(A/N: Hey guys, sorry for the late chapter, but I hope all is well. Hope y'all enjoy this chapter. Bless.)

The next morning Hiruzen walked out from his office, waving back at those who greeted him. He breathed in the morning air, sighing ever so often while massaging the visible bags under his eyes.

He walked towards the T&I department while thinking about his day's schedule. "First, go to the T&I department and personally interrogate the prisoner from yesterday. Second, go to an all-council meeting and talk about how Konoha should be provided with things we don't practically need. Then, later on, go through with commanding the war." He dipped his head down, agonizing to himself about his restlessness.

Walking to cell block seven, Hiruzen unlocked the block cell and prepared for the worst. Switching on the light, he widened his eyes when he saw the suspect sweating all over her body. "Get a medic NOW!" he yelled to a nearby interrogator.

Hiruzen kneeled down to Naruto and asked,"What's wrong? I thought Sakumo told me that the interrogation went by smoothly?" Naruto opened her blue orbs, revealing bloodshot eyes, looking straight to Hiruzen's brown orbs. "You didn't sleep at all, didn't you?"

Naruto squeezed her eyes shut. A medic finally came in and analyzed Naruto. He coated his hands in medic chakra and found the problem almost instantly. "She's been poisoned." The medic narrowed his eyes as he also revealed, "The poison's been lurking in her bloodstream for quite some time. Maybe two weeks at most. She should've been dead by now."

By now, Naruto was breathing harshly. "Poisoned... in-in Iwa."

Hiruzen nodded at her explanation. He then told the medic, "It can't be helped, get her to the hospital."

Naruto was rushed to the hospital. When she got there, everything faded into nothingness, leaving Naruto into the deep passageway of her mind scape.

Kurama shifted his neck to the opposite direction as he felt a familiar chakra signature. He twitched his left ear to hear the footsteps emerge the water that flooded the entire floor. He slowly lifted his right eyelid, seeing his jinchuuriki walking closer to his cage.

"What do you need now, Kit?" He waited for an answer, but didn't get one.

Kurama narrowed his eyes as he lifted his head to directly look at Naruto. She was in a hospital gown, looking like a hot mess. He sighed deeply, now knowing exactly what was wrong with her. He felt the insidious poison lurk through her body.

If not for the many times she had been made a suspect to this poison during the Fourth War—in which she is immune to until an extended period of time—she would've died after the fourth day without his healing chakra.

Kurama stretched his body as he got up to send his chakra coursing into Naruto, causing the poison to clear up. After several minuets, Naruto woke up from her sick trance and widened her eyes at the now awakened Kurama.

"Kurama! What are you doing here?"

Kurama sighed deeply and shook his head. "Brat, you're in your mind scape."

"Wha? How'd I get here then?"

Kurama answered negatively and looked at Naruto's set of clothes. "You, are you in Konoha yet?"

Naruto scratched the back of her neck and said, "Well, it wasn't a really fun trip, but when I got here, I get interrogated by this crazy dude. He was also mean."

Kurama sighed a third time that day. "It's bound to happen." Kurama shifted his weight to the side. "So what did they ask you, Kit?"

Naruto told Kurama of all the questions Tozoki asked her and her answers to those questions. Kurama nodded his head in approval. "Good job on your background story the other day. The only thing we need to do now is get their trust." Kurama then had a thoughtful look on his face. "Do you know what time period we're in, Kit?"

Naruto frowned. "Not exactly, but I know we're in a war right now."

"Fine, then do did you see any familiar faces?"

Naruto thought for a moment before opening her mouth. "Was it?... No, I think his name was Sakumo? But, he kinda looked like Kakashi-sensei. There was also this-"

Kurama had a knowing look and interrupted her. "Ahh, Hatake Sakumo. That's your sensei's father, actually. But, if he's still alive and well in this time period, then that probably means that we're in the Second Great Shinobi War."

"The Second? Wait, but I don't know anything about this war."

"Then you should've listened to your academy lessons, Gaki."

Naruto growled out low in her throat. "Shuddup! Iruka-sensei makes every lesson boring. I just can't help not listening."

Kurama ignored her rant. "We're getting off topic. About this war, didn't your other insignificant peers give you a timeline from the founding of Konoha?" Kurama cocked his head to the side to crack it with a delightful snap. "Check it out. Just find out the dates of significant times and try to change them for the better."

Naruto frowned at Kurama. "My friends aren't insignificant," she said with a pout.

