The Woren of Uzu no Kuni

by Foxcomm

When Naruto turned eight, something began to happen. He changed, growing fur and a tail. 'What do you mean I'm a WOREN' rated T for language.

3. Chapter 3

"Let's get you to bed, Naruto," Rei said to the sleeping boy as he laid stretched out in a beam of sunlight from the window. Rei wrapped his hands around his waist and lifted to hear a tearing sound. Sighing, he looked and saw that in his sleep, Naruto had dug his claws into the mats, again. "You spoiled kit," Rei said to him though he knew it wasn't true. During the month he had been in Uzu, Naruto had been doing everything he could to be a good grandchild. Lifting him up, naruto hung there limply, completely out of energy. Setting him in his bed, Rei walked back to the den where his wife was.

"Poor dear," Deis said, "still so tired."

"Yeah but he is getting more energy with each day, he should be fine soon. You know, he is eight."

"Yes," Deis agreed. "Still some time before we start training him."

"What do you think he should be? A mage, warrior, rouge, or a ninja?"

"We'll see tomorrow and there is no hurry. He can start training in two years." Deis fluttered her wings before getting up and smiling at her husband. She sat jumped up into his arms, wrapping her arms around his neck. "I love you dear."

"I love you," Rei said to her.

"I still remember you being that small," she said, resting her head on his shoulder. "You even were furred the same back then." She rubbed her head into his exposed, fur covered chest.

"I remember too, it was the first time I ever saw you."

She nodded, "Yeah, you had just begun changing and you were playing king of the mountain with several other boys."

"Yeah, I looked up and there you were sitting on a swing, looking sad. I couldn't believe it was actually you, thee Ryu Deis, there at our park. Every boy there was hoping to impress you one day. The most beautiful woman in Uzu, all of us wanted to hold your attention even if just a moment."

Deis smiled, "You came up to me and asked so kindly if you could do something to make me feel better. I said no because it was the anniversary of my late husband's wedding. Then I made the comment on that he always gave me a bouquet of flowers on this day and what did you do?"

"I went and picked some wild flowers and gave them to you. And you gave me a kiss."

Deis blushed, "I felt so guilty, like I was planning on doing something very wrong with you. So, as you grew up, I tried to distant myself from you."

"But I was a persistent brat that refused to accept defeat. And when I turned fifteen, we shared our first real kiss," he said before recreating it. So long ago, and he was in his late forties now. As a Uzumaki prince, he wouldn't reach middle-age until he was in his sixties, living until a hundred and twenty or thirty easy. And yet, you could tell he was getting old. He didn't have the agility he once had. He could run thirty miles a day, no energy enhancing him, just five years ago. Now, he's slipped to twenty eight. And yet, looking at his beautiful wife as she clung to him, he literally saw the same perfect woman as back then. She wasn't even middle-age. She would live long pass his line in all likelihood. He would grow old and frail and she wouldn't and yet, bless her, she would stay with him until the end. He stood up, still holding her in his arms. "You know what else?"

"What, dear husband?"

"I still love you as much as back then and I'm still young enough to care for children, babies included and Naruto does need siblings."

"Oh," she said in mock surprise. "Help, this brute is carrying me away to have his wicked way with me." Rei just smirked and licked her cheek with his slightly rough tongue as he made his way to their bedroom. She shivered as she remembered just what that tongue could do, and she doesn't even need to think about how dexterous his tail is. She blushed deep red, thinking about how the rest of the day and night was going to go. "I love you too, my husband, and your right, Naruto does." She kissed him and used her wing to shut the door behind them. The next sound was her giggling which led on into the night.

—oo000oo—

"Ojii-san," Naruto said, looking at the stuff in the room his grandfather brought him too. "What is this?"

"By tradition, Naruto, all princes and princesses must learn to fight to preserve our fighting spirit," Rei told him. "The Uzumaki clan have always gone the ways of those that optimizes our natural flexibility and agility. Today, we are going to see what best suits you and which you want to learn."

"Did mom have to do this?"

"No, she wanted to though. She chose to be a ninja but that isn't all there is you can choose."

Naruto looked at all the equipment there, "What all is there?"

"Ninjas, warriors, rouges, are the first. But, as you are also your grandmother's grandson, meaning you are related to the Ryu clan, you are also likely to have a high affinity to magic. Mages, black, white, blue, and red." Naruto stared at him blankly. "Okay, a black mage refers to those that uses spells to hurt. White mages, or priest, mostly use their's to heal, though they don't always. A blue mage is one that uses the abilities of the enemy they've fought, monkey see, monkey do. A red mage is a mix of a black and a priest, skilled in both, masters in none."

Naruto sat down on floor, crossing his legs. "...Is there a mix of a mage and a melee fighter?"

"No, armor often interferes with spell casting."

"But I though that Uzumaki don't wear armor to make the most out of their speed and agility?"

