Here you go guys, my thanksgiving present to you. I know this is a uncharacteristically long time for me to hold out on you guys, and I would like to take this time to say I may or may not be updating for a while. But I have a legitimate question at least. Should I make this into a harem? I just read some Naruto/harem ones and it seemed fun to write one... Don't get me wrong, I like Hinata being the one in the bright orange spotlight. She was the female with the most character in the series and the only one to beat Tenten in my eyes. But I don't know... I'm playing with the idea of making it a harem, or keeping it Naru/Hina.

Here you go guys, Happy Thanksgiving. I promise I'll make you an extra long Christmas chapter... Hold on... what religion does Naruto follow? .

Chapter 6:

The fire jutsu scorched the field and some of the bridge, leaving a small burning crater where the two young ninjas were standing. Kakashi rushed to the site of the impact, searching frantically for his two forgotten students.

'Where are you? C'mon… WHERE ARE YOU? I can't be held responsible for killing two genin on their first day… Dammit Uchiha…'

Kakashi searched and searched, but was unable to find any trace of their bodies in the charred aftermath of the attack.

"Tch, give it up Hatake… T-there's… no way… t-the dobe could… have survived that one…" Sasuke started, face down on the ground.

Kakashi chose to ignore him as his single eye continued the scan the remains of Training Ground Whatever.

"T-too bad… the girl died… as well… She was weak… But she was easy… t-the first of my children without a sweat…" he finished, smiling triumphantly, but that was until he was grabbed by his collar by a pissed pink haired kunoichi and thrown into the river. He started to flail about, but his energy soon failed him as he passed out from chakra exhaustion. The river wasn't too deep or strong though, and he eventually washed up on the bank of the river.

Kakashi looked back at Sakura, who was beginning to calm down, "Sakura? But how? Where's Naruto?"

Sakura turned around and pointed up to a branch in a tree just behind her. Sure enough, Naruto was sitting on the branch, panting heavily as his left hand rested on a three pronged kunai embedded in the tree trunk.

"Haa… Haa… You didn't think I would die so easily did you, Kakashi-sensei? Haa… Haa… I'm going to be the next Hokage after all…" he said, pulling it out of the tree. Shortly after, he fell out of the tree, exhausted. He was caught by Kakashi on his back, in a piggyback fashion. During the fall he became unconscious, his snoring a testament to it.

"Okay Team, that's enough training for today, same time tomorrow, okay?" he said, his eye going into a U-shape before disappearing. He left Sakura and an unconscious Sasuke in Training Ground Whatever. The last conscious genin walked menacingly over to the body of the last Uchiha…

XxX

Kakashi sped along the rooftops of the village as fast as he could towards the Hokage Tower. On his way there he looked up at the Hokage Monument, or rather, at a specific face. How could he not see it before? The clues all fit together… Why he was chosen to have the Kyuubi sealed into him instead of anyone else… Why he had the amazing amount of chakra… and most of all, the amazing similarity in appearance. Sure, he was no prodigy like Minato, anyone could attest to that; but Naruto has showed many times over from beating Sasuke that hard work and determination can overcome prodigies. He was suspicious when Naruto had used a seal on him during the bell test, but… only one person was able to do the Hiraishin… and he was sure the Third knew something about it.

XxX

Hiruzen was having a fine day. The sun was shining; the ninja were playing this new game craze called catch the kunai, and everyone in the village was just overall happy, so the amount of paperwork he had was minimal. He finished early and had just enough time to kick back and read his favorite little orange book. Being the aged and wizened man he was, he never elicited the small giggle that came from the other men who read the same book. He even managed to keep his face in the same way he did when he spoke to ninja who were debriefing a very important mission. He always got the newest edition, seeing as the person who wrote it was his very own student. He was just getting to the good part when there was a knock on the door. With unbelievable speed he tucked the book away in its secret hiding spot, and welcomed whoever was at the door in.

XxX

Kakashi walked into the room of the Third Hokage, with Naruto still unconscious on his back. He noticed a small orange cover of a book sitting on the top of a ledge in one of the bookshelves that littered the Hokage's office. He knew the book well, but he decided to ignore it as there were more important matters to deal with at the moment. He lay Naruto down on the couch that was newly added to the room before he stated his complaint to the Hokage, who seemed more interested now that the orange book was moved from plain sight.

