Wowzers! Your reviews and opinions are wicked awesome. Keep them coming if you all don't mind. Oh my MOLLY! I feel awesome right now! I won't let it get to my head guys, so chillax and cool your pants down. XD

I couldn't find the time to send individual responses to all your wicked cool reviews but I'm going to answer them here, if you all don't mind:

Shout out to 'ShinigamiNoKitsune209': thank you bud, I really appreciate your review. AND THANKS FOR YOUR RATING! I'll try and keep it consistent.

To 'Guest': he has to get his affairs in order before he moves out and he also has to make sure Wave's defences aren't too stressed out from keeping Konoha ninja out. Plus, there are still some characters that are blocking (unknowingly) Naruto from leaving. Try and figure out who they.

To 'DALucifer13': it's sad to say Naruto's leg would always be like that. Remember in the first chapter I said that he had what medical chakra couldn't fix, a leg destroyed by demonic chakra even if it had been sucked out by Kyuubi. But that is the main point of this story; Naruto is using his supposed handicap to do things people with full functionality cannot do. Don't you agree? Hope your still reading bud.

To 'TigrezzTail': Daku is pretty much the fastest in the story, a bit under Madara, Obito and maybe Minato, that's a little of how Daku beats his opponents. His strength also plays a part, and his intelligence is another part. And that's what I was hoping for in the fights. Thanks for your review bud.

To 'Guest': dude…you were talking about the sharingan, I thought you meant GENJUTSU alone. Read this chapter if you want to find out the seal against genjutsu, and NO I did not JUST create it, it was in the story since the last chapter. A little insight on how I see the sharingan though; when I think of sharingan I think predicting attacks, then I think of remembering jutsu (besides bloodline jutsu) THEN I think of illusions. Hope your still reading.

To 'DragonPony022': ah man…you've got a long one there…hmmm… OK! From the top…Ok dude, I'm sorry but I can't read through that whole thing AND answer it. I'm lazy like that but let me just say he held Orochimaru back, just barely, but he needed Tsunade and Jiraiya's help to chase him off. Read it again to confirm if you want *shrug* oh and his defence isn't exactly what you'd call 'Unbreakable'; it's HARD to break, as seen when it almost caved under Orochimaru's attacks. Again, you can go back and confirm if you want. OH, and a little tid bit of info about Naruto's blue iron bubble; it can keep things back, but he feels the 'push' of the attack on his defences, that's why he has his tree root seals. So, if he is attacked from all sides he'll feel the 'push' from all sides, putting pressure on his arms.

I think that's about it.

Last though, SHOUT OUT TO 'Ezeakel' this dude is helping out with this story more than you all think. Thank you.

This story has a new character inside. Drop a review concerning it, if you will. Your feedback would speed up the next chapter coming out.

Let's get this thing started. Don't forget to drop a review.

CHAPTER 10

Purple ringed eyes snapped open from a dark patch at the head of a room. The person sat laxly on his throne in front of his red cloud wearing followers. He was squinting his eyes at something only he could see and the members of the Akatsuki waited patiently for what he had to say. His thin, reedy breaths were the only sound that somewhat filled the room. The man that held so much power as to be able to make the maniacal Jashin worshipper, Hidan, silently screw his lips,

"Tell us all your report, Itachi," his voice was deep and menacing, making the mad bomber, Diedara, to instinctively lower his head and for the mentioned Uchiha to clench his hand at the invisible force that weighed down on him, "because I do not understand how a 12 year old fuinjutsu user could take on an Uchiha of your calibre and a seal masters natural enemy!" his voice rose and shook the ground they stood on, this time Diedara clenched his eyes shut before he opened them and looked around to see if anyone caught him, luckily for him all attention was on their leader. A purple haired, blank faced female looked at the man and the man waved for her to stay where she was, "well? Tell us all…how you couldn't match up to the Kyuubi jinchuriki," he settled back in his throne,

Kisame, who was miraculously fully healed, clenched his teeth in frustration and couldn't meet his leaders eyes, knowing exactly when not to talk back,

His partner, Itachi Uchiha, was the more defiant of the duo, opted to look Nagato in the eyes with his normal three tomoe sharingan lazily spinning, "Jiraiya the toad sage and Tsunade the slug Sannin were with him-"

"You caught the boy in his hotel room before that, much longer before that," Nagato said, visibly having to restrain himself from crushing Itachi with one of his Rinnegan's signature attacks, "what stopped you from taking him out there?"

