A/N: Hey! Hopefully, this won't take too long, I'm starting this after uploading chapter 2. I'm going to try and make this chapter substantially longer since I have a lot of building to do and I don't really want several updates and chapters with just descriptions. If you guys prefer longer chapters like this one then make sure to let me know. I've been doing a thousand words (roughly) a chapter to ensure that updates are consistent, but if the story ends up flowing better with longer chapters, then we'll see. I also avoid going into Naruto's POV too much because I really don't think five-year-olds thoughts and dialogue are too fun to read, and I don't want him to sound more mature than he has any right to be, but I will be focusing on his pov in the third person around the time he's twelve when the events of the original story begin. I am also looking for a beta reader if anyone's interested! Anyway with that out of the way...
I Hope You Enjoy!
Konohagakure- Council Room 5 AM
Sarutobi stood in front of the assembled shinobi. He had gathered the people he believed would have the best chances at ensuring that any problems Naruto might have, would be solved. Inoichi Yamanaka was brought in for the mind. Chouza Akimichi for the physical body. Hiashi Hyuuga to handle the chakra network. Tsume Inuzuka to help him control his instincts. Fugaku Uchiha because he wanted his son, Itachi, as a personal bodyguard for the boy, and Shikaku Nara to organize it all and handle the logistics. He had also brought in Kakashi because the boy needed a full-time guardian.
"You all know I would not have dragged you out of your beds if this wasn't vital to village security." He looked around the table, "Jiraiya and I have discovered that the Yondaime's seal is leaking a substantial amount of chakra into Naruto's system. In spite of this, I thought that everything would be fine, that he could still live a normal life," The Third Hokage then sat down, looking at each of the gathered shinobi. "I was wrong." The Third stopped speaking, allowing the shinobi a moment to digest the information. Each had their own reaction to the news. Shikaku looked thoughtful. Tsume seemed to be confused. Both Hiashi and Danzo looked as passive as ever. While Chouza shared glances with Inoichi. Kakashi stood in the back, hands in his pockets.
"What do you want us to do about it?" Tsume Inuzkuka, head of the Inuzuka clan spoke, growing agitated with the silence.
"Each of you has been brought here for a reason." The Hokage began looking towards her. "Naruto seems to be operating on instinct. He is somehow able to detect negative feelings around him. When these negative feelings include the intent to harm him, even a little, he gets angry and the Kyuubi's chakra reacts to this anger. He attacks the person responsible until they become and their intent to harm him goes away." The Hokage's gaze never left Tsume's, his tone becoming commanding, "You and your clan are best equipped to deal with this instinctual need to protect himself. He isolates himself because every minor negative emotion sets him off." The Hokage's tone grew quiet. "He feels like he's surrounded at all times, waiting for an attack that could come from anywhere, at any time."
The Hokage then looked towards Yamanaka Inoichi, "You will deal with any of the psychological problems that he is going to face as a result of this constant emotional instability." He didn't even bother waiting for a reply before his gaze shifted towards Chouza Akimichi, "You will line out his dietary needs. With all of the chakra running through his system, both demonic and his own, there's a possibility a regular diet will not suffice. You will determine if this is the case, and create one for him if a regular one will not work." Chouza could only nod.
"Shikaku, you will deal with organizing everything. I want Naruto's schedule to be as efficient as possible. Figure out the logistics, you may have any resources you feel are required for his development." He ignored the sigh from the shinobi as he looked towards Danzo Shimura, "Danzo, you will train Naruto in the shinobi principles, and once he has learned that, you will begin training him in basic shinobi combat." Danzo only looked passively towards the Hokage. "And Danzo?" The elder raised his lone eyebrow at Hiruzen. "That is all you will teach him. None of this brainwashing that I know you still haven't stopped despite being ordered to. I know you have the village's best interests at heart and so I have allowed you to stick to the shadows, but you will not fuck with me on this one. Do you understand?" Everyone looked shocked that the normally reserved Hokage would swear at one of the elders, but kept silent so as not to draw his anger.
