A.N: Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the story. To all those who said I made Sandaime 'evil' last chapter…well I guess I kind of did. About Sandaime's promise in Chapter 1 well the human heart works in mysterious ways, Sandaime did start saying she was a hero but do you really think that much hate shown to Naruko would only affect Naruko? What has happened is just a twisted version if what he thinks is best for her. Also my story is not going to be one of those: 'someone cares and trains Naruto so then he becomes a super ninja then Kyuubi gives him or her all it's power because it's really a good fox, everything bad that has ever happened is blamed on Orochimaru, then Naruto saves the world and everyone is happy' kind of stories. Well you have probably already guessed that's not going to happen. My world of Naruto is going to be stained gray. They're ninja, they have all killed someone at some time there is not a lot of difference between the 'good' shinobi and the 'evil' shinobi. Some of the evil shinobi are blood thirsty yes but in there line of work that could be an asset. Well that's my long winded speech for the day, so all there is left to do is READ ON!

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BLOOMING FLOWER: Chapter 4, Enter the Diamond

October 13th: Hokage's Office

Sarutobi sat in his chair, smoking his pipe and gazing out the window at the beautiful Village Hidden in the Leaves. He would gladly have sacrificed his life for his home but had it been ok for him to sacrifice the life of an eight year old girl? There was no other way, he couldn't let her leave and if he let her stay she would probably have gone insane. Yes it had been the only solution and it wasn't like he had 'killed' her, he had just sealed her memories away.

"BAM!"

A red and green firework exploded in the morning sky, taking on the likeness of a weeping willow. They had been partying like this for three days. Ever since he had made that announcement at the Kyuubi festival three nights ago…

FLASHBACK TIME

He walked to the front of the stage in the center of Konoha. Clearing his voice he spoke into the microphone that blasted his voice through speakers all over Konoha. "Welcome everyone to the Seventh Anniversary of the Kyuubi's defeat." Loud cheers roared from all over the mighty village. "I'd like to start by saying the usual warning's don't light your houses on fire." The crowd chuckled. "And if you see any suspicious activity warn the nearest shinobi, I don't have to warn you what a perfect time this festival is for our enemies to insert their spies among our ranks." Several older citizens nodded sagely, though the younger ones just looked impatient for the festival to begin.

"Before I declare this festival officially open I would like to say to more things. The first, that this festival is very special, today the foreman of the repair team came and informed me that the last of the damage caused by the Kyuubi's rampage has been repaired." Whistles and cheers. "And the second, which is by far more important, this very evening I fulfilled Yondaime's final wish. THE LAST TAINT OF KYUUBI'S PRESENCE HAS BEEN REMOVED!!!" There were no cheers for this announcement, only stunned silence. Glancing behind he noticed the shocked expressions of the Elder Council and of the Clan Heads. Even the normally regal and unemotional Hyuuga and Aburame Clan Heads looked like they had swallowed a lemon.

"MOM, DAD YOU CAN REST IN PEACE!"

Sandaime turned around and looked at the speaker. It was a fifteen year old boy, on his knees, with tears running down his face. His shout broke the dam and a tidal wave of voices washed over the Hokage. Shouting into the microphone, over the screams of joy, the sounds of woman crying and the fireworks going of he declared "THE KYUUBI FESTIVAL IS NOW OPEN!"

That had been three days ago.

END OF FLASHBACK

But that was what he was hoping for, he had informed the ANBU of his announcement earlier that evening three days ago, so they were on their highest alert. He had also worked out the patrol schedule with them. A very carefully prepared patrol that would leave section 74 of the western forest unmanned. Until he, the Hokage, discovered this and graciously decided to patrol that area himself. And if he found a little orphan girl while patrolling and decided to take her in that couldn't be helped…right? Chuckling to himself he looked up at the clock. Well it looked like it was time to start his 'shift'.

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He crept down to the basement, even the jounin only ever felt a little breeze at his passing. He ducked under the 'Closed for Repair' sign and walked down the stairs. There, laying on the floor, was Nar-Naiya. She had patched clothes, in a typical style from her new place of birth, he hadn't given her any food so she was decidedly thin, an odd bone poking out her and there. She herself was filthy, her nine fingernails were almost completely black from the dirt under them, the last one appeared to have been torn off at sometime. Altogether she looked an absolute horrible sight. Someone who would have the council's full backing to be admitted into the village, at least once they learned of her 'Kekkai Genkai'. That very advanced healing rate would really come in handy, and he didn't even know if her eyes had abilities or if they were just for show. The council would be like kids in a candy store. Well time to get this charade started.

