Last time I left you with Naruto waking up prematurely and messing with the process. Now just one quick thing before I start the biggest weakness I have with writing is choosing decent names I believe that I finally have found a good clan name for Kane. Truth be told it was that more than anything else that has delayed this chapter. Tell me if you think it's a decent clan name or if not please give me a more appropriate suggestion (in other words if mine sucks then be prepared to tell me what you think is a better one).Now today I answer the question on everyone's minds. What unique (hopefully) Kekkei Genkai did he get? How will Naruto react to the news of his new sensei and last of all the change in hair color?

Disclaimer; I don't own Naruto, but I assure you that all of my OCs are original (At least I hope so)

Chapter three

A New Beginning

Kane stayed in the room with his still unknowing apprentice for the rest of his stay at the hospital. The Hokage ordered the staff to bring food up to the floor he was on and the ANBU would take it to him. Shinji stopped in daily to check on his patient and everything seemed in order, well everything except Kane. He was always at Naruto's side and with each day that passed Shinji noticed that he seemed to grow more and more exhausted as he never seemed to go to sleep during that period. Only one time when Shinji had opened the door to come in he appeared to be sleeping. Then when he had taken he had taken a single step in he came wide awaken with his sword drawn. The ANBU all thought that is was a waste of time after all they were prominently displayed on that floor and no one in their right mind would take on a team of ANBU. They were all proven wrong on the third day.

On the third day a crafty chunin had ascertained the location of Naruto's room and with great stealth scaled the building with plans to kill him as justice for the "murder" of Mizuki. As soon as he was on the outside Kane had heard him and slitted open an eye and so he saw as the chunin used some charka to open the window and climb noisily (to him) inside. He saw him look at him then away thinking that he was asleep and then smile wolfishly when he saw his target asleep in the bed nearest him. Slowly and he drew out a kunai and move quietly toward Naruto's bed. It was at that moment that Kane attacked. Even with his strength drained from the jutsu and only a few hours of actual sleep Kane was able to stop him without killing him.

Had it been a jonin then I would not have been able to afford mercy he thought darkly. As it was the ANBU outside ran in to see what the crash and whistle of weapons meant. They stopped as they came in the door as they saw that the "attacking" Chunin, his eyes wide, was pinned to the wall by the door thanks to a half a dozen kunai. Kane's head had snapped around and he had that look that the ANBU had come to know as his way of testing them for authenticity. They stood there as those diamond-like eyes looked at them narrowed until he was sure that they weren't just imposters underneath a henge. When he was satisfied he dropped the ariarigan (clear eyes) jutsu and turned his head back to the scared chunin. He got up walked right up to him, sheathed sword in hand, and then smiled sinisterly before projecting enough killer intent to make the hardened ANBU at the door freeze if just for an instant. The chunin looked like he was about to faint, all in all perfect.

"This is my one warning so listen closely. I want you to go back to your friends and tell them that the next one they send I will kill. Understand?"

The chunin nodded vigorously from his place on the wall.

"Good"

He pulled out his kunai and gave him over to the ANBU, "I don't want him to be imprisoned for this time for now just let him off with a fine."

The second in command ANBU nodded and escorted the shocked chunin out of the hospital. Underneath his mask he was smiling with that stunt Kane had probably scared off most if not all of the people most likely to try and do a repeat of it. He now knew why, before he had left, the Hokage had told them that Kane was to be in charge of Naruto's security for the remainder of his stay at the hospital. At first he had been skeptical but that combined with Fang's threat of a transfer if he heard about any disobedience had made him accept the order. Mostly it was the threat at first and he shuddered thinking about a transfer to work filing paperwork for the Hokage. Just visualizing the mountains of paperwork was enough to make him cringe.

Two days later Kane was meditating wondering how much longer he could keep this up without some stimulants heck coffee would be great for the caffeine. He was just debating if he should go ask the ANBU for a soldier pill when a voice in his head interrupted his concentration.

"Kane the process will be complete in 2 hours you should remove the jutsu then."