"Hokage-sama, I have a question I need to ask you about one of my newest students…"

"Ah, yes, you gave them their genin test today? Not a single genin passed your test before, I'm sure the Uchiha surprised you?"

'He sure did, but not in the way you expected' the one eyed jonin thought, before continuing his speech.

"Yes, the Uchiha-sama was… surprising indeed… But he isn't the one that I have come here to talk about" he pointed back at the sleeping form of Naruto.

Hiruzen knew what was coming, and he sure wasn't going to be happy about it. He decided to skate around the topic some more.

"Ah, Naruto… I hope he wasn't too much trouble to you. I know how he likes to cause trouble to higher ranked ninja."

"Actually, Hokage-sama, he was actually pretty skilled. He was pretty strong, using weight increasing seals, and even some binding seals, along with quick second planning and cooperation with his teammate Sakura to overpower me in the bell test. He seems pretty good at using seals and being a leader… He almost reminds me of Minato-sensei…"

Hiruzen decided to stop him here, "I see where you are going with this, Kakashi. I think it would be best to stop looking into this now, before you get in too deep with something that would better be left alone. Whatever you're speculating is all the information you need. Now I trust that you dismissed your team?" Kakashi nodded yes, "well then it would probably be better to leave Naruto here overnight. You are dismissed, Kakashi."

With a bow and a quick glance at what he now considered his most interesting pupil, Kakashi left, a small smile on his face from the hidden clue the Third gave him. Naruto was still asleep on the couch, which Hiruzen was now walking over to. When he reached there, he placed his hand on the boy's stomach, almost feeling the heat he was sure was emanating from the fox. He lifted the boy's shirt up, and ran a little chakra into the seal, causing it to appear. Hiruzen, while no seals master, was a good analyzer of them. The seal was still the same as it was when Minato first placed it, only the spiral was slightly more untwist, meaning that more of the fox's chakra was leaking into Naruto's.

'Naruto, you are becoming more and more skilled each day, even being able to best Kakashi like that, but you are getting ahead of yourself…' Hiruzen thought. He pulled Naruto's shirt back down and continued to read his little orange book…

XxX

Hinata was worried. She was more than worried, actually. Naruto didn't show up for his ramen today… That has NEVER happened before. She searched everywhere she was sure Naruto would be other than there, which was only one other place, seeing as the village wouldn't let him relax anywhere else. She carefully made her way to the place, having discovered it herself after stalking, er, following Naruto from a distance. When she reached there, the view took her breath away, just as it did the first time she came there. The top of the Hokage Monument made for a beautiful sight. The four faces carved into the side of the mountain that overlooked the village made for an impressive sight to anyone looking up at it, but looking down from it was an entirely different story. It was almost as if you were seeing through the eyes of the four Hokages, who looked dutifully over the village day and night. She remembered when Naruto first took her here, and the words he said to her…

Flashback No Jutsu

"C'mon Hinata! There's something that I wanna show you!" he screamed, flashing his brightest smile that day.

"Okay, Naruto-kun! I'm not as fast as you are!" Hinata gasped. They had been running ever since the villagers started throwing stuff at them. Since Hinata was there, only the truly brave threw items, and with that, only fruit, but they were still throwing things nonetheless. Now they were in the forest just outside the village, and he was leading her through the maze of trees and branches. She had gotten lost several times, and had to use her Byukugan to keep up with his movements. She was able to keep track of him now, but his took a lot of chakra and it was exhausting her. She stopped for a moment to catch her breath.

"Ne, tired Hinata-chan?" asked Naruto walking back over to where she was bent over, her hands on her knees.

"Y-yeah, I'm not able to keep up with you when you're moving so fast, Naruto-kun."

"Well, next time you get lost, I won't be able to find you if you don't have your Byukugan…" he said, before he had an idea, "Hinata-chan! I have an idea!"

Naruto moved closer to Hinata, and then picked her up bridal style. He then proceeded to run through the forest the fastest he could. Hinata blushed a deep shade of crimson, but managed to hide it by pushing her face into Naruto's chest as they breezed past the branches. This caused her to blush more, but at least it hid her face.

It was a little over half a minute when Naruto finally put her back down. She got down slowly, her legs a little wobbly. She came the easy way last time she was here, and didn't know that the Hokage Monument had such a long back entryway.

"Naruto-kun… why did we have to go the long way when we could have just taken the stairs?"

