A/N: I do not own Naruto. Really.

GENRE: Dimension-Travel Action/Adventure/Romance

SUMMARY: After a final attempt to turn the tides of war against an Orochimaru, Naruto suddenly woke up in a Konoha where the villagers saw him as a hero but all his precious people only saw him as a spoiled brat and a nuisance. But the biggest surprised of all is that a mother he had never knew was alive, and that he also has a younger sister with a terminal illness. Can he cope with this new world before him? Can he regain the trust of his precious people once again? And would he be able to defeat the Orochimaru of this world?

CHAPTER 3

It's been five days since Naruto had woke up from his comma, and Akane had never felt happier in her life since her husband died. Not only had she gotten her son back from what was supposed to be a fatal comma, but Naomi finally gained back a brother she always wanted. The only sad thing about this is, in a few years, Naomi's chakra coil system will collapse and she would die.

Before she could dwell further into her sad thoughts, she heard a knock on the front door. Pushing her previous thoughts aside, she went to answer it and was a bit surprised at seeing the Sandaime Hokage standing in front of the door. "Oh, Hokage-sama. Ohayo." She said with a bow.

"Ohayo, Akane-san. I'm sorry for appearing so suddenly. But I believe you already know why I am here for." He said apologetically.

Akane sighed and nodded her head before letting the Hokage into her house. "At least you have the decency to wait unlike those bastards on the council."

"Yes. I had received the reports about how the more foolish members of the council tried to make a big commotion out of welcoming back Konoha's Little Hero."

At that, Akane smirked and said, "Well, they sure got what they wished for, but not in a way they were expecting, that's for sure."

"Yes, I believe Councilmen Kawaki is still trying to salvage his reputation after Naruto's acting performance. But I don't know how much he could do being coop up in the hospital."

Akane snorted at that and said, "I don't think there would be any reputation to save after being exposed as a phedopile in front of almost every civilian mothers in Konoha. Besides, it was Kawaki's fault for inviting all those women to bare witness to his so-called 'Mother's Touch' campaign."

Kawaki's Mother's Touch campaign consist of gathering all respectable and wealthy mothers in Konoha to personally give their congratulations and speedy recovery for Konoha's Little Hero. It would have boosted Kawaki's public image tremendously to the female population if it had worked.

Too bad it didn't.

Kawaki had arrived at the Kazama Estate two days ago along with all those women behind him. He knocked gently at the door and was preparing himself to recite his long drawn speech when Naruto himself opened the door. But the young blond boy never gave him a chance to speak. As soon as the child saw who it is, he shrieked in fear and slammed the door on his face. After that, he shouted nonsense after nonsense about Kawaki being a closet pervert who like to ravish innocent young boys and that Naruto himself would never allow him to get into his pants. Kawaki tried to say it was nothing but lies but Naruto have superb acting skills no one knew about. Then, there were several other kids, mostly younger than 10 years of age, appearing behind the mob and confirming that Kawaki had indeed violated them. The little kids managed to convince everyone to gang up on the poor councilman, not giving him a chance to explain himself before getting beaten within an inch of his life.

Needless to say, Kawaki won't be able to get near any child without being mobbed by protective women in Konoha for a very long time.

"Anyway, I'm sure you have a ton of work left to do so we should really get this interrogation over with." Akane said as she led the Sandaime inside her house.

"Interrogation is such a harsh word, don't you think, Akane-san?" The Sandaime said without malice.

Akane had the decency to blush. She turned to the Hokage and offered him an apologetic look before saying, "Sorry about that, Hokage-sama. It's just, I'm still trying to adjust to my son's sudden change. I know it's quite a big deal, considering what's sealed inside of him, but my gut instincts is telling me that the Kyuubi has nothing to do with the change and that I should trust Naruto entirely. And you know how often I'm right about trusting my instincts."

The Sandaime nodded at that. Akane's instincts had managed to save Konoha more than once. It was her who told Arashi to seal the Kyuubi instead of trying to kill it entirely because her gut instincts told her the Kyuubi couldn't be killed. It was also her gut instincts that told her the ambassador from Hidden Cloud shouldn't be trusted. Her husband had ordered ANBU to keep an eye on the ambassador, who was caught a few days later by Konoha ANBU trying to kidnap Hyuuga Hinata before Hyuuga Hiashi could kill the kidnapper himself, thus preventing Konoha, particularly the Hyuuga Clan, from being put on the political hot seat.