Kane looked at his watch and saw that it was about 9 in the morning and wondered if he should wait to get his new charge some decent food. Then shook his head and smiled what was he thinking? No matter what time it was he knew that Naruto would be starving all those who came out of that state were. Sighing, he pulled out his wallet and counted how much he had more than enough for now later he would make a trip to grab some more from his underground stash later.

He went to the door and called over the female ANBU with a rabbit mask on. He pulled out two ten thousand ryu bills and handed them to the ANBU.

"Now Naruto is going to wake up soon and he'll need something better to eat than this crappy hospital food. So I want you to go into the village and buy half dozen oranges and apples, 2 orders of dango, 3 orders of ramen to go along a package of water bottles and a carton of orange juice. If you do all that and get back in an hour and a half you can keep the change got it?"

The ANBU bowed and then disappeared in a swirl of leaves away leaving Kane to go back inside and sit down putting his sword back on his knees and sit to await her return. He made good use of this time to discuss what had happened in Naruto's mind in depth with the sword and he was startled at what he had learned. With everyone who had become a swordsman he had never had anything like that happened before and not only that but also the mirrors weren't written in modern day kanji so how did he read it? He shook his head and he heard the ANBU knock at the door.

"I have the food you requested sir."

"Thank you I will be there in a minute."

He went over to the bed and performed the seals in order to cancel out the forced sleep jutsu and went to get the food.

Naruto woke up slowly first feeling the tightness that comes from a lack of exercise as he tired to sit up and groaned as his muscles protested. Also his throat was dry and scratchy and he found that clearing it didn't help. He also felt something hard in his hands and looked down. It was the hilt of the sword. The sword itself was now encased in a black sheath it's silver gem glowing slightly there could be no mistaking it. He set the sword to the side of his bed and it was then that he felt the needle in his arm and as he pulled it out with a grimace he realized where he must be.

He looked around to confirm his suspicions. White walls, blinking machines, odd almost odorless smell yep he was in a hospital again. He looked down at the hospital gown he was clad in and looked up to see his pants hung over a chair he wondered vaguely what had happened to his shirt before a thought struck him. He reached down and pulled back the sleeves to see his arms almost expecting to see the same tattoos he saw in his vision engraved on them. When he saw nothing he frowned.

So it really was just a dream afterall, he thought sadly. He thought, but I thought... it seemed so real and then there was that pain intense pain he shivered at the memory.

Looking around a bit more he saw a trio of get well cards on the side table from Iruka, Sakura and her mother, and even the Hokage. He picked the one from Sakura and Mrs. Haruna and smiled as he read their words of concern and wishes of a speedy recovery. Indeed he was happy, happy until he looked up top where Sakura had automatically put the date that she had come in and he saw that it was dated the 12th two days after the festival he frowned.

"I see you are finally up."

He looked up to see a man with short black hair and beard along with dark circles underneath his eyes come in the door with a few bags that his nose was telling him contained at least a little bit of his favorite food. He wore a black vest that looked like what a jounin would wear except for no color there was a sword slung over his back and the usual kunai holster taped to his right leg, all in all that was enough to tell him a few things. Naruto was happy but wary at his what he had figured out. Happy because he hated the doctors at the hospital the only one he really trusted was Shinji, and wary because he had never seen this man before. He had never forgotten a face and this man with his short black hair and beard and grey-blue eyes was as new to him as the sword in his hands. His stomach was growling and he was hoping that the bag contained more than a few orders of ramen and that the stranger would share some with him. But he decided (with great difficulty) that his first task was to find out what had happened after he had spoken to the sword.

"Why am I here?" was what he tried to say but it came out a dry rasp from the lack of water in his throat.

Seeing the boy's predicament Kane fished out a water bottle and tossed it to him.

After opening it and draining half he then nodded over to him appreciatively as he sat down in the other chair opposite him.

"Thanks."

"No problem now what were you trying to say before?"

"Why am I here?"

Kane had prepared for this and knew that he shouldn't just tell him everything that happened but he wouldn't lie to him either.

