"Hatake I'm disappointed with the lack of progress on your squad. With those three you should be at the top when compared to the other rookie teams, you are last."

"Mah, they are advancing as fast as they can but they still don't grasp the necessity of teamwork." The lazy jounin

"That's not good enough. Inoichi has gone over their profiles and prepared a suitable course of action." The sandaime nodded towards a folder on his desk.

Kakashi picked up the folder and skimmed it's contents .

"It almost sounds as if you want me to prepare them for war, are you sure this is wise?" Hatake Kakashi as a senior jounin and veteran was one of a handful who ever dared to question his leader, which was not only strong but also considered extremely wise.

"No but with the loss of Naruto-kun I feel as if the precarious balance of the last decade is slowly tipping and we must make sure it falls in our favour. We can't afford to lose the Uchiha for any reason and if you must prepare him to be able to deal with his brother if they run in to each other then so be it. If he were to die I'm afraid that it wouldn't be long before others began to prod us."

It was dark and gloomy words from the sandaime but Kakashi understood it all too well, he wasn't happy that the one boy who rightfully should have been his student wasn't there. He owed his sensei to not only train him but make sure he was alright and it would seem he had failed both. Left was only his duty to the village.

They were interrupted by an older man with long white hair breaking in through the window.

"What's this about you losing my godson?"

"Hokage-sama, Jiraya-sama." Kakashi nodded to them both. "Tata!." And then he bailed.


It didn't take too long to recover, once C was done he had sat up. Both C and Yugito took off with Yugito once more apologizing. He sat there talking with B and J for a while before he stood up.

"Lets hurry I don't want to keep raikage-sama waiting!" He shouted as he started running towards the village.

"I'm sure that's the reason." J mumbled to himself as he went after the newly minted genin leaving killer B sitting alone with his rhymes.

Naruto was brimming with energy which was so weird after watching such a battle not even an hour ago but he wrote it off as excitement, he was afterall pricy to deal that had been struck as well as parts of Naruto's earlier life and it was to be expected that the boy was excited.

It was lucky that the guards situated inside and around the raikage's tower had been made aware of the probable arrival of Naruto as he sped inside and burst through the door to A's office.

"I fulfilled my part of the deal now it's your turn rairai!" And there went all the blood from J's face.

The mood moth inside and outside the office suddenly turned icecold. It was as if the time suddenly stood still. No one dared to speak in such a way to the raikage except B as he was the only person to be able to survive A's wrath.

A's serious face broke in a slightly feral grin as he started laughing, people could manage to breath again but only because there wouldn't be anyone dead, just most likely hurt and sent to the hospital.

"You got balls Naruto come inside my office and insult me." He said.

Naruto paled as he realised what he had done and bowed. "I apologise raikage-sama I must have hit my head or something earlier."

"Or something…" J said thinking of the battle.

"You are forgiven this once, I'm pleased to see that you have donned your hitai-ite. Once it has graced your forehead it marks you as one of us. You are now a Kumogakure shinobi, my soldier and out comrade."

"I consider myself a man of honour but honour is hard to come by in our world but between comrades it should always be upheld." He held Naruto's gaze firmly.

"It comes with both privileges and obligations to be one of my shinobi." He walked up to Naruto.

He held out his hand to Naruto which took it and they shook hands. The raikage's handshake was firm and immovable as a mountain yet with controlled strength to not crush the boys hand.

"You can tell a lot of a man from his handshake." He continued. "I'm glad that you live up to the what I've expected you."

He turned towards his desk and took up two folders and a small book.

"Your mother was a kunoichi serving Konoha belonging to the Uzumaki clan."

J looked at Naruto and saw that the boys attention was completely focused on raikage-sama and his words.

"Uzumaki…" He continued. "...hailed from the islands of the coast outside the land of fire. They were the founders of the village of Uzugakure. Allies of Konoha and cousins of the Senju they shared a blood bond with them as cousins of both Senju and Uchiha. That's the reason we know a fair bit about them."

He turned around and was pleased to see that the boys attention held.

"Their village was destroyed during the second shinobi war and your mother must have gone to Konoha sometime earlier and it wasn't long before she was the last Uzumaki that we knew of."

"It's not an accident that you are the jinchuuriki of the kyuubi as the Uzumaki comes from the strongest of blood and are gifted with a strong life force, far stronger than any other. Perfect vessels for holding back the might of the bijuus."

