Time Tested Bonds

by AzureLux

Naruko, after escaping a Drunk mob on her 6th birthday, finally realizes how alone she really is. "I don't want to be Alone." she whispers out hoping and praying to any being that would hear her that she could no longer be alone. who would have thought that a being just as lonely as her would become her first friend.Good!TimeEater Greyish!Naruko MajorPreshippuden Saku/Council Bash

4. Chapter 3: Bonds Beyond Blood Part 1

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Time Tested Bonds

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Chapter 3: Bonds Beyond Blood Part 1: Of Planning, Scheming, Escapes and…Cats?

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Biju/Ancient Beings/Large Summons/Time Eater Talking"

'Biju/Ancient Beings/Large Summons/Time Eater Thinking'

'Tele-communication between them'

Jutsu

{Point of View}

[Location]

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{Naruko 1st Person P.O.V.}

[Hokage Tower]

Oct 14, two years later

"There is not a Person, Thing, or Kami between Amaterasu and Yami that will change my answer from NO, ya Old Monkey, I will NOT become a 'Ninja'" I had said with a scowl at the old man that unintentionally let my life become hell incarnate. In the past two years a good amount of problems ended up solved, one of which being my malnutrition, the others included my education, my standard of living and my friend base. So far life has been as good as I'm gonna get, considering the rest of the village, save for a few clans, treats me like shit anyway.

On the plus side our escape plans are all ironed out and ready for use. Speaking off…

"Now I'm very 'Not' sorry Hokage-sama, but I had promised to meet Anko-nee at the mall district soon, and you know how she gets stab happy when kept waiting." I said with a smile. I could feel the sweat he was dripping remembering that little tidbit and was enjoying it immensely.

He sighed, "Alright Naruko-chan, you can leave. But please give it some thought; this is what your parents would have wanted for you." At this I scoffed at him. "Funny considering that you never want to tell me who they were." Of course I already knew of whom they were, but why should I tell him that. I got up from my seat and left for the market to meet all of my friends and make-shift family members.

*PAUSE*

As you can now see, I have hit the quite literal pause button. Why? Because you all are missing important information about the relevant plot. To rectify I will press the rewind key to certain points in time to replace the normal Flashback-here-there-everywhere gimmick. Ready, Set, Go-

Rewind

{Naruko 1st Person P.O.V.}

[Forest of Death, Chunin Exam Building]

Oct 11, 10:12am (two years prior)

"…Nope"

That was my answer to the overly drawn out question that would define my life; A simple nope. Surprisingly enough though she didn't even react to it, kind of like she expected it; considering who I'm talking about, she probably did.

"Any particular reason kid?" she asked wanting a little more emphasis on what reason I had for it rather then why. "It's simple, why should I defend a place that blatantly hates me? Considering all the things that they try to do to me I have all the reason to leave this hellhole and let karma handle the dumbasses on the streets. What about you why do you defend this place? Surly you have a reason?"

To this she had sighed, "Kid this is the only job in the village that would take me considering that everyone else views me as the 'evil snake bitch' rather than me, so I didn't really have a choice. If I ever get the chance I would leave here and never look back."

"Then come with me." I said suddenly. She stopped and stared at me silently asking me to continue. "I plan on leaving this village to rot while I escape and travel the world. I might find a way to escape but it would be kind of dull traveling around alone most of the time 'No offence guys.' 'None taken' would you like to come along?" I asked her with a slightly pleading look. She looks at me and asks, "And how do you plan to get out of the village, it's not like you can walk out the front gate. You're a Jinchūriki the Hokage, the elders, and just about every clan in Konoha is always watching you; Waiting for you to submit to them to be a weapon." To which I reply, "It's less getting out and more making sure they can't follow me. So long as I don't apply to become a ninja then once I'm out of the village they have no legal jurisdiction over me, and as long as I'm a Jinchūriki then they can't risk putting me in a bingo book because A. I'm not technically a ninja, and B. other villages would immediately send their ninja's after me to recruit/kidnap me for their villages. Not to mention what the Daimyo would do should he find out who I am and how I was treated. All and all the only thing I need to plan is the escape and then after crossing one of the borders I'd be pretty much home free." After I had finished my explanation she stared at me for a good long time before replying herself. "Kid, that plan is simply ingenious and I'm not even gonna question how you managed to come up with it but there is one problem with it, you're just one kid. You would never be able to do all of these things on your own no matter how much training you would get." At this I had started to look down. "At least on your own you won't." My head shot back up to look at her with wide eyes filled with hope. "Look kid I said it myself that if there was a chance for me to leave this hellhole and never have to come back I would, and this seems like this is my best chance. And besides, I know that there are more than enough kids just like you who hate this place for different reasons, maybe we might find a few and form our little band of merry misfits." She ended with a wide, natural smile. I didn't say a word I just started hugging her and thanking her over and over. By the time I was done we were both hungry and readily dug in the food she brought home, giving a stick of dango to Daiya-Se. Afterwards I went back into the seal to see what Spirit-san had wanted. And thus I fell into blissful unconsciousness.

