Chapter three

(A.N.) Hello everyone! Sorry for the wait, but school has me a bit busy at the moment so it takes longer to publish. I hope you all like this chapter, and constructive criticism is allowed. Enjoy!

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'Thought.'"Tailed beast or summon."

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

It did not take a lot for Kenshin to realize that something was wrong with Naruto. The two of them were currently at a small ramen stand, where Naruto instead of rapidly raising through his food at unnaturally high speeds, he was slowly picking at his food with a look of deep thought on his face. After a while of this, Naruto turned toward his uncle with a now serious face on.

"Hey Ken-sensei, can I ask you a question?" Naruto asked with a bit of hesitation in his voice.

"Sure kid, what is it you need to know?" Kenshin replied as he turned to face his nephew.

"Well I just wanted to ask that if you had known about me, why did you wait so long before coming to see me?" Naruto said as he turned to look down at the food in his bowl.

With a sigh Kenshin answered. "Well I was wondering when you would ask that question. You see, me and the leaf never saw eye to eye if you know what I mean. When they first found out that your mother Kushina had a brother, they immediately wanted me brought to the leaf. So that they could put me under the CRA (clan restoration act) and have the Uzumaki clan rebread into the leaf faster than they could have with just your mother. Though naturally I did not want to be used as a breeding stock for some corrupt old council, so I pretty much gave them a big middle finger telling them to f*** off. However, my decision did not sit very well with the majority of the council, especially the civilian side as they do not like being refused something that they think they deserve, and that creep Danzo who I believe was the one that sent all those Anbu after me. After all this had happened, I tried to get my sister to leave the village and join me as a bounty hunter, but by this time she had fallen in love with your father and the two of them were planning on getting married. But even though she refused to leave the village, we continued to keep in touch and when she told me that she was pregnant and that I would become an uncle, I even considered coming to the leaf under a false identity to prevent the council from touching me. However before a I could come to any kind of decision, the nine tailed fox attacked the village killing your parents." Kenshin said as he gazed at the sky.

"But if you knew that, then why didn't you come and get me, or at least see to it that I was ok?" Naruto asked as tears started to form in his eyes.

"Well you see, that's the thing," Kenshin started. "After I got the news that your parents were killed, I immediately sent a letter addressed to the Hokage asking what had happened to you, only to be told that you had died with Kushina in childbirth. However, under the light of recent events, I do not believe that the current Hokage received my letter, as he seemed like a pretty honest person. So after learning that you had 'died' I planned on never associating myself with that village ever again, and if it were not for you getting a bridge named after you, I doubt that I would have found out that you were still alive." Kenshin said with a small smile at the end.

"Bridge? You mean that bridge in Wave country? That bridge?" Naruto asked with slight confusion.

"Yep that's the one. Nice piece of construction you got named after yourself by the way. But anyway, after I learned the name of who the bridge was named after, I became suspicion because the only Naruto Uzumaki that ever came from the leaf was you, and I was told that you were dead. So I went to scout out the village under an advance genjutsu to find out if there really was a person named Naruto Uzumaki and if he was you. And when I arrived at the village, the whole village was too busy celebrating the arrival of the fifth Hokage to notice me scouting out the village. They really need to fix that, all their enemies need to do to get into the village is wait until some celebration is happening, when their security is terrible at best."

Naruto nodded in agreement at that, the village security had always been incredibly lacks whenever a festival or celebration was going on. "So then what happened?" Naruto asked wanting him to continue his story.

"Well during the celebration, I snuck into the Hokages office and looked trough all the documents regarding you. And found out that I had been lied to, and that you were very much alive and had been turned into the new nine tails jinchuriki." Kenchen said as he subconsciously tightened his grip on the cup he was currently holding. "So after I found out you were still alive, I started to hang around the village and see what your life was like. And given what I saw, I was already planning on taking you out of there, but it seems that they spared me the trouble of smuggling you out of there when they banished you." Kenshin finished with a smirk. "And when I'm finished with you, that pathetic village will finally see what they missed out on. Oh and one more thing." Kenshin said with a suddenly more serious tone in his voice. "Move your head to the left."

"Why?" Naruto said as he did what he was told.

Instantly, three senbon needles flou by his head and embedded themselves on the counter in front of them.

A few minutes earlier.

"The targets have been located." A root anbu scout said as he told the rest of the squad. "The nine tails jinjuriki is currently with an unknown male, and are at the small ramen shop on the outskirts of town."

"Excellent, we will commence our attack at once, we can not afford to let him slip away like last time." Their commander told them. "Get to your positions. And remember we are to merely immobilize the jinjuriki so that he may be brought to lord Danzo. Kill the man with him."

As he said this all the root nin disappeared and got into position.