"Because, Hinata, if we were being followed and they knew where I go when I leave Ichiraku's then they would swarm me even here, in my secret hiding spot. We went that way to make sure that there was no way they could follow me here."

Hinata pouted her angry pout, "I don't see why you put up with them Naruto-kun"

"Heh-heh, well, that was kind of the reason why I chose to bring you up here, Hinata-chan!" he said, grabbing her hand, which caused her to blush. He lead her over to the head of the Fourth, which she hesitated to climb onto.

"Naruto-kun… I don't think…"

"It'll be fine Hina-chan" he said, flashing his smile again. Hinata found herself unable to say no, and let him pull her away.

When they reached the head, Hinata saw the view for the first time. The view of the village was breathtaking. All of it could be seen from their vantage point, and she was a little taken back from the view.

"Hinata-chan, the first time I came up here was when I was really small, and the orphanage finally kicked me out. It wasn't a very good orphanage, they were really poor, and as such could only feed me bits and scraps of food so that the other kids could eat real food…"

"But Naruto-kun!"

"Yes, Hinata, I know they were tricking me… now, but then I didn't. Nevertheless, it was still a pretty good place. The kids there weren't being told not to play with me, unlike the kids who had families. It's funny how the purest souls were the ones who were the most unfortunate. They would sometimes share food with me when we played, and I still talk to them sometimes, even though their adoptive parents tell them not to, but only glancing hi's. When I got kicked out of the orphanage, I was crushed. It wasn't a very good home, but it was the only one I knew. I was only eight at the time anyway."

At the last statement Hinata clasped her hands over her mouth.

Naruto continued, "I was walking through the streets, looking for something to eat, and that's when the village tradition of throwing stuff at me started. I was actually able to get some food out of that, but of course the black eye and cuts from the sharper objects made it a little less worth it. I was running away from the villagers, tears coming out of my left eye, the right one being glued shut after I was nailed by an apple. I wasn't really looking where I was going; I was just running until I couldn't hear the voices anymore. They were screaming really hurtful things. I couldn't understand all of it, but I think that it may be better that I didn't. When I couldn't hear them anymore, I stopped and ended up here. I was crying my soul out, cursing the village and everyone in it."

Hinata looked down, feeling ashamed of herself and her village. Naruto saw her, and lifted her face to get her to look at him. She expected to see hatred, but instead his eyes were warm and inviting, he continued his story.

"I was seriously considering leaving the village, and I almost did it too, but for some reason I had to walk to the end of the cliff. It was like it was calling to me. When I reached the end, for some reason, I ended up on the Fourth's head, and that's when I saw it. The village was beautiful. At that time I didn't know about my parents, but the Fourth was still my hero, and I saw what he died trying to protect. For some reason I felt that he wouldn't hate me like everyone else did, and what being a hero was truly about. Even if they hated me, even if I don't like them either, I decided that I was going to protect the village like my hero did, and become something that everyone would acknowledge. It's a good thing I decided that, huh? In the future I would meet Grandpa Hokage, Iruka-sensei, and most of all…" Naruto looked Hinata in her eyes, before pulling her into a deep hug, and whispering in her ear, "most of all, I met you, Hina-chan. Just hanging out with you sort of makes all the hurt and pain go away."

Hinata was crying now, but returned the hug with a fierce passion. She almost wanted to hug him until all the bad went away. She had a glimpse of his life, but she never knew how hard it really was. They continued the hug for the rest of the evening. Naruto was happy he had someone to hold him, Hinata was happy she could be the one to do just that.

Flashback No Jutsu End

Hinata sat down on the head of the Fourth, having seen Naruto not there, and having nowhere else to look for him. She just looked out over the village she called home, and let her thoughts roam freely. She lay back, seeing the stars and moon just starting to show themselves in the night sky. She didn't have family training tonight, as her father wanted to train Hanabi after so long, so she just lay there, letting herself drift off to sleep.

XxX

Just as Hinata was going to sleep, Naruto was waking up from his own slumber. He looked around to find himself in the office of the Hokage, so he mentally prepared himself for a lecture as that was the only reason he ever ended up there. He rose off the sofa and tried to sneak out the door, but he was stopped as soon as his hand reached the door.

"Your stealth skills could use some work", said a familiar old voice from behind him. Naruto turned around slowly, fear shaking him in his bones. He knew that calm tone of voice, and it signaled the calm before the storm.

