Chapter 5

Regular talking- Ramen

Thinking or Flashbacks- Ramen

Seals - Explosive seal

Jutsu - Hiraishin

Bijuu - Kit

Gods - Ramen

Uzushiogakure

Yukio ran over to the only house that was still standing.

He saw lights in the room where his mother was staying. He took a deep breathe and walked in.

His mother was in what remained of the kitchens, and was currently stoking a fire that was heating a pot.

It smelled really good.

Kyouko motioned to him to come and sit by her.

Yukio bounded over and plopped himself right next to Kyouko, cuddling himself right up to Kyouko.

Kyouko chuckled as she wrapped her arm around the boy's frame. She hugged him tightly. " I'm sorry about earlier, Yukio. I...I was caught in the moment."

Yukio smiled. His Kaa-chan was back. He hugged back tightly. "It's ok Kaa-chan. You were sad, so I understand."

Kyouko believed she cried a little. Large tears fell on the side of her face as she sobbed and hugged Yukio tightly. "Oh, little boy, you grew up so much."

Yukio's face turned bright red as he received attention from his mother. "Kaa-chan~!" He exclaimed.

Kyouko laughed out loud. She ruffled his black hair and wiped away her tears. "Come on, I've prepared dinner."

Yukio smiled contently.

As the night drew on, Yukio and Kyouko ate while Kyouko told stories of times when she grew up and the funny parts of her life.

"And than the butcher I met looked so shocked! I was laughing so hard! Than the funny thing was the money was there the whole time." Kyouko's voice was cut short with Yukio's laughter. Tears rolled down his face as her rolled around laughing.

Kyouko smiled. "So tell me what happened when you went out?"

Yukio immediately froze at her words as flashes of the giant snake and the Ten Tailed Demon flashed through his eyesight. The surrounding air suddenly felt cold, and the crickets living on the island suddenly flt silent. The air was so still, the fear was evident as it literally saturated the air. Unconsciously, Yukio began calling on the power of the sea, and the air felt colder as it was saturated with Yukio's chakra, and water molecules that usually hung around the whole island. The molecules felt concentrated and dense. Kyouko gasped as she felt the waves of fear emanate from the young boy, and the obvious power he was excluding.

Yukio frowned and shivered. He subconsciously pulled his legs closer to his body, a response to what humans call fight or flight. A reaction to high amounts of fear that commanded the body to protect itself. In Yukio's case, he chose the third path, the path that froze his body, hoping that the danger would over look him. Kyouko immediately wrapped Yukio in a warm hug, comforting him while stroking his back.

The wave of chakra subsided, but the damage was done. Kyouko had felt the malcontent of her child and was extremely concerned. It wasn't easy to put fear into her child, but something had obviously scared Yukio so much that he started leaking his dense chakra into the air. That and the obvious density of the Chakra.

Kami, Kyouko never felt chakra of that density ever before. The density, almost made her feeling like she was swimming through honey, and when the chakra washed over the land, it had left a rather large indent on the ground. This made Kyouko realize. Yukio's chakra was so much denser and large compared to the average Uzumaki Jounin. Yukio never released that much chakra when they were training.

Kyouko frowned. She began slowly stroking the back of her child, soothing him, and muttered encouraging words to the six year old.

Even though Yukio was in Kyouko's warm embrace, he was still shivering like he was locked in a freezer. The fear was ever so diminishing, but it wasn't going away. Kyouko let the silence take them, as she kept hugging Yukio and rocking him back and forth.

When Yukio stopped shivering and seemed to calm down enough, Kyouko looked seriously at the boy. "What happened?"

Yukio shivered again involuntarily. He remembered all the Killer Intent from the giant monster from the visions he saw from the vault.

"I saw something that scared me Kaa-chan" He murmured through his lips.

Kyouko frowned. "What did you see? Where did you go?"

Yukio looked up to his mother. "I found a vault like place, and went in. There was a lot of awesome pictures, but I got sucked into the painting and I saw a horrible monster."

If it was possible for Kyouko to look more worried, her expression right now was the pinnacle face of a worried parent. "In which direction was this vault, Yukio-chan?"

As Yukio pointed in the direction of which he found the vault, Kyouko stiffened. "Yukio." She said. "You realise, that there is nothing there right?" Right now Kyouko was terrified. The reason was, that Yukio had pointed in the direction where nothing would have existed. There was no known Uzumaki building that was ever built in that direction, because the lands Yukio had pointed to, people had died once they went in.

