Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

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Naruto raced through the forest at an impressive speed. He thought about calling himself an idiot at his decision, but the circumstances couldn't be helped. He felt he needed to do this. He needed to see this. He could still vividly remember Mei's words as the bombs went off while he was on the arena floor.

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"Naruto! Come on, me and my bodyguards will get us out of here!" She said suddenly as she dropped down in front of Naruto. She grabbed his hand gently and began to pull him. He was like a star struck teenager at the madness that was going on around them.

However despite Mei having a hold of Naruto, his attention wasn't on her. He could see the beast absolutely clearly from a hole that had been blown in the wall of the stadium. A giant raccoon made of sand, and everything suddenly all made sense to him. A giant raccoon made of sand? A red head that has distinct features of that of a raccoon such as the black ringed eyes? The fear his siblings showed him? They were alike. Another jinchuriki in Konoha? He had to meet the boy on even terms, when they weren't supposed to fight.

"Sorry Mei... I can't go with you..." He said as he slowly began to pull away from her grip and began to slowly inch his way to the broken wall of the stadium.

Both of Mei's body guards got rather wide eyes at the statement before turning to the glowering Mizukage. "Excuse me?" she asked through gritted teeth. "Where do you plan on going then Naruto-kun?" she said forcing the suffix. She couldn't believe this child would actually want to be stranded in the middle of a battlefield, much less oppose her after all of this time.

"Look Mei! I'm sorry I can't go with you right now!" Naruto said in frustration completely shrugging out of the woman's grasp, and leaping to make his way out of the stadium. He jumped over some fallen rubble as water continued to flood out of the stadium through cracks. He went to make another leap as soon as he was out of the stadium, but true to her title the Mizukage was right in front of Naruto. In the middle of his leap, she had caught him by the throat and raised him to her eye level.

"Why oh why are you trying to get yourself killed..." She said in a low voice as she pulled Naruto mere inches from her own face.

Naruto grit his teeth as he struggled against the woman's grip, "Mei!" Naruto gasped out through the choke hold, "I just need to see it alright!" Naruto said as he cast his eyes away from the woman. "It is the only person I have ever found that is like me."

Mei looked to the side where the raging beast was making it's advances on Konoha, at a rather slow and sluggish pace. "Naruto, that is no longer any jinchuriki you think it is, that is purely a beast. You wont be able to talk to it, to reason with it, I am not going to let you go just so you can possibly end up dead." She sifted through her brain quickly for a comment that would get the boy to go with her, "You are for too important for me to be able to stand seeing you hurt... or worse."

Naruto's gaze softened exponentially and he actually turned his gaze to the Mizukage, a frown still apparent on his face. "I'm sorry Mei-chan... but I have to go. I promise if there is anything I can do for you I will help you alright? But you have to let me go."

Mei held back a frown at the outcome of this fight of theirs. There wasn't much she could do if he was this dead set on seeing the beast. She knew deep down though that if she was one of the nine Jinchuriki in the world, she would be curious about meeting one as well.

She stared at Naruto for a good minute, still holding him off the ground by his neck before sighing. After going through multiple civil wars in her own village, she had grown quick to learn that she could use her female charm to get one wrapped around her finger. It wasn't something she particularly enjoyed doing, yet when in war, desperate times call for desperate measures. Naruto was invaluable to the Mist as a resource, and they would need his potential power.

At least... that is what she tried to rationalize when she gave the boy a soft kiss on the lips before dropping the red faced boy down. She had told him the kiss was for good luck, but she also knew it was for numerous other reasons that wouldn't fit on a list. "Remember our deal Naruto." she said calmly as he turned to move.

As Naruto ran off, Mei turned to her body guards whom were both surprised by her actions. Also to her slightest bit of guilt, the youngest swordsmen ever inducted into the Seven Shinobi Swordsman of the Mist seemed quite put out by her actions. She remembered quite vividly that she had once done this to get the poor swordsman wrapped around her finger. The boy never really did grow out of it... not that it was particularly a bad thing. Yet she couldn't help but feel the slightest bit of guilt whenever she saw how loyal the boy was to her regardless of her actions. Yes... toying with the emotions of people close to her always had repercussions. Yet after years of doing it she had long since forgot that the road to hell is paved with the best intentions.

"Mei do you really think letting him go on his own is really such a good idea?" The man with an eye patch asked with a raised eyebrow.