Rei nodded after a moment. "They do, though I can think of no profession that will let you."

"They are called Spellblades," Deis said to him. "Very dangerous, but very hard to get that good. Are you sure you want to, Naruto?"

"Yeah, that sounds good."

"Okay," Rei replied, "but before we get you training on that, and that will be in two years, Naruto, we first have to get you ready for it. Physical training, an hour a day, five days a week. Plus, we need to build up your flexibility so we will spend a half hour stretching and getting you used to using your tail to do a few things."

"Yes, grandfather."

"First though, we need to check your dexterity to see if you can," he said before pulling out a money bag and grabbing two coins. "Flip these into the air, one on each hand, and catch them."

"Okay," Naruto said before doing as he said. Both went up and Naruto easily tracked them as they fell, catching them. "That was easy."

"Oh, you think so?" Rei placed two more coins in his palms. "Again." Naruto shifted his fingers until they rested on his thumbs again and flipped them into the air. Naruto lost track of one as it flipped behind his head. He caught the first one, then the second. He reach out and grabbed the third. And something told him where the fourth one was, right behind his neck. Naruto spun around and caught it. "Well now, not bad. Think you can handle six?"

"Uh...I don't know," Naruto replied, still confused as to how he knew that one was there.

"Here, let me show you," Rei said before pulling out ten coins and rolling them up his fingers until they sat atop each other and Rei closed his eyes before flipping them in the air. He caught them all effortlessly.

"WOW! How did you know where they were!?"

"I did because I listened for them. You heard it to, when one was behind you."

"I did?" Naruto blinked and tried to focus on his hearing to make it that sharp again.

"Don't worry, you'll get trained in that too and I'll say you're done when you can do that too."

Naruto smiled, excited about doing something new. "I can't wait!" His grandparents also smiled at his enthusiasm.

—oo000oo—

"Grandfather! How am I supposed to get out," Naruto wined as he was locked inside a restraining device. It wrapped around his upper chest, holding his arms against his chest. It was also chained to the ground.

"You do it by thinking, Naruto," Rei explained. "We aren't human, we are woren, this is to start you thinking like one. Now, get out of it."

"But how? My hands are inside."

"Think my boy," Rei said. "Your hands maybe bound and your feet can't reach the release, but is that all your limbs?"

Naruto stared at him as his grandfather's tail came up over his shoulder carrying a dagger. "Ooooh," Naruto said, looking to his tail. Looking down at his chest, he didn't see the release. "So...its on my back?"

"Yes." Naruto's tail went on the shell, trying to feel for it. Rei frowned when Naruto was feeling for it with the tip so he brushed the fur a ways from it, making him stop. "Naruto, no need to go with just the tip, your whole tail feels. A single swipe from all your tail will find it."

"Okay grandfather." Naruto pressed his tail to it on one side and swept across. Hitting the lever, his tail wrapped around it and pulled it down. The latches released and it fell off. Naruto stood up, looked at it, and then to his grandfather proudly.

"Well done Naruto," Rei said to him. "Now, we will keep doing that, up to an hour a week, and they will get more complicated with each one you do."

"Yes grandfather," Naruto replied.

"That's all for today, Naruto, go play." Seeing him run off, Rei smiled and went to see his wife. "He does well."

"Of course," she replied without looking up from the lunch she was making. "He is our grandson. Even with just a month of training and he is farther than expected. Just imagine what he'll be when he's older." She turned around and kissed her husband.

He returned it and looked her over. "You're glowing," he stated.

"Am I," she asked cheekily.

"You are."

"Can't imagine why," she replied, still smiling. She just wrapped her arms around his neck and began kissing him.

Rei was returning them when they heard, "Ew," come from Naruto when he walked in. He sighed and said, "Naruto, you'll understand when you're older."

"Nope, never," he denied. "I don't like girl and I never will!"

Deis chuckled and went to him. "I'm hurt, Naruto, I'm a girl."

"But your different," Naruto said, hugging her. "I can like you."

"That's good," Deis said, returning the hug. "Naruto, how would you like to call us mother and father instead of grandmother and grandfather?"

Naruto looked at her confused, "Why?"

"Well, we are those to you. Also, wouldn't it be a little odd to have an aunt or uncle younger than you?"

Naruto looked confused, "but I don't have an aunt or uncle."

"Not yet," Deis replied, "but in about eight months, you will."

"Thought so," Rei said, happy. "Naruto, will you call us tou-san and kaa-chan?"

Naruto looked to him and then back to his grandmother. "Alright," he said, smiling. He hugged his grandmother again and said it to try it out. "Kaa-chan."

