A/N: Here we are... I'd add more but I can't remember if I need to add anything to this start A/N. Anyways, enjoy.
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Mikoto had spent a good few hours looking through the ancient scrolls and even some old looking crap and she learned a few things. The Uchiha clan were idiots, she would have been surprised if she didn't know already, but with how many scrolls she found it was hard to prove otherwise. The majority of the scrolls were old messages between the Senju and the Uchiha. Apparently important enough to save, but otherwise useless, and they were boring messages, but messages of an affair between an Madara and Senju Mito was amusing nonetheless to her, though it may not have been affair but with how the Uchiha hated the Senju, it may as well have been.
The second thing she learned was... the clan didn't know how to organize shit. It's like they just tossed everything down here and said 'screw it' then left. It made her task a lot harder than it should have been, it also took longer as she decided to organize it while looking through it in case she had to come looking through it again and the last thing she learned was what she originally came looking for. Something to help her and her Naruto-kun and that something was a set of seals... or something like it. The scroll was half-worn out and looked like it went through hell, but what she gathered from what was left of and in the scroll is that it explained the use of the seals and that, when applied to various points in an area and onto a person, her in this instance, she could activate the seals and cause anyone to lose the will to fight. Though how much chakra it would drain from her was something that the scroll didn't say.
It explained why the scroll looked like hell. The Uchiha clan was more for war and fighting than peace and whoever found it before attempted to destroy it.
"I got what I wanted," she muttered, pocketing the scroll and heading out of the basement. It took her a few minutes to lock the seals and climb the stairs up. When she arrived back at the entrance she found her eldest son checking the body of Fugaku. "If you're going to poke and prod it, do me a favor and get rid of it, Sochi," she said seeing as he was volunteering to play with the corpse.
"What happened here? Why is otou-sama dead and why are you covered in blood?" asked Itachi calmly, and if she didn't know better she would have assume that he had the same problem she did when it came to feeling anything, but she saw otherwise throughout the years. Her son was playing stupid, something with which did not suit him as he didn't play it well enough
Mikoto shook her head and replied, "We both know you are not that stupid, Itachi. You can connect the dots and be accurately correct in that I killed him. As the original heiress, it's in my power to take over if I deem it necessary. I did, he didn't. That's the end result of our little spat. So get rid of the body and let the Elders know there's going to be a meeting in the morning and if they don't come, there's going to be consequences." She turned and walked through a doorway, heading to her personal bathroom to take a shower, change her clothes then return to her little spiral.
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The Next Day – Morning
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Mikoto stretched her arms as she walked into the courtyard of the meeting house, it was an odd thing to have, but the Uchiha of the past decided to have one specific place to have their meeting, so as not give anyone an advantage one could have in their own home.
Once she past the opening gate, she looked to her left, hearing movement and saw a clansman rushing her and trying to punch her. Mikoto dodged the punch, grabbed him by the wrist, moving his arm up and out of the way before slamming her palm into his chest, sending him back onto the ground. Another charged four clansmen attacked her immediately afterward, the first she merely spun around him before kicking him in the ass, sending him face first into the dirt.
The next two tried using katana, but they weren't skilled in their use, which wasn't very surprising. Not a lot of Uchiha knew how to use a katana very well, much less be skilled in the use of one. Mikoto easily dodged their attacks before kicking the blades out of their hands which only happened because of their lack of grip. "Are you done? Because I am," stated Mikoto staring them uninterested seeing this entire thing for what it was, a farce. The only person with any noteworthy skills in fighting was her eldest son and her. At best, the Uchiha clan were only fit for the role they had now, to run the police force. Whether or not the reason they didn't use jutsu against her was a moot point, and would have had the same result or a slightly bloodier result. Most likely the latter.
Mikoto turned her head as she heard someone clicking their tongue, and saw it was one of the Elders, Tarou, an old fossil who was an Elder when her father was Head of the Clan. He went to speak but couldn't and soon found a kunai lodged in his own throat.
"The rantings of an up-jumped zealot make for tedious listening," stated Mikoto having no desire to listen to the elder man rant and rave about her killing Fugaku, taking over the clan or his age-old statement that women shouldn't run the clan... or a number of other things. She looked around and saw the other Elders standing nearby, shocked and wary of what had happened. Mikoto stared at them, "I am taking my position as Head of the Clan as is my right as the original heiress. I advise that you heed Tarou's lesson well. When the weak court death. They find it," she added coldly before turning heel and heading out of the courtyard, "Fugaku's funeral will be held in one month," she stated before crossing the entrance and leaving.
