I'm sorry it took so long to update, but everyone was asking for longer chapters and I did my best to comply. SO, here I present a longer chapter. I hope you all enjoy. Please leave a review letting me know what you think! They help keep me motivated and keep my muse running.

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Searching the Island: The Many Mysteries of Uzu

'Two weeks,' Naruto thought. 'Two weeks and nothing. We haven't even found the village in the dense jungle yet.' He looked around at his team and asked, "Kakashi-sensei, isn't there a way to make finding the village easier? We've been combing the island for two weeks hiking through this dense jungle and have yet to find the ruins of a single building."

"Mah mah, Sandaime-sama did tell us it could take a few months." Kakashi calmly replied. "At least it's an island jungle and isn't horribly humid and muggy all the time. Just think of it this way, it could always be worse." Kakashi flashed his infamous eye-smile.

Naruto couldn't really argue with that, so he let it drop. He didn't want to argue with his sensei, Kakashi was an elite jonin after all. And so he, along with the other two genin, went back to his search. Naruto was thinking back to when he first stepped onto the island and was excited to find the village, he had activated his Byakugan, planning to lead his team there quickly. However, he ran into a problem and hasn't tried since.

Flashback: Day one in Uzu no Kuni

"Well, welcome to Uzu no Kuni. The home of my clan and ancestors. Let's get started," Naruto said. "Byakugan," he muttered as veins bulged on either side of his head. Immediately he cried out in pain, his eyes deactivating instinctively.

"Naruto!" The rest of his team shouted at the same time, rushing up to him to see what was wrong.

"What happened?" Kakashi asked as naruto began to settle down. Right as the pain fully vanished, Naruto sat up and muttered to himself.

"Note to self," he grumbled. "No Byakugan for a while." His team being in close proximity to him had heard what he said. He looked up at them and explained. "The island is laced with chakra so dense it hurt to look at. It was blinding." He looked to adopted sister/best friend, "Don't activate yours. It hurts worse than you can imagine." Hinata nodded once in response.

End Flashback

"Kakashi-sensei, are you sure there isn't a better way to find Uzushio?" Naruto grumbled again. This jungle was really starting to get on his nerves.

Kakashi sighed and stopped, causing his genin to stop as well. "There will always be better ways to do something, the problem is finding what they are. Here's a life lesson for you, If you're dealt a bad hand, you have two options. First, you fold. You give up and accept defeat." Naruto grumbled hearing that. "Or Second, you can take a poker face, put forth your chips, and press on. I'd rather take the second option and press on. I don't know about you, but I don't like to give up just because it seems hard."

Naruto thought for a moment before looking at Kakashi and nodded once, accepting his sensei's advice. And so Naruto trekked on, leading his team through the jungle. They hadn't split up because only an Uzumaki can safely pass through this jungle, or anywhere on this island for that matter. There was no telling how many seals were still active around the island nation of Uzu. And so, they took no chances by sticking together.

For hours and hours they walked through the jungle. For days and days they searched for the ruins of the village with no luck and no signs of any kind. Luckily there was plenty of edible plants and even some game to hunt for food. There were plenty of clean fresh water springs and streams around as well, so thirst wasn't an issue.

Two more weeks had gone by. After one month on the island they still hadn't had any luck. They hadn't found any clues or signs. They hadn't had a single breakthrough or revelation to speak of. And so team seven was once again walking through more sections of jungle. This island really was massive, as they had been here for a month and had barely searched half of it.

"Hinata-chan, I'm going to try my Byakugan one more time. Keep an eye on me in case I pass out or something?" Naruto asked her. She nodded in reply, taking up a position next to him as he closed his eyes. He took two slow, deep breaths before opening his eyes and muttering, "Byakugan." Channeling as little chakra as he could with his higher control, he minimized how much chakra his eyes would see.

It still wasn't enough, as he immediately shouted out in pain and collapsed to his knees, once again deactivating his eyes on reflex and instinct. Hinata grabbed him, keeping him steady and preventing him to fall on his face. "Naruto-kun," she whispered. "Please don't do it again. It's not worth the pain."

