Now I'm sure that everyone is wondering what the tattoos on Naruto's arms do yes? Well you will have to wait until the next chapter for that! This chapter will reveal a bit about my main OC and his relationship with the village and what he thinks of it's inhabitants. Now enough with the chatter on with the story!

Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto otherwise the phrase Believe it would never be spoken in that show AGAIN!

Chapter 2

Encounters

The Hokage arrived at the hospital just a bit before Fang who had been watching his leader from nearby and followed him. The hospital staff glared at Naruto but with the Hokage and an ANBU captain standing there they didn't dare refuse treatment, however after taking them half an hour just to attach an IV drip to his arm the Hokage disgustedly sent them away and sent for his personal physician. Fang seemed to agree and sent for his ANBU team to help try and keep this incident as classified as possible as Fang was organizing them Sarutobi sat down in a chair next to the bed. He looked down at Naruto who had yet to wake up and frowned. He was worried for his health as he noticed that his baby fat (of which there wasn't much) had begun to disappear slowly, but instead of making him look ripped he began to look slightly emaciated. The Hokage was worried he thought it might have something to do with the sword that Naruto held that no one had yet been able to remove. He held it with what was almost a death-grip his fingers locked around the hilt and the sheath seemed to glow slightly even in the bright hospital lights.

"Hokage-sama you summoned me?" he looked up to see his physician Shinji next to Fang. One of the few people he knew he could trust Naruto with, Shinji was a kindly middle aged man in the usual doctor attire. His light blue eyes flicked quickly over to the bed which widened when he saw who the occupant was.

"Yes I need you to do a through check up on Naruto here."

He nodded not phased by the sight of the seven year old boy in the hospital, after all after one doctor had come at Naruto with a scalpel a year ago the Hokage had paid him to be Naruto's doctor as well, but after how he saw how everyone else treated him he did it for a large discount.

"What happened to him?"

The Sandiame explained all that he had seen and about the dome, "I don't think that anyone of the mob hurt him beforehand so I think that the reason for the coma is the sword that was found with him."

The doctor nodded and went over to the bed and laying his own things out to begin the check up. He frowned as he looked at Naruto's change of hair color there was nothing to suggest a burn but something seemed off

Naruto I'm glad you aren't awake otherwise this would hurt.

He reached down and plucked a hair and looked down on it a white tip where it had been growing out of the scalp a seconds ago but the rest was completely black.

"Did he dye his hair recently?"

"Not that I know of. In fact one of our eyewitnesses saw him quite clearly with seeing anything like that. I was going to ask you what could cause that"

"I can't believe it but the hair has changed color all the way down to the roots! Normally with dyes there is an unevenness about the base and the natural color is there somewhere but I don't see any blonde in there at all hmmm," he stroked his chin for a second then made a decision, "I would like to do a few tests, does this hospital have his DNA on file?" He went down the hall beyond the perimeter that the ANBU had established and called a nurse and sent her to retrieve the file needed. He turned to Naruto and did a few quick seals that ANBU captain tensed thinking him to be a disguised assassin but the Hokage held up his hand to stop him. He knew that sequence and it was merely used to collect and preserve a sample of DNA, in fact it was perfectly harmless.

Ninpou; Shōsen Jutsu (mystical palm technique).

A green glow surrounded his hand and he put his hand on one of Naurto's arms and the glow became blue signaling the success of the jutsu. When the nurse returned bearing the requested documents he took them along with the fresh sample and went into the small lab across the hall for analysis.

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Naruto woke to find himself looking up into a darkened sky with just a hint of rd and orange coloring the clouds. He shivered and looked down to see himself clad in only his pants and ninja sandals, his shirt was gone showing his malnourished body to the world, and when he looked at his arms he saw a pair of intricate glowing tattoos that curving down his forearms. On his right arm was a white phoenix and his arm left a black dragon.

So that was what the burning sensation was about, huh wonder if they do anything? He thought but shivered again as a cold wind blow through this time with some dust that got in his eyes and he decided to find some shelter. He got up and looked around he was lying amidst a dried up field of grass. There was a building in the distance an ominous building made of red rock that just screamed prison. He decided to stay away from that one and way in the distance he saw another structure having nothing better to do he went toward that one.