Mei pursed her lips as she watched the boy's shrinking form as he got farther into the distance. "Konoha will probably send someone after him eventually... however to be safe lets get this done quickly so we can check on the boy if required. Follow me, you have to assist me with defending the Sandaime Hokage. I have a new plan."

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Naruto shook his head clear of thought as he grew closer and closer to the giant sand beast. That was when he saw it out of the corner of his eye. The sand siblings, or at least two of them. The blonde haired girl, Temari, whom was Naruto's last match was huddled over the fallen form of her red headed brother.

Naruto jumped from branch to branch over to the wind mistress before landing in front of the girl.

The girl must not have been aware of her surroundings, because the moment Naruto landed beside them, her teary eyes went wide and she erected her fan as a shield to attempt to ward the yellow haired boy off. However with her being a long ranged fighter, it didn't take much at all for Naruto to render her useless. Naruto place his gauntlet encased arm on the fan, and between being physically stronger then the girl, and in such close range to her there was nothing she could do.

"I'm not here to fight you." Naruto said calmly as he tried to hold up a hand that gave the silent message of 'I come in peace' in case she didn't understand his initial verbal message.

Yet the girl was hearing none of it. She reared back her fist and launched it forward yelling, "Get away from my brother!" with tears in her eyes.

Naruto deftly caught the punch with his free hand and squeezed the girl's fist, bringing her to her knees. "What the hell is your problem!" Naruto asked completely confused with her irate state as he looked down to the red head. Yep... he was breathing. So what was the girl's problem?

"My problem!" she fan wielder questioned with a yell. "My problem is that your fucking Anbu came into the contestant box to me and my brothers. Then he attacked my brother breaking his puppet before cutting his achilles tendons!" She spat in frustration as tears streamed down her face.

Naruto raised an eyebrow and looked to the red head briefly, which Temari didn't take all that well. Yet not letting Naruto to come to the conclusions himself, she said "Not Gaara, my other brother you fucking idiot!"

Naruto grit his teeth at the girl before him, and contemplated momentarily if anyone would really miss her if she accidentally fell out of this tree.

"Then! He took Gaara while he was injured and rushed out of the stadium with him. I tried to run after him, but he was too fast. By the time I get here, the masked man is gone, and he already unsealed Shuk-" like a kid whom had just said something she shouldn't have, she quickly clasped her hand over her mouth.

Naruto however was surprised by her statement and could already piece together the rest of the statement, "Wait, so you are telling me that you can unseal a tailed beast and still live?" Naruto asked, slightly hopeful at the possibility.

Temari had since gone unresponsive and merely said, "Please just go..."

Naruto frowned as her and let go of her first, before like a father would to a daughter, he pat her on the head. "Get out of here, I will try and... distract this thing." He said with a frown on his face as he looked over to the tailed beast.

Temari looked like she wanted to laugh, despite her red teary eyes, which in turn made Naruto growl. "Go now, I wont offer again!" he yelled at her harshly.

She wasn't going to push the chunin champion and quickly gathered her brother and wrapped his arm over her shoulder, and carried her fan in her free hand before leaping off trying to get as far away from the unsealed tailed beast as possible.

Naruto looked at the beast before him with a growing frown. His frown wasn't due to fear, but due to recognition. This type of beast? This atrocity was not only the weakest of them all, but was literally destroying all life around him as he walked. The sand that poured off of the beast and bathed the ground below him. He occasionally stopped to take pleasure in drowning a wild animal in sand all the while laughing manically on his way to Konoha.

Naruto gathered moisture from the air and created a series of clones. Hey it wasn't like he hadn't battled already today right?

Yeah that was what he would like to think. Yet when a massive tail flew over his head, but completely obliterated the tree and the several trees around it. As Naruto jumped down to the forest floor, utilizing his speed and small size to his advantage the sight before him made him take pause.

The sand that had been spilling off of the beast like some sickly toxic waste or pussing creature had since turned into a bunch of small hands running along the forest floor, merely trying to claw at him. Just then several things became evident to Naruto. Number one, the beast was toying with him. Number two, for once today, he didn't have a plan. He didn't have any plan that would turn matches one sided once executed. He was outclassed, not just in raw power, but in many things that effected a ninja's battle strategy. For example, the beast considerably outweighed Naruto, and his oppressive size instantly told him that taijutsu and more likely than not Kenjutsu was obviously not an option.