Taking shaky breaths as he tried to regain his composure, Naruto nodded at her, a silent promise not to do it again. After another few moments Kakashi and Sasuke approached the pair and helped them to their feet.

"Let's get back to the search," Naruto said, to which his team could only nod. Though no one voiced it, they were all equally annoyed at the fact that they had found nothing. Not even a broken piece of concrete or stone masonry to indicate that a village was ever on the island.

'What's going on?' Kakashi thought. 'Even with a jungle this thick we should have found at least SOME kind of sign by now?' The rest of team seven were all having similar thoughts. They stopped for the night and set up a small camp, as they had done every night for the past month when they were too far from their base camp on the beach. They decided that they didn't really need to set up a watch most nights as there were no predators on the island large enough to cause any of them problems of any kind, and it wasn't possible for anyone not of Uzumaki blood to even get on the island unless they were with an Uzumaki. And as far as they knew, there could only be a handful of the clan left spread across the Elemental Nations.

After a few hours, Naruto got up and wandered a few meters into the jungle. He was unable to sleep and needed to think, though he never went far enough into the jungle to be out of range of the camp. He could see the fire they had set up and kept within range.

'I just don't get it,' he thought to himself. 'A month should have been plenty of time to find the ruins. It's like the whole place never existed at all. That's just not possible is it?'

Naruto heard movement from behind. When he turned around he saw Hinata walking up to him slowly, so as not to wake the others. "What's wrong Naruto-kun?" She asked.

"

It just doesn't make sense to me. A solid month without a single trace of Uzu? Something is going on here and I don't like it."

Hinata frowned, giving his words much consideration. "I don't know, Naruto-kun. Maybe we just aren't on the right part of the island yet. We'll find it."

Naruto only nodded, staring off into the distance as he stood deep in thought. "Come, we should be returning to our tents. Sleep would do us good."

Hinata smiled at him, "hai."

The next day was a break day. They had a few of these spread throughout the month, about one a week. On these days they wouldn't trek through the jungle. They would instead make a small clearing and train or spar. It was to keep their minds and eyes sharp when they returned to the search the next day.

Sasuke was sparring with Kakashi, as the sensei instructed the student on the finer points of his Taijutsu style, the Uchiha's Interceptor Fist. Naruto and Hinata were just outside the clearing sparring as well. They were sparring in the trees, jumping from branch to branch while striking at each other with the gentle fist. This would not only train their taijutsu, but would also help improve their agility, flexibility, strength and chakra control. This is mainly because of the precision of the gentle fist combined with fast paced tree climbing and tree jumping. With so many places to strike from the fight was more three dimensional than a normal spar would be.

Both had their Byakugan active, veins bulging on either side of their heads. Hinata jumped from a low branch up to one higher on the tree, flipping upside down as she did so. Her feet touched the tree only briefly before she used chakra to enhance her kick off and sending her speeding at Naruto, who was standing on the side of the tree.

Naruto saw the strike coming and the speed it was coming at him. With only a fraction of a second to decide, he jumped off of the tree and barely dodged the strike aimed at him. At Hinata's light touch, the tree bark shuddered slightly as a small but precise hole was made in it's surface. Barely any damage could be seen on the surface, but with their Byakugan they could clearly see the mangled mess that the inside of the tree became upon that strike.

Naruto landed on the next tree over, kicked off, and lunged at Hinata with his own counter attack. Sticking to the tree, Hinata coated her palms in chakra and blocked the rapid succession of strikes that Naruto unleashed on her upon landing on the side of her tree. Naruto overextended one of his left palm thrusts and Hinata took advantage of his mistake, poking several places on his arm and shutting his Tenketsu, or chakra points. Five Tenketsu were closed before Naruto was able to regain his balance and leap back from her.

