The pool is over, I shall keep the names as I began with and make references to the Cannon names of Naruto's Parents, Thank you to those that voted. And to those that didn't have your wishes granted, remember we live in a democracy, as in government of the majority; so bear with it.

Naruto the Crystal VillageChapter one (.3) Odama Village; Shion's Prediction
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Odama Village, a very small places deep inside the Rai no Kuni forests. Most of its income comes from the selling of harvested supplies to passerby doctors and merchants, including animal skin and medicinal herbs; it has a small textile plant with a clothes maker, and also a very small goat ranch. Native population twenty people.

"Good morning kids" One of the guards spoke seeing two youngsters approaching him. One had a messy hair as yellow as the sun, with a growing ponytail or in his case fox tail, and blue eyes. Nearby him was another kid, younger with selvage green eyes and a golden hair that could either be light chestnut or dark blond. Both kids wore a rather smudged, white shirt and white shorts, along with sandals. "Welcome to the Odama Village, what are your businesses here?" Asked him


They were here because word had gotten out that Shion, a priestess with the power to defeat demons, had come over to reinforce the seals around the village and the forest. According to Kyubi Shion had a pure soul, meaning she was perfect to do the ritual to exhume Sphinx from Cliff.Cliff being the golden haired kid.

As it turned out Naruto's use of the jutsu that should have cut loose the connection between the demon and the possessed human failed miserably. The former Konoha citizen remembered seeing two silver eyes before being knocked out. When he woke up the guard told him a patrol had found him and Cliff knocked out on the woods, they seized Cliff and placed the kid on trial.

During the trial the young boy behaved like a human. Kyubi pointed out the jutsu had probably sealed away Sphinx by accident. On closer inspection tough it became evident something went terribly wrong. The new Jinchuuriki and his demon were fusing at a rather dangerous pace. And to make matters worse Kyubi didn't know how this might have happened. The only thing she knew is that, for the sake of the world, they would need to separate these two, as soon as possible...


"We are here to sell some of our earnings." Naruto said taking out many leathers from his backpack. He could perform the subspace pocket but that would attract unwanted attention. "We intend to stay no more than six days." He added."Sure, go ahead, Madame Povola is the local healer, she will give you free stay in exchange for some of your products, also don't go near the blue tent on the village, it belongs to a VIP visitor and even going near her would get you in trouble."
It took Naruto a lot of planning to rescue Cliff from what would probably be a life time of community service. The boy had to sacrifice one of the four remaining coins of Iwagakure no Sato, pre-civilian war in order to pay for the monetary loss inflicted by the thievery acts. He also had to sign an agreement that would place Cliff on his custody and responsibility for at the time he was disguised as an old gentleman (Henge no Jutsu) and the Defense pointed out that Naruto would be able to play father role to Cliff. Last, but not least, they had to leave the village before sunset and promise to never come back.

Naruto spend yet another coin to give cliff enough supplies and food. and they left.

The boy retained his memories from the time he was being possessed, which turned him into a very weak academy student level ninja, Naruto, Kyubi and Sphinx put him into a month of hard training (Naruto training as well) to make up for that. After many debates they decided to use one ritual Kyubi had only so far heard about, but to prevent the same troubles from happening again they decided a pure human, Namely Shion, should do the ritual.

From the long contact with Naruto, his only human role, and from discussions with Sphinx, the boy decided to join the other blond on his quest for their own village. They became mentor and student, even tough sometimes one couldn't tell who was the mentor and who was the student;Cliff's personality was pretty much like Naruto, or at least a weaker Naruto. He was a bit shyer tough since he didn't have the level of human contact the other had. Another thing Naruto quickly learned was that while being fit for sports the boy was also a bookworm, always enjoying literature, he was also good at genjutsu but his ninjutsu was below academy student level. If one thing he learned quickly, and like Naruto he had amazing strength and regenerative abilities.


They walked into an old hut, naruto recognizing it as a curander's home for it's red cross on the door, and knocked on the door. It went open before he could touch the wood and his eyes locked with the brown eyes of a very old woman. Her hair was completely black and, well, she looked like a replica of the wicked witch from the west. Without the pointy hat and green face, her house too looked like a Witch's hut, with large old books with leather and metal cover up on a shelf, and a large cauldron with green water over a fireplace. Several bottles were tidy in an old closet. And a large bed was in the center."Good morning gentleman, what brings you two...?" Her eyes widened when she landed view on Naruto "Ah, I see, the demon vessel."

Naruto immediately went into defense mode; he had heard that sentence many times but couldn't expect it out of Konoha, much less from a Healer. One thing he knew was that sentence would often precede a chain of torturing events. The old woman, noticing his reaction, quickly raised her hands "I won't harm you, Uzumaki, please come in, we have a lot to talk."Naruto hesitated before going inside the house.


