(A/N) Hello! Here you lot go, Hizuen's chewing out and subsequent fainting spell.

Hiruzen's POV, Flashback

He had been working on paperwork, as was the bane of all kage. Well, any leader, really. He looked up as Naruto walked in, a preoccupied look on his face, and the backpack Hiruzen had gotten him the other day on his back.

"Naruto, what brings you in here?" Hiruzen asked, slightly worried as Naruto's eyes started tearing up as he sat down in the chair in front of Hiruzen's desk.

"Why didn't you tell me about Mr. Kurama?" The four-year-old asked.

"Mr. Kurama?" Hiruzen asked, surprised, and beginning to worry even more.

"The giant orange bunny rabbit," Naruto explained.

Hiruzen blinked, confused. Then he pieced it together, just as Naruto corrected himself.

"Oh, sorry Kurama-sensei. He says he's a fox, not a bunny rabbit."

Hiruzen had to stop himself from immediately calling for Tenzo, but was sure his shock was plastered all over his face.

"Oh, that's the Kyuubi, Naruto. He killed your parents," Hiruzen told the boy gently. He had to fix this, he had to make sure the fox didn't corrupt the child.

Naruto blinked, then appeared to have a conversation with someone Hiruzen couldn't hear. "But what can control you? You're so big and smart and powerful!" He paused, listening, then continued. "Who's Madara Uchiha? And what's an Uchiha?"

Hiruzen felt a bit faint, this was not going according to any plan he'd ever thought of.

Naruto nodded. "Are Uchiha nice?" Hiruzen nearly choked on air at that one. "Would they be my friend like how Mikoto-san was my mom's friend?"

Hiruzen nearly had an aneurysm at that one, how did the kid know of his parents? And who in kami was he having a conversation with?

"Okay, I'll find a nice Uchiha to be my friend!" Naruto announced, standing on his chair, a wide grin splitting his face.

"Naruto," Hiruzen said calmly, "The Kyuubi is evil, he's just trying to corrupt you and escape."

Naruto blinked, and sat back down with a thump. He remained staring off into nothing for a few seconds.

He refocused on Hiruzen, and had the most heartbroken expression that Hiruzen had ever seen on a child. "Why didn't you tell me about my parents? Kurama-sensei had to tell me who they were."

Hiruzen almost fainted at that one. The Kyuubi, the terrifying nine-tailed fox, had apparently taken pity on a four-year-old child and told him who his parents were.

"Hokage-jiji," Naruto said abruptly. "Kurama-sensei says he wants to talk to you and promises not to attack you no matter what."

Hiruzen didn't respond, he was a bit busy trying to work out why the Kyuubi, destroyer supreme, would do this to a child.

Hiruzen nearly had a heart attack when the kid somehow made two shadow clones, one a strange teenager that looked almost exactly like Kushina, except for the fact that he was clearly a male. The other clone was a normal-sized fox, a bushy, white-tipped tail waving behind it.

"Okay, Hokage-jiji, I'm gonna go in the hall with Kyu. You can have a talk with Kurama-sensei!"

The fox hopped up on his desk as the door closed behind the teenager, apparently named Kyu, and Naruto.

The fox sat down on top of one of his stacks of paperwork and stared at him. "In case you were wondering, yes, I am the Kyuubi, and my name is Kurama."

Hiruzen nodded mutely.

"Do you have any idea how Naruto is treated?" Kurama asked conversationally, tilting his head.

Hiruzen nodded again. "I can do nothing to stop it, I cannot order people to like him."

Kurama snorted. "No, I'm referring to the Orphanage. The matron was basically starving him. Forcing him to work without breakfast or lunch, and he rarely got dinner. The matron has since kicked Naruto out of the orphanage."

Hiruzen actually fainted, an ANBU jumping down to catch him as he almost fell out of his seat, and lay him across his desk. The ANBU disappeared into the rafters again.

Kurama snorted, then hopped off the desk.

Shisui started laughing. "Wow, that's a new one!"

Itachi's face remained impassive, but his twitching lips gave him away.

Kurama nodded, glancing at the still sleeping Naruto. "He was certainly surprised. I hope he doesn't faint again when we go in today."

"Me too, that would be awkward," Shisui muttered. "Did Kyu dispel?"

Kurama nodded. "He dispelled himself to let the kit's chakra recover. I am being sustained by my own chakra with no cost to the kit."