He landed on the ground with a slight grunt, his left arm hanging at his side numb and useless. Hinata hopped down from the tree and landed in front of Naruto, taking up a modified gentle fist stance. Naruto recognized it as the one Hinata had been developing for a few years now. It was called Jyūho, or the Gentle Step. Instead of the standard stance of the Jyūken, her palms were slightly lower with her feet spread a little further apart. It was a more fluid stance to be sure.

Naruto poked his own Tenketsu with his chakra enhanced fingertips to reopen them. Painful, yes, but so very useful. Hinata simply stood in her stance and waited. This was it, the first real field test in an open spar. This would be the first time she used her recently completed Jyūho against someone. And so Naruto took up the standard stance.

They stood there, staring at one another, analyzing each other from head to toe with their Byakugan, looking at each Tenketsu. They watched each other's breathing patterns, looking for the slightest change to indicate an offensive move. They watched each other's muscles, waiting for the contractions that would signify movement.

A lone leaf was floating down between them, courtesy of Kakashi, who had finished with Sasuke and was now standing off to the side and out of their immediate vicinity. He and Sasuke waited for the first move, watching and analyzing with their own doujutsu. The leaf landed on the ground and signaled the start of the true match. Gentle Fist vs. Gentle Step.

The two Byakugan wielders raced forward, meeting where the leaf had landed. Naruto struck out with a series of palm thrusts as Hinata matched the first few. But then, out of nowhere she started... dancing? around the strikes. That was the only way to describe her graceful movements as she avoided each thrust by only centimeters. It seemed so close to the two watching, but to Naruto it may as well have been the length of the Elemental Nations. He knew she was doing it on purpose.

It was elegant. There was no wasted energy as she dodged each strike only the necessary amount. No more, no less. Only moments later she did something unexpected, she lunged forward with a kick enhanced with chakra. But it wasn't a kick of strength. No, what she did was release a small burst of chakra similar to a palm thrust. Her foot had barely touched him, right on his outer thigh. But that small touch was all she needed to shut down more than one Tenketsu, and effectively numbing his leg.

His leg gave out as he began to fall. Right to Hinata. Who had her palm outstretched. 'Not good!' Naruto thought. He thrust out with his arms, pumping chakra into the movement in an attempt to use a bastardized version of the Air Palms technique he had heard about to push him backwards. It didn't work. And so he ended up on his face in front of Hinata who had her fingers inches from his spine, without chakra of course. She stood there for a moment before standing back up.

Naruto, who had seen the whole thing with his Byakugan, knew he had lost. He groaned as he rolled over to see Hinata smiling down at him. "Wow, Hinata-chan. That was an incredible move. How did you do that? The feet are the hardest place to be precise with chakra, that's why it's not in the Jyūken."

She just smiled down at him and extended her hand out to him. He took it and she helped him to his feet. His leg was still numb and wouldn't take weight, so he had to lean on her. "A lot of practice," was her eventual reply. "I've incorporated a number of kicks into my Jyūho, actually."

"Really? That's incredible. Won't Hiashi-tousan be surprised when you show him!?" Naruto exclaimed excitedly.

Hinata nodded, "Hai! I think it's finally ready to show him. I'll show him the day after we get back." It was at that moment that Kakashi and Sasuke decided to approach.

"Well, that was very well done. I couldn't help but overhear, did you say you created that taijutsu style Hinata?" Kakashi asked.

"Hai, Kakashi-sensei. It has been very difficult. But father said it would be the best thing for me since my affinity doesn't coincide with any of the existing Jyūken styles and sub-styles." Hinata explained to him about the various different styles that the Hyuuga had, without going into specifics. By the end of the explanation Kakashi couldn't help but agree that it was probably the best thing for her.

"Well, I'm proud of you, all three of you. You have all come so far and are on track to being great Shinobi and Kunoichi respectively." Kakashi looked at the three of them, guaging their progress before deciding. "I think I may have you three enter the chuunin exams in four months. They are being hosted in the leaf village this time. Though, these exams will probably be the biggest and hardest ones yet. You'll see why," he said mysteriously.

