AN: Ok I'm just going to be answering questions at the top from now on. I don't own anything (WARNING REVIEW Q&A MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS)
Erasels: He didn't unlock the Naraka path, it was the Human path. There will be more Kyubi-Naruto interactions during the Chunin exams
Enlace: What I plan to do with Sakura for now is a secret
Edengrave: Naruto unlocked the Rinnegan through a combination of having Shisui's Mangekyou, his Uzumaki genes and the Kyubi's Chakra. No one else that doesn't have it in canon will have the Rinnegan.
Philipindustrys: Na not yet. Unless the Manga ends/Kishimoto tells us what it says I'll keep it somewhat vague
Ideadlyx:OMG sir to you I give an internet. I'm so sorry I missed that. Major face palm
Guest reviews: (I'll only type part of the review)
1: You know if Naruto is eating right then he wouldn't be short because he ate ramen everyday…
(I'm not typing out the whole thing) In canon we never actually get confirmation that eating ramen everyday was what made Naruto short. For all we knew he was naturally a late bloomer.
2:Naruto isn't the last unless Karin…
I mean the last Uzumaki in Konoha. Also having red hair doesn't automatically mean you an Uzumaki but if you're an Uzumaki you WILL have red hair(I think)
3:the stereotypical bishounen…
I know I might have played that angle a bit too much but it was mostly Sasuke mocking Naruto
4: Why make Kyubi a girl it says it…
Eh its more for any future harem crossovers I might write but I do think fem-kyubi and Naruto interactions would be funny. Most fem-kyubi have the Kyubi acting a bit to girly for my taste. In my fic I hope to portray it more as it's the Kyubi but it has a female form you know?
Secrets of the Kaleidoscope
Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi sat stunned in more spacious area of the secret Uchiha meeting room. "Naruto… Sasuke… I'm sorry… but your clan is fucked up." Kakashi finally said breaking the engulfing silence.
The brothers didn't respond at first "In our defense…" Sasuke began slowly "…Naruto's adopted and my family were relatively normal until Itachi-nii-san killed everyone…" Sasuke finished in a dazed tone. Naruto only mutely nodded.
"On second thought…" Sasuke continued "… if this is why Itachi-nii-san killed our clan I don't think I can blame him anymore…"
The three possessors of the Sharingan shuddered at what they had read on the tablet. It did contain what they came to find. The knowledge of how to properly utilize the Mangekyou techniques but that's not all it contained: the secrets of Uchiha Madara's body, the story of the Rikudo Sennin and the Ten Tails, and the Eien no Mangekyou (Eternal Kaleidoscope), possibly the most disturbing of the secret of the Uchiha.
The three most powerful techniques of the Mangekyou came at a great cost, one's eyesight. Naruto and Sasuke, both having only used Susanoo (He with the ability to help by all means) for a moment didn't suffer the vision degeneration and if what the tablet said was true Naruto would never lose his eyesight while his Rinnegan was active but it would whittle away at the eyesight of his Sharingan. Madara experienced this degeneration first hand after killing his father to unlock the Mangekyou. After his eyesight had completely disappeared due to overuse he had stolen his brothers Mangekyou and transplanted Izuna's eyes unto his own. But that wasn't the end of the horrors of what Madara did to strengthen himself. During the death match at the Valley of the End where the Uchiha Patriarch fought the Shodai Hokage, Madara stole some of Hashirama's cells and intergraded them onto himself in hopes of awakening the Rinnegan. The tablet didn't say whether or not he succeeded.
The Uchiha were truly a fucked up clan. One would kill someone very close to them for power and mortally wound their brother to remove the consequences of that power. And from what the three Sharingan users had read Madara wasn't the first one to try: Just the first one to succeed. Apparently Shisui and Sasuke were two of only three Uchiha in history to be able to unlock the Mangekyou without murdering someone close to them. The tablet spoke of a third Uchiha who had unlocked their Mangekyou without the killing of one who was close to them but it didn't mention a name.
Naruto was the first one to shake off his shock "Guys… I don't think we should tell the village this." Naruto said with a hard look in his eyes.
"What do you mean Naruto?" Kakashi asked.
Closing his eyes Naruto sighed "This village… this village sees what it wants to see. If we were to tell them about this, they wouldn't welcome Itachi back and see him as a hero. They would see him as a threat. The next Uchiha Madara. You might want to believe in the village but I can't." the way Konoha had treated Naruto hadn't left him with a good impression of the village. He hated the guts of most civilians.
Sasuke frowned. He wanted his nii-san back but he understood what Naruto was saying. "I agree with Naruto." At least now he had a reason as to why Itachi did what he did.
