Disclaimer: If I owned either series in real life I'd be swimming in a pool full of money......guess what I'm not doing.

Perfect Ninja

P.S: Someone made an interesting comment last chapter. Saying that it's impossible to hate someone genetically. I actually took the idea for 'Assassins Creed' which if for anyone who's played it will recall that the main character uses a machine to access the genetic memory of his ancestor 900 years before. So if you


Chapter 3: Hunger


"So..." Said the young Hokage Minato Namikaze as he looked at his now sleeping son nestled in his wifes arm's. "...what is he?"

It's only been a handful of hours since the Kyuubi attack. The rubble of destroyed buildings and lives still lay smoldering around the village as the ninjas now turned their efforts to finding as many survivors of the attack as possible. However for a certain SS class ninja his mind was pondering the identity of his 'son' after his predecessor told him what the death god said.

Such a comment would have drawn Kushina's eyes into a glare normally, but she was wondering herself.

"I'm not sure." Said Tsunade who along with her pervy team mate and only slightly less pervy sensei were crowded round the desk pondering the blond mite's existence. "I've performed every diagnostic jutsu I could do without cutting him open. And every one said he was a perfectly normal healthy newborn."

"And yet the Shinigami himself told us otherwise." Said Jiraiya as he stared down at his godson.

"Does it matter?" Said Kushina softly as she cradled her sleeping newborn in her arms. "He stopped the Kyuubi didn't he? What does it matter what he is?"

"Only part Kushina." Replied the former Hokage. "It matter's because it's what stopped the death god from sealing away the Kyuubi completly. As it is only half of the demons soul was sealed into the boy."

It showed to. As with all jinchuuriki the young boy had a physical sign of housing a demon. Three faint lines adorned each cheek. Not as prominent as they should if he were so fully hold Kyuubi but still there.

Minato sighed and stood up. A sign that he wanted the argument to close.

"Well at any rate this isn't something we can solve tonight. All that matters is that the Kyuubi's gone. We have a village in ruins and a populace demanding how we defeated the king of all demons." He said as he glanced over at his son.

"What are you planning?" His wife said as she unconsciously held Naruto tighter.

"Well...I was gonna...ya know tell them about Naruto." He said gently....right before backing into a wall under the combined glare of everyone in the room.

"Minato Namikaze have you gone insane!" His predecessor snapped at him.

His former sensei continued. "Do you have any idea what happens to Jinchuuriki!"

Minato put his hands in a calming gesture. "The people have a right to see their hero so..." He was cut off by Jiraiya.

"They won't see him as a hero you idiot. They'll see him as the demon."

Minato looked at him with no small measure of confusion. Jiraiya continued.

"The fate of a demon carrier is not a pleasant one Minato. They're treated like vermin and monsters. The people both fear and hate them forcing them to live like beggars and trash just to survive."

His sensei picked it up from their.

"The best fate they can find are as weapon's for the ninja village's. The one's I've seen are no better than Root anbu. Even the Hachibi jinchuuriki the Raikage's brother is denied the freedom that so many take for granted."

"I would never allow him to be used like that!" Exclaimed Minato with an angry expression.

"You may stop him from being used as a weapon. But can you stop people from hating him?" Said Tsunade.

His face fell slightly. "I...well."

"You can't stop people from hating him once you reveal this Minato. Are you really willing to sacrifice your son's future just to let people know of what happened." Sarutobi said.

Minato found himself lowering back into his seat. He hadn't really considered that. He'd just assumed that he'd tell the people, they'd be thankful to Naruto and that would be that.

Kushina was right he was 'far' to optimistic.

He let out a long sigh "So what 'do' we tell them exactly. Even an academy fresh Genin knows you can't kill a demon."

"We can still tell them you managed to seal it away. Just show em a jar or something and they'll buy it." Said Jiraiya smugly.

His team mate looked at him. "Do you honestly expect that to work?" Jiraiya's smirk only widened.

"What's not to believe. The Ichibi was sealed in a kettle. And theres no better a seal master in the world than my pupil after all. Even those who might not believe him won't be able to prove anything if the phony seals are complex enough."

Tsunade nodded slowly. Unwilling to admit that Jiraiya had a point.