"We once sought in the aftermath of your clan's destruction to gather the remnants of the knowledge that they had possessed, mostly in the arts of sealing. We didn't find a lot but what we found has been a of great help for kanji division. If you ever want to learn more about that part of your heritage seek them out. I've given them instructions to allow you access to all information pertaining the Uzumaki."

Naruto was completely gobsmacked, he was being told about his family. They were no more but they sounded like total badasses.

"Before B became the current jinchuuriki we was plagued by the frequent rampages that hachibi brought upon us as there wasnät anyone strong enough to hold it's immense power."

He handed one thin folder to Naruto, he opened it up. It only contained two page and no images. At the top there was black marks and next to it it read redacted. The entire document was covered in black, leaving precious few words to be read. Mission: Secure and retrieve.

Priority: high. Orders: safe and unharmed. Target: Uzumaki Kushina. Completion status: Failure.

There was more blacked out text and the last word read Casualties: .

Naruto was confused and unsure how to deal with it, apparently the very village that he had sworn loyalty had once tried kidnap his mom. But at the same time A didn't try to hide it and while being educated here in Kumo he had been made well aware of the dark dealings the villages conducted as well as Kumogakure's attempts at gaining strength as well as protocols dealing with potential assets.

"Why are you telling me this? This seems to be highly classified." He was conflicted and unsure on how to handle this information, should he be angry, happy? It just felt so insignificant and irrelevant to him, like it didn't affect him.

"Because you will be expected to perform missions outside the village, sooner or later you will make a name for yourself and your presence and status as a jinchuuriki known to the other villages. When Konoha find out about your status as one of us it will shake things up and you are bound to come in contact with their shinobi at one point and they will most likely want you back."

He snorted at that.

"Any personal information pertaining you can be used against you and as I said I value honour but also in those instances that I can afford honesty."

He understood, A truly meant what he had said about him now belonging here and being one of their comrades. He was moved by it, he was accepted fully, not only by a few or maybe barely tolerated but here his burden and strength was seen as something to be proud of, he felt tears threatening to form and it was hard to keep his eyes from taking a wet shine as he looked at A and could only see a man that stood behind his words with his full might.

"Don't worry raikage-sama I wont dissapoint you dattebayo!"

"I'm sure you won't as long as you remain strong in both body and mind. Here in this folder is what we have on your mother, it's not much but our shinobi did battle with her several times and you might find it interesting." He opened the small book he also held. "'This is an old bingo book from the time of the last war and here is your mothers entry this is the only picture we that we have."

Naruto took both the folder and the book carefully, almost with a devout reference to the objects and for the first time of his life he knew what one of his parents looked like.


Naruto had left together with J, the folders clutched tight and the book in his pocket as they walked towards his home. There he had stashed them as J had taken him to a nearby bar. He had been told that he would have two days off for himself and then be prepared to be called for missions should he be needed. He would work alongside whoever was available when there was a suitable mission but it would also leave him with a lot of time to train by himself, with J when he was available and also Yugito and B to start him on the path of using kyuubi's power. They came to a small establishment in the middle of an open area. The building was round and cloth hang down from the roof. In the middle there was a round island with the people serving standing in the middle. The counter was separated by several dividers giving some privacy to the patrons and there were between two and four seats at each section. In the middle work area there was a small staircase from where the servers brought refreshments as well as snacks.

"Saker. two cups." J said as the server approached them. He then spoke to Naruto. "When I became genin my sensei took my team to share sake and I feel it is appropriate that we do too even if you are not on a team."

"Hai, I've never had sake I wonder what it tastes like."

"It can be a little rough if you are new to alcohol especially as you are so young, but remember to not overdo it when you drink as too much is bad for your health."

"But why would you drink then?"

"For many reason. Some like the taste, others for the effect of alcohol either to let loose, celebrate or forget. A lot of people make their own rituals around it and I make a point of always remember my allegiance."

"I can't wait to taste it." Naruto grinned and was rewarded by a small smile back.

They didn't have to wait long for two cups of warm sake to be served. Naruto mirrored his sensei as he took his cup and raised it slightly.

"Kanpai."

"Kanpai!"

They both drank, J savoured the warm liquid but Naruto quickly dumped it all down his gullet, and then started coughing. His reward was a knowing laugh from J.

"You could have warned me!" He pointed accusingly at J."

"I did tell you it could be a little rough."

"But why would anyone want to drink this?"

