A/N: Okies! Sorry this took so long, my computer died and I lost my original draft so I had to begin from scratch. The good thing about that is, this is now longer than it was before. Before I get to the fic, I gotta thank my good pal Leonineus for ghostwriting a portion of this. If you can tell which part, you'll get a cyber cookie =P.

Hinata gave her younger sister a confused look. What did she mean what happened? As far as she knew, nothing had happened to her. "What do you mean, Hanabi-chan?" She asked.

Naru was the one who answered. "Hina-chan, your hair and eyes just swapped colours. Your eyes are a really pretty deep blue almost black now... and your hair is a snowy white!" She sounded like she was whining at the end. She huffed for a moment afterward, arms over her chest. "Why do her hair and eyes get to change to such pretty colours?"

Hinata frowned and tugged a lock of her hair forwards so that she could see it. Her eyes widening at the change in colour, she turned to look at Naru and Yugito for a second before checking her reflection in a window. A second later she turned back to Naru and Yugito and stammered, "Wh... what happened to me?"

Hinata blinked, looking around. She was standing in what looked like a large wolf den. Across from her lay a large wolf, its collar adorned with lines of kanji. It stood, walked towards her... and licked her face, giving her what could only be described as a wolfish smile,

"Hello, cub. I am the Gobi no Ookami."

Hinata swallowed, "A-A bijuu?"

The wolf nodded, its eyes closing slightly as it gave her the same smile, "Yes. I was given to your clan as a gift by your Yondaime Hokage. when he captured me in Mizu no Kuni. Several of your clan elders sealed me inside you to ensure that you would be a powerful cub."

"How..." stammered Hinata, "How do you know all of this?" The wolf smiled again, "I've always been able to see out; you just couldn't sense me because the old man who replaced your Yondaime sent one Jiraiya of the Sannin to reinforce my seal and kill the elders who did it. Nobody knows I am here, not even your two young friends. The only person who could possibly sense me is that one woman, the jinchuriki of the Phoenix Queen."

"Then why couldn't she?" Hinata asked.

"Because the second seal reinforced the first, I couldn't speak to you or give you any of my power. Likewise, nobody could sense my presence here, which is why the Phoenix Queen jinchuriki did not call you on being a jinchuriki earlier."

"Then why can you speak to me now?"

"Because the way the second seal was constructed, it would only break when you wanted it to break. As you didn't know of it, there was no danger of that... at least until now."

"When you called for power to defeat the Kumo-nin kidnapping your little sister, you unwittingly destroyed the seal and allowed my power to flood your body."

"So is that the reason why my hair and eyes have changed colours?"

"Indeed." Replied the Gobi, laying down so as to get closer to Hinata's level. "Those are only the first of several changes that will be taking place within your body over the next couple of days."

The last statement caused Hinata to blink a few times in confusion. "What other changes will you be making, Gobi-sama?"

The Gobi chuckled before transforming into a young woman with snowy white hair, ice crystals decorating it and deep black eyes. "No need for such formalities, cub. I'm not a mean biju like Shukaku-chan and Nanabi-chan. You can call me Gobi-chan or just Gobi if you like." She said, sitting once more and motioning for Hinata to do the same. "As for the changes, I'll be improving your body physically as Kyubi-chan and Nibi-chan already did for your friends and Rein-chan's demon did for her. I will also be giving you a second kekkei genkai known as Hyoton."

Hinata gasped at this. Hyoton or ice release was a very rare ability in the shinobi world and was rarely seen outside of Yuki no Kuni. "R-really?" She asked.

"Yes, cub. I am doing this for our continued survival and to make up for all the bad things that have happened in your life. I know your Kaa-san would wish me to look out for you as if you were my own just as Kyubi, Nibi, and several others of our kind do. One final change I will be giving you is the ability to sense and see 'aura' which is a kind of energy separate from chakra that very few humans can use. Sensing a person's aura will allow you to tell whether or not they mean you harm and seeing it, will make it much easier. It is also a way to tell a person's emotional mood."

"What do you mean?" The former Hyuga heiress asked.

