Uzumaki Lost in the Mist

by Winged Kon

The Sandaime Hokage is concerned for Naruto's well being, the villagers despise the blond greatly. So what if Naruto lived in Kiriakure instead of Konoha. How will Naruto change, will he go for the Mizukage, what will he do without ramen! Find out!

3. Return of the Nightmare

ROFLSun: Long time no see, it's been a while(Past a year). Thanks for the reviews! Really appreciate them. I guess I owe you some explanation why I didn't update sooner, the reason I've been away is because I've been working on creating my own abridged series. I began thinking that maybe making an abridged series would be pretty fun to do. So I thought maybe I can try this out and see where it goes, don't worry Lost in the Mist isn't going anywhere. I worked pretty hard on it and really want this thing to take off. SO please check out the episode the link is at the end of the fanfic.

Also, you probably noticed that The Lion & the Fox fanfiction were taken down. The reason why was because, I just lost complete interest in it. I mean when I was throwing in ideas for the Chunnin exam arc, I was drawing blanks. And for some strange reason, I was pretty blindsided with this genius idea for Lost in the Mist that I'm pretty sure you will get excited for.

So on with the fic!

Chapter 3: Return of the Nightmare

The sun began to slowly sink in the trees as though it was a cinder block floating to the marine surface. The sun mixed with the sky mixing together in a beautiful blend of crisp fall leaves in the belly of the fall season. Miniscule shadows that clung to it large towering original copy grew to surpass its creator.

These same shadows, though officially marked the end of a day did not cross the mind of a certain sweat dripped blond child as he panted heavily. His clothing was tattered greatly from the punishment he received from his training baton. His face created a mask of sweat that seemed to plaster his face with the eternal streams of bodily liquids. His once proud orange shirt was twisted and pulled from the amount of sweat it absorbed.

Countless times, the hair on the child constantly flapped on his eyes, masking his vision; which called for a quick swipe from his right just as tattered hand. Naruto gripped on the baton's center, and looked at it for the hundredth time. It seemed as though every time he mounted the baton upon his cranium and began to search for the foreign energy that seems to cause the baton to stay inanimate on his head, the new found energy takes a step further and further away from his consensus.

Naruto pulled his attention away from his training toll to observe for the umpteenth time on how his senior student was coping with the exercise. Utakata's body was nearly as ragged as his younger classmate. It was hard for both of them to breath. Naruto panted heavily, his vision became greatly blurry it was as though his eyelids were filled with lead.

All he wanted to do know was to sleep, he wanted to collapse on the ground, but his body was no longer obeying his commands. It's as though his body itself was too tired to receive any messages from the brain.

Utakata was glaring holes on the left temple of the former blond Konoha citizen. He could believe what he witnessed this evening. He just saw a simple 9 year old, a year younger than him who has no experience with using chakra at all, was actually keeping up with him. He had done this exercise over 5 times and it took years of discipline for him to be at the level he was. And for a newbie to stand at par with him was extremely frustrating.

A sudden large droplet began free falling to the ground at an incredibly fast pace. As it moved, micro sized water droplets seeded from the main droplet. Due to the fact that both boys were exhausted by their recent brutal training they received at noon, they failed to detect the incoming body of water that was aiming to crash down upon the ground. When the liquid body did make compact to the ground, it obliterated to millions of rain droplets.

Naruto flinched in shock, normally he would've jumped back an extraordinary length but his body was held tightly to the ground. Even Utakata was slightly taken back in surprise from the unexpected water dive bomb that they just witnessed.

In the middle of the spot on the ground where the droplet of water exploded, was Harusame who was slightly pulling his mustache in a bored manner. Where he was standing was completely dry, but everywhere else on the ground was slightly drenched with water. Harusame looked at Utakata's winded body and began to observe his status. He's definitely out of chakra, but he shouldn't have been winded this much.

Normally at Utakata's level, he should have been had a semi-medium case of chakra exhaustion, the adviser contemplated to himself.

His eyes traced over to his newest student, and wasn't that surprised to see his condition. It was after all the first time he actually experienced using chakra. In Konoha, he probably would learn the basic concepts of chakra at the ending of shinobi academy.

The exercises he gave the both of them were at upper genin level; this was years beyond their recommended training schedule. But to have someone like Naruto keep up with Utakata was a quite surprise. Then it hit him, the idea blessed the adviser with a sly smirk on his face. That's why Utakata is furious, Harusame concluded, deciding that he might as well show the two children mercy for today by dismissing his students.

"Not bad, not bad at all you two" Harusame commented as he began pacing back and forth in front of his two students. With each step the elder took, the boys' eyes followed, never missing a single beat. "What you two experienced today were an exercise that has been done in the past. Starting tomorrow we're going kick our training up a notch. The training you received will be child's played compared to what you're gonna face tomorrow." He announced, making sure that each word were on the voyage of sinking into both of the boys' heads.

At the last sentence, their eyes snapped wide open in shock, especially Naruto. Tomorrow's going to be worst? I can't even stand from doing this, Naruto thought.

"So you two might as well get a good night's rest because tomorrow is gonna be hell" Harusame said, and stopped his pacing. When he stopped, he was standing between the boys. The adviser brought his left hand up and formed the basic hand seal with it. "Oh before I go you might want to eat this, unless you want to sleep on the ground for the night." Harusame reached into his left robe sleeves with his right hand and retracted two circular green pills, holding them between his fingers right hand.

