AN: Sorry it took so long, I work really long hours some days (last wed it was 5:00 am to 12:30 am, so I don't get to spend alot of time working on it. I'm gonna post my stats at the start of every chapter, Why because I can.

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Chapter IV

Blood runs thicker than Water

Onaga smiled and enveloped Yuki in a huge hug till all you could see was her hair. "Hello Yuki, How's my favorite little sister been?" She smiled back and just buried her face in his shoulder, he turned back to Zal and said "Oh, dad some guys were following you, I wasn't sure if they were friends or foes so I just put them in a genjutsu, they should be listening to you debating with yourself weather or not you should do push-up's first or sit-up's. So how have you and Yuki-chan been?

Zal leaned against a tree and said "We've been fine, I'm going to enroll Yuki-chan in the shinobi academy. I'm not a full strength and won't be for a long time, as you know it's not easy for us to regain our chakraunless certain requirements are met. We just bought a house in town and I would like to invite you to stay the night, but we both know that you would stick out like a sore thumb. I also have no doubt that those nin that you put in a genjutsu will figure it out soon, and you should probably leave before then. We don't want any questions about who or..." Zal smirked before continuing. "Or what you are, untill you arepowerful enough to use at least eight seals you won't exactly fit in, in town. If you ever get powerful enough to use all nine seals you will be the fourth being in history to be able to do so."

Onaga nodded, before saying "Well, as good as it is to see you again, I came to let you know that I've sensed Iku has managed to gain a small portion of his power back. He will most like be back to full strength in 15-20 years,I just figured I'd let you know."

Zal nodded "Thank you son, it's been good seeing you again Onaga, tell everyone that Yuki and I said hi. When Zal finished Onaga put Yuki down and walked over to his father and gave him a hug.

Then Onaga said "Goodbye Yuki, goodbye dad. I'll come visit sometime soon, hopefully I'll have mastered at least the seventh seal by then. Dregorith alsagrim." (Until we meet again,Note thats not Japanese) With those last words he dissappeared into the tree's. Zal smiled sadly wishing he could have spent more time with his only son. Then he heard a noise which caused him to look around for it.

Then the four Anbu showed up, the Bear appeared irritated, the Sloth had a limp, the Baboon thoughtful, and the Wolverine indifferent. Zal privatly wondered how to explain that it wasn't his fault for them being caught in a genjutsu, but he doubted that they would believe him.Then he came up with an idea, "Well, you should warn me when your around. If your not carefull you might get caught up in one of the random genjutsu's I have set up around here, even I don't know what you'll see if you get caught up in one of those."He supposed that would have to do.

Then the Baboon replied, "And why would you place random genjutsu's around if not to trap us?"

Zal was ready for this question and said, "For my training. When I get caught I get caught up in my own genjutsu's if I don't know what to prepare for then I have to rely on just my instincts. It's usefull in preparing yourself to be able to pull through unpredictable situations."

Unfortunatly the Baboon wasn't fooled easily, and thought a second before saying. "If thats so then I must ask you something. If you are creating random genjutsu's for training purposes then why do you not have more than one genjutsu placed? Not to mention that people don't just fall under their own genjutsu, it's practically impossible."

Zal sweatdropped, "Shit, I didn't think about that." he mumbled to himself. He unfortunately didn't have alot of time to think or they would know he was making it up as he went. Then he came up with an idea, and said "True but there's reasons for both of those things. One, there's only one genjutsu set up because I havn't had a chance set up the others yet. Two I can fall under the effect of my own genjutsu because I use seals to create them, therefore they become selfsustaining and are independant of me." "There" He thought to himself. "That should convince them."

Of course that just piqued the Baboons interest. So thenext thing the Baboon said was "Really? I would like to study some of these seals. It sounds like they could be a great boon to the village."

Zal looked at him for a moment before saying "I'm sorry, but these seals are clan secrets. Therefore I'm not allowed to teach you or anyone else outside my clan."