Yukio frowned. "But I definitely saw something there. Look I even got something from there." He unsealed the gourd which he had obtained from the vault.

Kyouko held a confused look on her face. She slowly put her hand on his shoulders. "Yukio, there is nothing there."

Yukio looked even more confused now. "What?" He held up his hand. "It's right here though…"

Kyouko touched his forehead with her hand to see if her son was alright. "Yukio. I still see nothing."

Yukio held a look of disbelief, before sticking out the gourd. The letter said that it could hold an infinite amount of things right? So how could he achieve that. Yukio pondered the thought before a small voice seemed to seek out to him in his head.

"Hold out the Gourd and command it to absorb what you want."

Yukio nearly jumped in surprise. Where had the voice come from? Nevertheless, Yukio tried what the voice had told him. He stuck his hand out out pointing the gourd towards the rubble that lined the streets. Yukio spoke with a strong tone. "Gourd! Absorb the rubble on this street!"

To his and Kyouko's surprise, the rubble began to shrink and spiral into the Gourds hole. The rocks seemed to stretch and fold into the space in Yukio's hand.

This time, Kyouko clearly saw the gourd in his hand. Her eyes widened in surprise as the gourd appeared. Yukio noticed the eyes of his mother and smiled. "See Kaa-chan I wasn't lying!"

Kyouko looked at the gourd with an impressed look. She smiled. "Yes, Yukio. I can see it now. Can I have a look at it now?"

Yukio handed out the gourd to Kyouko, only for the gourd to fall through Kyouko's hand like it didn't exist.

The gourd clattered onto the ground before glowing and returning to Yukio's hand.

Kyouko and Yukio stared at the gourd in his hand, staring at the old thing that had apparently fallen through Kyouko's hand like it didn't exist.

Kyouko sighed. This was going to be a problem, Kyouko felt it.

Yukio just sealed the gourd back into his wrist. The gourd went up in a puff of smoke.

Soon Kyouko and Yukio sat in silence. The night sky was clear and was twinkling with millions of stars. The moon shone brightly, almost glowing filling the night sky with illuminating light. Kyouko glanced at Yukio's face, the campfire casting a glow on his face.

She spoke. "You want to hear a bedtime story?"

Yukio nodded his head in agreement and proceeded to lay his head down on Kyouko's lap curling up to the warm body. Kyouko leaned back and spoke with a soothing tone. "Yukio, when you look up to the sky, what do you see right now?"

Yukio looked up. "Stars."

Kyouko smiled softly. "Back in the much elder days, There was a weaver maiden. SHe would weave the countless stars you see in the sky right now…"

The Next Day

The clear blue sky shone upon two figures at an abandoned Uzumaki training ground.

Kyouko held two bokken and some paper in her hands as she watched Yukio run through katas of the Uzumaki Whirlpool style. Yukio's legs swung around creating small gusts of turbulence that sent dust flying away. As Yukio was still 6 years old, his legs couldn't give much power to fully utilize the theorized Taijutsu style.

Kyouko stared long and hard to find any fault from the series of rapid stances that forced Yukio to utilize every muscle move of himself and the imaginary opponent.

The faint gusts of wind whipped around the redhead plastering her strands of hair all over the place. When she was content with the sufficient amount of katas done by Yukio, she called him off.

Yukio panted as he grabbed his water pouch and spraying it all over his head. For some strange odd reason, Yukio always felt rejuvenated when he touched water.

After his mother let him take a short break from the katas, she made Yukio sit down. Yukio questioningly looked at Kyouko wondering what was going on.

Kyouko gave Yukio a hard stern look that almost made Yukio worry that he had disappointed his mother. He panicked. WHat had he done wrong? He was pretty sure that he had done his morning exercises correctly, he had followed every word that came out of Kaa-chans mouth, he had performed the katas correctly, right?

While Yukio was panicking, Kyouko looked amused at the six year old as he grew uncomfortable under the impassive stare that she was giving to Yukio. Kyouko cracked a grin.

Yukio looked relieved and confused at the same time when Kyouko finally smiled. Kyouko spoke first. " I'm so proud of you. Finishing the theoretical Taijutsu at the cute age of six? Unheard of in the Uzumaki Lineage!"

Yukio blushed. He rubbed the back of his head in a sheepish manner.

