Those Soul Piercing Eyes, Chapter 4

Genbu Uchiha, a loyal ninja of the 4th Hokage, banished from the Uchiha clan after losing his sight. Naruto Uzumaki, the container of the Kyubi, hated by a majority of the Village. Genbu Uzumaki, user of the Konhekigan and Naruto's Uncle.


"Here we are." Genbu muttered as he unlocked the door to his new apartment. He carried a sleeping Naruto in his arms as he crossed the thresh hold, and he flicked on the lights.

It was clean and big enough for three people to live comfortably, with a small entry way with a coat closet, a good sized living room with wood floors and off white walls, with a simple tan couch and a wooden coffee table as its only furniture. Attacked to that was a small kitchen with soft peach colored tiles and light brown wooden cabinets a white stove and refrigerator, a small window covered by a dark blue curtains over the sink. There was short hall way with three doors; at the end is the master bed room with its own bath room. The bed sheets were a simple blue color, as the other two bed rooms had light green sheets. The other two bed rooms were next to each other with another, smaller bathroom separating them from the master bed room. All the bed rooms had a single bed, a wooden dresser and a simple wooden night stand with a white shaded lamp on top.

Genbu softly closed the door and locked it, placing a paper with strange black scribbles on it, and slipping off his shoes while balancing Naruto in his arms. He went into one of the other bed rooms and tucked Naruto in. The little boy squirmed and he nestled into the new bed and fell into a deeper sleep. Genbu watched Naruto for a while, a small smile on his face as he pets the sleeping child's head fondly. Carefully, he left the room, leaving the door a little open, and went into the master bed room where he stripped off his shirt as well as the mesh underneath.

No one would mistake him for a woman as a noticeable, discolored, horizontal scar ruined his flawless pale skin, right under his chest but above his stomach, looking as if he had almost been cut in half as the scars where also on his upper arms.

Removing the hair ornaments from his hair, and putting them away in a drawer with several other trinkets, his hair fell down his back as he slipped under his sheets, having left his door open if Naruto wanted to come to him for something. Just as his head hit the pillow, Genbu shot up and looked over at a seemingly random spot in his room. His eyes narrowed, he frowned after a few seconds and then sighed.

"Then I guess I have to call in a few favors tomorrow then. Right now, I would like to go to sleep. It's been a long day for me." Genbu said to seemingly know one as he flopped back on his bed.

A Few Hours Later

Genbu was lightly sleeping as a small shadow entered his room, trying not to make any noise and wake the sleeping man. However, Genbu was a very good ninja and opened one of his eyes to look at the small shadow that froze.

"Do you need something Naruto?" Genbu asked quietly as the small shadow that was Naruto came to his bed side. In the dark, Naruto looked at Genbu shyly and pitifully.

"C-can I come... Sleep with... y-you?" Naruto asked, flinching away as Genbu moved, thinking that his uncle was going to hit him or yell at him but no... Genbu just moved to give Naruto some space on his bed, which was big enough for two adults.

"Come on up. I have to get up really early and meet some people." Genbu told Naruto who was stunned in shock before a smile came to his face as he crawled into the sheets next to his Uncle. Naruto carefully, snuggled into his uncle's bare, but warm, chest. Naruto blinked as he noticed the scar, his eyes widen as he looked at his uncle's seemingly sleeping face, the blond wanted to ask about it but felt it was best left a mystery... for now.

Konoha Market Place, Moring

"Did you hear? Someone has taken in that hell spawn!" A middle aged, civilian woman gossiped with other civilian women as they did there morning shopping.

"What? Who would what that thing in their own home? Near their family!" One of the women gasped in shock and horror.

"My husband said he saw a beautiful woman with the thing." Another woman said with a huff and anger in her tone.

"What!"

"A Woman!"

"Is she stupid!"

"Is she that desperate for children!"

The women kept asking themselves as Genbu walked past them, holding Naruto's hand as he carried a bag in his other arm with fresh produce and some meat.

"Oji-san, what's the matter?" Naruto asked as he looked up at his uncle, who just had his hair in a high ponytail with a long bark blue ribbon. He was wearing a dark blue, sleeveless, Chinese stile shirt with black trimming, white bandages wrapped around his upper arms to hide his scars, as well as around his left leg where a blue weapon pouch was around his left thy over his black pants, and black sandals on his feet.

