Disclaimer:

Very simply put, I don't own Naruto or [PROTOTYPE]. I wish I did, but I don't. I had nothing to do with the creation of either that I am aware of.

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Okay people, I have come to a decision. I am going to try and update once every week, and whatever I get done that week I'll add to the story. If you have a problem with this, you'll just have to deal with it.

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True Power

Chapter Three: He's Alive

Morgue, The cooler;

With a grunt from Naruto and a groan from the metal door, the new shape-shifter ripped it from the wall and threw it aside.

"Well damn, I didn't think it would actually work." Naruto said to himself as he looked at the crumpled, former door. "I guess I should tell everyone that I'm not dead... anymore." The blond started to stretch his muscles, when he noticed the claws were still there. "I guess I should probably try to get rid of these." The boy thought to himself. "How does this work?"

"Boy, focus." A deep voice echoed in his mind.

"Fuzzy? How the fuck are you talking to me?"

"I can only manage this in short bursts, just focus on returning your arms to normal." The Fox replied as it's voice faded.

"Fox? Fox, are you there?" The young ninja asked. When he didn't receive an answer, he shrugged his shoulders before focusing on returning his hands back to the way they were. As he focused the weird red-and-black energy started to move around his body, swirling down from his head to his feet. His arms transformed back into the pink flesh he was familiar with. "I guess that works." Naruto thought as he looked down at his naked body. "Now all I need is some clothes." He said aloud.

Just as an explosion sent one of the walls flying into him.

The Hokage's office:

"WHAT THE FUCK!?!?" Kiba yelled as he felt the explosion rock the tower.

"Kakashi, Gai, Kurenai, you're with me. Asuma, Shikamaru, you're in charge of getting these genin back to the hospital" Tsunade said as she started to move towards the door, her body already tensing for a fight. As she and the three jounin rushed down the tower, she couldn't help but curse herself for sending Jiraiya on that mission to Wave. "Dammit, why couldn't he get back sooner?" She thought as they reached the ninja morgue.

What most people in the village,ninja included, didn't realize was that there was a separate morgue for high-risk shinobi bodies. The secret was so well kept, that only the Hokage, the Hokage's advisors, and a select few ANBU knew about it. There was only one person that knew about the morgue that wasn't any of those things, and he would be the only one that would want at what was there right now.

Tsunade entered the room to see a familiar body go flying into her, slamming her into the hallway wall.

"OOOoooww! THAT HURT YOU SON OF A BITCH. Oh, hey Baa-chan." One Uzumaki Naruto spoke from his place atop her stomach.

"Wh...what?" The blond-haired Hokage stuttered out as she looked at the obviously not-so-dead corpse smiling down at her.

A Few Moments Earlier, Morgue:

"Why is it this always happens to me?" Naruto wondered from his place embedded in the wall. "I swear, I have got to have the worst luck when it comes to situations like this."

"Hey, Itachi-san, I thought Leader-sama said he was dead, yeah." A blond-haired man (or is that woman?) in a black cloak with red clouds on it asked.

"Apparently we were misinformed." The cold voice of the elder Uchiha told him/her.

"No, you were informed right." Naruto said as he pulled himself free of the wall. "It's just that, being dead was boring, so I decided to come back and 'liven' things up. Pun intended."

"Last time we met, you weren't so...lively." The Itachi said as he looked upon the small child in front of him.

"Ooooh, good one." The blond teen chuckled. "Seriously, before we get into the big fight, were you try to take me to your leader, I fight you off long enough for the Hokage and various other jounin get here, can I have some pants."

"Hey, yeah, don't ignore me!" The man-woman angrily yelled.

"Shut up, the big kids are talking." Naruto retorted dismissively.

"Why you little-"

"Deidara, calm yourself. He's trying to anger you." Itachi interrupted.

"No, if I were trying to anger your friend, I'd ask whether it's a guy or a girl."

"I'M A GUY DAMMIT!!!!" Deidara screamed.

"Really? Are you sure? Because you look like a girl to me, what with the long ponytail and all that." Naruto questioned mischievously.

"YOU BASTARD, I'LL KILL YOU!!!!" Deidara roared as he shoved his hands into a pouch on his waist.

Itachi leaped forward, intent on getting to Naruto before Deidara blew up half the building. As Itachi reached the demon container, he had to jump back as a set of long claws swept through the space his body was a second ago. He eyed what the boy's arms had become quizzically.

"What the fuck." Deidara eloquently declared as he stopped his ministrations in surprise.

Naruto merely smirked at the surprised looks on the nuke-nins' faces. "Let's get wild." The teen growled, rushing toward the cloaked pair. His claws flashed in the cold light of the morgue as he reached his targets.

Itachi slammed his fist into the blond boy's face with a stoic look on his own. "You may have gotten faster, Uzumaki, but you're no match for me. Although, I am interested in your new...additions."

"I know I'm the perfect specimen of what a man should look like in the crotch region, but really. I didn't expect you to be as enamored by it as you are." Naruto said cheekily, as he stood up and made his claws disappear.

"Hey, I wouldn't put those away, yeah." Deidara smirked as he pulled out a small clay bird out of the pouch on his waist.

"I don't really need them anymore, everyone is almost here." He told the other blond. Deidara just growled and threw the small bird forward, watching as it came to life and honed in on the boy. Naruto jumped to the side just as the bird reached him and exploded. The explosion sent him flying off to the side and crashing into something soft...or rather two somethings.

"OOOoooww! THAT HURT YOU SON OF A BITCH..... Oh, hey Baa-chan." Nauto said as he looked down at her from atop her stomach.

"Wh...what?" The blond-haired Hokage stuttered out as she looked at the obviously not-so-dead corpse smiling down at her.

"Yeeeeaaah, can we do the whole, 'I'm not dead', thing later, because there are two S-class nuke-nin in there trying to kill me, or at least take my body somewhere. That, and I'm as naked as the day I was born." Remarkably, Naruto said all of this in a calm, clear voice.

"Y...yeah, okay, let's go." Tsunade stammered out as Naruto climbed off her.

"'Tachi-chan, I gots a supwise for youse." Naruto stated as if he was talking to a child. With that said our protagonist walked forward with the Hokage and jounin following in shock at this predicament.

Hey everybody, I feel that I should explain something. Very simply, Naruto will not be able to absorb bloodlines, AT ALL. This is non-negotiable. I don't want to make Naruto too strong, too quickly. At his current skill level, Naruto could take on almost any single jounin in Konoha, except Kakashi and those of equal strength.

There, I've said my piece. If you don't like it, I don't care.

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