Picking her up he stealthily made his way out of the tower, easily avoiding genin squads coming in for there daily dosage of D-ranked missions. He made his way to section 74 right on time. Let's see hold her like she had just fainted in his arms, and they should be here right about-

In a burst of smoke four ANBU charged towards the Hokage before realizing who it was and coming to a quick salute. "Hokage-sama what are you doing here?"

"At ease. I was reviewing the patrol schedule when I noticed that I had left this area unoccupied for about ten minutes, more then enough time for any competent shinobi to enter. I didn't have any work to do so I decided I might as well do this myself. I came, patrolled for about five minutes before this girl came running out of the woods, looks like she was chased by one of the larger animals in Konoha's forests. I'll be taking her to the hospital now, so can I trust you four to take care of this area?"

"Hai!"

"Good. Tell one of the captains to make a new patrol schedule seeing as this one is flawed." And with that the Hokage jumped into the trees, speeding towards the hospital, an eight year old girl held in his arms.

26 Minutes Later: Outside Room #291

He sat on the bench outside the room smoking his pipe. Of course the hospital was a No-Smoking area but no one would tell HIM to stop, he was the Sandaime Hokage after all, one of the perks of the job. He could hear the doctor's, nurses', and medi-nins' excited chatter form inside the room. They've probably discovered her healing ability. Sighing he extinguished his pipe, and walked into the room, might as well answer their questions. Skillfully weaving his way through the small crowd he gazed down at the girl.

She looked like an entirely different person. Gone were the tattered, patched clothes in there place a simple white hospital gown. The dirt had, judging from the rosy tint to her skin, just recently been scrubbed off, and someone had had the thought to run a comb through the tangled nest that had been her hair. In other words she looked just like an eight year old should.

"So what happened?"

"It's the weirdest thing Hokage-sama. When you brought her here she had multiple fractures, a dislocated shoulder, a recently healed cut to the head, and what looked like a fingernail that had been ripped out. We attached her to the monitors and went to get the medics, when we came back all her injuries had healed. The doctors are going over the records, but it looks like her body super-accelerated the healing rate in all damaged areas. We don't know how to explain it."

"I see. Have you happened to see her eyes?"

"Well no, but I don't see-oh HO NO DON'T TELL ME HER EYES ARE DAMAGED!"

Sarutobi reached across and lifted one of her closed eyelids. The shouts died of into 'Ooohs' and 'Aaahs'.

The eight year old's purple eye was revealed the diamond shaped pupil large and plainly visible. And when he looked even closer it appeared her eyes were ever so faintly glowing.

"Hokage-sama you can't, I mean, you're saying this is a Kekkai Genkai, an unregistered Kekkai Genkai, which not only has healing capabilities but has also affected the eye."

"I believe that is fairly obvious, but yes."

"Hokage-sama you must let this girl stay here in Konoha! Studying how her body heals itself in such an efficient manner could only help improve medical Ninjutsu. Not only that it's a completely unknown ability if we could have a clan of people with this Kekkai Genkai we would have the perfect frontline troops, as long as something didn't kill them they could just heal and keep going."

"Yes I'm very well aware of the potential benefits of having her stay here. In fact I will be presenting her to the council as soon as she wakes up."

"Oh. Yes. Well, you see Hokage-sama I didn't mention this but she is a bit undernourished. After she wakes up she'll have to stay for a couple days until she's properly nourished again."

"Yes, I can see how that would be a problem. Well that can't be helped, but please I'm asking you keep this a secret until we have the council's acceptance."

"Of course."

"Thank you. When she feels well enough please have her escorted to my office."

3 Days Later: October 16th, 3 O'clockish

Sarutobi had just finished up the last of that days paperwork when the ANBU outside his office softly knocked on his door. "One of the hospital staff and one Mukizu Naiya here to see you Hokage-sama ."

"Good, good please send them in."

"Very well, you may enter."