The others in the meeting, namely Kakuzu, Hidan, Diedara, Sasori, Konan Zetsu and even Tobi didn't envy the position the duo were in. There was another person in the gathering, a new inductee into the Akatsuki literally named 'Lightning holder' or 'Rai' for short. She was a lithely shaped teenage woman with thin muscles and frizzy white hair cascading down to the small of her back. She had mocha coloured skin and alluring brown eyes that looked pointedly at Kisame, then to Itachi, then, surprising enough, to Tobi. She had shin high silver steel boots on her feet and equally thick silver gauntlets on her hands, with her whole body dotted with restraint seals, chakra limiting seals and weight seals. Despite her massive steel boots she was rumoured to be able to move like the wind and strike faster than expected.

Tobi/Madara had found her fending off a whole platoon of Kumo hunter ninja, and doing so with ease that astounded even Tobi. Rai had attempted a coup but was greatly unsuccessful, not counting that Killer Bee would return from his mission earlier than usual to face off against her with the Raikage, A. The white haired and heavily muscled Kage would admit without shame that if Bee wasn't with him to perform combination jutsu he would have died at her hands.

Rai, from the moment she had formed an awareness for the world and was conscious of her environment, had noticed that she had a lot of energy, too much energy in fact. So much so that when her parents had called her down from her room to the living room the stair case was set on fire in her wake courtesy of lightning surges coming off her body. Her civilian parents, with teary eyes, handed her to the Kage at the time, E, to be studied and dissected. Under the knife the surgeons and doctors discovered that her lightning affinity was so thick and palpable that she was able light a bulb after running her fingers on a wall, sustaining it for a long time until it exploded an hour later. She was forced to go through gruelling and painful training at the age of 4 till E's death and A's ascension to Raikage. To keep her speed in check she had to wear custom made chakra gauntlets like A's as well as have weigh seals dotted all over her body and renewed from time to time.

She was the person sent out on double S rank missions.

The 19 year old woman had a grudge against the village leaders of Kumo; seeing as she had been dragged away from her parents, who later died of heart break after hearing that she had attempted a coup, all because she had a rare kekkai genkai. A short wave of electricity passed through her eyes as she remembered Tobi taking her down, making full use of his intangibility and his kamui, along with his chain weapon and raw taijutsu experience. Despite being lightning incarnate she couldn't keep up with the man. He caught her chin in a firm snap kick as she barrelled to him and the onslaught began, ending with her battered and bruised on the ground. She wasn't a proud woman and she wasn't an emotionless stone despite her training, but she knew as a fact that if anyone was able to keep up with her and make her lightning coated attacks look like light love taps had to involve a more painful training.

Tobi had told her that that was just the beginning of his power, and that if she joined his group of S rank ninja he would teach her more. She snorted at the idea of being taught anything; seeing as she had mastered all lightning jutsu and perfected them, and also beaten all of her instructors, the current Raikage included. But the idea of being surrounded by those similar to her might and being able to take hard missions was too tantalizing to decline.

Nagato had told her she was a free partner, meaning she usually took missions alone but if her abilities were needed she was paired with someone. Like Tobi and Zetsu, who best worked alone.

Back to the current situation Itachi and Nagato were in, "he sealed us out of the room and escaped through the window,"

"You two are able to run at remarkable speed, why didn't you do that? Run at full speed," here he didn't get an answer, "I see…you, Kisame, why were you so easily defeated?" Zetsu had given him the whole report,

"A…mysterious ninja just came out of nowhere, he was much faster than me, Pein-sama," here Rai cocked her head to the side curiously,

'Much faster than Kisame? Kisame has a quarter of my speed, if he had to be able to go faster than him he would be able to create electricity with his body,' she furrowed her eyes and looked down slightly, 'just like me…'

"That cannot be possible," Nagato spat, "you weren't going all out,"

"I was," Kisame refrained from snapping out. Just barely.