Naruto grit his teeth as he jumped up into the trees once again no longer wanting to dodge the claws coming at him. This left him to strictly ninjutsu, and he had a lot of chakra, but enough chakra to take down a tailed beast after a chakra intensive tournament? Now most would be hard pressed. The other problem was this being was obviously made of earth, where he strictly used water jutsu, along with one lightning jutsu. He had no idea if the beast had seen the strategy he had used on Gaara, but frankly right now it was his only option.

Naruto closed his eyes with a sigh as he instantly saturated the air in the hundred yards surrounding him with chakra. This action naturally had severely drained him, but it was well worth it for the situation. Sure Naruto could have just saturated the air every time before he pulled water out of it. However there were things he could now better focus on, such as how to stop the laughing maniac of a beast.

"Your so tiny!" the beast yelled with a laugh as it's tail slapped on the ground a couple times, shaking the surrounding area. "Look at you! You are barely the size of my nails! You think you can beat me? So much as scratch me?"

More laughter ensued.

Naruto however did his best to ignore the raging beast's insults no matter how true they were. Part of him now wished he had went with Mei, or at least left the sand siblings to die. Yet here he was playing the hero. Naruto ran a hand through his hair as he did a back flip to another tree. He knew he wasn't a hero, never was, likely never will be.

Naruto stared up at the insane beast, and felt a moderate amount of sympathy for it. Despite all of its violent tendencies, Naruto could remember an old saying, something that the Hokage had actually told him a few days after his encounter with Mizuki.

"Hey old man I kicked Mizuki's ass pretty good right? He is too scared to even look at me, and is constantly looking over his shoulder even if he has that stupid smile on his face everywhere he goes." Naruto said with a grin, trying to hide his frown as he thought that perhaps Mizuki was really afraid of him because of the Kyuubi.

Sarutobi merely stood next to the boy, but said nothing which prompted Naruto to question him.

"Old man?"

Sarutobi shook his head with a weak smile as he looked down at Naruto. "Naruto there is an old saying that I had learned from my two senseis, the former Hokages. They said that "A man never really knows himself until his freedom has been taken away." after giving me a lecture on Uchiha Madara and his betrayal of Konoha. They said that his clan essentially being confined to a district of Konoha, especially when being so power hungry drove the man mad with envy and greed. Now look at Mizuki Naruto, what do you see?"

Naruto peered over just to try and get a glimpse at Mizuki whom was being escorted to Anbu head quarters. However they turned the corner before he could see anything. So he made something up, "Fear..."

Sarutobi chuckled a bit and turned away bringing his hat down to shadow over his face as he motioned Naruto to walk with him. "No Naruto, insanity."

Who knows how long the tailed beast had been used for a Jinchuriki. However it was obvious the beast had long since gone off the deep end.

Naruto gathered another group of clone seeing as how all of his old ones had been destroyed by the beast before him, or just be the sheer amount of collateral damage the demon was producing. Naruto knew that eventually he would grow tired of running and dodging, not to mention he may end up slipping up. So his only chance was to fight back.

With that being said a dozen water clone rushed at the giant beast.

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The Mizukage jumped onto the building where there was a giant purple dome with several anbu in front of it. Sure she knew that she may act a bit sensitive with Naruto, and borderline inappropriate with the young boy. Although, her guards, and her shinobi knew one thing about her. On the battlefield, she was utterly ruthless.

"Chojuro map the perimeter! Ao find an opening. Anbu what are you doing just standing around when your Hokage is in trouble?" She said addressing her two bodyguards before addressing the squad of Konoha Anbu.

The leader of the Anbu spoke up with a minor shake of the head, "There are no gaps amongst the perimeter Mizukage-sama. We can only hope that there is a point in which the shield drops that either allows us time to get in, or for the Hokage to flee."

The Mizukage shook her head as she calculated the surrounding area, one didn't become the victor of a civil war without being a master tactician. There was also the fact that she needed to be in there for her own personal needs. Besides... no defense was perfect.

"Mei!" Ao said quickly grabbing her attention. She had told all of the shinobi close to her to address her by her first or last name excecpt when at formal affairs. The heat of battle, no matter the location wasn't a formal affair.

The shinobi with an eye patch came up quickly and whispered in her ear, "The bottom of the energy field is weaker, however even at the weakest levels I imagine you would become considerably burned by even the faintest touch. Yet... I believe if we launch an elemental jutsu at the four sides of the energy field. They would need to focus more energy to maintain those sides of the energy field."

