AN: Apologies to the people who wanted Naruto's parents to like him. At least one of his parents care for him.

They were in a dark doctor's office, a few hours after Kushina gave birth. All the lights were turned off, and the sun had just dipped below the horizon. Anyone else wouldn't have been able to see, however no one was there due to the barrier seal around the place. The office's occupants didn't have too much difficulty seeing, as they were ninja, and had been trained at a young age to hide and strike from the shadows. One of the figures shifted, and began to speak.

"Kushina, what are we going to do?" Minato asked as he ran his hands through his hair, "What if it is the reincarnation of the Kyuubi?"

A harsh slap was heard in the night as Kushina hissed at her husband, "How dare you call our son an it, and the Kyuubi no less! I would've thought better from you." Kushina glanced down at the bundle of blankets and fox tails that wrapped around her young son before smiling, "You know, he looks just like you, Minato."

Minato suppressed his internal revulsion at being compared to some thing with the same 9 fox tails as the Kyuubi. The thing that could even possibly be the Kyuubi. However, he didn't become a kage without learning how to suppress his emotions. He put a smile on his face and nodded, as he felt that even his skills at hiding emotions wouldn't be able to hide the disgust in his voice.

Kushina knew that there was something wrong with her husband. She made sure that when they were married he told her all his tells, as there was no room for deception among her family. She did not try to hide her ting of disappointment in Minato for attempting to hide something from her for whatever reason. Especially concerning their own son.

Minato detected the disappointment directed towards him but said nothing, as there was nothing to be said.

Kushina lifted Naruto from his blankets to take a closer look at him. He really did look so much like Minato with the slight spiky blond hair on his head and his big blue eyes. She thought that his face was a little more like hers, although that could be because of the baby fat. Sprouting from just above where normal human ears would be where two blondish white fox ears. Her thumb brushed near one of them and it twitched. Kushina giggled, "How cute!"

Minato felt the need to leave. He couldn't stand how Kushina was pampering that thing she called their son. He would need to organise an assassination of the thing as soon as Kushina wouldn't be suspicious of him doing it. After all, he must kill the demon before it becomes a threat to Konoha. "Kushina," Minato said to grab his wife's attention, "I'm going back to the village now, I'll see you at home." Minato proceed to exit the doctor's office.

"Mhmmm" Kushina hummed as she continued to gaze at Naruto. His moon coloured tails were gently moving in random motions. She ran her hand down one of the tails and almost gasped. They were so soft! Looking back at his eyes, she saw that they were slightly slitted in an almost animalistic manner. She then knew that something was wrong, not because his eyes were slitted, but something else entirely. The baby was silent, only making noise with it's shallow breaths broke the air. The perfect picture of a sleeping baby. Except for that one thing she hadn't noticed before that moment. His eyes were open, he was awake.

Konoha Shinobi Hospital: Secret Room

The ANBU were suspicious when they heard someone crashing through the hospital like someone way dying. They eased when they discovered that it was only Kushina, but were once again tense when she beelined straight to the secret medical room that they were guarding. This medical room is used as the Hokage's private medical room, as enemy shinobi can learn about the Hokage by spying on check-ups or by extracting DNA. Once Minato became Hokage he instantly extended the rights of the room to his family. After a quick nod from the ANBU who checks for henge or genjutsu, the leading ANBU of the team admitted Kushina into the secret area.

"Swan." Was the only thing that Kushina said. They knew who she was talking about. ANBU didn't have very many medical ninja but Swan was a marvelous exception. Unlike most medic nin who are female, Swan is one of the rarer male medics. He also had a large passion for the healing arts and became a ninja for the sole purpose of being to use a variety of medical procedures that aren't available to civilians. Because of this, he was one of the best medic nin besides Tsunade.

Swan left his hiding place to kneel in front of Kushina, "Yes, Lady Uzumaki."

Kushina inclined her head slightly to acknowledge him, "First I need everyone who doesn't know my S-class medical information to leave."

Swan nodded, seemingly to no one but a few shadows were seen as some of the ANBU left the room. "We now have privacy, Lady Uzumaki."