He took a seat on the only table. Cliff looked around and decided he would stay still. The woman, Madame Povola, picked up three cups and an old bottle; she served three doses of a cold beverage and took a seat as well, drinking her glass."I believe I never introduced myself. I'm Povola, Morgana Povola. Local healer and sometimes prophet."

"Naruto Uzumaki, Former Konoha Ninja in Training and well, I'm the vessel of Kyubi."

"Cliff Waters, Former Ume no Kuni Thief." The boy spoke "I'm with him."

The old lady lifted once again and picked an old book, she handed to Naruto "It's yours, your grandfather gave me some decades ago, It will be very useful for your journey" She spoke "An old man sometimes drops by to add more pages but he stopped coming a while ago, he told me to give you the book If I ever met you."

"How do you know I'm on a journey?" Asked him "And how do you know who am I?"

The woman looked at him with misterious eyes before answering "We are humans, in a way or the other we are all connected." Naruto starred at her and she decided to give up the mystery play "I have a picture of you." The woman answered taking something from her drawer. It was a picture of him inside an incubator, with Marina and Arashi behind.

"They took it on October tenth, the morning before Kyubi attacked, it was probably the only time you had for yourselves, you were born prematurely the night before, making October ninth your real birthday date."

"And of course no one told me!" The boy answered more to himself, taking the book and sending it away to the subspace pocket in front of her eyes. He would read it latter when he had time. "Either way, we would like to stay for some time; my friend here has a problem."

"I know, I know. Really boy you should be on lookout for spies, even as we speak Jiraya's informants and two men from another organization are trying to find a weakness in my house to overhear our meeting. Several people know about your contact with Kyubi and some even know about your interest in building a hidden village, of course not many people think you are able so they tend to leave you in peace."

Naruto gasped, he had been followed all along and never once realized it, and it just proved he still had a long way before being a true ninja."Don't worry; you are safe inside this village and its forest. And thanks to my fuin jutsus the house is impenetrable, you may train your stealth in here, Kyubi probably knows some jutsu that can make you pass unnoticed." The woman stated

-This woman is smart, I don't think she's a normal human.-

-I agree, we should keep an eye on her.- Naruto stated

-At least she warned us about the others, Can't believe I didn't notice them.-

-True, we have been careless.-

-Don't worry I know a jutsu we can use to avoid evasion-


For the next week the boys kept inside the house training evasiness and cloaking, sometimes they would go out and harvest, while talking pure nonsense to distract their followers, the two also developed a hand code they could use to transmit hidden messages.

Three days latter as the two returned from a morning cooper they opened the door and met no other than Lady Shion herself. The priestess wore a brown traveler's cloak, a clear indication she had just escaped her usual duties. Povola wore a green kimono."Good morning." The priestess spoke "I'm Shion." She added bowing. Both kids followed the procedure and introduced themselves.

"I explained Ms Shion about your situation; she agreed to be the performer of whatever jutsu she can use to separate the Biju from the boy."

"Even tough, I do not known any jutsu or ritual that can do such thing besides the Shiki Fujin" The woman stated, glancing at Naruto

The blond then summoned a scroll "Kyubi gave me this a few days ago, It is an old ritual that has not been tried for a few millennia."The Sage took it and read the instructions. It was an easy to cast jutsu but very consuming of both the caster and victim.Povola looked at the document and nodded "A very ancient jutsu indeed, never heard of it."

"It might work tough" the priestess spoke "I shall make amends to prepare the ritual. Meet me tomorrow at my tent."

Back In Konohagakure no Sato: For once in his life Sarutobi was angry. Angry not at himself for his foolishness, but at his council and their villagers. The matter at hand was the Hyuga Kidnap, a disaster caused by no other than the Hidden Village of cloud. This event practically shacked the villages trust and turned the already paranoiac Council into mindless worms that believed in the depth of their hearts that the one responsible for this act of low faith was the Kyubi.

No one paid attention to the fact Hinata Hyuga had been kidnapped, the Hyuga barely acknowledged it because she had taken her byakugan with her, but other than sending branch members to ensure that the bloodline wouldn't fall on the wrong hands they didn't really press for her rescue.

Meanwhile a much darker plot was ongoing. Uchiha Shisou was found dead in a lake a few days ago. The autopsy indicated he suffered a lot of mental stress before the end of the battle, a possible indication of a forbidden genjutsu. And there were few genjutsu that could fool the Sharingan, which means only one thing, somebody in his village was the mutterer, probably another Uchiha.


"Yo!" Stated a puff of smoke appearing behind him. "Welcome Jiraya, what do you have for me?"

"Nothing new, it seems the gaki figured out we were using a spy network on him, he's been more evasive. But it seems Shion is making some sort of ancient ritual, I wonder what is she planning to do." The man stated

Sarutobi trusted Jiraya to keep Naruto away from the root and any other Hunter Nin. As long as Jiraya's spy network could track the boy so would the ones that wanted him dead. He did got a few snapshots of the boy's major plan. Personally he doubted the boy could achieve such power in so little time, but Naruto was their number one unpredictable Ninja, AND the son of two of the most power full ninjas he had ever met.