With that the doors swung open and two people entered. One was naturally Naiya, now dressed in a dark green turtleneck and blue pants. Judging from the way the material hung form some off her body in some areas he guessed that they had been quickly grabbed of a rack in some department store. The other was a young nurse about twenty, that was obviously working as an intern. No real doctor would be stuck with babysitting duty. "If you don't mind I would like to speak with our young guest alone."

"Of course Hokage-sama, bye Naiya-chan."

"Bye Rukia-chan."

Smiling she walked out of the office and the door's silently shut behind her.

"Hello, my name is Sarutobi but you can call me the Hokage. I'm the one that found you in the forest and if you don't mind my asking how much do you know about where you are?"

"Rukia-chan told me this is Konohagakure, it's also called the Village Hidden in the Leaves, or just plain Konoha. It's in the land of Fire, which is west of the Land of Water. Konoha is also a shinobi village."

"Yes that is all correct. However since you mentioned it is west from the Land of Water I assume that is where you came from."

A nod form Naiya.

"Quite a long journey for one so young. Especially considering you have to cross the ocean to get here."

Naiya's paling face was all the answer he got.

"Naiya I need to know why you are so far from home. And please don't lie, I'm a shinobi so I'll be able to tell."

"But I'll have to tell you everything that ever happened."

"That's all right Naiya I have all day."

"If, if I tell you will you let me stay? This place seems nice."

"It's not only my decision to make. But if you do tell me I'll do my best to find you a place in this Village."

"OK…I'll tell you. I was born in a small fishing village…

YAY! Now we get to discover what angsty story our elderly Hokage implanted into the mind of our young heroine! This of course means "NARRARATED FLASHBACK!"

I was born in a small fishing village, in the Land of Water. My Father was the head fisher, and my Mother ran a small restaurant. I'd play outside during the day and Mother would read me stories during the night. But the restaurant was busy and Mother needed help, we couldn't afford to hire people so when I was five I started working.

I'd get fresh get fresh water for the soups, chop the vegetables and I'd even get to take food orders, and at night Mother would teach me to read and write. But a year ago things started changing and everything went wrong. I started to feel…something inside me. It felt all nice and warm. When I focused I could even move it around my body, sometimes when I moved it into my arms it made me feel stronger. My body even made itself better, faster, when I moved it into hurt places. Then something even worse happened. My eyes changed.

I went downstairs and Father saw my eyes. He told me to go to my room, then Father and Mother had a long really loud fight. Then they came in and told me I had to work in the back of the store. I wasn't allowed to go outside anymore. It was like that for a couple weeks then a man came in to deliver some vegetables. He saw me then he ran outside screaming. 'Kakki Genkay'!

Mother came into the back and told me to got to my room. Father and the rest of the fishers were called back and they had a town meeting in the restaurant. I listened at the door but I could only hear a couple things. Mother and Father didn't have 'it', and that 'it' must be a 'new one'. After the meeting Mother and Father came up and asked me if I could see things any different, I told them everything was the same and then they smiled and told me I could go outside again.

I was allowed to go outside again but everybody acted different. People were glaring at me for no reason at all. Some people even called me a monster. So I started staying inside again. Then the restaurant started losing money, nobody came to eat there anymore. Father was told he couldn't be the Head Fisherman anymore. We were getting really poor.

One day Mother told me that the people that delivered the food to our restaurant weren't going to do it anymore so I had to do it now. I was worried about the people but Mother really needed the food so I said yes. People were still glaring at her but they kept away from me. After I bought the groceries I started walking home. All of a sudden a boy ran up to me. He shouted that I was a monster and then he hit me with a rock. It cut my head and blood was everywhere. But the people were laughing at me.

I felt the warm feeling rushing up to my head and the bleeding stopped. Then all the people stopped laughing and they glared and threw more rocks. They kept yelling monster. They wouldn't stop so I ran into the forest to get away from them. I walked through the forest trying to stay out of sight until I got home. Wh-when I got there Mother and Father were outside the restaurant and they were covered in blood. The people were saying that now there wouldn't be anymore evil children. They burned down the restaurant and said that they only had to get rid of the last person in that evil family. I was really scared by then so I ran away.

I went from village to village, begging for food. But everybody just glared at me. Then I covered my eyes with a cloth and pretended I was blind. Some people gave me food. I made my way to one of the port cities, Father always told me this was the only way to get in and out of the country. I saw a ship that was going to Fire country, so I sneaked aboard. I was really hungry, but the people would know I was there if I stole too much food, so I only stole when I was so hungry it hurt. We sailed for a week or two until we mad it to Fire Country.