—oo000oo—

"Focus, Naruto," Rei said to his grandson. Right now, Naruto was blindfolded, learning to use his other senses to replace his sight. Today, he was dodging between four swinging logs that made plenty of groaning. His hearing was helpful but he had yet to realize that they each had a unique scent on them that Naruto could also track. This was the core of Uzumaki defense. They were a strong but rather frail people, and as such, used their speed to stay ahead of their enemies. Kushina proved that as in her latter part of her career, she was never hit once. Naruto wasn't that good but he learned fast. He stove to complete his training and his energy and enthusiasm was taking him far but at times, he needed it spelled out. No surprise, he did too. Rei chuckled as he remember what it took for him to finally get it. "Stop," he said to Naruto and the person pulling the levers. "Naruto, I know whats wrong with you now."

"What," he asked, rubbing his sore shoulder.

"Sometimes the change is so much stronger from how a person was, their senses are overloaded. It was for me, I bet it is for you. Now, what I had to do was work up to building my senses razor sharp and working in harmony. So, that is what we will do with you." He pulled the blindfold down a little to clear his forehead. "I am going to write a seal between your eyes. It is going to block out all but your hearing. You won't taste, you won't feel, you won't smell." He drew it, making Naruto shiver a little at the sudden change. Placing his hand on Naruto's shoulder, he said, "Do you feel anything?"

"No, tou-san." He then gave him a forceful pact on the back. "That time I did."

"The seal cuts of signals from your body to the surfaces, tongue and nose included. Only things you feel on the inside, such as hearing and pressure from a hit, will bit registered. Two logs, nice and slow. Build him up to it." He moved Naruto back to the training spot and motioned them to start once more. It took a few minutes but Naruto was able to separate them and be able to duck. When finally he was just stepping out of the way, Rei motioned them to begin moving faster. Naruto continued until his hour was up. "Very good, son, now, we'll go get you a bath and get something to eat." He broke the seal before patting him on the back to go ahead.

"Yes Tou-san," Naruto said before running off. He just got inside when he heard a familiar laugh. "Auntie Deis!" Both his grandmother and Deis looked at him.

"How's my favorite squirt," she said, catching him in her arms before hugging him to her chest. "Oh, you really are too cute!" She held him in front of her, grinning. "I just heard you're going to be a big brother."

"I am," Naruto said, excited. "...I just don't know why I have to wait eight months." The two women looked at each other blankly, having forgotten that Naruto was as innocent as they came.

"Well, you see..." the sorceress said, wondering how to explain this. "Uh, Deis-chan?"

"You don't know, Auntie Deis?"

"I know," she said, thinking about pass ventures that almost gave her first hand knowledge. "Well, why not, you're very mature, Naruto, I'll tell you, that is if Deis-chan doesn't mind."

"Well, very well."

"Okay," she said, turning back to the boy as she set him down. "And, Naruto, you can call me Bleu, or auntie Bleu. Saves trouble from confusing us. Now, let me see." She looked out the window at a tree and pulled an acorn from it. "Naruto, see this tree?"

"Yes, Auntie Bleu."

"This tree was once very, very small. In fact, it was an acorn like this." Naruto looked from the seed in her hand to the giant looking oak. "That acorn came from another tree."

"Okay, but why do I have to wait to get my little brother or sister?"

"I'm getting to that," Bleu told him, poking his nose. "Before an acorn can become a tree it has to grow to a certain point. Understand?"

"Yes. But how do acorns and trees have anything to do with my baby sister?"

"Oh, a baby sister," Bleu said at his sure voice.

"I just know," Naruto said.

"Well then, just like an acorn, you needed to grow before you could become you. And you had to do that inside you're mother's tummy."

"So...my sister is inside kaa-san's tummy," Naruto reasoned.

"Yes she is," Bleu said, patting him on the back for understanding so well.

"Oh...how did she get there?"

Both women bristled, "How did she get there," Bleu repeated.

"Yeah, kaa-san didn't have any since mommy so they don't just start growing, do they?"

"...No, something has to happen first."

"What does?"

"What does? Well, you see...that is a subject for your mother to explain," she said hastily, handing him to Deis. "Well, Deis-chan, congratulations! Bye!" Naruto watched her vanish in a flash of light, looked down to his grandmother's stomach, then up to her face.

"Um, Well, Naruto, sometimes...when a man and woman loves each other... Actually, this is a subject for your father to tell."

"Okay," Naruto said, confused. "I need to go take a bath, kaa-san." He got down and left ut not before looking at her tummy again and saying, "Hello little sister."

Deis watched him go before falling into her chair, tired. "He shouldn't be asking questions like that."

"Asking what questions," Rei asked her as he entered from putting the training tool away.

"He asked how his 'little sister' got in my stomach."

Rei blinked, "Did you tell him?"

"No! I'm not going to tell my sweet, innocent Naruto something like that!"

"You're not?"

"I'm not! You are!"

"I am?" He shrugged, he saw no problem with tell him. "Okay, I will when I go wash his hair." He gave her a kiss. "Which I should be doing right about..."

"Ah! There's bubbles everywhere," Naruto called from the bathroom.