In a swift motion, Harusame tossed the pills to his students. The pills bounced, on the ground with a microscopic think sound that nobody could here. The balls slowly rolled towards the Naruto and Utakata, it stopped about a foot away from the two. With a sneer from their teacher, Harusame dropped his right hand to his side and shunshined out of the courtyard by turning into a giant rain droplet plunging into the ground, leaving the boys to the strange pills that were left for them on the ground.

The blond's body crumpled to the ground as his legs buckled over each other. He opened his eyes to see the tiny jade orb in front of him; Naruto slowly began craning his head towards the pill. He began thinking about the pill. Every inch of movement was its own battle as he adjusted his sites to the pill. What is it? Why is he giving this to me? The main question that circulated in his head was: What will it do to me? Naruto could count how many times he had consumed poison his body while living in the village.

Every once in a while in the village, someone would offer food to him and after an hour after eating the food, Naruto would feel sick to his stomach, on some cases he would begin to vomit blood. But he knew no one would take him to the hospital, which would? He had no money and no guardians, he was on his own. Every time a scenario like this happened, he thought he was going to die so he would drag himself towards his abandoned house that he took over as his own and wait for death to embrace him, like the parents that he never had.

So what was so different about this man? He barely knew him, and he had him working like a slave. He had shivers just thinking about the training he had just went through, but all the while his eyes were opened. It gave out this message that everything that was coming out of his mouth was the undeniable truth. While living in Konoha, Naruto has adopted the ability to judge someone through their eyes. Most of the eyes were cold and held a burning hatred for the blond every time they would happen to look at him. He could at least give the old man that was in front of him a shot.

With a small smirk on his face, Naruto slowly began to extract his hand from his sides, each arm screeched in protest, he didn't care, and he wanted to see what this pill will do for him. His curiosity grew with every second his hand inched closer towards the pill, making occasion rest periods. After about an eternity of miniature inches towards the mysterious emerald circular pill, his finger was finally able to make a firm clasp over the pill.

Naruto panted heavily from his efforts, and with one loud grunt he sluggishly dragged his arm where the finger grasped the pill. Once his right hand, the hand that was cradling the pill, was now floating near his mouth, the blond child took a deep breath and placed the pill in his mouth. When the pill was in his mouth, his mouth suddenly surged with a burning sensation. It felt as though his tongue was engulfed in flames, every strand of instinct in his body was instructing him to spit out the foreign pill from his body.

Just as he was to do so, the white hot flames that were erupting in his mouth began to slowly lose its temperature as it moved down the boy's throat. The mild hotness rested at his throat when it drastically transformed its figure into sun-like warmth, this new warmth plunged into his stomach and that is when it happened. Suddenly, a surge of energy started to crackle in the belly of the blond; with each crackling pop a dead tired muscle sparked with new life. The once mysterious new found type of energy was now restored. Naruto could feel all the energy in his body course through his veins, it was riveting.

Naruto could feel his body begin to feel extremely light, as though he was a hawk that was preparing to soar out of its nest for the first time in its life. Lighter and lighter his body began to feel, and as his body increasingly began to feel light Naruto began to slowly rise as well. It felt as though gravity was going in reverse, and push him away from the earth. The process was terrifying; it was as though his energized body was going to float him away from his new misty home.

Just as his feet was about to lose all contact to the ground, his body began to slightly cool climatically. With the cooling came the added weight that ceased all movement from the boy from floating away. His feet became rooted to the ground, while his body temperature settled down with his body becoming slightly more heated than usual.

Naruto began to suddenly pant, but not as heavy as before. He no longer felt the extreme levels of fatigue in his eyes. Naruto bent over slightly to grip his knees as he began to recollect his breath that he had loss from his first training regime of the day. All he could do for a while was just standing there recovering his breath; he felt the setting, slight covered sun prickle at his skin. As the blond recuperated, he noticed that the black pendant given to him began to sway lightly side to side.

Naruto narrowed his vision so that the kanji symbol was in his eyesight, which was steadied at the brim of his nose. As the necklace was in his focus, he began to think about his village: Konoha. He remembered the sakura trees that bloomed in the spring, he remembered the summer fireworks festival that he would attend every year to see the fireworks streak across the sky.

Finally, he remembered his words he had said to the only person who he would refer to as family, Old man! When I come back, I'm coming for the title of Hokage! The blond Kiri citizen gripped his necklace in his small fist tightly in a strong grip for his age, Old man, I will come back to the village, he silently resolved to himself.

Naruto adjusted his body so he was standing up right; his body ached him slightly at the change of body position. The young boy looked upon Utakata, who was dusting himself off from the dirt through a series of pats from his hands.

"So what happens now?" Naruto asked Utakata.

Utakata shot Naruto a dirty look, the elder student's eyes were filled with such hate that anyone who has never experienced the intensity of the gaze would flinch terribly. But Naruto only nerved a small amount, he flinched not because of the glare he was given. Naruto was well associated with the glare he was given, but he was surprised that he was given such a glare from someone whom his barley was associated to.

The two glared at each other, minutes went by until Utakata clenched his teeth and stormed off towards one of the many building doors that surrounded to area of the Water Tower. "Figure it out yourself!" he snapped irritably at the younger student before he briskly stormed off to the last door on the right. The door opened quickly and closed as fast with a deafening snap to the slamming door.

Naruto flinched at the closing door, for a moment there was complete silence. Birds lightly chirped in the distance, it felt as though the chirping was right behind him. Naruto clenched his fist tightly in anger wonder why? Why was everyone that he met, angry at him? The chirping suddenly became so loud it was impossible for the blond to ignore.