When the ship got there I snuck off and hid. They unloaded the boxes and said they were going to come here, to Konoha. I didn't know where that was then but it sounded nice, so after they loaded all the stuff in the boxes onto wagons I hid in it again. We rolled along for a couple more days until we got to something called a checkpoint. When we got there they searched the wagons and found me. They yelled at me for a bit then they locked me in a room, but I crawled out through a window. The checkpoint was surrounded by a huge forest, and I wanted to get away from the mean people that yelled at me so I ran into it.

The forest was horrible. I couldn't find anything that looked safe to eat, and I was lost so I couldn't get back to the checkpoint. I kept walking and walking, sometimes I could hear voices so I always ran towards them, but no one was ever there. Then a couple days ago I heard all these booming noises so I ran to where they were coming from. It took a lot of days but I finally made it here.

Well that wasn't incredibly angsty but that's the best I could come up with. Oh well. END NARRATED FLASHBACK!

This was good she'd accepted her life story without question even changing some things to make it work better. Only thing left to do was ask her if she wanted to stay.

"Naiya I was wondering would you like to stay in Konoha?"

"Will the people hate me hear because of my eyes?"

At this the Hokage could only laugh. "Hate you? Naiya what you have is called a Kekkai Genkai. It's a very special ability that only appears in very special people. In the Land of Water people are scared of them but hear people celebrate when someone has a Kekkai Genkai."

"Really?"

"Yes, of course."

"Then I'll defiantly stay."

"Ok that's good. Now Naiya I have to get some people's permission if you are to stay and I think it would really help your case if you decided to become a shinobi."

"Ummm Hokage-sama besides kill people what do shinobi do?"

"Well shinobi do jobs for people, things like protecting someone or delivering important objects, it is true that that some times requires you to kill, but killing is not all shinobi do."

"That sounds fun. I guess I could be a shinobi. Umm how DO you become a shinobi?"

"Well you're eight now correct?" A small nod from Naiya. "Then you'll go to the prep school. There you learn everything you would in a normal school, but there is a lot more physical activity plus classes to help you practice using chakra. Chakra is what shinobi use to use jutsu, it's probably that warm feeling you get when you heal yourself."

"Oh."

"When you turn ten and if you still want to be a shinobi, you'll go to the Academy which focuses on teaching you Ninjutsu and ninja abilities. You'll also learn some strategy and in case you decide for some reason you don't want to be a shinobi, you continue some of the classes you would in regular school."

"You would really do that for me?"

"Yes. Now how about we get you to a hotel? After I talk to the people and get permission for you to stay we can get you an apartment."

Naiya had a huge smile on her face. "Thank you Hokage-sama. I'll never forget this."

Sarutobi smiled. His plan had worked out perfectly.

One Hotel Room and an Elder Council Meeting later

Sarutobi sighed, and took a swig of sake. It had been more difficult then he thought it would be to get the Council to agree, but he had done it. 'Welcome to Konoha Mukizu Naiya.'

END OF CHAPTER

-Ninja Info-

Well not a lot to add to this section this update, except for this bit on the Elder Council.

I have found that people are of two opinions:

The first opinion is that the council is the ultimate power in Konoha and that the Hokage is just a figurehead that signs papers for them.

The second is that the Elder Council is a bunch of overgrown babies that sit there and whine about various things.

I on the other hand am of the opinion that it is more of a balance. The Elder Council cannot do whatever they please with no repercussions. But there not powerless either. The Hokage handles the shinobi aspects of the village and the Council handles the more political and economical aspects. For things like new residents a background check has to be done, and the approval of both parties has to be there, so someone's personal views don't get in the way if the process. The same with any drastic changes to how things are run.

Oh yeah about the name Mukizu Naiya. Naiya can mean a baseball infield, or diamond of course I just looked up 'diamond' on my little word-for-word translator and this seemed like the best one. Oh well. Mukizu means unhurt, uninjured or unwounded which refers to her healing ability.

Well, that's it I'm done. Chapter 5 will be continuing with Naiya settling into Konoha. Chapter 6 will start where the canon series starts, so just bear with me for a little bit longer. Well until then, Ja Ne!