Team 7 headed back to their little camp and sat around the fire while Kakashi told them stories about the last war and of his past. Nothing too personal. And he never used anyone's names. But he always had a lesson hidden in each story and he would always ask them what the lesson was. He wouldn't tell the next story until one of them could point out what they were meant to learn from the last one.

Another week passed by like this, with constant searching and a rest day that was used to improve one of their many skills. The last one was focused on Ninjutsu, as Kakashi was an expert in that field.

Today was the worst day yet though, as nature decided to let loose the heavens in a torrential downpour. The clouds had been rolling in with increasing winds for two days. They didn't know it, but they were about to be caught in a monsoon. When the rain started, they all took shelter as best they could under the largest and most sturdy trees. Kakashi used an doton jutsu to make a dome in front of them almost like an igloo of stone. He then followed it with a katon jutsu to bake the stone and dirt on, under and around the hut to waterproof it. Once it was done they all went inside and tried to wait out the storm.

After only half an hour the water on the ground was up to their shins. It was slowly starting to enter their little dome through the entrance that they didn't close so that they didn't run out of air. Kakashi used another doton jutsu to raise the dome up from the ground on a platform that stood nearly half the height of a sakura tree.

Two days later and the storm was still pouring. Having decided long ago that it was a foolish idea to go outside, they had remained in the dome nearly the whole time, only leaving to answer the call of nature. "Well," Kakashi started, "At least we know why we haven't found any ruins yet. If the island has been getting storms like this for the past twenty-plus years, it's likely that it has all been washed away. We'll continue to search the island when the rain stops, but if we don't find anything by the time we reach the far coast I'll call the mission there."

The three genin nodded, showing they understood what he was implying. They didn't want to fail their first C-rank mission, but if there was nothing there then it was outside of their control. And so they waited. And waited. And waited. For three more days the storm flooded the island. But finally, after five days of non-stop torrential downpour, the storm ended.

They left the dome and stood on the six feet of water that covered the ground, though it seemed to be draining rather quickly. From what they could see, it would only be about six hours until the water was gone. But, that wasn't possible, was it? And how could an island flood like that in the first place? Wouldn't the water just drain into the sea? The longer they were on this island, the more impossible it all seemed and the more questions that arose. Some would be answered by the end of their trip, but others wouldn't be answered for many years. Not that any of them knew that though.

"The water seems to be flowing this way, let's check it out," Kakashi said while walking alond the slow current. They followed the current for about an hour, noticing the rapid decrease in the water's height as they went. When they finally found the cause of the current they noticed that the water seemed to be draining into a cave. All of it. Across the whole Island.

"Wait... what?" Naruto said. He groaned in exasperation. "This whole place just keeps getting stranger and stranger. I don't understand this place! GAH! I wishi I could just look around with my Byakugan. I don't understand how we haven't found any trace of a village ever existing here. I don't understand how the whole Island seems laced with a thick, potent chakra. I don't understand how an Island can flood and drain so quickly. I don't understand how said flood can drain into one small cave entrance. And I most certainly do not understand HOW MY ANCESTORS COULD LIVE HERE!"

Kakashi just chuckled at his student's antics. "That's just how the world is, Naruto. There are things out there that defy all logic, but they exist none the less. It's just one of the many things you will have to learn to accept as a Shinobi."

"Yeah, well, I don't like it." He said stubbornly.

Again Kakashi chuckled at him, but his laughter was cut short as they heard a loud CRACK. Then another. "What was that?" Sasuke asked.

CRACK.

SNAP.

RUMBLE.

The ground started shaking and a large crack appeared in the gound near them. The crack grew wider and wider as it extended until it was a chasm which seemed bottomless. Or at least they couldn't see the bottom. Even though it was noon and the last of the clouds had drifted away. Middle of the day, sun shining straight down, and yet they could not see the bottom of this chasm that opened next to them.