"Now. Too much soup, Naruto. I'm coming." He picked Naruto up as he came running out and took him back in. As he helped him out of his clothes, he said, "Naruto, remember those books?"

"The ones the Old Man reads, I do."

"Do you know what they are about?"

"Yeah, six."

Rei chuckled, "Actually, its called sex. Do you know anything about it?"

"Well, a man takes his...you know, and puts it in the woman...somewhere. It's supposed to feel really good."

"It does, but that isn't the reason behind it. The reason behind it is so that a child can be born, but it doesn't work all the time, in fact it often doesn't. Only during certain times of the month."

"Oh," Naruto replied, "why didn't kaa-san just say so?"

"She didn't want her little Naruto to change," Rei told him, rubbing his hair.

"Nope, I'm still me. Cannonball!" Naruto jumped in the giant bath, making Rei laugh at him. Rei honestly wasn't surprised, Naruto was born and grew in a ninja village. He was bound to know at least something.

—oo000oo—

Deis tucked Naruto into bed that night. "I love you, my little Naruto."

"I love you, kaa-san," Naruto said, giving her a good night kiss. "Kaa-san, will you marry me?"

She smiled at him and said, "I'm already taken, Naruto, you're too late. But I'm sure you'll find the perfect girl for you. How about Din from the Sora clan?"

"Yuck, I don't like girls," Naruto protested.

"What about Ayame from Konoha?"

"Ayame isn't a girl, nope, nope!"

Deis smiled at him and rubbed her forehead against his. "You'll see. Goodnight."

"Good...night," Naruto said around a yawn.

Naruto fell asleep and Deis closed the door behind her. All was quiet when a man with yellow glowing eyes poked his head through the window. "Finally the mother hen leaves."

"Didn't think she ever would." The man slipped over, revealing his body was half black and half white. Carefully picking Naruto up so he wouldn't wake, he sunk into the floor and vanished.

Deis wasn't even in her room when she felt several of the many wards she placed around the house go off. Rei felt it as well as he came running out of his study on all fours along with several others of the Uzumaki clan. She reached Naruto's room first and saw what looked like the tips of a Venus fly-trap disappear. "NARUTO!"

Rei had lunged at the figure, just missing clawing him. "I want him him found," he roared. "Mages from the Ryu and the Sora clan, priest from the Rand, I don't care what it takes, the Dragon God himself, find them!" All the princes and princesses of the clan came in, took a deep sniff of the intruders scent, and ran outside through the window. Not long later, Rei's sister and also a princess, Rinpu came into the room.

"Brother, the intruder appeared through something similar to one of the Grassmen's earth travel."

Rei growled, gripping his fist so hard, his claws dug into his hand. "Order all available warriors to grab their combat gear. Inform the other clans that the Uzumaki clan soldiers will be gone fore however long it takes to get Naruto back!"

Deis wiped away the tears she was shedding before standing up, growling. "I will wipe Konoha from existence," she said, getting ready to fly off and destroy it."

"Wait, sister," Rinpu said to her. "This was no Konoha ninja. This reeks of Kusa." Deis snarled at the name. "Remember, you still have seals and wards on him. Scry him out and we will claim him and the lives of those that dare take my grand nephew."

Deis took a deep breath. "It will take an hour, have everyone ready by then." She walked outside and threw her hand wide, slash marks appearing in the soil. A dozen more and she stood in the center of a giant map of the Elemental Continent. She began chanting, connecting to her grandchild and a large light appeared outside of Ho no Kuni. It would take a while to pinpoint him though. God help them if Naruto was harmed before she got him back.

—oo000oo—

"Too easy," Zetsu said, placing the child on the floor. "Now, we will have one of the tailed beast to take Ame as well."

Pain looked to the boy, frowning. He had been happy to learn that Naruto was no longer in one of the great five ut now that he saw him, it almost felt wrong to do that to him. He was only a child, maybe even younger than when he had his parents taken from him. "...Is this right," muttered Konan. "He's just a boy."

"Don't forget," Madara said to them. "He also has one of the tailed beast. To complete our plans, he will have to die sooner or later. Starting now will decrease the number of deaths. With only the six of us, it will take ten days."

"Ku ku ku," Orochimaru laughed. "So, this is the real face of the Uzumaki. I must say, they were hiding an impressive Kekkei Genkai. Don't you agree, Kisame."

"Hardly," the shark man replied. "Let's begin." They took their place on the fingers of that statue and started the jutsu. They stood there for several second with nothing happening. "Zetsu...if you got the wrong boy, I am going to kill you."

"This is him, I swear it! I've watching him since he left Konoha!"

"He is correct," Orochimaru confirmed. "I remember his face and eyes. Could something..." They looked to Naruto as he got up, still half asleep, walked around feeling for a door, found the bathroom, came out after flushing, and felt around for his bed.