The Baboon appeared dissapointed, thought it's hard to tell behind the mask. Then he noticed Yuki standing there."So Mr. Zal, with all these random genjutsu's around, why is it that you have a four year old little girl right in the center of them all?"

Zal replied by saying "Thats easy. As I said before I havn't set up all the genjutsu yet, so she is safe for the time being. Before I set up too many I will send her back to town. And just why is it your business whether I have her here or not?" The Baboon shrugged, and then all four Anbu moved a safe distance away to observe him. Zal gave Yuki a hug then sent her back to town. After she left he proceeded with his training. After his training was done he headed back to his house fora shower. When he got back Yuki was gone again. "Hmmm, I wonder if she's with that blond boy. Oh well, I'll go collect my bounty for that guy I killed the other day and then maybe I'll have a look around town." He went to the Hokage's tower and arrived at the front desk."Hello, I'm here to collect a bounty on this guy" With that said he plopped the seemingly fresh head of Otanko Kunrie on the desk. The desk clerk looked revolted, but to her credit didn't quite throw up.

When she recovered sufficiently she said "Yes, right here actually. Just fill out this paperwork and I will give you however much money is required."

Zal sweatdropped, then said "Um, I'm sorry. I'm probably going to sound stupid but... I can't read."

She looked at him like he was crazy, then said "Are you serious?" When he nodded she replied "Ok then, just give me what information I ask and I'll fill it out for you. You'll just have to sign the bottom." He nodded and answered all her questions. At the end he scribbled at the bottom and collected his reward.

After he left the tower he debated on where to go first. Then he heard a familar voice. "Hey Zal-sama! Wait up." He turned around and was greeted by Rukia, the problem is he never had gotten her name so when she got there it was kind of an awkward moment.

Rukia spoke up first "Hi there, sorry but I forgot to introduce myself before. Myname is Rukia Haruno, I never caught your name either." Zal told her his name and asked here where the local library was. She thought for a second before answering "Hmmm, the library is located on the south side of the village. If you want I could take you there, I've got nothing else to do right now." Zal decided it would be easier if she showed him and agreed. When they arrived she asked him what kind of books or scrolls he was looking for, he answered anything to do with seals. She took him to the back and showed him an entire row of scrolls dedicated to seals. after he grabbed about 10-15, they sat down and chatted for a little while. She asked him things like what he liked to do, what kind of food he liked, where he came from. Etc. And for every question she asked him, he gave a fairly vague answer. Eventually he loosened up a little and would answer her questions more clearly, and she felt she was starting to win him over.

After a few hours he stoodup and thanked her for her time, then stated that he needed to meet Yuki at home. They both went their separate ways. Meanwhile earlier that day with Yuki. After she left Zal in the woods she wondered around Konoha for a little while. Eventually she ran into Akira. "Hi Akira, what you doing?"

He looked up and ran over to her, then he said "Nothing much, just lookin' to play a game with someone. HEY! Yuki, you wanna play wid me?"

She thought for a second, then said "Sure, what are we gonna play?"

He looked excited for a second then sweatdropped. "Uh, I forgot." She looked at him for a second and laughed, he laughed along with her while scratching theback of his head sheepishly. Then he brightened up and said "OH! I have an idea! Lets go build sand castles at the playground!" He looked at her like he should be congradulated as some sort of genius, of course them both being four years old, she thought he must be. Therefore she agreed and they went to the playground. When they got there they decided that whoever made the biggest sandcastle, could make theother person do one thing. They both agreed. About a half hour later, Akira's sandcastle was almost as tall as him. Yuki's sandcastle was...barely managing to keep from falling over at 2 feet tall. Yuki conceeded defeat and asked what she had to do. Now Akira already knewwhat he was gonna ask cause, some guy in a ninja suit earlier that day told him he'd treat him to dinner if he could find out exactly whereYuki and Zal came from. So he said "Ok! Now you have to tell me everything about yourself. Where you came from, who all your family is, and all that other good stuff."