"Even if Naruto hadn't been born in the royal blood of the Arashi-Uzumaki, I doubt that he would have been the average ninja. His eyes are something else, they held the innocence of a child, the play full mind of a teenager, and sometimes I swear I could see a lot of power in those eyes. If anything I would say Naruto is like the wind." Sarutobi stated "Gentle as a breeze, destructive as a hurricane, unpredictable, he cannot be stopped." Jiraya agreed.


The next morning Cliff and Naruto went to the blue tent. By the marks on the soil they could tell the interior had suffered a minor redecoration.-Ne, Kyuubi, what do you think will happen? - -If it works? Well no one can destroy a biju, they can be sealed or sent to the after-plane, Even if the latter happens, and I hope it happens, I don't think the boy will be fully free from the Sphinx Curse. They will probably share some mental connection, maybe even the ability to summon each other. Cliff might even retain his powers over mirrors.-

It was common sense that the sphinx had the power to travel and cast jutsu trough mirrors, just like Ichibi could do it with his sand, Sanbi (The Shark) trough the water and Nekomata trough the Shadows. In fact the demon could use any reflective surface to his advantage.

The jutsu was a Kyuuchiose (Summoning) for the God Kosmos, if it worked the god would use her mighty power to divide the souls of Cliff and the Sphinx. Of course just like the Shinigami Kosmos wouldn't be happy for being summoned. The three humans prayed on the mercy of the god.

"Oh Kosmos, god of order, please show mercy on this soul and correct the mistakes of our impure society, I, Shion, pledge my soul!"

The second she finished that chanting blue sparks started to flow from a nearby water basin and around the priestess. Naruto could tell she was suffering but she would survive, a few minutes latter she was covered by the armor of the goddess of order, her hair turned green and flaming and a large sword was on her right hand.

The possessed priestess approached Naruto, her blue eyes' locking with Naruto's, the boy was frozen in fear at the power she displayed, and he wondered how nobody else outside the tent could sense it. She kept starring at him for a few seconds then shook her head turning to her mission.With one swift cut Cliff met the floor, a pool of an onyx liquid flowing from the large gash on his liver. Then with another touch of her soft blue skin a strange scar overcame the gash, it was made of a green flexible and shiny substance.

The goddess then placed both her hands on the pulses of the boy and two small wristbands appeared; both of a rubbery material but with the touch of the most noble of the leathers. The goddess then left the boy there and collected all the Onyx ooze into a small sphere.She then turned once again to Naruto "It is done, Epyon."

She finished disappearing, Shion fell on the floor; exhausted, Naruto, too, fell unconscious once the energy was released.


It took three days of recovery for Naruto, four to Shion and seven to Cliff. As it appeared Madame Povola found them and took them back to her house. Naruto and Shion both suffered chakra burns from exposure to the goddess presence, Also Naruto had signs of mental collapse, probably the cause of him passing out. Cliff didn't have any signs of injury save for that large green scar on his stomach. The healer couldn't make it close with any of her potions, and surgical appliances that touched it had their metal absorbed by the wound, causing it to shine brighter. Since using anything not sterilized could damage the boy's liver the old lady decided to let it be.

"So Naruto, where are we going to now?" Asked Cliff. Naruto had been starring at his letter soup, his fork unconsciously writing the name which the goddess used to address him. "Naruto-Sama?" Asked the golden haired kid flicking him in the head. Naruto shook it and turned to Cliff."We are going north west." The boy spoke "We need to leave ASAP, by now Kumogakure and the other villages must be aware of our presence." The boy really didn't want Konoha to find about him messed in this crap.

Truth to be told the pacific village was surrounded by spies, Naruto couldn't be gladder of his training to sense people's chakra signatures. Deciding that leaving the village from trough the front door wouldn't do, he chose to dig his way out trough a large waterway that crossedbelow the village. As he predicted it was another long walk trough a maze of tunnels, but like the other time in Konoha no enemies would think of him escaping this way. By the time Kumogakure forced their entry on the healer's home, they were long gone and solid concrete covered their exit route.


I Know, took me more time than I predicted to post this chapter. The fact is that i had to rewrite it three times to make it looking good. Besides my use of computer was restrained thanks to the university monthly exams, If that wasn't enought google docs decided to lock up a few days ago, which only delayed the posting, last but not least when the file got to FF I discovered it had been completly unformatted, just my luck.

The next chapter is almost ready, it will further press on the misteries surrounding Naruto

PS: If any of you are wondering "Epyon is the greek word for Next, I decided from the beggining of this fic Naruto would not have bloodlines, him having the kyubi is already enought to make him overpowered, but this does not mean I can't do with him things that will for sure be done with other characters, since there will be more than one Jinchuuriki (Cliff and a Third one) I decided creating the still unexplained twist of Epyon would be a good way to explain for Naruto's apparent supremacy over his peers. That will be further explained in the latter chapters