"Asshole!" The blond screamed at the top of his lungs. But when he turned around there wasn't anything or anybody behind him. In fact, all he saw was a blue bird chirping but the proud azure colored bird was resting peacefully on a messy, unkempt, twisty nest that rest on top of a tall tree stood at the bottom of Water Tower's stairs. But it was then that it came to Naruto: He had never been able to see so far before in his life.

"What's going on?" He whispered to himself. He remembered during the exercise he had been doing a moment ago after the baton fell upon his skull once again; but that's not the piece of memory he was searching for. He then remembered the second he opened his eyes the world around him grew sharper and clearer for some reason. It felt as though he was an entirely new Naruto.

Naruto shook his head furiously, "What am I talking about?" He exclaimed to himself, "I guess those batons did a number on me." Naruto focused his attention on the Water Tower and stood in awe. He never realized how beautiful the tower was up close now that his new found senses were focusing his eyes.

The tower was elegantly twisted in a counter clock fashion, the building becoming thinner and thinner his eyes reached the top. At the tip of the building was a sapphire bust of a large, limbless dragon wrapped around the tip of the tower, the tail grasped around the building to stop itself from falling; the tip of the tail retreating towards the shelter of the window that Yagura was in. Its head was at even level with the tip of the building. In the mouth of the dragon was a white pearl with the kanji for mist itched in the sphere.

Naruto had trouble seeing the bust at first but, soon it came into clear focus. The blond began to wonder what was that object that hung on the tip off the building and why couldn't he see the statue before. True his eyes were nowhere near as sharp as before he entered Kiri, but he should have noticed the dragon earlier for the dragon's manufactured scales glistened strong enough to alert any newcomer of its presence. It was then that he noticed Yagura in a window that was near the tip of the dragon; the Mizukage had changed back into his formal outfit.

The young kage leaned over to the window, "Naruto! Come up the tower, you are not yet finish your training!" He called to the new Kiri citizen.

Naruto blinked twice at the request, he forgot that he also had night training to attend now. "But I thought I was finished!" Naruto whined in frustration. This only caused Yagura to chuckle.

"If you come I can guarantee you that you will get" Yagura started to say, but lightly softened his voice at the last part of his sentence "stronger."

Naruto jumped for joy as he heard this, "Woo hoo!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, "With this training I'll beat the pants off gramps!" The blond ran for the tower as fast as he could, when he reached the door he realized that the door was made of black oak and had two metal plates that had to be pushed to enter the tower. The blond pushed his way into the tower, and noticed that the building was neat.

The towers inside walls were colored in white paint and the floors were made of wood. It had a feudal era design; in the front of the room was a woman with maroon colored hair and rectangular glasses. She had on a white sundress with a teal sweater over the dress. The woman seemed busy sorting through papers. When the doors swung back into place a light bell was with a soft, pleasant ring.

The woman looked at Naruto and smiled, "Hello!" She replied cheerfully "I'm Ami, Mizukage-sama's assistant, you are..."

Naruto scratched his head nervously, "Um, I'm Uzumaki Naruto" Naruto greeted.

Ami smiled at the young boy, "Well it's a very nice to meet you!" She said, "Mizukage-sama is waiting for you on the top floor. But please move quietly, the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist are about to have a meeting on a couple floors above this floor."

"The Seven Swordsmen of the Mist?" Naruto asked.

"Oh that's right!" Ami said aloud, "You're new to Kiri. Here let me explain: The Seven Swordsmen of the Mist are a group of highly trained shinobi that each has an extraordinary sword. They're said to each have the strength of 3 trained jounin."

Naruto stood there speechless in admiration at these 7 highly trained shinobi. "Awesome!" Naruto said, "Hey Ami-san, do you think I could be a member?"

Ami giggled to herself, "I think you're going to need to wait a couple of years before you try joining" she laughed. "Besides don't you have to go meet the Mizukage-sama?"

"Oh that's right!" Naruto exclaimed as he took off towards the mahogany wooden stairs behind Amy, "Thanks, see you later!"

"Bye Naruto-kun!" Ami called after the blond child took off on the stairs.

Naruto looked up the stairwell and saw that the walls were painted white as well. The walls were decorated with long, skinny blue swirls that was splattered on the white wall. The stairs were the same color as the main lobby's floor. The stairs spiraled in a square like pattern for what looked like an eternity.

"Are you kidding me?" Naruto shouted.

"Naruto-kun, are you alright?" Ami's voice echoed in concern.

"Yes Ami, I'm okay" Naruto grunted. The young boy turned his attention to the large staircase that was in front of him. "I just finished training, why the hell do I have to climb up this thing?" Naruto sighed.

"Guess I have no choice" he said as he began walking up the stairs. As Naruto walked up the stairs, his breathing slowly steadily became more ragged. Naruto panted heavily as he stopped where he was to check his progress.

So far he spent about 6 minutes of walking continuously towards the top. And it looked as though he had barely covered half of the stairwell. Come on give me a break, he complained to himself mentally. He kept on walking upwards, each step was its own vicious battle by the time he felt as though he reached three quarters of the way up. His legs ached from all the walking he had done.

Naruto fought to breath as much oxygen as he could, Naruto took one step and saw that his foot touched down on a floor level. He looked up to see if that was indeed his stop, but he still had a couple more flights to cover. Naruto growled under his breath, "THIS IS GOING TO TAKE FOREVER!" Naruto roared in anger to the top of his lungs.

Suddenly, Naruto felt a large presence from behind him. It wasn't as though he heard the presence behind. It was as though something in the back of his brain flickered towards the hallway beside the next set of stairs. The blond's instinct didn't fail him as a large man walking towards him began to appear in Naruto's eye sight. The kiri child was surprised that his instinct was able to notice the large man before his sight did.