Kushina retrieved a bundle from inside her clothing.

"Is that-" Swan started.

"Yes. Swan, meet Naruto." Kushina said, "Although I am sure you would like to talk more about him I'm afraid that he might have a serious issue."

Swan was instantly in focus mode as he gently unwrapped Naruto from his blankets. When he saw the ears and tails he couldn't help but flinch back as if burned. "Is this the issue? That you've given birth to a demon?" He said in a cold voice.

Kushina growled at him like an Inuzuka mother might to one who threatens their child, "That is my son, believe it! Watch your tongue."

Swan was instantly ashamed, "I beg for your forgiveness, Lady Uzumaki. I was shocked and that caused me to act irrationally."

Kushina waved him off, "I know you're sincere, so I will pardon you this one time. The important thing here is solving the actually problem. In case you couldn't see past the fox tails, Naruto is awake, but isn't doing anything that babies normally do."

Swan was hurt a little at the reminder of how he reacted when he saw Naruto and was determined to make it up to him. Looking down at the baby, he saw that Naruto was indeed awake. He took out a flashlight and shone it into each of his eyes with no reaction. Next he took a pop gun and set it off next to Naruto's ear, but again there was no reaction. After a pew pinches in various places with zero response Swan seemed to nod to himself. Swan gathered some chakra into his hands and was instantly met with a small chakra pulse.

Swan turned to Kushina, "Naruto's condition is completely normal."

Kushina looked outraged, "You call that completely normal?!"

Swan was slightly ticked off, "As I was going to continue saying, it seems like Naruto is a sensor, and among sensors this is a perfectly normal thing. Or rather, this is a rare birth condition which results in a sensor."

Kushina's eyebrow rose, "Continue."

Swan began to elaborate, "For some reason that has not been discovered yet, some ninja children will be born without their senses. Now, if you couldn't see, hear, feel, smell, or taste anything, how would you perceive the world around you?"

Kushina thought about it for a while before her brain started to steam and smoke began pouring out of her ears.

Swan sighed, "Well children born like this learn how to perceive the world around them using chakra. This ability carries on through their entire life, which allows them to sense chakra signatures and makes them a sensor. There is a theory that the longer the child can't access their senses, the stronger of a sensor they will become. Usually the blackout phase, as many people like to call it, lasts anywhere between a couple days and a couple years. There is a bit of a learning disadvantage though, as children whose blackout phase is longer fall behind on mental skills because they were unable to learn for the time they were in their blackout phase."

Kushina nodded in understanding even though she didn't understand most of it, "So basically, Naruto's going to be unable to interact with the world around him for a while."

Swan shook his head, "Not quite, as he with still be able to sense chakra. The most common thing done with sensor children is having people move around them while channeling chakra through their bodies so that the children know how to move."

Kushina responded instantly, "Yosh, I will do that and more. If I can not do that, I will give Naruto a piggyback ride around Konoha 1000 times, believe it."

Unknown to Kushina and Swan, an academy student named Maito Gai had been passing by the hidden doorway to the secret room and had heard what she said past the silencing seals in the room. He did not know who or where the voice came from or who this 'Naruto' person was, but the enthusiasm and energy in that statement greatly impressed him. Right then and there he swore to be an enthusiastic and youthful ninja who said energetic statements like that all the time. Hmmm, the youthful ninja. Youthful is the perfect word to describe what I want to become so I will try to use it as much as possible. Gai then ran towards a nearby training ground screaming "Yooouuuth."

Unknown to Kushina and Swan, they had just created a monster, or more appropriately, a beast.

Namikaze Estate

Kushina returned to the house much more at ease than she had been before. There was nothing wrong with her baby, and he would be sensor too! Kushina had worked with a couple sensors before and their ability was amazing. I have to tell Minato to find some scrolls on how to train sensors, She thought.