Mei nodded her head slowly and as Chojuro came around the corner of the field she then gathered herself with the Anbu. "Alright here is what I need you to do. Chujuro go to the northern wall of the field with your sword drawn. The rest of you, produce a relatively strong elemental jutsu at the energy shield from the east, west, south, and the top of the shield. Chujuro, you don't need to do any jutsu."

Ao scoffed lightly at that, but he quickly averted his gaze as the Mizukage gave him a deathly glare before she continued. "At any rate, the shinobi holding up the field should have to direct more chakra to the sides being attacked, but more then likely will have to reduce all the shields on the bottom to hold up the side Chujuro is on as well. They will believe that we are attacking on four of the sides that can be attacked from above so that Chujuro can go in on the fifth and final side above with his sword drawn and assist the Hokage. They will then be forced to keep that side up as well with likely a greater amount of energy since they are focusing on that. If all goes right, then I will be able to slip through one of the gaps that may appear in the shield from below. Is that understood?"

When there were no comments from the shinobi, particularly the Anbu whom were now "looking" at the woman in a new light, as if they were looking at a commanding officer.

"Then what the hell are you all standing here for then? Go damnit before I kill you people for being a waste of space!"

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Naruto grit his teeth as he flooded his five shadow clones with as much chakra as possible. He could literally feel the burn as he began to pull on Kyuubi's chakra and let it flood into his system before flowing out and into the five clones. The reason he was doing this was simply because he knew just one water jutsu would not soak the beast. Hell he didn't even think five would do the trick... but if he used any more he had a feeling he would lose control. Losing control in a battle like this... well relying on instinct like he did in the past with Haku would not work with a tailed beast. It would only serve to get him crushed.

The sound and feel of a giant blast of wind, and the sound of uprooting trees in the nearby area only meant one thing. He had been found.

Naruto quickly had his clones scatter into a perimeter around the the beast, at a good distance. They did their best not to be seen, and he could only hope the attention he was about to attempt to attract would draw the beast to him and not his clones. After all this plan was merely a one shot, hit or miss situation. The most he could do is lead the beast away from Konoha like he had been doing.

Naruto jumped to the forest floor and dodged to the left behind a tree summoning twelve water clones. He made the clones heavier then usual by implementing them with a greater amount of water then necessary for a water clone. Sure it cost more chakra to hold more water together, but at the going rate at only slightly more then a regular bunshin? A little more chakra cant hurt.

Naruto went out into the open where the tail had sense retracted and started to grab the demon's attention.

"Hey fat ass! Quit missing!" Naruto yelled as he got ready to dodge any oncoming attack.

Shukaku, while Naruto could not tell, resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He launched his hand forward to the forest floor, before rushing it along the ground with a bunch of miniature claws sprouting from his arm. Playing with your prey was one thing. However there was no way he was going to let some silly fleshling taunt him and get away with him. Konoha could wait for his prey... but snarky prey? No those would be dealt with quickly.

Naruto barely had time to react as the clawed hand launched at him at speeds he never expected from the formerly large and rather sluggish beast. He was able to jump up over it, but not before his gauntlet getting a nice big gash on it, along with his sash getting a series of rips at the bottom. It was as if the beast's sand arm when moving by became that of razors upon contact.

Although, Naruto wasn't going to be one to waste this current opportunity. He jumped onto the beasts arm, followed by his water clones. He used chakra to stick to the arm, and hopefully the thin layer of chakra would keep any dangers of the raccoons possibly razor sharp body away.

Another arm burst forth in front of Naruto as he ran up the extended arm and charged at him. Naruto leaned to the side dodging the arm, and let it pierce through all of the water clones behind him. Typically shinobi would view this as bad. Naruto however didn't, he wasn't a genius, but he could think on his feet and capitalize on advantages when he saw them. Sure his clones got destroyed... but that didn't stop him from using one of the Nidaime Hokage's many abbreviated hand seals.

A water dragon burst forth from the falling water of the destroyed clones. Water continued to get sucked in to the water dragon as it charged along and aimed right for the demon's face. It all came down to this next hit or miss.

The demon grinned and shot a giant air bullet at the dragon, turning it into falling specs of water that evaporated back into the air in an instant. Yet that wasn't the attack Naruto ever intended for the demon to pay attention to, and by now it was too late.