Then they saw him put his nose to the air and lick his lips. "Mmm, tuna," he said sleepily, his nose pointed at Kisame. Kisame jumped down, pressing the flat of Samehada against his head.

Nothing, no draining of demonic chakra. "You idiot! He is a far cry from AH!" He glared at Naruto who had bit his arm in his sleep. "I'll kill this cat!" He was about to cleave him in half when Konan grabbed Naruto and glared at the swordsman.

"You will do no such thing! Zetsu, is it possible that you are mistaken?"

Zutsu looked at Naruto confused. "They called him Naruto while I was there, I memorized his face in Konoha, I don't see how!"

"...Regardless, this isn't him," Konan said. "We have best return him before the Uzumaki notice him missing and come looking for him. We don't need dozens, maybe hundreds like Kushina or worst, her mother coming after us for revenge."

Naruto shook his head, "Kaa-san? What's that noise?" Naruto yawned and looked to the woman holding him. "...Who are you? Are you from the Sora?"

"Uh...Yes," Konan replied. "We made a mistake and got you. We'll be taking you back home shortly. Can you be a good boy and go back to sleep until then?"

"No...need," Naruto said, yawning, "I'll walk home." He smacked his lips, "...Have I been eating fish?" He followed the scent of blood to a man that was holding a large sword and was glaring at him.

"Kid, I swear I should..."

"I said, you will do nothing," Konan shouted at him. "You will leave this boy alone!"

"Tobi thinks this is funny," he said, sitting down on the finger and grabbing some popcorn. A large crack of thunder and he dropped the bag.

"I don't," growled Deis as she glared at everyone there, especially the woman holding her grandchild, along with over a hundred Uzumaki warriors.

Naruto looked to his grandmother and smiled. "Kaa-san, you came to walk me back?"

Rei walked forward, holding silver looking daggers that glowed dangerously. "You will unhand my grandson now, woman, before I remove the offending limbs for you."

Naruto looked at him confused. "Tou-san? Why are you mad? It was just a miscast spell. Besides, she was nice to me and kept the mean fish away."

"She did," Deis asked, looking from him to the woman as she swallowed the lump in her throat. She glared at everyone else there, especially the one in the orange mask. "Capture the woman, lock her in the dungeon."

"Kill the rest of them," Rei ordered.

"That would be unwise," Madara said, appearing next to Naruto with a dagger to his throat. "If you want your precious grandchild alive, you will tell us where the Nine Tails is." Naruto stared at the dagger, scared out of his mind.

"Naruto," Rei said calmingly. "Stay calm, just like I trained you to."

Naruto nodded. "Now, where is it," Madara asked again, not noticing Naruto's tail slip into a pouch on cloak and grab a kunai. "I'm losing my patAH!" He jumped and looked at the kunai slammed into his side as Naruto grabbed the woman's hand and tried to pull her away.

"Come on, nice lady, kaa-san is really mad!"

When Madara tried to follow him, an invisible barrier blocked his path. "He's right," Deis said, walking forward, her magic ring glowing with the awaiting release of several magic spells, "I am very mad!" She spread her wings wide and grew until she was a dragon larger than the statue. "And you are all going to die!"

Madara looked up at her even as the Uzumaki warriors surged forward, weapons leading. "You know, Tobi believes now is a good time to leave." He was about to phase out of there when Deis slammed her foot down, making a barrier cover all the walls. Madara hit the wall and bounced around the room several times before slamming into the wrist of the right statue hand. "Not good."

Kisame swung the Samehada around rapidly, trying to keep the Uzumaki warriors away. "He's mine," Rei shouted.

"So, the big man steps up," Kisame taunted.

"You threatened my grandchild?"

"I did."

"You die painfully then. Get the others, new orders, capture them all if possible. They will live to regret this a thousand times over."

"Sounds fun," Kisame said, grinning before swinging the zanbatou at him. Rei jumped over the slash and over Kisame's back, cutting deep wounds in him.

"Doesn't sound fun anymore, does it," Rinpu shouted before joining her brother. She didn't have a weapon, she wore boots with spiked scales. She kicked Kisame across the face, grating his cheek. She followed up by a roundhouse kick that when Kisame somehow duck, broke a portion of the statue. Kisame looked from it to the woman and man that were charging him again.

Pain jumped back, "Shinra Tensai!" A dozen of the warriors were thrown back into the wall. Even then, he was still surrounded. A sword was pushed through his waist before he grabbed the wielder and threw her aside. "Shinra Tensai!" He shot up into the air while the warriors on the ground were all knocked from their feet. He came back to the ground to find the sisters Mina and Nina within his swing, about to drive wrist blades into his chest and back. They were stopped by the arrival of his other bodies.

Zetsu had split in two and were trying to hold them off as well as possible. They were covering many with their absorption spores and yet they ignored them as most didn't use chakra. Tiga, the captain of the guard, pounced onto his black half, trying to remove his head with his katana. The spore that was on him grew a head and held him back. The white side in the mean time was trying to fight back the dozens that were trying to swarm both halves.