Running his hand through his hair and leaning back Kakashi nodded. "So what do we do now? While Naruto and I can practice our Mangekyou powers Sasuke can't unless he wants to go blind." As far as Kakashi knew the boy there was no way he would take his brother's eyes like Madara did unless Itachi wanted him to.
Closing his eyes Sasuke thought about his situation. He had a solution… it wasn't the most elegant but it would work. "Kakashi-sensei… can you teach me how to fight with one of my eyes covered?" Looking at the Jonin Sasuke could see the surprise in his both of his eyes as Kakashi hadn't covered his Sharingan yet.
"I… I could but why?" Kakashi didn't understand Sasuke's reasoning.
Sasuke pointed at the stone tablet. "This tablet says that if you use Amaterasu or Tsukiyomi then whichever eye the respective Jutsu is in will slowly go blind. I'll just let the eye with Amaterasu go blind then. I'll finish my fire manipulation training and use it to manipulate Amaterasu." Sasuke said with a determined look on his face.
"That's an awesome idea! Dattebayo!" Naruto said throwing his arms in the air. Sasuke turned to his adopted younger brother with a smile. He still had that ridiculous verbal tick from when he was younger "You should work on perfecting the Susanoo."
That stopped Naruto's celebrating "What why!?" Naruto asked with wide eyes
"The way Susanoo is properly manifested, according to the tablet, is by having one eye create the physical body while the other eye moves it but…"
Naruto grinned "I can manifest it with my bloodline and then use both of my eyes to move it"
Sasuke nodded then he turned to his sensei "What are you going to do Kakashi?"
The masked Shinbo just eye smiled "Oh I have an idea don't worry. I think I'll keep it secret for now."
"What!" Naruto yelled standing up "We just told you what we're doing! Why can't you tell us what you're doing?!"
"I think it'll be a good surprise."
-0-0-
-one month later;
"I wonder what Naruto-kun and his team has been doing. I haven't seen him for two weeks." A certain Hyuga heiress said while walking with her team.
"I wana know that too! You know I can't even find any of them except Sakura and when I asked her she said that she hadn't seen them for almost two weeks!" Kiba whined.
"It is logical that they are training as Sakura-san was. After all it is not every day you survive an encounter with two S-rank missing nins" Shino said pushing up his glasses.
Word that Team Seven had completed an S-rank mission had spread like wildfire. Hatake Kakashi was good but he wasn't good enough to take on two S-rank missing nin's at civilians immediately tried to give all the credit to their 'Uchiha-sama' while the Shinobi side believed Naruto harnessed the power of the Kyubi to save his team mates. The Shinobi council was getting more and more fed up with their civilian counterparts and many of the more reasonable civilian council members had already quit their positions including one Ichiraku Teuchi.
"There's no way that the dead last could take down an S-rank or even Sasuke-teme! Back me up here Hinata!" Kiba said looking at Hinata.
"Oh I wouldn't know about that…" Hinata said with a twinkle in her eye before she walked away.
"What! There's no way! Back me up here Shino! Shino?!" Kiba looked around and found that Shino had somehow disappeared
-0-0-
-some remote Mountain Ranges;
Sasuke panted as he looked at his progress in fire manipulation. He had completed the first task of burning a leaf in less than 10 seconds and now he was working on the second task, burning an entire tree in under a minute. Wiping sweat from his brow Sasuke glanced over to where Naruto and Kakashi were training.
Naruto had his eyes shut tight in concentration trying to form his Susanoo with his bloodline. He was able to manifest half the ribcage and half of the upper arm. Unlike when he used the Susanoo during the fight with Hidan and Kakuzu the way he was trying to do it right now consumed much less Chakra but was harder to concentrate on. He couldn't even move while using it but it was better than nothing.
Kakashi seemed to be staring intently at… something but Sasuke didn't know what. What as odd was how the air seemed to distort around the area of his focus. Kakashi had improved the most out of all of them, able to do the same as Naruto and keep his Sharingan on constantly, which was what the silver haired man had been focusing on for most of the time they had spent training at the Naka Shrine.
Idly noting that their little group hadn't had any other human contact for the last two weeks Sasuke turned back to the tree he was working on. Right now it still took eight minutes…
-0-0-
-outskirts of Konoha;
Sakura panted as she ran laps around Konoha. Two weeks ago when Sasuke had told her that he, Kakashi and Naruto were all going somewhere to train their Sharingans she couldn't help but feel sad as she felt she was getting left behind. Right now she was only a medic but a medic could be feared too. She had read about the Slug Sannin Tsunade and how she used her precise Chakra control to give herself a form of super strength. Sakura had been experimenting with this for the last two weeks. Stopping near a tree Sakura looked at her fist for a second before she focused her Chakra and punched the tree.