"Well after that dome that you were in exploded the Hokage found you and brought you here to make sure that you were alright."

"And the mob?" Naruto's voice was concerned and Kane could tell that it was not for their health but his own mentally he was pissed. How anyone could place any blame on him was beyond him but it was obvious that if Naruto was concerned it had happened before.

"They were taken care of and I don't think that you will have to worry about them anymore."

Naruto snorted if he had a ryu for every time he had heard that by now he would be rich.

"I wanted to know how long I hade been here."

"A total of five days."

"Five days!"

"Yes and I really expected you to be asleep for a bit longer but.." he stopped as he remembered the conversation that he had shared with the Hokage.

--flashback no jutsu--

Sarutobi I want ask you about something.

I think that I might know why he is hated by the village but I want you to tell me if I am right.

Really if it is what I think it is then please don't say it out loud. If you do know then a word should suffice

Kane's eyebrow twitched in annoyance. Wasn't this a little bit much even for a "secret like this? Judging by the villager's attitude they knew to, at least if he was right that is.

"Okay here's your word, fox."

The Hokage nodded understanding immediately.

"I see then I want you to give me a second."

"The elderly Hokage put up his hands and did a few seals and the sounds within the room now seemed slightly louder like they were trapped."

Kane raised an eyebrow the Hokage wasn't taking any chances whatsoever.

"Do you really think there is any need to put up that jutsu?

The Sandiame nodded ashe went and did some additional seals and placed a few notes on each corner of his bed before making the same seals once more. Kane raised his eyebrows at Sarutobi his face clearly asking the question; wasn't that a bit much?

"Is that really necessary? I mean he is still under the forced sleep jutsu."

"There is good reason indeed. I have to make sure that noone might overhear us and I have made a law to try and keep Naruto's secret from the younger generations,"

What about him?" He pointed at Naruto still blissfully unaware about the conversation happening over feet from him,"He does know doesn't he?"

The Hokage remained silent and for the first time since he had known him since his introduction back when he first became Hokage Kane's jaw dropped open. He closed it with effort and his eyes narrowed at the elderly Hokage

Let me get this straight someone sealed the Kyuubi into the boy. And judging from the rumors of it's datht which I knew would have been nearly impossible I can guess that it was the fourth am I right

The Hokage nodded

Then you told the village what had happened not bothering try to explain to those idiots that Naruto is nearly a container. Am I right once more? The Hokage nodded this time uneasily as Kane was starting to emit killer intent, "Lastly am I to assumethat you, Sarutobi you did not tell him what it is he is holding to this very day? "

The Hokage nodded one more time and this time the killer intent faded and Kane looked at the elderly Hokage with pity. Then he took a deep breath and exploded

"HAVE YOU GONE SENILE?" as that shout was trapped in the room the Hokage winced and rubbed his ears as he wondered how much of his hearing he had just lost,Number one you couldn't you have explained that the fourth their idol and Hokage was the one to do it? If they had any faith in his abilities whatsoever then they should have respected his memory by trusting that Naruto was not indeed the demon fox!"

With great effort he stopped the barrage of killer intent but the look on his face told the Hokage on no uncertain terms that he was not done with him.

I'm telling him the truth

"No please don't!"

And why shouldn't I? He has the right to know why he has been treated like this hell and all you had to do was keep the fox a secret damn it! Then Naruto would have grown up as a normal boy and you could have revealed that fact when he was trusted then the response would been far better than this!

I know and I would have, but then council overruled me on one very important matter."

Kane saw the pain in the Hokage's eyes and decided to hear him out first. So he waved his hand impatiently telling him to continue

The Hokage looked over at Naruto as if checking to see if the barriers were still in place before speaking once more, "The decision was that if he uses the beasts chakra inside the village then he will face execution."

Kane face twisted into a snarl as if to say over my dead body Then he looked over at Naruto and a defeated expression came over his face he would need to come back to Konoha sooner or later and. and without the goodwill he thought sarcastically, of the council that would be hard indeed.