"S-sorry ojii-san… I'll try harder next time, so, bye!" Naruto screamed, making a break for the door, only to find himself strapped down in a chair before the desk of his grandfather figure.

Hiruzen paced back and forth, before starting his interrogation, "Naruto, I hear that you passed Kakashi's test today… That's rare… so rare that you may be the only ones to ever do it. Do you wanna tell me how?"

Naruto gulped, before he started to explain how he did it.

"You placed a weight increasing seal on yourself to help you train? Impressive, it seems that you were taking your studies of your clan jutsu very seriously. Are you still wearing it now?"

Naruto nodded, and signaled his head towards his left arm. "It's only on my left arm, so I modified it to spread evenly over my entire body."

"You're modifying seals now? Impressive Naruto; you've come farther in such a short amount of time than most others do in a lifetime. You seem to have a real knack for fuinjutsu. Was the immobilization seal a work of yours as well?"

"Yeah ojii-san! I modified it so that it didn't just glue your feet to the ground, but kept your entire body still. You can't even do any hand seals with it activated!" Naruto screamed excitedly.

Hiruzen was impressed as well, but he had to get on to the part that concerned him, "Naruto, you're getting good at this, but even I know it takes a while to write a seal, no matter how simple, and Kakashi isn't one to let you just trap him like that, even if he was going easy on you. How did you distract him?"

"Er, Sakura and a bunshin of mine kept him busy."

"But… you can't do the bunshin, Naruto… Is there something you want to tell me?"

"Er… would you believe me if I told you that I learned how to do it?"

"Naruto, we went over why you can't do the bunshin. If you want to lie, which is a great skill for ninjas, learn to do it well."

Naruto sighed, "Okay… while I was getting the last of the Uzumaki scrolls out of the vault, another scroll rolled out into my path, and I may have learned something off of it before I put it back…"

"Oh? And what was the name of this technique that you learned, Naruto?"

"Um, the Shadow Clone Jutsu?"

Hiruzen became livid. He could almost feel his blood pressure rising, "NARUTO! WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT LOOKING AT THE FORBIDDEN SCROLLS!"

Naruto shrank back in the confines of his entrapment. This is the third time he felt the enormous amount of Ki flowing off of the old man. He was old, but he was still the most powerful ninja in his village, and damn it, Naruto was not about to get on his bad side.

"THOSE ARE CALLED THE FORBIDDEN SCROLLS FOR A REASON!" he continued, his voice getting ever louder as time passed. After a while, Anbu appeared in the room to warn Hiruzen about his blood pressure… and the blood pressure of everyone else in the village. His Ki scared people across the entire village. After calming down and dismissing the Anbu, he returned to Naruto, who was still sweating, and continued his lecture.

"Listen, the shadow clone technique is a forbidden jutsu for a reason. It divides the user's chakra into the even amounts supplied for each clone. You also need a certain amount of chakra to make and sustain them. As such it can drain the chakra you have almost immediately. That's why I didn't want you to learn it."

"But ojii-san, I can't do the bunshin because of the baka fox, since I have too much chakra to make one correctly… Since I have too much, I thought I might as well put it to good use… besides, kage bunshin never gave me any trouble..." Naruto said, then made the single sign needed to do kage bunshin.

"Tajuu Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!"

With a puff of smoke, the Hokage's office was filled to the brim with bright orange clones. This by itself was bad enough… but now the entire village was overrun by the things as well. They were running everywhere… into shops, buildings, and some even ran into the academy.

Hiruzen was now smashed against the wall of his office. Not a single bit of leg room was left in his otherwise big office.

"N-Naruto… re-release your clones… please?" he managed to sputter out.

A muffled reply came from the other side of the office, and the entire office was filled with smoke, signaling the release of the clones. When the smoke cleared, Hiruzen was still coughing from both being smashed into a wall and having to breath in the smoke from the technique. He looked up to see Naruto smiling away, his eyes closed, while rubbing the back of his head the way he does. He was a little ruffled up from being smashed into a room with more than a hundred different clones, but other than that he was no worse for the wear. He was as bright and energetic as ever.

Hiruzen was more than a little shocked, but at least now he was coming to expect it. Naruto was truly a Number One Hyperactive Knuckleheaded Ninja, always doing the unexpected.