It was a much sorter walk than he expected and the structure before him was anything but ordinary. It was entirely white and looked brand new with no sand or pot-marks from the wind that he had felt his entire walk here. It was built like a triangular temple with three walls and carved above the doorway were two words. Link Chamber. He went inside and two things caught his attention immediately the first was that on a raised stage that had something in the middle he had seen just today. For on that stage was the same exact pedestal that had held the sword in that dome, but here there was no sword. The swordless pedestal was at the very center of the stage and surrounded by three mirrors that were all facing outward.

Is this a dream? He thought, that is the same pedestal I saw in that dome but no sword why is that?

The second were the crystalline mirrors that were at each corner of the room. The ones to the side pulsed with an energy that the tattoos on his arms seemed to respond and glow also. Despite the warmth in the room he shivered

I think I'll stay away from those for now, he thought as he turned to go toward the third and final mirror.

He went up past the pedestal to the final mirror and looked inside expecting to see only himself instead he saw an image of a man in the mirror. Dressed in ancient shinobi attire he had only seen in books he had on a silver battle kimono with shortened sleeves. That wasn't the thing that caught his attention the most though. For inside the mirror he was actually moving! All the while his hands forming seals and stopping, then forming the same seals, then stopping again, during this time his eyes were darting around as though seeing something Naruto couldn't, while his mouth was moving as though muttering silently to himself. All the while he had no idea that Naruto was there getting impatient of being ignored and so he decided to get his attention.

"Hey you! What the hell are you doing?"

He didn't answer it was then that he looked at the bottom of the mirror and saw an inscription

Guardian mirror: Aisu.

"Aisu?" he said

Immediately the mirror began to glow and with a poof of smoke the mirror was gone and in it's place was a the man.

"Kane it's not time yet I'm still in the midst of the process so why are you..."

His voice was the one he had heard in the dome so this was this man the sword itself? He stopped talking and blinked.

"Naruto? You're not supposed to be here yet."

"What are you AHHHHH."

Pain exploded in his head and the last thing he heard was the man yelling

"Kane get in here now!"

Back in reality

He said it wouldn't take long yet he has been gone for almost 10 minutes.

I wonder if I should go check on him? Just as he thought that Shinji came back looking confused.

"Hokage-sama are you sure that these are Naruto's medical records?"

"Of course they are. Why do you ask?"

"And this is Naruto right?"

"What are you getting at?"

"What I have seen is supposedly impossible, but I see no way of anyone achieving this and not this quickly! Anyway to see if I am right I will have to take another DNA sample"

He ran through the same seals once more and when he got the sample he rushed back to the lab leaving the Hokage to look down at the sword still clutched in Naruto's small hands with wonder and not a bit of trepidation. It was obvious that the encounter with the sword had done something to do him sword had done something but all the way down to his DNA?

Shinji returned once more he threw his hands up and gestured for the Hokage to follow him to the lab with a glance over at Naruto he did so. The room was white with a bunch of microscopes connected to miniature projectors all pointed at a large screen. It was a good thing, Sarutobi thought, that we took the room right across from the largest lab here. Once he got there Shinji grabbed three slides and put them on top of the stages of three microscopes and then proceeded to power up them along with three of the projectors, talking all the while.

"Hokage-sama do you remember the report that I had given to you after I had investigated some of the "failed" experiments of Orochimaru?"

The Hokage frowned, the memory of what his former student's twisted attempts to discovery a secret to becoming immortal always brought the bile rising in his throat. To think how he could have been so wrong about someone he had known and trained for that many years. He came out of his musings upon hearing a polite cough from his politely waiting doctor and nodded not trusting his voice.