Minato nodded begrudgingly. He still wanted to tell the people about Naruto but he couldn't risk it. He looked over at his his and son and smiled dreamily. She looked so beautiful holding the little bundle like that. Naruto barely made a sound as he dozed.

Kushina noted her husband's gaze and smiled. "You want to hold him Minato?"

He nodded and held out his arm's to take his son.

As soon as he touched his father's hands Naruto's eye's snapped open.

"Wuh, wah, WWWWAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

The windows rattled and eardrum's here all but torn under the incredible wail that Naruto unleashed. Everyone who was lucky enough to not be holding him jammed their fingers in their ears. Minato settled for screwing his face in pain.

"Hush son. It's alright, it's alright." The Hokage said trying to console his son. Rocking his slowly to try to get him to sleep.

"WWWWAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" The baby's wails only increased.

"Please calm down!" He said distressed. Naruto continued to bawl his little heart out.

Seeing her husband's face she reluctantly unplugged her ear's and moved to take her baby.

Silence.

Everyone in the room were bewildered as the horrible shrieking suddenly stopped. They looked towards the little blond and were amazed to see him calm once more. His face red from tears.

"Wow your really good with kid's." Said Jiraiya.

"Mmmm." Went Kushina. "Minato try to take him again."

The elder blond did so and as soon as he did.

"Wah WAAAHHH........." The panicked Hokage once more handed his son back to his wife and was yet with silence once more.

Now everyone was looking at the two blonds strangely.

Minato looked at his son for a moment before moving his hand toward Naruto.

"WAH...." Hand moved away "......" Hand moved closer "WAH" Hand moved away "......"

You get the idea.

"Mmm. Looks like your son doesn't like you much Minato." Went Jiraiya right before Tsunade smacked him upside the head.

"......." Minato looked at his son intently. Naruto wriggled in his mother's grip, like he was trying to get away from his father's gaze. Minato's expression stayed neutral.

"I have to go met the crowd." Minato said flatly before heading out the door.

"Minato." Called his wife.

"Leave him be Kushina." Said Sarutobi. Placing a hand on her shoulder. "Asuma was the same with me when he was born. Naruto will grow to love his father. I'm sure of it."

Kushina looked down at her son who gazed up at her with his blue eyes.

How wrong Sarutobi would be.


*Three years later*

"Hold still Naru-chan." Said Namikaze Uzumaki Kushina.

"I hate this." Said an annoyed Naruto as he fidgeted with the kimono he had been forced to wear.

"Me too. But you know they won't let us through the door if we don't wear these stupid things."

As the son of the Hokage 'and' as a member of the Namikaze clan which was respected in it's own right. Naruto had been invited to attend the Hyuuga Heiress's third birthday party. Since the village was also celebrating a newly forged alliance with 'cloud' Minato himself would be unable to attend but his wife and son had been all to eager to get away from the bore fest the meeting between Minato and the ambassador would have been.

Not that were they were going would be much better.

A short walk through the village found them in front of the massive Hyuuga compound. A smile towards the guards and they were inside the complex, being lead by a branch member to the main house complex were the party was being held. Ready to enjoy the Hinata's Hyuuga's party.

Read 'Hyuuga's' party.

It wasn't all that different from what they had escaped. A Hyuuga didn't get a birthday party you see, they didn't get games or cake or presents or even a 'happy birthday'. A birthday was just another excuse for the elders of the family to invite high ranking village members over and talk politics. All throughout the room were prominent member's of respected clan's. Each paired up with at least one Hyuuga. The non pale eyed party goer's looked like they were struggling to stay awake as they were engaged in conversation about village policy, or something else that should not be discussed at a birthday party. Tsume Inuzuka, normally the epitome of her clan's nature had been reduced to a zombie, nodding every few seconds as a bald old man opposite her continued talking while not noticing her state.

So much for the 'all seeing' Byakugan.

Kushina's gulped audibly as she saw an unpaired Hyuuga make his way over to her when...

"Kushina-Chan!"

'Thank you.' The red head exclaimed in her head as she turned to face the voice's owner.