"Then why didn't you make use of your shark form, or turn the terrain in your favour?" Nagato's voice felt like an over bearing weight as Kisame kept silent, "I see…you underestimated the child and your opponent…" he leaned back in his throne, "I see you two are not capable of completing this little mission," both kept silent, but Zetsu did shuffled a little bit away from Kisame when the shark man clenched his fist so tightly they cracked loudly. Not in the least bit intimidated Nagato continued, "I will give you two one more chance to redeem yourselves," the duo bowed slightly, Kisame's shoulders even lowered in relief, "but you will be going with Rai in case this 'mysterious ninja' shows up again," both nodded in acceptance, "I will summon you when you are to collect the Kyuubi holder, dismissed," and the holograms in the meeting (Hidan, Kakuzu, Diedara and Sasori) blinked out of life, leaving the rest to stare at each other,

Tobi pouted, "Tobi wanted to go on the super hard mission,"

"Maybe next time, Tobi," Rai said smoothly and lightly patted the man's back, making sure not to injure or electrocute him. The woman swivelled on her heels and began walking to her room in the Amekage's tower,

"Where are you going, Rai-san?" Itachi asked and stepped beside her, Kisame walked by her other side. Despite this she wasn't intimidated, not one bit.

"I'm going to my room to get my bag; I hear there's a beast in the mountains near Hidden Chill and I want its head. How about you guys?" her steel feet clinked quietly against the stone floor as her eyes followed the electricity coursing through the dim light bulbs above her, "Pein-sama really needs to change these," she raised a silver gauntlet up and tapped a bub, immediately the bulb and the bulbs connected to it brightened up exponentially until the whole tower was well lit, "much better," she sighed,

Kisame shrugged, "the dim lights add the ominous effect, don't you think," Rai snorted, "where are we going Itachi?"

"We are going to spar, care to join us before you leave?"

"Yeah I've got some time for a spar," she had been in the Akatsuki for a year now and she still hadn't sparred against anyone, in fact this was the second time she was in Ameagakure. She had been spending the majority of her time burning her energy by taking impossible missions from Iwagakure and other villages. Yes, she had a very good grasp on her adrenaline and her lightning but she still liked the rush of a good mission.

"All out spar,"

Rai raised an amused eyebrow at Itachi, the person who spoke, "are you sure? I mean, I can be very hard to beat,"

"Trust me Rai-san, you need your all to go up against us," Kisame grinned, at this cue Itachi's eyes morphed into the madly spinning shuriken, the Mangekyo.

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Konoha,

A week after their arrival,

Naruto was sitting on his wheelchair in his apartment, looking out of his apartment window at the village reflecting on all that had happened in Wave after his absence. Daku had given him the weekly report from Wave and he was glad to hear that a mall was being built and that Hidden Darkness had their eyes on his country as a potential trade alliance. Hidden Darkness was a shinobi village that had been built underground with inter-connecting tunnels. This meant that that village had a natural defence. The village preferred taking making trade agreements and allowing their civilians to set up shops in different villages and nations, seeing as they were a peace keeping village. There was currently a stone masonry being set up close to the new mall site in Wave by Hidden Shadow.

The boy was trying his hand in taijutsu fighting styles, seeing as he may have a tiny chance of surviving if he at least had some co-ordination in his fighting. He had been personally going to the library to look for a style that would suit his body type: slow, defence oriented and used weapons. He hadn't found one yet. So he had Daku go to other places to find styles for him, whether in other villages or even in underground caves.

The boy snorted when his mind briefly flicked to using Daku's personal fighting style; the dark shadow made use of a style abandoned by most shinobi called 'The Fourth Fist'. It was not a popular taijutsu style because the style made use of suicidal strikes and making the opponent see multiple openings in his counter attacks. For instance if Daku was to punch a person across the face and the person leans back, it would expose the side of his abdomen and his chest for a strike but if he brought his elbow back to crack the opponents cheek with blinding speed the victim would be too dazed to counter the rising knee strike or the heel kick. Other instances were the cannon balls from high buildings with his weight seals at full blast, or horizontal cannon balls. Naruto didn't have the raw speed or enough confidence in his abilities to be able to do that. Well… the closest thing to a cannon ball was when he leaped off buildings and wrapped himself with his iron blue bubble, like what he had done to Orochimaru.

He would have to make do with shielding himself against attacks and throwing his snake rope and his sleeping chain at his opponent.