"Whatever it is that caused my son's change, the Kyuubi had no hand in it whatsoever." Akane continued.

"I see. At least that lessens my worries a bit. What is your suspicion about his sudden knowledge of ninja techniques."

"He told me his father had been secretly training him since he was three years old, which is very probable considering how passionate my husband is about being a ninja. I've checked his room and found his secret stash of jutsu scrolls under a mild genjutsu. All of them haven't been opened for several years now. I also found his jutsu notes and the last entry has been days before my husband died."

"So, are you telling me that the main reason Naruto turned his back on being a ninja, despite the fact that he was already quite efficient at it due to his secret training he undertook, is because of the death of the Yondaime?"

"I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to be the most logical explanation on his sudden change of attitude all those years ago. When his father died, a part of Naruto had died with him. And that near death experience a month ago had somehow helped him see things in perspective."

"Is that what you really think?"

"No." Akane said quietly. When she saw the question on the Sandaime's lips, she cut him off and said, "But I don't think I could tell you my reason as of yet. All I ask is that you trust me that this change would be good for the village."

"Is that what your instincts is telling you?"

"Yes."

"Very well. Then I will not dwell further into his skills until such time it becomes relevant." The Sandaime said seriously, making his decision. Then he said in a more cheerful tone, "Where is Naruto, by the way?"

"I think he's sleeping in my husband's study at the moment. He'd been spending all his time there since we got home. He's been trying to finish Arashi's seal for Naomi. But I'm not hoping for much since even Jiriaya-sama can't seem to figure out how to make it work. But he seems to be dead set on doing it."

"Maybe I should also take a look at his progress and see if he have something that might help my old student to crack that seal."

"I guess. I'll show you to the study room." She said as she lead the Sandaime to her husband's study. When she got there, she saw that both Naruto and Naomi were not there. "That's strange. I was sure they were just here an hour ago."

The Sandaime looked around the study and saw how messy it was. There were scrolls everywhere, and notes were posted at the walls. He walked towards the desk in the middle of the room and picked up one of more recently made notes, and then gasp upon reading the contents.

"What's wrong, Hokage-sama?" Akane asked concerned.

The Sandaime didn't answer at first since he immediately went over to the other notes around the study and comparing it to the one he first read. Then, he turned towards the young woman and said in a grave tone, "This notes. The seals involve here are not meant to regulate Naomi's chakra system."

Akane looked at the sample seals drawn in the scrolls and asked, "Then what are these seals meant to do?"

Akane was about to ask what the seal Naruto was working on is for when a sudden burst of extremely powerful chakra wave hit them like a ton of bricks. Both Akane and the Sandaime was floored by such a high amount of power this chakra had because both knew that these was the same chakra they felt eleven years ago during Kyuubi's attack. No doubt everyone else with in several mile radius felt the same chakra wave.

Did Naruto actually went and tampered with the seal? If he did, then it would be the best time for the Kyuubi to use this to escape and once more wreck havoc to the world.

As soon as the shock wave begun to die down, both shinobi rushed towards the source of the wave. Rushing through the village, it seems that no one was spared from the after effects of the shock wave. Almost every civilians, and quite a lot of shinobis who were old enough to be there during the Kyuubi's attack was panicking while those in the recent generations were quite curious and afraid of the strange chakra they have never felt before.

They arrived at the scene, which was a vast space of open land west of the village, to find other shinobis already there preparing themselves for the battle that might come. But instead of the vast grassland it used to be, it was now a giant circular crater approximately fifty feet in diameter and twenty feet deep. In the middle of the crater was a roaring tower of red chakra.

A shadow started moving from within the chakra fire itself. Konoha ninjas were already preparing to launch a hail of kunais at it when the Hokage immediately ordered them to stand down and wait.

The roaring tower of chakra begun to die down and the shadow was starting to take shape. Soon enough, the chakra disappeared and there in the middle of where it used to be stands a naked Uzumaki Naruto. In his arms is his equally naked and unconscious sister, only, she doesn't look to be four years old anymore. Instead, she looks more like an eight years old healthy girl. But the most noticeable things about them is the Yondaime's Seals glowing in red and blue for everyone to see.