"I understand," Danzo smirked at his old friend. It was always good to see that old age hadn't hindered his friend in the slightest.
"Good, Fugaku," The head of the Uchiha clan scowled. Waiting for his orders."Your son is considered a prodigy, especially in genjutsu. He will be Naruto's personal guard. If Naruto loses control, he will be able to calm him down." The Third closed his eyes, "I know your clan has been ostracized since the Kyuubi's attack. There isn't much that I can do about that, however, if you do this for me, Itachi will be the next Hokage. You will get your Uchiha leader." Everyone at the table's eyes widened. For him to boldly declare the position of next Hokage to an eleven-year-old boy, no matter how prodigious, showed how far he was willing to go to get what he wanted. The fact that the Hokage knew that Itachi aspired to the same ideals that he looked for in a Hokage made that promise easier for him to make. Now, more than ever, he needed all of the clans united and working together. Fugaku could only nod at the Hokage, unable to get over his shock.
"Hiashi, I want you, personally, to periodically evaluate Naruto's chakra coils and tenketsu. No one has ever had this much chakra running through them at such a young age, even other jinchuriki pale in comparison. You will make sure that his body isn't going to implode on us. I have already sent a message to Jiraiya to drag Tsunade back here, she will handle any problems you find, and any other medical issues that he may run into." The Hyuuga clan head gave a slight nod to the Hokage. "For the village, I will gladly offer my service." He replied.
"Kakashi, you will be Naruto's guardian. You will watch over him, and raise him. You know better than anyone how it is to be training almost nonstop at such a young age." Kakashi gave an eye smile, "I always wanted a little brother." He stated.
The Third looked towards each of the people he had handpicked to sit at the table, "None of you besides Fugaku have been given any reason to do this, and what I am about to tell you all will stay inside of this room. I am expecting you to go above and beyond the call of duty. His father was our Fourth Hokage, and he gave his life so that we could all live." He ignored the expected gasps, then leaned forward," We will raise his son in his stead. I made a promise that I would take care of him, and that's what I'll do. We will do this... For the Fourth Hokage!" He shouted.
"For the Fourth Hokage!" Everyone at the table chorused back. Sarutobi sat back, a small smile growing on his face. He will be raised by the will of fire. The culmination of this village. You will not live a normal life, Naruto, and for that I am sorry, but I will make damned sure you live a good one.
Naruto woke up not really understanding where he was at. The last thing he could remember was talking with the Hokage in his office and then getting a little upset, and now he woke up in a furnished room that he had never seen before. He didn't have long to ponder on this before the Hokage walked into the room. "Hello Naruto, how are you feeling?" The aged man said, sitting in a chair that was placed on one side of the room. Naruto sat on the side of the bed and replied "Good...uhm old man?" Naruto then looked around the room "Where am I?" As weird as the situation was, Naruto could feel no negative intent from the old man. He was still a bit confused as to his surroundings though.
The Hokage looked towards Naruto and let out a sigh. "You are inside of the Hokage monument Naruto, this is your new home for the foreseeable future." Naruto didn't notice the frown that marred the Hokages face at his statement.
"Wow! I'm in the mountain?! Really, that's so cool!" Naruto then began to head outside of the door only to be stopped by the Third's voice.
"Naruto, I need you to sit down, please. I have some things that I need to tell you." Naruto looked confused but did as he was asked and sat back down on the bed wondering what the old man had to tell him. "You are different from other children, different from other people even. Sometimes you get really angry and you can't control yourself, and I understand." The Hokage then took a deep breath before letting it out. "Some things will be explained to you later, but due to what happened to those three boys I have decided that you need to go through some training before I can allow you to interact with other children." Naruto's face froze in an incredulous expression. What did that even mean? He wasn't allowed to go outside? He didn't mean to hurt that boy so badly, but he just got so angry when he noticed that feeling coming at him from so close to him.