Kyouko suddenly grabbed his cheeks and stretched them out. "Soo cute!"

Yukio tried to pry his mother's hands away from his cheeks with no avail. "Kaa-chan~! Are you trying to take my face apart?"

Kyouko stopped stretching his face and patted him on the head like he was a cute little puppy that had garnered the attention of the Yukio started pouting, Kyouko squealed in delight at the cute face that Yukio was pulling.

After few minutes of teasing her son about his newest achievements, she went back to business.

Kyouko held up the slips of paper. "Yukio, do you know what these are?"

Yukio nodded. "Those are chakra papers for the purpose of good chakra absorbing Fuinjutsu paper, I know that kaa-chan, but what does that have to do with anything?

Kyouko chuckled. She further explained what she was doing. "Yukio, do you know what elemental affinities are?"

Yukio looked questioningly at Kyouko. His eyes glimmered with curiosity.

Kyouko kept explaining. "Elemental affinities are what all people with chakra are in tune with a certain type of nature aspect. Can you tell me all the Nature aspects?"

Yukio scrunched his forehead together trying to answer the question. "I think there was Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Lighting."

Kyouko clapped her hands together. "Excellent. These are types of Nature transformations your chakra can be in tune with. Every person at least has one type of Nature transformation. Remember with some storage seals you could seal nature aspects right?" Yukio's head bobbed up and down. "Now with shinobis and people who train in the art of Ninjutsu, they can use their elemental affinities to mold their jutsu creating Ninjutsu based off of elements." Kyouko then proceeded to create hand seals. "Suiton: Mizu Soujuu" Water started coming from the nearby pond and swirling in Kyouko's hand.

Yukio looked at the hypnotically spinning ball of water his mother's hand. The water glowed blue as it was saturated with Kyouko's chakra.

Kyouko shut off the Jutsu and spoke again. "Right now, You will probably only have one strong elemental affinity."

Yukio spoke up. "So how do we find out my Elemental affinity, Kaa-chan?"

Kyouko held up the chakra papers. "With these." Than she proceeded to push her chakra in one of the papers. Than right before Yukio's eyes the paper split apart before turning into soggy paper. "You see, Yukio, when you push your chakra through the paper, the paper picks up your elemental affinity and shows you with results like this. If you have a Suiton affinity, your paper will get soggy like mine, if you have Fuuton affinity it will cut apart like mine. If you have other elements, Katon chakra will burn the paper, Raiton will crinkle up the paper, and the Doton chakra will crumble your paper to dust." Kyouko then handed Yukio a chakra paper. "Try pushing your chakra into the paper."

Yukio tentatively grasped the paper and channeled his chakra into the paper. What happened next kind of scared Kyouko. Once Yukio channeled his chakra through the paper, the paper instantly disintegrated into pure water. The paper now turned water then exploded in a whirlwind of power.

The now soaked Kyouko and Yukio stared in shock at the piece of paper that defined Yukio's elemental affinity. Yukio looked up. "Was it supposed to do that?"

Kyouko just twitched her eye. She sighed. It was going to be really tiresome teaching her son. "Well, now that we know your elemental affinity, Yukio, let's dry off first and get to your training your elemental affinity!"

Yukio grinned. He was one step closer to being able to protect his mother!

Kyouko grabbed a leaf that was on the ground. "Now, since your elemental affinity is Suiton, let's work on that. I want you to get this leaf soaked just like what happened to us, ok?"

Yukio nodded and grabbed the leaf. He scrunched his face. Kyouko watched him as he tried to get the leaf soaked in water. After a few seconds, Yukio held up his hand. "Kaa-chan! I did it!"

THe leaf was dripping wet and seemed to be over saturated with water. Kyouko stared at the leaf and Yukio. "Should be possible…"

Kyouko steeled herself and asked Yukio to do it again. Yukio came back few seconds later with a dripping wet leaf.

Kyouko stared at the young boy. "Already getting the basics down of Elemental training in a minute! He really is a genius!"

Kyouko stammered. "W-Well, I guess you can go to the next step of Uzumaki Suiton training. Yukio tilted his head in a questioningly matter. Kyouko smiled deviously.

Kyouko just stared at the Yukio while he concentrated at the sea. His hands down in the water controlling the water in front of him. In front of the two, was a single whirlpool, created from Yukio himself. The more Kyouko looked at it, the more she had to tell herself that what she was looking at was real.