The tree splintered and cracked but it didn't go down. Gritting her teeth Sakura focused her Chakra again and punched it with her right fist.
With a resounding boom the tree collapsed on itself. Grinning Sakura resumed her laps.
She also noted that she would need to get some gloves.
-0-0-
-Akimichi Barbeque;
"Can you believe what their saying! My precious Sasuke-kun took down a big scary S-rank missing nin all by himself." Ino squealed causing both Shikamaru and Asuma to frown.
"Now now Ino I'm sure Naruto-san and Sakura-san helped too." Asuma said with a wave.
Ino tossed her hear back in an airy fashion "HA forehead and the dead last? I bet Sasuke-kun had a harder time because he had to defend those two!"
"Troublesome… that's not true Ino. Naruto's probably equal to or stronger than Sasuke." Shikamaru drawled in a lazy tone.
"What *munch* do you *munch* mean *munch* Shikamaru?" Choji said in-between bites.
Shikamaru just looked at his best friend before he turned to Ino "Sasuke and Naruto were both hiding their true strength during the academy. They wanted to be put on the same team so they decided to have one of them be the dead last and the other be rookie of the year. For reasons I don't know they decided Naruto would be the dead last and Sasuke would be rookie of the year. When I found out they made me promise not to tell anyone until they graduated."
Asuma still had his lazy demeanor but you could he was paying attention "Why would they do that?"
Shikamaru shrugged "Any number of reasons. I think it might have something to do with how most of the civilians seem to dislike Naruto for some reason."
Asuma nodded 'clever little brats… they pulled the wool over the eyes of the whole village. People would think that the Last Uchiha was an arrogant prick and the Dead Last would never amount to anything and then when it's too late they reveal their true capabilities…'
Looking out of the window of the restaurant Asuma saw the head of the Yondaime Hokage on the mountain range.
'You sure picked an interesting one Yondaime-sama'
-0-0-
-Kumogakure;
"Yo yo! You stoked for the upcoming examo Yugito?" Came the horrid rapping of Killer Bee the Jinchuriki of the Habachi no Ushi-oni (Eight Tailed Demon Ox).
"Shut up Bee! No I would much rather be staying in Kumo! Why do I even have to go with you and Raikage-sama anyway!" a girl with long blond hair and cat like eyes yelled
A girl with red hair and dark skin inched away from the girl "What's her problem?"
A girl with long blond hair, blue eyes and a very large chest replied "She is coming with us to the upcoming Chunin exams in Konoha to meet her fiancée. She doesn't want to because she is already a Chunin… I don't think Raikage-sama has told her she had a fiancée yet..."
"But what if her fiancée doesn't like her!? What if Konoha is invaded while we are there during the Chunin exams!? What if a criminal org-" A boy with a sucker in his mouth began before he was smacked in the back of the head by the red headed girl.
"Shut up Omoi!"
-0-0-
-Training Ground Nine
"My youthful students! We must fan our flames of youth further! There is no time to rest while my eternal rival Kakashi fans the flames of both his students and himself!" A man with a bowl cut and a green leotard shouted while running.
"YOSH! My flames of youth shall burn brightly the Chunin exams! If I cannot obtain a promotion then I will do one hundred laps around Konoha on my thumbs! If I cannot do that then I will climb the Hokage Monument with one arm! If I cannot do that…." A boy with a bowl cut and a green leotard shouted while running until his voice was too far away to be heard.
"There… is something…. Wrong with… those people…." A boy with white eyes and long hair said while he panted on the ground.
A girl with her hair styled in buns that kind of made her look like a panda pulled herself up with her arms "Its… just Lee and Gai-sensei… I figured you would be used to it… by now…"
The boy grunted as he sat up "I am but these past two weeks they have seemed even more… youthful then before…"
The girl with bun hair sighed and shook her head.
'What have you been doing Naruto…'
-0-0-
Naruto grunted in concentration as he used his Chakra to finish creating one arm of his Susanoo even though it caused the half of the ribcage to fade. This would be so much easier if not for the conversation currently going on within his head.