RUMBLE

CRACK

RUMBLE

The ground next to the team gave way and chunks of rock fell in. Team seven heard a scream as they turned to the side and saw Naruto fall into the chasm, horror on all their faces and fear written on Naruto's clear as day.

"Kakashi-senseeeeeeeeeeeeeiiii!" Naruto shouted as he fell into the bottomless whole.

"Naruto!" The remaining trio yelled. Kakashi flashed through handsigns of a doton jutsu to save his student, but by the time he finished them it was too late. Naruto was out of sight.

"We have to save him!" Yelled Hinata.

With Naruto

A groan was heard echoing throughout the cavern as an unconcious Naruto washed up onto a cold stone surface. He had fallen into an underground lake. Normally a fall like that would have killed him, but something had slowed his fall just enough that he survived with no broken bones.

As he slowly regained consciousness from his fall, Naruto looked around only to find that he couldn't see. He started to panic until he used a small E-rank katon jutsu used primarily for starting camp fires and stuff. He could see the flame.

Okay, so I'm not blind., he thought. 'It's just very dark.' Naruto looked around. He could see about five meters (Around 16 1/2 ft.) in each direction. "Where am I?" he said to himself. He could see only the cold stone ground and the water behind him that he had landed in. He couldn't even see a wall. "I guess I'll pick a direction and start walking."

With the rest of Team 7

"Doton: Chidōkaku (Earth Style: Mobile Core)" Kakashi yelled, making a platform sink into the ground alongside the chasm. Slowly the platform lowered Team 7 into the pit that thier team mate and friend had fallen into. "Now, when we get down there, we stick together. Understood?"

"Hai," both Sasuke and Hinata said.

"Good, we don't know what's down here. When we reach the bottom, I want you to very carefully activate your byakugan, just long enough to see if the air down here is saturated with chakra like in the jungle."

Hinata just nodded, her focus fully on finding her best friend and adopted brother. After a while the platform finally made it to the bottom as Kakashi released the jutsu panting. It was a lot further down and more chakra intensive than he thought it would be.

While he caught his breath, Hinata did as he asked and activated her Byakugan, finding that the air down here was in fact NOT saturated with chakra. This was good, very good, as it meant that they would have no trouble finding Naruto. "Kakashi-sensei, I can see. My Byakugan is usable down here."

"What do you see," Sasuke asked, as Kakashi was still too out of breath.

"It's a massive cave system. The tunnels are weathered down and look very slick. Further down there is a massive underground lake. I can't see the far side, but all of the tunnels head in that direction.

"Then that's where we'll go." Kakashi said, finally catching his breath. "Though I won't be able to use any jutsu for a while, that doton took too much chakra."

His students took point, Hinata with her Byakugan, Sasuke with a torch he pulled from a storage scroll in his pack. He lit the torch with a small E-rank katon and off they went, to find their missing friend.

With Naruto

Naruto walked for nearly half an hour along the edge of the lake before a thought accoured to him. "Ah! Maybe I can use the Byakugan down here." He had said to himself. Upon activating it, he could see a massive network of tunnels and cave systems. "What is this?" Naruto asked himself in wonder.

He could see that the path diverged up ahead. One path looped around to the other side of the lake, where just on the edge of his visual range he could see the ground start to incline upwards. Just barely in his range also was the rest of his team, headed his way. With how large the lake is, they will take at least a few hours to reach him. He looked to the other path and noticed that it went further down and out of the range of his vision. Naruto frowned. "What else could possible be down here...?" he wondered out loud to himself.

Deciding to meet up with his team, he started along the path that would loop around to meet them. He doubted his team could see him yet, as his range with the Byakugan was further than Hinata's was. Though how that was, they still haven't figured out. With the training method they had come up with for it as kids, their ranges were the largest in the entire clan, but Naruto's was larger still. Pair that with his lack of a blind spot and-needless to say-the elders wanted answers.