"Naruto! Naomi!" Came Akane's concerned voice as she rushed towards her children.

"Mother, STOP!" shouted Naruto in concern, causing his mother to stop in her tracks. "Don't come any closer. You might get incinerated. It's not safe yet." As proof of what he said, a lone leaf blew towards him and landed in his shoulder. Seconds later, the leaf burst into flame and was nothing more than ash a second later.

"W-what's going on? What happened?" Akane asked, fear and concern evident in his voice.

It was just then that the Sandaime arrived at her side. He put a hand on her shoulder to calm her a bit before turning towards the blond boy with a concern expression on his face. "Naruto-kun. Please tell me what you did and how long before the effects of whatever it is you did wears off." He said in a calm voice yet broke no argument.

"Hey there, Hokage-jiji. Haven't seen you in a while." Naruto said with a genuine grin, which actually surprised the old man since Naruto hadn't refer to him with such genuine warmth since the Yondaime's death, before saying, "I just shared Kitsune with her. Took a lot out of me since I had to release all of Kyuubi's chakra for a split second before resealing it for both me and Naomi. But now we wouldn't have to worry about her chakra coil system anymore since Kyuubi is on the job."

"W-what do you mean, son?" Akane asked, a tinge of hope rising from her stomach.

"She's cured, mom. Naomi would be able to grow up normally from now on. Well, as much as any vessel for the most powerful of the Tailed Beasts would." He said sheepishly with a proud smile. Then, his knees buckled from the combined weight of himself and his sister. He could already feel the adrenaline leaving him, thus, forcing him to shiver from the sudden breeze of cold late morning air. It seems that the effects of the sealing have left Naomi as well when she started to shiver herself. He graced Naomi with a smile and tightened his hold on her to keep her warm. He was already breathing hard now, and his consciousness starting to leave him. So he turned towards the Sandaime and his mother and said in a cheerful voice, "I think it's safe to get closer now."

Akane didn't need to be told twice and immediately rushed towards her children. She had tears of joy in her eyes as she took Naomi in one arm and gave her son a hug with the other, a hug which Naruto returned with equal vigor.

After a few moments of family bonding, Naruto turned a cheeky grin to the Sandaime and said, "Hokage-jiji, could you order someone to go and get a blanket or something. In case you didn't notice, I'm tired, cold, and wearing nothing but my birthday suit in front of the entire shinobi population of Konoha."

"Very well. Of coarse you do realize that we would need to talk about all of this later." The Sandaime said calmly. When Naruto gave him a nod, he turned to his subordinates and started giving orders.

Seeing that everything seems to be fine now, Naruto decided that it was just the right time to fall face first into the ground and let unconsciousness take him.

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The first thing Naomi saw when she opened her eyes was a dimly lit, damp, subterranean tunnel with red and blue pipes. She tried to remember where his brother went and how she got here. The last thing she did remember is her brother telling her last night that he finally found a cure for her and that she would need her to trust him. She gave him a nod that night and he drew some funny markings on her stomach with some red and black ink using a small brush. He said it was to help her get better. Then, bright and early the next day, he took her out of the village and performed a weird jutsu on her. The last thing she saw was a form of a large fox emerging behind her brother before she finally fainted.

And now, despite the fact that she found herself alone and in a strange place she'd never been to before, she felt quite relaxed here, as if she'd been to this place so many times before.

She tried standing up and was a bit surprised when she noticed that she seems to be a bit taller now. She looked at her hands and found them a bit bigger as well. She didn't even know where she got the plain yellow kimono with a white sash that she was wearing. Shrugging her shoulder, she started walking through the tunnels with no clear destination in mind. She didn't even noticed a yellow colored pipe starting to appear along the red pipes and the blue pipes.

It didn't take long for Naomi to arrive in front of a very large, majestically decorated, gold-plated bar gate. She tried touching the bars but they suddenly shifted away, letting her hand pass through the gate. Taking her hands back, the bars shifted once more, returning to their original form. She put her hands through again and the bars shifted once more. When she took her hand back, the bars returned to being solid again. After repeating the process several times, she paused and finally said, "This is fun!"

Putting on a mischievous grin, Naomi jumped towards the gate, hoping to catch the bars before they shifted. But the bars themselves seems to react faster than she does so she ended up falling face first on the ground on the other side of the bar.