Four water dragons had shot up into the air behind the giant raccoon and rammed into the demon's right arm saturating it with water, which in turn caused the demon to laugh. There was honestly no visible damage. The only thing that happened was the sand arm became wet. Yet as Naruto had proven with Gaara. The water wasn't what you had to worry about , it was what the water allowed. Naruto's clones charged forward under the giant demon and wasted no time in finishing their initial task. The lightning jutsu.

All four of them super heated the sand, and in an instant that majority of the raccoons arm turned into liquid glass... at least until Naruto launched another water dragon over the arm, the cold water instantly hardening the glass. Naruto grinned, at least until he saw the beasts eyes narrow.

Naruto whipped the water dragon around and had it's sheer force shatter into the end of the demon's claws, grabbing a single finger and shattering it off as it passed by, and carried it in it's jaw. It whipped around and thrashed wildly before whipping the large glass spike into the raccoon's head.

The raccoon appeared unamused, and unfazed by the attack. That was when Naruto knew it was over. All of that served to do absolutely nothing to the beast?

The one tailed demon shot a wind bullet at the forest floor, the impact flinging Naruto back into a tree, slamming into it full force, nearly completely on his head. Before he let darkness take him, that was when he heard it. It was a light laugh that rang though his ears easily despite the sound of falling trees, and distant explosions. He was able to weakly see out of the corner of his eye what appeared to be a woman stepping out of the shadows and preparing to face the beast.

"I knew you would need my help... eventually."

He could only hope she wasn't as stupid as he was.

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Mei stared at the situation before her with all of the forest growth. She was in a dilemma. Before her were both Orochimaru and the Sandaime Hokage in a deadlock. It was an impressive sight really. She knew right then that she was watching when the unstoppable force, meets the immovable object. It had taken a bit, but she was a master tactician. Through gently tugs and pulls in this or that direction during the battle, she had achieved a deadlock between the two shinobi, and she held their fate in her hands.

Orochimaru had legendary sword of Kusanagi attempting to piece the Hokage's body that had effectively hardened utilizing the old doton technique, 'The Earth Spear'. The only weakness the earth technique had was lightning techniques. Sarutobi could not move, for if he did, the Kusanagi would have the opportunity of striking one of the unprotected areas of the jutsu, which was one of it's major flaws. It weighed a shinobi down too much, so utilizing it for full body defense would only get one killed if they had to dodge a technique. There in lied the problem.

The Hokage refused to move, or he would be sliced open by his former student, and Orochimaru couldn't move because his free hand had been turned temporarily useless by the Mizukage's attack.

"Mizukage! Finish him off!" yelled the Sandaime as he stayed still not taking his eyes of his former student.

Mei shook her head with a sigh. After having just faced two of the former Hokages, and one of the greatest missing ninjas in history. She contemplated just letting the old man die. Yet she couldn't. She had things she needed to accomplish to ensure that The Mist would regain power. Making enemies with the hidden village widely believed to be the strongest of all hidden villages would be a bad move. Yet... this needed to be done.

"I am afraid Hokage that I did not come in here solely to help you... as I am sure you are aware. Are you aware of a binding seal?" she asked in an even tone that made both of the shinobi before her hold back their mild surprise at the situation.

Sarutobi however had since realized how grave the situation really was for him. He was the definition of a rock in a hard place. Comply with the woman's demands, his life is spared, along with Konoha's greatest missing ninja is killed. If he didn't comply... he would likely be killed. This would be just to ensure that his word wouldn't get out over her actions, and then propaganda could serve to cover up any rumors he may spread about her actions. Yet knowing his former student, he had a feeling that he would much rather take credit for the kill.

"I know several binding seals. However I assume you are speaking of the one that forces a person to keep the agreed upon terms, unless they wish to face death." he said bitterly.

"Precisely. I believe you realize why I have brought this up then correct?" she said silently.

He merely nodded his head, already not liking the current situation, and trying to think of a way out of the situation.

"Then..." she said as she walked up behind the old Hokage, but kept a decent distance. A Kage usually always had something up their sleeve. "I want you to sign the documents for a permanent shinobi transfer to the Hidden Mist for Uzumaki Naruto. Don't worry, I wont forcibly take him... until it is deemed necessary. I much rather have the boy come on his own free will, seeing as how with him having such great past experiences here... it will be hard for him to leave the place." She said with a hint of sarcasm about Naruto's experiences.

"Then, I want you to be willing to discuss the terms of forming an alliance with my village, since surely your alliance with Suna is not in ruins and you are left alone in the shinobi world against forces that would just love to exploit your weakness after this invasion. My country included." She took a breath as she noticed the Hokage's shoulders slump just slightly.