"Hey Hitomi." She said cheerfully to the Clan head's wife. Hitomi was the mirror of what Hinata would look like later in life. She had long dark blue hair and slightly violet pale eyes. Unlike every other Hyuuga in the room she actually had a smile on her face as she approached her best friend. Albeit at a slow waddle with the rather prominent bump on her stomach. Again unlike a typical 'rod up your ass' member of her family she had opted for a light blue kimono with an orange obi rather than traditional darker and duller colors, something which drew many a disapproving eye from her elders.

The Hyuuga met with her friend and rapped her arm's around her. Careful with her stomach.

"I'm glad that you could make it Kushina." Hitomi said with a smile.

"So I noticed." Said the redhead looking past her friend into the half dead room. "Minato's meeting is probably livelier than this."

"*Sigh* I told them it was for Hinata's birthday, but this is all you can ever expect at a Hyuuga party. The guest's only ever come because they can't say no to a Hyuuga."

"It's your eye's. It's like you can see into our souls or something." Kushina said with a smirk before she was swatted by the other woman.

"So did you bring Naruto-Chan." Questioned Hitomi. Smiling when she felt the small body behind her shift.

"You think I'd suffer this myself." She said while motioning to to the small blond who was looking at the Hyuuga woman expectantly.

"Hey they're Naruto-Chan. Hinata's been waiting for you to get here." She said right before reaching behind herself and pulling out her own child with but a 'squeak' of protest.

"Hello Hinata." He said Politly.

"H-ello N-naruto-kun." Said the small girl while trying to hide the red glow on her face.

'Awww' Thought the two mother's in unison.

"Don't you have something to give her Naruto?" Nudged his mother.

Naruto nodded then pulled a long box out of his kimono and handed it to Hinata.

The little opened it carefully so not to damage the present Naruto gave her.

"Wow." Her mother said softly while Hinata gasped. A small silver necklace lay in the box. It had a silver leaf symbol on it with a pearl were the leaf spiraled.

"Naruto picked it out. He said the pearl reminded him of your family's eyes." Kushina said, right before pouting that she didn't manage to get her ever stoic son to blush.

She'd have to settle for making the young heiress do so. Hardly fun since blinking was harder than getting the little girl to turn red.

Her mother smiled and gently took the box from her daughter and spirited it away in her sleeve. "I'll hide this with the rest till the party's over."

Hinata looked her mother for a second before slowly nodding.

"Is they're somewhere they can play?" Asked Kushina as her eyes darted around the room for other children.

Hitomi nodded "I had a room set up for the children. Rei could you come here." She called out to one of the branch house members bordering the room.

"Yes Lady Hyuuga." The branch member said with far less formality than he would to this womans husband.

"I need you to take Naruto and Hinata to the children's playroom."

"As you wish." Said the woman. Motioning the children to follow her.

Naruto looked up at his mother who made pushing motion's to him. He followed after the woman.

As they watched the two dissipear from the room Hitomi sighed "He's quite different from most children. I don't think I've ever seen a little boy as quiet and polite as him." Hitomi smirked. "I find it difficult to believe he's your son.

The red head huffed. "Believe me he's mine all right. The cravings, mood swings and kicking for 7 month's proved it."

Hitomi blinked in confusion "Seven?"

"Like you said, he different than most."


Naruto was seriously considering going back to the room with the adult's. At least he knew what was going on in there.

The room was plain. No decoration's, no anything resembling furniture occupying it except for the Go board and pillows currently in use in the corner of the room. Their was a sliding door that had been opened which led into a large tranquil garden. He guessed this room was normally used for meditation or a place to play go without distraction.

What was happening right now was far from the room's intended use.

The children about the room seemed to have split into their own little group's each doing their own thing.

Out in the garden he saw through the large open sliding door's were three kid's. One was a boy with black hair which looked very much like a duck. He was going through kata's sloppily, like he saw a fight once and was trying to copy the style, on the other end of the garden were two little girl's plucking flowers from a pain steakingly maintained flowerbed and weaving them into necklace's while taking sidelong glances at the boy and giggling occasionally.

Hey girls do mature faster than boys.

In the room and not particularly close to the door were three boy's surrounding a go board. One with sunglass's was playing one who had hair like a pineapple in what looked like a fairly good game considering their age. To the side a chubby boy was rooting for the pineapple haired one while munching down on an inhuman mount of chip's if the pile of empty bags as tall as he was is any indication.

