First off... Many of you said that you don't like how quickly Naruto forgave his family. Well he didn't. While he doesn't hate them, he did NOT forgive them. He simply doesn't care about his 'parents'. As for his sisters I think that I made it clear that he cares for them, however that does not mean he forgave them.

Also thanks for reviews, follows, favorites and all that. I really appreciate it.

Now lets get to the story... Btw I don't own Naruto.

Hokage Office

Minato sat in his office, looking at the jonins in front of him. Today was the day. They decided whether or not the teams will become genin. Surprisingly even Kushina just stood there silently, not being her hyperactive self. 'Something serious must've happened, for her to be like that.' Everyone in the room thought.

"Alright then everyone it's time for your report on the Genin test."

Aoba started. "Team 1 failed..."

All of the teams failed, until it was Kushina's turn.

"Team 7...Passed." She said with smile.

Kurenai glanced at Kushina, who was one of two people that have never passed a team. With all the cheery stuff it was kinda hard for her to image Kushina not passing everyone, but when she heard gasp from others she believed it was true.

"I'm not the only one changing traditions this time around?" Asked Kakashi.

Asuma watched his Friend Kakashi with Interest, he never thought that Kakashi will ever pass a team, but it seems that he was wrong. As the matter a fact Kakashi said so himself, and not only that but apparently Kushina too.

Minato was actually surprised, Kushina passing team is one thing as he was expecting it, but Kakashi passing his team as well...

"Very well, next." As he nodded at Kakashi.

"Team 8 Passed." Kurenai stated

"Team 10 is also passed." Asuma said.

"Hokage-sama." Kushina asked in her 'ninja mode' completely serious.

Minato nodded. "is there something you need?"

"Actually yes there is. It's about Naruto."

Minato noded while everyone else straightened up. Just by the look on her face they were sure this is what made her so serious.

"Is there something you can report about Naruto?" Minato asked

Kushina nodded. "He definitely isn't genin." Said Kushina.

Minato raised his left eyebrow. "If he isn't capable of being genin then why did you let him pass?" Kushina shook her head no, as if saying 'that's not it' and tried again, realizing how her words sounded and could've been taken.

"Naruto definitely isn't genin." She said once again firmly, before continuing "he is high chunin maybe even low jonin. I didn't fight him using all of my power, but I actually had to be serious." Everyone was now looking at Kushina like she grew second head. After all she was talking about the dead last right?

"Hmm, please do tell." Said Minato, curious where this was going. "From what I can see, he is calculative and calm during battle. He has high affinity for water. To the point where he performed high rank water jutsu without any water around him and with just one hand sign. He also developed earth affinity. Als-" Kushina continued before being interrupted.

"Wasn't he the dead last?" asked Kurenai, Kakashi and Asuma nodding in agreement. Even Minato had hard time believing it. Kushina glared at Kurenai for interrupting her.

"He was." Kushina stated "or maybe it was just an act. Doesn't matter, now where was I? Ah yes... He also has incredible low kage level speed maybe mid kage, but I am leaning towards low kage little bit more. Overall... I would say he is high A class shinobi."

"I see, is there anything else?" Minato asked.

"No, that's all." Kushina said choosing to leave out the "smoke bomb" incident and the mysterious pull she felt during their test, since she herself did not understand what was going on and it could be just her imagination.

Minato nodded and gave a sign for the Jounin. "Dismissed." He said as they all left and he closed his eyes.

'No use thinking about it.' He opened his eyes after few seconds and took a peek at his table and a stack of Paperwork already there.

"So much..." He said feeling dread overcoming him at the mountain of papers.

1 Week later

Naruto and his team just returned from their mission. Team 7 loved this particular mission, while everybody else hated it. The mission was 'capture Tora the cat' and all Naruto had to do was walk up to it and pick it up. Just like that. Easy money. Naruto though liked this mission for different reason. Actually he likes all D-ranks. His reason was simple... Instead of going himself he could just create a shadow clone and with idiotic missions like that it wouldn't be dispelled meaning he could sleep in or train.

Now they were in the assignment room and poor demon cat had her life almost squeezed out of her by daimyo's wife. "Miss" Naruto started. "Maybe if you gave her some snacks she wouldn't run... Or maybe, just maybe... If you weren't trying to squeeze her to death she would stop." Naruto said with smile on his face as if pointing out obvious to a little child, even though a 'what the fuck' in his voice was obvious. To everybody's surprise the woman didn't even acknowledged him and just walked off.

"We have finnished our mission and we came to request another one." Stated Kushina.

"Yeah, and make it a C-Rank while you're at it tou-san." Exclaimed Naruko. Natsumi pitched in as well. "Yeah, these D-Ranks are getting ridiculous." Naruto for his part stayed silent since it would work for him either way.

Iruka didn't like the way things were going, so he responded. "You've only been shinobi one week' you're not ready for harder missions."

This time Naruto intercepted. "You are right." He said calmly "we are only shinobi for one week and yet we've already done the required number of missions to be enough for our first C."

"Hmm, it seems Naruto's right. Team 7 has completed 62 missions" Minato said looking at some papers "And required amount is 50."

"But Hokage-sama, are you sure they are quite ready?" Iruka asked with a concerned tone

Hokage just nodded. "yes, I believe that is right. Afterall it's only a C-Rank and Kushina is with them."

"If you say so." Iruka just accepted it quietly, until a knock from the door came.

"Come in." Hokage ordered. Door opened and man with straw hat and simple civilian clothes walked in. He held a bottle of sake as he looked at team 7.

"Huh, is this my escort team? 3 brats and a woman?" He asked

"Who are you calling brat, you old drunk?" Exclaimed Natsumi as she jumped and the old man trying to punch him. Trying being the key word. As she came close her hand was stopped by someone else. She looked at owner and saw Naruto. "Now, now killing the client before the mission even starts wouldn't be very beneficial for the village imuoto." He said with chuckle.

Tazuna looked at Naruto, Then he looked at Natsumi "And who are you calling drunk? My name is Tazuna, The Master Bridge Builder!"

Naruto chuckled "You have nothing to worry about Tazuna-san." He said.

"Well, if you say so, meet me at the gate in 3 hours. We need to get there fast." with that he left.

Kushina looked at the door for a while, then she looked at Minato "well, it seems we will begin our mission soon." She mused out loud.

With that said, Naruto walked out and went to ichiraku for some ramen and he also wanted to spend some time with Ayame, while the girls were exicited about their first C-Rank and went home with Kushina to get ready for mission.

3 hours Later at the Main gate

Naruto was walking through the village to the gate. He looked impassive on the outside, but on the inside he was exicited. His first mission outside the village. He was exicited about the new challenges, people he would meet and just seeing the world. He was also excited because his first mission was in wave and there just so happened to be a certain island that Naruto wanted to check out.

As he reached the gate he realized he was late. His teamates along with Tazuna stood infront of the gate waiting for him.

"There was this old lady that need my help to cross the street and the on my way here I saw a black cat so I had to turn around and take the long way arouns the village." Naruto said with an innocent smile, making his team and Tazuna sweat drop.

At the same time Kakashi stood in the assignment room with his team when he suddenly dropped down on his knees and started crying anime tears, constantly saying "Someone is idolizing me!"

"Alright then let's go, we move at Diamond formation, I am going to take up the rear, Natsumi you take the left, Naruko you take the right while Naruto you take the front." Kushina ordered.

With that all of them walked to Nami no kuni, on the way, Natsumi asked if there are Ninja there, but instead of Tazuna it was Kushina who explained it.

After the explanation was over the team walked in the silence for a little while until they saw a small puddle. 'It hasn't rained for quite the time' thought Naruto, before activating his Sharingan, three tomoes spinning lazily in his eyes, and he looked at the puddle, immediately seeing through the genjutsu. He stopped the chakra flow to his eyes as he turned around to look at his mother, who gave him a subtle shake of a head as if saying 'don't do anything yet'.

He then looked at Natsumi who was acting normally except he could tell she was stiff. Naruko on the other hand seemed confused, she looked like she knew something was coming, but she just couldn't figure out what it was.