"Finally, in regards to the first and second and this binding seal, they are to never be talked about. I also don't want the action of you being forced to hand over Uzumaki Naruto to impact your decision with any negotiations that in the future with The Hidden Mist village. Also allow me to add into this seal, that you shall never attempt to bring harm to me. I can't have you turning around right after these seals and stabbing me in the heart now can I? You also must willingly allow me the right to alter these seals shall I deem it fit Hokage." Mei finished with a cold stare at the back of the Hokage's head. Did she like being manipulative? No. However she didn't like a lot of things, such as fighting. Especially when it was unnecessary. So in the words of the old Salamander Hanzo. 'Why fight when you can use subterfuge?'

The Hokage grit his teeth and silently fumed at his situation. There was nothing he could do if he didn't want to die and leave Konoha open to attack without a Hokage, and no alliances. "Just get this shit over with Mizukage." he said through clenched teeth.

The Mizukage grinned as she walked up and placed a hand on the man's spinal column. "Don't look so sad Hokage. You would be dead if you didn't agree to this." Three consecutive seals with shot in under the flesh and were engraved on the man's spinal column.

Sarutobi scoffed and spat out, "You will one day learn that there are some fates worse than death Mizukage."

"You will take these secrets to your grave... Hokage-sama." She finished with an icy tone.

"And you..." she said as she turned with Orochimaru with a wicked gleam.

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Naruto blinked slowly, peering out through blurry eyes. He was laying on the ground, with a moderately steep slope. However he was in no position to roll over and examine his surroundings. He felt like his entire body had been hit by a tree... oh wait...

Crouched over his fallen form, Naruto could barely make out the image of a woman... an odd looking, rather exposed woman, but a woman none the less. She mine as well of been naked with how little clothing she was wearing. Seemingly opting to not wear a top, and only the shortest shorts he had ever seen. If he hadn't been so injured, and the woman didn't have so many... things on her body, he likely would of blushed.

He had no idea what to call the numerous quantity of "Things..." that covered her body. They reminded him kind of like the shells of beetles. Like an insect carapace, but... he had seen some crazy stuff in his short time as a ninja. He hadn't seen anything like that. Even from Shino.

It was odd that he was able to relax in the shade seeing as how there were no trees around. Yet it was that fact that quickly snapped Naruto back to reality and quickly sobered up his vision. The woman had wings! He would of called her an angel if it weren't for the fact that the said wings were webbed like a bat.

The first words out of Naruto's mouth were slow as he looked around the smoldering landscape, "I'm in hell... aren't I?"

The woman looked slightly offended at this, but said nothing. She brushed her brown locks of hair out of her face. It was incredibly smooth, Naruto could tell even without touching it. It was like that of spider silk. However her most stunning feature were her golden eyes, that literally radiated a small mist that seeped out of her eyes and diffused into the air.

Naruto made a move to sit up, before he was roughly pushed back down by the woman and his shift was lifted up revealing his stomach, and more importantly, his seal. "Hey what the hell are you doing!" Naruto yelled as he tried to force himself off the ground again, this time with a wince due to his injured form.

"Stay down Naruto." the woman said softly as she began scrawling on a few extra seals on the outsides of Naruto's current seal.

"What! Who the hell are you? How the hell do you even know my name! Get away from my fucking seal!" Naruto said, still quite violent with the woman whom was seemingly unfazed by the boy's yelling.

The woman didn't respond for moment as she continued drawing seals before saying, "I knew your parents."

Rage melted away within an instant and now he was stuck back with his head on straight. At least as straight as any teenager could have his head. Naruto didn't know whether to be more focused on the parents comment, or the awkward shift the woman pulled over his body which had her chest glide across his momentarily.

The woman however decided for him when she caught the boy staring at her chest, and roughly pushed his head to the side and held it there. "Don't look at me like that Naruto." she said a bit forcefully as she pressed a... clawed hand down on the boy's face.

Naruto was embarrassed at being caught staring... but hey? He was a teenager. His mind is supposed to be on that what? Once every six seconds? Naruto took a deep breath as he tried to figure out how to handle the situation. 'Could she really be telling the truth about knowing my parents?' Naruto thought with the slightest bit of hope.

"Why are you here... Who are you?" Naruto said slowly as the woman pushed and pulled him back and forth as she would examine the seal on his stomach for a bit before drawing a few seals.

