Sui: Here you go, another chapter of Perfection out for your viewing pleasure. Sorry this took so long, but I have been dealing with some major writers block recently on many of my stories. Also, I still don't own Naruto and if I did, Kabuto-maru would not exsist. Anyway, on to the story.

"Damn!" Orochimaru yelled.

Orochimaru had been trying to implant Kimimaro's blood line into someone, but so far not a single subject had survived the transfusion. Their bodies rejected the serum and went into cardiac arrest and couldn't be saved.

"Kabuto… Get on the table." Orochimaru ordered a dark glint in his eye.

"B-b-but, Orochimaru-sama." Kabuto sputtered, "Why use me when you can have a subject that heals from wounds that would kill even me?"

"What do you mean, Kabuto? No one heals from wounds like you do." Orochimaru hissed angrily at his second in command.

"Not quite Orochimaru-sama. In my time in Konoha, I have seen one such person who has healed fatal wounds in seconds." Kabuto baited, "The Kyuubi jinchurikki is regularly hunted by the civilians and some shinobi and his healing is astounding. If I didn't know better, I would say that it was base cellular reconstruction using the nutrients from the damaged cells and excess nutrients kept in reserve. The Kyuubi will be forced to integrate the DNA into his body or die with Naruto."

Orochimaru thought for a moment on the benefits of having a, supposedly, un-killable test subject and the danger of stealing a jinchurikki from Konoha.

"Fetch him. And if you are wrong, you will be the next specimen on my lab table."

Scene Change: Konoha

It was a normal day for the six year old Uzumaki Naruto. Wake up, rummage through garbage to find some breakfast, evade the hateful glares and attacks of the village populace, rummage through more garbage for lunch and so on and so forth. Something that also went normally in this young boy's life is being hunted down by drunks a short while after the sun set, which would result in them beating him until they got bored, when they inevitably caught him. What was not normal, though, is that someone decided to save him this time.

"W-who are y-you?" Naruto asked the silver haired man who had just slit the throats of the drunken men as though he were taking a stroll.

"I am here to take you to my master." Kabuto replied with a calm, even tone as he ran through a few seals and touched his hand to Naruto's forehead, knocking the boy out like a light.

"I'm glad that Orochimaru-sama has the elders and Danzo wrapped around his little finger, or this would have been much more difficult." Kabuto muttered before disappearing in a quick shushin.

Scene Change Otogakure

When Naruto first awoke, he was groggy and had no idea where he was. As he came fully awake though, the memories of a silver haired man killing the men attacking him and then knocking him out returned and he took in his surroundings, realizing that he was in a stone cell with a pad of straw in one corner and a set of metal bars taking up one wall, which he quickly realized were to keep him in not someone else out when the same silver haired man as before came to a stop outside his cell.

"Good, you're awake. Do you feel unusual in any way? Do you hurt, are you dizzy or nauseous?"

Naruto being an underfed, under-educated young boy of six who is very confused as to what is currently happening, gave the only response such a boy can offer in the situation.

"Huh?"

Kabuto sighed. "I guess you are as stupid as they said you were. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to check you over."

"Hey! I'm not stupid! What the hell's going on you grey haired freak?" Naruto yelled as he finally managed to gather his wits enough to form a coherent sentence.

Kabuto's eye gave a small twitch. "My hair is silver not grey. Now, do you hurt? Are you dizzy or nauseous?"

"What's the difference between silver and grey?" Naruto asked, ignoring Kabuto's questions as he tilted his head to the side in a vaguely animalistic manner.

"Silver is lighter and slightly closer to white in color. Now answer my questions, I'm not going to ask again." Kabuto said, becoming slightly annoyed with the boy.

"I don't hurt, but what's dizzy and nauseous?" Naruto said, his eyes narrowing as he wisely decided to do what the man who could easily kill him asked.

"Dizzy is when you are unbalanced and everything around you seems to spin. Nauseous is when you feel like vomiting."

"Oh, I'm not dizzy, but what's vomiting?"

"Vomiting is when you throw up anything you have eaten from your mouth. It often leaves a bitter taste in your mouth and hurts your throat."

"I'm not nauseous then either. Where am I?"

After a moment of thinking, Kabuto decided it couldn't hurt to give Naruto a bit of information. "You are currently in the main base of Otogakure, in a cell we use for holding test subjects and prisoners."

"What's Otogakure? Am I a prisoner?"

"Otogakure is a ninja village that was just recently formed and you are more of a test subject then a prisoner. Anyway, I must go report to Orochimaru-sama about your condition. I have to say, I didn't think the fox would do as good a job as it did. The DNA seems to be completely integrated into your body and you are showing no ill effects." With that Kabuto left, leaving Naruto to ponder what he had said.

"I don't like this place; it gives me a bad feeling." Naruto muttered to himself as he stared at the spot Kabuto had stood just moments ago.

Scene Change: Orochimaru's lab

"Well, how is he Kabuto?" Orochimaru demanded, eager to hear about the only test subject to have survived the transfusion.

