Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto does, so thank him for Naruto.

A/N: Okay, here's the problem, I know there are writers that make their chapter lengths be anything from a few hundred words to 15000 per chapter. I personally rather have my chapters be between about 2500 to 4500 per chapter. It's because of that that this chapter, the previous one and the next one were all one chapter and was split up.

"Speaking"

Thinking

"Inner self/ Demon talking"

Demon thinking

The Burden of Three

6. Academy Years, Part 2

Once the three calmed down the Hokage continued his explination, "That was the good part, but you see as consolation you there will have to live on your own." The happy expressions on the eight other occupants instantly fell. "You see, your parents weren't sure if you three would receive guardians or not, so they told me to have you automatically move into their home after you pass the age for orphans to have the option of living alone, which incidentally is when they start at the academy. Also they wanted you to have the experience. Their parents did the same to them because your maternal grandmother died during childbirth and your paternal grandfather died before he knew his fiancée was pregnant, and they were both active shinobi so they had to leave your parents alone at times lasting from hours to months. I'm sure your that these fine kunoichi and my sister have been able to teach you some of the basics that you will need to take care of yourselves. I'll your all of your possessions taken to your new home by tomorrow, tell you about your parents there, and give you what the asked me to. Sadly they requested that if you were to have any form of guardian, that they would not know where your new home is or your parents identity until you three are genin, but you are allowed to visit and see your guardians away from your home. Also I am allowed to make some alterations in their orders. For three hours after school, you will come back here for training. You are to continue the training that these young ladies have set for you each day and the fifth day will be for whatever these four choose to teach you that day."

Well once he was done the night was filled with sadness and advice for the children. After all, it wasn't that they would never see each other ever again, just not as often. The kunoichi and Asuke would be staying in their current home and keeping each other company. Later that night the three went to sleep for the last time in the only home they knew since their birth.

The next day at the academy went by just as the first did, with the exception of the three blonds being a bit more quiet. After the last class let out, the three walked to the Hokage's tower where they met the Sandaime in his office. There you three are, well lets go see your new home." The hokage said to them.

He led them out of the tower and went down one of the less crowded streets. The soon came to one of the many training areas located inside of Konoha. It was a field that had a thicker and taller forest than the most others in the village. They soon came to a house that was about three times larger than their last home and had a large gate with the same symbol in the center that they all had on their arm. Soon they all entered and was amazed at the interior. Everything was clean and the inside looked larger than the outside. The interior was fully furnished, the kitchen was fully stocked (the Sandaime had it stocked that morning), and all their things were stored in one of three rooms that were right next to each other. The children soon got comfortable as they sat on the sofa with their feet just hanging over the edge, not even close to reaching the floor, and the Hokage sat in a chair across from them.

"Well now children, I believe that I should tell you about your parents. Now first your surname is not truly Uzumaki, it the surname your maternal grandfather decided to adopt since he didn't have one and it was used to protect you from your parents enemies. That means that we used your mother's maiden name since there are only five people now that know it. That blue and black swirl on your right arms is the only thing needed as proof, as the fact that only those directly descended from your father and his mother have those. Being that she had only one child that means that you are the only ones with it other than her. Now for your real name, it is Kazama. I am sure you probably don't remember it, but believe me when I say there are many ninja that know that name. As for me telling you who they were, here..." The elderly Hokage just tossed two pictures to the three.

To say three were shocked as the three looked over the pictures would have been like saying water was wet. In one picture was a man that had a strong resemblance to the Uzum...Kazama males and a woman with white hair that looked like the blond girl. In one picture the woman was laying in bed tired with two blond children laying beside her and a third in the man's hands, it was easy to tell who the babies were. The other picture showed the woman in full ANBU gear with her tiger mask in her hand sometime before her pregnancy and the man wearing the hat of the Hokage, but both were wearing a cloak with flame designs on them. Naruto and his siblings knew who they were looking at, Rin and Kurenai both had some photo albums of their teachers and told them about the ones that trained some of the most dangerous women in Leaf.

Naruto was the first to find his voice, "You mean that the Yondaime and the the commander of all ANBU, two of the strongest ninja that were ever born were our parents?" When the Hokage nodded his head, the older two of the triplets just fainted.

