A little help from heaven

by maverick9871

The night of the forbidden scroll incident Naruto wasn't alone when he practiced that night. Someone watched from the cabin and it change not only both thier futures but the worlds. NarutoXTenten

5. Chapter 5

It had been a little over 2 weeks since that day when Naruto walked into the Wolf Claw weapons shop and Dustin blinked and said "Long time no see stranger. So what brings you here today."

Naruto walked over and pulled out his wallet and handed Dustin $500 and said "There, that's the remaining balance on what I owed you."

Dustin blinked and counted the money and said "Your right and I owe you $20 back in change though. I thought it would take you a couple of months to get it though."

Naruto rubbed his head and said "It might have if I worked at the pace of my team but where my teammates have done a total of 15 missions since we began as I team, I have done a total of 32 missions." as his shoulders slumped.

Dustin blinked and asked "How did you do that many."

Naruto closed his eyes and rubbed them around the temples and said "Kakashi-sensei doesn't arrive until 11 am and we do 1 mission a day and then he lets us go and on Saturdays he has us work on team work and sparring and Sundays are our days of rest. I've been doing an extra mission solo after our regular mission Monday through Saturday and on Sunday I do 3 missions. I think I'm going to take this Sunday off though. I'm gettting really tired since I'm creating a Kagebunshin first thing when I leave my apartment and he heads off to work on all my chakra control and jutsu training while I do physical training. He also does my seal training...damn this headache. Can't get rid of it and it's seems to be getting worse if that is even possible."

Dustin said "I see....I guess that would explain the dark rings you got under your eyes. I didn't want you to work yourself to death to pay me back kid. I wasn't in a hurry to get the money."

Naruto said "I originally was only going to do 3 days a week of extra missions but after checking my income vs bills I decided that I was going to get some extra cash put up to fall back on in case I got injured since I have to support myself so I talked to jiji again and all I have to do is let him know the day before and he will hold a mission back for me. I wish I could figure out a way to come up with extra cash that doesn't require my ninja skills but I don't have any other skills that could be used for that right now but I'm hoping that I might learn something with all these D-ranks I am doing to help me with that."

Dustin said "I know what you mean, it's not actually a problem that you alone face. About 60 percent of our ninja force actually is in that situation, they just don't HAVE any other skills to fall back on which is why they stay ninja long after they should retire when their bodies can't keep up with the streign of being a ninja. I don't know how many customers I lost over the years for that simple fact."

Naruto frowned and said "That's something I'll have to look into when I become Hokage. It seems like a waste of resources and lives."

Dustin nods and Naruto said "Anyways, I got another reason for coming today. I've come across a couple of problems. I've used all my sealing supplies practicing so I need to get some more and I also need to get another sword."

Dustin blinked and asked "Why, the one on your back doesn't appear damaged or anything."

Naruto laughed and said "No, it's not that. Between my dodging excercise and trying to catch those damn chickens at the farm I work at sometimes for missions I gotten pretty quick on my feet and I think Tenten would say I've gotten my balance finally but the thing is I need to do more then just swing my sword around if I am ever going to learn to use it so I was thinking of getting a second sword and have a Kagebunshin attack me and I block before I attack and he blocks and just go back and forward where not only would I be learning to block but also attack with it and gain a little experience."

Dustin thought a moment and said "That is actually a very good idea to help you learn the basics."

Naruto said "Yeah, I came up with it when I was dodging Edgar."

Dustin asked "Whose Edgar."

Naruto scowled and said "Edgars the damn rooster at the chicken farm. The bastard must be able to tell the Kyuubi in me because he keeps trying to kill me by pecking and clawing me to death.....hey don't laugh, I actually got scars on my back from him and I never scar."

Dustin waved his hand as he tried to calm down and said "Sorry, sorry...so besides chasing chickens and fighting roosters what else have you been doing."

Naruto said "Well....I had to catch Tora, had to help break a couple of wild horses that are suppose to be used by some movie company in a few months when they come to Konoha though I think I broke my tail bone when I got throwed off them several times....um...I worked at the fish hatchery cleaning the ponds of slime after they drained the ponds...I had to help plow a couple of fields, paint a few fences after I built them, worked in the records office at the accademy, worked in the mission record office and my hand writing has gotten better as well as my seal making since I sort of had to rewrite the reports several times." as he looked sheepish rubbing the back of his head in emberrassment.