Orochimaru flipped over the pair that lunged at him and breathed a ball of fire at him only to hit a barrier. Cursing while in the air, he spun around, dodging the staff that would have crushed his skull. He pushed back with his legs, connecting with the head of him and breaking his neck. Only for one of the others to kneel by him and press a white glowing hand to his chest, making the bone mend. "They have medics, just perfect," he growled as snakes shot from his sleeves, grabbing and biting six each arm. He jerked as several arrowed hit his open chest. One of the clan princess notched another arrow in a bladed bow and pointed it at him head. "I was supposed to learn all the jutsu of the world..."

Konan watched as slowly the Uzumaki pushed them back. "No! Stop! This isn't what's supposed to happen! We're supposed to bring peace, not destroy it!" She slammed her fist against the barrier as she shouted and a the few Uzumaki on this side grabbed her.

Naruto watched wincing with each injury. "Stop." Orochimaru pulled an Uzumaki into the path of the arrow meant for his head. "Stop." Pain tried to summon summon his monsters only for that body to be impaled on a broadsword. "Enough violence..." Deis breathed out a breath of lighting that reflected off the barriers and Uzumaki but not Akasuki. "Stop!" Kisame slashed his aunt across the stomach, leaving her screaming while Rei had jumped on his back, about to stab his heart. Everywhere there was blood and pain. "STOP IT!" He didn't know what it was that came out but once it did, it didn't stop. Everyone grabbed their ears in pain as even the barriers shattered. "Stop fighting! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! NO MORE!" He stood there panting as everyone looked at him in shock. Growing light headed, his eyes rolled up in the back of him and he fell to the ground, muttering, "No more blood..."

—oo000oo—

Naruto's eyes fluttered open to see the ceiling of his room. "What happened," he said in a raspy voice.

"Its okay," Deis said, taking off a cold damp cloth from his forehead. "You've been asleep for a a few days."

"What..."

"We said you could become a mage," she told him. "You wanted us to stop so bad you forced a spell out even without training. Don't do that again, Naruto, it could have killed you."

"But it had to stop," Naruto groaned. "She was going to take me back."

"So she has said," Deis agreed.

"Are they..."

"Some got away, some didn't," she said. "Get some rest, Naruto. You must need it."

"But what about the nice lady?"

"She's in the dungeon, fine. She did protect you so she won't be harmed. Kisame on the other hand will be returned to Kiri for execution."

"Kaa-san, don't."

"Naruto, he isn't being sent for you or even what he did to Rinpu. He is being sent because he is a murderer and enjoys it. Get some rest," she said before saying to words for a sleep spell to settle over him. She stepped away, feeling exhausted as she hadn't slept at all since he was taken. Zetsu had slipped away as well as Orochimaru, half of the Pain bodies, and Tobi or Madara or whatever he calls himself. Kisame hadn't escaped her husband's wrath and the priest were wondering if he would even make it being moved to the torture table. While Konan was in a cell locked with seals to prevent chakra, magic, and even kekkei genkai. When she tried to change into paper to get free, the cell locked down so that not even air could escape, making her fall unconscious in minutes. She hadn't harmed anyone, especially Naruto, that was why she was even alive. She stepped up to the bar door to Konan. "He's awake and worried about everyone in the fight, including you."

"He has a kind heart," Konan stated. "Why did he stop the fight though?"

"You were going to return him, he saw no reason for it. We both know that it wasn't a sure thing that he would return alive though."

Konan sighed. "I would have tried my best."

"Now, why are they after the Kyuubi," Deis demanded but she remained silent. "Don't talk, it doesn't matter. But if they ever come near my grandchild again, the first place I will come is here. I may have told Naruto that Kisame is going back to Kiri but he isn't, his sword is. My husband and his sister have sworn to do things to him for the rest of his life that will have him screaming in the first twenty seconds. Eventually, he will talk, but I doubt he knows all. You though, seems the knight, not the pawn."

Deis walked away, leaving Konan to her thoughts. She had never before seen such power and rage. She didn't know what held her here but it was more powerful than she imagine. That Kisame and three Pains, including Deva, could fall scared her. And they had stayed here peacefully until they stirred the hornet's nest. Few people had ever even heard of Uzu no Kuni but now, they were never going to stop looking for the others. And she would live through it, all because she couldn't see a child die. Poetic justice or payback?

She lost track of the days, not sure at first she would keep her promise but then, in the middle of the night long after she forgot the time, she heard the screams. She hadn't lied, Kisame was in hell. And she would stay there until they others were dead or she was.

—oo000oo—

"Milady," Tiga said, trying to get her to be reasonable, "I swear to you."

"She is responsible as well," Deis replied. Reis was sitting back, listening to the arguments they made about the woman's fate.