"I saw that you needed help and I was looking out for you." She said quickly, ignoring the second half of the boy's question.

"That doesn't really answer the second question."

"I know."

Naruto grit his teeth and contemplated biting the single claw that dangled in front of his mouth. However he had the underlying feeling that it would honestly do him more harm than good.

The golden eyed woman cut to the chase and began listing, and generally talking about the things she knew Naruto wanted to hear. "I was a friend of your mothers before you were born. No you still can't know my name. Your parents both loved you very much. Your mom's name is Kushina..." she continued to list random information about Naruto's mom. However while he loved hearing this, he could only honestly take it at face value. The woman could very well just be lying straight to his face.

"What are you doing?" Naruto cut in quickly stopping her list of facts about his "Mother."

The woman paused as she looked down at the boy before saying, "Something you will probably hate."

That instantly put Naruto on the defensive, and he kicked up with all of his might against the woman. She was obviously not one to be delicate in tense situations. She was almost... apathetic to them in fact.

She was able to hold Naruto down with ease, as the chakra that Naruto had pushed out into the air earlier flew in and began to circle in her hand and finger tips.

Naruto was frantic, the last time someone tampered with his seal, nothing good came from it. He was merely lucky that Mei with her medium level of knowledge of seals was able to do a quick fix during there training to at least make it so he could fight without blowing all of his chakra on a dozen bunshin.

The woman however did surprise Naruto as she held the boy down and took a deep breath. It seemed as if she had prepared for this moment, yet was getting her tongue caught in her throat as she racked her brain for what to say. "Naruto..." She said slowly as she looked up searching for the right words. "I don't know how to really say this." She began slowly as she went through a few one handed hand seals. "I care about you a lot, and while you don't know who I am or-"

Naruto tried to cut the woman off, but a hand was quickly placed over his mouth.

"Or how close we used to be. I know you very well may hate me after today, but just know that I love and care for you, and I am sorry that I couldn't be there for you. I just want you to know that this..." she looked at her glowing hand for a second before looking behind her, at something Naruto hadn't seen yet. "This is for your own protection."

Naruto's eyes went wide as the woman slammed her hand onto his seal and he felt like his entire body was on fire, and it was truly the worst pain he ever felt, and he couldn't help but release a scream as he rolled over. Yet upon rolling over, that is when he saw it.

"Naruto your mother Kushina told me to look out for you. I have done the best that I could, and I know that I have failed you. Just know that I am always looking out for you, even if you don't realize it at the time. I am always listening."

"No you can't lea..." Naruto tried to gasp out, "Like this... not like this..."

That was the last thing he heard as the woman walked in front of his vision before kneeling down and giving him a kiss on the forehead, a gesture he couldn't possibly comprehend after she just invoked such god awful pain upon him. However as she sunk into the ground and got out of his vision, he was left staring face to face with... it.

The fallen form of The One Tailed Shukaku in a giant pit. His body glowing, and slowly but surely being absorbed into Naruto's body.

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Alright there was a bit of an annoyance formatting this chapter. Also I realize that this chapter can very well paint Mei into a Mary Sue light. However the next chapter will actually really go into her character and... well I wont spoil it. Lets just say she will be expanded on quite a bit, and for the people who didn't really catch onto the entire workings of her plans in Konoha. They get explained in full.

Some other things I would like to note. I really want to say "HA I told you I would do something you have never seen! Two tailed beasts in one jinchuriki!" however I wont take a shot in the dark saying that. Although I imagine there will be some QQ on that saying "You can't do that Bleed." I actually can, and I have a pretty interesting theory as to how it would be possible, particularly with Naruto. However the entire theory wont be revealed up front, I will merely say next chapter Naruto is partially on the right track.

I decided to reveal Kushina a bit earlier then planned in order for some early character expansion.

I barely even scratched the surface of Rin, so don't jump conclusions from her brief introduction.

You also got to see how self conscious I am of my work... I totally trip balls if my review count for a chapter is dramatically lower, and it makes me want to rewrite a chapter lol. Sorry about that X.x...

I feel like I am missing quite a few things so if you have any questions, feel free to ask. I think everyone whom has asked a question knows I am pretty good about getting back to the people that ask them. Anyways I think you guys will enjoy the next chapter quite a bit.

(Mei's binding seal is inspired by Harry Potter's unbreakable vow. Don't cry about it. Even the best laid plans of mice and men can...)