The exercise had been creating a whirlpool from the elemental chakra, and Yukio, a six year old had done, what even prodigies of Uzumaki's couldn't. Create a full scale storm in a single try.

The whirlpool slowly got faster and faster, white frothing water circling the spiral which got deeper and deeper. Kyouko could feel the large amounts of chakra being used, but controlled at a superfine level. Kyouko saw his control over Suiton Chakra. It was incredible. Kyouko put her hand on Yukio's shoulder. "Yukio, how about something else, do you think you can make more?"

Yukio looked back at Kyouko, and then concentrated even more. The Whirlpool started splitting apart into two. Kyouko frowned. "Yukio, try making as many whirlpools as you can."

Yukio nodded and start straining. Sweat droplets started appearing as he divided the whirlpools even further. Ten whirlpools now faced Yukio as he willed the water to swirl faster. Yukio could feel the Suiton chakra molding and swirling as fast as he wanted, and he could see the ten whirlpools in front of him frothing with the white power of the sea. The frothing white water splashed recklessly against the shores of the island creating trenches in the beaches themselves.

But Yukio was feeling the strain of controlling such constructs. The water in front of him was too powerful to manipulate like this, and it caused Yukio to have a massive headache. The tugging in his gut wasn't helping either.

Kyouko seeing the pain in his face, tapped the shoulder of Yukio once more before motioning him to stop. When Yukio let go of the control of the whirlpools, he fell down unconscious when Kyouko caught him and set him down. She smiled. "You did well."

Than she carried him on her back all the way to their little encampment in her former home.

When Kyouko walked back into the island's mainland, a shinobi dressed in black with a blank white mask darted through the forest and ran all the way to an encampment outside the island. ROOT had something to tell Danzo.

Unknown to both Kyouko and Yukio, multiple Villages had their eyes on them.

Another ANBU operative ran out of the shadow as well to inform the Raikage what she had seen. Ever since their mistake with the Hyuuga in Konoha, A the Third Raikage had stepped down and A the Fourth Raikage had taken reign.

Nii Yugito sprinted back towards Kumogakure to inform A wha she had seen. A Suiton affinity that great! At the age of six! This could definitely benefit Kumo if they got h the little child to join their village.

A third ANBU eyed the rapidly fading two ANBU operatives. He quickly fled towards Kirigakure to inform the Yondaime Mizukage of a possible war deterrent they had found. Yagura would be most pleased that they had found a child with such magnificent power and wasn't from any bloodline. Well any bloodline that couldn't be used as those demons back in Kiri. The ANBU quickly vanished with a Shunshin and disappeared.

Konoha

An ANBU dropped in front of Danzo as he sat in his throne. "Danzo-sama."

Danzo looked at the ANBU with a critical eye. "Why have you requested an audience with me NE?"

The ANBU faced impassively at Danzo showing no fear what so ever at the old cripple. "We have new of the Uzumaki child. Today they have tried to find his elemental affinity. IT was Suiton, but that wasn't the most surprising part, Danzo-sama."

Danzo raised an eyebrow. "Oh, do tell."

The ANBU went on. "THe child has shown incredible control over Suiton Chakra and was able to complete the tree leaf Suiton exercise in record time Danzo-sama."

Danzo frowned. "How fast was this exactly?"

The ANBU went silent for a moment before saying, "five seconds Danzo-sama."

Danzo widened his eyes at that revelation. To be able to control Suiton Chakra to that degree was an amazing feat, especially for one so young. He muttered. "He might be even better that Tobirama-sensei's control over the element."

The ANBU cleared his throat to get the attention of Danzo. "There is something else Danzo-sama."

Danzo snapped his head up, eagerly wanting to hear what the ANBU agent had to say.

The ANBU seemed uncomfortable with this information. "The Uzumaki child seems to be able to create ten whole whirlpools as an exercise for his Suiton Chakra. He seems to be only able to create and control ten whirlpools before succumbing to the information overload and chakra exhaustion."

Danzo froze at this revelation. A child, only at the age of six, already to be working on such elemental exercises? With the level of control the child had, he could as well become a threat or an invaluable ally. Screw the Uchiha right now. To be able to control a force of nature in a similar way his Sensei had, it was mind addling.

Danzo stayed silent for a while. Then he spoke. "Report to me when something interesting happens again. Keep on monitoring the child. His control over Suiton is most concerning." He dismissed the ANBU.