The seal he had used to briefly give Jiraiya control over his chakra was simply called his 'Perfect control seal'. It gave the person being administered perfect control of his chakra, no matter how much or how small the chakra capacity of the person. The problem lay in the fact that he could only raise the duration of a single seal to ten seconds. What he did to solve this was to stack thirty of the seals on top of each other and place them on his biceps, one as a spare. That extended perfect control of his chakra to five whole minutes, irrespective of the Kyuubi chakra in his system. Think of chakra as a stream, Naruto's control could only slow it down to a rapid flow but the seal separated his chakra from Kyuubi's and slows it down exponentially. The seals were deactivated or 'dead' until he ever fell under a genjutsu or had to perform a jutsu that required great control.

The seal master had already created a seal to control the demon in Yakumo. The custom seal he made put the demon in a seal induced illusion, which in on itself was very hard considering the fact that the demon was made up of evil chakra which was unlike demon chakra. He made use of an hours worth of perfect control seals to draw a seal directly on the place the demon usually first comes out from, her neck. The seal constantly reversed the demons chakra flow, confusing it and putting it a permanent state of bliss and mind numbing peace. That was the illusion put on it and that turned the demon into a catatonic vegetable, put into suspended animation.

The next thing the seal did was to have Yakumo's chakra flow through the demon as it reversed, meaning the demons chakra and Yakumo's mixed slightly. The only consequence was that any control Yakumo had over her chakra was shot to hell.

This procedure was very dangerous, meaning his chakra control had to be perfect enough to put a seal on a demon. To be a 100% safe he drew containment seals around his special place in case the demon escaped. Hinata was of great help; diligently putting perfect control seals on his arm just before the last one expired.

The boy had drawn three more containment seals onto his chakra beam seal to contain the heat even more and transfer into the attack, minimizing the after effects to a barely perceived heat on his fingers. He tattooed the complex seal onto his left palm seeing as his right palm already had his detection seal. Naruto had been training with the chakra beam for a week and had been seeing if he could use specific affinities into the attacks, he discovered that he could make use of individual affinities but he couldn't combine affinities that could negate themselves like fire and water, or lightning and wind. The attacks were very impressive and the fact that he didn't need to make use of his perfect control seal was a great plus side. Another plus side was that he had upgraded his seal, making good use of the unlimited time to relax and think clearly. He was at least Jiraiya backed off; admitting that the attack was equal to the Rasengan,

He was broken out of his thoughts by a quiet knock on his door, his custom alarm had already warned him of the persons presence but he had ignored it, he tapped the right arm of his wheelchair and the door snapped open to reveal a mantis mask wearing ANBU ninja, "been a while kid,"

Naruto smiled lightly and waved at the man, "I could say the same thing, Mantis," the ninja marched into his room and looked around, smirking under his mask when he didn't see any mess around his apartment,

"You've definitely cleaned up, that's for sure,"

"I grew up," Naruto shrugged, "do you want some tea? I have this new brew-" he stopped when the ninja waved his decline,

"I'm fine, I'm actually here to tell you that Hokage-sama has summoned you," the man was referring to the Tsunade Senju, the Hokage of one week. The woman had begrudgingly took up the mantle saying something about doing it for Dan and Nawaki,

Naruto furrowed his eyebrows, "Why does she want to see me?"

Mantis shrugged, "I honestly don't know, but the council elders are there with her; it must be important," he walked behind the boy and was about to grab hold of his wheelchair to push it out of the apartment until Naruto stood up, "oh yeah…you can walk now…"

"Not for too long though, I'm still working on the bugs," the boy ran his detection seal over his body and nodded when he felt all his seals at their appropriate places, "let's get going; I don't want to keep Tsunade-sama waiting," he grabbed hold of his window sill and vaulted himself out of the window expertly, like he had been doing numerous times,

"Nicely done kid," Mantis flickered beside him and ran with him on the roof, his defences not jumping up around him because Naruto recognised the ANBU shinobi as a not a threat. Both silently kept roof hopping till they landed in front of the Kage's tower. Mantis personally escorted the blonde boy to the front of the Hokage's office door before he ruffled the boy's hair and went back to his post. Naruto walked up to the secretary and smiled lightly,

"Nice desk Shizune-san," the desk was currently swamped with documents and the woman looked like she would pass out from exhaustion any time soon, "is it oak or mahogany?"