Over in another part of the room a feral looking boy was wrestling with a twin puppies. Next to him an older girl of similar appearance was watching him, cheering on her brother in the fight while a third puppy was barking in support for its sibling.

If it were up to Naruto he would have curtly planted himself in front of the Go board across from the boy who from the family issue hair style was clearly a Nara and sat there until it was time to go home. The girl attached to his kimono sleeve however had other idea's. Pulling him around the room with less resistance than he could muster and having him spend time with each of the guests.

Not much to say about the girl's, he could barely make out a word between their giggling and talk of 'cooties' so he just got up and walked away. Hinata's preferred proximity to him just making them giggle even harder.

He avoided the Uchiha at all cost. His family weren't exactly on the best term's with the Uchiha since his father had been in office. He didn't know why and he didn't care but he could do without the stony silence to go with the icy over the shoulder stare he was getting. Sasuke wasn't old enough to understand why his family hated Naruto's. Only that they did and therefore he should to.

The Inuzukas were pretty much the same deal. Sure the kids seemed all to willing to let him and Hinata play but the dogs had a whole different idea. They jumped in front of Kiba and Hana and started growling at the blond daring him to move closer. It wasn't till Hana picked each up by the scruff of the neck's and growling right back, making the pups whimper in response at their alphas anger.

Finally they made it over to where Naruto wished to be. He sat himself down across the board from the Nara and started playing. Hinata sat to his side cheering him on as Choji cheered for his friend. It was a surprising game to say the least, if an adult were to be watching they'd swear they were watching a game for someone at least 5 times older than the players really were.

In the end though it was our blond hero who came out on top, barely managing to tear a win away from someone with the Nara's known intellect. Mildly surprising the boy who simply called the situation 'too troublesome'.

That was pretty much how it stayed for the rest of the 'party'. No games, or cake or even any presents like you would get at a normal birthday. Hyuuga's were brought up to be above such trivial thing's.

I may have already said that but I'd thought I'd drive the point home.

Unfortunately (or fortunately if you were an adult) like all thing's this party had to end. As the sun began to dip past view it was time for the guest's to leave.

Try telling them that.

"NO!" Cried Hinata as she refused to let go of her blond friend. Latching onto him with all the strength of a barnacle.

"Come on Hinata. It's time to let Naruto go home." Her mother pleaded as two branch members tried futily to pull the girl of the boy.

"NO!" She protested loudly.

Her mother sighed and she watched the branch members give up in exhaustion to be replaced by a new pair to resume the futile tugging.

Kushina bent down to met the girls level and tried a different approach. "Now Hinata that's not very nice. You can't just let Naruto stay and let the other's leave can you? You'd have to have them all stay overnight."

The smile that split the little girl's face told her she may have said something wrong.

The withering glare from her best friend confirmed her feeling's.


*late that night*

As all but a few remaining members of the branch family slept sound, two blurring shadows made their way ever closer to their target. Making sure to travel from shadow to shadow without a sound less the guard suspect something and activate their bloodline to make sure there are no intruder's.

Slowly but surely they made their way to the intended destination. A small window on the far east side of the complex. Once the guard and passed they made there way down to it and gently opened it before climbing in. Now they just had to bag the Hyuuga and...........what the?

"What the hell? What's with all the brat's?" The bigger of the two cloud ninjas whispered.

"It doesn't matter. Just find the Hyuuga." The smaller and more intelligent one said.

The tip toed through the room, glancing at each child's features till they found the one that belonged to Hinata.

"Got her." Said the smaller one as he placed a silent sleep jutsu on Hinata to ensure she wouldn't wake up. She hadn't been in the large bed in the center of the room but instead and been bundled up against a small blond, one eerily familiar to the one he'd been meeting with earlier.

"Aint that the Hokage's kid?" Said the larger one.

"Yeah it is. Come on let's go." The smaller one said before making for the window.

"Shouldn't we take the kid too?" The bigger one said dumbly.

"You kidding. It's gonna be hard enough to get out with the girl without leaf going to war with us. We take the kage's son and he'll probably take out the whole village himself." He shuddered.

"Oh....what about the Uchiha." The bigger one said looking over at Sasuke.

"Wha..." He gasped. Looking down at Sasuke he clearly saw that the boy had kicked his blanket down in his sleep allowing the Uchiha fan on his night shirt to be visible.