Dustin said "I see...so you been doing all that by yourself."

Naruto said "Yeah, I also had to work at the Yamato wood works cutting down some trees and helping them cut the trees into usable pieces. I also did some stocking for the Yamanaka flower shop for their furtilizer bags that I actually made at this manure farm I worked at the day before."

Dustin blinked and said "Naruto...have you been wearing those weights you bought."

Naruto said "Oh yeah, I've reached about 30 lbs each. After an accident the day of our real gennin test I couldn't remember how much I had on at the time so I just put it all on and it hurt the first couple of day because I thought my arms and legs were going to fall off, especially when I had to do all that hammering so I cut it back down to 20lbs each and I got use to it real quick so I added an extra 10 lbs to it. I'm going to wait until next week and then add some more weight. Why."

Dustin said "Hmm....just wondering, good job. So you need another sword and some more ink, blank scrolls, and brushes right."

Naruto nods and Dustin said "Naruto, since you paid me back so quickly I am going to give you a small line of credit. Up to $1000 you can spend here and pay me back when you can, think of it as a little help should you become injured but I don't want to see you work yourself to death. I don't know if you notice yet or not but you are about to collapse from both mental and physical exhaustion. I suggest that you take Sunday off and relax or sleep. If you run out of equiptment and need them but don't have the money you can use that credit and pay me back when you can but don't kill yourself or burn out. Alright."

Naruto said "Alright....so about those supplies." in a questioning and uncomfortable tone.

Dustin said "I'll get them for you." as he left the room and came back with a scroll and said "I got you 10 bottles of ink, 20 brushes, and 100 blank scrolls as well as another sword sealed in here. That would be $400."

Naruto nods and said "Here's $200 and I'll pay the rest later, OK."

Dustin said "Sounds good, here." as he pulled out a red book and wrote down in it and Naruto blinked and said "I see, so you give credit to all your customers." as he saw his previous balance that was zero out now before the new balance was added.

Dustin said "Only those I trust."

Naruto smiled and said "Have you seen Tenten."

Dustin said "She's out on a mission right now. She should be back sometime this week, why."

Naruto said "Oh...we were going to train together and I just was wondering why she hadn't come by the training ground I use...Well I got to go, Cya." as he started to leave.

Dustin said "Wait....I was wondering, how are you coming along with your seal training."

Naruto thought a moment and said "Truthfully....I got nearly every seal in the books I'm reading memorized and I can reproduce them but my brush strokes are still way off and look like a kid drawing with a crayon so I am trying to improve in those areas. Especially after Iruka-sensei who was the person who had to help me with the paperwork at the accademy and the mission office told me that some of my bad grades in the accademy was simply because he gave up trying to figure out what my handwriting was. Also the guy at the chicken farm told me that he seen chicken scratch neater then my handwriting and made me rewrite everything that day so I'm actually taking an hour before I leave my house and an hour after I get home every day and just working on my writing."

Dustin said "Yes, in sealing sometimes the size of the stroke is just as important as the stroke itself because the chakra is evenly spread out across the ink and if one area is bigger then the other areas in the seal then that area would be a weakened area in the seal."

Naruto said "Yeah, that's something I'm paying close attention to...Well I got to go, Cya." as he quickly left.

After he was gone Dustin thought "Clever Hokage-sama. Your giving him jobs that will either help him in speed, strength, reflexes, chakra control or more specific jobs that could help him with his kenjutsu and sealing skills."

When Naruto got to his training ground he saw Sasuke and Sakura sitting on the bridge and he frowned as he walked over and Sasuke said "What's with the second sword dobe."

Naruto said "Training Teme." as he put his hands together and said "Kagebunshin no jutsu." as 5 Kagebunshin appeared and Naruto scowled and said "I really got to get my control better. You, here." as he tossed the second sword to one.