Itachi stood up, glancing into the other room. "Naruto is waking up. Kaa-san insisted you come over for breakfast, whenever Naruto wakes up."

"Explains why you were at my apartment at five in the morning," Shisui muttered, yawning. "I'm not Gai, that's too early to be awake."

"I agree with him," Kurama agreed, jumping up onto Shisui's head.

"Am I going to be your ride this whole time?" Shisui asked, standing up.

"Probably," Kurama admitted. "Your hair is softer than Naruto's."

"Uh, thanks?"

"Oh, good morning Naruto," Itachi said, nodding to the sleepy child.

"Morning," Naruto said, yawning widely. "Where are we?"

"We're at Shisui's house," Kurama supplied. "Why don't you find your shoes? They should be next to your backpack. We're going back over to Itachi's place for breakfast."

Naruto yawned, causing the yawning to spread to both Itachi and Shisui. Kurama was unaffected. For the moment.

Naruto wandered back into the room he'd been sleeping in, coming back out with his shoes on. "Do I need my backpack?"

"If we need it, we'll come back and get it," Shisui assured him. "This is just breakfast anyway."

"Oh," Naruto said in a small voice. "Okay!" He looked up and grinned widely. "Let's go eat breakfast!"

Shisui smiled at him and ruffled his hair. "Alright kit."

"Not you too!" Naruto complained as Itachi led them out the door and back to his house.

"It's a cute nickname," Kurama argued.

Naruto pouted and moved to walk next to Itachi instead. Shisui pouted at the four-year-old's back.

"You're just in time," Mikoto said, smiling as they walked up. Itachi nodded respectfully to his mother, Naruto was attempting to imitate him, but failing adorably and spectacularly.

Shisui and Kurama had more success nodding respectfully to Mikoto as they passed.

"What are you planning to do today?" Mikoto asked them as they sat down. Fugaku was nowhere to be seen.

"Go see the Hokage, then, I dunno, get Naruto new clothes maybe," Shisui shrugged.

"Can they be orange?" Naruto asked immediately.

Shisui grinned. "I'm sure we could manage at least a little bit of orange."

Naruto beamed at him, running up to hug him around the knees, which was about as high as Naruto could reach. Shisui patted him on the head, then detached himself and sat down at the table. "Good morning Sasuke."

Sasuke stuck his nose in the air and poked at the pancakes in front of him.

Shisui sweatdropped. "Sasuke," he said plantativley. "Not even a hello?"

Sasuke still didn't reply, and Shisui slumped, poking at his pancakes half-heartedly.

"If you don't eat those quickly," Kurama advised, "or Naruto's going to eat them for you. He's already eyeing them."

Needless to say, the pancakes disappeared pretty quickly after that.

"Have a good day boys," Mikoto called as Shisui and Itachi led Naruto to the Hokage tower.

"You too, Kaa-san," Itachi replied.

"Bye-bye!" Naruto said cheerfully, waving.

"Hey, Naruto," Shisui said, noting the glares at Naruto, and confused glances he and Itachi were getting. "Would you like to see a fancy jutsu in action? It's called Shunshin, and I'm famous for it."

Naruto cocked his head, then nodded. "Yeah! How are you gonna show it?"

"By using it to get us to the tower faster," Shisui replied, crouching down. "Climb on my back, and hold on tightly."

Naruto conceded, climbing onto Shisui's back and wrapping his arms and legs around him like an octopus.

Shisui shunshined into the main lobby of Hokage tower, as for the most part, ANBU were not fond of Shinobi randomly shunshining into the tower. The secretary waved them through, recognizing that all three were to be let in unless the Hokage was in an important meeting. They just usually weren't here at the same time, let alone with a fox. Fortunately, the secretary was immune to shinobi nonsense, as she was an ANBU in disguise.

Naruto stayed on Shisui's back for two reasons. A, he'd never had a piggyback ride before and it was kinda fun, and B, he wasn't entirely sure his legs would stay under him after the trip. It had been interesting, but disorienting.

"Shisui, Itachi, Kurama, Naruto, how are you doing?" The Third Hokage asked, smiling kindly at the four. "Is there a reason for this visit?"

Shisui nodded firmly, and Kurama was quite glad he was stuck to the boy's head by chakra or else he would've been discharged.

(A/N) *cackles* I'm feeling particularly sadistic. Like the chewing out of Hiruzen Sarutobi? BYE!