The man walked farther up the hall for Naruto to notice that he was entirely blue skinned and had beady yellow eyes. He wore a black white cloak that covered all his body except for his feet. What surprised Naruto was its pulsing gills that the large fish man had. With each step the mysterious man took, he noticed that it became harder and harder for him to breath. What's happening to me, I can barely move! Naruto tried to run away from the fish man, but he had grown to tired to move all of a sudden.

It wasn't long before the fish man got so close to Naruto that the blond felt a cold, large shadow enclose him that reeked of fish. The blue man simply sneered at Naruto heavily panting for oxygen. The blond felt as though he was close to losing conscience when a voice pierced through Naruto's ear drums:

"Kisame!" The voice said.

Naruto struggled to his head towards the voice. He saw a elder man with long, white hair that was untamed right behind the fish man. His hair was almost as untamed as his facial hair which included a pearly white colored beard that was almost at level with his abdomen. He had iron black eyes that his behind round spectacles and wore a similar cloak to the fish man that was in front of Naruto. On his side was two katana that were both in black sheaths. Naruto also noticed that the old man had a pair of ruby read headphones that rested around the neck of the old man.

Beside his blades was a young boy around Naruto's age who had sky blue short pants and a gray T-shirt. He had navy blue colored hair, rather pale skin. He too also wore glasses, but had his frames in rectangles. The young boy clung onto the leg of the old man, as though he was in fear of the large fish man

"Kisame! Stop this at once!"

Kisame looked at the old man annoyed, "What is it old man? I'm just having fun!" The fish man said to his defense. He attempted to place his large blue hand on top of Naruto's head, but Naruto noticed that the old man's presence disrupted the fish man's spell; giving Naruto the chance to move away from the fish man's hand.

The blue man snarled at the elder with detest, "Why don't you just die already, Koga!" He retorted.

The old man laughed heartily at the blue man, which angered the bipolar fish more. "My heart is healthy running for my age; your heart is so spoiled and dark its a miracle that you're still alive Kisame" Koga chuckled. Kisame clenched his teeth tighter as he briskly walked past the old man leaving Naruto holding on to his knees gasping for air as if he was a fish out of water.

For a moment the old man and the blue haired child stood their looking at Naruto as he struggled with breathing. Then Koga vanished and suddenly appeared in front of Naruto; leaving the child alone to play with his fingers. Naruto jumped back in shock of the sudden appearance, In a quick movement, Naruto saw the elder's hand move in a striking motion at his stomach. Naruto knew he couldn't dodge it due to the speed of the strike. But somehow he was able to see the old man's hand make contact with the blond's stomach. He knew a normal person couldn't see the hand hit him, but he did. What's wrong with me?

The blow came and suddenly felt a cooling sensation overwhelm the blond's body. It was as though he had jumped into a freezing cold pool of water. The feeling left his hearing go deaf. Koga swiftly withdrew his hand, and watched the Naruto regain his breathing. Naruto took a single breath and felt his hearing has returned to him and found that it was much easier for him to breath.

"How is that my young friend?" Koga asked while returning to the blue haired child.

Once Naruto regained his breathing, he stood up properly and decided to answer him, "Better" Naruto answered.

Koga smiled behind his spectacles, "That's good to hear, let me introduce myself. My name is Koga and this is," Koga introduced himself. The old man placed his hand on the boy with blue hair, "And this is my student, Choujirou."

The boy named Choujirou peered from his teacher's leg and took a good look at the other child that looked his age. Choujirou quickly bowed his head, "Hello." He greeted sheepishly.

Naruto first looked at the blue haired boy, which resulted in Choujirou swinging around his master to get behind Koga. Naruto looked at Koga last "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, thanks for that glowing hand thing." Naruto said.

Koga looked at Naruto, his eyes snapping open when Naruto finished his sentence. "You saw that?" He questioned.

"Yeah, it was really bright and blue" Naruto said while he nodded his head feeling a bit of pride in his abilities to shock someone as old as him with them.

"You certainly are a weird child Naruto" Koga chuckled once he had recovered from his shock. "So what brings you here?"

"I was on my way to Yagura's office. Do you know how much farther I am to it?" Naruto asked.

"You have business with the Mizukage? Well I better not let you keep him waiting. His office is pretty close from here" Koga said, "I wanted to take a short walk before the meeting started but our conversation took up all my free time. Oh well! Better luck next time, right?" He said as he laughed heartily to himself.

The old man guided Choujiro back down the hallway in the same direction as Kisame. "It was nice meeting you Naruto, I hope we can talk like this again!" Koga called out as he walked away leaving Naruto alone to finish his long climb up the staircase.

Once the blond was out of earshot, Choujiro looked up at his teacher's bearded face, "Koga-sensei, that boy Naruto, is he just like me? He felt like it." Choujiro said quietly.

Koga looked down at his student, "Yes he definitely is a sensor like you." Koga answered with a smile. Choujiro smiled back at his teacher with a miniscule smile.

That boy, Naruto, he definitely had to have been a sensor to pick up the chakra I put in my hand when I treated him. But if. Choujiro could pick up the fact that he was a sensor, then he must have a large amount of chakra that was enough for Choujiro to search through. Koga looked behind him.

Who exactly are you, Uzumaki Naruto?

Scene Change:

Naruto stepped off the final set of stairs and soon found himself in a large chamber that was fairly lit through a couple of light bulbs that was so far in the ceiling that only rays of emerald green light were seen. On each side of the chamber was a long rectangular pool that gave the impression that it was emerald green due to the reflection of the light bulbs. The manufactured rivers extend from the back of the chamber to just about a foot away from Naruto.