When they passed the puddle, two masked, chain-wielding ninja emerged from the water and went for Kushina. Kushina dropped to the floor and two masked individuals went straight for Tazuna ignoring ignoring the fact that the girls were in their way. "Kaa-san!" yelled Naruko worried about her mother. Natsumi stood in front of Tazuna, but she seemed nervous, as if she was frozen on her spot from what she just witnessed.

Naruto didn't waste time when he saw the masked individuals were about to attack Tazuna and Natsumi. Naruto appeared in front of Natsumi, throwing two kunais at each attacker.

Masked individuals both dodged effortlessly and threw their chains at young jinchuuriki. Seeing this Naruto made one hand seal and touched the ground with his free hand As he called out "Doton: doryuheki!" He said and at the same time a mud wall emerged from the ground in front of him. Naruto made a clone of himself and the moment the chains hit the wall both clone Naruto and original shot towards their opponents at kage-level speed and punched them in the face with chakra enhanced punch sending them flying both of them hitting the tree.

Two blondes then made hand seal a took deep breath. "Suiton: suigandan!" Both clones exclaimed at the same time as both started spitting water bullets at their respective targets. When the duo stopped spitting bullets, they saw both of their assailants unconscious. The clone dispelled itself and the original took some ninja rope and tied them to the tree.

"You know, you could've helped any time." Naruto suddenly said seemingly to no one. Then Kushina showed up with cheery smile on her face as she said "We'll, I wanted to see if you could handle yourselves without me." Two girls that had been staring at the masked men with cold eyes, suddenly whirled around when they heard their mothers voice.

"Kaa-chan?!" Naruko and Natsumi both exclaimed "you are ok?" Said Natsumi. Kushina just pointed behind the girls where her 'corpse' used to be only for girls to find skewered logs. "You didn't think it was that easy to get rid of me, did you?" She smirked.

"Anyway" Naruto cut in "You know those two?" He said as he pointed at two now conscious mask wearing ninjas. "Gozu and Meizu, also known as the demon brothers, both chuunin level, Kiri nuke-nin, known for working with Zabuza, the Demon of the Mist on quite a few occasions." Said Kushina As she turned to regard the demon brothers. "What do we owe the pleasure of meeting you here?" said Kushina with a smile that promised pain.

Gozu snorted at Kushina "I'd rather die then tell you." He said.

"Is that so" Naruto cut in with small chuckle. "I can get whatever info we need, but they'll probably die. That is if they don't start talking like right now." Naruto said to Kushina. "Just give me 2 minutes with them alone." He said as he turned to Gozu and Meizu. He felt a hand on his shoulder, looking back he found his mother looking at him. "If they talk, let them live." She said sternly. Naruto frowned at her. "Don't misunderstand what I was saying. The technique I have will allow me to get the information we need since we can not be sure from just that little exchange a little while ago, but it will kill them in return, that's why I said that if they don't start talking right now they will die."

With that Naruto turned around and regarded the demon brothers. "Now listen closely you two. Even if you won't talk I can get the information I need from you so you will just die in vain." He said in serious manner, slowly walking towards the two. "Two minutes." He heard Kushina's voice. "Come on girls, Tazuna-san, let's leave them alone for a little while." He turned around to see Kushina looking at him with sad, worried eyes, rubbing the back of her shoulder. When she turned around he could see a slight glow coming from the spot she just rubbed, before it disappeared. Naruto narrowed his eyes a little. He noticed his mother rubbing that particular spot a lot lately, but this was the first time he noticed a glow. He didn't dwell on it, instead he just put it on the back of his mind for later thought and turned to demon brothers.

"So" he said calmly "Here's the deal. If you start talking I will let you live, if you won't I will simply take the information I need and you will die needlessly. I will only ask this once. Are you going to talk?" He asked simply "No! Your bluffs won't work on us" said Meizu. "Yeah, you just want to scare us to reveal some informations. Well that's not happening." Said Gozu.

Naruto sighed. "Whoever said I was bluffing?" he said as he activated Rinnegan. The demon brothers gasped when they saw the legendary doujutsu. "The Rinnegan has amazing powers, and tearing out my opponents' souls and gaining their memories is one of them." He said as he placed his hand on top of Gozu's head and muttered "Ningendou".

Naruto slowly started removing his hand from Gozu's head and Meizu's eyes grew wide when he saw something akin to screaming soul come out of Gozu. Then Naruto yanked his hand high up and tore the soul out absorbing the memories of the masked nin.

he turned to a horrified looking Meizu and said "Your turn Meizu." Naruto said and Meizu's eyes grew wide. This kid wasn't bluffing. He could actually take what he wanted from the beginning. When Meizu realized this he quickly started talking. No point in dying if the info gets out anyway. "We we hired by G-" "Gato" Naruto interrupted. "Don't bother anymore, I can't let you live... The moment you saw my eyes you were dead. I can't let the information like that out." He said as he placed his hand on top of Meizu's head. With another mutter of "Ningendou" Naruto ripped out Meizu's soul and absorbed its memories. "Rest In Peace" He said as he closed his eyes and payed his respects.

After a minute he turned around and walked back to his team. When he came there he directed KI at Tazuna who almost pissed his pants. "Tazuna-San care to explain to my teammates why are B-Rank nuke-nin trying to kill you, when we are supposed to be protecting you from bandits considering that this is a C-Rank?"

Kushina nodded. "Naruto is right, this mission wasn't supposed to involve protection from other ninja. This mission has now become an A-Rank. Team of fresh genin has no business handling such mission. Tell us the truth now." Kushina said releasing her own KI at Tazuna who was sweating. He thought about it for a little bit, before he decideed to tell them the truth.

"Our country doesn't have enough money for such a high ranking mission. So instead I lied about it being bandits and payed for a C-Rank. Gato hired these ninja because he wants to stop the bridge from being build."

Kushina seemed to be thinking "Well considering this is dangerous mission and all of you guys are genin I say we return to the village. What about you guys? What do you think?"

Naruto was the first to answer. "I say we continue, if we just abandoned a client in the middle of the mission, won't it be bad reputation for Konoha? Besides, it would not sit well with me."

Both, Natsumi and Naruko nodded. "For once I agree with the Dobe." They said in unison.

"well, if you guys say so, I guess that is agreeable. I will be sending some of my summons back to village, to inform them of the current situation." Minute later Kushina came back to the group. "Since that has been taken care of... Of we go!" She said in her usual cheery manner.

Nami no Kuni

After the continuation of the mission and it's change from C to A-Rank, Team 7 found themselves in the diamon formation once again as they arrive to Nami no Kuni. It was rather foggy, but somehow no one seemed to notice. Suddenly Naruto took out kunaiand threw it in to one of the nearby bushes.

"What are you doing?" Natsumi asked. Naruto didn't answer as he slowly came towards the bush, to see what he hit. When he came close a white rabbit ran out of bush. Surprised Naruko scooped the rabbit up in her arms. "What the hell are you doing? You almost killed him, idiot." Naruko said, but when she saw the serious expresion on Naruto's face, she started looking around, then she heard a whirling sound. "Look out! Everybody on the ground!" Kushina yelled tackling Tazuna and Natsumi with her, while Naruto tackled Naruko. Everybody stood up and turned around to see a giant cleaver-like sword embed in the tree.

On the sword in front of them stood a masculine man with pale skin, short spiky black hair, brown eyes and small eyebrows. He was wearing bandages over the bottom half of his face. He wore his Hitae-ate sideways on his head. He was shirtless, wearing baggy pants with stripped patern.

Kushina looked at him, then at his sword which she recognized as the Kubikiribocho. She stood in front of everybody protectively.

"Aka no Shi, Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze, no wonder the demon brothers failed." The man said.

"Zabuza, the Demon of the Mist, A-rank Missing nin of Kirigakure no Sato, i am truly sorry to disappoint you, but i am not the one who defeated them. My cute little genin took care of them." Zabuza snorted in disbelief.

"Those brats over there wouldn't stand a chance against the demon brothers by themselves. Don't make me laugh!"

