Uzumaki Reborn: Chapter 2.

Uzu gave her wings one last flap and gracefully landed in Naruto's favorite spot in the entire village. On top of the Yondaime Hokage's head. Hehe. How ironic is this. She thought. Uzu slowly lightened her grip on Naruto, but never fully let go of him. Naruto let his curious blue eyes wonder over his nee-chan's wings taking in the beautiful phenomenon. His eyes racking over every feather, every sight of white; and watched as Uzu slowly retracted her wings into her back, noticing that they didn't damage her clothes.

Uzu watched Naruto fondly as he looked as her wings retreated and gave a small smile and said. "You know what? …I think it's time to meet Kurama, ne?"

Naruto met Haruhi's gaze with a mixture of awe, confusion and suspicion. He tilted his head to the right, making Haruhi's self-control slip and not glomp the bundle of sunshine cuteness in front of her. Though I will admit, Naru-chan looks a lot better in darker clothing than that atrocity of a jumpsuit I have seen in the dragon's realm. It really brings out his hair and eyes...DAMMIT! Haruhi mental cursed as she realized Naruto's fate. When he's older he's going to look so much like his father, only more handsome with his whiskers and tan. –Sigh-. Looks like I'll be crushing a cities amount of women in the future. –Dark chuckle- Actually, that sounds like fun.

Haruhi came out of her musing and ways of scaring off the female population, when she saw Naruto open his mouth.

"How come I have a bad feeling about who Kurama is?" Naruto questioned. Haruhi let go off Naruto and scratched the back of her head nervously. "Well? Who is Kurama!?" Naruto folded his arms over his chest and gave Haruhi a questioning glare that an adult would use on a child. Damn brat, he even has the same piercing glare. Stupid Namikaze genes.

"Hehe, well you see…umm, Kurama is…um how would one put it…" Haruhi stumbled across her words, trying to find which ones would fit perfectly together so that Naruto would meet his tenant. She really wanted to see Kurama again after so long and ask a few questions that weren't available in the dragon's realm. (Okay my lovely little readers; I need your help here. Should Kurama be a male or female? I know in the previous chapter I stated him as a male, but I want y'all opinions too. I just can't decide and once I know which gender to use it will help me write Kurama in a better sense. Just PM or review your vote. Thanks.)

Now Naruto who had always hid behind the façade of being a dead-last, with or without it he was still impatient and didn't like waiting for an answer from his blood-sister; and slowly felt his patients wear thin…till it snapped completely.

"YOU ANCIENT HAG, HURRY UP AND TELL. IT'S BLOODY 9AM AND I WANT TO EAT!"

Haruhi snapped her head toward Naruto, making her red bangs and blue haori fly along with her. Shaking her fist above Naruto's head she yelled back, "WHY YOU LITTLE SHIT, I'M 18 GODDAMIT AND MENTALLY 46. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, AND DON'T CUSS IT'S BAD FOR YOUR SOUL."

Naruto pointed an accusing finger at the older sibling and shouted in retaliation, "WHAT THE HELL! YOU CUSSED TOO! AND I'M STILL HUNGRY SO HURRY IT UP BEFORE I DIE OF STARVATION."

By now Haruhi's hair and haori were flying around her like a raging storm. Sparks were flying between the pair, both refusing to back down.

(Hokage's tower: Office)

Inside the Hokage's office sat the various jounin ninja and select few ANBU of Konohagakure no Sato, with their leader Hiruzen Sarutobi at the head of the room sitting in a large worn-down red leather chair behind a dark oaked desk carved by the Shodai Hokage himself.

The God of Shinobi looked at the top ninjas of his village and the gazed towards the ANBU. They were the same ANBU that had guarded the Council Chambers during the meeting. The Hokage had ordered them not to speak of the Uzumaki clan head, not even among themselves in a highly sealed room. Haruhi had told Sarutobi before meeting Naruto that she didn't want anybody to know that the knowledge of the once feared ancient clan in history still lived on. She feared that Kumo would try another kidnap attempt like Kushina, Iwa because of the resemblance of Naruto and Minato mixed along with the Uzumaki blood and Kiri for they saw her larger than all clan as a threat; and the fact that all three villages joined forces to destroy her peaceful village in the second war.

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All the ninja in the room where waiting for one man before they could start the meeting. The man being no other than Kakashi Hatake of the sharingan eye. The meeting was supposed to start over 20 minutes ago, so Hiruzen had sent out Maito Gai to fetch his 'eternal rival'. The Hokage chuckled quietly as he remembered the words he used on Gai.