"Old man it's not my fault I told yo-" The Sandaime cut him off with a wave of his hand.
"I understand Naruto, really I do, but I think this is best for now. I have some people that I trust very much, who are going to help you in any way they can." The Hokage then looked at Naruto, not quite able to keep the sadness out of his voice. "I'm sorry, but this is for your own good. I will not change my mind. There is a man named Kakashi in the room next door to you. He will be taking care of you while you live here." Naruto just looked back at him, hurt in his expression. The Hokage wished there was some other way, but the older Naruto got, the stronger he would get. What would happen if he went too far and he didn't just knock someone unconscious? This was for the best. No matter much it pains me to do it.
Naruto Stared at the door as the Hokage shut it behind him. His crying broke the silence of the room.
Why did they have to send him to me first? Inoichi thought to himself, studying Naruto. They had been sitting in silence for a while. He was given a room deep inside the Hokage monument to hold this therapy session. He was given free rein to do whatever he saw fit to ensure Naruto's mental stability. They sat across from each other in separate chairs. He'll attack anyone who shows any sort of aggression towards him, but the Inuzuka are going to deal with his instinctual anger. He sighed, the action being picked up by the boy, the ultramarine almost looking like they were growing "You're somehow able to tell that I don't mean you any harm right?" Naruto blinked and then nodded.
"Good, you understand that you are different from other children your age?" Another nod, "Would you like to know why?"
Naruto's eyes widened, not really understanding what he meant. "There's a reason?"
"Yes, almost six years ago The Nine-Tailed Fox attacked the village. The official story passed down to all the children is that the Fourth Hokage killed the Fox, saving the village." Naruto had heard this story before, there was a festival on his birthday every year celebrating it. He liked to pretend they were celebrating his birthday. "This is a lie." Naruto's eyes widened, "The tailed beasts cannot be killed, only sealed. The Kyuubi broke free from your mother's seal when she was giving birth to you. Killing her in the process. The Fourth Hokage then sealed it into you, at the cost of his own life." He resolutely ignored the sobs that erupted from Naruto, "The Fourth Hokage was a hero, and so are you."
"I don't want a demon in me!" Naruto shouted. "I want my dad! I want my mom! I don't want a demon... I don't wanna..." Naruto could no longer hold back the wails of pain. He had always known he was different. He had hoped that one day his parents would just appear, no matter how unlikely, and that him being in the orphanage was all a mix-up, but now? He knew that it was never going to happen.
Best to get this out of the way, if he's going to be stable then he needs to cope with everything. He can't cope with what he doesn't know. Inoichi nodded to himself. This was necessary.
"So you aren't feeling faint at all? No dizziness?" Chouza said as Naruto shook his head. He was confused, he had Naruto weighed before he went to bed without dinner. He then weighed him again when he woke up to see his metabolic rate. When that showed no fluctuation in weight he had Naruto go all day without eating, the only complaint he had received from Naruto was that he was hungry. No dips in energy. No loss of focus... This would require further study. Chouza knew he was gonna have a headache after all this.
Naruto squirmed in his bed as he was looked over by the Hyuuga Clan head with his byakugan activated. "Do you like ramen?" He spoke trying to ease the tension in the room.
"No," Hiashi said, then deactivated his byakugan. "You're in good health, good day to you." Without speaking any further words he then walked out of the room.
"What a weird guy." Naruto sweatdropped then shrugged his shoulders and began playing with some of the toys that they had in his room.
"Come Naruto, we must make our way to the Inuzuka's for your next training session." An 11-year-old Itachi reached his hand out towards Naruto, a kind smile on his face.
"You look kind of funny, like an adult, but you're not an adult." Naruto pointed at Itachi's face, eyes squinted. Itachi's eye twitched. He then moved faster than Naruto could track and poked Naruto in the forehead.