"Owwie!" She said as she tried to stand up using one hand since the other one is busy trying to numb the pain on her nose.

"AHEM!" Came the impatient cough of someone in front of her.

When Naomi looked up to see who it is, she was awed at the sight of a very beautiful woman with vibrant red hair and ruby red eyes. She was wearing a crimson red kimono with black sash. But the most noticeable thing about her is the pair of fox ears on her head and nine furry foxy tails behind her.

"So, you are my new vessel." The fox lady said in a rather intimidating tone, flexing her claws as if readying to swipe her neck open to death with the slightest hint of disrespect. "Do you know who I am, child?" she asked royally.

Naomi blinked. Then she blinked again. She rubbed her eyes with both hands and stared at the fox lady up and down before blinking again.

The Kyuubi smirked at the dumbfounded look on the human child's face. The little girl must have been stunned with awe at her presence. She was expecting this child to scream in fear, quake in fright, or even bow down before her magnificence. But she never expected the little girl to squeal, "KAWAII!" in delight and latch onto one of her tails.

The demon fox, the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the most powerful of all the Tailed Beasts, a being that has roam the world for more than 5000 years, face faulted. That's right, the fox managed to face fault at the cold hard ground because this single human girl had managed to surprise her so much that she momentarily lost all sense of self for a split second.

When she finally managed to get herself up, she saw Naomi playing with her tail and slinging it around her neck like a scarf. The Kyuubi admits that the little girl does look adorable being so clueless and innocent like that, but she immediately shook her head to get those thoughts out of her mind. She was about to reprimand the girl, painfully, but stopped at the sound of laughter in the immediate area. Turning around, she saw Naruto, in his eleven years old form, laughing himself to death just outside the gate.

She gave him a feral growl but Naruto merely brushed the silent threat off and cooed at her saying, "You gotta admit, Kitsune, the fox gears do make you look cute."

There was a threat and insult ready from the fox but Naomi managed to cut her off before she could voice it out.

"Naru-nii-chan!" Naomi shouted in glee as she run to her older brother's arm. "Look, onii-chan! That lady there has weird ears and tails. Can I have one too?"

The fox was glowering at the blunt disrespect she was receiving but Naruto merely gave her a smile before smiling down at his sister and saying, "You will, Naomi. But to get them, you have to work very hard, everyday, for several years. Also, you have to impress your new roommate since you'll need her approval if you want to get those ears and tails."

"Roommate?" the little girl asked.

Naruto nodded and turned towards the slightly curious fox lady, causing Naomi to turn to her as well. "Naomi, let me introduce you to Kyuubi no Kitsune, most powerful among the Tailed Beasts, and your new roommate for life." He knew he was laying it thick with the title but it seems to have the desired effect.

The Kyuubi puff her chest proudly and waited for the little girl's reaction at knowing that such a powerful being now resides inside her. But once again, the little human girl managed to surprise her.

"KIT-CHAN!" Naomi squealed in delight before glomping the fox lady by her belly and saying, "CanIpleasegetthesameearsandtailslikeyoupleasepleasepleaseplease!"

The Kyuubi was dumbfounded, Naruto was laughing in hysterics, and Naomi was still saying 'please' over and over again. She growled at the laughing male and was just about to say no to the child glomping her when Naomi unleashed the dreaded PDE (Puppy Dog Eyes) no jutsu on her. Suffice to say, even the most powerful of the Tailed Beasts wasn't immune to such a dreaded technique.

"Fine, brat! If I find you worthy enough, I shall grant you those features." The Kyuubi said finally.

Naomi squealed in delight and gave her another crushing hug before going back to her brother and telling him how utterly cute she will be when she gets her fox ears and tails. Both Naruto and the Kyuubi tried to picture an energetic Naomi with the said fox features and agreed that she would definitely look cute with it. There's no doubt pending off boys would be a big problem when she grows up.

Naruto pat his sister on the head gently, stopping her delightful rant for the moment, and said, "Now then, Naomi-chan, I think it's time all three of us talk about what really happened and how things would be from now on."

"Okay, Naru-nii-chan." She said.

When Naruto saw the Kyuubi gave her consent as well, he snapped his fingers and a tea table with three chairs appeared out of thin air. As soon as all three of them are seated, the meeting begun.