"As I told you they do it for many reason, some drink even stronger liqueur. It's an acquired taste and maybe when you are older you will too like it.".

Naruto contemplated on his words but decided that it wasn't something he wanted to pursue. Maybe there would be a time when he would want to but most definitely now.


It was a getting late in to the afternoon and time to consider getting some dinner. It had been a long and eventful day afterall. After splitting up from J he had gone to check of some new gear. After getting enamoured in ninja wrappings he had spent some time trying some out but they were annoying to drape around you, had constantly to be reapplied and he just couldn't picture himself in it after standing in the store watching himself in a mirror making an idiot out of himself.

He understood what J had said when he had mentioned that he wanted some cool sunglasses too but decided that it was for tomorrow as his stomach kept grumbling. He had gone to a place that served different sorts of noodles including ramen. It wasn't as good as Ichiraku but no ramen ever was. Whenever he ate ramen he was reminded of Konoha, both the good and the bad but it was his way to pay homage to what he had lost and remember those that he cared for. Maybe this was similar to what J had said about sake?

It was then IT happened. A black haired girl with black paint across her face and flame styled hair kept back by her hitai-ite entered. She wore a tight black jacket with a white popped collar.

She wasn't what caught his attention and neither the tall green eyed guy with dull blue hair and lighter skin tone than most Kumogakure residents. It was the other guy.

"You!" Naruto yelled. "Here to ruin my dinner again!? And when I'm eating ramen!? Do you have no decency?"

"Hey it's you again civvy. I see you finally made it as a ninja, it took you long enough or did you just buy that hitai-ite from the second hand store?" The muscular guy dressed in military gray garbs said.

"Take that back assface I earned this fair and square." He said while pointing with his thumb towards his head.

"There is no need to be upset here, we just came to get something to eat and there is obviously some history between you." Came the smooth almost elegant voice of the taller boy.

Kodama snorted. "You can say that, this is the civvy, that tried to fight me. Remember I told you about it?"

"The little runt you spoke of? This guy doesn't fit the description, you said he looked like a weak little idiot that couldn't even handle paper shurikens." It was spoken with a light happy jovial voice that didn't really seem to fit with the dark topped girl. "My name is Sayomi." She said smiling and tilted her head a little. She was creeping Naruto out a little bit but at least she seemed nice but Naruto was becoming upset. Or more like upseterer than he had been seeing Kodama, and dattebayo he swore that if anyone would say that if upseterer isn't a word he would be totally upseterered or something…

"Oh so assface-san doesn't just like to ruin peoples dinner now he is spreading rumors too!" Naruto was absolutely fuming by now, why did things always have to happen when he was eating or otherwise preoccupied deep in thought.

"Hey if you have a problem let's take this outside! Wasn't it you that wanted to fight last time huh!?" Kodama tried to step closer to Naruto but his male teammate stopped him with his arm.

"No thank you teme I'm sore as hell from today."

"Oh and why is that? Fell out of bed? Walked into a door?"

"Teme! I was training and then I had to fight with Yugito-san, you would hurt too if you had to do that." Naruto took a step towards the object of his ire and growled.

"Wait you fought with Yugito-sama?" The creepy girl said and placed herself strategically between the two boys.

"You bet your ass I did, she came and got me from sensei and said it was on the raikage's order and took me way up on the northern side. It was brutal. She was right in my face and I couldn't do anything and when I finally drew my tanto she was running circles around me, then she was throwing around fire like it was nothing and I didn't have anything to counter with and there was no cover. She almost turned me to ashes, I had to pull every trick I had just to survive and then she went through my clones like it was nothing." Naruto was babbling like mad. Apparently he was more than a little stressed about the days events. "And when I made more she just continued to kill them, she was destroying them like they were ants and that blue fire she used wasn't stopped by them, it just went right through them. It didn't even go straight but hunted them down like rats. No matter how many I it didn't work and she started even smashing them with her tails and then went after me and on top of that when I jumped at her B smashed me down. At first I thought it was a huge log that hit me but when I woke up I realised it was him."

The two boys had gone slightly pale at his rant but the girl just kept grinning. He was a little out of breath when he finished and when he saw their faces his mind kicked into gear.

"Shit damn it, crap! Fuck, I shouldn't have told you that, can we go somewhere else.

The small group left and went to a nearby training ground with Naruto facing the group, the boys over their initial shock and now curious instead.