It wasn't a hard choice to make.

"Okay put the jutsu over the kid and let's go." The leader said before jumping out the window. Followed shortly after by his partner.

In their haste to escape however they did make one fatal mistake. A through ninja would have cast sleeping jutsu on everyone in the room to ensure no one would wake. Such as the little blond boy who suddenly found himself much colder without the Hyuuga hugging him.

He had woken up just in time to see the two ninjas jump through the window. If he'd just had a little more common sense would have told him to get an adult. If he'd had a little more time he'd have gotten an adult, If he'd thought a little harder that night he would have started shouting his head off the moment he saw the ninjas to attract the attention of an adult. He had none of these things at the moment however as his instincts told him to chase after them before they got away with his......friends, yeah.

So abandoning every normal shred of common sense a small boy jumped out the window and chased after the two armed Jonin.


Hiashi sat up in his bed, glancing to see that his wife was asleep.

'I'll just check for a second.' Hiashi thought before activating the Byakugan'

The entire Branch house was deployed minutes later.


"Pant* *pant* Can we *pant* rest a bit." Said the larger ninja as he leaned against a tree.

"For the last time 'no'." The smarter of the two said annoyed. They needed every second to spare if they expected to get as far away from Konoha as possible before the ANBU were inevitably alerted of the kidnapping.

"Just gimme*pant* 5 minutes." The bigger one said before sliding down the trunk, causing the Uchiha heir he was holding to turn in his chemically induced sleep, Ignorant to his partners deadly glare.

"We don't have time for a break you idiot! The Anbu will probably be here any min..." He was cut off by the distinct sound of something heavy hitting wood, the tell tale sign on a ninja approaching....or a monkey but either way it was doing to die.

With a single fluid motion he pulled a kunai from his holster and let it fly in the direction of the noise....or he would have if he hadn't fumbled when he saw who it was.

"Hey isn't that the Hokage's kid?" Said the big one. Not bothering to get up from his position.

'Yeah it is' Thought the lead ninja. If he'd actually let that Kunai fly then a new ninja war was pretty much guaranteed.

"So...what do we do with him?" The bigger one said. The two staring at the boy who just continued to stare back at them.

"If he's gonna follow us then we just knock him out and leave him here, either the ANBU find him or the animals eat him, either way they get off Scot free.

The lead nin set Hinata down and brought his hands together to perform another sleep jutsu.

*WHAM*

Before he even got the first hand sign he found himself stumbling back as a tiny shoe connected with his nose.

The two ninjas eyes widened as one griped his now bleeding nose. Their eye's filled with disbelief as Naruto landed back on the same patch of ground he'd 'lept' from.

'How the....I didn't even see him move!'.

The ninja eyed Naruto warily, while his partner watched like he was in the front row to a show.

"Good move kid. Try this." Said the ninja before dashing at the boy. Arms extended to grab him.

*THWACK*

Ow, right into a tree.

Naruto in another feet of impossible acrobatics somersaulted right over the ninjas head right before booting him in the back of the skull, which pushed him face first into a proud and very hard oak tree.

He climbed back to his feet, angrily rubbing his noes as he glared at the blond boy.

"Need some help?" Said the larger one casually, though truth be told it was far more fun watching this than being in it would be.

"Keep. Those. Brats." The leader growled out, glaring at Naruto. "I'm going to deal with the yellow flashes little bastard seriously."

"Didn't you say we couldn't do that?"

"I said we couldn't kill him..." He pulled out a kunai. "So beating him only 'half' to death doesn't count." The lead ninja sneered.

"Ah." Said the larger one dumbly.

Choking back an animalistic angry yell the ninja lunged at the little boy. Intent on dealing with the boy once and for all. No holding back he rushed the boy with speed he new even the greatest of prodigies didn't have.

He was right.

To Naruto it was like the ninja vanished from the spot only to appear right in front of him, kunai inch's away from him. In a somewhat poorly prepared plan he flung his arms across his chest so that his hands were on top of each other.

…......."AAAGGGGHHHH."

Flesh + steel kunai = magic 'see through' hands.

The young blond fell to his knees in incredible pain, attempting to grasp his right hand with his left and vice versa with whatever limited mobility he had left in them, sucking back tears and cries of pain.