"You remind me of my little brother." Itachi then grabbed Naruto's hand and led him through the tunnels that would take them outside of the Hokage monument. He carried Naruto to the bottom of the monument and they began their trek towards the Inuzuka compound. Most villagers nodded in respect towards Itachi and chose to ignore Naruto's presence altogether. Naruto noticed this and decided to question Itachi on it.
"Why do they look at you like that?" Naruto asked, puzzled by their reactions. He glared at some of the people hoping to get some sort of reaction out of them. They didn't rise to the bait. They just continued to ignore him.
"It's because I am a ninja, and pretty well known for being strong despite my youth," Itachi said, nodding back at some of the villagers and ninja that they passed by.
"So they won't look at me because of the Kyuubi?" Naruto said with a frown.
"That is probably correct," Itachi replied. Naruto became silent for the rest of their walk to the Inuzuka compound. Right as they were coming towards the gates, he looked towards Itachi, "I'm gonna become strong! Then they'll look at me too."
"That is a good goal Naruto. You can only change things if you have the strength to do so. That is why I train so hard, and why I've made myself so strong." He then knocked on the Inuzuka's front door.
"I'm coming, hold on a sec." The door then opened to reveal a younger version of Tsume. "Hey, Naruto right? I'm Hana. My mom told me that you were coming by. Come inside and I'll go grab her." Hana then moved aside so that he could pass. She then looked towards Itachi as she gestured inside and he followed. "Hey Itachi, long time no see, Babysitting? I figured that was above your paygrade." Hana and Itachi had very briefly gone to the academy together, but while Itachi had come and gone, she had only graduated recently.
"I have taken an interest in Naruto, he's an orphan you know. He could use some friends." The cover story came from Itachi easily. No one needed to know he was a bodyguard for Naruto. Especially someone who didn't know about his tenant.
"Didn't know you had any interests besides training. Good to see you're human like the rest of us." Hana replied offhandedly. "You guys can wait in the living room, I'll be right back." She then went upstairs to go grab her mother. Naruto looked around from his seat on the couch, noticing all of the animal pelts and furs lining the walls. Mostly of different wolves, but there were some large foxes as well. "They sure do kill lots of animals don't they?" Naruto spoke after having finished examining the room.
"It's a tradition in our family. When you are about ready to graduate from the academy and become a ninja," a loud voice began from atop the stairs. Naruto looked up to see that Tsume had begun walking down the stairs. "You will have to hunt down a predator that lives in the forests around here and kill it with nothing but the family techniques to help you." Tsume reached the bottom of the stairs and gave a small nod towards Itachi before smirking at Naruto. "It symbolizes that you are becoming the hunter, and won't allow yourself to be the hunted." Tsume then looked towards Itachi "You can wait here, there's food in the kitchen if you're hungry." She then looked back towards Naruto. "Me and shrimp here will be going into the forest nearby. I have a clearing all picked out for us, come on squirt." She then walked out the back door motioning for Naruto to follow. Naruto bristled at being called squirt, but got off of the couch, and followed. He walked with her, wondering what they would be doing. Maybe they would be learning some cool moves? Or how to fight? He started bouncing around in excitement while following behind the taller woman. Before long they had reached the clearing and Tsume stopped in the middle of it, turning to face Naruto. Something in the way she looked at him made him really nervous.
"When people mess with you, you get angry." Tsume began in a serious voice. "You can't control yourself because of the Kyuubi in your gut. It's like, once you start reacting to what you think is a threat. You give yourself over to instinct, you follow what the chakra wants. You give in to your aggression." Tsume noticed the tension in Naruto's body language, on some level, he knew what she was about to do. Interesting "I'm going to hit you, and you are going to control yourself, and if you can't control yourself, then I'm going to beat you until you calm down." She could see the normally happy-go-lucky kid getting angrier just from talking about the threat. His whisker marks got deeper, his hair somehow more jagged. The malicious intent that she could faintly sense before doubled in intensity. Before she could speak another word, he attacked. He was ludicrously fast for a 5-year-old. Probably faster than most genin in the village, nowhere near fast enough to get the drop on her though. She saw his straightforward rush and backhanded him hard enough to send him flying to the edge of the clearing.