Said meeting took a while.

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Hyuuga Hiashi arrived in the hospital seeing the Hokage standing in the hallway in front of a room guarded by four ANBU. He knew that whatever it is the Hokage wanted with him, it had something to do with the Kyuubi's chakra wave that happened a few hours ago. He bowed respectfully at the Hokage and said formally, "I have come as requested, Sandaime-same. What is it you need of me?"

"Ah, Hiashi-dono. I would like your expertise on looking at someone's chakra coil system with your Byakugan. I need total disclosure on this. No one is to know of the finding until my say so." The old man said in a very serious tone that hadn't been heard for years.

Hiashi managed to keep his surprise hidden behind his stoic face and said, "As you command, Hokage-sama."

At the Hokage's nod, both men entered the room to find Akane sitting in a chair placed between two beds which contained her children.

Hiashi couldn't help letting out a gasp at seeing Kazama Naomi in an eight years old body. Last he'd heard, Naomi's chakra disease prevented her body from developing past her four years old physical state.

"Hokage-sama. Hiashi-dono." Akane greeted with a respectful bow.

"Akane-san, Hiashi is here to look at your daughter's chakra coil system to see if there are any problems."

"As long as I am privy to all information which concerns my children, then I don't see any problem." Akane said in a stern voice.

"Agreed." The Hokage said before giving a nod to Hiashi.

The Hyuuga Clan Head stepped towards the unconscious girl and nodded at her mother before activating his Byakugan. He gasped once more upon seeing a modified Shiiki Fuujin on her stomach. He turned to the Hokage and started to ask, "Is that what I think it is?"

"Yes. Naruto-san had split the seal of the Kyuubi with his sister. Now, Hiashi-san, please tell us what you see." The Hokage ordered.

He turned back towards the girl. After studying her for a few minutes, he said, "Amazing! I can see the Kyuubi's red chakra within the seal but the seal itself is gradually changing her entire chakra coil system. Not only is it remaking it from scratch, it's making her coils wider, stronger, and overall more efficient. And the chakra she's giving off is not blue anymore, it's yellow in color."

"What does that mean? Is my daughter all right?" Akane asked in concern.

"Do not worry, Akane-san. As far as I can see, your daughter's body is reacting well to the yellow chakra. I suspect that it was the cause of your daughter's current physical state. All in all, I'd say that she's a normal, healthy, eight years old girl, barring the seal and the color of her chakra of coarse." Hiashi said before deactivating his Byakugan.

"T-then that means, she's cured! He did it. My son cured her!" Akane said, tears of joy flowing down her cheeks as she held her children hands in hers.

"Excuse me, Akane-san, but are you saying your eleven years old son did this seal? I find it hard to believe. The chakra requirements alone are tremendous, not to mention the precision of chakra control needed to perform such a task." Hiashi said, disbelief evident in his voice.

It was the Hokage who had answered for her and said, "Although it seems hard to believe, it was Naruto who modified Arashi's unfinished seal and performed the sealing since, according to his notes, only the original carrier of the seal would be able to split his/her seal with someone else. I'm sure you know of that particular seal as well since I once asked your clan if you could make it work."

"Yes, I remember how much time the clan scholars spent trying to modify it but we never did." Hiashi then gave Akane an apologetic look and said, "I am sorry my clan wasn't able to help you that time, Akane-san."

"It's all right, Hiashi-dono. I appreciated your help nonetheless." Akane said gratefully.

"I wonder how Naruto-san managed to split his seal?" Hiashi asked mostly to himself.

"Yes, I was wondering about that too. His notes on it mostly consists on the general effects of the seal, but he didn't write down the specifics." The Sandaime said.

"Where are those notes now, Hokage-sama?" Hiashi asked, genuinely curious.

"They are still at the Kazama Estate. I had two squads of ANBU guarding the place to prevent anyone from taking them." The Sandaime said. He then graced the two Kazama children with a warm smile. "Well, I guess all we could do at the moment is wait for them to recover. Akane-san, I hope you wouldn't mind if I leave some of my ANBU here to guard you and your children."

"It's alright, Hokage-sama. And thank you." She said gratefully.

The Hokage gave her a smile and left along with Hiashi. Once she was alone, she glanced at her children and smiled, thinking of the future Naomi now have thanks to Naruto.

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