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Chapter 5 Blood

"She came with a group of refugees near the end of the second great war," started the Hokage. "They were from the former land of whirlpools a small island nation between Konoha No Kuni and Kiri No Kuni. The Mizukage had started his bloodline purges and there were rumors that the island was harboring refugees from that genocide."

"What's that," Naruto asked confused with the unknown word.

"Well let me explain a bit better," the old man asked. "The Mizukage convinced his people that the clans with Kekkei Genkai were the reason behind all wars. With the fact that ninja with bloodlines were among the most powerful and sometimes most destructive in battle he was able to easily convince his people to hate them without true reason."

"Kinda like me with the village," the boy said.

"Yes very much so," came the response with a sigh. "With this unreasonable hate he was able to convince his people that it was necessary to kill all of the clans. This murder of entire peoples is what a genocide is."

"So my mom's home was protecting these people?" Naruto asked.

"Well we can't be sure. The fact that you and your mother had a bloodline could be an indicator that it is true or your family could have lived in whirlpool for generations." the elder stated. "Whirlpool was a very secretive and isolated nation. The treacherous reefs, whirlpools, and rip tides made it very hard to enter and as there are no recorded encounters with your bloodline the best guess would be that you came from there."

"I see," the boy responded then asked, "So how did she become a ninja?"

"She had started training as a ninja with her clan before coming here though she was too young to have learned much about your clan so she was as surprised that she had a bloodline as you are." he continued. "Upon arriving in Konoha she joined the academy. She had even said it was her dream to be the first female Hokage as well."

"Really? Wow that's so cool!" Naruto exclaimed. "So what was she like, and what abilities did she have other than the bloodline? Or was she one of those people who rely on the bloodline too much?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Ha ha no she certainly had a mix of abilities. She was a kenjutsu master and had a unique knack for ninjutsu. She could take a simple jutsu and think of far more ways to use it than the basic intent. Heck using her bloodline she even took a simple E-rank jutsu and was supplying the hospital with much needed resources during the third great war." the old man reminisced.

"How did she do that?" asked the boy. "And what is our bloodline anyway."

"Well I suppose I should tell you that story the way that it happened." the elder stated. "You see during her first mission away from the village she was wounded by a poisoned blade. Her team rushed her back to the village hospital. The medics gave her sedatives so they could work. They ran into two problems. Much like what happened to you yesterday they were unable to find any trace of the poison at first and she awakened long before the sedatives should have allowed. Upon further inspection and a second dose of the sedative it determined that her blood was actively filtering out foreign substances and depositing them in the appendix."

"So that's why you had the medic scan there for the poison.." Naruto commented understanding the unusual events in the hospital the night before.

"Yes, but as I was saying it was determined that she had some strange defense against foreign substances in her blood." the Hokage continued. "The medics studied this ability helping her to understand it. It was learned that she could release these chemicals back into her bloodstream with an application of chakra keeping them suspended and with a second pulse of chakra allow them to affect herself. She could also force the substances out through any wound she might have. She was literally a walking medical and chemical storage using her ability to poison her deadly katana and to aid any comrade who needed any of the medications she carried within her self."

"Wow so what was the ability called," the amazed boy asked.

"We gave it the name Buraddomasutā or Blood Mastery." the old man answered. "But this defense was not the only ability of the blood line or so we believe. You see Naruto your mother also found another ability when she began to learn her elemental affinity." Pulling out a piece of chakra paper the Hokage stated, "When a ninja wishes to learn their elemental affinity they put some of there chakra into a piece of chakra paper like this one. A number of affects can happen depending on the element they are aligned to. Normally when a suiton or water style user use the paper it becomes wet with the level of moisture indicating how strong they are aligned to water. Your mothers paper instead became soaked with blood."

"What did she get a paper cut and spoil the results," Naruto joked.

"No in fact with a bit of work it was determined that it was an advanced suiton element which we named chiton or blood style," the elder stated. "Kushina had the ability to take any suiton jutsu and change it into chiton. The water used in these jutsu coming from the battlefield or just pure chakra conversion was also changed into blood. The blood matched hers right down to the DNA. She could even infuse the jutsu with any of the medicines or poisons her blood contained with a minor cut."

"While that seems a bit odd I don't see how useful that would be other than to produce suiton jutsu that are poisoned," the blond stated confusedly.