(Flashback: 5 minutes ago)

"-Sigh-, if only if there was someone in my ranks could retrieve Kakashi-kun for this youthful meeting…" Sarutobi could see out of the corner of his eye a green clad beast raise his head higher at the leader's words. Hiruzen inwardly smirked and kept the look of a saddened old man towards his jounin and ANBU, who in return knew what the old man was up to and ginned mentally. "Kakashi-kun's flames have dimmed I see. If only there was someone that could ignite his flames of yout…" The Hokage's words were cut off as a green whirlwind passed by him and out the window to seek out the grey haired Cyclopes.

(Flashback end)

Everybody in the room felt 2 chakra signatures heading towards them at a blinding speed that they all knew Gai possessed. A few seconds later a green and grey blur were seen hurling through the door. The Jounin and ANBU (not that they could tell) all snickered as Kakashi Hatake was thrown over the shoulders of the boisterous Maito Gai. The green beast gave his good guy pose to the Hokage and dropped Kakashi in a seat next to him, who to everybody looked like he was about to throw up, even if he did cover 2/3's of his face. Gai then boomed toward their leader, "HOKAGE-SAMA! I HAVE RETRIED OUR UNYOUTHFUL COMRADE AND MY ETERNAL RIVAL! YOSH! I SHALL TEACH MY RIVAL THE FLAMES OF YOUTH. IF I CANNOT I SHALL RUN 500 LAPS AROUND KONOHA…ON MY HANDS. IF I FAIL, THEN I SHAL…"

"Arigato Gai-kun." The Hokage interrupted, saving the ears of peers close to muscular spandex jounin. Gai shut his mouth and bowed respectfully to their leader and sat beside the dazed copy ninja.

The Sandaime cleared his throat before he addressed the crowd before him. "As you are all aware the Genin exams are in a month time." The Hokage paused and looked towards the crowd, namely a certain grey-haired shinobi. "Genma Shiranui, Raido, Aoba, Hayate, Shikatamu Nara, Chogin Akimichi, Kakashi Hatake, Kurenai Yuuhi, Momoka and Asuma Sarutobi." As he listed the names of the future Jounin Sensei, the chosen all looked at their leader confused. "-Sigh- I've gathered you all here today to see whom you prefer on your team. I know it's earlier than how we usually do it, but this year there are a lot of potential in these academy student, and there the possibility that a handful won't pass, but for now I would like to know your thoughts."

(The First 6 listed I'm gonna skip, cause let's face it. They're gonna fail anyway.)

Kakashi was still mulling through the potential genin in his head, deciding who he would chose. Many of the jounin could almost see the gears turning in his head trying to find a worthy genin that might actually pass his test. Might being the key word. Kurenai was next.

"Hokage- sama," she stood and bowed in respect, "I would like to request Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuga and Shino Aburame. These three have what it takes to be one of the best tracking squads in Konoha, and I believe under my tutelage that they will grow considerably and possibly have the makings of a future Hunters Squad." Everyone in the room looked at the Genjutsu Mistress in shock. She was recently made a jounin the year before and had a reputation of being an ice-queen. The red-eyed beauty before them gave academy students high praises, which they all believed she could never do.

Next was Momoka stating she didn't care who was in her team as long as they respected having a female jounin for a sensei. The Hokage, ANBU, the female jounin and a select few males knew where she was coming from. There was a lot of arrogance coming from the male shinobi in the ranks saying that woman would always be below them. But when a select few did make it jounin level, it didn't last long as they became pregnant and had to raise the child, ending their careers. (For a few years, unless they do babysitting while out on missions.) The Hokage smiled at the gathered ninja, clearly saying something along the lines of I-know-something-you-don't. Hiruzen's youngest son went next.

Asuma stood from his seat and gave a curt bow to his father and expressed his opinion. "Hokage-sama, I request the next generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho team. The three of them are quiet similar to their fathers that it's almost frightening. Under my teachings they will have what it takes to surpass their fathers and the previous generations of the formation and make them great clan heads." The old leader looked at his son and nodded along with his ideas. All that left now was the son of the White Fang. Most of the sensei's had requested the last Uchiha, but Sarutobi knew that the only one able to teach the boy was the one who had a sharingan.

"Well Kakashi-kun? What do you think?" asked the Hokage.

Said person looked up towards the aged leader with his signature eye smile and replied, "Maah maah, I'll just have the traditional team of Rookie of the year, top Kunoichi and the Dead-la…"Kakashi was interrupted as they heard the familiar voice of the residential prankster yelling, "YOU ANCIENT HAG, HURRY UP AND TELL. IT'S BLOODY 9AM AND I WANT TO EAT!"

Everybody's head in the room whipped towards the Hokage monument wondering what was going on, till they heard an unfamiliar young female's voice retort back

"WHY YOU LITTLE SHIT, I'M 18 GODDAMIT AND MENTALLY 46. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, AND DON'T CUSS IT'S BAD FOR YOUR SOUL."