"Zabuza Momochi." Naruto said calmly as he stood next to Kushina. He looked at her and continued. "Go ahead, he's all yours. I'll watch them." He said slowly backing up as he stopped infront of the girls and Tazuna. Kushina looked at him out of corner of her eye, as if studying him. After a little while she sighed and faced Zabuza.

"Naruko, Natsumi, Naruto guard Tazuna, I will take care of this." Despite the fact that Natsumi hated to be left out, she complied knowing that she stood no chance against Zabuza. Naruko simply nodded her head.

Zabuza looked at Naruto, who was calmly watching him. Zabuza smirked under his mask. " It seems that you've got some guts boy, but still..." he rushed towards Kushina who was just standing still in one place. "After I deal with her, you guys are next." Zabuza finished his sentence.

Zabuza was already smirking in victory, but that smirk didn't last long, when suddenly chains exploded from Kushina's back, holding the sword off. Then suddenly chains yanked him forward, only for him to meet face-to-fist with Kushina. He was send flying through the air And landed on the river.

He stood up and started forming hand seals. "Ninpou: Kirigakure no Jutsu!" As mist around them started to become thicker and thicker. Back with Tazuna's group Naruto moved to stand in front of Tazuna activating his Shin no Me seeing through mist easily now. Natsumi and Naruko both standing at his sides. He looked around, but he couldn't find Zabuza. He then heard Zabuza's voice behind him. "It's over!" He said as Naruto whirled around to see Zabuza standing behind Tazuna, his sword positioned for a downwards swing.

Naruto seeing this quickly used Shinpo to teleport in front of Tazuna, his hand automatically moving to his left wrist pumping little bit of chakra in to the seal that resided there. With a puff of smoke a normal looking sword appeared in his hand as he swung upwards, meeting with Zabuza's blade, stopping him.

As the swords clashed Kushina whirled around, she realized that Zabuza went after Tazuna instead of her and quickly went towards the general direction of the sound since she couldn't see anything. The girls and Tazuna spun quickly but only saw Naruto with sword in his hand holding back a huge sword and a silhouette of another person, which they assumed was Zabuza. Both girls moved to charge in, but couldn't do anything because suddenly Naruto's leg shout out. Kicking Zabuza, who then exploded to water, revealing him to be a water clone.

At that moment the mist started receding, and Naruto could hear someone arriving behind them. Naruto quickly turned off his doujutsu and turned around. When he did, he saw a reliefed face of one Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze.

"Thank god you guys are alright." She said,but then she frowned as she continued. "Damn, he pulled a fas-" she stopped talking when she noticed the sword in Naruto's hands. "Where did that sword come from?" She asked.

Naruto sighed as he pulled up his sleeve, showing a storage seal. "From here, and now is not the time." He said as he pointed behind her. Zabuza then appeared in the same spot and Kushina whirled around looking straight into his eyes.

"You are pretty good, gaki" Zabuza started "Though, I don't know how did you make it so fast... Still, you seem to know what you're doing with that sword of yours, even though it seems pretty lame." He said.

Naruto frowned as he started walking forwards. He held his sword holding hand out. Sword was now pointed straight down as he walked past Tazuna and the group. "First of all" he said with cold voice " Her name is Kyouka Suigetsu" he said and everyone was looking at the sword curiously. "And I would like it if you would refrained yourself from referring to her as an it. And also while we are at it, she is not a sword, but a Zanpakuto, a Soul Slayer. As for her being special... Shatter, Kyouka Suigetsu!" He said as suddenly the sound of glass breaking was heard and everyone saw cracks appear in their vision until it broke completely and everyone was looking at Naruto confused as he continued talking.

"Her ability is called Kanzen Saimin 'Complete Hypnosis'. It can make you perceive an ant as elephant or swamp as a field or flowers. Kyouka Suigetsu's Kanzen Saimin can manipulate all 5 senses. The only requirement is that you look at her once Released state once. After that I can activate Kanzen Saimin anytime I wish." He said frown already replaced with grin.

With that everyone's eyes widened when they realized that all of them gazed at the sword. Meaning they could already be in an illusion, though Kushina was already thinking that it's just a simple genjutsu, nothing that can't be easily dispelled.

"So, a genjutsu, huh?" Zabuza said not really worried as he made a hand sign and said "Kai!"

He then grinned and looked at Naruto. "Let's go, gaki" he said as they both ran towards each other. Meanwhile Kushina pushed her chakra into Tazuna, dispersing genjutsu upon him as she did the same for herself. Girls also did the same as they watched the battle. It looked like Naruto was being pushed back by Zabuza. Then they ended up on the water and Naruto jumped away from Zabuza making room between them.

Zabuza started doing some hand seals, but he quickly noticed that Naruto was doing exactly the same ones. Then, Zabuza suddenly froze, when he noticed he could see himself standing behind Naruto. "Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" Naruto exclaimed as huge water dragon formed next to him and went straight for Zabuza. By the time Zabuza realized what was happening, he had no time at all to dodge. The dragon hit Zabuza and continued until it hit the tree dispersing.

Zabuza looked like he was half dead when Naruto appeared in front of him. "Kyouka Suigetsu's complete hypnosis is perfect. Even if you realize you're caught in an illusion, there is nothing you can do to break out of it." Naruto said with a matter of fact tone. "I wouldn't tell you her ability if all it to took break out is few hand signs. In fact, as far as I know, it's impossible to break it by anyone else but me... Shatter, Kyouka Suigetsu." Naruto said as he let the sword go. Suddenly, cracks started appearing in front of everyone's vision and Zabuza And Naruto weren't on the water anymore. Instead, they were near the spot they first started fighting. Zabuza grunted as he tried to stand up, but three senbon hit him to the neck.

Suddenly, a hunter nin appeared in front of them.

"I've been hunting him for quite some time, thank you Shinobi-san." Said the masked girl. "No problem" Naruto answered simply."I am afraid I must leave." Hunter nin crouched down, took Zabuza and disappeared excusing her self.

Naruto picked up Kyouka Suigetsu, turned around and started walking back towards Tazuna and others. He resealed the sword and looked at Tazuna.

"Tazuna-san please lead the way." Naruto gestured to Tazuna who dumbstruck and regained his composure but still stuttering

"R-right." Tazuna said

The rest of the road was mostly quiet, but after a while Kushina decided to break it.

"So, this Soul Slayer of yours, how long do you have it?" Naruto looked at her, then he looked at the rest of the group and saw that their attention was on him. He sighed and decided to just answer. "Few years."

Nami no Kuni

When Naruto and the group reached Tazuna's house, they were greeted by his daughter. "Tou-san, I'm so glad you're okay." She said as she hugged him. She then turned towards the group of ninja and said. "Hello, my name is Tsunami. Thank you for keeping my father safe." She said as she bowed. "No need for that... After all it's our job." Said Naruto as he stepped forward and extended his hand. "My name is Naruto, pleased to meet you" he said with smile on his face.

She shook his hand and smiled.

"My name is Naruko Namikaze" said Naruko, then she pointed at Natsumi and Kushina as she said "That's my sister Natsumi and our mother Kushina." At this Kushina stepped forward "I am pleased to meet you Tsunami-san" she said with small smile.

Tsunami returned the smile and shook Kushina's hand "Welcome to our house. You must be tired. I'll make sure the guest rooms are ready."

"Thank you." Kushina said nodding. "We should go to sleep. You know it's not over. Tomorrow you need to train." Naruto said.

"Wait, what? Didn't you just defeat Zabuza?" Asked Natsumi, Naruko nodding her head. "Yeah, what are you talking about?" Naruto looked at them seriously as he said "The hunter nin was his accomplice. Zabuza is alive and he will come after us again."

At this Tsunami, who was leaving to get the rooms ready whirled around, worried for her fathers safety, only to notice that everybody was starring at Naruto. "What the hell are you talking about, the hunter nin took him away, and she wa-" "Exactly." Naruto interrupted Natsumi'a speech. "She took his body. If she was the real thing, she would've cut off his head and destroy the rest of his body. It's standard procedure for hunter nins." Kushina decided to cut in. "He is right. Hunter nin would destroy his body so someone from other village wouldn't find out the secrets of his body. I am surprised you figured that out, Naruto. I was hoping to train you without putting the stress of this whole Zabuza thing on your shoulders, but apparently that's not happening. Tomorrow I'll train the three of you."