"Ah but it was very useful." the old man praised. "You see blood is a strong medium for chakra. Sealing often uses blood as a medium as even inks grown in chakra infused soil can not match the level of control the user has over the chakra in their blood. Also summoning contracts use a blood sacrifice. Imagine not needing to harm ones self in order to draw that sacrifice but instead only using the blood you have already spread on the battle field with a chiton jutsu. She even used a E-rank jutsu to as I said supply the hospital. Her blood was O negative meaning that almost anyone could receive a transfusion of it."

"That's cool. So what is my blood?" Naruto asked.

"Yours is O negative as well meaning when you learn to preform chiton jutsu I shall give you the same weekly C - Rank Mission to supply the hospital that I gave to her." The Hokage stated. "But there is just a bit more to these chiton jutsu. You see being such a strong chakra conductor once the field of battle was covered in blood Kushina had several advantages. All chiton jutsu used after the first were far less taxing on chakra than a normal suiton jutsu would be. Further more she could run a thin amount of chakra through the blood. she could literally sense her enemies through the blood. Also the blood didn't respond to other users suiton jutsu unless they had some way of controlling the blood as well."

"I see so with this ability I can neutralize another suiton user and gain another sense with which to defeat my foes." the boy said.

"Heh that is pretty much it." Reaching into his desk he pulled out an old book. Opening to a certain page he handed it to the boy saying, "This is your mother's bingo book entry."

Naruto looked at the page. A photo of a beautiful red headed woman looked back at him. Reading the text it stated that Kushina "The Crimson Tide" was an A - rank jonin who was known for strange blood based abilities assumed to be a Kekkei Genkai who used poison, kenjutsu, and her powerful chiton jutsu to defeat many shinobi and was considered a flee on sight to any strongly suiton aligned ninja.

"Neat she was nicknamed The Crimson Tide," he observed.

"Hah yes that was earned due to her habit of leaving a battlefield soaked in blood no matter whether there were casualties or not," the Hokage said. "Although here in the village she was known as The Red Hot-Blooded Habiniro for her red hair and strong temper," He joked. "She was strong willed and renowned for her beauty. But her bloodline and special knack for jutsu made her famous. She even shared your love for ramen favoring Salt ramen as the best."

"Really, heh I guess that's where my name came from even though it uses the spelling for maelstrom like her home instead of the one for fishcake it is a pretty funny play on words dattebayo," Naruto said with a laugh.

"Oh yes she was a prankster. But the name also came from a book that she loved Tales of a gutsy ninja'" The Hokage explained. "Heh she even had her own phrase dattebane that she would say whenever excited or flustered much like you just did."

"So I'm a lot like her huh?" the boy said.

"Yes." the elder answered with a grin then deciding to shift topics. "Now since we have proof that your abilities are a bloodline I can set up an Anbu guard to prevent things like yesterday from happening. You will have to apply for the CRA otherwise it would be considered a waste of resources to have Anbu tied up guarding a single child but that shouldn't be a problem."

"What's the CRA?" asked Naruto.

"Well it is an old clan law on the Konoha law books the Clan Restoration Act. It allows for the protection of failing bloodlines." the elder began to explain. "It will allow me to set a guard to protect you. The only problem is that when you are older you must marry or take as mistresses several women minimum of two by your sixteenth birthday. This is to ensure that your clan returns to a thriving family in Konoha."

"Is it absolutely necessary?" asked the boy "I don't know if I could even find one girl to like me and with the fox that might be even harder. Plus I would feel disloyal if I found someone I really loved."

"I'm sorry Naruto but even if you didn't want the CRA the counsel might force it on you when they find out about your abilities." the old man said with a sigh. "But look on the bright side. You will be the envy of many men of the village," he joked. "Now what are we going to do to prepare you to become a ninja," he said deciding to move to another topic.

AN: This chapter just seemed to flow better than the previous ones. I finally had a chapter that seemed to lend itself to longer exposition.

Chiton = Blood style

Buraddomasutā = Blood mastery

If anyone likes these abilities please use them. They were a concept I came up with upon seeing Karin's strange method of healing. If you do use it please send me a message so I may read your story. I love good stories. Well till next time Read and Review and I hope you enjoy my story.