"Well I didn't see that one coming, I figured that Tetsuma would be staying quiet to try to figure out if it was true and Naruto would be yell about it not being fare that we never knew them." the only adult present looked at the boy as if wondering about his calm reaction. "Don't you know? I'm the most rational one of the three of us, though my temper is just as bad as my brothers. I do wonder why you decided to tell us now."

The old man just chuckled a little before answering, "The reason for that is that you may be able to hide it from the others, but you three can't hide all your abilities from me. I know that you three are as smarter as academy graduates, that you have at least lower genin level chakra-control, that you understand a lot more than you let on, that you have the skill to preform jutsu, but have not been taught any yet...and that you have knowledge of your burdens." The last part came out in a more serious tone then everything else the Hokage said.

Hariken paused for a second before grinning. "Well to tell you the truth, we were wondering when someone would notice. The truth of the matter is that all the assassination attempts have made us mature mentally, not to mention that since we have no friends and seldom go leave home, there was nothing to do other than study after Asuka-obaa-chan taught us how to read. That month where we were taken away a year ago is what really pushed us, the hurt us so bad that the demons pulled us into our subconscious to reduce the pain about a week before you found us. They explained who they were, how they were sealed, and why the people hate us, though we wondered why we were chosen as hosts until now. I'm guessing that you know about our mental link, those near-death experiences caused mental barriers we had to break and allow us to communicate mentally. We know no one can hear our conversations, but we didn't know if the connection could be detected. As a result the demons can use it to talk with each other, but they can be pretty nice when they are not in a bad mood. I think that we will tell you why the demons attacked when the others wake-up. So is there anything that you want to talk about while they are recovering."

The older man was shocked. He knew that they were smarter than they let on, that they may have knew about demons, and he was suspicious about the other things, but he just didn't confirm them and here was a boy that was just past seven years old was talking to him with as he thought only adults would. (As in having more maturity and thought behind the words)

The older man looked at the boy and continued their conversation. "Well if that is true, then why do you three still act immature around others?"

The youngest of the three laughed some. "Well to tell you the truth, that's just how we are. Even though we are very mature for our age, we still children and prefer to be immature at times. I think that might be a part of our personality for a long time. Also there are several other reasons. We don't want anyone to know that we are so mentally mature because the villagers might further think that we are the demon with our intelligence. Rin-nee-chan and the others might worry more if they thought we were growing up to fast. Naruto said one of the main reasons best, the villagers would fear a smart and strong demon vessel more than they would a dumb and apparently weak one."

Sarutobi just nodded his head, there was truth in the boy's words. Beside the three was training to be ninja and deception was apart of the ninja life, after all if someone that didn't know who he was were to see the Hokage they would think that he was a weak old man and not the more powerful of the current Kages.

"Well I must say that I had a feeling that you might be hiding a few things, but your maturity has taken me by surprise. Anyway her is the scroll that your parents left you, only one of you three can open it. It is a storage scroll that has things that your parents wrote to you three and some of private possessions that they wanted you three to have. There is a library that is located near the kitchen and surrounded by a barrier that they they said will repel anyone and anything that doesn't share the blood of one of them, but the scroll for that barrier is inside the library so that you can modify it or even dispel it. Inside are all the jutsu that they either learned or created, information on nearly every subject, and a few secrets to your kekkei genkai. I believe that I will leave and let you get familiar with your new home, but since your siblings are still sleeping could you tell me why the demons attacked out village?"

The young blond sighed. "Apparently Kyuubi had a daughter that was about as old as the village and since demons age fare slower than humans she would still be a kit. Kyuubi's mate was killed by another demon when she was still weak from giving birth. Anyway a couple years before the end of the Great War, the Kyuubi had lost contact with her, they had a similar mental link like my siblings and I have. A couple of days before the attack Kyuubi felt his daughter for a moment and in that moment he felt that she was in great pain, but soon the link was completely severed. It seems that before that happened, the link was present enough to tell him that she was alive, but too weak for him to determine her location. That moment of connection was all that he needed to sense that she was her in this village and the sudden end of their link made him think that she was killed, and that caused him to go into the deadly rage that you say on the day we were born. At the time he had two of his fellow Biju aiding him in his search and when he started to head for Konoha they followed him until he explained what happened. They readily agreed to help since it appeared that our village may have killed his daughter, they were found of the kit and were sort of demon grandparents. About an hour before they started to attack, they all smelled the blood of a demon fox and that was all that was needed for to anger Kyuubi beyond reason. The rest you know, but I will say some things that are odd. He said that he sensed her here and smelled her blood, but I it would be odd that no one knew about that. Also was the fact that when we gained our own mental link, Kyuubi said that for some strange reason his mental ability was enhanced enough to know that his daughter is still alive."