Kurama ignored her again. "The scrolls are sealed in your forearms and legs. They also made you seal your daily needs and money." He thought for a moment. "Maybe your friends aren't so insignificant," he admitted grudgingly.

Naruto stuck her tongue out to him. "Yeah, yeah, I know." She raked her fingers through her long blond hair, untangling some strands. "I just wish at least Shika came with me. He would've known what to do." She sighed with the thought of her friend.

"Kit," Kurama said in a more leveled voice, "keep your emotions in check. You can't let anyone know that your from the future just yet."Naruto nodded to Kurama but he continued, "Also, don't let anyone find out that you're a Jinchuuriki—even that old monkey," Kurama stated.

Naruto had widened eyes. "Jiji's alive," she whispered in awe.

"Remember, Kit—keep your emotions in check."

"I know, I know. It's just that I never got to say goodbye to him before, ya know."

Kurama smirked. "The perks of time travel."

Naruto then frowned. "Yeah, but he doesn't even know me. He probably even thinks that I'm the enemy."

"That's why you have to get their trust—you do know that you have a way with people."

Naruto raised a golden brow. "Huh? What do you mean, dattebayo?"

Kurama shook his head. "Never mind." He shifted to the side and mentally pushed Naruto out of her own mind scape. Her protests were ignored as Kurama laid his head on his paws. "Just don't cause any more problems in the future, Gaki—you do have a way with causing ruckus." Those were his last words to her as he dropped his eyes into a small nap.

With a rush, Naruto gasped in air as she sat up abruptly. Seemingly as if she was just plunged into water, she greedily sucked in the air around her.

Hiruzen widened his eyes at the sudden movement and turned around to see Naruto. "Naruto-san, was it?" he asked slowly.

Naruto didn't hear him as she was looking around at her surroundings wearily. She looked at her now pristine hands and saw that the rest of her body was clean. The blood that caked her hair was no longer there, but, instead, was replaced by the sweet scent of various flowers.

Realizing that someone cleaned her, Naruto finally caught sight of a younger version of her Jiji. She almost had a shocked look, but it was covered up by the years of shinobi training. She finally calmed down and rubbed her eyes to throw out the sleepy haze.

Hiruzen just gave her a neutral look. He interrupted her actions when he repeated, "Naruto-san, was it?" He took her silence as approval. She blinked several times as she tried to calm herself down. Hiruzen continued, "I have a few questions to ask you, Naruto-san."

Naruto frowned a little before nodding her head. "S-sure, what is it?" She mentally cursed herself at her hesitation in her sentence. 'Darn, emotions in check...' she repeated to herself.

"Since you seem up and ready, I assume you're fine now. Am I wrong?"

Naruto shook her head.

Hiruzen ventured, "Well then, you'll be checked out in an hour. In the meantime, I'm going to ask you some questions."

Naruto nodded.

"Firstly, I want to know what village you were originally from."

Naruto stopped herself from widening her eyes as she slowly said, "Does that really matter?"

Hiruzen had a deep frown etched on his face as he leaked a small amount of killer intent. "Of course it is. Being that we're obviously in a war right now, I, as the Hokage, can't trust so easily—especially to those who came to my village as a prisoner."

Naruto widened her eyes at the sheer feeling of the killer intent engulf her being. The feeling was unknown to her, as the Sandaime that she knew was more of a loving grandfather figure to her. She sucked in a deep breath,"I'm from one of the smaller hidden villages near Ame's borders. Like many of the other smaller hidden villages near Ame, we were named similarly—Rain."

Naruto sighed in relief as she thought, 'Good thing I at least remembered this lesson from Iruka-sensei.' She paused for a moment and continued,"Also, indifferently, my village was thrown with the rest of the other villages in or around Ame. Of course you would know this, Sandaime-sama–," those words felt foreign to her "–because Ame was just a battleground for all the rest of the other warring hidden villages."

Hiruzen narrowed his eyes dangerously slow. "And what are you implying by that?"

Naruto caught her mistake. "I'm sorry if I offended you, Sandaime-sama. I just meant how my village was destroyed. Nothing else."

Hiruzen's eyes softened. "Okay then, why did you seek refuge in Konoha?"

Naruto analyzed the room she was in when she answered, "Actually, I would've just found refuge in any village. But, you know, that incident in Iwa would've never given me any access to their hospitality."

Hiruzen nodded in understanding. "I heard from Sakumo on why you attacked them." The Hokage hat on his head was positioned more comfortably now after messing with it. "I heard that you possess quite the jutsu."