The young woman laughed lightly and spared the boy a short smile, "good to see your well, Naruto-kun, Tsunade-sama would see you now," she motioned to the door and the boy took a deep breath, preparing himself for anything that was to come at him from the other side of the door. He pushed open the door,

Inside the room was the slug Sannin behind the Hokage's desk, she as leaning forward with her elbows on the desk and her Kage's hat not too far from her. To her right were three elders, Kohoru, Homura and Danzo. All three stared blankly at the boy, who blankly bowed politely to them,

"Do you know why you are here, Naruto?" Tsunade said after a brief silence,

"No, Hokage-sama,"

The woman smirked minutely before she smoothed over her expression, "I'll go straight to the point; your performance in my retrieval was stellar and Jiraiya recommended the idea of making you a ninja, maybe even evaluating you so you would be given a proper rank," Naruto kept his face in check and willed his heart to slow down, "and after personally reporting to the council on your performance the decision was anonymous," now she smirked, "we have agreed to make you a ninja," she pulled out a deep blue forehead protector and tossed it to the boy, "congratulations, brat,"

Naruto's eyes bugged out as he caught the hitaite, perspiration built on his head as he clenched the cloth and metal in his grasp,

"Aren't you going to say thank you?" Kohoru said with barely perceived venom under her voice, the other councillors seemed to agree with what she had said. All the occupants of the room, the hidden ANBU shinobi included, as Naruto slowly walked up to the desk and gently dropped the hitaite onto the table, sliding it back politely to the Hokage,

"I…I can't accept this…" he started hesitantly, and the woman sat back in shock at the frown the boy had on his face,

"What do you mean you 'can't accept this'? The council has agreed to make you a ninja, you should be more appreciative," Kohoru said, her venom bubbling out slightly,

Tsunade, instead of getting angry, looked Naruto with eyebrows furrowed in worry; since knowing the boy she had come to realize that it took a lot to get him to lose his cool and a lot more to make him openly express his sadness, "why don't you want to be a ninja anymore Naruto, Jiraiya said it's been your dream." She too frowned when the boy clenched his fists but hid it behind his back,

"I… don't want to be a ninja anymore, that dream has passed," Tsunade noted that the boy was incredibly talented in lying; Naruto looked her in the eyes, his voice didn't strain, his nose didn't twitch and his posture didn't slack. What gave him away were the barely perceived short breathes he was taking, "thank you for the offer, Hokage-sama and honourable elders but I must decline-"

"Outrageous!" Kohoru couldn't hold her anger in anymore, "you dare decline an offer by the honourable council?"

Naruto sighed and closed his eyes before he opened them and looked her dead in the eyes, "yes. Yes I dare,"

The older woman scowled and leaned forward, "you are going to accept our offer," she said it quietly and in a deceptively sweet voice, "your talents in fuinjutsu would greatly benefit Konoha,"

"that's enough Kohoru," Tsunade said and glared at the woman when she wanted to snap at her, daring her to say whatever barb she wanted to say, "you are all dismissed, except for you Naruto," the ANBU left but the councillors were more reluctant,

"He clearly does not see the opportunity for growth we have set in front of him, Tsunade-sama," Danzo droned, "give him to me-"

"Not gonna to happen." She propped her head under her chin and looked at the elders,

"You are clearly too young and inexperienced as a Hokage to know what exactly is good for Konoha," the war hawk said,

The slug Sannin stood up sharply and glared at the old councillors, "I was chosen by all of the council to lead Konoha; they saw something in me that even I didn't see and that you," she pointed at Danzo, "definitely do not have. Now, leave before you three are carted out of here on one stretcher," her nostrils flared and an enraged blast of air came out,

"Well I've never-" Kohoru trilled,

Tsunade cocked her fist back and hovered intimidatingly over her desk, looking at the three menacingly, "did you just dare defy a direct command from your superior?" before Kohoru could make their graves anymore deeper Homura silently pulled the back of her sleeve,

"We'll be going now," he spared Naruto a frosty stare and stood up with a flourish. The other elders stood as well and followed the quiet man out of the door,