The ninja re-holstered his Kunai and picked Hinata back up. "He won't be bothering us for a while. Let's hurry before the Anbu get here."

The other one nodded and with a grunt slid back up the tree. "You'd think they'd be here by now after that fight with the kid.

"The author's holding that back to later when it's important to the plot."

"Huh?"

"I said shut up and let's go!"

Naruto knew that he couldn't let them leave, his every sensible thought was out the window at this point. Every thought that told him that these men were bigger, stronger and just about superior to him in every way was ignored. All he cared about was stopping them from getting away with Sasuke and Hinata.

He slowly raised himself to his feet, pressing his hands down to push himself up. Not even noticing that the twin gaping wounds in his palms had already stopped bleeding and were closing up faster than away wound that size has a right to, albeit differently than to what it was before.

You see the small blonds body took this opportunity to accelerate it's bizarre growth. The wounds on his hands did close up, but not without leaving a nasty little appendage in either hands, resembling a small series of white/yellow spikes in a three inch circle, each about two or three centimeters long.

With that being the 'only' change you can see.

"He's back up."

"Grrr, dammit," Growled the ninja, an idea came to him.

He reached down to grab the boy by the collar, pulling out a kunai.

"I thought you said we should leave him."

"Yeah, but now I'm thinking that the ANBU won't have a choice in what to do if their Kages son is half dead." He said viscously, true theirs probably be more than enough ANBU to take Naruto back 'and' chase them but he wasn't so much sane right now as he was fed up with the brat.

The ninja approached the moaning and barely standing boy, his arms completely useless the blonds frost instinct was to jump back, yet he found himself barreling forward into the stomach of the cloud nin with enough force to knock him over.

The tangled heap of limbs thrashed as the ninja tried to dislodge the blond barnacle clinging to him like his life depended on it......probably because his life depended on it.

The Cloud nin was now seriously pissed. He'd been made to look a fool in front of his partner....ok granted his partner was an idiot but it was the principal, if he didn't dislodge this brat the conveniently slow paced ANBU would catch up.

He got his kunai and moved to impale the boys heart.

*CHOMP*

The kunai stopped just as it's tip pierced skin before grip on it was lost and it clattered to the forest floor,

The ninja gasped for breath which was becoming shorter and shorter.

"Help..m,me." He gasped out as his voice grew weaker.

A proper ninja would have responded. A proper Jonin would have wrenched the boy from the man and made off with him and the two kids in a flash. A proper Jonin would have helped sort all this out in the beginning. Sadly for him his partner was far from a proper Jonin and whose skill was only equal to his family's wealth, so all he did was watch in horror at what was happening.

The larger nin watched as his partners face became thinner and thinner until his skin was pulled against his skull. His muscles vanishing under his cloths and becoming skeletal. His struggles becoming weaker and weaker but still going even when his limbs started to become bags when his bones turned to liquid calcium and vanished. Only when his skin and nails was all that remained did his cries cease right before those dissipated too.

Naruto watched every second pale as a sheet as the man wasted away right before him.

Well not wasted exactly. He could feel something on his hand bite down on the ninja, he started shaking like a leaf when he felt something slither up his arms like a syrup running down his throat.

It was on that thought that the prodigious blond came to a stunning realization.

He had 'Eaten' the man!

He turned his shaking palms to face him and his eyes widened to dinner plates. There in the middle of his perfectly healed palms were smalls rows of three sickly yellow teeth like protrusions. Each one having a tiny pin point and was wiggling like they were fingers.

"What the fuck are you!"

Naruto tore his eyes away from his hands to see the remaining cloud nin staring at him in blather terror. Naruto slowly got to his feet and the ninja backpedaled.

"No way you little freak! Get away from me!" With that the ninja did what he should have done when they stopped first and ran.

The Hokage's son stared after the fleeing ninja ands his cargo. He moved to give chase but was overcome with blinding pain. Collapsing and passing out almost instantly. The teeth going back into his hand and leaving noting but a few faint creases on his palm.


The ninja speed through the woods as fast as his gennin level training would let him. Hell bent on getting away from the monster that ate his partner.

"Not me, not me, not me, not -ACK!!!" His mantra not to mention his heartbeat were both halted courtesy of a well placed palm thrust from a seriously pissed Hiashi Hyuuga.