The kagebunshin caught it and Naruto said "You, I want you to watch us and look for places we swing wrong or things that look wrong, you 2 I want one of you to work on leaf balancing while the other one work on the other leaf excercise...Now you with the sword, here is how we are going to do this I.."

The Kagebunshin said "I know already, I swing once at you and you block and then I have to block as you try to counter attack."

Naruto rubbed his head and said "Yeah." as he looked sheepish.

The kagebunshin said "Ready."

Naruto nods and jumped back when the clone attacked and said "Woah, slow down. Your not trying to kill me, just go slow at first and we will work on speed later."

The Kagebunshin frowned and said "But that's not fun."

Naruto said "I rather live now and have fun later."

The Kagebunshin said "Fine. Ready to try again." with a scowl on his face.

Naruto nods and soon he blocked and tried to attack again at the same speed as the clone.

Clang

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Off to the side Sasuke was watching this with a scowl and Sakura said "Sasuke-kun.....have you notice how Naruto is acting so...different from the accademy. I mean he's always seems to be doing something like reading those books or excercising, practicing the rope escape jutsu and the others we learned in the accademy or always staying after to speak with the Hokage when we finish our missions. He doesn't even talk with us either unless it's when Kakashi-sensei is here and then it's only him trying to tell us what he thinks about the mission we are on."

Sasuke said "Yeah, I notice. I think the dobe is getting extra training somewhere. I mean you see how Hokage-sama and Kakashi-sensei always seem to give him their full attention like he's better then we are. Ever since that day of the stupid bell test."

Sakura said "I think it's that girl, the one from the day we got our teams."

Sasuke thought a moment and said "Yeah, there's something going on between them. You saw the way the dobe listened to every word she said like it was orders from a sensei."

Sakura thought a moment and said "You think she's a tutor."

Sasuke blinked and asked "A tutor."

Sakura said "You know, someone who helps others catch up when their behind. In civilian schools mom told me that older classmen are sometimes tutors to younger ones to help them catch up when they are having trouble. We all know Naruto an idiot and he only just barely passed....maybe he actually didn't pass like we all thought. Maybe the Hokage felt sorry for him and only let him pass because he playing favorites. We both see how Naruto gets to call him Jiji with such disrespect like they were family or something. I bet the Hokage just let him pass and hired that girl to tutor him to catch up."

Sasuke thought a moment and said "Maybe your right."

A kagebunshin who was watching for mistakes with the dual between Naruto and a clone scowled and went up in smoke from clenching his fist to hard with it's nails and Naruto and the other Kagebunshin scowled as well and Naruto who was blocking a strike let his anger get the better of him and on his next strike a blade of wind shot out of his sword destroying the Kagebunshin and slashed the tree behind it and the tree began to fall.

CRASH

The sound of the tree falling drew Sasuke and Sakura attention and Naruto stood there wide eyed as he saw it fall and he said "Woah."

Sasuke got up and said "What happened." as he looked at the tree and the stump and thought "This is a straight cut...he cut it...but how. He was over 10 feet away."

Naruto said "I don't know." as he looked at the tree and the sword and the sword on the ground and thought "I used wind chakra to cut it..I know that is what I did but how.....I must have sent chakra into the blade to do it. Hmm." as he sent chakra into the blade again and swung it and didn't see anything but one of his Kagebunshin saw something and dispelled and Naruto eyes widen slightly and he walked over to the tree trunk and stepped back where the sword would miss the tree by 2 inches and he sent a large amount of chakra into the sword and swung it down at the tree and looked and saw a cut appear on the tree and said "Woah."

Kakashi said "Woah indeed. It appears as if you are starting to get the hand of you elemental affinity."

Sakura screamed "Your late."

Kakashi ignored her and Sasuke said "What do you mean by elemental affinity."

Kakashi said "Hmm, you say something....oh elemental affinity. Everyone has an element that their chakra is naturally more aligned with. Some people even have 2. The Shodaime Hokage had elemental affinity to 3 because of his bloodline. Wood, water, and earth. Each affinity has a differnt ability. Fire burns, Wind cuts, lighting crinkles, water soaks, and earth crumbles."