In the back of the room was a desk that had relatively high stacks of paper on it and a black leather swivel chair with no one in it. Behind the desk was a window that had the rest of the dragon bust; its tail reached. The ceiling of the chamber and extended on it for a couple of feet before the tip of the tail halted and decided to hang off the ceiling.

In the middle of the room was Yagura looking at Naruto with the same relaxed face that he had when he first met him, but it was slightly more tense. "Hello Naruto" Yagura said with a smiled. "How was your first day of training?"

"Terrible, Harusame-sensei worked me like a dog!" Naruto complained as he shuddered to himself as he remembered the training he had to endure.

This caused Yagura to only smile slightly larger than before, "I'm glad to hear that." Yagura said. The Mizukage proceeded in taking out an elegant scroll from his sleeves with blue swirling details on it. "Naruto I have something I would like to share with you."

"What is it?" Naruto asked.

"Naruto, this is a secret that only I and the Hokage know about. You are the sole survivor of the Uzumaki clan." Yagura announced to the blond.

Naruto was left in a daze, he was apart of a clan. He had a family, but then his mind went to the beginning of Yagura's announcement he was the sole survivor. He knew that once again he was alone.

"What happened to the rest of my clan?" Naruto finally asked. He had to know what happened to his recently found family.

Yagura sighed "They were killed during the night when the Kyubbi attack Konoha 7 years ago." The Mizukage said.

Naruto looked down at his feet as he took some time to ingest this information. "So, I am alone." Naruto whispered to himself.

Yagura looked at Naruto and walked over to him. Once he was close, he placed his left hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Naruto you're not alone, I'm here. And will help you awaken your full potential." Yagura said to cheer up Naruto with smile.

The blond looked at Yagura as if he wanted to hear more of what the kage had to say. "Your clan, Naruto, has a special ability that no one has. Every clan has one ability that makes them different, they are called Kekai Genkai." Yagura explained. "And your clan has one."

Naruto's face brighten up, "So I have an ability?" Naruto asked.

Yagura took his hand of the boy and placed it back into his cloak. "I'm not too sure, that's why I'm going to attempt to awaken the power inside of you." Yagura continued. "With any luck, you're powers will have been awaken just like your abilities to use chakra did."

It was then that a thought crossed Naruto's mind. "Yagura, I have a question." Naruto began to say. He stopped to see if the Mizukage had any objections to his question, but the kage remained mute. "When I tried doing the baton thing, something weird happened with my eyes. Everything seemed more colorful than before."

"That is how chakra users see the world. Once a shinobi uses chakra for the first time, their senses become sharpened than before thanks to the chakra that's pumping more harder in their bodies." Yagura explained. But his explanation only gave the blond child a headache. "This means that you're on the verge of unlocking your powers."

"Whats left for me to do?" Naruto asked now more pumped than ever that he was about to have something of his own.

"Naruto, I'm going to have to ask you sit cross legged like you did with Harusame in the circle over there." Yagura instructed the blond to the circle with characters written around the circumference of the circle.

"Man! Not more chakra training!" Naruto whined as he followed the instructions that his new guardian gave him. He sat where he was directed, in the position he was in while he was training with Harusame.

"Its pronounced chakra, Naruto. Now close your eyes and clear your mind." Yagura finally said. Naruto gradually shut his eyelids and focused on clearing his mind. The process took what felt like an hour. Once he know that the new kiri citizen's mind was empty, Yagura placed his hand upon Naruto's forehead.

"Seishinteki Kakumei " Yagura whispered as he sent out a small, quick blast of chakra into Naruto's head instantly knocking him out. Once he knew that the boy was unconscious, he withdrew his hand from the boy's head. Yagura looked down at the circle around Naruto and saw the characters slowly radiating with a slow pulsing red light. So its begun, the Mizukage thought.

Scene Change:

Naruto awoken suddenly, the blond stretched his arms and yawned loudly. He looked around him and found himself in an empty forest at the dead of night. "Where am I?" Naruto asked himself as he got up. The blond began walking forward gingerly in order to figure out where he was. He had a hard time figuring out where he was and how he got here in the first place. Yagura told him to sit down and then felt himself lose conscious.

Naruto walked for minutes and found himself in the last place he would expect: The gates of Konoha. Naruto felt a tear fall down his cheek, "I'm home." Naruto whispered. He ran full speed into the village, he was home he was finally home! Naruto passed the gates and noticed that no one was watching the entrance. He passed through house after house trying to reach the Hokage's Mansion. None of the houses were lit or looked as though anyone was home, but he didn't care! As long as he was with the old man, Naruto could care less.

Naruto noticed a large group of villagers standing in front of him holding multiple torches. The glow of the torches dimly lit the faces of the villagers. They all gave Naruto had stone cold, emotionless glance.

"What are they doing?" Naruto asked himself. He noticed that the other villagers held pitch forks and other sharp household tools. Their faces gradually transformed from cold and emotionless to burning anger towards the blond. This burning hatred was so intense that Naruto began taking steps away from the villagers. But as Naruto attempted to widen the gap between him and the villagers, they would follow with two steps forward.

When the recently angry villagers got to a distance that was too close to Naruto, it gave him an uneasy feeling of fear. An emotion that he was well acquainted with during his life in Konoha. The blond turned to run down the street on his right where there were no villagers in sight, but just as he started his run a kitchen knife flew the the sky and land an inch away from Naruto's foot.

Naruto looked at his foot and yelped in pain as the knife nicked his ankle. The blond continued his run, with his first step it signaled every villager from the large group to pursue the boy in an uproar of shouts at the blond.