"I do not need, nor do I want your training Kushina. Zabuza should be up in about a week, so you've got week to train them." He said pointing to his sisters. He turned around and looked at Tsunami. As if reading his mind she pointed him to a guest room. He thanked her and went there without ever looking back.

Both sisters scowled at this and Kushina flinched at the emotionless tone Naruto used And unconsciously she once again rubbed her shoulder. She remembered what happened week ago after the graduation exam when Naruto got home.

Flashback

"Your father should be home by now." Kushina said as she opened the door to their house. And indeed the first thing they saw was Minato waiting for them with huge smile on his face. "Hey there girls, I heard you are officially gennin now. Good work." He said and the girls smiled.

Kushina's thoughts went to Naruto, wondering how he is and what's he doing. The girls were talking with their father. They said that they were exhausted and just wanted to go to sleep as they started going to their respective rooms. They stopped however, when they heard their mothers voice. "Dinner will be ready soon. After that we have an announcement to make. It has to do with your brother." both girls nodded and that's when the door opened.

Naruto walked in and went straight for his room. He stopped when he noticed eyes on him. He looked around and saw that everybody's eyes were on him. "What?" He asked, feeling creeped out... This was weird. His family was acknowledging his presence. 'That's just weird.' Naruto thought. 'Not to mention that it's the first time they noticed you.' Kurami said. 'Well Kurami has got a point, but am I the only one that thinks their sudden change is creepy?' said Kyouka Suigetsu. 'No, I feel creeped out too.' Thought Naruto. 'Perhaps they finally noticed they've got three children?' Called out the voice of Senbonzakura, Naruto's newest Zanpakutou.

He acquired Senbonzakura about a month ago, but with his shadow clones, he already has years worth of practice. He already achieved bankai, but he didn't have time to really practice with it, though he expected to change that in few upcoming days.

'Whatever their reason may be they are talking to you.' said Zangetsu. Zangetsu was Naruto's first Zanpakutou. She was born the same day he met and befriended Anko. After they met and talked they realized that they lives were pretty similiar. At first Anko was reluctant, but after Naruto told her about his life, she could see the fear in his eyes. He was afraid that she would be the same as all the others.

Anko seeing this gave him a hug and decided to tell him her story. About Orochimaru and how village treated her because of him. At the end of the story she lone tear on her cheek. Naruto seeing this hugged her and promised her he would always be by her side. Anko was little skeptical about that, but she told him that if he kept his promise she too would always stand by him.

That night Naruto didn't sleep. He was thinking about Anko and her life and about how she didn't deserve her life. About how people treated her like slut,bitch and traitor, even though she has a heart of gold.

He didn't want her to live her life like that. He wanted to protect her. Give her happiness she deserves. He didn't want her to cry or to be hurt. And it was from that very desire to protect his loved ones that Zangetsu was born.

Kyouka Suigetsu was born not too long after he sneaked in the Uchiha compound and read the Uchiha tablet. Kurami told him it was written by the Rikudo Sennin and only those with special eyes could read it. He found out about Sharingan and its evolutions and requirements. Some of the requirements made him sick and he was glad that his Sharingan were EMS from the beginning.

He also read about the Rinnegan. Most of the stuff written there he already knew however he learned few things that even Kurami didn't know. For example, he also learned that it was possible to have more than one of his clones sent to Limbo. Limbo clones were special. They were created by Rinnegan and in normal world they are practically useless. Also creating just one such a clone and sending it to Limbo took most of Naruto's chakra and he was pretty much out for the day, unless Kurami gave him some of her chakra, so he just assumed it was 'one clone and that's enough kind of thing'. The a Limbo clone was actually made by combining the yin and yang elements creating onmyoton, the yin-yang release, and creating 'Limbo clone' was actually lot more taxing on the chakra than 'the creation of all things' jutsu that allowed him to create something out of nothing which seemed simply ridiculous in his mind, because creating such a clone is basicly the same thing as creating something out of nothing.

He also learned about Kurami's father The Sage of Six Paths, also known as Hagoromo Ootsutsuki, his brother Homura, his sons Indra and Ashura, the religion he created - Ninshuu, Princess Kaguya and her godlike powers, Juubi, Shinju and Shinju's fruit and also about the Mugen Tsukuyomi.

After he read through all of the tablet he was stunned. He sneaked out and thought about the Mugen Tsukuyomi. He knew it was wrong, but he just couldn't stop thinking about it. 'What if I could make it real? What if it wasn't just a genjutsu. Everyone's desires coming to fruition.' He knew something like that was impossible. However he just couldn't stop himself from wanting it to be possible. It was that exact moment he decided that he would surpass both Hagoromo, his brother and maybe even Princess Kaguya and bring peace to the world. A real peace. Not just a genjutsu. He made that his dream.

It was from this desire to turn the illusionary peace into the real thing that Kyouka Suigetsu has been born.

Senbonzakura was born from his passion for fighting. As years went by, Naruto realized he loved fighting. Graceful moves, fast attacks, quick thinking. All of it. Dangerous yet beautiful he thought. And Senbonzakura was a embodiment of that. Beauty and danger in one package.

"Could you repeat that?" Naruto asked confused. He had no idea what she was saying. "I said dinner is going to be ready soon. Also me and your father have an announcement to make." She said and Naruto nodded and went to his room. He needed a shower.

After fifteen minutes he came down noticing he was the last one. He also noticed how they were just sitting there as if waiting for him. 'Did hell finally freeze?' He thought as he sat down and started eating. He noticed how everyone started eating too once he started.

The silence was broken by Minato. "So Naruto, how was the exam?" He asked. Young teen looked at Kushina, then back at him. "Lame, I didn't get to finish my dance." Naruto answered. "Dance?" Asked a confused Minato. "He means fight. He always refers to fight as 'dance'." Answered Natsumi. "Oh? Do you really think you stood a chance?" Kushina asked teasingly, smirking.

Naruto never answered as he continued eating at fast pace. Kushina frowned at this And unconsciously she rubbed her shoulder. Naruto also noticed how she seemed to flinch from pain before she rubbed the spot on her shoulder.

When Naruto finished his meal he stood up and went over to the sink as he started cleaning his plate. Kushina frowned when she saw this. "Naruto-kun you don't have to do that. I will clea-" "Don't bother." Naruto interrupted her. "I wouldn't want to bother you, or get in your way." He said calmly, without ever looking behind him. If he did he would notice obvious expression of hurt on Kushina's face.

He finished with his plate and went for his room, but his father's voice called out to him. "Go to the living room. We have an announcement." Naruto almost groaned but complied nonetheless.

He sat down on the couch and waited. Soon the rest of the family arrived. The girls sat down beside him while Minato and Kushina stood in front of them.

"Naruto-kun" Kushina started "We decided that it is time for us to train you." Natsumi and Naruko smiled at this. After their talk with kyuubi they felt bad for treating him like that. After witnessing his strength in his fight against Mizuki it was obvious he wasn't a weakling. However, after that they realized that it was dumb to judge if he was worthy to be their "Onii-chan" based on that.

Both Naruko and Natsumi promised themselves that they would be better sisters for him, even though he was still his annoying self, so only to a certain extent...

"That's great!" Said Natsumi. Naruko nodding her head in agreement. "Right? Now we can train togeth-" "No" came short answer from Naruto. Everyone looked at Naruto with wide eyes. "What do you mean Naruto? Your mother and I are both splendid shinobi, do you not want to learn our styles and techniques?" Asked a bewildered Minato. Naruto looked at him calmly and said. "No. You are like 6 years late. I am not interested anymore. If that is all then I am going to my room. I need to rest." Naruto said nonchalantly, as he stood up and went to his room. Kushina and Minato stood there shocked while the girls held sad expressions.

Naruto wasn't interested to become part of their family anymore. The girls understood that, but it was still sad to see their brother not even considering himself as part of the family.