Well I have a good solution am going to take him out of this hellhole like it or not

"You can't Kane's eyes narrowed to slits and this time he didn't bother controlling the killer intent blasting out of him

Watch me!

The Hokage sighed "I would have done that very thing a long time ago if it wasn't for his father

"His father?

Kane was confused when he had read Naruto's file and questioned the Hokage in order to learn more about his new pupil. During that time never once did the Hokage give the impression that he was anything but an orphan.

I wouldn't have made him stay if there wasn't good reason to but this last complication was the one that combined with the decision of the council made me decide that it would be best for him here.

Really well I would love to hear it!

"Remember how you asked about his clan name? Well it all has to do with that."

Uzumaki Uzumaki. It's no good all I can remember about it is that Shin once told me that... his thoughts trailed off as he remembered.

Uzumaki! That name hit him like a flying Akimichi and hehis eyes widened so much that it looked like they would roll out of his head! During this he was reliving one of the most painful memories that he had unfortunately acquired in the last 20 years

One of the things that was a black spot on his memory was letting Shin go to the wedding of his sister. He himself had been busy upgrading the barriers and security of the cavern and told his prized student to go enjoy himself. The last thing he had expected was for Shin to come backmuch earlier than expected, angry and distraught. For days afterward he had been a wreck and his emotional state had inhibited his control over the sword's power. Kane had tried everything to try and get him out of it but he had had no luck in doing so and that more than anything else had been what had been what had caused his demise. Kane looked up into the Hokage's eyes and saw that he knew also and taking a deep calming breath Kane spoke once more.

Uzumaki that was the maiden name of his mother wasn't it

The Hokage nodded gravely even in this room he dared not speak aloud the thought that was going through both their heads at that moment

Naruto's father was still alive!

--end flashback no jutsu!—

He recovered quickly with only a fraction of a second of silence, "being young and strong you must have recovered quickly."

Naruto shouldn't help but wonder he was sure that he had heard that voice once before but he couldn't think of where. So he decided that it couldn't hurt to ask.

"Sorry but do I know you? Your voice sounds kind of familiar."

Kane raised an eyebrow maybe he had heard him though the jutsu after al.

"Well considering how you were asleep most of the time I was here I doubt that but it could be possible that bits and pieces of my conversations with the Hokage reached your ears during that time."

Naruto frowned, no that explanation didn't quite fit. He tried to think of why but he was so hungry that his stomach hurt.

Pain? That was it. That voice was the same one in his dream a dream where he had been in great pain and had seen nothing but white then heard shouting and that same voice making a threat then nothing more!

He searched the rest of his memories for anything else but saw nothing. Odd he thought it seemed like he was trying to help me. Naruto didn't trust strangers trying to help him after all more than one had tried to put a kunai in his back when he turned his back on them. He was interrupted in his ponderings when Kane interrupted his thoughts.

"You've got to be hungry right here."

Kane searched though the bags he had put down and came up with an apple that he threw to Naruto. Who caught it and bit into it happily he couldn't afford to buy too much fruit and the one time he went in henged as someone else he had been found out and beaten severely enough to give him another free trip to this hospital. After that he had mostly stuck to buying instant ramen from one of the few places that would accept him as a customer.

As Kane watched Naruto quickly finish eating the apple he sighed and carefully placed first one then another of the takeout bowls in front of Naruto. by the time he had sat back down Naruto had finished the first and so he watched as, in seconds, the second disappeared just as quickly.

"I know that you are hungry but fives days without food has probably shrunk your stomach so I would wait for a while before eating anything else."

Naruto nodded, "Thank you for the food …"

"Umezawa ,Kane"

"Thank you Umezawa-san"

"No problem kid after what you have been though it's the least I can do," And will do, he thought, he gestured to Naruto's weakened body.

"I admit I'm impressed that you woke up this quickly I thought that you would be out for at least 2-5 more days. So tell me how do you feel?"

"Stiff, sore, tired, and," his stomach spoke for him as he looked at the bags. One of which, he could tell, still had the scent of ramen coming out of, "still hungry."