"Kill the devil child!" A man yelled from the group.

"Leave us demon!" Another one bellowed.

Naruto wanted to know what they were all talking about and why they were calling him a demon. But he knew that if he turned and asked, he would only kill himself. The blond ran down the street as fast as his little legs can carry him, he ran and ran his heart beat raced ecstatically through each quicken stride. He turned a corner and found the villagers still on his tail.

The blond found a stack of barrels near on of the houses he was seconds from passing. Naruto sprinted to the barrels and knocked them down on the floor. The containers broke upon impact on the ground. The villagers hoped back to avoid getting struck by the falling barrels. Naruto took the opportunity to run away from the mob of villagers, who threaded a long line of curses at the boy as they each carefully crossed the broken remains of the barrel.

Naruto ran and ran through the village and made a hard left through an alley. The boy knew that the mob was once again chasing him. Suddenly Naruto felt pain flush through his body coming from his left side. As Naruto ran, he looked at it and found a knife lunged into his side that had the tip of the blade inside him. Naruto screamed in pain as he ran, his footing faltered enough for the mob to regain there momentum on the chase.

Naruto turned a corner and ran, tears streaming down his face as he ran. He noticed that the building in front of him was his old apartment building that he was the only one living in. He dashed in the building before the villagers had time to catch up.

Naruto fumbled his fingers on something to barricade the door. He looked through the room frantically. His eyes fell on the heavy bookshelf next to the door. Naruto threw his weight at the bookshelf to knock it down. The first blow caused it to waddle slightly, Naruto banged his weight again as he heard the villagers gather at the door. This time the bookshelf fell down scraping the wall and landing diagonally.

The villagers banged the door viciously, but couldn't open it. Each bang caused Naruto to flinch, the boy looked at his wound and pulled the knife as hard as he can. The blade came out a long with a fountain of blood oozing from the wound. Naruto snatched some dirty newspapers on the floor that the villagers through at Naruto threw his window along with rocks. He got some newspapers and pressed it on his wound, the blood easily oozed through the papers.

Naruto threw the papers aside and picked up a new batch, but the end result was the same. He attempted this process again and again only the sound of the tousling of newspapers and the angry hits on doors covered the loud crying noises coming from Naruto as tears fell down his eyes.

"WHY DO YOU HATE ME?" Naruto bellowed at the top of his voice.

Scene Change:

Yagura walked briskly down a hall, as he hurried to his meeting with the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. He had to finish this meeting up quickly to get back to observing Naruto. The Mizukage had entered Naruto into a coma-like state as a method to draw out the blond's hidden abilities. Its a dangerous procedure that places the target under a heavy genjutsu that will make the user's worse nightmares appear as they sleep. At the same time, its the quickest method for him to grow stronger.

If anything goes wrong his Mizu Bunshin will handle it. Until then, he will try to proceed his meeting as soon as possible. Yagura turned into a room on his right, the room was quite large and lacked windows. It had a long rectangular table that was standing horizontal, there were 2 of the swordsmen of the mist on each side of the table. Chiasa and a women with sky blue hair were on one side. The woman had a red line of hair sticking out of the blue sea of hair.

Across from the woman were Kisame, man with tan skin and bandages wrapped around his face, and a young man about the age of 18 with sun bleached hair. At the end of the table was Koga humming along with the music that was playing in his headphones while Choujiro was pulling his teacher's sleeves to alert his master of their leader's presence.

All of the swordsmen looked at Yagura as he entered the room and planted himself at the head of the table. "Now that I am here, we can now begin the meeting. Is there anyone with a report that is significant enough to be shared?" Yagura asked quickly. The Mizukage looked at the Swordsmen of the Mist, he noticed that Koga's humming became lower, Kisame was rocking his chair back and forth, Chiasa was lost in her adolescent thoughts, and Zabuza looked as though he was close to falling asleep. The only people that were looking at him attentively was Haruo and Manami.

Zabuza rose his hand lazily in the air finally breaking the silence of the room, "According to the reports of our look outs, there aren't any regarding the topic of Raiga; former member of The Seven of Swordsmen of the Mist." Zabuza said.

Yagura sighed as he heard a dead end of his search of for the final member of the Seven Swordsmen. "We also have no leads from our allies in the Hidden Volcano village nor the Hidden Sunflower village." Manami added in.

Kisame rolled his eyes, "What the hell do expect from those weaklings, they can barely pay taxes let alone watch out for someone like Raiga." He snorted.

Chiasa slammed her hands on the table and jumped out of her seat, "Do not talk to Lady Manami like that, Kisame!" The teenager warned.

"Or what? The broad won't lift a finger to me while she's in this form, if it was day time maybe I would've gotten a more satisfying reaction." Kisame said with a sneer.

Chiasa clenched her teeth, just before something else occurred Manami rose her hand to stop the teenager. "Chiasa you must hold your tongue in a meeting. If you do as I say, I'll take out shopping again."Manami suggested. Chiasa looked at the woman whom she inspired while it was night time and was in this form. The teenager pointed her nose in the air and slumped back into her chair and crossed her arms.

Kisame pulled his head back and laughed, his laughter crackling throughout the room. "Looks like night time Manami can be scary too!"Kisame teased.

Manami rolled her eyes and looked back at Yagura, "Please proceed Mizukage-sama, I apologize for the inconvenience." she said.

But the apology reached the deaf ears of the Mizukage, who was lost in deep thought. The young kage was more occupied with wondering if a certain blond child was coping okay in the genjutsu he was in.

"Yagura-sama, are you okay? Your mind seems to be drifting away somewhere else." Koga said as his words strangely matched the speech patterns of the song he was listening to.