"Well this boy's DNA is changing, morphing and it is doing it quicker and more completely than anything I had thought possible. Ah here we go." the three white parts of the screen were filled with images all of them dated, "This is the one we have on record about a month ago and this is my first sample," The hokage's mouth dropped open, he was no medical ninja but it didn't take one to see that something strange was going on. The DNA looked like it had been ripped apart! Bits and pieces of the four different pairs that connected the two sides of the double helix that were scattered everywhere. With them were odd crystalline creatures that looked like they were frozen in the act of either holding or consuming those same bits and pieces "See here," He pointed to a odd jigsaw-like pattern that was in "Here the DNA structure is unstable and is be moved about by these, things but here," he motioned the lower and newer sample, "It seems to show that they have recombined it into a completely new genetic structure."

He turned back to the microscope and looked at the screen showing the three different samples once more.

"It's amazing I have never seen anything like it.."

"And you probably won't again."

Shinji jumped as the voice spoke right behind him and he spun around confused how anyone could get through not only the ANBU that were stationed outside the door but also the ANBU captain who had drawn his sword and was standing between the intruder and his leader.

His first thought when he noticed the lack of the Konoha Hiate was.

Who is this guy?

The second being.

He must be a ninja to sneak by those ANBU, right?

And third was.

How the hell does he know what is going on?

When he had recovered he looked over to see him now over in Naruto's room at the foot of his bed looking down at Naruto with pity in his eyes he took a moment to scrutinize him and try to find who he was. After all what someone is wearing can tell an observant person allot about who they are and what they do. He was wearing a black vest that resembled a jonin vest without the collar and he had a plain sword slung over his back. Under the vest he had on a green shirt under that like a jonin of the leaf but without the red swirl that was on the sleeves. He wore loose black pants with a stripe of red visible from the side along with black ninja sandals. The pouch on his belt and the kunai holster taped onto his leg indentified him as a shinobi but the lack of a forehead protect still puzzled him. At this point they had a treaty with the cloud and mist, an uneasy truce with the rock, and an alliance with the sand, but no one would send a ninja here unannounced like this. It would cause a diplomatic nightmare. Maybe he was retired and didn't wear his hiate, but that still made no sense. One he didn't look that old, and two he had never seen him anywhere around the village. He took in all this in a second but when he lookde up at his face something caugth his attention. He didn't ahve a very memorable face he wore his black hair short enought that it didn't get in the way, but it was his eyes that caught and held his attention more than anything else. They were blue grey and he was looking not at Naruto but beyond him, as thought seeing something in him that triggered some powerful memories. That look ended as he shook his head, and looked over at Shinji with an eyebrow raised.

"You know it's considered rude to stare."

Shinji blinked, startled at his casual words. There was no hint of a threat in his words more it was replaced instead with amusement. That in itself was odd, this man had just snuck into a room with two powerful shinobi who were both on edge and he was worried about them staring at him?

"Sorry but I find it odd how you can just suddenly appear here when half this floor is under lockdown."

"Don't worry Shinji he's an old friend."

He turned to look at the Hokage with open incredulity. A friend? You'd think he would have mentioned someone this powerful, and here he thought that he knew Sarutobi well.

After a few minutes more minute of staring at the bed's occupant, the stranger turned and smiled at the Hokage while holding out a hand to shake.

"It's been a while Sarutobi I'm glad to see that you are still well."

The current Hokage smiled and grasped the offered hand warmly.

"I'm assuming that my present has proven useful up till now?"

"Oh if you only knew how useful you could name your price for those trinkets the other Kage would be scrambling to get one if they knew about mine."

The ninja laughed dryly, "How do you know that they don't already have one?"

"Oh yeah you have traveled around haven't you Kane? It has been a while since you have come up to Konoha, but I can assume that this has something to do with the incident that involved Naruto here."

"Naruto? So that is his name. Tell me what is his last name?"

"Uzumaki."

UzumakiUzumaki where have I heard that name before?

He had a tantalizing feeling that he had heard it before but the exact knowledge of where eluded him.

Oh well he thought, I can ponder that later right now I have business of attend to…

"Hello? Did you hear me?"

Kane realized from his tone that The ANBU captain had been trying to get his attention and had probably repeated what he had just said several times.

"I'm sorry my mind was elsewhere what did you say again?"