Focusing his Byakugan on a different point, Naruto noticed something odd. There was a section of the cave along the path that went down with images and depictions carved along it and coated with a chakra thick enough that he could't see what it was with his Byakugan. Frowning again, Naruto decided to check it out since it wasn't too far out of his way.

After another half an hour of walking, Naruto made his way up to the wall with images engraved along it. He deactivated his Byakugan and pulled a few torches out of a scroll in his pack. He lit them and stuck them in the ground by wedging them between large rocks. With the whole wall illuminated, he knew his team would find him. And so he began to examine the wall.

It was so odd. It looked like a story scroll, except fully opened so that the whole story was seen all at once instead of a little at a time. The first image was of a large object falling from the night sky, judging by the dots he assumed were stars. The object struck down in a large forest and a woman with white hair and blank eyes that looked eerily like the Byakugan stepping out of a crater.

The woman was found by a man leading a small force and taken in where she fell in love with him over time. But it wasn't to last, as the man was the leader of a small nation that was on the verge of war. He sent her into hiding so as to be away from the fighting, as she was a peace loving woman. But she was found by the opposing force and confronted.

When they tried to detain her she released a terrifying power that slaughtered any who tried to harm her. Her hand maiden took hold of her hand and they ran. A few of the opposing force survived and reported to their superior, who was in a conference with the leader of the nation the woman lived in. Upon hearing what she had done, the leader ordered her execution.

So the woman fled to a massive tree known as the god tree. I released the chakra fruit to her as she was its guardian, though that was not known to the rest of the world. Upon eating the fruit, the woman proceeded to slaughter whole armies in mere monents and trapped everyone in the roots of the tree.

Naruto stepped further down the wall and read more of the story images. The woman gave birth to two sons. The sons grew up in peace for many years until they were visited by a small toad who told them to break the law that their mother made and travel to the base of the god tree. It was there that they learned what they thought was the truth. Their mother was using the people to feed the tree and continue to subjugate the world.

The elder brother traveled to the land of the toads and trained in their arts, hoping to gain the power to defeat his mother and rescue the world. When his training was done and he entered the world once more he found that his mother had taken his younger brother's free will. In the end he had to 'kill' his brother to save him. Before he could bleed to death though, he placed a tag on his brother that contained much power harnessed by the toads for many, many years. The energy of the tag was able to heal his brother and together they fought their mother.

The battles lasted for many years. Each time they won, their mother would retreat before she could be sealed. Each time they lost, they would retreat before she could absorb them and their power. In the pictures, Naruto noticed that the woman was always crying. "I wonder why?" he said aloud to himself.

Eventually the brothers managed to win and the eldest brother used his power to create the moon and sealed her body, in the form of a massive ten tailed beast, into it. He then sealed her chakra into himself after splitting it into nine pieces which took the form of nine giant beasts each with a different number of tails.

Naruto's eyes widened when he noticed the last beast as he recognized it as the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the Nine Tailed Fox. "These are the nine bijuu!" Naruto exclaimed to himself. "What is this!?" Looking further he noticed that the younger brother decided to reside on the moon and watch over their mother's body, leaving the elder brother to watch over her chakra on earth.

Over the years the elder brother met many people, helping them in any way he could. He build bridges, grew crops, repaired villages. He had many followers by the time he settled down. He eventually had his own sons, who the man raised with compassion and love. But the story did not end there. Naruto was only half way through with the large mural.

Right as Naruto was going to continue reading, he heard a familiar voice. "Naruto-kun!" Hinata shouted and lunged at him, embracing him in a hug as he turned around to greet his team. "There you are! We've been looking for you for hours."

"I'm sorry Hinata-chan, but I got sidetracked. Sasuke, I think you'll find this interesting. You too Kakashi-sensei. This is big, I mean really big!" Naruto told them.

Curious at what he found, they all walked over to the mural, and gasped at it's beauty, or at least that's what Hinata did. They began reading and each surprise was like a jolt of electricity through the hear. There was so much information here. What really caught their eyes though, was the Byakugan, Sharingan, and what Kakashi identified as the fabled Rinnegan.