The ANBU stiffened slightly as they recognized the voice, while the Hokage chuckled at the loud Uzumaki pair and the confusion of the present shinobi & Kunoichi.

"WHAT THE HELL! YOU CUSSED TOO! AND I'M STILL HUNGRY SO HURRY IT UP BEFORE I DIE OF STARVATION."

The room was meet in complete silence, till the Hokage walked up to the window that view the monument right above them and softly chuckled some more. Kakashi never the one to enjoy being left out of the loop, decided to voice the question in almost everybody's mind. "Ano Hokage-sama, sorry to be rude right now, but who was that with Naruto-kun?" a hand-full of the Jounin in the room inwardly snarled at suffix being put together with the demon's name.

The Hokage turned around to face his subordinates and clasped his hands behind his back. "You shall see when the time comes along to grant it." Sarutobi inwardly smirk as he saw that his answer ticked them off. Maybe I should drag this meeting on a little longer till they move along. Sarutobi slowly blew a breath out of his pipe and noticed a few of them looked quiet out of shape. Hmmm. Looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me. –Sigh- I swear Minato-kun died just so he could get away from all of this…DAMMIT! I'm getting too old for this SHIT!

(Back with Naruto & Haruhi)

The Uzumaki pair where glaring at each other intently till Haruhi's raised fist collided with Naruto's sunshine locks.

"ITAI" Naruto fell flat on his rear and started rubbing his head while casting annoyed looks towards the older Uzumaki. Haruhi looked on triumphly, but sighed and sat down facing to Naruto ignoring the beautiful scene of the village. Naruto looked back at her ready to yell back, till he saw that her amethyst eyes harden and straightened his spine reflecting his sister's look with his own sharp sky blue orbs. "Naruto…Kurama is an old friend of mine and has been around since my time…" By now Naruto was slowly putting the pieces together. There weren't that many or hardly any for the matter that still lived on from 1000 years ago. "Kurama was created by my Otou-sama along with 8 others from Shinju (God Tree), when he was elderly and growing weak." Naruto knew who Haruhi's father was and had now completed the puzzle.

"Y-you want me to meet the Kyuubi." He stated. Haruhi gave him a softened look as she saw fear flash across his face.

"Not only you Naru-chan. I'm coming with you, to get some answers…and to make sure that the big bad Kitsune doesn't harm you in anyway." Naruto snorted at her attempt to lighten the mood and replied. "You're not going to take no for an answer, are you?" Haruhi gave the blonde fox a large grin before running through the handsigns Saru, Ne, Uma, Saru, Tora, I, Ne, Mi. Her hands started to glow with white chakra and placed her index and middle finger of her right hand on her forehead and slapped her left onto Naruto's scalp whispering, "Ninpō: Mind Cavern." Darkness engulfed the siblings as they felt their consciousness slip away.

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(Naruto's Mindscape)

-Drip, drip, drip- Haruhi and Naruto stood side by side as they took in Naruto's mindscape. "Wow. A sewer. Really?" Haruhi teased. Naruto rolled his eyes at her and clearly gave her a look of 'does it look like I knew.' "Whatever brat. Let's hurry and find Kurama, because I want to show you our new home and sleep." Naruto gave Haruhi one last look before heading off down the slime infested corridors, following a dim glowing red pipe that was practically leaking the emotions of hate & destruction. Haruhi lightly traced the pipes as they walked, absentmindedly whispered, "Kurama…what happened?" making Naruto glance at her side ways with concern etched across his pre-teen face.

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In the few hours he had known her, plus the mind seal she had shown Jiji and himself, he felt connected to her; but couldn't figure out how?! In the short hours he had known her, he had seen much of a resemblance of himself in her. The bright, energetic personality. How she wore her emotions on her sleeve & knew how to cover them right up when she needed to, like how he did all the time. Her small stature much like his own even if he won't admit it. But then…her eyes…so similar...the sadness, the pain, the loneliness…and…the determination. Yet they were different at the same time. Her eyes held wisdom, power and love. Her eyes practically radiated respect. It was all there. In the eyes. I guess this is what Jiji means when one's eyes are the windows to ones soul.