The old man nodded his head, what he was told would take a lot of consideration. It seems that the village was set-up and there had to be a cunning person to do it if not for the fact that they would never have found out were it not for the demons. He then walked out of the house and continued to his home.

When the other two woke their little brother explained everything to them, but they were okay with what he told the Sandaime, after all the Hokage is suppose tho know the strength of his shinobi. The three later opened the scroll and were surprised by the things that were in there. They knew that the cloaks were too large for them to currently wear, the necklace would be left at home until they knew they were strong enough not to have them stolen, the hitai-ites they would wear when they became ninja, and the masks they put aside until they would be able to become ANBU. They looked at the photo albums that showed their parents as children and the three were surprised at the strong resemblance they had, they saw an adult behind each of their parents, who must have been their grandparents that the Hokage told them about (They were just as shocked to find out who they were as they were shocked about their parents and they will show up much later), and their parents letters. The letters explained about their family, their blood line, possible abilities, their parents' regrets about not being there, the demons and apologizing about the burden they had to carry, also how the seals allow them access to the demons' seemingly unlimited chakra and the many functions of the seals, asking for forgiveness, and asking the three to make them proud by becoming strong shinobi that will protect the village their parents died for, even if they were treated poorly.

The Hokage sat in his office after finishing writing his report for his private files. It seems that someone used the demons to attack Konoha, but who? It could have been purposely done to weaken the village or it could have been someone very foolish experimenting with the young demon vixen. Either way I will have to keep a close eye on my and the village's enemies. But now we know why the demons attacked and I doubt there are many that would have done different if in the Biju position.

A/N: That's the end of this chapter. Anyway for the demon's reason for the attack, I seen in a few other stories that they had the Kyuubi placed under a strong genjutsu, the it was angered that it's mate and kit's were killed(one when kyuubi was made male and another when it was female).So I made it like "someone messed with daddy's little princess so he and her godparents went to deal with them."

As for the intelligence and skills of the three, I felt that Naruto was always being held back growing up. For one it is stated that he's not that smart. Well I'm sure that it took Iruka a while to warm up to him, but would you be surprised if the teachers tried to hinder his growth as a ninja? They hate the demon and don't want him to get stronger,so they could try ignore his questions when he's confused (making him tired of asking and not wanting to listen), ask him questions on new subjects that hasn't been taught yet, and and grade his papers wrong. He probably stopped listening to the teachers after a couple of years because of what that did, which could be the cause of his lack of intelligence, skill, and habit of not listening to his teachers, understanding them, or cutting class.(after all, I doubt that many will listen to a teacher that they can't understand or won't help them) Besides most children had their parents or family there to teach them what either wasn't taught in the academy or wasn't taught until later and Naruto had no one.

Also Naruto has proven to be quite observant and skilled at times. In the fist episode he was able to evade chunin(I think that was their rank) after defacing the Hokage monument until Iruka caught him, which I would say is pretty good for a genin, let alone an academy student. He was able to learn the jonin level Kage Bunshin no Jutsu in only several hours, a technique only some jonin know and can make more than the average jonin with his own chakra and far more when he uses the demon chakra. In a minute or two he came up with the idea of distraction with Kakashi to trap him from behind and get him with the number advantage during the bell test(I'm still trying to figure-out how the clone were able to stay there so long while fighting each other instead of disappearing after a couple of punches especially since they were a little weaker because of his hunger). Even though he was being foolish at the time, he was able to detect Zabuza a second before he switched with the rabbit. In the Chunin Exams, he was the first to notice Lee's hands and what that meant, create a good plan quickly to distract the rain ninja with his clones(one of my favorite moments), and later learned the Resengan(with his own start-up variation) in one month(I think)when it took the Yondaime three years to create and Jirayia three years to learn.