"That's not to be expected but I guess I shouldn't be surprised."

Naruto cocked his head to one side surprised after all he was to used even if he didn't like it going to a hospital like this.

Wait a second, he thought, that was an odd thing to say after all he could never remember a time when he needed to stay in a hospital more than a day or two tops and I was always fine before That was good considering that the staff had always kicked him out as soon as he could walk. So he waited for Kane to elaborate.

"After all you were asleep under the forced sleep technique for five days.."

"Five days I didn't remember being injured that badly!

"And you weren't but you did strain your body with that stunt you pulled in your mind a while ago."

So that wasn't a dream after all! He thought shocked, and that means and looked at his arms

"Yes the tattoos are there as well but you can't see them right now because they are being hidden for right now, but there are some changes."

"Changes?"

The man pointed to the mirror over on the wall.

"You might want to see for yourself."

He limped over to the sink awkwardly using the sheathed sword as a crutch and looked into the mirror set above it and gasped. His hair, it was pure black and he looked starved and older than when he had last seen himself. His eyes widened in shock and he turned his head from side to side trying to find a blonde hair anywhere when he couldn't he turned his head to Kane.

"What the heck happened?"

Wait this might be a good thing maybe now people won't recognize me as much, he thought happily. Then his shoulders slumped as he remembered that was impossible unless he got some new clothes to go along with his "new" identity.

Kane saw his depression and thought it had something to do with his hair so he went over and put a hand on Naruto's shoulder and then took it away when the blond stiffened at the unfamiliar gesture.

"Don't worry I can assure you that being the new Twilight Swordsman comes with many perks."

Yeah I guess it then it hit him. This guy knew about the tattoos and he knew the name that the sword had called him before he blacked out! His fear rose within him as he realized this guy might only being nice to get him to drop his guard. In his short life he had learned that most of what people wanted was to either hurt and or kill him! He put his back against the sink and braced himself as he clumsily struggled and finally succeeded in drawing the sword. He then scowled and tried to look tough even though the sword was trembling in his grasp. Well, he thought, at least it's from fatigue instead of fear.

"Who are you really and what do you really want?"

Kane sighed he expected this but he knew he had nothing to hide. He had wanted to wait until he got back to the cavern to tell him everything but supposed that as long as no one else overheard he would be alright "Naruto everything I have told you so far is the truth," well almost everything, he thought, "I am Umezawa Kane just as I told you and I think that the you can confirm my intentions quite easily by speaking with him,"

He gestured to the sword in his hands.

"Him?" For a second Naruto was confused then he heard a familiar voice in his head.

"Naruto it's alright he is the one who we called for when you interrupted the process."

"Aisu? That is you name right?" Naruto felt foolish for talking to a sword but didn't really know what else to do.

"Yes it's me and you need his help he can teach you how to wield the sword in your hands and more than anyone in this village who I know will never betray you."

"What did you mean by process is that the reason for all that pain earlier?"

"Yes we had to do that in order for you to be able to use that sword properly and sorry for the pain but no-one has summoned me in the middle before and without me the other two couldn't hold you under, His voice took on a awed tone, "By all rights you should have died I guess the only reason why was because Kane was there to dispel me before your heart stopped."

"Wait then what about?"

"Hold that thought," Kane began making some seals and Naruto had to fight back the impulse to try and escape. With how his legs felt the best pace he could go would probably be a walk anyway. When he finished his jutsu Naruto blinked, nothing happened. Then he noticed that the air seemed to thicken around him.

"What did you do?"

"Oh just something the Hokage sowed me how to do a long time ago to prevent others from hearing our conversation."

Kane sat down in a chair and gestured for Naruto to sit where-ever and after sheathing his sword he sat once more on the bed.

"I was going to explain this all after I showed you your new home, however I suppose that you now have some questions that you want answered. Oh but first here."

He picked up the bags of food and put their contents on the bed Naruto's mouth watered and he grabbed the remaining order or ramen and drained it before sitting back full. For now.