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Two Hours Later
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Naruto smiled as he was loving where he was at for the moment. He had skipped out on the Academy lessons and before Iruka-sensei could grab him, Mikoto did and then she told Iruka-sensei to leave him alone and go away... and the chunin did so, though Iruka-sensei didn't look happy about it, and now... now he in a training grounds with Mikoto and she was teaching him different things. She had even gone and bought him a few books on sealing from one of the visiting merchants. They'd be a decent starting point for him, but he didn't expect much out of the books if he had to be honest.
But the parts he enjoyed the most was where she'd hug him, tell him he was going good and do things that no one's ever done with him. Mikoto was even teaching him jutsu, not very super powerful jutsu, but a few that she knew he could handle... though she said they'd have to work on his chakra control before she would teach him anything stronger. She had also said that she didn't know a lot of jutsu as she didn't use them, but she'd be happy to help him with any he tried to learn on his own or if he wanted to learn anything else she knew.
"Naruto-kun, let's take a break," said Mikoto holding a basket she had... gotten from somewhere, she didn't have it earlier and he didn't see it until now, so he wasn't sure where it had come from. Naruto shrugged, he'd just mark it as one of his Miko-chan's awesome abilities.
"Okay," replied Naruto running over to her and sitting down near her wondering what was in the basket.
"It's not much, but I made some onigiri and some sandwiches," chimed Mikoto bringing out said objects and placing them on the blanket she laid out earlier. She narrowed her eyes and frowned as she saw the telltale signs of shunshin, and within a second an Anbu popped out of nowhere. "What is it?" she asked and demanded at the same time.
"The Hokage wants you in his office," stated the Anbu in a monotone voice causing Mikoto's displeasure to increase.
Mikoto growled in her throat for a moment before looking at Naruto, "You continue Naruto-kun. I'll be right back after dealing with the Hokage, alright?" she said kindly, smiling at the blond happy to see that her little spiral was enjoying their time together.
Naruto nodded and replied, "Alright. Tell jiji I said hi." Mikoto nodded before disappearing and the Anbu shortly after her and now Naruto had the hard choice. Which to eat first, a riceball or a sandwich?
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Hokage's Office
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Mikoto arrived in the Hokage's office, seeing the elderly man sitting behind his desk, Anbu hiding... or doing their best to hide in various locations and her. "You called Hokage-sama?" she asked politely to the elderly man, she didn't like him. He was interrupting her time with her Naruto. That was unacceptable. Not to mention he was allowing harm to her spiral as well as other things to happen, even going so far as to manipulate Naruto as well.
"You realize you're being charged with murder, correct? For the murder of Uchiha Fugaku, your husband and of Uchiha Tarou," said the Hokage calmly and Mikoto could feel the Anbu in the room tense once the sentence was spoken.
Mikoto stared at him with no expression on her face. Apparently the Hokage was not as smart as she gave him credit for. She would not be making that mistake again, "And you're interfering with a clan matter, Sarutobi. Are you prepared to surrender your position as Hokage over something this small and pathetic? What happens within the Uchiha clan is a clan matter and will be handled as such. I do not give you permission to interfere. If you attempt to interfere, I and the clan will be leaving Konoha." stated Mikoto icily as she had no intention of cowing to the man's position or any potential threats he probably had in mind, "If your worried about the coup, you shouldn't be. It will not be happening and if you use another clan member of mine, especially my son, again, I'm going to come into this office and neuter you with one of my poisoned kunai, then I'll slit your throat before shoving your ballsac into your mouth and leaving you to die, choking on your own balls. Now I have a little meeting to continue," she added before disappearing via shunshin again.
"...Well that brings back memories," said Hiruzen having minor flashbacks of the raven haired matriarch when she had used to report on her missions. The insults and threats were not new, nor was the fact that he didn't say much. It also reminded him why he didn't waste time agreeing to her retirement. He had a feeling that council meetings were going to be a headache for awhile at least... but on the bright side, the coup was dealt with, though he'd ask Itachi to watch for awhile just to be sure.
He'd suffer through Mikoto's usual no-bullshit way of talking if meant that the Uchiha clan's coup was over and only a handful of lives ended to do it. It was far better than the alternative.
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One Month Later
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Naruto read through a book about seals, one of the many that Mikoto had gone and bought for him to read since he was interested in his clan's specialty with Fuinjutsu. He'd take a break every few hours to work on chakra control, since she said that it was best to get the hardest and longest part of chakra control over with now, than later. He didn't really go to the academy any longer, Miko-chan usually stayed with him in the house or left a kage bunshin with him if she had to do something elsewhere.