"If he could see underneath the mask he would have seen the Captain's eyebrow twitch in annoyance.

"I said

The newly named Kane nodded and turned once more to the sleeping boy

"Yeah I knew that the sword was going to do aid it's possible new owner I assumed it to be a ninja about to die on a mission not a boy about to be beaten to death."

"So I'm guessing that the sword is responsible for this sleep?" Kane nodded again, "So how long will it be until he wakes up?"

He turned toward him and shrugged.

"He won't wake up for a while but this is the first time that anyone this young has been selected and I'm not sure how long it will take him to recover. After all the process is draining in more ways than one."

He turned sharply to the aged Hokage and his eyes bored into him accusingly.

"Sarutobi I want to believe that you have done a good job taking over again from the fourth but with what has happened recently I have begun to doubt that," at pointed at the sheathed blade in Naruto's hands, "The last message the sword relayed to me was that He," he gestured over to the only patient in the room, "Would die without it's aid. So tell me, why did the ANBU and your police force both ignore him in his time of need yet they appeared in a flash in order to attack the shield made by the Twilight Sword?"

The Hokage flinched that voice held nothing but contempt for the forces he mentioned.

"After he awakens I will become his sensei." The way he said it made it clear that it wasn't a question or a request for permission, it was a fact, "I am the only one who can teach him how to use that sword properly and how to unlock the abilities that are within it."

Sarutobi was clearly unhappy about this statement, but he knew that if he wanted to Kane could take Naruto away from here and there was nothing he could do to stop him.

"Okay I will make you a Jonin of the village you certainly have the skills to be one just ..."

"No."

"Why?"

"The reason is simple enough. I. Don't. Like. The. Villagers."

His voice as he said those words contained enough potent venom to put a cobra to shame. He pointed over at Naruto and his face beneath the beard twisted into a snarl, "In all my years I have never ever had that sword have to intervene when it's next possible wielder is in danger. Just the fact that it had to do that in order save a child is even more troubling. Not to mention the fact that he now has to endure a process to allow him to use the sword. A process that was made for use on an adult even a putting a teenager though it would be pushing it."

His snarl turned into a smirk as his lips turned up a little at the corners.

"And let's not forget the fact that I am still mentioned in some of the older Konoha Bingo Books," He jerked a finger over at the still tensed ANBU, "I'm surprised that your captain hasn't tried to attack me already."

Suddenly a scream was heard and all eyes snapped to Naruto who was writhing on the bed the sheathed sword started glowing brighter and flickering erratically.

"SHIT he did what!" Kane was at his side in an instant forming seals, and the captain drew his sword but was stopped by the glare, and more importantly the projected killer intent, that Kane was throwing his way.

"I am trying to save him you idiot! Now put that sharpened piece of metal away before I find it a new sheath!"

He said all this without stopping the series of seals. In a second he was done and he yelled out his technique.

Ninpou; Partial body transfer! (my translator won't work for that one sorry :( ).

He slumped over Naruto's now twitching body and his body seemed to become translucent.

In Naruto's mind

He saw the temple and Aisu holding a figure he recognized as Naruto still twitching from the incomplete translation his tattoo flashing as the sword fought to try and maintain the process with one less mind now focused on the task.

Aisu looked up.

"Thank kami you are here quickly do it!"

Kane nodded and held up his hand in the ram seal

"Aisu KAI!"

The last thing before his technique ended was nodding to him as he melted back once more back into the mirror.

He woke up to see the doctor checking over Naruto's vital signs when they stabilized everyone in the room let out a collective breath.

"I see you are awake, now could you tell me what the hell happened?"

Kane panted that technique consumed a great deal of chakra and the strain of using more chakra inside someone's mind was great. On a rough estimate he would guess that he had used maybe a third of his overall chakra.

"That is the reason he was in that "coma" as you put it. In order for the process to work you have to change ALL of the DNA in his body."

"Is that even possible!?"

Shinji was speechless even Tsunade the legendary healer couldn't pull off anything like that.

"Yeah with the power of the sword it can be done normally it takes 2-3 days but with what just happened I give him about a week to finish it."