Still Better than White.

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{Naruko 1st Person P.O.V.}

[Sealscape]

Time Unknown

This time I did not wake up in ankle high water or a sewer-system, this greatly pleased me. Instead I had awoken to the feeling of grass beneath me and slightly humid air. I opened my eyes and found that instead of the endless sewer tunnel I had appeared outside of a rather large and ancient looking temple with many different versions of clocks and gears poking out of it. Deciding that I had enough of admiring Spirit-san's work, 'I really need a name for him now that I think about It.', I had gone into the temple to find my tenants.

It didn't take long of course as the temple didn't have many rooms as of yet, probably because I don't have many reasons for there to be, and the main hall opened into GIAGANTIC library Stacked with thousands if not millions of books. But that wasn't what held me at a pause. It was the scene that I walked into that did.

On one side of the library was a redhead that, if she was in here would make her my kaa-san, with nine large chains made probably out of chakra protruding from her back and poised to stab at her enemy across from her. Her face marred by a snarl at the Kyubi.

While on the other side was Kurama who was also poised to strike her in a similar manner with all of his tails, snarling all the same.

While they were having their stare-down I was quickly but quietly sneaking towards Spirit-san who was standing of to the side with a deadpan expression on his face. "So how long has this been going on?" I asked the Time Eater. "So Far, about a half an hour right now. Really though they should have attacked each other by now but I think they are too busy worrying about the damage a fight would do to your head." He had said, still stupefied by the scene in front of him right now. I on the other hand decide to stop it myself. Starting with breaking up this fight, using the common practice of mind over matter for mindscapes and the like I conjured two hammers, both sized perfectly for their respective heads and allowed them to fall.

*CRACK*

OW!

It was super effective…

So after realizing that they got hit by something both of them started looking for whatever startled them? After coughing a few times I had managed to catch their attention and the reactions were as expected. Kurama acknowledging her and sitting down to relax; and Kushina, well…

"NARUKO-CHAN!" she tackled me and started to check all over me asking all sorts of questions, starting with 'are you ok?' to 'have you been eating well?' and other such things. It eventually devolved into her saying how sorry she was and it took a while for her to calm down with many reassurances that I forgave her.

After a while I gave her the run-down of what had happened and, Boy Was She Pissed.

"I told that dumbass that your life would be a living hell, but NOOOO, he had to tell the old monkey to tell the village, the WHOLE VILLAGE! If I ever see that dumbass in heaven than I'll personally send his ass to hell for this!" she had yelled. At this we had heard a cough, more of a deep rumbling rather than a traditional cough, from the large cloud like being in the room. "I am afraid that will not be possible for a while, as apparently you Uzumaki tend to go over the top as per usual. When you were giving your chakra to the seal the seal recognized you as something to be sealed as well. As such your soul is now stuck here with us until we can find you a new body or Naruko-chan croaks." The Time Eater explained to the, now somewhat pacified and slightly embarrassed, Uzumaki matriarch. "Now you and the Kyubi should start working out your differences now. Because I very much can vouch for Naruko-chan here that she would not like either of her friends or family fighting each other, let alone here in her head." At this we both gave a slight glare at the both of them as they both settled into another staring contest, this time with noticeably less hate at each other.