She was about to protest but he said "What? Your not gonna back out on our deal are you? If you had won I'd do whatever it was you asked me to do, don't tell me you go back on your word?" She was hooked, no way would she ever go back on her word! Her daddy never went back on his, and she wasn't going to be a bad example for their clan.

So she told him everything that a four year old knows about herself and her clan. Which is alot of some things and basically nothing of others. She told him that she had a father and a brother, she told him that most of her clan had been killed by her uncle. But the thing that made him wide eyed, and awestruck, was when she told him about their bloodline limit. "Our bloodline limit makes it so I can share my chakra with anyone else who also has mybloodline, also for those of my family that I'm really close to I can kinda tell what their thinking if they are close by. But I don't know how on that yet either. I do know that the stronger my level of control is with my bloodline, the more chakra I can send through at a time. One of the cool things about using my bloodline is that I don't just get to use my families chakra. When we send chakra to eachother through our bond, it picks up excess chakra along the way that isn't being used. Like when someone uses to much chakra, it gets picked up too, and nature produces chakra too, so we get chakra from it as well. But theres one thing that kind of scary..." She lowered her voice to a whisper "When we kill someone while using our bloodline limit, a small portion of their chakra goes to us... permanatly. My daddy also has like a ton of seals all over his body, I don't know what most of them do, because he says I'll understand when I get older. But I know some of them suppress his chakra, he says it helps him get stronger. I'm not sure how making yourself weaker makes you stronger, but if he says it, it must be true. Also I have a seal on my stomach that daddy put there when I was just born, he says it kept me from dieing."

She leaned back again "Pretty cool huh, but I want another try to beat you at the sandcastle, same rules." He was still awestruck by everything she just said, and just nodded his head mutely. Unfortunatly he wasn't paying enough attention this time around and she won. As he headed home that night her final words were ringing in his ears. "The thing you have to do for me is... keep everything I just told you a secret."

When she got home Zal was waiting for her. "Hello Yuki, did you have fun?" She nodded, then walked to her room and got changed. When she was done she met him up in his room, because she could sense that was what he wanted. When she opened the door, she found him sitting on the floor with a ton of scrolls strewn all over the floor. He looked up as she came in, and smiled before saying "Ok Yuki, it's time for us to learn some new seals. Could you please pick a scroll and read it to me?" She nodded and picked up a random scroll. It may seem odd that a four year old little girl can read, but Zal made sure that she got taught by different people to read, so that she could read for him. The next few hours they she would describe seals to him and read their descriptions, then he in turn would tell her what those descriptions meant. She may be able to read, but she's still only four. Therefore she didn't understand everything that she read untill he would relate itback to her in simple terms. They had been doing this for about 6 months now, and she was learning all kinds of new seals this way. Afterthey got done with their "nightly session" they sat down to talk. Zal began by saying "Yuki-chan, you turn 5 in a month. Soon I'm going toenroll you in the academy. We won't get to spend as much time together. Just remember, only use jutsu's that they teach you there." She jus nodded, being such as little kids are. She assumed that at the academy they would teach her all sorts cool new jutsu's. The next thing Zal said took her off-guard "Hey, uh Yuki. We both know I can't see colors, and I was wondering... what color is Rukia Haruno's hair?" (AN:Hahahaha! Did you guess he was color blind? Imagine all the problems that poses for a ninja? You try noticing the difference between a camoflaged tripwire and regular background when you can't even see colors!) She looked at him before asking him why it mattered. He answered "Well, for anyone I am around it would be a problem if they asked me what color I thought their hair looked like and I didn't know."

Again being a four year old she didn't think about the question in depth, like why would he need to know one personshair color, but no one elses? Of course she just said "Her hair is pink, her eyes are green. And she favors pink and red clothing usually." He nodded, and thought for a little while longer. He was just about to ask her another question when he noticed she had fallen asleep. He decided that one more night of letting her sleep with him would be ok. Not long after he lay down himself he felt sleep drift over him.