"Well, your control is basically zero when being threatened. It just means we have a lot of training to do." She chuckled as he rushed at her once again, only this time she kicked in the stomach and launched him into a tree. "I know better than most how hard it is to suppress your instincts, but that's what you're gonna have to do if you have any hope of being the one in control." His growling only got louder as he regained his bearings. This is gonna take a while.
"What's this?" Naruto said, eying the book that had been tossed at his bed speculatively. He looked towards the bandaged man standing at his door.
"That is a book lining out shinobi rules and principles." He said and then began to walk out the door. "All of which I expect you to have memorized by the end of next week." Naruto bristled at this response and sprang from his bed.
"Why should I do that?!" He pointed at the man who stopped already halfway out the door.
"All of the strong ninja have the things in that book memorized, and they follow them, to the letter. You will be a weak ninja if you don't read that book." He then began to walk out the door again. Subtle manipulation always works, the child will have that book memorized.
"How do you read?" Danzo stopped his trek out the door, he had his root soldiers learn to read around the time they were three or four, but he didn't even think about what time regular children learned how to read. He couldn't remember the last time he was around regular children.
"I guess we must start with the basics." For the good of the village, I must be a school teacher as well. I'm sure Sarutobi would be amused.
Kakashi wasn't sure what to make of the situation he found himself in. He was informed by Chouza that Naruto could not eat until he gave the all-clear, so he sent him to bed without dinner. To find Naruto attempting to sneak his way to the kitchen after an hour was a little annoying. So he tied him up and threw him on his bed. Throwing a blanket over him. Maybe he wasn't cut out to be a babysitter.
"All you had to do was go to bed," Kakashi said, staring at the now bound Naruto. "It's time for sleep. No sneaking into the kitchen, you're not supposed to eat yet. Now. Sleep." Kakashi ignored the yells of Naruto as he shut the door. Babysitting, it was his sensei's son but still... he never could deal with annoying brats all that well, but now that Naruto was strap- tucked into his bed he could go to the bar. Most of the Jonin met up on Friday's when everybody was in town, and he was already late. It was always funny to watch Gai make an ass of himself.
One month later: Council Room
Naruto's daily schedule had continued along the same vein for a full month. Sometimes he would meet everyone in one day, other times he would meet one of them all day, but every day he met someone to work on something. "I assume that you all know why you have been gathered here?" The Third Hokage looked towards the gathered shinobi that he had again asked to meet him. Each met his gaze evenly. The Hokage looked towards Inoichi and nodded his head towards him, "Report." He said evenly.
"Honestly, there's not a whole lot wrong with him. Before he came to the Hokage monument he admits to feeling cornered by all of the negative emotions, but I have since gone over with him what exactly those emotions are and he is able to ignore them now that he knows they aren't always aimed specifically at him. He still isn't able to differentiate between what kind of emotions he is feeling from people or their intensity, but I am confident he will be able to eventually." He took a moment to think about what else he had gone over with Naruto. Honestly not a whole lot. Beyond figuring out what exactly his negative emotion-sensing ability did, and dealing with some stressors that he thought would be good for Naruto to work through, they had mostly just talked, and he had gotten him to open up about how he was feeling. He had gotten the boy to come to terms with his situation.
"He dealt with the news of his parents and his burden as expected of a child. He didn't really know them, so all he misses are the idea of parents. All in all, he is aware of the situation he is in and is doing his best to deal with it. At first, he was upset that he was being forced to stay away from everybody, but he has started focusing more and more on being a strong ninja instead. I think now that he is receiving attention from all of us, he is determined to prove himself. I think he was feeling neglected at the orphanage, but that feeling is slowly fading away." The Yamanaka then paused before nodding to himself. "He's very stable mentally. I should have no problem keeping it that way with our therapy sessions."