"Naruto… you don't feel tired at all? Not in the slightest?" Hiruzen asked, still looking at the boy as if he would explode into a thousand pieces and he would wake up from a weird dream. No one was able to make that many shadow clones at once. Even some of his experienced ANBU could only make ten before collapsing.

"Ne? What do you mean? They're just clones. I've seen you guys make thousands of clones."

"Yes Naruto, but they were based around something else, like mud or water. Shadow clones are made out of pure chakra, and as such can be made anywhere. This requires more chakra to sustain them, and as such they are a lot harder to maintain. They also take a lot more chakra to make."

"Haha! Then that means that I'm awesome! But is it normal for you to get headaches right after you release the clones?"

"No, Naruto, most clones don't do that. Shadow clones are special. Since they're made entirely out of chakra, a little bit of chakra returns to you after you are done with them. The clones have your chakra, and therefore your personality and thought process. When they dispel, their thoughts and memories return to you as well. It's like being in multiple places at once. When you dispel such a big amount like you did just now, the swell of information that comes rushing back to you at once would most likely cause you to have a headache."

"So… they can relate all of their experiences to me? No matter what?"

"Yes, Naruto."

"So, I can use them to train and study the scrolls?"

Hiruzen stood up and walked around his desk to where Naruto was sitting. He was unrestrained now; one of his clones having somehow released him while the room was full of them. Hiruzen sighed heavily before answering, "Well, yes, but I don't want you to learn too fast. You already know something that I didn't want you know as of yet." He reached into Naruto's pocket and pulled out the three-pronged kunai that was resting in there. It had the words "Body Flicker Technique" written on it in an intricate seal, something Naruto couldn't have made as of yet.

"I didn't want you to learn the Hiraishin yet, Naruto. What if you got hurt while you were doing it? What if you use too little chakra and you leave behind one of your feet?"

"Ne, then I could just teleport everywhere!" he yelled, which earned him a smack in the back of his head by the Hokage.

The old man sighed, before relaxing back in his chair behind his desk he sighed a lot whenever Naruto was around, "Just promise me that that's the last time you use it before I can get you proper training in it."

"Ne… fine ojii-san, I won't" Naruto said, standing up, "can I leave now? Unless you wanna buy me ramen…" the last part being said with a little more hope than before.

Hiruzen looked to be thinking for a moment, before respectively declining, not wanting to lose all of his money in one night.

Naruto chuckled, then bolted out of the door.

XxX

Naruto was walking around for a while now. He had absolutely no where to go! He couldn't go to Ichiraku's because it was already closed, and he couldn't go home because he wasn't tired. He had been sleeping all day in the Hokage's office so he wasn't near sleepy now that it was night. He would head home just to relax, but he learned to spend as little time at home as possible. It just made him an easy target for the villagers to attack him. He received a few glares from some people, who seemed to be glaring at him harder than usual. Probably pent up glaring energy they had been saving. He hadn't noticed before, but nowadays he was rarely without Hinata at his side, and when she was near, glares weren't dared sent his way. He started to wonder what time it was. Hyuuga-san would mind one quick visit wouldn't he? Even if he didn't, he would go to see her anyway. For some reason not seeing Hinata for one whole day left him feeling empty.

Naruto turned around to head to the Hyuuga compound when the very man he was thinking about was coming his way. He was in a dead run, his face showing the smallest hint of fear, something which scared Naruto to his core.

Hiashi ran straight to Naruto after finding him with his Byakugan. He was the only one in the entire village with chakra coils that large in a body so small. He was breathing heavily, his breath seeming foreign to him. He didn't care at the moment, though. He had something very important to talk about.

"Naruto!" Hiashi asked, a little louder than he usually talked. To anyone else it would sound as if it were a normal speaking voice, but to Naruto, who knew Hiashi, he might as well have been screaming.

"Naruto! Do you know where Hinata is?" he asked.

Naruto grimaced a bit, but otherwise kept his face still, "I thought she was with you Hiashi-san. I was coming over there just now to say good night."

Hiashi cursed under his breath, "Fine, thanks Naruto" he said, before turning to leave. Naruto watched as Hiashi disappeared in an incredible speed, Byakugan blazing, before he turned to start his own search of the village. He made the hand sign, then did shadow clone jutsu. About fifty Narutos appeared, and with a nod from the original, they all split up to look for Hinata in different places around the village. Naruto decided to look from a better vantage point, while his clones looked from the ground.