'Really? So that was the night Naruto-kun was conceived?' echoed the voice of Kubi
"Indeed. Kushina-san and Minato-san had sex about sixty nine times before Naruto was conceived. I think the position they did it in that night was-"
'SHUT UP!' Naruto yelled with all his mental might, an angry red blush on his cheeks
"What?" the Kyubi said trying to sound innocent "We were just talking about how your father liked to stick it to your moth-"
'SHUT UP SHUTUP SHUTUPSHUTUP'
"SHUTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!" Naruto yelled jumping up and clutching his head before he opened one eye to see Kakashi and Sasuke staring at him. Chuckling sheepishly and scratching the back of his head Naruto said he was sorry before he sat back down.
'I hate you so much' Naruto mentally grumbled with traces of a blush still on his cheeks
"I love you too."
'Hey so what position was it?' Kubi asked
'DON'T YOU HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO TALK ABOUT?"
'Not really. It's more fun teasing you.'
"True dat"
Naruto's left eyebrow began twitching 'Why don't you talk about… I don't know… O yeah! Kyubi didn't you say the Biju's used to be human!?'
"Mmm. Fine, yes us Biju's used to be human but when the Sage infused us with the Juubi's Chakra it seared our human bodies away. Hell I don't even have any memories of when I was human"
'Why don't you just use the Chakra Naruto-kun's given you to change back to your human form?'
"I… suppose I could do that… actually speaking of that there is something I need to talk to you about. Come into the seal"
'Hold on hold on give me a second.' Naruto thought before he willed himself towards the seal.
-0-0-
-Naruto's Mindscape;
When Naruto arrived in the seal he saw Kubi standing in front of the Kyubi's cage with the same kimono she had on the last time he saw her and he saw the Kyubi on its hunches poking a massive ball of dark blue Chakra.
"Is… is that?" Naruto said with wide eyes pointing at the ball of Chakra that towered over himself and the sword spirit, even seeming to be a couple yards taller than the Kyubi.
"Indeed it is." The Kyubi replied as it continued inspecting the massive orb of Chakra
Naruto grabbed his head "What! How the fuck do I have so much Chakra? It's bigger then you Kyubi!"
The Kyubi began poking the orb in random places "I wasn't joking when I said you would become a pseudo Biju if you didn't find a way to control your Chakra. It doesn't have as much Chakra as I do but this thing probably has more Chakra then the Sanbi no Kyodaigame (Three Tailed Giant Turtle). What's your current level of draining?"
Naruto lifted up his shirt and channeled Chakra. The Shikki Fuin (Dead Soul Consuming Seal) appeared and super imposed over it was another seal that read 40.
The Kyubi frowned 'At this rate the boy is going to have as much Chakra as I have sealed in here by the time he's 16… we need to find some way to get rid of it before it breaks the seal… I was just going to wrap myself in some of it to give myself a human form…but I could try to absorb the entire thing into myself…'
"I thought the seal channeled the Chakra directly to you?" Naruto said looking at the seal thinking something was wrong.
"It does but the larger part is put in here" the Kyubi said pointing to the massive ball of Chakra
"We need to get rid of this thing before it overwhelms the Shikki Fuin. I'll absorb it all into myself but I will probably be out for a couple days. It will also probably revert me into a form similar to my original human form."
"Why would it only be similar?" Naruto asked
"Because the Uzumaki Chakra is what causes your hair to turn red. It will probably have a similar effect on me."
The Kyubi stuck its arm into the ball of Chakra and winced. It would be out for a couple days after this. Slowly the Chakra sunk into its arm before sliding along its skin seemingly covering its body. Naruto and Kubi watched with slightly worried eyes. The giant ball of Chakra eventually covered the Kyubi before it began to glow and shrink. When the Chakra had finished shrinking the glow died down. What was revealed caused Naruto to let out a strangled gasp and blush red like a tomato and Kubi to smile in amusement.
Kyubi's new form had long red hair down to her knees. She appeared to be sleeping so they couldn't see her eyes but that didn't stop them from taking in her figure. With an hourglass figure with supple B-cup breasts and mile long legs the Kyubi's human form appeared to be in her mid-early teens, maybe a year or two older than Naruto. She would have appeared relatively human if it weren't for the nine long bushy fox tails behind her and the fox ears on her head, both the same shade of orange she had in her Biju form. She was also naked. While Naruto stood there gaping like a fish Kubi had a devious idea. Dispelling her kimono she walked through the bars and picked up Kyubi from behind and lightly groped her breasts. When the humanized Biju let out a slight moan Naruto couldn't take anymore and was out like a light. The sword spirit couldn't help but grin. Her new wielder was so innocent.
-0-0-
-outside of Naruto's mindscape;
Sasuke and Kakashi couldn't help but stop what they were doing and stare as Naruto rocketed back with a mighty torrent of blood from his nose.