"That is very good to hear Inoichi, thank you. It lifts a weight off of these old bones to know that he is doing well." The Third Hokage let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding. Naruto could have very well resented the fact that he was being forced to train and his time outside limited, but it seems that with a professional to talk his issues out with, he was able to get over any issues that he might have had. "Chouza?" He focused his attention on the more plump member of the table.
"He technically doesn't need to eat." Chouza began trailing off uncertainly. "It's definitely better for him, but his body doesn't need sustenance." Chouza had discovered after not allowing Naruto to eat for three days, that his chakra would keep his body fueled. All shinobi did this to some degree when their body needed sustenance. The difference with Naruto was that his body latched onto the Kyuubi's chakra as fuel, and that chakra could renew itself faster than his body consumed it. "He was only mildly annoyed that he didn't need to eat." Chouza laughed at the memory of being told how Naruto had tried to sneak into the kitchen on the first night.
"We then tried to get him to eat as much as possible to see if his chakra would somehow affect weight gain too." At this Chouza laughed a little. Chouza and a couple of his chefs had to throw in the towel after only two days. He would get full and in thirty minutes or so his stomach would be empty again. The only conclusion that they could come to was that his body was consuming all of the energy it had available to make more chakra to combat the Kyuubi's chakra. If his body goes through all of its food then it uses Kyuubi's chakra as fuel to make more of Naruto's chakra... It's like his body is desperately trying to have its own chakra be the predominant chakra in the body, and was actually winning. Chouza looked up at the old Hokage, "This probably explains why he isn't trying to claw everyone's eyes out all the time, his body is producing enough chakra that he always has more of his own than he does Kyuubi's. I don't know how much of the Kyuubi's chakra is running through his system, but it's probably not a small amount, so the amount of chakra he must be producing is substantial."
"What is his diet now?" The Third interjected. That was a lot of chakra for a 5-year-old to have. More than most jonin with just the Kyuubi, and with his own chakra exceeding the amount of demonic chakra coming through the seal? He had S ranked reserves that were still growing.
"I created a couple of pills and bars for him to take periodically throughout the day." Chouza replied, "All of them are packed with enough nutrients and calories to feed a regular person for a week." His body specialized in special pills, he would make a mint off of the new creation. "His body seems to slow down digestion if we give him more than that. He takes the pills three times a day, and the bars are a snack in-between meals. Beyond that, he doesn't need anything special. So whatever he eats on his own time is fine, so long as he takes the pills and eats those bars he'll as much as his body could possibly need." Chouza finished with a sigh. "I wish I could eat that much..."
The Third Hokage ignored the melancholic tone that Chouza took and digested all of the information he would be provided with. The amount of raw energy that was constantly passing through Naruto's body was a little mind-boggling.
"Itachi reports only a few issues with the boy. He very rarely goes berserk outside of being threatened, but even when he does Itachi is able to calm him without too much trouble." Fugaku Replied, the few times that Naruto had begun to get angry at people around them and his chakra began to react, Itachi was able to apply a minor genjutsu to calm him down while he moved him away. Fugaku had mellowed out considerably since Itachi was promised the Hokage position. It was interesting that Naruto didn't go berserk more often than he did with how much demonic chakra was running through his system, but his body was doing a pretty good job of compensating.
"Tsume?" The Hokage questioned the feral looking woman.
"The brat definitely has energy to spare. I kick his ass up and down one of our training fields at least once a week, but he just keeps getting up." Tsume shrugged her shoulders. The Kyuubi chakra picked up a threat and triggered Naruto's fight or flight response. The demon's chakra chooses to fight, so his own chakra does the same. While his chakra is forced towards an outside threat, Kyuubi's chakra is able to influence the body until the threats are gone. Then the body begins trying to reestablish balance with the demonic chakra. "I didn't have any success getting him to manually push down the Kyuubi's chakra so instead, I've tried to get him to think while the chakra is running through his system." She had much more luck with this. She could get him to not immediately attack her about half of the time now."He's strong and fast for a runt too." Naruto had about the same strength and speed as most standard chunin. He was still five so he would get smacked around by any chunin, but still, the physical boost was fairly impressive.
