Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto you can tell because if I did Pain would be alive and death would be a main character.

Naruto felt like crying they were only about an hour walk from Konoha but he couldn't

take it any more. How could she talk for so long with out seeming to draw breath? Since

they had started their journey to Konoha, Kushina had started to talk to her "father" to

break the silence and had never really stopped talking since. It was driving Naruto to

insanity.

"…teen bottles of sake on the wall, thirteen bottles of sake take one down and pass it

around, twelve bottles of sake on the wall." Sang Kushina, it was the fifth time she had

been through that song today.

'Make it stop for the love of god make it stop!' screamed Naruto in his mind

'Give me control of the body for a little and I can make it stop.'

'For the last time we are not selling her!'

'I said it one time as a joke ok a joke. I'm not really Kakuzu just you who is more

like him. I know you would never abandon some little girl especially since you know

what it feels like to be alone with no family. I was just going to knock her out for a

little and have us carry her the rest of the way to Konoha'

It was a tempting suggestion, Naruto had to admit but it went against a lot of the things he believed.

'No, but I have an idea'

'Its not going to work'

'How do you know?'

'I know you'

And on that note the mental conversation ended.

"Kushina" said Naruto in his new and rather gruffer voice. Kushina looked at him with expectant eyes.

"I have a game for us to play" said Naruto in the sweetest voice he could manage.

Meaning the phrase 'I'm going to rip out your spine and beat you to death with it!' would

have worked better with the tone. But Kushina didn't seem to mind.

"What game Dad?" asked Kushina in a voice only an innocent child could manage.

"Its called the who can be quiet the longest game" Indeed he knew this game well for he had played it with Iruka a lot during class.

"Sounds boring" whined Kushina, "Can't we do some thing better? Like that game we were doing yesterday?"

Naruto sighed 'Damn you inner me.' he thought as he heard a smug chuckle resonating in his mind.

"Kushina for the last time that was training, training is not a game."

Inner Kakuzu had suggested that he test how many of the memories of Narutos time in

her body she maintained. So Naruto had tested her it turned out she remembered most of

it including all of the academy level jutsu's Naruto had tried out in her body and shadow

clone jutsu. She also knew a little basic taijutsu. But just because she knew them did not

mean she could do them well. Kushina's clones were barely better than Narutos had been

when he was a student. To do a successful replacement she had to concentrate on it for

five minutes before she was ready, a fatal amount of time in a real battle.

And Finally Kushina's Transformations were lacking…..details, yes details like a real face for instance.

However Kushina was still repressing all her memories of the massacre.

Her mind was going so far as to repress memories of her family besides Naruto in order not to remember.

Which was very good for Naruto since he had not retained any of Kushina's memories.

Naruto and inner Kakuzu drilled Kushina a little a night not just for her but also for

Naruto. Naruto was still not used to the body he was in now so he needed to train in order

to get a full grasp of its abilities. He was also still sorting through Kakuzu's memories

trying to come to terms with them. He had yet to master all of Kakuzu's former jutsu's,

after all there were a lot of them.

But back to the conversation at hand.

"So your afraid of losing?" asked Naruto is a condescending voice trying his best to copy Sasuke.

'Hmmm that tactic just may work, after all it would have gotten you to play it.'

'Shut up!'

"NO! I'll beat you!" yelled Kushina in a voice loud enough to make Naruto wince in pain.

"Good and guess what if you win I'll buy you some thing when we get to Konoha!"

'NOOOOOOOOOOO! WE BUY HER NOTHING THAT'S NOT A NECESSITY!'

Screamed inner Kakuzu in rage, but Naruto ignored him.

"Really?" asked Kushina making a face that would make even hardened criminals melt.

'Don't you dare fall for the fucking puppy eyes.'

"Yes!" said Naruto while ignoring his inner self.

'I hate you so much…'

'Oh shut up you drama queen' thought Naruto at his inner self.

And so the next hour passed in blissful silence for Naruto. As They got closer to Konoha

the roads became more crowded. Hundreds of people were rushing to Konoha for refuge.

When they finally reached Konoha, Most of the people, were directed into refuge camps

right outside the walls. They were provided with meals and education for their children

but that was about it. Some of them who still had money were able to leave the camps

and buy apartments, but those were few and far between. A Genin, Naruto guessed from

his age, Had tried to direct them there too, until Naruto glared at him and released a small

portion of his KI. Needless to say they were left alone until they reached the gate.

Oboro liked gate duty it was easy and his life was not on the line like so many other

Chunins out there dying in this war. Also he did not have to really do any thing but day

dream at this point because the Genin were sorting out the refuges. Oboro was very

shocked to see two figures still approaching Konoha. He shook his partner Kagari awake

and pointed at the two figures. They both turned and squinted at them. One figure was

huge a giant at least 6 foot and probably more with tanned skin and rather scary eyes. He

had a mask that covered his most of his face and the rest of his head. His clothing covers

almost all of his body leaving only his hands and a small portion of his forearms exposed.