"He is doing fine. He shows no negative side effects and seems to be completely healthy, but we won't be sure just how well it went until we have him try to use Kimimaro's bloodline, but it seems likely that it will work without a problem. The only problem I can see is that he seems to be somewhat uneducated and will need extensive remedial lessons before we can begin properly training him" Kabuto delivered his report calmly, despite his apprehension.

"Take him to training room 14 and make sure it's cleared out beforehand. I will be there once I finish this stage of this project and will bring Kimimaro along with me to teach the boy how to use the bloodline to ensure that everything is working properly. If it works, we will give him several months for his body to adapt and for you to give him those remedial classes you suggested before we inject him with another serum."

"Yes Orochimaru-sama." Kabuto said as he left to do his leader's bidding.

Scene Change: Training ground 14: Otogakure

"This is the child?" Kimimaro asked as he caught sight of the short, emaciated form of Naruto.

"He was severely malnourished when I took him. Something that I have made sure to begin correcting through the implementation of a proper diet." Kabuto said.

Naruto looked at the two newcomers, not liking them already.

"Who are you?"

"I am Orochimaru, one of the Sannin and leader of Otogakure. This is one of my shinobi, Kimimaro. Kimimaro wields the Shikotsumyaku bloodline that alllows him to manipulate his bones, even allowing him to pull out bones and rapidly regrow them. I have given you this bloodline and have brought him to teach you how to use it to make sure nothing went wrong." Orochimaru explained, explaining in as simple terms as a renowned genious with no skill in teaching could.

"So this guy has some bloodline that lets him mess with his bones and now I have it and he's going to teach me how to use it?" Naruto asked to be sure he understood the situation.

"Exactly." Kimimaro spoke. "First, I am going to have to teach you how to acess your chakra, the basic energy ninja use to use ninjutsu, genjutsu, and sometimes special types of taijutsu. To acess your chakra, you must feel inside yourself. Your chakra pool is located in your stomach and all you have to do to start it flowing through your body is pull it into the rest of your body. If you do this properly, you should feel stronger and feel as though you have more energy. After that, I will begin teaching you how to manipulate and regrow bones to ensure that the Shikotsumyaku is working properly."

Naruto nodded, deciding now was not a time for questions and tried to do as Kimimaro instructed. The key word here is tried. Naruto certainly felt a pool of power in his belly he head never noticed before, but when he tried to pull it out, everything went downhill. Chakra exploded off Naruto's form, creating a aura of blue energy that whiped about as though each tendril and piece had a life of it's own. After a few moments, the chakra died down, leaving Naruto slightly drained.

"That is certainly interesting. Little Naruto seems to have much more chakra then many shinobi three times his age do. It is quite likely due to the Kyuubi's influence." Kabuto commented as he mentally added chakra control exercises to the list of things to teach Naruto.

"What do you mean the Kyuubi. The Kyuubi is dead, right?" Naruto asked.

"Kukuku. Those fools really didn't tell you Naruto-kun? I suppose I can explain it to you then. The biju, such as the Kyuubi, are no more than large masses of chakra that have minds, Naruto-kun. They can't be killed, only locked away. Now a biju as powerful as the Kyuubi can only be sealed in one object, a human child. You, Naruto-kun, were chosen as the container of the Kyuubi. You can think of it this way. You are a cup and the Kyuubi is water. The Kyuubi was put in you, the cup, so you are now it's contianer."

"W-what?" Naruto said, shaken at what he had just been told. "T-that's not possible. Everyone always said that the Kyuubi was dead, but… That would explain why everyone hates me, why they try to hurt me." Naruto was muttering by the time he finished.

"Yes, Naruto-kun, that is why the people of Konoha hate you ard try to hurt you. That is also exactly why you are useful to me. You see, due to the Kyuubi, you have the ability to heal from wounds that would kill most anyone else. Because of this, you are the perfect subject for bloodline transfusions. I inject the serum into you and the Kyuubi either integrates the bloodline into your body, or you both die. Because of this, you are the perfect body for me." Orochimaru said.

"B-body?"

"Yes. You see, I desire immortatilty and have developed a jutsu to achieve just that in a limited compacity. However, I have to swtich bodies every three years because they keep breaking down. With you, I can create a body that will never break down, will never die of illness or old age, can't be killed, and has some of the most powerful abilites to ever exsist. Once I am finnished modifiying your body, I will use my jutsu to transfer my soul into your body and take over and use it to accomplish all of my other goals." Orochimaru explained as though he was taking about the weather.

"Now, to use the Shikotsumyaku, you must chanel chakra to your bones and then move the chakra as you wish the bones to while you will the bones to move with the chakra. If done correctly, the bones will follow the chakra." Kimimaro instructed.

Naruto did as he was told mechanically, thinking over what he had been told. It seemed just too far out there, too unbelivable to be real. But the way Orochimaru explained everything, the reason the villagers hated him was just too serious and made too much sense for him to be lying. After coming to this conclusion, Naruto decided to do something he had never even thought about while in Konoha.

'I've got to escape.'

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