"Naruto-kun... what would think about going somewhere else and living there for awhile?" asked Mikoto idly as she continued preparing lunch. The thought had been in her mind throughout the last month and had been growing. The more she was around her little spiral, the more she saw how Konoha viewed and treated him. The council was out to kill him, if not turn him into a weapon. Something she learned during the past couple meetings within the month, and something her former husband agreed with if she went by the whining in the room. The villagers she had known about since the first day spent with him and the Hokage was no better than any of them, in her opinion.
Konoha was not worthy of her little spiral, not in the least. So she had been teasing with the thought of leaving the village with him to go... somewhere else, anywhere else. Preferably without a shinobi village given they'd treat Naruto the same way and they'd keep her away from her little spiral. No, she had a few places in mind without shinobi of any sort. Whether or not her little spiral wanted to leave was the biggest question.
"The Hokage said it wasn't safe outside Konoha and that people would treat me worse out there," said Naruto remembering what the Sandaime had told him, so he never really ventured far from the village and hunted near its walls when he had to.
Mikoto frowned when the blond brought up the Hokage, her little spiral obviously still believed some of the lies from the old fool. "Naruto-kun, we've been over this a few times. The Hokage is lying to you. Yes, there are things outside Konoha that are dangerous but being in Konoha is just as dangerous, for you, and me as it would be out in the world. However, there are more good things out in the world than staying in this place, and it's safer in some cases. Besides I think you'd love to see new places, meet new people and maybe learn new jutsu. We could even try getting to Uzu no Kuni and you can visit the place where your clan lived, maybe we could find something too." Yes, she was manipulating him in her own way, using his fixation on his clan against him, but unlike the Hokage and the others, her manipulation in no way, shape or form would cause her little spiral harm in the present or the future. Not to mention that Naruto was smarter than he liked to let on to people. He had been able to commit suicide multiple times in likely public places and would have succeeded if not for some random string of fate to appear and ruin his suicidal plans each and every time.
"I know he lied to me... but not everything was a lie... right?" asked Naruto not believing that every thing told to him was a lie. No one could do that kind of thing, right? Even small things that the Hokage told had to have some truth to them at the very least.
Mikoto sighed quietly for a moment, pausing in her task to walk over to him from behind and gently hug him, "You're such a sweet little boy, but there are people like that, Naruto-kun. There are people in the world, in Konoha that will pretend to be your best friend, or love you only to stab you in the back or kill you. The Hokage made his choice, my little spiral," she said gently as she whispered into his ears, "He lied to you about your clan, and if he's going to lie to you about your family then I would not put it past him to lie about all kinds of things. Remember Naruto-kun. He always had a choice. As did every person in the village who has threatened or hurt you. They always had a choice. You are not the Kyubi, and even if you were, the Kyubi did not create the violence in the villagers or the lies spewing from people. The Kyubi however, did not have a choice in the matter when it was sealed within you."
It was no longer a secret to the blond of the reason why the village hated him or why the Hokage put him in shinobi classes. No, Mikoto had told him everything that the Hokage had ordered to be a village secret under punishment of death. Something of which only enforced Naruto's outlook on her, further cementing her into his life, something she was happy about.
Mikoto also knew that she should not cause him to be afraid of the kitsune or be spiteful toward it. From what she understood from Kushina being a jinchuuriki, the relationship was a symbiotic one... if you didn't account Kushina's ability to pin it to a molten ball and stake it. That was something she did not expect from the friendly redhead.
While her little spiral still had some feelings toward the Hokage, they were miniscule and her little spiral was a forgiving person, though she was going to be correcting that little problem. As it was right now, he didn't even call the old man by his affectionate nickname anymore. She knew just how to do it too.
"...well I guess I'd like to go see other places if it's safe like you say it is," said Naruto wondering what the outside world was like. His Miko-chan never lied to him and even told him things which could get her killed, and he knew she was telling the truth as she had helped him visit his... tenant to give him proof. Needless to say, his tenant was not a happy kitsune, but for some reason seemed amused and he didn't understand why. The kitsune had told him to listen to his 'Miko-chan' before kicking him out and laughing.