Yagura looked across the table to see the old man looking at him with curiosity in his eyes. The Mizukage rubbed his eye lids with the backside of his left hand to shake himself out of the thoughts. "I'm fine Koga, thank you for your concern." Yagura replied. "Please keep me informed with all findings from our search from Raiga."

All the swordsmen gave a sharp nod in confirmation, minus Kisame and Zabuza who looked as though they couldn't care less. "I have an announcement, we have a new resident living in the Water Tower. His name is Uzumaki Naruto." Yagura announced.

Every swordsmen, minus Haruo and Zabuza had a look of shock on their face. Chiasa squeaked in pure excitement "Yay! Naruto-kun is going to be living with us!" The teenager said to Manami. "Maybe we can have him live with us!"

Manami smiled back at the teenage swords woman, "Yes Chiasa that will be delightful. I have yet to introduce myself properly to him." She chuckled lightly, "He probably wouldn't notice me if he sees me now, remind me to pay Naruto-kun a visit in the morning."

Chiasa nodded sharply, "Hai!" She said with a goofy smile.

Across the table Choujirou lightly tugged at his teacher's robes "Koga-sensei, Naruto-kun will be living here?" He asked sheepishly.

Koga looked down at his student, "Yes he will be. Maybe I can make time for you two to train together with Utakata." He nodded with a smile, Choujirou face began to glow as he smiled back with a small timid smile.

Kisame gritted his teeth as he heard the news, "So the brats living here, perfect!" He said sarcastically.

Yagura coughed lightly to get the attention of the Seven Swordsmen, "Uzumaki Naruto will be training here as well with Harusame's student: Ogawa Utakata. You are welcome to apply assistance to his training, but you must notify me first." he continued.

This made Chiasa heart beat quicken by a large amount. "That means he'll have no choice to do what I say!" Chiasa exclaimed with a smile, "I wonder during training I could make him wear a onesey! But I wouldn't be able to take him seriously enough to train Naruto-kun!" The girl's face was blushing madly as he remembered the cuteness of the blond child.

"You have yet to complete your training as a full fledged member of the Seven Swordsman, Chiasa-san. Just because you are a month away from being a member doesn't give you the ability to instruct Naruto's training." Yagura said simply. Chiasa began crossed her arms and began to pout silently.

Suddenly, Yagura felt a giant surge of chakra ripple through the building. It caused the kage to flinch drastically. The force was overwhelming, it felt as though someone with large weights was standing on his chest. The young man at first recognize the intense chakra he was detecting because of the strength of the presence but he felt a slight essence of the least expected person to have own that chakra:

"Naruto...?" Yagura whispered to himself. The Mizukage looked across the table to see if anyone in the room sensed the chakra. The swordsmen all tensed up as they saw their leader's face widen in shock. He looked across the table to see Koga attempting to soothe his student. Choujirou was shaking madly as the intense chakra enveloped the meeting room. The boy gripped his head and began rocking himself, whispering:

"Whose chakra is that? That couldn't be Naruto-kun's chakra, it couldn't!" the boy whimpered

Yagura almost forgot that Kondo Choujiro was also a sensor like him. Unlike him, Yagura has been in many battles before and sensed chakra like this before. What surprised him was this level of chakra was emitting from the small blond child he left upstairs. It seems that the student takes much from his master.

The kage shot up from his seat in a flash, "This meeting is adjourned!" he quickly said.

"What's wrong Yagura-sama?" Haruo asked in a low voice.

"A matter that demands my attention has occurred, we'll continue next meeting" Yagura replied as he briskly walked out of the room leaving the swordsmen to themselves. He quickened his walking to reach the room faster. As he walked up the stairs he noticed the chakra's pressure was drastically increasing as he walked closer and closer to his office. I hope I make in time before Naruto's new powers crushing him internally.

Scene Change:

Naruto's blood soaked his hands as he spent his last minutes in his apartment building. The abandon building in the outskirts of the city where people in Konoha saw that as the den of the demon of Konoha. He didn't wan this at all, why couldn't he be like the other kids in the village; kids that had a parents, kids that have to steal food from others to survive, kids who have a warm house to live in, kids who don't have to worry about dying each day; why can't he be normal?

A large bang resonated throughout the building causing Naruto to jump back. The bookshelf that he used to barricade the door began shaking under the weight of the villagers trying to knock it over. It wouldn't be long until they enter the room to kill him. The door shook from another furious strike from the villagers enough for the door to creak open slightly. A villager's hand reached from the small gap and attempted to push the bookshelf off the door.

Naruto began to slightly retreat from the his spot as more hands reached to push the bookshelf off the door. With each crawl away from the door, the pain in his body began to radiate more intensely. He barely crawled a foot before the pain became unbearable and caused him to stop retreating from the door. "I'm going... to die..." he whimpered to himself. The blond noticed that a large object, the size of a man was beside him. Naruto looked at the man to notice that the mysterious person was dead. The blond noticed that he was wearing a garment that he knew all to well. The man had white robes with small red outlines.

No, it couldn't be! Naruto crawled towards the man. He gritted his teeth to muffle his pain. He didn't care how much pain he was in, he had to make sure that the nonliving man wasn't him. Finally, after eye blinding pain from crawling towards the dead man he reached him. The blond quickly turned the man to have the man's face looking upwards at the ceiling. The minute he did, Naruto felt all life flushed out of him. Everything went quiet even the banging of the villagers. No, no, it couldn't be him... what's that knife doing in his stomach...why is he dead?