"I hate those sour prunes so damn much," Tsunade seethed and rubbed her forehead to calm herself down. She looked up at Naruto and expected at least a small jab on her age but didn't get any, she lightly kicked a small hole under the desk and an assortment of sake and wine slid out, "glad to see sensei still have these here," she murmured to herself as she took a cup from the rack and poured a glass into it, she chugged the sake down and sighed, "the older the better, I always say," she refrained from diving into the fine wine rack as she remembered the boy that was still in her office, "why don't you want to be a ninja Naruto?" she dropped her cup and pushed the wine rack back into its hidden compartment under the desk,

"I don't want to be one anymore," he shrugged,

"You're lying,"

"No, I'm not,"

"Yes, you are,"

"No, I'm not,"

"Fine, seeing as you're a civilian I can't force you to be a ninja; you have to be one if you want to be, irrespective of being a jinchuriki," she carefully studied his face and sighed when he didn't cave, "you know you can talk to me Naruto,"

Naruto snorted at what she said, "Just because we've travelled together doesn't mean I can confide anything to you, Tsunade-sama,"

"I guess you're right," her shoulders sagged, "but nothing says we can't at least be friends,"

The blonde boy raised a suspicious eyebrow, "where is this coming from, Tsunade-sama?"

This time her eyes drooped and her shoulders sagged even more, as if she was carrying a heavier weight than the Hokage's title, "I knew your parents…" the solemn atmosphere was broken by Naruto snorting,

"Of course you knew them. Sandaime-sama knew them, Jiraiya knew them, I think Orochimaru knows them, basically every one of the Hokage's personal guard knew them,"

"How did you know?"

Naruto crossed his arms, "whenever I ask them (his guards, Jiraiya, the Sandaime) they kept trying to change the subject, but if I asked a regular ANBU he flat out say he didn't know,"

"Do you know who they were?"

"I have a hunch on who my parents are, yes,"

"Tell me who you think they are, I'll see if you're right,"

"Uzumaki Kushina was my mother," the Hokage motioned for him to continue, "I checked the migration log in the library, which I still don't know why that's there in the first place, and the only Uzumaki that were in Konoha were Mito Uzumaki, the first's wife, and Uzumaki Kushina. Mito is too old to be my mother and a little snooping around later I found out that both were jinchuriki," the woman didn't want to ask him just who he had to interrogate, maybe an older civilian or shinobi, "and seeing as I'm the current jinchuriki, I deduced that I'm her son, correct?"

"…yes…your correct," she coughed into her hand and wondered how deep the boy could go if he wanted to find out something, "and your father?"

"The Fourth, Namikaze Minato. It can't be a coincidence that the Hokage's personal guard dance round the topic when I bring it up and that most people or that I was just randomly picked form the orphanage. Plus I have blonde hair and a flair for seals and I'm definitely not a Yamanaka,"

"You're very thorough,"

"I don't like being left in the dark,"

"Sensei wanted to tell you when you were much older but I think you're ready to see what they left you," she stood up and walked to the Yondaime's picture and unsealed a fairly large scroll from behind it, "they didn't know that they would be dying the same day they would give birth to you but they already willed all they owned to you, just in case. Here's a letter," the boy gingerly took it from her and read it:

Dear son,

Hey there, it's your dad! I'm not sure why I'm doing this but your mother and I, Kushina Uzumaki, agreed that we should follow our gut feeling and write something down to you. Our gut feelings are what keep us alive in the trenches you know.

If you're reading this letter we're probably dead

Here the line broke up, as if the writer had been hit with something seeing as the 'd' was stretched almost half way through the scroll, the next words had different, curlier hand writing,

Kushina here, Sochi-kun, don't listen to that idiot; Minato-koi has never been smooth with words. What he MEANT to say was that we not be present to take care of you. We're both shinobi of Konoha. Her lines wavered a bit; I just want you to know that if we aren't there to raise you, we love you with everything in our entire beings. You can't see me but I'm trying to kiss my belly. The blonde boy could only imagine the red haired woman laugh nervously and her husband pat her shoulders, Naruto's legs felt weak. We're leaving this letter with Sarutobi-oji-sama to give you whenever you ask about us and we won't be there to tell you ourselves. I hope to kami Jiraiya won't fu-mess up as a god father, I know Mikoto-chan wouldn't leave you to the dust; she's your god mother by the way. She may be quiet at first but if you get to know her she's a real sweet heart. Say 'hi' to Mikoto-chan if she's there! A slow tear crawled down the boy's face as he continued reading; we've left you with absolutely everything we own, even Minato-koi's boxers! He chuckled under his breath and sniffed, imagining his mother giggling, the estate and all our investments are willed to you and only to you, but I trust Mikoto-chan to look after everything until you're given.