Hiashi stared down at the man who dared kidnap his daughter. Wordlessly picking up his daughter and Sasuke and slung the two over his shoulders like potato sacks, hey they were out cold and his wife was nowhere to be seen.

"Lord Hiashi." Came a respectful voice as a branch member appeared behind him.

"Have you found lord Hokage's son yet?"

*Nod* "We found him unconscious in a clearing. He........he was lying on a cloud Jonin uniform."

Hiashi's eye's narrowed to hide his confusion. Hyuugas didn't look dumb after all.

"There was no body."

The branch member shakes his head.

"No..but." He trailed off.

"Yes?" Hiashi paused.

"There were small puncture marks in the clothing as well as a liberal amount of blood on the boy, yet he had no wounds."

Hiashi wished he wasn't a Hyuuga right now just so he could openly gawk at the branch member like he had two heads. "Are you suggesting that a Jonin was killed by a mere boy of three with no effort?!"

The branch member winced. "Neither I or the ANBU who found him believe it either sir, but that appears to be the case." He braced his head for the pain to come.

Hiashi thought. A Hyuuga rarely made a wrong observation. There eyes took in even the smallest detail. This however was just to fantastic to believe. No- one no matter how prodigious could kill a jonin when they were just barely out of diapers. It was impossible.

He needed to tell Minato.


Minato stood at the end of his estranged sons bed. His wife was sitting in a chair next to it holding the boy's hand, squeezing every time a pained look passed over the boys face.

Cloud had already returned home, naturally denying any sort of kidnap attempt and demanding the head of the Hyuuga who killed their jonin. Another rather obvious ploy to get the Byakugan which if the rather grizzly plan he and the Hyuuga created would fail.

His biggest concern right now was figuring out how what he had been told about Naruto was possible.

The blood they'd found had actually been mostly Naruto's, yet they were no wounds or scarring anywhere on him and no trail from his mouth or saliva mixed in proved it didn't come from his mouth. He realized that this healing could be a result of the fragment of the Kyuubi the boy absorbed but their still should be at least some evidence of a wound given the amount of blood.

The weird thing was they actually did find a small amount of blood on Naruto's hand's which they guessed belonged to the Jonin, making that blood the only remains of his bar the spotless and near completely intact uniform.

What the hell happened?! None of this made any sense. The only even remotely plausible reason was that the Jonin was off in the woods somewhere buck naked, and even that was too stupid to believe.

"Why me?" He sighed and rubbed his temples.

"One minute I'm shaking hands with a foreign dignitary and the next I'm being threatened with war and my toddler son is being accused of murder.

"We've had stranger day's." His wife shrugged.

"Yeah." He said sadly. "And all we've got to go on is Naruto when he wakes up."

"What about Inochi?" Said Kushina. The head of the interrogation division didn't even need to touch you to find out everything about someone.

Minato shook his head. "Tried it already. He said all he got was a strange 'fuzz'. Said Naruto might be blocking the memory and that it was dangerous to probe any further without harming him." He turned to his seeping son. "Either way we need that information."

He ebbed away under the harsh glare from his wife.

"You are 'NOT' hurting our little boy just for some information

He wilted back with his hands in a warding gesture. "I wasn't saying that. We'll just wait for him to wake up.

Kushina nodded curtly and turned back to her son. Allowing the fourth to sigh in relief.

He needed to know what Naruto saw.

Or did.


Meanwhile within the specially designed bio-droid that was Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto a wondrous change was happening.

It was a change that went past the visible spectrum, past the cellular level. This was a change to his very D.N.A

Sequences of genetic code that Gero had been so meticulous in crafting were opening up as the material Naruto had 'acquired' merged with the strands. Growing more complex, more powerful.

His body was already benefiting from this change. His chakra grew capacity grew larger by exactly as much as the Jonin he absorbed had possessed. His cellular structure growing stronger and dense, like natural Armour.

Finally the greatest benefit filtered in. You see as does a bird know instinctively were to fly each season thanks to genetic memory did he gain the entirety of the knowledge of the cloud nin join with him. Knowledge of his life, his feelings and more importantly his skills and jutsu were imprinted into the young blonds mind, clearer than his instinctive Taijutsu he did earlier.