Present time.

Naruto and Kenshin looked up at the root anbu that were standing on the roofs of the houses around them.

"So, who are you and what do you want?" Kenshin asked, even though he already knew.

"We are here to retrieve the nine tails and bring him to lord Danzo, you are to be killed for interfering with his plans." The leading root anbu said as they all prepared to attack the duo.

With a heavy laugh Kenshin responded. " Kill me? That has to be the funniest thing I've heard all week. If you boys plan on even trying to kill me, you better get a whole lot more guys than you currently have." Kenshin then unsealed one of his two swords, and prepared for a fight if he could even call it that. "Hey Naruto, I have a question for you before we take these guys." Kenshin said with a very serious face on. "Have you ever killed before?"

Naruto was completely taken off guard for this question. "What? Why? " Naruto asked with surprise in his voice. "But no, I have not."

"Because you will have to kill someone eventually, it is best to get your first one over with as soon as possible." Kenshin began. "You see that anbu with the senbon needles?"

"Yeah." Naruto answered not really liking where this was going.

"Good, you are to kill him while I take out the rest." Kenshin said as he jumped up at the root nin, and started to attack them with his sword.

(A.N. I am not the best at fight scenes, but I will do my best. Do not expect much though.)

With Naruto

After Kenshin left to attack the other root nin, Naruto pulled out a kunai and deflected several more senbon that were thrown at him. 'Ken-sensei wants me to kill this guy?' Naruto thought as he jumped up onto the roof his opponent was on, and started to engage in a taijutsu fight. As their fight went on, Naruto noticed that his opponent was trying to hit pressure points to immobilise him. Quickly putting some distance between the them, Naruto threw a handful of shuriken at the foot nin who jumped out of the way at the last second. 'This is not working, I need to try something else.' He thought as he dodged a few more senbon. Forming a seal in his hands, he shouted shadow clone jutsu and five clones poofed into existence behind him. One of the things Kenshin had taught him is instead of creating mass amounts of clones and hope for the best, create a purpose for each of them and for a strategy for how to beat our enemy. The first four shadow clones immediately charged the root anbu and started to engage it with taijutsu and keeping it distracted while Naruto along with the fifth clone charged up a Rasengan. When the root anbu was just about finished with the clones, Naruto jumped at his opponent shouting out Rasengan as he stretched out his arm in an attempt to push it into his opponents chest. However, before it could make contact, the root nin ducked under the attack and delivered a powerful kick into Narutos abdomen.

"You are going to have to do better than that if you are going to beat me." The root anbu said as he kicked Naruto. Only to have his eyes widen as the Naruto he kicked puff out of existence. "How-" The root nin started to say before he felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck before everything went black.

Naruto stood over the root anbu that he had just killed. His strategy had worked perfectly; he had run at the root nin along with the clones leaving two more to form the Rasengan. He then transformed into a small rock on the roof after being hit, making it appear that he was simply a clone disappearing. And then stabbing him in the back of the neck when he was distracted by the clone with Rasengan. But now that it was over, the fact that he had just killed someone for the first time started to take effect. Taking his eyes away from the root anbu, Naruto looked at his hands that were now covered in the guys' blood, and started to hyperventilate.

With Kenshin

After telling Naruto who his target was, Kenshin jumped up onto the roof and started to cut down every root anbu that got in his way. "I thought you were here to kill me." Kenshin said as he killed another one that had been trying to get behind him. "Because I already told you that you were going to need more guys."

Upon witnessing this unknown man cutting through the all of his forces, the root commander started to realize that they were indeed outmatched. 'Lord Danzo will not be pleased with this. However, we need to report this new development and we will be unable to if we stay here much longer.' The commander thought as he gave the order to flee to his remaining men.

"Yeah you boys better run." Kenshin yelled at the remaining root nin as they started to flee. 'Well maybe that will send the message across to however is sending these guys after us. Though we should probably keep a low profile for a while.'

Kenshin then quickly looked over to where Naruto had been fighting, and saw him standing over the root anbu that he had killed and appeared to be hyperventilating. Quickly moving over to him, Kenshin put a hand on Narutos shoulder, who immediately flinched and tried to move away. "Hey it's me, the fights over." He said trying to reassure his nephew.

"Ken-sensei?" Naruto asked as he turned around.

"Yeah, it's me." Kenshin than stopped and looked at the dead body that lay at his feet. "Well I guess now I can welcome you to the life of a true ninja."

Upon hearing this, Naruto hung his head a little. He had always knows that by being a ninja he would have to kill someone eventually, but he never thought that the first time would be so hard. But his mood brightened when his uncle continued.