While Genbu had made sure Naruto was not recognizable, having used a transformation on his hair and eyes to make his spiky hair brown and his eyes gray. Having dress Naruto in a Green shirt with a black beetle on it and black shorts, some simple black sandals on his feet. The whisker marks were hidden by some makeup Genbu had left over from his last mission, just to protect Naruto and the peace in the market place.

"Just some idle gossip Naru-chan." Genbu told the little boy, having not said his real name in such a crowed area.

'You never know who's listening... ' Genbu was thinking as he spotted someone following him and Naruto, jumping from roof to roof. He knew who it was, but he was still on guard for his nephew's sake.

'Or Watching.'

Hokage's Office

Sarutobi sighed deeply as an ANBU wearing a cat mask had just reported something that made the aged Hokage dread the rest of his day. Word had spread through the Market place about Naruto being taken in by a beautiful woman as most people would say, others would say that a Rogue Ninja came and took him away in the dead of night or even that the Devil came to take the Kyubi back to hell. The other rumors were just too ridiculous to comprehend but Sautobi knew the truth about the one who took Naruto... the past that made up the Genbu Uzumaki today.

"Thank you, Tora. That will be all." He demisted the ANBU as he took a puff of his pipe, the ANBU gave a short nod before disappearing. The Hokage leaned back in his chair, some of his old bones cracking in stiff protest.

"Genbu. I hope you have a plan for this." He muttered, annoyed but then huffed in amusement.

'He has hidden hands, but I wonder how he's going to use them.' He thought, trying to think like the former Uchiha as he took another puff of his pipe. It wasn't long ago that the former Uchiha was in his sealed office, explaining the power of his new eyes and how he obtained them.

'The Konhekigan, The Soul Pierce Eye?'

He mused before he sighed in irritation and rubbed his eyes, he had a council meeting in 10 to discussion about Naruto and his caretaker. No one could really tell what the Ninja of Ninja, the title Genbu was given by a few of his closest comrades, would do to make sure Naruto was taken good care of or what he could make happen so that it was in his favor.

?Mystery Location?

Black beetle like bugs crawled across the ceiling, going unnoticed by the people in white coats walking under them. The bugs then slipped under a door where some liquid like substances were being stored along with a certain machine. The door opened and in stepped a feminine shadow, which quickly came into the room, quickly and quietly, shut the door.

The person quickly located the desired item and took it, then locating the other item they were to obtain. Finding it with little trouble, the person then went to work... on faking a blood test.

'I hope this works.'

The person thought as they took out a vile and poured one of the substances into it.

Genbu's Apartment, Later

Genbu calmly sipped his coffee as he chuckled at his nephew's table manners, seeing the near starving boy, wolf down three of the only things he knew how to cook while not on a life or death mission, bacon, eggs and buttered toast.

"Naruto-chan, you need to slow down or you'll hurt yourself." Genbu gently warned as Naruto looked up at his uncle with sad and scared eyes.

"I-I'm sorry, Oij-san! Please don't throw me out!" Naruto cried, tears slowly building in his eyes. Quickly, Genbu reassured the little boy, whipping away his tears gently.

"I'm not going to throw you out, Naurto-chan. You just need to eat a little slower. No one is going to take your food from you while I'm around." He assured Naruto, giving a soft smile to the little blond. Naruto shuffled a little before a small smile came to his face, before going back to eating only a little slower.

"There you go." Genbu encouraged Naruto as a black beetle landed on his hand not holding the coffee mug. The thing opened its wings in a seemingly random pattern; Naruto noticed as well and looked at the bug with wonder. Genbu just watched the bug as it started to move around his hand in some pattern. Both Uzumaki's kept their eyes on it as Genbu turned over his hand as the beetle crawled into the center of his palm, resting there for the moment.

"Oji-san? What it that?" Naruto inquired as he watched the beetle, blinking his eyes as he glanced up at his uncle, who gave him a small smile, holding out his hand to show Naruto the small beetle.

