Thanx for the reviews. Nekomata,how did you know the jinchuuriki were placed that way? ;-) you must be psychic or something. Anyway,kudos guy.
Jinchuuriki placement :
9 tails –Naruto
8 tails –Sasuke
7 tails –Hinata
6 tails –Shino
5 tails –Kiba
4 tails -Choji
3 tails –Ino
2 tails –Shikamaru
1 –Sakura Anyway, on to the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters just the plot.
Jinchuuriki
Chapter 1: Humble Beginnings?
She walked with soundless grace through the dark hallways of the Uchiha manor. The candle in her hands shading the blank expression on her face.
She turned a corner and came across one of the main house workers who immediately gave her way. "Mikoto-san." She bowed as she passed, buy Mikoto never acknowledged her and just passed only to pause before a large shut door. She could hear a muffed voice coming from within.
'You should be able to do this." It said. "You should be stronger than this. Again."
Mikoto frowned. Four years. She thought. He's still too young for this. She then proceeded towards her destination, walking away from her child's shouts coming from the room.
"Block." Fugaku instructed before he let loose a barrage of punches and kicks on his son.
The attacks came fast and Sasuke tried as best he could to defend himself. Those he failed to block he paid for with painful bruises.
"Your body can take it." Fugaku told him. After breaking through his defences again the clan head chained it with two more punches, an elbow to the mouth, then a round house kick to the side that sent him flying across the room.
Sasuke struggled to stand after that. His body shaking as he fought to hold back his tears. He looked up with shining dark eyes and saw his father had already completed a Jutsu.
"Katon: Devil tongue!" He said before exhaling a stream of flames which moved like a snake towards the young Uchiha.
Still obeying his father's rule of only blocking,Sasuke crossed his arms in hopes of at least saving his face. The attack never hit All he felt was a slight warmth pass his ear and erupt as is hit the wall behind him.
He slowly raised his eyes over his arms only to come face to face with the head's frown. "Again you refuse to take this seriously." Fugaku scolded, his frown deepening. "You have the eight tails' power within you. You are destined to be the most powerful shinobi in the village and bring great honour and respect to the Uchiha name. I see no reason for us to prolong that,do you? Sasuke shook his head. Fugaku then gave him a knowing nod,then. "Again." He said And they began again,moving back and forth across the room in a fierce attack/block dance. Their trail marked by long large tear drops on the floor which were accompanied by small red ones.
Else where in Konohagakure.
Naruto's eyes glowed with joy as his mother walked in to the room singing with a white cake in her hands.
"Otanjyonbi omedoto.
Otanjyoubi omedoto.
Otanjyoubi omedeto Naruto-chan.
Tanjyoubi omedeto!" She placed it in front of him. "Make a wish,honey.' She said to him.
Squeezing his eyes shut,he inflated his cheeks and waited a few seconds before blowing hard at the four candles.
"Yay!" The room clapped. Naruto smiled proudly at his parents.
"You're a big boy now,Naruto." His mother said to him.
"Can I be a ninja now?" The birthbay boy asked hopefully.
"Not yet." His father said,putting a beautifully decorated box in front of him. "Open it."
Naruto grabbed it with both hands,and after putting it on his lap,opened it. "Wow! Is it mine?" He asked holding a double bladed sai-like kunai with seals on the handle.
The hokage nodded. "You and Sakura start training tomorrow."
It was like somebody switched the light from dim to very bright. That was the only thing everybody in the room felt the expression could equate. "Now before you get too excited open my gift first." Kushina said,holding out a neatly wrapped arm length cloth in front of her.
Naruto took it with much anticipation. HE unwrapped it and the first thing he saw was a polished metal blade marked with a seal and kanji that read 'Uzamaki of the devil waters'. On the handle he noticed half of a mark made by another weapon. The other half was a scar he'd seen many times on his mother's hand.
"I'll be teaching you and Sakura how to use a wakizashi. I want that to be among your first lessons as a ninja. When you get older I'll begin teaching you how to use a katana.
"Speechless,Naruto got up on his chair and gave both his parents a hug,his little hands holding tightly to the two gifts,vowing then never to let go - of them and his parents.
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He leaned back in his chair and studied a permit How can there be so much happening in one day? He looked passed the paper in his hands to the neat pile he had already gone through. Nobody should have to suffer so. Sigh.
"You know,a shinobi should never be caught off guard like that." Came a voice from the window.
"Minato looked up and smiled. "Ya,well, paper work has that affect on people. When did you get back?" He asked.
Jiraiya took some time to think, scratching his head as he did. "Umm,about 28 hours ago." He finally said.
Minato's expression seemed a bit disappointed. "No news from your spy network?" He'd do anything to get out of his current position.
"Actually there is,only nothing argent as yet." The white-haired sage proceeded to take a seat before the village Kage.
Minato threw the papers on his desk,very happy to get rid himself of them,even if it was for a short while. "So what's new in the ninja world?" He asked.