Once they caught up to him, Naruto began reading the rest along side his team. The elder brother, now an old man, gave his two sons a challenge to see who would become his successor. The younger brother won and took over for his father. The elder brother resented his father and brother and left to start his own followers. The Father released the bijuu and sent them to various parts of the world to watch over humanity, as the dying man felt something was coming in the far future. He told them to wait for a boy who would reunite them and bring peace to the world.

But that was not to be for many years. The two sons of the old man went their seperate ways for a time. Their followers became like their family and the brothers granted their power to each of their followers respectively. They fought many times until they passed the fight on to their own successors. These two sides eventually became the clans now known as the Senju and Uchiha. The Senju later split up and became the Senju and Uzumaki. Later down the line, the descendants of the younger son of the white haired woman rejoined humanity on earth and they became the hyuuga clan.

The three genin looked in awe at all the information here. Sasuke was the first to speak. "Wait, I remember reading something that relates to this a while back. The older brother, the one who saved the world, he's the Rikudou Senin, the Sage of Six Paths."

They all looked at the mural once again and took in all of this information. "Wait," Naruto said. "That means that the three of us are the descendants of these figures." He gazed up in awe at their shared lineage. Naruto and Sasuke were direct descendants of the sage, and Hinata was a direct descendant of the sage's younger brother. They were all descendants of this all powerful woman.

The whole time, Kakashi was just silent in awe of this fountain of lost knowledge. Hinata had her own revelation, "That means that the Sharingan, Byakugan and the fabled Rinnegan all originated from the same person."

Sasuke's eyes widened at the realization. "But if that's true, then does that mean any of those clans have the potential to awaken it? If so, why hasn't it ever happened before?"

"I don't know. But you guys are ignoring something else," Naruto said, pointing at the tailed beasts. "The bijuu. If this mural is true, then they are all parts of this woman's chakra split into pieces. That means technically they are her, which means we are all descended from them as well."

Again there were wide eyes around everyone, there was just so much information. So much, and yet they still weren't done reading. "Let's continue," Sasuke said.

The next section depicted the era of the clan wars up to the founding of the village. The mural showed the Shodaime Hokage battling against Madara Uchiha, but what was even more interesting was that the images of the two sons of the sage were overlapped with them with the kanji for reincarnation on their forheads.

Again eyes went wide. But that wasn't all, the mural depicted the first, second and third shinobi wars. The mural depicted the Kyuubi's attack on Konoha with a man standing atop its head battling the Yondaime Hokage, Naruto's biological father. And if that wasn't enough, the mural even showed Naruto and Sasuke themselves, also with the images of the two sons of the sage overlapping them and also with the kanji for reincarnation.

"Wait, what!" Naruto and Sasuke shouted together!

"What the hell!?" Naruto cried out. "Nuh-uh! There's no possible way this mural could be true, because there's no way it could possible know things like this. It just isn't possible."

"Look," Sasuke said, pointing at the next part of the mural. "There's more," he said in awe.

The next part was them training with Hinata, with the younger brother of the sage overlapping her with the kanji of reincarnation. Then after that was the three of them reading the mural.

"Wait," Hinata said. "How could anyone possible know that we would be here reading this!"

No one answered as they looked at the next part. It was an image of them passing out, but that wasn't the weirdest part. It looked like a new image was slowly, very slowly being formed. At it's pace, the next image wouldn't be readable for a year or two. Finally it was too much, as the three genin passed out, falling to the ground just as the mural predicted, Kakashi following their lead shortly after.

WOW! Over 6k words later and here we are. So what did you think!? Do you like my little twist. It plays a big roll, as you can all guess. Now I know I may get a lot of negative feedback that I told them who they were this early, but trust me, the farther in the story gets, the more it will make sense why I did what I did. At least I hope. Things always tend to sound better in our heads than they do out loud or on paper. Anyways, until next time. Ja ne.