Neither boy nor parents have any idea of the changes that were happening, as he awakened the power that would make him a legend.


His eyes fluttered open as consciousness returned to him.....and a large weight pressed against him?

He smiled as he saw the familiar red hair of his mother and felt her buried against his neck, stroking his hair gently.

"Naru-chan, I'm so glad your alright."

Her hug tightened.

He had no reason to complain.

"Naruto." Came a familiar male voice.

Now he had reason to complain.

Naruto knew that he had no real reason to dislike the man, in fact he was sometimes rather confused by the almost instinctual nature of it. Yet dislike in general is often unreasonable so no one thought much of it. The boy simply didn't like his father.

"Minato can't you at least wait till he's better?"

The elder blond shook his head. "Sorry Kushina but no. I don't like it but we need answers now."

Minato moved closer to his son's bed. Rather disappointed when the mini version of him edged away from him. Sensei was wrong when he said Naruto would grow out of it.

He knelled down next to the bed and smiled.

"Hey son. Do you think you could tell your old man what happened last night?"

Naruto shook his head before burying 'his' head into the crook of his mother neck like she had been doing with him moments ago.

Kushina smiled warmly before looking up to wave the 'favorite parent' victory over her husband, before freezing.

'Uh oh' He was using that damn puppy dog eyes technique again. That truck got her to say yes to marrying him.

She crumbled like a sand castle at high tide. Looking down at her son she sighed.

"Naru-Chan."

He looked up and 'DAMN'. He made Minato's technique seem powerless in comparison.

"Do you think that you could tell 'me' what happened?" She said putting the emphasis on 'me'.

He looked up at her for a moment, then nodded.

Minato moaned audibly.

The boy told her everything. Even if he was more mature than other children his age he was still a child in his mothers arms. He told her about the chase, the rather surprising fight even about the whole 'eating' the enemy ninja which he described as 'sucking' out his guts until he was just a sack of skin.

His parents didn't believe him of course. That is until they had a medic perform a sort of 'x-ray' jutsu on the boy's hands.

He was rushed into the prisoner unit a moment later.

Suddenly the Shinigamis comment made sense.


The prisoner unit was a mix of both a hospital and a jail. A place where they could hold criminals that had been injured, often missing nin.

Naruto was undergoing more examinations in an hour than a hypochondriac goes through in a month. His arms in particular had been poked, prodded more times than anyone could be bothered to count. The medics, his parents, guards and ANBU guards were rather disgusted when one of the medics managed to tease the teeth in his left hand to the surface.

One actually ran out the room holding his mouth when they were testing Naruto's 'eating' explanation with a hunk of beef and watched it vanish up the boys arm.

"This is it isn't it?" Kushina said. Minato looked at her. "This is what the Shinigami meant by different." Her voice was becoming more distressed with every breath.

"Minato whats happening to our son?!"

The young Kage simply held his wife close. He was just as clueless as she was.

*click*

A medic stepped out of the examination room still decked out in his overalls.

"We've finished the tests lord Hokage." He said curtly.

"So whats wrong then?"

"The 'teeth' on his hands aren't actual teeth. More like small mouths shaped like stingers. Each leads to a small 'passage no bigger than a vein which in turn are all connected to a larger 'throat' like tube which leads to his stomach."

"Can you tell us anything?" Asked Kushina. "How he got this?"

The medic shook his head. "It could be a number of reasons. The most obvious would be the emergence of a bloodline."

"But neither of us have one." Replied Minato.

The medic shrugged. "It could be any number of reasons. Maybe they skip a generation like the Senju, or even a mutation resulting in a brand new one. Both the Sharingan and the Byakugan are the results of mutation in the Uchiha and Hyuuga generations ago so it's not implausible to believe that a new one has formed in your son."

The two processed the information just as the medic left.

Naruto just lay on the examination table. Wires sticking out of his arms.

"Well it's not the most pleasant of powers but it'll definitely be an advantage when when he's a ninja.

"Kushina snorted. "Yeah if he's in the interrogation division. 'Tell us what we want to know or I'll eat you." She mimicked in her son's voice disturbingly well.

Oh, it would help him alright. Both in the way the red haired Kunoichi said it, and beyond.

Their son on this day had begun his career as he number one most surprising ninja.