While this was happening the two of us went deeper into the library to sort out what Spirit-san wanted originally. But first, "Spirit-san you need a real name." I said as bluntly as I could. He had a deadpan on his face at the moment but silently asked me to continue. "Spirit, while apt for this form of you isn't the most apt name for the whole of you, don't ya think?" he paused for a moment and nodded. "I was thinking of calling you Chrono one of the words for time. Well what do ya think?" I had asked him. "Hmm, I'm not opposing it but why now?" he had asked. "Well I thought that this is a better name than the last one so why not use it." He nodded and we reached a space far enough inside to where we wouldn't be disturbed. "So why did you call me here Chrono?" I had asked. "I had called you here to tell you about the ability bounce and how it works." At this I had straightened and listened closely. "As I had told you, I could bounce abilities of people I have interacted with using my abilities over time. What I didn't mention were the mechanics of such abilities. For one, abilities that are similar or branches of abilities will always stack into said ability; another dictates that some abilities are passive in nature and will be filtered into you immediately; these abilities are specific in nature and usually pertain to either the body itself or the mind. The last rule when using this type of system I can only sync in so many abilities at a time and only one type of ability each. Did you get all of that Naruko-chan?" he had asked after the mass info dump. I had nodded attributing that because I am in my minds library I could easily file away more information. "Then here is your list of powers. Already active abilities are listed in bold and abilities that have been completely synced to you permanently are underlined."

At this a convenient list of powers and abilities had popped up on a light gray screen. I had started reading it when I read something that gave me immediate pause.

Permanently synced

Supreme Knowledge beyond Bull Shit

-Tail's 300+ IQ

-Mastery of aerodynamics

-Mastery of robotics

-Eggman's (Dr. Ivo Robotnik) 250+ IQ

-Supreme Mastery of robotics

-Mastery of energy manipulation through science

-Major in biology

-Major in prosthetics

Tacticians Mind

Enhanced Senses (Uzumaki)

Enhanced Senses (Jinchūriki)

Regeneration (Uzumaki)

Regeneration (Jinchūriki)

Healing Factor (Uzumaki)

Healing Factor (Jinchūriki)

Poison Resistance (Uzumaki)

Poison Resistance (Jinchūriki)

Ultra-Dense Chakra (******Ōtsutsuki)

Chakra Transmigration (******Ōtsutsuki)-(******** Ōtsutsuki)-(****** Ōtsutsuki)

After reading all of that a lot of things suddenly became crystal clear to me, the most frank being that DAMN I'm smart. With all of their knowledge it's no wonder that the library that is my head is so full, all of their education ended-up filtered into me!

After looking past Tactician's Mind I found the primary reason why most, if not all villages would want me or my blood; made me very wary of the Hokage now, as well as the elders. After that though I had paused to read about my chakra and reread it two more times. I had never heard of this clan, nor did I think that chakra could go into a 'rebirth' cycle but I'll leave that alone for now. Maybe ask Kurama about it later. I read more into the abilities of the other 'Heroes' and found some that I could readily use and train myself without arousing suspicion and one that is just plan needed in this type of world. By the end of it the actively learning list looked like this:

Offensive Ability

Time Eater's Metal Body – First Set of Arms

Supplementary Ability

Telekinesis (Silver)

Passive Ability

Energy Sensing (Shadow)

Misc. Ability

Hammer Space (Amy Rose)

Hammer Space is an ability that would give anyone a permanent edge on anything, the ability is basically an infinite storage scroll with no seal to maintain.

After I had confirmed the list I had closed it and we both had walked back to where we left the other two residence. We had come back to find the Fox sleeping and Kushina searching the library for something entertaining to read, both of them seem to be ignoring each other for the most part.

Eh, it will do for now.

So after that I decided to walk into the only other room worth going into in my head. It was a bedroom, filled with a TV to watch the memories of whatever I chose and some pictures of my parents salvaged from Minato's clone's memories. In there I jumped into the cloud-like bed and started to dose into my own dreams. All the while thinking on what Anko-nee said about recruiting more people and friends. Who knows, maybe she was on to something.