Sasuke said "So the dobe here has an elemental affinity to wind since he used his chakra to cut the tree."

Kakashi nods and Sakura asked "But what are we." as she looked at Kakashi questioningly.

Kakashi said "I've been expecting this for a while since Naruto been doing wind manipulation practice in front of you. Here, put some of you chakra into this and I'll be able to tell what you got." as he handed Sakura and Sasuke both a small piece of paper and both did and burned and Sakura soaked." {I know some of you are going to say that Sasuke has lightning also but I believe he didn't actually get his lightning affinity until after Kakashi taught him the Chidori. Kakashi could use other elements that he didn't have affinity to thanks to his sharingan.}

Kakashi said "Well you have fire Sasuke and Sakura has water."

Sasuke frowned and said "So what does that mean."

Kakashi said "That means that you will get fire jutsu easier then other elements but water will be harder for you to learn while Sakura will get water easier and fire will be harder for her to learn and Naruto wind easier and lightning harder to learn.

Sasuke asked "Which is stronger."

Naruto said "It's not which is stronger but which is used more wisely Sasuke."

Sakura said "Oh, and what did you tutor say to make you think that."

Naruto growled and Kakashi asked "Tutor."

Naruto scowled said "Sasuke and Sakura think that Tenten is a tutor Jiji order for me after he let me pass because of how close we are. They think that I shouldn't even be a ninja because I'm to stupid."

Sakura gasped and said in an accusing tone "You were spying on us."

Kakashi scowled behind his mask and Naruto said "NO, You and Sasuke were talking so loud and open right in front of me I had no choice but to hear it. I..."

Kakashi said "ENOUGH.......You 3 are ninja, not children and you are acting like spoiled little brats who I should bend over my knee and spank." as he unleashed some KI to gain their full attention.

Kakashi looked all 3 in the eye and said "All 3 of you FAILED to realise the main reason why I am 3 hours late. One of you half way got it but still failed it. I gave you this time to not only work on your personal training like Naruto has been doing but I also give you this time for all 3 of you to work on your teamwork and help each other train. Since all 3 of you can't seem to do this without being ordered to I will make you do it." as he walked over to a tree and walked up it and stood upside down on a branch much to Sasuke and Sakura surprise.

Kakashi said "This is a training excercise called Tree climbing. You have to learn to control a certain amount of chakra to stick to the tree. To much and you blow off, not enough and you don't stick. From now on when you 3 arrive in the morning you are not allowed to do anything else except this excercise until you can go up AND down the tree 25 times without a break and without messing up. Until all 3 of you can show you can do that I will not request any higher ranked mission beside a D-rank because you are not ready for a C-rank mission. Now for the next hour I want you 3 to work on this before we do our mission. Use a kunai to mark your progress....begin."

Naruto frowned as he sheethed his sword and turned and began to walk up a tree slowly and made it about 25 feet up before his control slipped and he marked the tree.

Sasuke and Sakura were wide eyed and both looked at a tree and began to try the excercise with Sasuke making it 7 feet before he was forced to cut the tree and flip and he glared at the tree and then Naruto and Sakura said "Take that Naruto. I made it on my first try."

Naruto started to say something when Kakashi said "Sakura, shut up and keep working. You only made it to the top once and had to stop so you have to start all over."

Sakura eyes went wide and said "But..."

Kakashi said "I am your sensei and you will listen to me, now get started."

Sakura frowned as Naruto slowly walked up to the tree and going one foot at a time slowly worked his way up past his mark and made it nearly to the top before his control slipped and he was forced to mark the tree.

Sasuke glared at both Sakura and Naruto as he tried again and only made it 5 feet before he blew off.

Naruto said "Your doing it wrong Sasuke."

Sasuke gritted his teeth and said "Oh, and how do you know that."

Naruto said "Because I've been doing this excercise already every day since we became a gennin and I actually can if I wanted to make it up and down this tree all the way right now all 25 times because I know the secret behind this as well as the rules that Kakashi-sensei didn't say like the real reason Sakura got this excercise right the first time."

Sakura put her hands on her hip and said "Really Baka, then why don't you prove it. Tell us what the oh so smart words of your tutor are."