Flashback end

"Tomorrow we will train, for now you guys go to sleep." Kushina ordered. Naruko and Natsumi nodded. They got in to their bed and went to sleep.

Next Day

Naruto woke up to a rather interesting morning. He was the last one to wake up. As usual. When he came down and went to the kitchen he found couple of new people sitting at the table. Smiling Tsunami came out "Ah Naruto-san you're finally up. Come, breakfast is ready." She said. Naruto smiled at her. "Thank you Tsunami-san. By the way, Naruto is just fine." He said as he went to the table where his team along with four new guests were already sitting.

The four new guests were Team 11, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, a pale kid that Naruto didn't recognize and Hatake Kakashi. Naruto gazed questioningly at his mother. She seemed to understand what he meant and started talking. "After the whole Zabuza incident I sent summons to inform the village of our progress and they were sent here as our support." Naruto nodded and started eating his breakfast. Others engaged in conversation, but Naruto didn't really care.

"It was delicious. Thank you Tsunami-san." Naruto said grinning. Tsunami nodded with smile, it was the least she could do for keeping her father safe. "Well time for the training. Let's go to the forest." Said Kushina in her usual cheery manner. "That includes you too Naruto." She said firmly. Naruto groaned but followed the order. He just woke up he wasn't in the mood for arguing. Rest of the team 7 and Kakashi followed.

"Where are you going Kakashi-sensei?" Asked Sakura. Kakashi turned around and looked at her. "We are going to the forest with Kushina-sama and her team. You guys need training too." He said as he brought out Icha-Icha and followed team 7. Soon whole team 11 followed Kakashi and the rest. "Actually, I was hoping you would protect the bridge builder Kakashi." Kushina said "Of course Kushina-sama." Kakashi nodded remembering the actual mission. "Though my team doesn't have stamina that Uzumaki have. Try not to over do it with them." He said, though he didn't look concerned as he walked back to the kitchen informing Tazuna about the most recent developments.

When they arrived to the forest Kushina stopped as did the rest of the gennin. "Alright then, first off I need to know how much did Kakashi teach you?" She said looking at team 11. "He taught us about the teamwork." Said Sakura.

"And?" Kushina said expectantly. "And that's it" Said Sasuke. Kushina frowned at that. "Well for as long as I remember Kakashi was always lazy, but that's little bit too much. Alright then we will start with tree climbing." Kushina said.

"But Kushina-sama, we already know that." Sakura said. "Even without hands?" Replied Kushina. Sakura and Sasuke looked at her as if she has grown a second head. The pale looking kid, whose name was Sai looked unmoved. "Is that even possible?" Screamed Sakura. Naruko winced at the volume the pink fan girl was using and walked up to the tree. "Yes, it is." she said bringing attention to herself as she started walking up the tree defying gravity. Soon she reached the top of the tree. "It's a chakra control exercise. You channel your chakra to your feet. Too much and it'll blow you backwards, too little and you won't stick." Naruko said and with that she jumped down from the tree.

"Exactly.". Kushina said. "I already taught that to my team, so were going to be doing the water walking exercise over there." She said pointing to a nearby lake. She heard a scoff from her right. When she turned she saw Naruto looking at her with eyes that clearly said 'yeah, right.' She then realized that while she taught Naruko and Natsumi the tree climbing exercise, she didn't teach Naruto since he didn't get the early training like the girls.

"Actually, Naruto-kun you should try tree climbing now." She said. Instead of following the order Naruto pushed himself from the tree he was leaning on and started walking off. "What a waste of time. I will do my own training." He said. "Naruto you are not leaving this place till you can get on top of that tree." Kushina said pointing towards the tree that was behind her.

Naruto looked at the tree she was pointing to and calmly walked to it. He then pushed chakra to his feet and jumped high, spinning up side down in the air landing on the branch from the down side. "I could do this since I was 7 years old. That's why I said it was a waste of time." He said jumping down from the branch landing gracefully and walking away calmly. "I'll be back around dinner, don't look for me." He said. 'I'm going to finish that jutsu.' he thought determined to have it ready for use in his next battle.

Sasuke and Sakura both had wide eyes and soon started doing the exercise. Sai was just standing there his fake smile firmly on his face not moving an inch. Kushina sighed, deciding to let Naruto do his own thing for now, she turned around and looked at her daughters. She made a shadow clone and left it with Team 11. "Alright let's go." She said as she started explaining how water walking worked.

After their training, all of them returned to Tazuna's house. Natsumi and Naruko were both exhausted, but they made a pretty good progress with their training so they had smiles on their faces. Sai was fake smiling. Sakura was worshipping Sasuke. And Sasuke was brooding. Both Sai and Sakura had done their tree climbing exercise, while he the Uchiha elite was still stuck at something like that.

1 Week Later

Next couple of days were pretty much the same as the first day of training. Only difference being that Sakura and Sai moved to the water walking exercise, with Sasuke joining in day after. And the girls finished the water walking and instead Kushina used some chakra paper to find out their affinities. Natsumi had high water affinity and low wind affinity and Naruko had strong affinity for wind and low for water. After finding out their affinities Kushina taught them few water jutsu. And Naruto disappearing and training alone.

'You are really crazy...' thought Naruko when she remembered how Naruto trained. She and Natsumi went looking for him because it was really late and he still hasn't arrived back. They went to the forest and found hundreds of Naruto's training all of them doing the same thing. The whole area has been destroyed. There were holes in the ground, some trees looked burned while others looked like they have been cut.

Suddenly all the clones dispelled and a exhausted looking Naruto appeared in front of them. "It's rude to spy on others. Didn't your parent teach you that?" Naruto asked.

Naruko frowned "We weren't spying. Kaa-chan was worried so we went to look for you. You're usually back by now." Naruto chuckled. "I didn't realize I had a curfew." He said amused. He then looked up and realized it was rather late. "Well I guess I can finish it tomorrow. I am pretty tired." He said as they started walking back.

"So what were you doing back there?" Asked Natsumi curious. "Trying to perform a jutsu." Naruto said in a matter of fact tone, though it was obvious he was playing with Natsumi and Natsumi groaned. "Do you always train that way?" Naruko asked curious. "Experience from the clones goes back to the original when it is dispelled. Meaning if I make 365 clones, I will get year worth of practice in just one day. The only reason I can train that way is because I am an Uzumaki and because of Kyuubi. Otherwise I'd be dead by now." Naruto said seriously. "Don't even think about training the same way. Kyuubi makes sure I don't die. You only posses her chakra, but you are still Uzumaki so you can probably pull it off at smaller scale. Max 20 clones though." He said strictly. "If you are going to use my training method you are going to follow what I just said." He said. "Also, keep it a secret."

'Damn, I understand why he is so powerful now.' Thought Natsumi. Both hers and Naruko's jaw dropped. Their brother had trained himself for years. Kyuubi told them that. And if he was training like that always... It made sense that he possessed such power. When they arrived back Naruto greeted everyone and went for sleep obviously worn out.

When Naruto woke up next day he came down and started eating his breakfast. Then Inari, tTazuna's grandson started talking. "What are you doing here? You're all just going to die. Gato is just too powerful." He said. Naruto was the one to reply. "Well aren't you just a big ball of sunshine, don't worry, we will deal with Gato." He said. "Deal with him? You just come here from your pretty village, living happy life and say something like that? You have no idea what it means to suffer, but you will learn if you don't leav-" Inari stopped talking when he suddenly felt huge KI wash over him from Naruto who calmly stood up.

Others felt it too and the non-ninja like Tsunami and Tazuna were frozen in place. Others were tense. Kakashi and Kushina got ready to intercept Naruto if something happened. Naruko and Natsumi looked at each other both thinking the same thing. 'Oh Shit!'

Naruto walked calmly towards Inari, who was scared shitless. Tsunami seemed to snap out of her state and went to stand between Inari and Naruto, but she felt someone's hand on her shoulder. She looked around to see Tazuna, who was shaking his head. "He won't hurt him and Inari needs this." He whispered. Tsunami frowned and went to her son but Tazuna stopped her once again. "I don't like this anymore than you do, but Inari needs to wake up." He said sternly.