"This is a kikaichu. It's a special kind of bug that belongs to a friend of mine, Naruto-chan. If you ever see one, keep it safe, don't hurt them and they won't hurt you." Genbu told Naruto as the beetle then flew up and went out the open kitchen window, back to its host.

"What did it do?" Naruto asked as soon as the beetle was gone.

"It drained some of my chakra." Genbu said, more to himself then Naruto who was looking confused. Before Naruto could ask a knock came at the door and there attention went to it, the bug forgotten at the moment.

Genbu went over to check who it was and frowned as he saw a ANBU wearing a dog mask, quickly, Genbu's eyes changed into what he called the Konhekigan, and looked at the ANBU, or more precisely, his soul. Genbu smiled as he blinked, deactivating his eyes as he unlocked the door, the ANBU stood in front of him for a few seconds before he spoke. He could tell that the ANBU was assessing Genbu from behind his mask.

"Is there something you would like to tell me, Kakashi?" Genbu asked as he felt the ANBU's eyes on him widen in slight surprise.

"The Council would like a word with you, it's about..." The ANBU, who was named Kakashi trailed off as he looked past Genbu. The former Uchiha glanced behind him in time to see blond spikes duck back into the kitchen.

"Are you here to watch Naruto for a while?" Genbu asked as Kakashi thought about it, tilting his head to the side.

"If not I have someone else who's watching over him. She should be here rather soon if you don't want to." Genbu offered as he stepped back, letting Kakashi inside as he took off his mask ... only, there was another mask under that, only it hid his face from his nose down and a black head band tilted over his left eye, his natural sliverish gray hair defying gravity as it stood up on top his head.

"No, I would like to watch him for you Genbu-san." Kakashi offered as the older ninja smiled and looked over at the kitchen to see blond hair.

"Naruto-chan This here is a friend of the family. He's going to look after you until my friend arrives to take care of you while I'm gone." Genbu told Naruto who looked over the corner at the two ninja. Naruto saw Genbu tell the Kakashi something but it was too low for him to hear as Kakakshi gave a nod before Genbu walked out the door. Naruto's eyes got wide in fear as he was losing sight of his uncle but Genbu gave him as kind smile.

"I'll be back in two hours Naruto-chan. be a good boy until then okay?" Genbu told Naruto who gave him a teary nod before Genbu closed the door and Kakashi was left with the little blond.

"Naruto-kun. Don't worry; I'm sure he'll be fine." Kakashi tried to assure the little boy as he kneeled down to his level.

"My name is Kakashi Hatake." Kakashi introduced himself to Naruto who looked at him, still a bit frightened until a black beetle flew into Kakashi vision. 'A kikaichu? What's it doing here? ' Kakashi wondered as he was about to swat it away before…

"NO!" Naruto yelled, pouncing at Kakashi to protect the small beetle from being hurt like Genbu had told him to. Kakashi lay on his back with Naruto on top of him; he was even more confused by the little boy's actions as Naruto quickly got off of Kakashi and held out his hand. The kikaichu landing on it and then crawling around Naruto's hand in interesting patterns, if Kakashi didn't know better, he would have thought the beetle was thanking Naruto.

Naruto looked up at Kakashi and opened his mouth to ask a question but he shut it as Kakashi got up off the floor and dusted himself off. Kakashi looked over at Naruto questionably as the little blond shyed away from him.

With Genbu

Genbu could feel the eyes on him as he swiftly and gracefully mad his way thru a crowed street, he could see one or two Konoha Military Police Uchihas watching him with their Sharigans activated. He knew they weren't just looking for thieves, juveniles, or the occasional pervert who went too far.

No, the Uchiha were watching him.

'Fugaku is that afraid of me?'

Genbu thought as he saw a faded green coat weave thru the crowd, subtly coming towards him. Just as they were in 5 feet of each other Genbu felt something in his left hand. Genbu smirked lightly as he slipped the thing into his weapon pouch and felt his charka being drained for only a few seconds and the faded green jacket was gone.

He chanced a glance at the officers that were following him.

'3...4... 5, Well done, Chiharu. You fooled 5 Uchiha's, 4 chunin and 1 jonin.'

Genbu thought as he arrived at the Hokage Tower. The Uchiha's red and black doted eyes burring at his back.


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