He shook his head as he looked over at Naruto's sleeping face still twisted in an agonized grimace.

"He somehow interrupted the process and that put him in very real danger. He came out of the sleep too soon and when he woke up his body was trying to function with only half, at best, of the cells in his body functional."

His eyes softened as he looked on the sleeping form once more

"I can only imagine how much pain he just endured."

In truth he was still wondering about how he had survived that. After all most people would have died of shock from something like that.

I wonder if there is more to this boy than meets the eye.

As he looked over at the boy his eyes crystallized and the area around him became clearer, clear enough for him to see a oh so slight veil of red chakra around the sleeping formSo he is a demon container I wonder if this would explain the sudden disappearance of the kyuubi 7 years agoGood, he thought without that demon helping him when he awakening from the trauma of the half-transformation he might have very well diedThis might explain why members of his own village were trying to kill him, hmmmm he might have more trouble controlling the sword than he had first thought. I have never had a jinchuuriki become a swordsman before I wonder how this would affect his development.

He turned to the Hokage as his eyes went back to normal, "It would seem that he will be fine I would tell you to send your ANBU away because I am going to watch him, but then the next person to try and kill him would die and I doubt you would want blood on these pristine white walls now would you?"

Shinji shuddering as he wondering what gruesome fate someone would have if they managed to slip past the ANBU to confront Kane. He decided some questions were better left unanswered. He looked back at the sword

"So what is happening to his DNA anyway?" the doctor asked intrigued

Kane looked at him and then turned to look at the Hokage, "How well do you trust this man?"

The doctor would have taken offense as it was clear that though he was standing right here that he was being ignored, but then the Hokage put a hand on his shoulders.

"Shinji here is my personal doctor who was once a medical shinobi. One of the few to reach Jonin level, I trust him with my life and so does Naruto. Anything that he should know on Naruto's health is something he needs to be informed of."

"Naruto so that is his name? Anyway the sword is changing Naruto's DNA to give him a unique Kekkei Genkai one that is necessary for him to be able to use the sword."

"Will he go through any other changes like what happened to hair color?"

"No I don't know why but the hair color is always affected but nothing else. You see from what the sword has told me about this kekkei genkai is that it is found in part of a person's DNA that doesn't do anything besides take up space. So all it take out the unneeded genetic code and recombine it into the needed sequence and by doing that it is possible, but very hard, to "give" someone this kekkei genkai without damaging anything."

He looked at the doctor and captain in turn I don't think I have to tell you that this is to be considered a secret until further notice. They glance over at their leader and he nodded so looking back at Kane they nodded acquiescence.

"Good," He looked over at Naruto once more and saw that his face had relaxed and nodded. The danger was past and now all that was to be done was to wait until he woke up. He drew his sword sheath and all from his back and sat down with the sword across his legs.

"Well now that I know that everything is in good hand I think I will retire now I'm not as young as I used to be and today has been very taxing I leave it to you to explain everything."

Sarutobi nodded and he turned to go as Kane looked back once more at the sleeping occupant of the bed.

NarutoUzumaki

It had been a long time since he had been a teacher he just hoped that this time would be the last.

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Another chapter completed thank you thank you! Anyway this chapter marks the beginning of a new life for NarutoSorry for it's shortness but and longer and I would have to make you all wait for a week or possibly two. Now many of you will be annoyed with my use of the Shōsenjutsu to get DNA but really I did try to translate a jutsu that would be called Mystic Siphon no jutsu but no dice. It came out long and horribly inexact. Anyone who can guess what Kane's gift to the Hokage was can email me and if you are right I will send back a preview of Naruto's first attempt at trying to tap into the power of his sword (be warned it is only a preview it might change!). Anyway Kane is going to get better acquainted with Naruto in the next chapter. Training new people and explanations await Naruto in my next chapter. Now on another note I am horrible with names so I hope that Dragon6 will forgive my theft of the name of Aisu but I really thought that name would work well for the role I have made for that name. I hope you have enjoyed this chapter and Please review!