Naruto stopped in front of Inari and he smiled for a second, but he quickly covered it by scowl. Though the KI was still there. "Tell me pipsqueak, Do you have a loving family that takes care of you?" He asked and Inari dumbly nodded. "Do you have a place you can call home or place where you can sleep?" He asked once again Inari once again nodding. "Then you don't know what suffering truly is. Heh, sometimes I actually had to sleep outside cause my 'family'" he said doing the universal sign of quotes. "... Locked me out." He then turned around and proceeded to take off his cloak and t-shirt.

Immediately he heard gasps behind him. There were scars on his back. They were not huge or anything however there was one huge one. Naruko and Natsumi both winced recognizing that one was the one Mizuki gave him. While kyuubi could heal him, if the injury was too deep there would be a scar left behind.

he turned around and another set of gasps followed when he turned around. There was a HUGE scar on the right side of his chest. On his left side even though it was small, there was scar that looked like it was made by some animal, probably a dog. And indeed it was a dog. Inuzuka dog to be exact. On his masters order. There was also a couple of smaller scars on his right side.

"Throughout the years, the villagers did this to me. At first they made sure to go easy on me cause they didn't want the Hokage to find out. I remember getting home and telling my parents about it. However because of kyuubis soul being sealed within me all of my injuries already healed and they wrote it off as me just wanting some attention.

This repeated couple more times until I exploded and started yelling at my parents asking them why would they let something like that slide, but since there were no injuries they didn't believe me. My 'mother' slapped me and my 'father' started yelling at me to stop telling such lies and that they had enough of it, sending me to my room. Next day couple of drunkards started chasing me when I heading home. Eventually it became just another mob. They chased me to a dead end, but this time it was different.

They've been beating the shit out of me for almost a month now yet nothing ever happened. No one noticed. So since no one noticed they could get rougher... They didn't need to hold back." he traced the scar on his chest. "This scar... It was made by one of the Anbu under the Hokage's command that time." He said and once again he could hear gasps coming from everybody.

He took his shirt and put it back on along with his cloak. "As you can see Inari I am not very popular in my village. Ninja and civilians alike hate me. I have been beaten, tortured, poisoned and later there were even few rape attempts, but by that time I already knew how to protect myself. Eventually they stopped forming mobs, seeing that I could fight back now, but even to this day it's obvious they hate me. This has been done to me by the same sons of bitches that i swore to protect. But do you know what the difference between me and you is? I don't bitch and cry about it."

He said as he turned around and walked out of kitchen. "Thank you for the meal Tsunami-san, but I am afraid I lost my appetite. I am going to train." He said opening door. Naruko shot out of her seat immediately going after him. "Wait!" Kushina yelled. But both Naruto and Naruko were already gone.

"We'll go after them!" said Kakashi and went after them. "Kakashi-sensei!" Yelled Sakura and started running after him. Sasuke decided to just leave as this seemed like a family problem so he went after Sakura. And Sai just followed the rest of team 11.

Inari shot out from his seat and run to his room. Tsunami wanted to go after him but was once again stopped by Tazuna. "Leave him alone for now." He said. Tsunami frowned at her father but nodded nonetheless. They turned towards the shinobi in the room and Tsunami looked at Kushina who was crying. "Was... Was his life really that bad?" She asked and Kushina started shaking her head. "It couldn't be... It couldn't. It's imposs-"

"Bullshit!" Angry Natsumi exclaimed. "While I don't really know what kind of life he had, I know that he has been ignored by our family. Are you telling me you didn't ignore him his whole life? It was always about us. When we were deciding where to eat if Naruto said ramen and Naruko said sushi then we were eating sushi. If we went for movies if Naruto wanted comedy and I wanted horror we would watch horror. It's not that he's been distancing himself. He just lost interest to become part of our family. He was always ignored. He just got tired of it.

When was the last time you heard him refer to one of you as mother or father?" Natsumi waited for minute but Kushina was silent entire time. "See... You don't remember. That's because he refers to you as Kushina and Minato. For as long as he can remember he had to take care of himself." She said angrily "Naruko and me are the same. We were never family to him, but we are at least aware of it and are trying to make up for it unlike you."

"No... No! I didn't..." Kushina said. The pain on her shoulder was now unbearable as she screamed from pain and fell down on the ground. She was clutching her shoulder in pain, but her mind was on something completely different. 'No, I wouldn't abandon my child.' She thought frantically. By now Tsunami, Tazuna and Natsumi were by her side trying to figure out what is happening.

There was a purple glow on her shoulder and Kushina's screams got louder before she blacked out from pain and exhaustion. As she was lying there Natsumi took the hand that was still on her shoulder and moved it. She then moved her clothes to the side a bit so she could see and she let out a gasp when she saw a seal there.

She was taught little bit about seals and since she was an Uzumaki she naturally had better understanding of sealing techniques than most people. She was inspecting the mark on her mothers shoulder for about five minutes.

Tazuna and Tsunami stayed silent seeing that Natsumi was obviously doing something or at least trying to figure something out. "Shit!" They heard Natsumi and instantly asked what was going on. "Tazuna-san, Tsunami-san I need you to keep this a secret. For now let's move her up and let her rest. When Kakashi and his team return don't say anything about this to them and when Naruko and Naruto come back send them to me. Tell them it's serious." Both nodded, but Tazuna was curious what was going on.

"So what exactly is that mark?" He asked after they put Kushina to bed. Natsumi looked at them for little while. "It was a seal. Put on her without her consent and knowledge. I'm not that good with seals, but I can understand enough to know that it's a loyalty seal. Basically it's kind of like a more subtle version of slave seal though it's obvious she is fighting it." She saw that both Tazuna and Tsunami had wide eyes and dropped jaws.

"Good. Now that you understand how bad the situation is, I expect you not to tell Kakashi and others. This needs to be kept secret since we don't know when or who put that seal on is lot better with seals than me, but there's no way she will be able to do something about seal of this level. I hope Naruto knows something about seals. If not then we will just have to wing it and finish this mission with her like that. Once we return home Tou-san is a seal master he should be able to deal with this." Natsumi said seriously. Both Tazuna and Tsunami nodded.

"Good now let her rest. I'll wait for her to wake up so that I can explain things to her." She said as she lied down to bed next to Kushina's. Tsunami and Tazuna left the room. 'Who could've put that seal on her? And when? And what do they want?" Thought Natsumi as she closed her eyes.

Meanwhile with Naruko and Naruto

Naruto stopped when he arrived to port. He was just standing there for few seconds before he spoke. "Why are you following me Naruko-imuoto?" Naruko didn't answer, instead she just gave him a hug.

Naruto was surprised at first, but after a while he returned the hug. "I'm sorry." He heard her say. His expression changed from soft one to confused. "Why?" He asked softly. "For everything. You don't deserve the treatment you get." Naruto hummed. "Perhaps. I am awesome after all." Naruto said with slight chuckle.

"I don't get it. How can you still be such a annoyingly happy-go-lucky idiot after everything you went through." Naruko asked pulling back a little bit so she could see his face. "That's a easy one. If I turned into a 'I hate everyone and everything' emo kid, eventually I would've become the same as villagers. Blinded with hatred, pain and sadness.

Instead I focused on becoming strong. Not for me, but for people who saved me from becoming that emo kid. My precious people protected me when I needed it the most, helped me when I was in trouble... There is nothing I could ever do to repay them. They are my support and I will always be theirs." Said Naruto with conviction.

Naruko looked at for a little while before soft, but sad smile appeared on her face. "I don't deserve such an amazing brother..." She said quietly. Suddenly Naruto grabbed her bridal style and started running. Before she even knew it she standing on her legs again hiding behind wall with Naruto. "What the-" She said blushing from both embarrassment and anger.

