Chapter Ten: Explanations and Grandsons

Back at Tazunas' house we find our young team awake and ready after a long week of rest, with Naruto lying unconscious on the couch in front of them with a heavy amount of bruising and lacerations all along his body. "So, these just appeared after he fell unconscious?" Kakashi asks Sasuke and Hinata, them being the two who carried him back to the house. "Yes Sensei, they showed up slowly over the thirty minutes it took to bring him here" Sasuke answers.

Everyone in the house turns as they see Naruto stir on the couch. "Five more minutes" mumbles Naruto as he opens his eyes for a second then turns over and closes them again. "Naruto?" Hinata asks hopefully. "Hinata!" Naruto yells as he sits up abruptly then falls back down trying to hold every part of his aching body.

10 minutes and a large amount of healing salve from Hinata and Chakra seals from Naruto later we find you Naruto sitting awake on the coach in the living room with everyone sitting around him. "Sooo whats up guys?" Naruto asks smiling. Kakashi and Kurenai sigh at the Genin. "I think I speak for all of us here" looking around at each of them and getting nods "when I ask, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"

Naruto rocks back in his chair in surprise, while the other snicker at him. "Okay, I'll say this once and once only." He says seriously while leaning in. The others lean in with him hoping to get closer to the answer. "SEALS!" he yells excitingly while the others except Sasuke sweat drop. "You guys are all idiots, how am I the only one who saw that coming?" he asks the room.

"Please Naruto, just a little explanation? I will have to write something in the report." Kakashi pleads.

"Okay, fine! But I will only tell you if you promise not to tell anyone else?" he asks Team 8 mainly, trusting Team 7. The other look at each other and then at Kurenai, she finally sighs and nods. "Okay, so let me ask you something to start, what do you know of Chakra?"

Sasuke roll his eyes and answers "It is the energy that is in every living thing and we ninjas control it and mould it to cast Jutsu."

"That is what you are taught, yes"

"Are you saying that's wrong?" Kakashi asks seriously.

"EXACTLY!" Naruto exclaims surprising the others. "Chakra, the energy of life is ALIVE! It moves through everything and EVERYONE! It has a WILL and a VOICE!"

"That cannot be Naruto, it is just a tool" Kakashi answers.

"A tool? No that is incorrect, think of it this way. We all know the Shinigami is real? Correct?"

"Yes, because of the sealing jutsu that summon him," Kakashi answers surprising the others. "My old Sensei taught me about them" he explains.

"And the Shinigami is the personification of Death! While Chakra is the gift of life, not many know this, but Chakra was given to us be a higher power, I do not know why and I do not know how but I do know it is true. Since it was given to us millennia ago it has developed a mind and a consciousness that rivals a god."

"While if true is amazing, that does this have to do with your power Naruto?" remarks Sasuke.

"Because when you have a will you have emotion and what I did is open myself to the consciousness of Chakra and let it flow through me."

"WHAT!"

"Isn't that dangerous?" asks Hinata worriedly.

"Of course it is Hinata" he smiles at the worry she has for him and grabs her hand comfortably. "It is the most dangerous thing I have ever done or even heard of being done, Her power is so large and vast it would destroy me if I channel too much which is why I limit it with seals."

"What do you mean limit it?"

"First I seal away all my emotions to get into a state of calm, then I release the lock stopping her from joining with me and channel it into one emotion. On the bridge I chose Insanity as the emotion or mindset if you will."

"Why would you pick Insanity?" Kakashi asks confused "That sounds incredibly dangerous!"

"You would think that, but it is the safest form for battle. If I picked hatred, it would have consumed me instantly and I would have no hope of returning. But I guess the consciousness who I call Chakri *queue sighs* has little Insanity inside her so it is easier to.. not control per say but channel."

"And the injuries and fatigue?" Shino inquires.

"My body and brain can't handle the strain it is placed under during the transformation so it slowly tears itself apart. But luckily I have a little help in that department" he smiles as he rubs his stomach.

'Super stomach' Kiba thinks to himself while Akamaru lets out a dog sigh at his owner.

"So that is that!" Naruto smiles at them. "I haven't followed a single thing that has been said" announces Tsunami but I have made some ramen in thanks of Naruto finally waking up. The others can only sweat drop as Naruto crawls along the ground in pain trying to get closer to the ramen.

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Both teams arrive at the gates to the Leaf village and check in at the gate. "Names please" one of the guards requests and looks up "Naruto Uzumaki, Mummy Extraordinaire" he yells piggybacked on Kakashis' back and wrapped in bandages.

Kakashi drops Naruto off his back and ignores his cries for help and mercy. "Kakashi Hatake, Sasuke Uchiha, Hinata Hyuga, Kurenai Yuhi, Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka and Sakura Haruno arrival after a successful mission. The eternal gate guards Izumo and Kotetsu laugh quietly at the blond ninja in the ground writhing in pain and wave the others through.

"I'll drop the idiot off at the Hospital and report in to the Hokage about the mission, the rest of you go rest, congratulations on your first for Team 8 and second for Team 7 successful C-Rank mission." Kakashi smiles at them all.

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After a week of Naruto complaining in the hospital and multiple visits from his friends with one memorable visit from Iruka in which he hid in a closet for 45 minutes until he left. We find the young blond standing with his team in front of the Third Hokage.

"Naruto congratulations on your speed recovery." Hiruzen starts.