"Now I will answer anything you want to know so tell me where should I begin?"

down below konoha

The shadowy mass crawled on the ground in the center room inside the house farthest from the center of the cavern. The last thing he needed was Kane stumbling across him at this point,. The journey was hard and having only minute strength it had taken it three days to get to it and another two to rest and regain the energy required to use the required technique.

"Makai; Energy syphon!" (demonic)

The effects were almost immediate as the muted light from the glowing crystals began to flicker and finally go out. The mass was still for a second while reviewing the amount of power it had stolen and a it cursed the dwelling was now in complete darkness, but the energy still wasn't enough to form even a weak human body! He looked around and saw the shelves and directed his jutsu at them and the other non-essential items scattered around the house's interior. When the process was done the inside of the house was coated with fine dust and pieces of metal and fabric that had once made up the furniture and other doo-dads lying around the house.

He now had enough energy to make a decent if not powerful body and the shadows that made up his body bubbled up and twisted to form a new and far more useful body. As it stretched it's new formed limbs it couldn't help but relish the feeling of having limbs again.

"Ahhh it's been far too long!"

It went over to the mirror that was the only remaining piece of furniture and even in almost complete darkness it could see it's new body. It was human with dark red hair that went down his back to just below his shoulder blades. The face was sharp and the eyes were a shade of violet lastly the body rippled with muscle but the build was compact enough to seem skinny by human standards.

It's really amazing, it thought, just how much space is taken up by human organs Just stripping out most of them and adding muscle had made his weight jump from one hundred fifty to two hundred pounds! Judging by the doorway "he" was now about five feet ten inches tall and for the moment naked. It shrugged after all in this compact and discretely enhanced body stealing clothing from stupid humans was like taking the throat from a baby.

Which it might get a chance to do if it was lucky. He thought, as it flexed "his" clawed hands to make his claws pop out and bared his fangs in gruesome a parody of a smile. Then it cursed as he winced remembering his last encounter with the guardian of the gate. Anything like that would draw too much attention and in it's current condition it was no match for "him".

I guess some subtlety is in order, it thought as it went over to the now door-less closet and looked inside. It's mouth turned downward in a frown as it saw nothing suitable to use here. All of the clothes in there were too old. With the current styles that were being used wearing any of them would make it would stick out like a sore thumb. It smiled as it got an idea and it closed it's eyes and changed the form of it's body. Originally it had planned on being male but now that it was formed it took hardly any energy at all to turn into female with glowing violet eyes and the claws retracted into the delicate hands but able to be recalled at a moment's notice. Luckily it, mused the styles of underwear really hadn't change too much. Then it paused and decided to leave without the garments.

After all, it mused, it is much easier to distract people as a naked woman than a partially clothed one Also no matter how hard they tried males would almost always make the mistake of believing themselves superior. It laughed, a tinkling and deceptively harmless laugh, as it remembered fondly how that very foolish flaw had allowed it to kill many of it's victims. As the nightmare doppelganger strode off into the cavern and up the flight of stairs that led to the village above. During the climb it forced itself to recall everything that had happened in it's battle with Kane so long ago and snarled as it saw how it's own overconfidence had been it's undoing.

This time there will be no mistakes, it promised itself as it leapt off into the darkness.

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Another chapter done! I hope that you enjoyed it and I also hope that I left just as many questions answered as I did new questions to puzzle over! I'm not sure yet if I will use a time skip but make no mistake I will stay in this time period for at least another chapter.I'm sorry for the baby line, really I am. I found it just as offensive as some of you probably did, but I'm trying to portray this thing as evil incarnate and the old taking candy from a baby" saying seems a little tame for something of such darkness. Also I still have not named it! Nightmare doppelganger is a description not a name I will reveal what it is called at a later date. Anyway please review I don't know why but I have only 5 at this point and I thank those that did review but it is a bit depressing ya know? Really there is nothing like getting reviews to motivate me to write better chapters and update faster so really if you have something to say. PLEASE I urge you to post it in a review! Next time new clothes and the bloodline revealed!