The blond sobbed loudly "OLD MAN!" Naruto yelled as the villagers erupted from the room. Time slowed down as an endless river of tears came down his face, he felt alone. No one was with him, he wanted to run but the villagers were going to kill him. He was mad that he couldn't run away because of the villagers. He had lost the one thing that was precious to him: someone that he saw as a friend.

Naruto roared in anger at the villagers. Suddenly he felt a strange pull coming from his stomach, it was similar to the feeling that he experienced during his training with Harusame but was far more intense he felt as though the pull was like a vacuum threatening to engulf him in whole. He didn't care if he was engulfed, he didn't care anymore.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Naruto screamed as he put his hands outwards to keep the villagers away from him.

Scene Change:

Yagura took long strides to get to his office, as he closed in on the room he noticed the pressure he had experienced earlier was magnified. It was getting dangerous and Yagura knew it. If he didn't get in the room quickly enough there was a good chance that Naruto will perish due to his newly unlocked powers. "I have to hurry! Yagura said to himself.

Yagura climbed that last set of stairs and what he saw shocked him. Naruto was sitting on his knees in the circle that he drew looking up at the ceiling. His head was looking up at the ceiling. A strong blue light was radiating from the circle around Naruto, the light was so strong it seemed as though a pillar of light was shining from the sealing circle he drew.

The Mizukage felt massive chakra hailstorm coming from the boy in the circle. A strong wind suddenly picked up whistling pass Yagura who had to put his hands in front of his face to protect himself from the wind whipping his face. The wind even rippled the pools of water in his office, Yagura looked Naruto with a sense of marvel. This power is incredible, to think that the Uzumaki clan was this power, Yagura marveled mentally.

"Naruto, its me Yagura!" Yagura called out to the boy, "You can stop now, that's enough!"

Naruto whipped his head towards the direction of the Mizukage. It was then that he noticed that his eyes were different. The irises had 3 black curved lines that came in from the top corners of his eyes and the bottom of his irises. The color of his eyes were different, instead was a cross between blue and green. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" Naruto roared suddenly. The gale-storms suddenly increased drastically, Yagura winced at the force of the pressure Naruto's chakra was giving off. The blond made a pushing motion with his hands and suddenly a beam of blue light shot out of the boy's hands. The blast of chakra sped at Yagura at break neck speeds.

Yagura jumped backwards to get room to plan out his defense. He flashed through hand signs and took a large breath inwards sucking in a large collection of water coming from the pools of water " Suiton: Suijinheki!" Yagura said. The kage released the water from his mouth and exhaled it out towards the ground to form an aquatic barrier around him. The beam of chakra struck the torrent of water, the water shuttered from the impact, threatening to allow the blast of chakra to strike the kage.

Yagura closed his mouth, allowing the water to die out and side steeped the bast before it struck him. The blast of chakra exploded behind Yagura as he went through another set of hand signs. "Suiton: Ika Shokushu no Seigen" the water that was used to create the barrier of water arose from the ground and formed 4 squid-like tentacles.Before Naruto had a chance to retaliate, the tentacles shot outwards at Naruto, each body of water securing Naruto in place. The boy struggled out of his bonds but to no avail, he stayed restricted.

Yagura ran up to Naruto and focused on the ram hand sign he was making, focusing a significant amount of chakra into the hand sign. When he was close enough, Yagura brought his chakra coated hand towards Naruto stomach and struck his stomach "Kai!" Yagura bellowed as the blow sent a wave of his own chakra into Naruto's chakra system overloading it. Naruto slumped into unconscious, when he did so Yagura released the jutsu that was binding the boy. Before Naruto hit the ground, Yagura reached around him to stop him.

The boy was resting easy now and the atmosphere of the Water Tower seemed to have reverted back to normal. "Naruto, was this the power f your family?" Yagura asked the blond but the child was fast asleep to answer the question. He noticed that Naruto had tears coming down his face. It's a common effect for someone who goes through this technique. They go through a nightmare that will either cause a kekkai genkai to awaken or cause them to go insane.

Yagura felt something in his robes suddenly slide open, the kage reached in his robes to pull out the object to find the scroll that the Hokage had given him. A portion of the scroll could now be open. Yagura opened the scroll to as far as it could before he got shocked. The Mizukage looked down at the scroll and found a passage next to a generic drawing of a man's upper body.

This is the power of those who can see aura itself, this is the power of the Kigan eye...

That was all the kage could read, everything else was a blur. He knew for a fact that only the boy could read this scroll's further content. He noticed that the generic drawing next to the long passage had the same eyes that Naruto had. "The Kigan eye, the power to see aura. That is your power, Uzumaki Naruto." Yagura said as he picked Naruto up and began to carry Naruto towards the bedroom where his bags were.

ROFLSun: Well isn't that a nice way to say sorry for not updating in a year. Again I'm sorry and please review, in the next chapter we will further venture into Kiri. Be prepared to see new sites of Naruto's new home. Don't forget to check out the first episode of my abridged series of Kekkaishi by clicking the link here:

.com/watch?v=VpljolR2am4

Please Review!

-Jutsu Library-

Seishinteki Kakumei(Mental Revolution)- Places the target in a genjutsu that brings nightmares to life, it's usually used to bring out dormant powers.

Suiton: Suijinheki(Water Release: Water Encampment Wall)- This defensive technique creates a wall of water around the user. Enemy attacks are completely intercepted by a fence of water blown out from the mouth, and is raised from below with tremendous might.

Suiton: Ika Shokushu no Seigen(Water Release: Squid Tentacle Restriction)- This restricting jutsu creates as many tentacles of water as the user needs to restrain the target from moving. It can also be used impale a target.