"Maikeru, come here." The one known as Maikeru was behind his family's store. He was practicing with the sword he had made months ago. He had just finished a kata when his father called him.
"Hai tou-san what is it?" Maiku pulled the chakra out of his blade and sheathed it before stepping inside the house after his father.
Yoshio smiled at his son. "Tomorrow is a big day for you, graduating from the academy. Although you're younger then what was originally planned, your skills are remarkable. The last two years I have met with the heads of the other branches of the clan from the other villages." Maiku noticed how serious his father had gotten. To say the least it made him nervous. "They have agreed to name you the heir to the Konoha branch of the Yaiba clan."
Maiku's eye widened. He had expected the heir part but not this soon. He should have been at least eighteen then he was to take over three years after that. He felt his legs shake and his body began to sway. 'No! I will not pass out from shock!' He yelled at himself. "Wow this was unexpected. I don't know what to say."
Yoshio pinched the bridge of his nose. "They have also agreed on your arranged marriage to Tenten. I'm sure Tenshin is telling her now."
"WHAT!" Was screamed, it shook the village. At this Maiku did faint. Somewhere else in the village a brown haired girl in buns was crying tears of joy. Tenshin had a smile on his face.
A few hours later Maiku slowly sat up, he was in his room. "Oh man that better have been a dream. I'm marrying Tenten." He thought for a moment then smiled. "Now that I got over the shock it doesn't sound so bad."
"You're going to marry Tenten?" A blonde haired boy walked into the room. Yoshio called Naruto over after Maiku fainted.
"Could have been worse. It could've been pinky from class." Both boys laughed, for some reason they found it funny. "Why was that funny?"
"Guess its just one of those things." Naruto shrugged. "Hey your dad wanted to talk to you after you got up, he's in his office." Naruto pulled Maiku out of his bed.
"You mean my office." Maiku dusted himself of after picking himself of the floor. He told his whiskered friend about being named the clan heir.
"What do you mean by the Konoha branch?" Naruto asked confused.
"Well you see my clan is scattered across the shinobi nations as a means to equally distribute power. This happened long ago. I'm surprised it lasted this long." Maiku knocked on the office door before going in.
"I see Naruto came as well. That's fine; his situation is similar so he might be able to explain some things." Yoshio pulled out a scroll from his desk. It was old, tattered, burned in some spots. He rolled it out on his desk, upside down to him so Maiku can see it. "The date has been lost as you can see. I was going to do this when you completed the Dragon's Fang, but I put it off." Yoshio pointed to a faded section of the scroll.
Yoshio turned to Naruto. "You might be surprised that you are not the only demon container running around this village. True Maiku doesn't have a tailed beast, but that doesn't make it any less dangerous. Maiku, I'm telling you this so that when the day comes when the shadow demon Bogu is revealed to you, you can fight him and try to control him."
"What? How?" Maiku now wore a look of anger. He had a demon inside him. Though he had told Naruto once that if he could he would take Kyubi.
Flashback
"God why do they keep trying?" Maiku wiped the blood off his knuckles. "Don't they know Anbu is going to step in before they can do anything?"
Naruto rubbed a bruise on his shoulder. "It's because of that bastard fox."
"God damn fur ball." Maiku looked at the bruises Naruto now had. He filled with anger. He didn't like people beating on his friends. "If only I could take that fox from you. I'd rather them hate me than my friends."
Naruto almost cried. He knew Maiku was serious. "Oh well nothing we can do about it aniki. But this makes good training for us."
Maiku tightened his fist, causing his palm to start bleeding. "Yeah." He sighed.
End Flashback
"Why wasn't I told sooner!?" He shouted
'He finds out he contains a demon and he's upset that he wasn't told earlier?' Yoshio thought and glanced at Naruto. 'Must have been because he has Naruto as a friend otherwise this could have been much worse.'
"Answer me damn it!" Maiku pounded his fist on the desk bringing Yoshio out of his thoughts.
"We wanted to make sure you were ready. Not everyone in the clan can control Bogu. Some have died, thus having to begin the reincarnation process all over again. This time its Konoha's turn to host Bogu, and it's usually the clan heir."
"So he has appeared before?" Yoshio nodded. "This day went from great," Becoming the heir. "To awesome," Becoming engaged to Tenten. "To really fucking shitty."
"True, but also know this." Yoshio waited until he had Maiku's full attention. "Bogu, though cunning and manipulating, is extremely loyal. A trick to bending him to your will is to earn his respect. The sword sealing we did six months ago will help, but not enough."
"Hey Naruto you ok?" Maiku decided to get Naruto involved in all this. "Hey yo buddy you alright?" Maiku weaved his hand in front of Narrator's face.
"Huh? Oh yeah, demon Bogu, clan heir, marrying Tenten, I heard ya." Naruto smiled.
"Maiku you are taking this very well." Yoshio rolled the scroll back up before putting it away.
"I've come to realize that it will happen if I want it to or not." Yoshio nodded. "Might as well embrace it and get ready for meeting the demon. Why delay the inevitable? That means more training."
The two containers were now sitting in a classroom. Scrolls were spread all over the place, they were reading from them. All of them containing complicated information. "This could work." The one with a sword on his back.
"How can you understand any of this?" Asked the blonde one, who began packing stuff away as the bell rang.
"Get those will you?" Maiku asked, not noticing Naruto had already begun cleaning.
"SASUKE!" Screamed a bunch of girls swarming the boy. The loudest was a girl with pink hair.
"Damn it! Cant they shut up for more than one second?" Screamed Maiku whose drew his sword. He was angry.
"No aniki!" Naruto grabbed Maiku's right arm. "Don't-kill-anyone." He put emphasis on every word.
"QUIET DOWN!" Iruka shouted as he appeared in the room. "Time for the exam." He passed out the exam. "Now you have thirty minutes to finish." Everyone flipped their papers over. Maiku and Naruto smirked at how easy it was and finished in five minutes. Naruto slept while Maiku began sharpening his sword.
Iruka collected the papers and handed them to Mizuki. "Now its time for the taijutsu evaluation." Iruka led them outside. And Mizuki stood in the middle of the ring.
"Naruto you go first. He'll see the style once. Then everyone else will go before me so he might forget his thoughts on how to defeat it while having to think of having to defend for other styles the others will use." Maiku told Naruto the plan off to the side, unintentionally gaining the attention of another blonde student.
"And what are you two doing?" Ino walked over to them. But two the demon containers it was as if she came out of nowhere. Not paying attention also helped to fuel this belief.
"We're just strategizing. And it's a good one aniki." Naruto said elbowing Maiku.
"Yeah I know I'm awesome." Maiku smiled.
Ino just stared at the two, and laughed a bit. "Right anyway good luck." With that she walked away.
"Since that talk with her father she's been a lot nicer. I like it." Naruto began stretching.
Maiku raised an eyebrow. "Really, you like it?" Maiku decided to make fun of him. "If I didn't know any better-"
"Which you don't might I add." Saying that earned him a smack on the head.
"Just go kick Mazurka's ass." Naruto nodded and walked over the ring.
Everyone was back in the classroom, once again waiting to be called for the jiujutsu section. Maiku had already gone, and Naruto was now performing the bushin, perfectly. "Well Naruto, you pass. Congratulations."
Naruto just remained silent. He grabbed his headband and walked away. "Aniki lets go."
Maiku nodded and left with Naruto. They were going Ichikaru's to celebrate their passing.
A shadow stood atop the Hokage Monument. "So this is where it resides. It is time for me to take action. First thing first, head to the Yaiba compound." And the shadow jumped from the stone faces in the direction of the compound. 'All is going to plan.'