"SPEEDY? I was in there for a WEEK!"

"Which is a very short time when compared to a normal person and what your injuries were, it would have taken months for them to heal"

"Wow, how can you guys live with your normalness?" Naruto looks strangely at the rest of them.

"Believe me dobe, if the choice is to be like you or like the rest of us, I pick the rest of us 100 times out of 100" Sasuke drawls.

"indeed young Sasuke" Hiruzen agrees "Now as to the reason you are all here, as you might know the Chunin exams are in two months and your Sensei had nominated you for them." Hiruzen turns his back to he doesn't see Naruto hands Kakashis' book back to him to his obvious relief. You see when Naruto found out about the exams three days ago he and his team took the book hostage and ransomed it back to Kakashi for the cheap price of entering them into the exam.

"You might just think the Chunin exams are a place for young Genin such as yourself to get prompted a rank but that is not the case at all, it is used as a means to test the strength of the other nations and to show off to prospective clients." Hiruzen continues "So it has been decided that a show of force is required since the exams will be held in the Leaf this time. Your team has been selected to be the front runner of the exams and as such you are to train for the next two months so that you can CRUSH the competition in the exam to show the Leafs strength, do you understand me?" He asks the young Genin in the room. All three nod in unison with a determined look in their eyes, well two of them do while Naruto smiles his trademarked grin and tries to read parts of Kakashis book over his shoulder.

"Team 7 dismissed, Naruto will you stay behind for a little bit, I need to talk to you." Naruto nods as the others leave the room sending back glances at the young blond all thinking 'what has he done now?'.

When the others have left the room Hiruzen walks over to his desk and activates a silencing seal which cuts off sounds from leaving the room. Naruto looks around at the seals that spread out on the walls. "This is the best you guys have Jiji?"

"I assure you this is high level work Naruto."

"Do you mind if I add some modifications to it?"

"Sure" Hiruzen indulges to young man. Naruto quickly goes about updating and editing parts of the seal and even draws a couple extra seals on a piece of paper and hands one too Hiruzen and keeps one for himself.

"What is this for?" he asks.

"I changed the seal so not only does it stop sound but vibrations and information as well, that seal will allow you to keep your memories of what happened in the room when you deactivate the seal, if you don't have that on you, you will forget everything you heard or saw and it will even lock the memories in a way that will make it so if you write it down while inside you will immediately want to throw the information away." Naruto answers proudly.

"Of course you could do something like this" Hiruzen sighs and sits down in his chair. "Now I have called you in here because Kakashi told me about the new seal you have invented and used in the Wave, now before you jump to conclusions about Kakashi betraying you, I had to force him to tell me when something didn't add up in his report. He even held out then, until I threatened him with removing him from Sensei of Team 7."

"Don't worry Jiji, if I didn't want him to tell you I would have just made it so he couldn't," Naruto smiles at his grandfather.

"Now for these exams I want you especially to do your best and trounce the competition Naruto, I'm going to be announcing your Heritage at the start of round 3 of the exams if you make it that far."

"So you know that I know then?" Naruto asks seriously.

"It would be hard not to Naruto, I honestly don't see how others haven't found out yet, you are the spitting image of him. It also helps that I got a report of you entering his old House that has a blood seal on it." Hiruzen explains.

"So when were you going to tell me?"

"I originally planned to tell you when you made Genin, but It got pushed back on the grounds of the circumstances of the night and you finding out about the Kyuubi as well. So I changed it to right now, if you make it too the third round of the Chunin exams you will be known from then on as Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze" He confides in the young man.

"Thanks you Jiji and I want you to know I hold no hard feeling for you for not telling me, I know it must have been hard on you." He smiles at the old man.

"Thank you for that Naruto, it means a lot to me." He finishes as he deactivates the seal. Immediately the door swings open and a young boy in a scarf runs in holding wooden shuriken. "It's time to pass the hat over to me old man!" he yells as he runs in. Naruto being Naruto immediately trips the young man over. Hiruzen tries and fails to hide a smile and small laugh when he sees his actual grandson tumble head over heels onto the ground.

The young man gets up and points at Naruto. "YOU TRIPPED ME!" he accuses the young blonde. "Yes I did" Naruto answers immediately. "Do you know you could be arrested for that?! I am the GRANDSON of the THIRD HOKAGE!" he exclaims. 'Heh now he will be all bowing and saying how sorry he is.' Konohamaru thinks to himself. Naruto stiffens pretending to me effected by his words and walks up to the young kid and bows in front of him placing his hands on his feet as he kneels on the ground. Konohamaru smirks at the sight of this and is about to tell the blonde to stand when the world flips on its' head and he is sent flying out the window. Hiruzen can only laugh lightly as he watches his adopted grandson throw his actual grandson out the window, while he yells "I DON'T CARE."

Naruto turns to Hiruzen and says "Don't worry about him Jiji, I placed gravity seals on his feet, so he shouldn't hit the ground too hard." He smiles as he walks out the room.

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"So he has stopped us spying on him somehow, I should know not to underestimate my old Teammate," the bandaged old man mutters to himself. "Well, no need to worry, our plans are too late to stop now. A change is coming to this dying Village."

A:N: a short filler chapter of sorts, some more information in Narutos transformation, i hope i explained that as well as i hoped i did, he is essentially joining with the personification of Chakra and gaining a part of her knowledge and power for a little bit of time. Anyway, hope you enjoy :) see you tomorrow.