Naruto's frown etched her face deeply. "My... jutsus?"

"Exactly the ones you're thinking about now, Naruto-san."

Naruto cursed in her head, but slowly explained, "Do you mean my Bijuu based jutsu?"

"And Senjutsu."

Naruto bit her lip, but then quickly thought up an explanation. "My Bijuu chakra are in the same case of Ginkaku and Kinkaku."

Hiruzen narrowed his eyes. "You were going to capture a Chakra Beast?"

Naruto shook her head as she stated, "No, no, no, many years ago." She bit her lip again before she added quickly, "When I was younger, I was also an orphan with nothing whatsoever. I was hungry and desperate for any food. So, of course, when I saw a huge carcass on the ground, I ate it. I didn't even know what type of meat it was, but I just ate it raw." Naruto sighed disgustedly at her fake, but nasty, story. She thought of Bee and his sealing process and continued in a convincing tone, "What I didn't know was that the meat was actually one of the horns of the Hachibi."

Hiruzen widened his eyes. "The Hachibi? Then doesn't that mean that you're a Jinchuuriki?"

Naruto shook her head weakly. "Not exactly. I just have a tiny bit of the bijuu's chakra."

Hirizen had crease marks on his forehead. "What about your Senjutsu?"

Naruto sighed deeply, but then said, "I had a sensei. He was one of the elders inside my summoning contract. That's all I can say. I can't speak of the secrets of Senjutsu or my teacher and who I'm contracted to," she half lied.

Hiruzen sighed as he wasn't fulfilled with a full answer, but he accepted her response. "With the Bijuu chakra, is that how you heal very quickly?" Naruto nodded her head and stretched her back. "Then why didn't your Bijuu chakra heal you some time ago?"

Naruto bit her lip again. "Umm, that's because I overused it when I was at Iwa."

Hiruzen narrowed his eyes a bit. "I think that'll be all for now." He looked at the clock and then at Naruto. "If you aren't in any pain whatsoever, let's get back to the T&I department."

Naruto sighed wearily as her own darks bags were visible. She got out of the warm bed and looked outside the window her room presented. It was about the ending of the morning time, showing a sign of noon breaking. Her stomach growled as she thought about lunch, but blanketed all ideas of food when she remembered that she was still a prisoner.

Hiruzen and Naruto reached their destination. Inside the T&I department, the same interrogator that interrogated Naruto the day before bowed down to the Hokage. Naruto narrowed his eyes at him, which was returned with a glare by Tozoki.

The Sandaime gave Naruto to Tozoki, showing a sign that she was supposed to be locked up again for the time being. Naruto pouted mentally as she hated the cold loneliness she felt inside the enclosed area.

Tozoki handled her a little more gently then the day before, putting her into cell block 7 once again. Naruto stood inside the bars like a caged animal. Tozoki returned to his Hokage's side as they began to talk.

Naruto couldn't hear a word they were saying. After a few more minutes, she gave up and slumped her back to the cell wall.

"I don't know about this one, Tozoki," the Sandaime said.

Tozoki replied, "Did you find any holes to her answers?"

Hiruzen shook his head, thinking about her Bijuu chakra. 'There had been a time in Kumo that happened to make her statement about her chakra true.' Hiruzen narrowed his eyes, thinking more deeply, 'Kumo was going to replace their Jinchuuriki. In order for that to be fulfilled, they had to ensnare the Hachibi. Things could've gotten out of hand from there...'

Tozoki broke Hiruzen's silence by asking, "Was there anything in particular that seemed a little off?"

"Not exactly. It's just that this tiny girl can contain such a prowess of abilities in her, it almost seems unbelievable." Tozoki raised a brown eyebrow, but kept silent. The Sandaime continued, "For me, I didn't sense any maliciousness in that girl. However, I can't say for certain if I can't trust her eventually."

Tozoki nodded slightly. "I can probably agree with ya, Hokage-sama. Yesterday, on her interrogation, I felt the same way you did when I asked her directly if she was going to harm Konoha in the littlest possible way." Tozoki paused for a moment,"Of course she denied, and I don't know, but, the way she answered was unbelievably believable."

Hiruzen chuckled a bit. Tozoki ran his fingers through his brunet hair. "Yes, but what do we do with her?"

The Sandaime was quiet for a moment before answering, "Maybe she can find refuge here in Konoha. Maybe. But only of we find her trustworthy enough."