"Did you really fight both guardians in their bijuu mode?" It was the girl that first braved the uncomfortable silence.

He shook his head weakly. "No just Yugito. I wasn't aware that B was there before I woke up."

"Look I really shouldnt have told you guys that, it's a secret probably B or A ranked since it will eventually be common knowledge anyway."

"What do you mean why would someone barely a genin fight a guardian?" It was Kodama that asked.

"It was part of testing if I was ready to become a genin, you see I'm not from around here."

"Where are you from then?" It was blue that spoke.

"Konohagakure."

"That's unusual but why are you here then?" He pressed on.

"It's a weird story but I kind of left when I found out that I'm an jinchuuriki."

They were perplexed that there was a jinchuuriki from another village that even was at their age was here, or two of them were. One was frightened.

"Shit dude I'm sorry about earlier, I didn't mean any harm and I was going to apologise I really was but you kinda pissed me of when you started yelling and stuff."

Naruto scratched his head a little awkwardly. He knew people would know eventually but not so soon and even thou he knew how B and Yugito was treated ha had been nervous of how people would react.

"It's okay, I might have overreacted a little too and you caught me at bad times."

"Enough with the mushy mush guys I'm curious! Was that why you fought with Yugito-sama to train as a jinchuuriki?" Sayomi said.

"Not exactly, she had been instructed to push me as far as she could and it kinda just happened."

"So you did use it's power?" She continued.

"Yea, when the fire came at me it wa so fast I couldn't react and I just froze. I thought I was going to die and then I got really angry. Like raikage angry but when I charged B stopped me and well when I woke up they were all there and A-sama gave me my hitai-ite."

"How does it work?" Blue said. When Naruto looked at him like he was stupid he clarified. "I mean drawing on it's power."

"Well I'm not really sure I haven't started training yet but it seems to be when I'm angry. In those situations you are not thinking clearly and it could just be the extreme emotions." He responded.

"huh?" Came from Kodama.

"Like today, I really thought I was going to die I think it was such an extreme that brought it out." Naruto clarified.

"What so if you were extremely horny you mean you could tap into the bijuus power? So like if you wake up after a really really good dream you would go all jinchuuriki and stuff?"

Naruto gaped at him, unable to answer. His face felt warm and cheeks tinted rosy.

Sayomi was giggling furiously and thought the situation was hilarious and Kodama just smirked thinking he'd been really clever.

It was blue that came to his rescue. "I think that's only you Kodama-baka. We are lucky you are not a jinchuuriki, truly we are."

Both Sayomi and Naruto broke down into laughter as it was Kodama's turn to gape stupidly.

"Hey dude not cool at all."

"Hey it's totally fair, you started it." Sayomi said as she came down from her fit of laughter.

"Yea yea whatever." He said defiantly as he crossed his arms with a sour look.

"Naruto I still got more questions if it's okay?" She said.

"Sure as long as it's not about my dreams or anything weird." He answered.

"Nah I won't but I can't promise that Kodama won't weird you out again." She smiled and looked his way.

"Come on I don't deserve that!"

"Shit roll down hill my friend." Blue said.

"What's that supposed to mean!"

"It means that we are currently on the hilltop while you are squatting in the valley."

They kept talking and bantering for a while bickering mixed with mostly Sayomi asking about Naruto. He had told them about why he left and what had happened once he woke up here and his time training. They had been really curious when he had spoken about Konoha as it was one thing reading and learning in the academy and another hearing from someone who had lived there.

"It was good meeting you Naruto-san. My name is Idane and I look forward to seeing you in the future." Blue said as they shook hands.

"Yea I feel the same. I don't know very many people and it's good to make some new friends." Naruto said back.

"And don't worry we will keep the secret safe until it gets out." Sayomi said.

"Yea later Naruto. Maybe next time we can have that fight." Kodama said.

"I look forward to it." And with that they parted ways.


Next up Naruto will start his life as a ninja and things will start to pick up speed. I hope. I seem to draw things out a little bit. I feel like the length of this chapter is pretty good anbd I will try to keep it between this and chapter two. Myself I hate too short chapters but also I strongly disslike when they are too long as it's difficult two find where you are in a chapter when reading on your phone and android has a tendency to reload the damn pages if you exit the browser. Even if its around 3800 words this chapter it's still longer than the longest essay I've ever written. not sure if that reflects on my writing or school ethics. Won't take many chapters before I've written more here than during my entire high school years. XD