"Well it is time to get a move on, those guys would will probably be back in even greater numbers. And for your brilliant performance in your fight I will treat you to one all you can eat ramen once we reach our next destination. And I will have to step your training up a notch, I won't always be around to protect you kid. You are going to have to deafened yourself from much more powerful foes then those guys in your future." Kenshin tolled him as he thought about the criminal organization that was hunting all the jinjuriki.

Leaf Village

Council chambers sometime later.

It had been three weeks sense Naruto had been banished, and the village had yet to stop its celebration that they had finally gotten rid of the 'demon boy' of the Leaf. Though they would have preferred execution, banishment was the next best thing, and Tsunade has had enough of it. She knew that she did not have the power to put a stop to the festival through force, but she could make them want to stop through other means.

"Tsnade, why have you called this meeting?" An annoyed civilian said, as he was enjoying the celebration before it was called, when everyone excluding Danzo had arrived.

"That's Lady Hokage to you." Tsunade shot back in a threatening tone. "And I have called you all hear to inform you of whose banishment you are all celebrating." She said as she glared at all of the people present.

"If it is that boy you are talking about, then we know exactly what we are celebrating for. That thing is a no named orphan and a public menace that threatened the safety of this village just by being here." A smug merchant said as he looked at her.

Tsunade glared at the man and released some of her KI (Killing Intent) making the merchant sweat a little before continuing. "Though it is true that he is an orphan, that douse not mean that he did not have parents. And that boy that you have abused and tormented his entire life is the son of Minato Namazaki the Fourth Hokage, and Kishina Uzumaki, the Red Death of the Leaf, making him the hare to both the Namazaki clan and the Uzumaki clan."

"That's impossible, there is no way that that boy could be the son of our beloved fourth and be more important than the Uchiha." A pink haired councilwoman shrieked, much to the displeasure of every one else in the room.

"Lady Tsunade, do you have any proof of this claim." The Nara clan head asked.

"Yes as a matter of fact, I do." She said as she pulled out a birth certificate stating that was signed by both the third Hokage and the fire Daimyo.

When Tsunade showed them this, a pin drop could have been heard as a deathly silence filled the room, and everyone had gone deathly pale. However, that only lasted for about ten seconds before utter pandemonium erupted inside the room.

Screams of, "We must send our hunter nin out to find him immediately." And, "We must bring him back so that he can be placed under the CRA," were shouted back and forth throughout the room until Tsunade had enough of it.

"SILENCE!" she shouted, making every one quiet down. "As much as I want to bring the boy back, it is impossible to do so because a banishment order on a shinobe can not be lifted and even if it could, we have no idea where he is."

"This is way too troublesome. Lady Tsunade if you knew all of this, why did you agree to having him banished?" Shikaku asked.

Tsunade looked down at the table for a brief second before continuing. "The reason that I listened to you fools and agreed to have him banished, was to protect him from everyone in this village, primarily the civilians and some of the shinode who were calling for his death because he completed his mission. And do not think for one moment that I was unaware of your plotting on having a little 'accident' befall upon him." She knew that she had also banished him for other reasons, but kept them to herself as to not make the situation worse. "So with all of that said, I feel confident that all your partying will cease." Tsunade finished in a dark tone with everyone nodding their heads quickly. "Good, then I declare this meeting over."

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Kakashi was not having a good month. First it was Guy telling him that they could no longer be rivals because his 'flames of youth' had so diminished with the treatment of his banished student, and that he could not be rivals with someone whose flames were so low.

Second, it had become painfully clear after Naruto left that Sasuke was nothing like is former teammate Obito, and would immediately give up the life of his comrades or friends if it would benefit him in anyway. He had first blamed every thing that had happened on Orochemarus cures seal, and thought that once it was removed he would become remorseful of what he had done and want to protect those around him. Unfortunately that had not been the case. As soon as he had woken up and had the curse seal removed, he immediately went back into his broody, care only about power attitude. And once he even overheard him ranting about how Naruto should have let himself be killed, so that he could have gotten the mangekyou sharingon to fight Itachi with. Needless to say Kakashi was disappointed in his student, and in himself for not realizing that it as Naruto that held to Obito's ideals and not Sasuke.

But to top everything off he had jut found out that Naruto, the student he had forsaken, was the only son to his late sensei and second father figure. And now every time he looked at his sensei's face on the Hokage monument, he always seemed to be scowling at him like he knew how he had neglected to teach his son.'Naruto, if I every see you again, I promise that I will make it up to you.' He thought sadly as he looked away from the monument.

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Teams ten and nine along with Shino were currently at one of the barbecue restaurants discussing what they had just learned.