It took Naruto almost no time at all to reach the top of the mountain using the stairs. He almost wanted to use it all of the time, but he didn't want to risk his hiding spot. He wasn't sure why no one else ever came up here, but he wasn't about to complain. He ran to the edge of the cliff, and onto the Fourth's Head to get an overview of the village to see if there were any places his clones may have missed; on his way though he tripped over something. He fell to the ground face first, and started to rub it. He looked back and saw that it wasn't something… but someone!

XxX

Hinata stirred in her sleep. Something hit her hard. Whatever it was, she was going to gentle fist the life out of it for interrupting her dream of her and Naruto-kun kissing in a rather romantic scene. She turned over, rubbing her side, before getting ready to face her assailant. Whoever he was, he was really stupid for not taking his kill when he had the chance, now he was screwed. She bolted immediately up from where she was laying and charged headfirst for her assassin. She tried to hit a couple times with gentle fist, but they all missed. A few connected here and there, but after a quick over with his hand he seemed to be fine. This confused her, as there were only two people who could open tenketsu points like that, and she was sure she wasn't fighting herself, so that meant that the person she was fighting against was…

Hinata rubbed her eyes frantically, when she opened them again her eyes immediately snapped to the bright orange jumpsuit standing in front of her, its hands in the air trying to ward her off.

"Hinata! It's me! Its Naruto!" he screamed, a little surprised at the attack.

Hinata fell out of her fighting stance, tears almost coming to her eyes. She lunged at him again, but this time it was to wrap her arms around his neck as she buried her face into his chest.

"N-Naruto-kun…"

"Hehe, it's okay Hinata-chan, I know you didn't mean it. I didn't mean to trip over you either, so I guess we're even." Naruto chuckled, while wrapping his arms around Hinata as well. He flared his chakra a few times in a set pattern to let a certain person know where he was…

Hinata punched him lightly, "H-how could you miss me lying on t-top of a huge head?"

"I was kind of in a hurry"

"Oh? W-what was so important that you were in a hurry?"

Naruto blushed lightly, "N-nothing… I was just looking for something… Something very important… What about you? Why were you up here so late?" he asked, trying to turn the tide of the argument.

It was now Hinata's turn to blush, "N-nothing… I was just looking for something important as well…"

They stood like that for a few more moments, Hinata nearly swooning from their close contact, before Hiashi appeared on top of the head, his face back to its emotionless stature. Hinata immediately jumped away from Naruto and bowed deeply.

"O-otou-san" she stuttered.

Hiashi looked impassively, before ushering her over. When she came within reaching distance he swiftly knocked her out.

"You have no idea how much you made me worry Hinata…" he mumbled to the unconscious Hyuuga hier, before turning to Naruto, "thank you Naruto, you can release the clone army you sent for her now."

Naruto nodded, and instantly poofs of smoke appeared all over the village.

Hiashi nodded as well, before turning with Hinata and shun-shinning away. This left Naruto alone on the top of the Hokage monument. He went over to where he found Hinata sleeping, and laid down where she was, the area still a little warm from when she and her ridiculously big jacket was still there. He decided that he was going to sleep here for the night; it was probably safer than his own house anyway. He looked up at the stars for a bit, before turning and relishing the last of the remaining heat on the rock head, thanking the heavens for hot summers. As he was drifting off to sleep, his last thoughts were if this was anything like falling asleep with someone to hold you…

XxX

Naruto woke up and rubbed his eyes groggily. For some reason he didn't feel completely awake… or alive for that matter. He walked through the hallway, still feeling almost floaty. The hallway was really dark, almost pitch black. He wondered if the stupid landlord cut off his electricity again. He walked a bit more, before noticing something else was weird. The floor was soaking wet! Did he leave the sink running again? As he neared the end of the hallway he realized that the hallway in his apartment wasn't this long. He then realized that he didn't even go home before he went to sleep… so where was he? He decided to continue to walk, and he soon reached the end of the hall. In front of him stood a large gate blocking off a den of some sorts. In the middle of the gate stood a seal unlike he had ever seen before. He wanted to study it a bit, but a large grunt disturbed his actions. From behind the bars a loud yawn came, which was followed by short, jerking movements. After a short moment, two huge eyes that were full of bloodlust sneaked their way out of the darkness, focusing on the only other living thing in the immediate area, Naruto.