Naruto frowned and looked at Kakashi and asked "After we finish our 25 times up and down what do we have to do Kakashi-sensei."

Kakashi said "You may do your own training until I arrive or rest until our hour here is over."

Naruto said "Very well." as he walked behind a tree away from the views of the others and a puff sound was heard and Naruto walked back around and said "Fine, you count Sakura." as he took off running up and down the tree and to the shock of everyone but Kakashi who knew what he did when he went behind the tree. he ran up and down the tree perfectly as Sakura said in a shock voice "1...2...3...4.....23....24...25."

Naruto actually kept going and ran up and down it for 5 more times before he touched the ground and said "There, see, I did it and can do it anytime I like just as easily. Now to answer your question Ms. Oh so great book worm. Imagine you had a water hose turned on just a little where the water come out. It's easy to put the water where you want it and not waste very much because the water is so small. Now imagine the same water hose with your finger over the end and the water turned on full blast and you try to do the same thing. It's harder to control a large amount of chakra without wasting it which is why Sasuke only can make it a couple of feet before he has to jump off is because he actually has large chakra reserves and you Sakura are able make it up to the top because you barely even have enough chakra to come out the water hose. Nobody told me that Sakura, I read it in a book on chakra at the accademy...you know the funny thing Sakura, I have a friend who is 8 years old. He is only a child and he has larger chakra reserves then you because he can at least run up and down the tree 6 times without stopping so that means your weaker then a 8 year old child and I can go get him and bring him here to prove it any time I want just to show you if you doubt my words.....What the hell did I ever see in you and why the hell did I ever care to try and make you happy." as he glared at her.

Sakura was shocked because of what Naruto said to her and she looked at Kakashi and asked "Is he right, is that the truth."

Kakashi said "I don't know about the 8 year old child but the rest is true...I suppose the child part could be true since I graduated from the accademy at the age of 5 and was a Chunnin at the age of 6." making all 3 look at him with wide eyes.

Kakashi said "Well get to work all 3 of you. I don't care if you did do it 25 times already. You need the practice."

Naruto nods and got back to work and after 25 minutes Sakura was panting only able to do it 3 times without stopping and Sasuke made it only 10 feet up.

Kakashi closed his book and said "Alright, it's time for a mission."

Sakura said "Oh god, I haven't felt this tired since I was trying to beat Ino at the accademy. Can't we take a break to rest Kakashi-sensei."

Naruto blinked and a smirk appeared on his face as a plan formed which no one noticed.

Kakashi looked at her and said "Nope. This is not only training but punishment since you 3 can't seem to get along."

Sasuke glared at Naruto as they started to the village and said "How the hell were you able to run up and down that tree so many times."

Naruto looked at Sasuke and said "It's what I was going to tell you and Sakura was the other secret to this training before Sakura pissed me off by insulting my friendship with Tenten. I admit there are things I don't know that others know because I have had to teach myself to do basically everything my entire life. I was kicked out of the orphange at the age of 5 because they didn't have room for me anymore so I was given an apartment that I had to pay rent on and the only income I had was the $600 a month I was given from the orphans fund. Out of that money I had to pay my rent, utilities, food, cloths, and my ninja equiptment. You want to know what really caused me to focus so much on training now before we had missions. It's because when I graduated the accademy I no longer qualified for the orphans fund so all my money I have now is coming from mission pay which is why after you and Sakura leave the Hokage office I stay and get another mission to earn more money just so I can pay my bills and my ninja equiptment which means with me all the time on missions the only time I actually have to train is before Kakashi-sensei arrives." shocking Sasuke and Sakura.

Naruto saw the shocked look and said "Yeah, that's my oh so great secret Sakura that you had to insult my friendship with someone by thinking that the only reason I have a friend is because she's being paid to but answer me this Sakura, how many actual friends do YOU have. I mean everyone saw how you broke your friendship with Ino over Sasuke so why should they be your friend if you would throw them away just for a guy who isn't interested in a relationship now at the age of 14 much less at the age of 9. I tried to be your friend even after that and all I got was hit and insulted just like I tried to be friends with Sasuke the only way he wants a friend and that's by being his rival."