"In exactly six days time the leaders of waterfall and rock are to have a "secret" meeting. I'm still not sure what it's about so I had them keep a close eye on it." Minato nodded his head in understanding. Jiraiya's face then changed. "There's been an Orochimaru sitting in tea country,but as usual he disappeared just as quickly as the word came."
The room went quiet. Orochimaru, just like the snake he is would always crawl out off Kami knows what hole and then disappear leaving behind no clues for them to fallow. The whole thing was frustrating. He'd been at it for nearly 5 months now. He has yet to be spotted in a country that has a ninja village. It seems he's trying by all means to avoid them, but what could a ninja hope to gain from a non ninja village?
"So," Jiraiya finally said. "How's everything going with you? Any new breakthroughs?" He asked,but Minato's mind was still distracted so the answer he got were partially raised eyebrows. "The Jinchuuriki development?"
"Oh,umm." The blond hokage thought for a second then shook his head. "No,nothing. I thought I had one but the whole thing seemed like would bring more bad then good."
"What about the kids themselves? How are progressing?"
"Naruto and Sakura are doing great. No problems. Oh,and we had his birthday four days ago and you still owe him a present." Jiraiya dismissed that in a already taken care of gesture.
"What about the others? How are the great clans progressing , particularly the Uchiha. How are they doing?"
"You know,out of all the clans,the Uchiha I have the least information on. I have a feeling that even the info we have right now is false. I don't know what they are doing in there but whatever it is it can't be good."
"What about the Hyuga?"
Minato took some time to gather his thoughts. "There was an incident concerning the little Hyuga heiress."
"The container?"
Minato nodded. "A while back when I had the meeting with Kumo one of their own had broken in to Hyuga estate to try and kidnap one of the younger members in hopes of getting the famous doujutsu for his village. The guy was able to get her out of the place and could have probably escaped if it wasn't for the child herself. From extreme fright she was able to summon large amounts of charkra from the demon,so high most shinobi could not match."
"So what did she do with it?" The toad sage asked.
"She quite literally ripped the guy apart. It was as if he never stood a chance."
"And you still think this whole thing is safe?"
"Well,as long as we keep the kids emotionally healthy we shouldn't have a problem."
"Then what happens if one of the clans don't? There's bound to be at least one that will try something else."
"No. I doubt that they'd be willing to take that chance." Minato answered,but his eyes didn't look like they believed his mouth much and Jiraiya picked up on this,but chose to say nothing about it.
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The day had began just like any other. Where he didn't expect anything out of the ordinary, even something peasant like a break from the devil sent paperwork.
No,I'm not that lucky, the hokage thought. It's more likely that it go the other way. He took a deep breath and sighed the air out.
The day passed by normally and in the afternoon – something he'd been expecting all morning – It was reported that a pervert had been caught peeping in the woman's side of the bath house. Something that occurred regularly when Jiraiya was in the village. He remembered that at one point he could even tell the time after the reports came. Unfortunately not anymore. The toad sage has become a little unpredictable.
"Hokage-sama," His secretary said,entering the office. "It's 6;47. I'll be-"
"Okay," Minato distracted. " See you tomorrow. I still have a couple documents I need to look over. They'll probably not take that long. Oh, and did you remember to-" She put a small stack of papers on his desk. "Thanks,Kiko. Have a good evening." He said.
"Thanks. You too,sir." She then walked out . Minato took the papers and leaned back in his chair to study them. In his hands was the information on all the families with a jinchuuriki – although they didn't necessarily say that. Such things were wise to be kept from the civilians. Word spread fast among them, and soon the other ninja villages would know, and that's something he didn't want.
He shuffled through them. I know that somewhere hidden within these papers is a clue to help one of them tobecome stronger. He bit his lips in thought. But who?
His eyes passed over the Uchiha fan. Perhaps I should concentrate on the more powerful demons contained first.
As he set there tossing around the idea in his head an Anbu operative appeared before him. At about the same time, a bird call sounded throughout the village, warning of a great disturbance in the direction of the Uchiha compound.
"What happened?" Minato asked, immediately standing from this chair."
"There seems to be an attacker within the Uchiha manor." The monkey faced Anbu said to him as they jumped over roofs. "The place was sealed up so it's not known how they got in, but the place is serious carnage."
The two arrived the first thing they saw was blood. Then corpses lying everywhere, most of which had punched holes in them. Those that didn't had broken skulls and necks. "Hokage-sama." Another Anbu came to him. "There seems to be only one survivor. Everybody else is gone." She said.
"Only one?" He felt his breath get taken away so the question came softly. The rabbit masked Anbu took him to a blooming peach garden where an unconscious, blood soaked Sasuke lay a feet from a strangled Mikoto.
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A.N: The kunai Naruto got for his birthday is not the one used for the Flying Thunder God technique. This one was made specially for him with a new Jutsu to go with it.
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