"For example. Currently your aura is a beautiful bright blue meaning you are calm and relaxed. You trust me and I appreciate that. Earlier your aura was a sickly green colour which meant you were nervous or scared which is of course understandable." The Gobi explained. "Once you master seeing aura without your Byakugan, you can start on using an actual 'Aura release'."

As Hinata and the Gobi were continued talking and getting to know one another, Naru and Yugito were fretting over their friend whose eyes had rolled up into her head and fainted. "C'mon, Hina-chan! What's wrong?" Naru asked worriedly, trying to rouse her friend.

"She's unconscious, Naru-chan." Yugito replied, slightly calmer than her fellow blonde. "She won't respond until she wakes up."

As Hanabi began crying over her sister's unconscious form, Rein shunshined onto the scene in a swirl of flames and asked the question that Hanabi had voiced earlier. "What happened to Hinata's hair?"

Instead of one of the girls answering, her own demon chose to respond. 'Surely you recognize the symptoms, Rein?' The phoenix queried.

'Eh? What're you talking about, Blaire? The kid is out cold and her hair changed colour.' Rein responded, checking the younger girl's pulse and her eyes only to discover that they too had changed colour to a midnight blue and a thought hit her. 'No way... it couldn't be... could it?'

'Yes, it is, Rein. It would appear this young girl like Naru and Yugito is also a jinchuriki. It would explain the strong bond the three of them seem to share.' Blaire spoke. 'The question is how did we not sense it earlier. Sensing chakra is my specialty along with your Yonton and super powered Katon.'

Rein nodded slightly, her mind whirring, trying to come up with an answer for the question her partner had brought forth. Lifting Hinata's shirt after prying Hanabi from her, Rein began examining the seal. 'Hm. Seal looks fine. Obviously done by a professional. Looks like Yondaime's work,' She thought. Looking a bit closer, she noticed a secondary seal which was broken and now fading from the former heiress's skin. 'Looks like a suppression seal if I had to guess. So that means that seal prevented any demonic chakra from leaking through the first seal which is similar to Naru-chan's. The design is different, but the function is the same, and Yondaime's signature is on the first the second is too far gone to tell but I'd bet my latest mission money it'd be Jiraiya's. Only he'd know how to craft a seal to work alongside Yondaime's.' The red-head concluded.

'Bravo, Rein. I'd say your guess is right on the money. After all, seals aren't all that foreign to you. I'd say you're at least apprentice level by now.' Blaire praised before going silent.

Snorting a bit, Rein nodded again. 'I'd better be after all the work I've done.' Turning to the three upset girls, she smiled brightly. "It's alright. Hinata-chan is just visiting her new partner." The explanation was cryptic enough to confuse Hanabi but make Yugito and Naru gasp as they understood, both placing hands on their stomachs where the seals holding Kyubi and Nibi were causing the elder girl to nod.

At Rein's confirmation, Naru and Yugito began rapidly talking back and forth whilst Hanabi was trying to figure out what the elder girl had meant. None of them had to wait long to talk to Hinata as only a few minutes later, she woke up grinning like the cat who had just gotten the canary. Rein was the first to speak. "How ya feelin, Hinata-chan?"

"Much better than before, Rein-san," Responded Hinata, stretching a bit and moving to check on Hanabi, knowing her friends would wait. "Are you alright, Hanabi-chan?"

Hanabi nodded, tears in her eyes. "I'm ok, Onee-chan." She responded, sniffling a bit.

"You had us worried, Hina-chan." Yugito said as she and Naru hugged their friend.

"Sorry, Gobi-chan wanted to talk to me." Hinata explained just loud enough for Naru and Yugito to hear.

Nudging Riku who had just returned to the scene, Rein told her, "Let's get these girls to Hokage-sama before anything else happens. Grabbing hold of Naru and Yugito, she vanished via shunshin as Riku along with Hinata did the same just as several irate Hyuga were rushing towards Hanabi.