The other was a young girl who at a glance you could tell was seven or eight years old.

She had red hair which extended down to her waist; on her face you could still see traces

of baby fat making it very round looking, like a tomato…..Oboro and Kagari quickly

straitened themselves out and waited until they arrived.

"Oboro do you think that that big guy is the guard for the little red head who it turns out

is a princess from a distant land searching for a man to be her suitable husband offering

him riches only to be kidnapped and for him to-" Kagari was stopped by a swift kick

from Oboro "Look just because your girl friend gives you those types of novels does not mean you have to read them….Also what have I told you?"

Kagari sighed and said in a voice of some one who has said this particular phrase many

times "What happens in the novels is not what happens in real life…" It was really trajic

the novels were eating away at Kagari's sanity. They gave him gate guard out of pity at this point.

"Good, I would guess that the tall man is her distant relative who got her away from her

home just in time to be save her, and he scared the Genin so much they left him alone."

Kagari seemed to accept this, though he did so with the air of a child whose just been

punished. And then the two people finally arrived. And they started to walk past until Oboro stopped them.

"You two before your allowed to enter we need to se your papers." He shouted at them.

The man who was much larger up close turned to look at him with his quite unique eyes.

"I'm afraid mine and my daughter's papers were burned down with our home in

whirlpool." Oh a sad tale that could say….Wait did he say daughter? They looked nothing alike!

Suddenly the girl shouted in triumph "Ha dad I win now you have to buy me something!"

"damn it" the man muttered under his breath. While the girl dance around in joy.

"Can you point us out to a place were we can redo our papers?"

Oboro thought for a bit "ah you would want the registration office I'll point it out to you"

He turned only to see the little girl trip in the middle of her dance only to have her

'Father' appear out of no were and catch her.

"Kushina you really should be more careful" Said the man in what Oboro thought was a

concerned tone. 'I didn't even see him move' thought Oboro. "Sorry sir it didn't catch

your name." said Oboro trying to keep the nervousness out of his voice.

"Its Kakuzu Uzumaki, and this is my daughter Kushina Uzumaki." Said Kakuzu.

'Well they are most likely not Iwa spies after then they would be more prepared, But

that name ….were have I heard it before…Ah in the bingo book an S class missing

nin…shit I need to inform the Hokage. I'll bring them to him.'

"If you two could follow me I'll show you the way there." He said to the tow before

turning to him partner and saying "Kagari watch the gate while I'm gone. AND TAKE

YOUR NOSE OUT OF THAT WRECHED BOOK!" Poor man he and the rest of

Kagari's friend were going to have an intervention on Thursday hopefully it would turn out well.

As their guide Oboro, as he called himself, led them through Konoha, Naruto could not

help but think that it was odd that he would take such special care for Him and Kushina.

Kushina was jumping around and looking at the new sites and places.

'Odd he's taking us to the Hokage's tower…' thought Naruto. 'Ah well the place is huge

so there's most likely more than just the Hokage in it right?'

'I suppose'

'That was rhetorical'

Suddenly Oboro stopped and pointed to a young woman who was waiting for them just inside the doors of the tower.

"Haru-san will take you the rest of the way Uzumaki-san." He said before walking away

as fast as he could. Haru turned around and said to the two of them "Please follow me sir

the Hokage will see you now." Before walking away in the direction of his office.

'Oh you have to be fucking kidding me…I've been her twenty minutes at the most and now I'm seeing the Hokage'

'Well lets see you have the name and appearance of and S class missing nin, and not

to mention you can move faster than the gate guard can follow, also you're here

with out papers which indicates that you're a spy from Iwa…I think we may be screwed…'

Naruto felt like crying. He looked at Kushina who was still being awed by the tower and

the fact they were getting to see the great leader of Konoha. He gave her a pat on the head.

"No matter what happens you will be fine ok." He said to Kushina. Kushina looked at

him and said "Your acting funny dad. Do you have a cold?"

"No it nothing" Kushina looked as if she was going to talk more but she was interrupted

by Haru "In here please" she said pointing to the Hokages office.

Sarutobi Hiruzen third Hokage of Konoha was having as good a day as you could get

with your nation at war and the fact the great enemy of his existence 'paper work'

seemed to keep growing. So when he heard some one was using the name Kakuzu he had

jumped at the chance to get away from work and had the man called to his office

straight away. From the hall way he heard his secretary say "In here please" what enter

was what appeared to be a little girl around the age of seven with long red hair. What

followed her was 'No…I thought I would never see that face as long as a live…Kakuzu

the man who tried to assassinate my teacher.'