"Shh, just watch and wait!" He said. She peeked from the corner and after few seconds she saw team 11. "They followed you." Naruto said cassually, leaning on the wall, eyes closed. "So? They are not our enemies." Said confused redhead. "If they see us they will bring us back. I wasn't planning on coming back tonight. The Inari incident happened at frighteningly good time for me to pass this opportunity. Although I do admit that spilling my guts in front of everyone wasn't the brightest idea, even more so with Kushina being present, but it still worked out pretty good in the end. Everyone bought the anger act." Naruko grew even more confused by that. "What are you talking about?" She asked, watching as Kakashi and the rest turned back and went away.

"I want to explore a certain place. So I am not coming back tonight. While everything I said back there was true, I wasn't really angry, I just acted so I could get away." Naruto said. "Explore?" Asked the redhead. "The only way you're finding out is if you come with me... Either way I am not coming back." She scowled at her brother. "They are gone." She said as she stopped hiding behind the wall. "So, are you coming?" Naruto asked still in the same position eyes closed.

Naruko sighed "Sure, why not. We are coming back tomorrow right?" She asked unsure. "Yup." Naruto said pushing himself off the wall. "You finished the water walking exercise right?" Naruto asked. "Yes, but what does..."She stopped when she noticed where Naruto was looking. She looked the same direction and all she saw was water.

"You can't be serious. We can just take the boat instead." She looking at him with expression that clearly said 'Dumbass'.

"No we can't. Boat won't be able to get there. We are running. Let's go. The sooner we are there the better." He said as they jumped on the water and started running. They were running for about hour and half just making small talk with Naruko learning small things about Naruto and other way around.

"Whoa! A whirlpool!" Said Naruko. Both of them stopped running and Naruto had small smile on his face. "It seems we're getting close." Naruto said as he started looking around. "Aha! There" Naruto said pointing to Island in distance that seemed to be in the middle of dozens of whirlpools.

"What is wrong with you? How the hell do you expect us to get there?" Naruko asked looking at Naruto with ridiculous expression on her face. "That's easy. We fly." He said as if it was normal for humans to do that. "We fly? Look if this is another one of your pranks I swear I will kick you- Ahh, put me down idiot!" Yelled Naruko when Naruto suddenly picked her up bridal style once again and activated his Rinnegan.

He used deva path to push himself of the water and started flying. Naruko stopped struggling and looked at her brother with awed expression etched on her face. 'He's actually flying. He can actually fly!' She thought looking up at her brother. When she looked at his eyes she noticed his Rinnegan was active. 'Is it because of his eyes?' She thought.

She soon dismissed it as she snuggled into his chest and closed her eyes. After running so long on the water she was exhausted. She was slowly falling asleep with a smile on her face in Naruto's strong arms snuggling into his muscular, but not overly muscular chest as she inhaled his scent. Suddenly her eyes shot open. 'I did not just think that! He is my brother!' She thought frantically.

She looked up to see that Naruto didn't seem fazed by her sudden outburst. He was looking straight ahead with no expression on his face as if she wasn't even there. She did however notice that his arms held her more tightly to him. "Careful... We will be there soon. Just a few more minutes." Naruto said. Naruko blushed as she felt his strong arms holding her protectively. 'Crap... This can't be happening. I am not falling for him. Though I do have to admit that he is hot. The scars make him even hotter, but still...' She thought. However she looked at his handsome face she felt herself blush even deeper shade of red. 'Damn it I need to get this under control.'

She noticed that they were slowly descending. She looked around and saw that they were already at the island, but there were ruins everywhere around them.

"I don't get it... What is this place. What could you possibly want from here? There is nothing here except old ruins." Naruko asked, confusion clear in her voice. "Hmm, I wonder... I think you are wrong and that there is something left. Something worth the trouble. Something only our family has acces to. Excluding Minato of course." Naruto said further confusing his sister. "This is Uzushiogakure. Home to all Uzumaki. Or atleast most of them. This is the place where our ancestors lived." Naruto said.

Naruko was shocked. This was the former home of her clan? "W-what happened?" She asked curious. "I'm surprised imuoto." Naruto said. "I thought Kushina has told you. She used to live here before she came to Kohoha you know." She didn't look at him as she answered, instead choosing to watch the ruins. "She told us about Uzumaki clan, but this is the first time I hear about the Uzumaki village."

Naruto looked at her. "I see. This place was destroyed during the war. I am sure you know that Uzumaki clan was feared cause of their knowledge on seals. We have natural talent for them. A common seal master is a simple beginner compared to Uzumaki seal master. That and Uzushio was strong enough to become sixth great village. And other villages feared that. So they decided to erase the threat. Kiri, Kumo and Iwa formed a temporary alliance and invaded this place.

I suppose Konoha can also be held responsible in a way Since they were close alies with Uzushio, yet when they were asked to help they flat out refused. Still, even against allied forces of three hidden villages more that 75% of enemy forces were destroyed before Uzushio was completely overwhelmed and destroyed." Naruto explained. Naruto started walking and Naruko quickly followed.

"Still, what are we doing here?" She asked as they were walking trough ruins. "I am hoping to find some scrolls about seals. Maybe even learn about past... But mostly I'm looking for a certain place. It was build for training purposes, I'll tell you more about it once we find it." He said not really caring about anything else than said training chamber.

They were walking trough the ruins in silence for couple of minutes before they saw a tower. "That must be the Uzukage tower. Let's check it out." Naruto said. Naruko nodded and started walking towards the tower along her brother. When they were in front of said tower they noticed it looked untouched. "Let's go in, ne?" Naruto said cheerfully. Naruko merely nodded and walked alongside her brother. Suddenly a bright yellow wall appeared around the tower.

"What's that? A barrier? Now it makes sense why this is the only place still standing. We can't get in..." Said the redhead with frown. She was curious what was inside. "Hmm, it seems so. However you can wipe that frown off your face imuoto. Look." Answered the blonde jinchuuriki pointing at the words that started appearing on the wall.

Only those with Uzumaki blood may pass.

"Spoke too soon imuoto." Naruto said with chuckle as he started walking forwards. She pouted and followed after him passing through the wall and going inside.

After coming in they were pleasantly surprised by how clean the place looked after so many years. Naruto activated the Rinnegan to ensure that no more surprise barriers or seals catch them of guard. "Stay behind me. There is a possibility that there are few traps here." He said calmly walking forward, his eyes scanning the hallway. As they walked through the door at the end of the hallway they found stairs.

"What do you think Naru-chan? Up or down?" asked the blond. "I don't know... Up, I guess." She said not really caring. They went up and went through the door. There was another hallway this time there were bunch of rooms on the left and right. They went though all the rooms, but they didn't find anything important. They encountered couple of seals and barriers, but Naruto made quick work of them using the Rinnegan's preta path.

At the end of the hallway there was another room. They went in and found out that it was the office of Uzukage. After couple of hours of searching the room they found out about the storage room, where Uzushiogakure kept jutsu scrolls, sealing scrolls and more. They also found out about the 'Uzumaki Tree'. Apparently it was kind of like family tree but more, it also showed if said person was alive or dead. Meaning if there were any other Uzumaki out there they would know with just a look on the Uzumaki tree.

They continued searching since for a while longer when Naruko found something. "Hey dobe, what's this? The Uzumaki time house..." She read out loud. She was startled however when Naruto shouted in joy. "Finally. That's the main reason we came here."

"I don't know... Time House? You said that the place you were looking for was build for training purposes... This sound more like some weird house that let's you relieve your memories or something like that... Not to mention that whatever purpose the house serves it's a ridiculous name." Naruto chuckled at her.

"Let's you relieve memories eh? Trust me it's nothing like that. The Uzumaki time house is the pinnacle of Uzumaki seals. It's covered in seals that alternate time flow... One year in that house is only one day outside. It's got everything you need to survive and it has a indestructible training chamber. The time house is what really show the difference between an Uzumaki and a common seal user. Though I do admit that it's a idiotic name." Naruto said grinning.

Naruko couldn't believe it. Seals that alternate time flow? How is that even possible? Her father is a seal master, but he never mentioned that such a seal even exists. Even more shocking was that her mother was a Uzumaki seal user level 6, but she never mentioned seal even remotely as amazing as that.

Hell, Naruko had interests in fuinjutsu herself and she made a lot of research on it, but this was first time she heard about something like that.