-0-0-
-somewhere in a random location on a road;
A large white haired man stopped walking in the direction of Konoha for a second and looked into the sky.
"I don't know why… but I suddenly feel proud of my god-son… He must have finally embraced the ways of the pervert… I MIGHT NOT HAVE CORRUPTED YOU MINATO BUT I GOT YOUR SON! BWAHAHAHAHA!"
Not quite Jiraiya. Naruto is just very innocent.
-0-0-
-cave;
In a cave eight silhouettes appeared on the fingers of a massive stone humanoid.
"Kakuzu" a silhouette with rippled eyes boomed "what happened to Hidan? We got you him specifically so you couldn't get rid of him."
Kakuzu's silhouette grunted "I didn't get rid of him. Your brother's team is a real piece of work Itachi. While we were hunting for some bounties we ran into them. They killed Hidan to death and got four of my hearts."
If one paid close attention and if Itachi's collar wasn't covering his mouth you would see it twitch.
"Mmm this is troubling." The silhouette with the rippled eyes said "We won't be able to find you another partner. Everyone train yourselves, I don't want to lose any more people before we start the hunt for Jinchuriki. Kakuzu for now you will stay alone unless I can find someone suitable to be your partner. In three and a half years we will meet ba-"
"Excuse me leader-sama" intoned Itachi's voice.
"What is it Itachi. You usually don't speak up unless it is important."
"I have… sources that tell me that Orochimaru will be invading Konoha during the Chunin exams. I wish to go there so I may finish him off and scout out the Kyubi Jinchuriki."
"Now hold on." A gruff voice sounded out from a hunchback silhouette "Why should you be the one to off Orochimaru? He was my partner."
"It is not a matter of who should or shouldn't but a matter of can or can't. I can infiltrate Konoha without alerting anyone to my presence while any Shinobi worth his salt would be watching you the moment you entered Konoha."
The hunchback silhouette grunted in affirmation acknowledging Itachi's point. The silhouette with rippled eyes nodded "Very well. Itachi and Kisame, you will both go to Konoha during the Chunin exams and end Orochimaru. Please return the ring if you can find it, we cannot have lose ends ."
-0-0-
"So looks like we are headed to Konoha Itachi. Looking forward to seeing your family again?" Kisame said with a grin and he stood up.
Itachi had no outward reaction then a slight twitch of the lips
'Sasuke… Naruto… how have you grown?'
-0-0-
-Sunagakure;
A man with a veil covering his face and the Kazekage hat looked out the window at his sandy village.
The Kazekage sighed as the daimyo once again rejected his request for more funding. The wind daimyo was slowly choking the life out of Suna, outsourcing jobs to Konoha. If the daimyo didn't change his mind soon then Suna would have no choice but to accept…
-0-0-
Gaara grinned as his crushed another man and felt his life blood steep into his sand. Soon he would go to the Chunin exams and there he would have plenty of opportunities to prove his existence. He didn't even note the terrified presence of his siblings.
-0-0-
-hidden sound;
In an underground layer a figure rested on a throne. He had yellow snake-like eyes and long black hair.
"Orochimaru-sama I have news you might find interesting." A bespectacled man with white hair said.
Orochimaru the traitorous snake Sannin smirked "Oh what is it that I would find so interesting."
"According to rumors Sasuke-kun's team was able to take down a member of Akatsuki and near mortally wound the other."
At this Orochimaru's smirk widened into a shit eating grin. "I suppose I might as well bring extra enzymes so I can mark all of them. After all it is not every day I find someone capable of taking down my old friends. Which ones did they off?"
"Hidan and Kakuzu"
Orochimaru's laugh echoed throughout his underground base.
-0-0-
As group and people around the world planned for the upcoming Chunin exams in Konoha, they all forgot to account for one thing.
No plan survives contact.
AN: Ok I know this chapter is shorter then I usually do but I got it out faster so hey. You guys can consider this the prologue to the Chunin exams. I added two subtle spoilers and a bunch of pretty obvious ones. Ok time for Mangekyou explanation time. I think the way it works is that the three most powerful techniques of the Mangekyou (Susanoo, Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi) cause blindness, Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi in their respective eyes and Susanoo in both of them. The Rinnegan (as we are shown by Madara) CAN use the Mangekyou techniques. I think the thing that stops Nagato from using them is that apparently his Rinnegan aren't natural but implanted unlike Madara and in my story Naruto. I'm working on a Fate/Stay Night fic but I'll focus on this one. Next chapter we kick start the Chunin exams! Review and Favorite! Vote on my poll! Curse how summer is ending! And Review and Favorite again!