Kushina waved at and greeted a couple of ninja and civilians she was acquainted with as she passed them, careful to hide Naruto in the folds of her clothing. This had her wondering for the rest of the walk on when she would be able to go out in public with Naruto by her side. What Kushina really wanted to do was scream to the world the joy she felt whenever she looked at her baby boy, but she also know that Minato had many enemies that would try to hunt Naruto if they found out about him. Knowing Minato, she speculated that he would want her to wait until it was already discovered, or until Naruto was chunin. She went along with it because it's hard to have a good childhood when you have to watch yourself for assassins all the time. She would know, having been the princess of whirlpool before it was destroyed.

Hmmm, Kushina thought, This could pose a problem. Afterall, it is also hard to have a good childhood when you are hidden from the entire village. Kushina thought about it for a while longer before reaching the conclusion that Naruto won't be able to do much social interaction until after his blackout phase anyways. I will introduce him as my son as soon as his blackout phase ends, believe it! She exclaimed within her mind in her usual fashion.

While her brain was occupied, her body auto-piloted back to the Namikaze household. A breaking of the fourth wall caused Kushina to think, Wait, didn't the bold slanted text already say that I was at the Namikaze estate? As soon as she had that thought, Kushina became confused, so she did what she always did when she couldn't explain some thought she had. She dismissed it from her mind and never thought about it again.

Cutting her finger slightly with the blade concealed in her wedding ring, she unlocked the blood seals protecting the estate. She took a quick glance to make sure the seals correctly locked themselves, and proceeded to take Naruto out of her clothing. The first thing she did was go to the baby room she and Minato had prepared for Naruto and grab some children's clothes from the drawers. Once she had the tiny garments, she went to the bathroom to fill up the bathtub. Finally catching a break from her self assigned tasks, she took some time to pay attention to Naruto. The young jinchuriki's eyes were now closed, which meant that he was asleep.

Kushina was broken out of her baby induced trance when she realised the bath was full. Stripping herself of her clothes and Naruto of his blanket, she sank into the lukewarm water holding Naruto on her lap with his head above the water. Now that she had recovered from the initial shock and amazement of Naruto's tails and has time to think about things, she adjusted Naruto in her lap so she could inspect his tails.

The tails looked a lot thinner now that the fluffy fox-like fur had been soaked in the water, and they definitely didn't look like they could crush mountains or cause hurricanes with a single wave. The tails originated out of where the tail bone would be on a normal human. The fur covering the tails (and ears) was a blond colour some shades lighter than the hair on his head, like a Yamanaka's hair colour, and covered all of Naruto's flesh thinly. The thin hairs on the rest of his body, when Naruto gets older, would probably grow longer and thicker until it would be like a thin garment covering his entire body.

As Kushina drained the bath and started brushing her hair she wondered if Naruto's furry ears and tails needed to be brushed. She eyed the messy tails and gave herself a nod in the affirmative. She calmly brushed his tails and ears until she realised she had been awake for the past 36 hours and went to bed, snuggling Naruto close as she slept.

Hokage's Office: About 8 hours before

Minato furiously stormed into his office and unsealed all of his sealing notes for the seal of sun and moon. He passionately read, re-read, and triple checked everything in a desperate attempt to find out where he went wrong, to find out what allowed the Kyuubi to escape the way it did. He looked at everything, from the fundamentals of the sealing formula to completely mundane things like how it is speculated that Bijuu find fire calming.

Even after searching for a reason for over 8 hours he found nothing that even hinted at a problem. He had been really thorough with this seal, as he wouldn't stand to risk Kushina and the villagers lives for something as silly as a sealing mistake. Yet somehow, he made a mistake somewhere. Thoughts racing through his head he finally settled on a theory with cold hard emotion with it.

He never had a son. The only thing that was in Kushina's womb was the Kyuubi trying to escape as a child, and Minato had let it. With his frozen resolve, he decided he would kill the demon while it was weakened by its rebirth. First he would have to convince Kushina that the creature was not their son, then she could join him in annihilating the Kyuubi once and for all!

Minato noticed as one of his ANBU (other than the ones guarding him) entered his office. It was his Swan ANBU who was stationed at the Konoha Hospital's secret medical office. "Report." Minato said.

Swan snapped into a salute and told him of Kushina's visit and how sadly his son, Minato had flinched a bit when he heard that, was senseless due to being a sensor. Swan finished with a, "Congratulations on becoming a father, Hokage-sama."