"After all the time I've spent at the prisons, I know evil, I can feel it. It may have touched but it doesn't rule her. We know that she just wanted the wars to stop."

"And to do that, she was willing to sacrifice Naruto!"

"No, she wasn't! Even Kisame said she tried to stall it. She deserves a new chance."

"And I should give it to her," Deis growled. "Why?"

"Because Naruto doesn't want her to hurt," Tiga told her.

Rei stood up. "Alright, Tiga, she will get her second chance."

"Thank you, my lord," Tiga said, bowing.

"Deis, can you ask Bleu to help you with a spell?"

"I can but which one?"

"Erase her memory, change her body." Rei said, looking at a painting of their honored ancestor, even older than the hero Katt. The first hero of the Woren Tribe, Shalula the Panther. It was a woman with purple fur, ears far longer than any other woren, long yellow hair, and red flames woven into clothing that covered her body. "We will make her into an Uzumaki and take responsibility."

"...Yes, husband," Deis said, lowering her face.

"She has been nothing but respectful," Rei reminded her. "And do you doubt Naruto?"

"...No, he trust her, I will too, enough to do this and let her prove herself." She and Tiga left to do what was needed.

—oo000oo—

Konan stretched and stood up. "Wake up, girl," the innkeeper said, knocking on the door to her room. "It's time."

"I'm coming, I'm coming." She had never expected that she, one of the distant Uzumaki members, would become one of the princesses of the clan. She pulled on some pants and shirt and walked out. Winthrop, one of the Rand tribe looked at her as she did.

"Oh no, Deis, Rei, and their child themselves are coming here to pick you up," he told his ward. "You are wearing that dress."

Konan sighed, "Yes, Winthrop." She went back in and got it out of her drawer. Though it was fine looking, she didn't like it. She liked wearing pants and looking like a boy. She looked down at her body, not that she could hide it anymore. Purple fur covered her body and she had grown a bit in certain areas as well, though she was still only eight.

"Make sure to shower and brush your hair," Winthrop called before heading to the front.

"Yes, Winthrop." She loved the man, she did, but he was too picky. Well, in somethings. He took her in, a nameless orphan until two weeks ago when she started changing.

At the front, Winthrop looked to the door the girl was behind. It still amazed him even after a month that they remade her so completely renew. Her memories were gone except the feelings they made. Her body rebuilt except the way she moved. Somewhere inside she was the same, they changed none of her personality and yet, even Deis, who had to biggest reason to dislike her, found the girl sweet and endearing. She was supposed to stay here but she had been forgiven and was to truly join the Uzumaki. "Ah, Lady and Lord Uzumaki, and of course Prince Naruto as well, a pleasure to meet you."

"And you," Rei said for them. "Tell me, where is Konan?" No one but those involved knew who Konan had been, not even Naruto.

"In back, getting ready. I wanted her to make a big impression."

At that, Konan came out of her room, dragging a brush through her hair, trying to force it through the knots. "Winthrop, can you help...EEK!" She went back in and slammed the door, completely surprised.

"I'll get her," Naruto said before bounding forward and knocking on her door. "Konan?"

"Yes?"

"Can I help you?"

A moment of silence. "Alright," she said, opening the door and letting Naruto in. "Just gently pull it down my hair. Oh, I'm so embarrassed."

Naruto started at the bottom and worked his way up. "No worries, tou-san and kaa-chan understand."

Rei looked to Winthrop. "Has she been any trouble at all?"

"No. She's courteous, helpful, and kind to everyone. There will be those that are sad to see her go."

"Would that include you, old man," Konan said, smirking.

A vein throbbed on his forehead. "Me, I'm glad to see the rodent leave! Get going already you pest!"

"I'll miss you ouch!" She sent a glare at the brush when Naruto pulled a painful knot free.

"Sorry," Naruto said quickly.

Deis walked over and took the brush. "Go shower, dear, it'll be easier with your hair wet." Konan nodded, grabbed her dress from her room, and went to the bathroom. "So, what do you think of her?"

"She's okay...for a girl," Naruto walking back behind her.

"You say that now," Winthrop muttered. "When she gets bored, she's a terror."

Naruto looked at him and smiled, "Really?"

"Yeah. And don't get me started on what she does for revenge. This snob once stayed here and insulted her. She tie-dyed his clothes." He found Naruto grinning all the wider. "Uh, I take it that he is a little terror too?"

"Not often," Deis said, picking Naruto up. "But when he gets really bored..." She kissed his forehead.

Not long later, Konan came out wearing the dress and her hair brushed. "I'm ready." She grabbed a piece of paper and with a flick of her wrist, it was folded into an origami flower that she put in her hair.

"That was cool! Can you show me how? Can you, can you!?"

"Well, maybe...let me think... Hmm, no."

"Aw, come on, please?"