Naruto was a lot more observant than his mask let on. A lot more observant. He knew from a young age that he was the holder of the Kyuubi no Kitsune from the harsh glares to whispers. Heck even the beatings were quiet obvious. Especially when they were the worst on his birthday, the exact date the Yondaime defeated the Kyuubi. He knew from simply observing the villagers that most of them didn't hate him, he did indeed see the looks of respect from many of them. Including few shinobi. Although at times he would get the occasional look of pity, which he pliantly ignored. Naruto knew that they were too afraid to stand up to the Kyuubi haters and be dubbed as Demon Lovers and have to go through the same scorn Naruto had to go through. As much as Naruto craved the attention and love from another, he could never allow someone remotely close to him suffer the mental pain the haters do to him. He would never in a million years. But he defiantly knew not to worry about his older sister. Her personality changed as soon as it was called for. Loving and kind when they first met. Determined and strong willed trying to adopt him. Murderous and scary when someone was planning on hurting the ones she cared about. Sadistic and cold to the people who she deemed deserved it. Serious and logical when something important came up. Carefree and unpredictable whenever she damn well felt like it. No. he defiantly didn't need to worry about her with the villagers. If anything, it was them who needed to watch their back. No more would Naruto Uzumaki be alone.

Although his mask also portrayed Naruto to be dense to the villagers, he found it hilarious that everybody actually thought that someone could be that dense. It doesn't take an imbecile to know the one certain Hyuga Heiress was crushing on him…hard. The signs were so obviously there. The blushing, stuttering and the fainting. Naruto gave out a light chuckle causing Haruhi to look over at him suspiciously, but just waved her off. Then there was Shikamaru Nara. One of his 3 friends currently competing for the dead-last title. Naruto mentally scoffed at the title. Titles are just that. Titles. Nobody in the shinobi world are going to care that you are dead-last or rookie of the year. If you get in the way of their mission, chances are you will die. Naruto inwardly smirked. It's not like some elite jounin is going to care, that's for sure. Naruto knew better than to judge a book by its cover, and that was what Shikamaru was. Naruto saw how he would interact during class, the boy was just more observant than Naruto. Tsk, that lazy ass Nara is a freakin' genius. He could even bet Sasuke-teme for rookie of the year if he was motivated. Pfft even Shino could if he wanted to. As much as Naruto hated to admit it, Shikamaru knew that Naruto wasn't as much as a dobe as he lets on. But thankfully the shadow user never asked why, probably the same reason Naruto doesn't ask him either.

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'Well now that I know that I am a part of one of the three ancient clans and the forgotten Ōtsutsuki royal bloodline, maybe Uzu-nee can actually teach me taijut…'

Naruto was knocked out of his musing when he collided with the back of his older sibling. Gulping, Naruto took a peek as to what stood in front of her. "Sugoi." He whispered as he know stood beside Uzu looking up, craning his neck back to look up at the large rusted cage that stood as tall as the Northern Gates of Konoha, being locked shut with a large piece of paper with the kanji 'seal' on it. Just as Naruto was about to speak again, two large red-slit eyes appeared from the black abyss and an equally as large viciously foxy grin that showed of the Kyuubi's white razor sharp teeth, looking ready to knar on his tiny body. Naruto feel flat on his behind, forgetting that his Uzu-nee was near him, and tried to move, but fear pinned him in place. The dark-cladded blonde could feel himself shaking and sweating in places he never knew had sweet glands as his wide scared orbs stayed locked onto the Kyuubi's. Its eyes full of hatred…destruction…evil…and…loneliness? It was so overpowering for Naruto that the Kyuubi didn't even bother using any of its killing intent on such a weakling of a vessel.

The Kyuubi looked down on its vessel in utter disgust. "It seems my jailor has come to visit me. I am honored." The Fox joked.

Naruto still riddled with fear managed to rise to his feet despite the obvious shaking. "K-ky-yuu-bi." He willed himself to stand before the beast that caused destruction on Konoha just a little over 12 years ago and determinedly held his ground as best he could. The fox merely raised a brow at the boy's measly courage that the Kyuubi still hadn't noticed its other guest, too focused on getting out of its prison.

"Boy, come closer so that I can devour your puny body and release you of your burden." The Kyuubi slowly leaded out its KI in hoped to coax his jailor into his plans. "Tear off this imprudent seal so that I can exact your revenge on this weasel of a village. The one that hurt you…ridiculed you…abandoned you…hated your very exsista…" the Kyuubi's eyes widened at the face it long thought to be dead around a millennium ago. "…you…" the Kyuubi whispered.

Small tan slender arms wrapped around Naruto's shaking frame protectively. Harsh purple eyes pierced straight through the Foxes defense and felt itself inwardly whimper at her gaze. NO! It can't be true. She…she died years ago! That TRAITOR killed her. She's gone. She died. SHE IS NOT STILL ALIVE! The Kyuubi was having an inner turmoil, never show its true emotion on its face.

"Hey. Asshole."

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If any of y'all want a pairing with Haruhi/Uzu don't be afraid to tell me who. :P

Don't forget to tell me who's gender you want Kurama/Kyuubi to be. It will help a lot.

Sorry for not updating in the past 3½ weeks. I've just finished my end of year exams and am now on holiday. WOOP WOOP. Hopefully I can add more chapters during the holidays.