"Haru-san could you please take the little girl out and leave" Haru bowed and took the

girl by the hand and left. She waved bye to Kakuzu and was gone. Sarutobi looked at

Kakuzu and thought 'He doesn't look a day older than when he attacked my teacher how?'

Naruto was feeling nervous with the man whom he had considered his grandfather

looking at him so closely. His heart filled with dread when he hearld the words

"Haru-san could you please take the little girl out and leave."

'Well I'm screwed' thought Naruto. The third looked and him for a bit more then

gestured at a chair "Please be seated we have a bit of a discosion ahead of us."

Naruto sat in the chair as strait as he could he could feel sweat on his for head.

"Name." Said Sarutobi in a voice that made the statement a demand and not a question.

"Kakuzu Uzumaki." Naruto answered out of sheer habit.

"Uzumaki-san do you know why you have been brought here today?"

"Uhhhhhhh would you be surprised if I said no?"

"Look drop the act I know you're the same man who tried to kill my teacher, though if I

didn't know better I would think you were just a nervous civilian"

'Did we try to kill the first Hokage' aksed Naruto

'Sigh yes we did, but I thought you had already gone through those memories…'

'Oh I forgot…and why did you say "sigh" out loud?'

'Give me control of our body! I can get us out of this!'

'Fine since I cant think of any thing, but you could at least answer my question…'

"Yes I am the same man who tried to kill the first Hokage." Answered Inner Kakuzu.

"Explain to me why I shouldn't kill you here and now? There are many reasons in favor

for it, you tried to kill my sensei, also you have a bounty of over fifty million Ryo on

your head which would certainly help Konoha's effort in this war. So give me a reason not to."

'We are screwed aren't we?'

'Seems that way.'

"Both of those are fine reasons to kill me so let me start with the second one. Indeed

you could kill me you are after all the god of Shinobi, but can you kill me in one

blow? Because if you can't then I will reek havoc through this village before I'm

finally dead meaning that sum on my head most likely wont pay all of the damage"

Sarutobi seemed to consider this and said "Ok then what about the first point?"

"It is indeed true that I tried to kill you Sensei… But I failed, then I killed the people

who sent me to kill him in the first place which led to a more Konoha friendly government to be elected."

Sarutobi gave him and odd look "You really except me to believe that you killed your

leaders for Konoha's sake and not just some vengeful thought" Said the third in obvious sarcasm.

"We as shinobi follow our leaders orders with out question, even in this village, I

have not grudge or hatred against Konoha. Are you really going to punish me for

being a loyal soldier?"

"It is true that we are Soldier who will follow orders with out question, but as soldier we

must accept the consequences of our actions. Why should you be exempt from this?"

'Shit' thought Naruto

"Because I'm trying to make amends…."

The Thirds mask of emotionlessness dropped for a brief second but still enough to see the

look of surprise. The mask was back on "How do you intend to do that?"

Kakuzu looked the third directly in the eye and said "By helping you in this war. And

by raising Kushina as my daughter." The third raised and eye brow "So she's not you

real daughter, who's is she? And why is she still tagging along with you?"

Kakuzu sighed "She comes from a small family in the former whirlpool country, her

village was burned ands when I found her she had gone through a lot of physical

and mental trauma. Apparently she repressed all of her memories of family and that

village and replaced her memories of her father with me…The human mind is a odd

thing it will do what ever possible to preserve sanity."

"So you just took her in out of the kindness of your heart?" said Sarutobi in disbelief.

"After long years of being alone and causing pain I am trying to make amends as I have said and this seemed a way to do it."

The sound of crying echoed around Kakuzu's mind 'Such a sad story, your such a great person'

Inner Kakuzu felt like smashing his head against a wall 'You do realize that that all a

lie right…?'

'Of couse I do but its still touching'

Kakuzu was going to replay but the mental conversation was interrupted by Sarutobi

saying "I have decide your fate" then he snapped his fingers and four Anbu appeared

behind him. The third stood up and he seemed to tower over them. "You will join

Konoha as a Chunin in rank there will be a chakra limiting seal placed on you and a

surveillance seal, which will not be removed until I have decided that you have proven

your loyalty, Kushina will be placed in academy and when she graduates you will

become and assistant teacher to who ever her Sensei is." Sarutobi paused for a second to

let it sink in Kakuzu sat in shock he was really going to live 'Yes' thought Naruto.

Sarutobi then continued by saying. "You will of course be provided with you own

apartment that is all, Dog and rabbit seal him then show him the way to his new home"

I Hope you liked it Sorry for being late But please review even if you don't like it I need the help! Oh and Oboro and Kagari will just appear once in a while as comic relief.

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