Hiruzen Sarutobi sat in his office glaring at his eternal rival. He was currently wishing he could simply take a Katon jutsu and incinerate his enemy once and for all, freeing him to do more important things, like reading the latest copy of Icha Icha Paradise that Jiraiya had sent him. Sighing, the elderly Kage picked up his pen and signed another piece of paperwork before setting it aside and glancing at the next. "Permission to rid the village of demons..." He sighed and stamped denied on it. "Do these people really think I'm stupid?" He asked of nobody as he set aside several unimportant documents for later review. Hearing a knock at his door, he beckoned whomever it was to come in. Sarutobi was slightly surprised to see his favourite orphan along with the child who had come along with the Kumo diplomat party Yugito Nii, the Hyuga Heiress, Hinata Hyuga, not to mention two of his best jounin, Rein Zwei, and Riku Solaris. Sitting up a little straighter, the Hokage spoke. "To what do I owe the pleasure of this late evening visit, ladies?"

Rein glared slightly and pointed an accusing finger at him. "Don't play dumb with me, Old Man! You know – MMPH!" She started only to get cut off by Riku's hand over her mouth.

"What Rein means Hokage-sama is that we're here to resolve a problem that has been ongoing for some time now." Riku spoke in place of her lover.

"Oh?" Sarutobi asked, raising an eyebrow and taking a puff of his newly lit pipe."What problem might that be?"

Rein's eyes bugged and she began struggling against Riku as she raised her voice, trying to be heard, straining to yell at the Fire Shadow. All that came out however, were muffled sounds as Riku's hand held tight. "The problem, Hokage-sama is the frequent mistreatment of young Naru-chan here, not to mention the now homeless former Hyuga heiress, and young miss Nii here who no longer wishes to return to Kumogakure."

Sarutobi sighed deeply. "So it is true then that Kumogakure attempted to kidnap young Hanabi just shortly after her appointment of heiress and young Hinata-chan's banishment from the clan." Taking a good moment to look at Hinata properly, his eyes bugged out. "Hinata-chan! What happened to you?"

Hinata, who had been across the room silently chatting with Naru and Yugito smiled brightly at the Hokage. "I found out I'm a jinchuriki just like Rein-san and Naru-chan, and Yugito-chan!" She declared happily.

Nodding, Sarutobi sighed slightly. He had already considered that option and found it the most logical for Hinata's appearance change. "I see." He said simply before returning to the conversation at hand. "Since Miss Nii was a civilian in Kumogakure, there will be no trouble with her changing villages so long as her guardian agrees to it." He took another puff on his pipe. "As for Hinata-chan, since she is now legally an orphan, she can be adopted. The same goes for young Naru-chan here, but there is little I can do should the civilian council decide to shoot down your adoption requests." He explained.

Ripping Riku's hand from her face, Rein decided it was time for her to speak her mind. "What the hell do you mean you can't keep the civilian council from preventing us from adoption?" She screamed. "You're the freaking Hokage! This is YOUR village. A NINJA village. Civilians shouldn't have any say in matters involving ninja, and since I and Riku are ninja, the civilians need to stay out of our business!" The elder jinchuriki finished her rant with a huff.

"Things are not that simple here, Rein-chan." Sarutobi explained, exhaling a bit of smoke. "Naru, Hinata, and Yugito are all civilians by law and thus the council can get involved."

"Bah! Council be damned! I'm not about to let three of my sister jinchuriki go out and get abused on the streets or stuck in some orphanage when Riku and I can adopt them!" Rein countered before Riku placed a calming hand on her shoulder.

"With all due respect, Hokage-sama. Rein is somewhat correct. As the leader of this NINJA village, you should have final say in all matters relating to YOUR ninja even when it comes to adopting civilians." Riku sighed heavily. "Let's make a deal, Hokage-sama. You keep the civilian council off of mine and Rein's backs while we get the proper papers filed to adopt the kids and I'll teach you the secret to defeating your paperwork. Do we have a deal?"

The elderly Kage's eyes widened significantly at this statement. "If you really do know a way to beat this infernal paperwork, I will personally oversee your adoption of these children and ensure the council can do nothing to block you." He replied in a reverent tone as he handed them the proper paperwork and proceeded to prepare a message to send to Kumo about the incident and about Yugito staying in Konoha.

"Two words, Old Man." Rein said as she and Riku left the room, the younger girls yawning in their arms. "Kage Bunshin."

As soon as the door closed Hiruzen Sarutobi did something he had not done in years... began banging his head on his desk. "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!"