Fast Foreword

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{Naruko 1st Person P.O.V.}

[Konoha, Shopping District]

Oct 14, 12:15pm

And she was right; she was only the first of MANY! By the time the whole plan was ready to be set in motion we had enough to make a small caravan out of the group. It was thanks to them that our plans had evolved to the point that all of us would get out of the village at the same time flawlessly and darn near effortlessly.

"HOOOI, Naruko-neechan, over here!" I heard off to the side of me. Turning in that direction I saw one of the first friends/little-sister-figures that I had saved from a terrible fate. She and the rest of her, rather small, clan had then decided to join our crew so that they may never have a repeat of this event again.

She had brown hair put into a small braid held up by two circular clips on one side and straight hair on the other. She had light brown eyes filled with great enthusiasm for all life and a nice round face for a 7 year old. She wore a pink adolescent's kimono that had a short sleeve on the right side and a long sleeve on the other. Her name was Yakumo Kurama, and she was with her father Murokumo waving at me to come over and say hello.

As to how we met and what tragedy was avoided, well…..

Rewind

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{Naruko 1st Person P.O.V.}

[Konoha, Hokage's Office]

July 14, 12:15pm (14 months early)

I was just in the middle of another of Sarutobi's attempts at convincing me to join the academy, when suddenly Kurenai-san had entered and I had been forced to leave. Obviously this reeked of suspicious dealings if he put this above trying (and failing) to secure me as an asset so I had discreetly place a small microphone on the underside of the chair and left to not be in the way. Normally it would take years to create something as small as a pea sized microphone, but thanks to Eggman's knowledge and the spare parts from Chrono's mecha body I had made just under a dozen of the tools and had placed about half of them around some important areas. Once I was out of the building I ducked into an alley way and turned on the receiver.

"-orry but I can't train her any longer Hokage-sama, Kurama's body is just so frail that any training that I could give her in any way physically would be detrimental to her health and her body is already too frail to be placed in the field. I'm sorry but I can't do it." Said Kurenai

"And what about Yakumo's Kekkei Genkai, will it become a problem in the future?" Sarutobi replied

"I have already sealed what I could away to prevent any accidents from happening. That is all Hokage-sama." After that I had cut the connection. It had seemed that someone else got the shaft in a similar way to me, and now that I have the Laws of Murphy imbedded into my skull I can already tell how this will play out. So after about a half an hour of trying to find a reliable map I ended up at the gate of the Kurama Clan (Que Amused Snort From Mr. Furry) structure.

I had started knocking at the door for a while and heard some bumping and rushing. The door opened to a 5'7" brown haired man with shoulder length brown hair, a sharp mustache cut in half in the middle, a set of well-defined eyebrows and light brown eyes. "Hokage-sama Please Com-" he looked around and only saw me at the door and not the old man he had expected he visibly calmed down. "Alright everyone, false alarm; it's just some kid." I heard the sound of a collective sigh and mass movement before a calm environment resumed. "So, kid what are ya here for then. We don't get many, if not any; visitors save for the Senile Old Fart up the street." At this we both seemed to smile, I like this guy; he's fun. "I came here to see if a Yakumo Kurama is in. I heard she got the shaft in a similar way to me and I hoped I could talk to her." At my mention of Yakumo he started to look depressed but when I had finished the next sentence he pretty much had a face splitting grin. "Well come inside then! Maybe you can help her where that no-good Tutor couldn't." he completed that last sentence with a grumble. I had stepped inside and could tell that these people were not like the rest of the clans. For one they had many appliances and few traditional furnishings save for the variety of paintings the most prominent being the painting of a woman. My eyes were drawn to it immediately, she had Auburn hair set up in a in a high ponytail and circled by a braid. She had several silver barrettes set up to represent the Roman numeral XXII, or 22. She had a pale completion and striking red eyes. A nice round face and a gentle, joyful smile; and even though she wore the traditional garb of a Red and Orange Kimono used for clan heads, I Knew for a FACT that she did not belong. Murokumo, as he had introduced himself during the walk, had found where my attention had gone he had a nostalgic smile on his face. "That's the painting of our matriarch Minako Kurama. It is said that she had appeared one night in the middle of a full moon to be floating down into an array of roses, red and orange. When she had first woken up afterwards the first thing she had said was that "My job is over" and that "I have a new life to live now." She then proceeded to create us, The Kurama clan. It is from her that we gain our Kekkei Genkai, to 'make our Hopes and dreams come to life with the power of our soul' and never has there been another child in our clan that could do half the things Minako-sama could until Yakumo was born. Now that Senile Bastard let that tutor we hired seal away the very thing that makes her 'her' and she has sunken into a depression. She needs this; A person to actually talk to. Could you please help her?" he pleads. After all that I have heard about this how could I not. They had taken a vital piece of her Identity and locked it away from her, even if it was by accident only an idiot would let that pass. I told him as such. "I also have a way to help her out of this seal but I would need to tell you all one of my secrets, could you get your wife as well?" I had asked him. He nodded and ushered me into her room while he went to get the misses.