Flashback Zal POV

I'm coming home after a long mission, I haven't slept in a bed in five months. I haven't had a decent bath in three or even a dip in the river in a week. I smell like sweat, grime, and blood. It had been a successful mission though so I couldn't complain. As I walk the final stretch home I watch the autumn leaves blowing in the breeze. The colors were possibly the most beautiful things I've seen in my life. Of course I loved my son and daughter, in my family just because I love them doesn't mean I think they are beautiful. No, nature is beautiful. Nature creates life with a exquisite cycle, and nature takes life away in just as beautiful of a way, and by doing so provides life to something else. I made it to the gates. They opened to me without hesitation. After all, who would tell the leader of the clan to halt and identify himself. I ignore the guards that bow to me as I pass, they mean nothing to me. All the people bow to me as I pass, I nod occasionaly. After all it is my due, I am the clan head. I deserve respect.

I smell something as I pass the clan's waterfall on the way to my estate. What is this thing that I smell? Then I notice it's just some females playing in the water. Females have never interested me, I'm not gay, I simply have no interest in relations with anyone. My blood is pure, and undiluted like these mere commoners. I start to turn away but one of the females scents catches my notice. It seems to light me on fire, and burn me from within, searing every inch of my body. I took a closer look at her, she has violet hair and light-blue eyes, for amoment she looks into my eyes. I feel like I am getting sucked in, I can barely break free. I pause and look around for the remaining effects of a genjutsu that I am sure she cast on me. I find nothing. I hurry as fast out of there as I can, which means to walk at a slightly brisk pace. The clan head does not run, not unless it's towards a battle. And most certainly he does not run from a female, no I have... important things to do at home. Like a shower, and sleep. Yes, sleep would be nice.

After I get home I take a long shower. While I am toweling off I remember where I have seen that female before, a banquet held in honor of her 18th birthday last year. I remember now, yes. I remember clearly. She was the one who had Kyuubi's two tailed daughter sealed inside her when she was born. I smile as I remember the anger of the legendary fox, as his only daughter is captured by humans, and then sealed inside one. He dares not kill her, for his daughter is to weak, and would die as well. I wonder if her fusion is complete, now that she has turned 18. The average age to fuse with a demon that was sealed against it's will is around 18-25 years. The average age to fuse with a demon that you have a contract with it's family, is around 16-20 years old. I seem to remember her mother coaxing me to marry her daughter. The daughter's name was... Maemi. I also heard she had a crush on me. I'm tempted to play with her just to anger the great demon lord, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort to spend time with anyone, much less her. I doubt it, I head to bed and plop down on top of it just relaxing.

Then I notice a small fox climb up on my chest, and lay down looking at me. I stare in amazement, don't tell me she sent a fox to me in hopes that I would think of her?! It certainly was covered in her scent. I get ready to push it off when something happens, something that totally floored me. POOF! No more fox, more like Maemi laying on top of my chest with fox ears and two tails swishing contentedly across the bed. "Yup, she fused it looks like." Of course as suprising as all this is, there's one minor detail that I forgot to mention.

She's naked. Not a scrap of clothing to be found, and the only thing I'm wearing is a towel. Well in the past I've never really been interested in females, lets just say thatall those years of missed hormones decided to pay me back in one visit. I was suprised how soft (And erotic) fox tails are. It wasn't till then I realized that she had a relatively perfect body. She was slender without being skinny, a fairly large bust but not overly so. And skin as silky as her tail (Which by the way, her ears and tail are both the same color as her hair). In the aftermath of our "activities", She fell asleep on my shoulder while I contemplated a whole new look on life. It may sound like my life was changed by sex, but really it was the fact of me seeing her for the first time as something besides a "Female". Now I saw her as a woman, which is a serious change of thought for me. Well I planned to sleep earlier, I guess now is as good a time as any.

AN: Sorry took so long to get out, last weekend I had drill so I didn't have hardly any time to work on it, I hope you liked it.
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