As he sat in his throne he spoke aloud. "Hear that Orochimaru? A child with a capabilities only Tobirama-sensei had when he was an adult. What do you think?"

A man stepped out of the shadow. HIs face was pale white with purple marking all over his body. A long snake like tongue hung out of the man's mouth. His slitted eyes scanned Danzo with a twisted grin. "Oh he sounds the most interesting, Danzo. A fine specimen. Kukukuku"

Kumo

"Raikage-sama, Jonin Yugito has come to talk to you."The secretary at the Raikage's tower opened the door at the office.

Paper stacked all over the room as A the Raikage sat in the middle of the room. The Raikage hat sat upon his head as he signed away papers. A looked up from a crazed glare that scared the secretary. "R-Raikage-sama?"

"Please, Anything to get me away from this horrid paperwork!" A had a frantic look on his face when the secretary came in. "Finally someone can take me away from the horrid paperwork.!"

When Yugito went in, A recomposed himself, and went into what his brother called, Raikage mode.

"Yugito."

Raikage-sama."

A signed. "What's the reporton the Uzumaki child right now."

Yugito grinned at the prospect of telling A what she saw. "The kids really good. He trained with his elemental affinity today."

A raised his eyebrow. "The Uzumaki child who is only six has started on his elemental affinity?"

Yugito naodded. "And during the test, I saw something that I thought was impossible until I saw this kid." She stopped for suspense. "He turned the chakra paper completely to water. It just liquified. The paper was so soaked that it liquified, A."

A stared at Yugito. "A elemental affinity so potent, that it turn something into another element completely?"

Yugito smiled. "Yep!" Then she went on. "But that's not it. The kid's mom wanted him to move on the other chakra exercise for the kid. This time he was able create a giant whirlpool at his first try. He didn't even seem winded!" A listened on. "And when she wanted him to create more whirlpools, guess how many he made!"

A just deadpanned.

Yugito seemed sheepish at what she was doing and calmed down. Just a bit. "He was able to create ten whirlpools and control them for a minute. , it was amazing, seeing it in action. A six year controlling ten whirlpools. I mean he fainted from chakra exhaustion later, but that's understandable. To supply ten whirlpools is crazy!"

A became quiet. "He seems like this Uzumaki child is a prodigy, aye?

Yugito grinned. "If he joins our village, we could be really strong."

A nodded at this fact.

Yes, they could easily be the strongest village of the nations. A grinned. Yes.

Kiri

"Yagura-sama, I have returned with the information of the Uzumaki boy." The ANBU spoke to Yagura.

Yagura turned his pink eyes on the shinobi. "Speak."

The ANBU operative bowed again before speaking. "The Uzumaki boy seems to be extremely talented, and has monstrous reserves for someone so young. He was able to supply and control enough chakra for ten whirlpool formations and held them for five minutes. His affinity seems to be an extreme Suiton affinity as when he checked for his elemental affinity, the chakra paper liquified."

Yagura sat in his desk and took in the new information. "Remind me again, how old is the child?"

The ANBU spoke once more. "He is six years old, and nearing seven this october, Yagura-sama."

Yagura than dismissed the ANBU to go back and spy on the child. Than out of the shadows, a man with a spiraling mask appeared out of nowhere.

He spoke. "Yagura-dono. Why did you call me."

Yagura's eyes briefly shone red before answering. "We seemed to find an interesting child. He has an incredibly high Suiton affinity on par with the Nidaime Hokage."

The man briefly stopped. "That is interesting. I will be looking into this child. What is his name?"

Yagura spoke again. "Uzumaki Yukio."

Uzushiogakure

Kyouko frowned as she saw footprints in the ground. It was fresh and it wasn't made by Kyouko or Yukio.

No. Some one had been on the island other than them.

Kyouko walked back to the grand arch that was where Uzu's gates used to stand. The red pillars still stood as Kyouko made her way over to them.

She activated the seal that scanned the island to see if there was any unwanted presence in the island.

Finding none, she proceeded to activate the barrier seal closing off Uzushiogakure from any unwanted attention.

Jeez.

I'm like stumped on what to do.

Like, there is three villages eyeing him, and I'm like what village should he go to.

This is tough. Really tough.

Anyways Schools starting, and I get less time to type these things down. It may take a while for chapter 6 to come out.

Manus Manem Lavat