"Yeah, but how can we find her trusteorthy?"

"The Uchiha Police Force."

"The Uchiha Police Force?" he asked with a frown. "How could they help?"

Hiruzen sighed. "They could do something sort of like spying on her." He whispered, "They could report all the days activities she had done. And if they aren't anything suspicious, then maybe we can let her reside here in Konoha. This assignment might go on for three months at least."

Tozoki nodded understandingly. "I see now, Hokage-sama. Does that assignment start now for them? I can inform the police force for ya if ya want."

Hiruzen nodded."I would very much appreciate that, Tozoki."

Tozoki smirked and said before leaving, "I'll leave everything in your hands, Hokage-sama."

He left out of the T&I department, leaving Hiruzen to get Cell 7's keys from the drawer. Walking into the narrow hallways into the cell section, Hiruzen saw Naruto sitting one the floor with a crisscross. He raised an eyebrow, wondering curiously if she was meditating.

When Hiruzen placed the key on the lock, the noise startled Naruto, causing her to open her eyes. She tilted her head upwards, locking eyes with him. Hiruzen sighed. "Naruto-san, I have an apartment opened south of Konoha. Here's the address."

He handed her a piece of paper, of which when she looked at the address, she widened her eyes a little bit.

Hiruzen took notice of her actions and asked with narrowed eyes. "Is anything wrong, Naruto-san?"

Naruto scratched the back of her head. "Umm, no. Not at all Hokage-sama. It's just that you're letting me free."

'Is she on to something?' Hiruzen thought suspiciously. "Yes, I am letting you free. That is only because I believe in your words," Hiruzen put some pressure on Naruto.

Naruto sensed the pressure and gave him a tight lipped smile. "I will forever be in your debt, Hokage-sama."

He nodded, but in his head, he thought, 'She might think we're on to her. Maybe now, this mission will carry out for six months.'

She sighed sadly. 'I still don't have his trust.'

Hiruzen sent out a jounin with Naruto to lead her to her "new" home.

While walking with an unknown jounin, Naruto had a mental battle with Kurama. 'You dummy! Didn't I tell you not to show your Jinchuuriki status!?'

'Yeah, but I told Jiji that I wasn't exactly a Jinchuuriki!'

Kurama growled low in his throat. 'How dare you defy me! That's why you don't show off all of your most powerful moves to those scrawny beings back in Iwa!'

Naruto grumbled under her breath, causing the jounin next to her to look at her weirdly. 'Shut up, ya furry anus! I had no choice in that matter! They attacked me and I came on to my bare instincts! I can't help but use those move cause they're the ones that I used in the war for so long, dattebayo!'

Kurama sighed, but couldn't help but agree with her. 'Whatever. The past's in the past.' Inside his cage, Kurama softly grumbled, 'Good job on your convincing side story.'

From there, Naruto burst out laughing cockily as she placed her hands on her hips. The jounin leading tripped slightly due to the sheer radiance that was coming off of her. The jounin thought to himself, 'How can she look and sound so high and mighty while wearing a hospital gown?'

Naruto noticed her outburst and blushed a little in embarrassment as she smiled apologetically at the jounin. He gave her a reassuring nod. Naruto and the jounin returned to walking.

'See, you dumb head! You made me look like a fool!'

Kurama smirked. 'Aren't you already a fool, Kit?'

Naruto cursed at him as he said, 'Shut up, Gaki.' He then had a menacing look on his face. 'And of all the Bijuu you could've represented, you chose that stupid octopus?!'

Naruto waved him off mentally. 'Shut up, Kurama...'

'How dare you te-'

"Here is your new apartment. It's not to far from the heart of Konoha," the jounin paused as he pointed to the opposite direction,"so this area is versatile for many reasons. This apartment's pretty old, as you can see, but I hope it's not too shabby for your taste."

Naruto shook her head with a grin plastered on her face. "No, it's perfect, Jounin-san."

The jounin smiled with a small tint in his cheeks. "Anytime." He then added hastily, "Just be sure to check in with the landlord before you head inside room 12."

By the time the jounin turned around, Naruto had already climbed up the off-white wall, and into the familiar place. The floorboards creaked just about the same way they did the last time she stepped inside the place she had called home.

The alluring sunlight shown through the window, lighting up the limited space. She smelled the air, having the scent of old wall paper and dusty window sills—just the way she liked it.

Naruto sighed in serenity. "Home sweet home."

(A/N: That's it. Thanks for reading.)