Her room was chock-full of painting supplies and just about every color of the rainbow in paint. Paintings were scattered around everywhere and depicted many things from family moments to, what I would assume would be, thing she would like to happen to the villagers and Kurenai. Yakumo herself was currently curled up on her bed sniffling. I had walked up to the bundle and shook her a little. "Hey there; Are you Yakumo?" I had asked as gently as possible. She had picked her head up from the pillow and looked at me enough to see her face. She must have been crying for a while as her face had been red with tears. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" she asked between sniffles. At this I couldn't help but hug her. "I heard what had happened and thought you could use someone to talk to about it. Would you like that?" she stiffened a little before hugging back and nodding into my shoulder. "Ne, Yakumo-chan. Why did you want to become a ninja?" I said testing the waters a bit. Her sniffles became a little more frequent as she replied. "I just wanted to be strong like Lee-san and Gai-san so I could protect my family instead of them protecting me. Now I can't even protect myself." At this she started crying again and I hugged her harder. "There, there; let it all out." Around half-way through Kurama-san and his wife had entered the room but sat in silence so Yakumo could calm down. After she had let me go to clean my eyes I had got up to head to another corner of the room. "Murokumo-san, Kurama-san I should probably tell you why I can identify with Yakumo-chan so easily. My name is Uzumaki Naruko, I'm 10 years old and the current Jinchūriki of the Kyubi." I had closed my eyes for the fall out to happen I had been hugged into the chest of the matriarch who was crying. "Of course that's what you meant, both of you tow's lives are being screwed over by old men and stupid seals." Murokumo had mumbled as he tried to explain the situation to Yakumo. "But Nee-chan doesn't look like a giant fox." We both chuckled at how she labeled me her new big sister "That's because I'm not. This seal on my stomach is like the seal that is on yours, it simply holds the fox." She made a 'ohh' noise before asking a much funnier question given the circumstances. "Is he fluffy?" I couldn't help it, everyone in the room save for her bust out laughing. And but the sounds in the back of my head 2/3 of my tenants seem to be in the same situation. The object of the conversation on the other hand….

"Kami DAMNIT WHY DOES ALL THI-"

It would be best not to disturb him right now.

"Yes Yakumo-chan he is hilariously fluffy. He also likes belly scratches." I said setting up a new round of giggles. "Now come here so I can remove that seal on you. Kurenai isn't a seal master of any type that I know of so the seal should be one of the simple ones for use." She got up and opened her shirt to show that the seal was placed on her back on the spinal cord. I looked at it and shook my head and replied, "She had picked probably the worst seal for this type of situation. She used the Evil Sealing Method instead of a more appropriate seal based on the Yamanaka clan mind arts. This seal will seal off the Ido into a separate entity given enough time. Once I remove the seal we will go into your mind to assess the damage and settle things your Ido. OK Yakumo-chan?" She nodded and I started with the seal removal. There were no defenses because they did not expect anyone to tamper with it, let alone remove it without their permission. The moment it was removed Yakumo and I were sucked into her mind.

To Be Continued….

Originally I was going to wait until this whole chapter would be finished which is around 8-10 in words, but I think that leaving what I have for you to look over while I finish the other half would be a big relief for me. I am one of the happiest to say that you all deserve the Happiest New Year! The next half will be around in January but a thank you to all of you who are reading this. YOU ALL ARE GLORIOUS!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU READER. WELCOME TO 2016

12/31/15 11:59 XD