"You can't be serious..." She said in quiet tone. "I am. It's the truth. You'll see soon enough." Naruto said still grinning. If he spent year in the time house, and each day he would make just 365 clones (he can do lot more and continue training) He could actually gather 365 years worth of training in just one day. He could NOT wipe the stupid grin off his face.

"We have everything we wanted and more. Come imuoto, it seems everything we need is downstairs..." Naruto said casually. Naruko looked at him. "What are you planning to do now?" Naruto smirked. "Why, I am going to see if any of our relatives are still alive, then I'll check the storage room and finally I'll lock myself in the time house for year. And you are staying with me since you can't leave." Naruko looked at him like he was crazy. "No way, You told me we would come back tomorrow." Naruto's smirk grew. "But we will. To everyone else it will be just day. While we will train for one year." Seeing that Naruko was about to protest he quickly continued.

"Look imuoto. I am staying here training for one year. If you really want to go back, that's fine... I'll have a clone fly you back and I will return tomorrow. Or you can stay here with me for one year and train. Chuunin exams will be soon and with me training you for one year those idiots won't hold a candle to you. So what is it?"

He asked neutrally. He didn't really care, even if she left he wouldn't be alone there was still Kurami and his Zanpakuto spirits. He was simply offering her a chance to get stronger.

At first he was worried about being lonely for whole year, but when he thought about it he came to conclusion that it didn't matter since he wasn't alone in the first place. He just thought it would be nice for at least one person to be there with him physically not just in his head. In the end he came to conclusion that it didn't matter.

Naruko on the other hand was thinking. This was great opportunity. She could get a lot stronger in one year. Not to mention that it was her brother training her. Recollecting the memory of his power when he fought Mizuki, went toe to toe with her mother using only small fraction of his power, easily defeating the demon brothers and even making Zabuza Momochi from Kiri Shinobigatana Nananin Shu look like newbie.

Her brother was the most powerful person she knew and she was pretty sure that he was hiding more power from her and everyone else. Getting trained by him seemed like a very good idea.

On the other hand she would have to go a whole year of not seeing her family and friends. That however was quickly discarded as it would only be one day for the rest of the world. Nodding to herself she looked at Naruto. "Fine. I'll stay here with you and train." Seeing Naruto smile a very creepy smile she felt a shiver run down her spine.

"Good. That's Good." Said Naruto, the creepy smile not leaving his face. "I get to tortur- I mean train you for one year." He said in cheerful manner the creepy smile still settled on his face. Suddenly his face gained a serious expression.

"Listen, and listen well imuoto. During training I make rules and you listen to them. When I say jump you ask 'how high?' No talking back. I don't care what you do outside the training, but once we enter the training chamber you will listen to my every word. Got it?" The blond asked. "Hai. I get it." Naruko said obediently. "Good. Also my training will be harsh. I am telling you right now... If I give you an order and for whatever reason you won't go through with it consider the training done and you can go back to Tazuna-san. Understood?" He continued. "Hai. I understand." She said once again.

"Well then it's time to go check the Uzumaki tree, then we'll check the storage room and grab whatever scrolls we find and then we start our training. Sounds good?" He said as his serious expression disappeared and the happy go lucky idiot returned.

Naruko smiled seeing her brother return back to normal. To be honest it creeped her out seeing him that serious. "Yeah, sounds good. C'mon I'm curious about this Uzumaki tree." She said walking down to the basement where the Uzumaki tree was supposed to be.

Following the directions in the Uzukage's file they came to the big room. On the wall there was a glowing family tree. Most of the names had red glow accompanying them, but there were couple of names that had green glow. Quickly coming to conclusion that the green ones were the ones still alive they started looking trough the names and photos belonging to the names. Most of the names didn't have photos tough only few and not one of them was glowing green.

They even found their own names glowing green confirming their thoughts about the meaning of green and red glows. There was one name which caught Naruto's attention. He looked at it for couple of seconds before reading out loud. "Mei Terumi" Catching Naruko's attention. "Is she an Uzumaki too? Interesting... " Naruto said. "It seems that her mother was an Uzumaki." Naruko's voice called out pointing at the name of Mei's mother which had a red glow.

"Hmm... I will make sure to remember this." He said activating Sharingan, three tomoes spinning lazily as he burned the whole Uzumaki tree into his memory. He placed a Shinpo marker in the room before saying. "Let's go to the storage room." Naruko happily followed since after that her training would start. She was looking forward to her training.

Arriving to the storage room and seeing countless scrolls he decided to make this quick as he summoned thousand clones and said. "Alright get everything useful to the training chamber in the time house and drop the rest somewhere else in the time house. There may be some useful information in there." He said as clones saluted to the original and started to do their work.

"You know you shouldn't abuse those poor shadow clones like that right?" Asked Naruko. She was highly impressed by the fact that he just made thousand clones and seemed fine.

"The clones are clones... They are me and they feel exactly the same on this matter. Even though they have a mind of their own, they still retain my mindset. They want to get this done quickly so we can get to our training. Let's go to the time house." He ended with grin. Naruko grinned back at this. "Lets go. I can't wait." She said walking towards the time house.

Once they arrived to the house Naruto felt his last clone puff out of existence. "It seems they are done moving the scrolls. One of my clones had the bright idea of simply teleporting the scrolls after that it was a matter of minutes." He said.

Naruko was surprised once again. "You can teleport things? Is there something you can't do?" Naruto chuckled as they went to the basement where the training chamber was. "No I can't just teleport random things. But I can teleport myself and anything that's touching me." He said opening the door to the basement.

Once he did both Naruto and Naruko saw a huge training ground and both of them were rendered speechless for the second. "I already love this place." He said while Naruko nodded dumbly.

"Ok first things first. Seals." Naruto said. "What about them?" She asked confused. "Give me your hand." She did as asked remembering what he said about her training. "Ok I will place seals on your hand and explain everything while getting them ready." He said and Naruko nodded.

Naruto outstretched his hands blue fire appearing in left hand and red fire appearing in right hand. Naruko watched in fascination trying to figure out what He was doing. He brought his hands together the two flames becoming one as he called out. "Onmyoton: Banbutsu Sozo" He brought his hands down when the combined flame became pure white light.

When the light died down there was a brush and black ink simply floating in the air. Naruto took them and looked at shocked Naruko. "Give me your hand imuoto." He said and she did as she was told. He quickly finished the seals and activated them. Both seals started glowing and suddenly number 2 appeared in the middle of each seal. Naruko suddenly felt lot heavier. She looked at her hand and brought it up to inspect the seals only to find out that it was a lot harder to move her hand.

"I see." She said. "Gravity and Resistence seals. The 2 in gravity seal means that gravity is now affecting me twice as much. That's why I feel so heavy." Naruto smiled at his sister. "Correct. The 2 in resistance seal basically means that it's twice as hard to move. They will help with your speed and power. If you send little bit of chakra in the seals you will be able to add or subtract. Right now I want you to raise both seals up to the point where you will feel that it will be exhausting walking like that, but still manage to do anything you would normally be able to."

He said and Naruko nodded immediately following the order. She soon found out that 4 seemed like her body simply wasn't hers anymore and that gravity seemed to be crushing her so she settled at level 3 for both the gravity and resistance seals. She looked at Naruto. "I don't think I can deal with higher level." she said and Naruto nodded. "Okay first exercise is easy. Sprint until you fall from exhaustion." He said. Naruko looked at him with wide eyes. "What? You expect me to do that?" She yelled.

She did come to a immediate halt when she saw Naruto glare at her. "We already talked about this. You can do it or you can refuse and go back to Tazuna's inn." He said in cold tone. Seeing as she was silent for a while he took that as a refusal as clone puffed into existence. "Take her back to the inn. Make sure she returns saf-" He was cut off by his sister before he could finish the sentence. "No! I'll do it. Kami, what a slavedriver." She said. "By the way... Thanks for this. I appreciate it." Naruko said before she started running.

The End

Yo! Been a while huh? I'll make it clear right now... I am skipping Naruto's and Naruko's training. Next time we see the two of them it will be post-training.