Konan turned around and started walking backwards ahead of them. "Now why would I teach a little putty-tat like you that?"

"I'll get you for that!"

"Nya nya!" The two started running around, always with Konan a step ahead of Naruto, taunting him. She even climbed up a tree and sat on a branch above him. "Nya!" she laughed, holding up a hand like a paw to her cheek.

"Might have over did it just a bit," Rei mused. "Alright you animals, stop the rough housing."

"Do we have to," they whined.

"Yes, you have to," Deis told them. "We need to get Konan home and have her meet her guardians."

"Alright," they said dejectedly before falling in beside them. Though they did keep making faces at the other.

"Rinpu and Tiga are going to have hell keeping her in line," Rei said, scratching his cheek.

—oo000oo—

"Sarutobi," the Raikage Bii E' said to him.

"Bii," Sarutobi said, nodding.

Yagura, the Mizukage, looked to the diminuative Tsuchikage, "I see you survived another year, Onoki."

"The world isn't lucky enough for me to die."

"Let's get this over with," Sabaku, the Kazekage, said to them all.

Mifune, the leader of Tetsu no Kuni, sat down in his chair. "This summit is, once again, a meeting of the Kage's once every decade, to discuss matters of concern between the villages."

"I have a matter," a man said, walking into the room, making the guards all tense.

"And who are you," Mifune asked.

Yagura swallowed. "He is Ryu Dorogan, the head of the Ryu clan of Uzu and the leader of the Uzu military, their Uzukage if you will."

"I am," Dorogan said, standing straight. On his back were four black dragon wings and a tail. "I am here because some matters have forcibly drawn the attention of my home. Like the mistreatment of those that are different or with a bloodline," he looked to Yagura, "the abuse of Jinchuuriki," he looked to Sarutobi and then Sabaku, "and the kidnapping of one of my countries' own princes done by missing ninja from Ame, Kiri, Konoha, and Kusa. Though the boy was returned, it is clearly obvious. Uzu has kept to itself for far too long."

"What is your point, boy," Onoki siad to him.

"I should be calling you that," Dorogo said to him. "I was alive when the Rikudo Sennin sealed the Ten Tails away, I saw his Rinnigan. One of the kidnappers had that as well. You ninja are growing to wild without someone to keep you in line."

"And you mean to do that," Bii asked.

"If I must." From the still open door, Uzumaki Rei, Sora Aoi, a blond haired woman with black feathered wings and the head of the Sora clan, and Rand Althor, a ten foot tall Shell clan member and clan head of the Rand clan, stepped up beside him. "This is your warning, gentlemen, Uzu has returned." He was the first to leave, followed by Aoi, then Althor. Rei glared at Sarutobi a moment longer before leaving last.

Sarutobi couldn't help but notice the large red spiral on the woren's back. "Well, that was utterly a waste of time," Sabaku said.

"No, it wasn't," Yagura said, a little shaken. "...I have much to discuss with my council when I return to Kiri."

"Why? So the whelp killed one of your missing ninja," Onoki dismissed.

"It was just two members of the Uzumaki clan that captured him, and that missing ninja was Kisame of the Seven Swordsmen," Yagura told them, making the old man gape.

Sarutobi hesitated. "I myself have had a recent run in with an Uzumaki. A single woman came to my village and nearly killed me in search of answers of her grandson's harsh treatment in Konoha."

Bii scoffed. "I will not be threatened."

"It wasn't a threat," Mifune told them. "It was a warning that they are taking an interest in the world again."

"So," Bii demanded. "Why should I care?"

"Did you not see the four that stood there," Yagura shouted, slamming his palm down on the table. "Those wings weren't for show! I have seen the Sora fly with eagles! I have seen a Ryu transform into a dragon! I have seen the Rand roll right over people in fights, completely overpowered! And I have seen the Uzumaki destroy their opponents!"

"Oh, when," Sabaku asked.

"Remember seventeen years ago, the Tournament of Champions? It was held in Uzu."

"I remember," Bii muttered. "Invitation only, I wasn't invited."

"I was," Yagura told them. "I fought in it and I lost. I was beaten by a woman with flaming red hair, four years my junior. Uzumaki Kushina, the daughter of that tiger looking man, Uzumaki Rei."

"No wonder he hates me," Sarutobi muttered. "I suggest we reconvene tomorrow, there is much to think about."

"I agree," Mifune said. "This will change things and I must meditate on how," the samurai told them. Onoki wanted to say no but even he admitted the strength of Hoshigaki Kisame and that any one or even two was able to kill him was something to take serious. "We will meet again tomorrow." He stood up and waited for the ninja to leave. "...So, the Dragon Clan has returned."

—oo000oo—

Author's Notes: Konan was an in the moment inspiration. For some odd reason, I never seem able to kill her. So, when I need someone of Akatsuki to survive, she is it. Don't worry, it will begin to focus in on Naruto's adventures soon.