Minato was too occupied to be angry at the ANBU for referring to the demon as his son, because immediately after the ANBU finished his report he broken the previous silence he had held by bursting into a maniacal laugh. "This is perfect! The Kyuubi is extremely weak right now! It will be so easy to kill that wretched demon." Minato completely forgot about the ANBU in the room.

Swan made a quick and curt bow before exiting the room, removing his ANBU gear in a private changing room, and throwing up into a garbage bin. He couldn't believe that his normally kind Hokage could be so twisted, especially to his own son. He did remember with guilt and shame of how he first reacted when he saw little Naruto, but it still wasn't in that perverted and almost obsessed way that Minato was psychotically plotting his son's death.

Swan had reached a finality. The fourth Hokage has broken. He will need to start informing other clans and ANBU. He will need to start planning the revolution.

Namikaze Estate Garden: the next morning

Kushina woke up as the sun had fully broken the horizon. It truly was a beautiful day that day, as flowers were in their glorious final stand against the forces of fall. Winters weren't very long in the land of fire, as they usually started mid december and ended early february. Fall, however, was extra deadly, as scorching winds flew through the country at high speeds, tearing at all manner of leaves, petals, and plants.

Kushina decided to take full advantage of the mild weather and do some training. Unsealing a crib, she put Naruto in it on the porch so she could keep an eye on him. As she settled into a taijutsu stance, she suddenly remembered Swans advice on how to raise sensor children and smacked her forehead for forgetting so quickly. She then went through her katas while channeling chakra through her body.

Naruto lay down in his crib with his eyes open. For him there was no difference between having them open or closed, but having them open felt more natural when he was awake. All his attention was focused in on the only thing he could detect: a moving energy. The energy was a lot like the energy that took up the space he occupied, his 'me-energy', but bigger, better, and very different. If he was capable of complex thought, he would ponder how he thought the energy was like his and very different at the same time, but he wasn't able to ponder that well. Just then, he discovered a different energy entered the space and he quietly wondered what it was as it drew closer and closer…

Kushina was sudden startled out of her training when she felt a sudden pulse of chakra. Turning towards the source of the pulse, her eyes landed on Naruto's crib just as a small figure was fleeing the scene. Kushina tried to chase after it, but Kushina wasn't very good at tracking and the figure was already out of sight. Instead, Kushina rushed to check on Naruto, who was still sending out chakra pulses. She figured that that was his way of crying.

Picking Naruto up from his crib, the first thing she noticed was blood all over Naruto's face. She retrieved a medical wipe from her first aid kit and wiped the blood from his face. What she saw were 3 straight clean cuts on each cheek that could be mistaken for birthmarks if they weren't currently bleeding. In fact, with his fox ears and tails, the whisker-like marks that would likely scar were almost fitting. Once Kushina dressed the wound and tried flaring her chakra in a comforting way to stop Naruto's chakra pulses, she resumed training and didn't think much more about the mark.

A certain fox demon knew what the marks meant, and by whom they were made by. The messenger of the fox clan had arrived, and had just marked Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze as part of the fox clan.

Naruto's Mind

Naruto felt something different about the darkness he had just been transported into. The emptiness had a different quality somehow. He started sending out waves of energy out because he didn't know how to do anything else. Soon, something unbelievable happened and Naruto's eyes widened by instinct without even realizing he did so. This energy was very very big. Even though the other energy he felt before was bigger than his, this energy was absolutely enormous. The energy moved, changed its pattern and texture, and split in a way that seemed like a secret code he had to decipher in order to understand. The energy stopped it's strange actions for a moment before taking on a happy and calming quality that he understood. The huge energy came closer and wrapped itself around him, and Naruto felt content. His world was no longer empty.

Author's Note: There are some things in this chapter that may be a bit confusing but I will address them later. If you still don't see answers in later chapters just leave a review and I will answer any questions about the story within the story so there won't be a bunch of long author's notes like this one.

To the readers of this story: Would you prefer longer chapters with less frequent updates or shorter chapters with more frequent updates?