Mikoto smiled, kissed Naruto on his whiskered cheek before releasing him and replied, "It's not safe, Naruto-kun. Nowhere in the world is safe, but there won't be anything that we can't handle. Now I'm going to leave behind a clone, she'll finish making lunch while I deal with a clan matter that I have to do in person. In the meantime, I'd like you to prepare for a trip. My clone will help you too... and don't get loving with her or she'll get nothing done." That was a thing with her kage bunshin, they had little restraint whenever Naruto showed a bit of affection to them. She wasn't bothered by it too much, but it caused her clones not to finish what she told them to do... the memories were a great trade-off though, many of her fondest if she admitted it.
"Okay," replied Naruto happily as he got off his chair and went through the room to look for things he wanted to bring with him. Mikoto smiled as she summoned a clone then left to deal with her former husband's funeral and the rest of her plan.
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Mikoto looked at the clan that gathered, it wasn't the entire clan sadly. Itachi was annoyingly away on a mission, a couple other clansmen were much the same with another in the hospital and not likely to be leaving it any time soon after their failed mission. Her plan would have loose ends, but not enough loose ends to cause significant problems. It was acceptable to her standards as she couldn't account for every tiny incident that could happen in the world and dealing with them would cause... issues and those issues would end with her being unable to be with her Naruto-kun.
"Mikoto-sama, has the Hokage or the Konoha council discovered our missing clansmen?" asked Akio, another Uchiha elder, one of the more tame elders and usually kept quiet during meetings.
Mikoto shook her head, but inwardly she smirked, "I'm afraid not, Akio-san. While the council has been quite helpful with our search, the Hokage has deemed it a waste of manpower to continue to look for those missing after two weeks. Once the funeral is over I'll have our clan continue to keep looking within and without Konoha," she answered seriously though she already knew where the missing clansmen were at. She had them, to put it simply, she found six Uchiha in the roster that she could mold and manipulate into serving her and her little spiral. The beginning of Uzumaki-Uchiha slaves, to do with as he pleased and it had been particularly easy to do it.
Once she took them and put customized slave collars on them she bought off the black market, they were very willing into serving her, and soon, her little spiral. To regular people the collar would simply look like a black lace choker, which fit perfectly given she solely picked a couple young women and teenage girls and no men. The last thing she wanted was a male Uchiha among the slaves to intrude on her little spiral's future property or end up like most of the men in their clan and go completely nuts with their clan's supposed curse of hatred. Something of which the women in the clan did not seem to ever be afflicted with.
The six of them, including a few of her clones were well outside Konoha, in a remote safehouse not in the Uchiha books any longer being conditioned and trained until ready. Mikoto would see her Naruto-kun safe and she'd use the materials her clan provided for her to do it.
Mikoto continued to watch in silence as the funeral continued, each person had a flower, that she prepared beforehand and would set it onto Fugaku's casket. What they didn't know is that on every flower, even the one in her own hands, was a poison. Colorless, odorless, tasteless. Nothing to give away that it was there and easily transferable into victims. The same poison she used during the third shinobi war, to which she still had a small stockpile of since then and even over time it did not lose it's potency. She had a guinea pig, after all.
"Is your son still feeling ill," questioned Akio not seeing the Head of the Clan's youngest son at the funeral and no one had for some time given Mikoto had explained that he had gotten the flu and could barely get out of bed.
Mikoto nodded and replied, "Yes, but he's getting better. He'll be up and about in a few days, maybe a week at the most." It was a lie, a blatant lie that no one would find out any time soon. At least no one in her clan. Her youngest son, Sasuke, was dead. He had fulfilled his purpose as her guinea pig to test out her poisons and which ones would work the best. Her son deserved it, he dared badmouth and insult her little spiral, not to mention she had heard him training one day about 'beating up the dobe who fooled his mother'... and Mikoto did not take threats to her Naruto kindly.
'Missing clansmen, odd deaths... you'd think that people would get suspicious,' thought Mikoto as she found the normalcy of the Uchiha clan and Konoha in general to be as close to arrogance if she had to pick a word. It was as if they thought those missing would just pop up and the murderer be found soon. If the Hokage at any point was troubled, he didn't show it much less voice it, but she wasn't too carefree to know that the Sandaime would just let things continue, she had a feeling that he had Anbu watching her clan, possibly even her activities, not that she allowed anyone to follow her. Shunshin was useful in that way.