"I can't believe that Naruto is the son of the fourth Hokage." Ino said with her mouth full. Shure she had never really liked him or paid any attention to him as she had been after Sasuke's attention along with Sakura, but she never hated him ether. And after Sasuke had turned traitor to the village, and his attitude when he was brought back opened her eyes to what he really was unlike her now ex friend and rival Sakura.

"I know, the council is probably going ballistic right now and are going to try and get on his good side once he comes back." Choji said as he ate.

"You mean if he comes back." Shino said and then continued when he saw the questioning look on everyone's face except Shikumoru's. "Think about it, would any of you want to return to a place that abused you your whole life, and then banish you in favor of a traitor." When he had finished, everyone present had a frown on their faces, as they know what he meant.

"YOU ARE RIGHT!" Lee yelled as he stood up from his chair, but lowered his volume when people around the restaurant started to look in their direction. "The flames of this village have greatly diminished with the treatment of our friend. Which means that we must work ten times as hard at increasing our flames of youth to make up for the rest of the people in this village."

"Lee, sit down please." Neji said. "What Shino says is true. In all likely hood Naruto will not be returning here willingly, which means now with this information out of the bag the council and even lady Tsunade will want him brought back to the village, by force if necessary. And we will be the ones who will most likely be given the task of bringing him back." When he had finished, everyone's frowns had deepened as they thought about what that means.

Underneath the Leaf Village

Danzo was absolutely furious if all the dead bodies around him were anything to go by. When his agents had returned reporting that the mission had been failure, and that he was being accompanied by a very powerful shinobe, Danzo had flown into a rage that his plan to have the nine tails under his control was failing. And had all the surveying members killed as punishment for their failure.

He growled as he looked at all of the dead bodies in front of him. If this man was as strong as the report said, that he probably not get another chance at getting the nine tails for a while as he would surly take a lower profile. 'Damn that man, if it weren't for him the nine tails would be under my control right now, and I could begin to take control of this village by force if necessary. Now who knows how long it will be for him to resurface.' Danzo thought angrily.

Danzo then walked away from the bodies and summoned one of his most trusted agents. "Sai, I have a long term mission for you. I have no doubt in my mind that once the boys banishment time is over if he douse not return on his own, Tsunade will sent his former team out after him. However, before that they will need someone to take his place, and I am going to have you appointed this position in order for you to get me as much information as possible."

"It will be done, lord Danzo." Sai said as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Danzo growled in frustration at how out of control things were getting. 'That boy is starting to really aggravate me. I am already running out of ideas to get him now that he is with someone with enough power to kill eight of my best agents at once without even trying. But if I can get him under my control with my sharingon, then I could become unstoppable.' He thought as he walked into his privat quarters.

With Naruto and Kenshin

"Are we there yet?" Naruto asked for the thirteenth time in the past few hours.

The two of them had been running nearly non stop for the past three days, and Naruto was beginning to get annoyed because his uncle wouldn't even tell him where they were going.

"No we are not, just like the last however many times you asked." Kenshin replied, as Naruto was starting to aggravate him with all his yapping. "However, we can take a break here, as there is something that I would like to show you." The two of them then jumped out of the trees, and landed in a small clearing. "All right kid, it came to my attention that when you were banished from the leaf village you nullified you summoning contract with the toads."

When Naruto heard this, he immediately frowned and looked at the ground as he remembered the friends he had to give up.

"Well it's not all bad kid. In fact I just might have something to make up for it." He said with a slight smirk. After going through several hand signs, Kenshin placed his hand on the ground and said Summoning jutsu and in a puff of smoke, a horse sized tiger appeared.

"Hello Kenshin, what do you need?" The tiger then eyed Naruto and asked, "And who is this?"

"Hello Jade, I summoned you here because I would like my nephew here to sign the tiger summoning contract."

"Nephew? Keshin, when did you get a nephew?" Jade asked while cocking her head.

"Well you see that is a long story that I will tell you another time. But basically some people were not entirely honest about him."

Naruto then cleared his throat getting other twos attention.

"Oh sorry I forgot to introduce the two of you." Kenshin said with a nervous laugh. "Jade, this is my nephew Naruto. Naruto, this is my personal tiger summon Jade." "It's a pleasure to meet you Naruto."

"Yeah, you too." He said while scratching the back of his head.

"Know what is this I hear about him being a tiger summoner?" Jade asked looking at Kenshin.

"Well you see, I wanted to pass down my teachings to my nephew hear and wanted to have him sign the tiger summoning contract as well." He reapplied.

She said as she disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"You heard her kid, now go sit down it's time for a lecture." Kenshin said while Naruto had anime tears streaming down his face.

(A.N) For the summoning I will probably have both tigers and owls, and both will be used for different purposes. And let me know if Naruto should learn sage mode or not, I can't decide.