The day was just full of surprises for the old Hokage. The previous jinchuriki didn't use any of their demon's chakra, so they were operating on what little information they could gather from other jinchuriki's experiences, but the situation with Naruto was unprecedented. By all rights, his body shouldn't have been able to compensate for the demonic chakra constantly moving through it, but it did. Maybe it was the seal, or maybe it's the old Uzumaki vitality poking through - either way, the results were proving to be interesting..
"I suppose this is where I should add what I have discovered." Hiashi began speaking, interrupting everyone's thoughts, "There are a total of three hundred and sixty-one tenketsu in a fully developed chakra system." He paused, inwardly enjoying the total silence as everyone seemed to understand where he was going with this. "He currently has over five-hundred developed, and shows no signs of slowing down just yet." He passively looked towards everyone's varying expressions of incredulity.
"What does that even mean?" Tsume broke the silence.
"The tenketsu, as I'm sure you all know, are basically points in the chakra pathway that store a bit of chakra and disperses it out of the body where it is located." He paused trying to think of the best way to phrase his next sentence, "It seems that his body, in an attempt to control the flow and amount of chakra constantly inside of him, is adding more tenketsu points as his chakra grows. Most people stop developing their chakra pathways around the age of eight or nine, but I suspect that he will take a little bit longer. Whether this means it will be harder or easier for him to control his chakra is hard to say, as there isn't a precedent for me to base an estimate off of. We will have to wait and see."
"Is there anything else of note with him?" The aged Hokage asked tiredly. Honestly, could nothing be normal with the boy?
"Beyond what everyone else has already stated? Just one... I am not sure of how to say this, so I will be blunt. He has a growth around his tail bone that has a group of tenketsu at the center of it... he seems to be growing a tail." He almost laughed at everyone's expression of incredulity... almost. A Hyuuga must remain poised at all times. He would admit to himself that it was pretty funny though.
"Okay, Nani!?" Kakashi voiced basically all of their thoughts. "Why is he growing a tail?"
"Well the growth so far has more chakra stored in its tenketsu than any other point, so I believe his body is trying to find somewhere to store the excess amount of chakra in his system. It is most likely an influence of the demonic chakra."
Kakashi looked at him with an expression of 'no shit' but the Hokage interrupted before he could say anything, "when Tsunade gets here we will have to have her check this growth to ensure that there are no issues. Does anyone else have anything to add?" The old man loaded his pipe, he was going to wait until after the meeting, but this was turning out to be a headache in the making. A tail, sure why not?
"He barely sleeps," Kakashi stated, and it was a testament to how the meeting was going so far that no one even looked surprised at his statement. "I want to say that he gets a couple of hours a night at the most." It was a damn headache keeping track of the brat when he himself needed sleep. He had to set up seals that woke him up if the kid left his room in the middle of the night. He had made sure that the boy understood that he was to stay in his room and if he left he would know. Then he would stay in his room with the aid of some rope.
"Okay so we have a boy who doesn't really need to eat or sleep, strength and speed of a Chunin, and enough chakra to make us all look like children, oh and he's part animal, I'm assuming fox. Am I missing anything?" The Hokage asked, exasperated.
Danzo cleared his throat and waited until he had everyone's attention and suppressed the urge to smirk. "He is now able to read."
A/N: Well that took a while, though not as long as I thought. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Maybe a couple more chapters explaining all the changes to the story, and Tsunade's arrival, and then we should be on our way to some academy years. As always, please review! It really motivates me to write a bit more knowing that people are enjoying the story, and if there is anything that you would like me to clarify or anything that you think doesn't make sense, plot-wise or grammatical wise please let me know! I would be more than happy to go into more detail with you. I hope you guys have a good rest of your day!