"It's about time," muttered Mikoto seeing people having a difficult time standing, a lot of the elder clan members already falling over, those trying to help them soon doing the same. She looked to her side and saw Akio's eyes had glazed over, a very small bit of white foam appearing out of his mouth. She pushed him, barely putting any effort or force into it and he toppled over lifelessly. She dropped the poisoned flower she was holding and started her way out of the clan graveyard. "The Iwa ninja put a bit more resistance than my kinsmen... well they made more noise at the very least. Now... to convince my little spiral that being in this village, this cesspool that insults, threatens and treats him horribly is the worst thing possible." She created several Kage bunshin and had them henge into various Anbu that she had seen throughout the village and the third shinobi war, then had one final clone henge into the Sandaime.
"Now let's make this believable for my little spiral," said Mikoto as she pulled out one of her regular, non-poisoned kunai then stabbed herself in the shoulder, one time in each of her arms, once in her left leg then ended it by stabbing herself in the chest, in an area free from any vital organs but would give the desired effect she wanted. "Now, time to go get Naruto-kun," she added as she headed toward the safehouse with Naruto in it, her henged clones chasing after her. If the real Hokage or Anbu popped up, it would be even better for her and fortunately it was in the middle of the day, the best time to attract attention.
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Naruto sat his plate in the sink as Mikoto's clone popped causing him to look at its former spot and wonder what happened to it. "Usually they don't poof unless Miko-chan whacks one of them..." he muttered as he walked over to where the clone had been standing but didn't find the reason it disappeared. "And I thought it might have stepped on a thumbtack or something," he added before shrugging, he knew Kage bunshin were fragile as Mikoto explained the main flaw with the jutsu when she was telling him about a bunch of jutsu, it couldn't take so much as a slap before popping like a balloon.
He jumped at the door slammed open, an injured, bleeding Mikoto along with it, "Miko-chan!" shouted Naruto rushing over to her, panicking and trying to get the bleeding to stop, but didn't know how, "W-what happened?!" he asked and half-shouted at the same time.
"T-the Hokage had his ninja attack the Uchiha clan... I barely escaped... we need to get... out of here," answered Mikoto dragging herself into the safehouse, "We have a few minutes before... they catch up. I need you to bring over that white box up there marked 'first aid', Naruto-kun," he did the second she said so and came back immediately with it. Mikoto smiled gently before continuing, "Then I need you to get the things you packed and get ready to leave while I patch myself up enough to travel."
"But I can talk to Jiji, get him to leave you alone! I mean, whatever he attacked your clan about, you didn't do anything wrong!" stated Naruto wanting to try and get his grandfather figure to leave his Miko-chan alone. She didn't do anything, she was the best person in the village.
"Naruto-kun... he had his ninja killing the old and even children when he ordered the attack... I don't want you to get hurt my little spiral," said Mikoto as she slowly bandaged her self-inflicted wounds, she wouldn't die from them, but they hurt like hell nonetheless though she'd suffer any form of pain to be with Naruto with no one able to separate them. "The Hokage may take you away, seal your memories... or even get rid of you."
"No, I won't let him," stated Naruto angrily as his normal ocean blue eyes shifted to red and slitted, "I won't let him take you away from me! I won't let him... or anyone else hurt you!" No one was going to take away his precious person, the kindest person he'd ever met and cared for him. He wasn't going to let her get hurt and... and he wanted to kill whoever hurt her!
"Naruto relax, it's okay," whispered Mikoto reaching over to him and gently brushing her hand against his cheek, "Not that I think you won't try, but my entire clan couldn't fight the Hokage and his ninja. If they couldn't do it, Naruto-kun, you can't either. We just need to leave and live somewhere away from them until we get strong enough to protect ourselves. Now I've patched myself up mostly, so grab your things then let's try and get a headstart. I know a place where a few of my clan are living outside of Konoha, we can head there."
Naruto's eyes shifted back to blue as he paused for a moment before nodding and grabbing the things he had originally packed for their trip, and now being used for running away from... these... these assholes who wanted to hurt his Miko-chan and take her away from him. "Ready," he said walking back over to her.
"Okay... now I know you can outrun Anbu, but try to stay slow enough that I can keep up, alright?" replied Mikoto knowing how quick he ran and there was no way she was keeping with him.
"I'll follow you, Miko-chan," stated Naruto somewhat sheepishly as he had intended to run full-burst once outside
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A/N: And finished with an ncpfan guarantee. (Hehe, That made me laugh) So there we go... Konoha gets the boot, in a very special, very quiet way. Sasuke dies not with a bang, but a silent thud in the background and all is well with Ookami's personal world. So as one reviewer has told me in a pm... bring on the salt!
The next chapter shall... come when it's ready.
