...See ya whenever." With that she left the room, leaving dolphin alone with Cobra, the only other ANBU in the room...

-Later again..Hokage's Office-

Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage, sighed as he looked at the Dove mask on his desk.

Just a few minutes earlier, Mikoto had dropped off her resignation and mask to him.

He set the mask in a drawer, in case she ever needed it again.

He then looked at the Hokage mountain and sighed 'Minato...Kushina...What would you do in my situation...'

He then chuckled 'Now that I think about it...Minato would strangle me and Kushina...' He shivered and mumbled, "I don't even want to know.."

-Unknown Location-

A shadowy figure is show standing in from of a large desk, "Sir.".

A figure at the desk responded, "What is it?"

"The patient is responding to the drugs. But I don't expect the recovery to be any time soon."

A red eye opened on the figure behind the desk, "Then everything is going according to plan."

Fakhouri: And yet another chapter down! So please review and I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible.

*A hammer flies though the wall and narrowly misses her*

Fakhouri: Also I'm put a poll on my profile for the Kyuubi's gender. Either way is fine but I want to know what you want to have appear! if you want to guess at who the mystery figures are and the patient, go right ahead!

*Another hammer comes close to hitting her*

Fakhouri: So until next time! *ducks under her desk as another hammer flies into the room* If I survive that long!