Anyways, how are you? I'm not sure how old you are now but despite that I know you inherited my genius in seals! Oh…and Minato's too…but mostly mine. A mother knows. Know that whatever you chose to be in the future, a ninja or a civilian or even a tyrant, we will always be proud of you. That's how much we love you. Don't ever doubt that. But we hope you would do something worthwhile with your life. If you have Kyuubi in you, tell him I said 'hi' too. Kurama is really, really smart, listen to him if you have him.

Well, we have to go… a large red lip stick kiss came after this and a heart beside it, we love you!

The Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato, and the Princess of Whirlpool, Uzumaki Kushina.

Naruto took a deep breath through his nose and closed his eyes after reading it. He had told himself that confirming his parents identities wouldn't get too him. Right now though he felt like a 500 pound weight on his chest had been lifted and he could finally breathe. He opened his eyes and hastily rubbed his tears out with his sleeve, taking a few breaths to control his breathing, before his eyes caught a small storage seal at the bottom, he unsealed whatever was inside, not wanting to think his parents left a trap there. What he say had more drops of tears come out of his eyes; Minato and a heavily pregnant Kushina were smiling into a camera as they were having an impromptu date in Ichikraku. Kushina was waving her hand and smiling into the camera, defying all thought that she would be weak and Minato was laughing quietly to himself as he pulled her into a side hug, about to feed her some ramen noodles. His parents were adorable.

'They didn't abandon me… they loved me…' he blindly unsealed a seat and sat down beside the window, his eyes were still glued onto his parents letter, memorizing each individual stroke and trying to feel the emotion they were feeling as they wrote it. From his mother's curly handwriting he knew that she was a very emotional woman, finding it very hard to hide her feelings for anything. She was probably stubborn too, if the fact that she was Uzumaki hinted to it. His father's handwriting was more…lighter, like he was instinctively preparing to drop the pen and take up his weapons; this meant that he was very protective, probably for what or who he loved.

"When I would sleep over at their place I would hear Kushina singing to you before she goes to sleep," Tsunade said softly as she pulled up a seat beside her fellow blonde, "and she would talk about how 'cool' you were going to be when you were born; 'you were their son', she would say," Naruto chuckled quietly again, nodding his head at her words, "and Minato would always boast on the things he was going to teach you. They loved you much more than anything they could put on paper," Naruto nodded again with his head lowered slightly, Tsunade patted the boys shoulder gently, "they left more letters at their estate; they're all over the place. Do you want to go there now?"

Naruto nodded his head slowly, "yes, if you don't mind," Tsunade quickly organised her desk and told Shizune, her assistant, that she was heading out and that she wouldn't be back for a while. She again patted Naruto's shoulder and led him to the Namikaze-Uzumaki estate.

Authors note

So? How did I do? Did I do well?

An emotional chapter, this one was.

I created Rai to check Daku, because let's face it, Kisame can't get as fast as him and a doujutsu negating seal is on its way to negating Itachi's sharingan. With her in the fold now there's some competition for Daku. The reason I can't bring Madara, Obito or Pein into the scene for a fight is because it's too soon for that to happen. Don't eat my head, think about it. I'm not even sure why you all are hyperventilating about strong people; if Kakashi had brought in his Mangekyo into the fight with Daku and ALL its abilities, Daku won't stand a chance, if Asuma too used more signature jutsu. Itachi is a prodigy, a freaking Kage level shinobi at sixteen or something, Kakashi became chunin at six (I think) and Nagato is fully capable of levelling Konoha off the map. In my opinion Rai is just who we need.

Naruto, in this chapter, is more emotional than before because he finally knows that he isn't a willing orphan anymore. He hasn't exactly known love before, y'know. Don't eat my head just cuz I didn't put a major fight in here.

Next chapters going to have more insight into who Rai is and Naruto's development, more or less. Who knows unless you read. In all honesty I've already written the next chapter but I'm waiting for how THIS chapter is received. If it's positive enough I'll update immediately, but if not you'll have to wait a while.

Tell me what you all think; I'd really like to know,

See you on the flip side,

Please review,

Foy.