Sasuke blinked and Sakura said "His rival."

Naruto said "Yeah, anyone with a brain can see that Sasuke wants to get strong so he can avenge his clan so he will want friends who are also strong and will challenge him to get stronger so that he can reach his goal....I may not be as smart as both of you but physically I am stronger then you both. I mean come on and actually think a minute. I out ran ANBU for hours when I pulled my pranks and my stealth skills are so good that I could paint the Hokage monument in broad daylight wearing orange and not get caught until after I finished and banged my paint cans together to get the attention of an entire village full of ninja and then out ran them all across the village until Iruka finally caught me...I still don't know how he is able to find me when no one else , I need to ask him that sometime."

Kakashi said "Iruka is a sensor.....a sensor is a special type of ninja that can track other ninja by their chakra signature and often are able to tell different ninja by their chakra." as he saw the 3 questioning looks.

Naruto stopped in his tracks and Sakura asked "What's wrong Naruto." as she saw the shocked look on his face.

Naruto frowned and asked "Kakashi-sensei...how does one tell if they are a sensor or not."

Kakashi looked up from his book and asked "Why." as he eyed Naruto carefully.

Naruto said "Well...I'm not sure if it's the same thing but when ever I pulled my pranks and the ANBU tried to set up traps for me by shushining ahead of me I could tell when they went from being behind me to in front of me and would always change direction to avoid them...It's this wierd feeling like a tingle in my mind...but it only worked on ninja. It never seem to work whenever I was trying to escape villagers....is that a sensor or is that something else."

Kakashi said "Hmm.."

Naruto side stepped to the right just as a clone of Kakashi appeared behind him shocking all 3 gennins and Kakashi asked "Why did you move."

Naruto said "I don't like when people get behind me after last time." as he glared at Kakashi.

Kakashi said "But you were already moving before the clone appeared."

Naruto said "It's that thing I told you about. I just felt someone was..." as he side stepped again as another clone appeared behind him and he glared at Kakashi who released the 2 clones and said "You might be one. I don't really know much about sensors besides their annoying as hell to capture or evade depending on if your trying to get to them or away from them. I'll meantion it to Hokage-sama and see what he thinks...perhaps it's something you got from your mother whoever she is." as he turned and started to walk away.

Naruto eyes got wide a moment as he understood what Kakashi meant and Sakura asked "Why couldn't it be his father and don't you mean was. I mean if he's an orphan doesn't that mean she's dead."

Naruto paled as his eyes locked onto the form of Kakashi and thought "My mothers alive."

Kakashi shrugs his shoulders and said "Honestly, I don't know. It could have been his father or mother and I don't know if they are alive or dead or both. I mean I don't know who Naruto parents are since there was never any males listed as Uzumaki before in Konoha since they were originally a clan from Whirlpool country before it was destroyed by the hidden mist village during the civil war in the land of Water. I don't know if Naruto is in fact a member of that clan and no body of a woman named Uzumaki was found after the Kyuubi attack since Naruto records say he was born on October 10th she would have had to have been in the village to give birth to him. He could have actually been born the day before and they just never got to fill out his birth certificate until after the attack, I don't know."

Sakura asked "How do you know that there was no Uzumaki body found."

Kakashi said "Every body that was recovered from the Kyuubi attack was identified and I memorized the names of everyone who died that day like most Jounins since we were responsible with telling the families if their loved ones were dead or not."

Naruto asked "If....if it is possible I am a member of that clan...are there any other members out there." in a quiter voice.

Kakashi said "I don't know....I doubt you are a member of that clan though. I've met an Uzumaki clan member once and she told me every member of her clan had red hair....but it's possible that you are and simply look like your father or a mixture of both. I don't know....as for any other Uzumaki...it's possible but I can't say for sure. Whirlpool country was destroyed during the Cival war going on in Water country and was absorbed into the land of Water. The survivors fled to other countries or fought on so I can't say what happened to them."

Naruto thought "Mom had red hair and she might be alive and there might be more family out there."

Sasuke said "You said the Uzumaki were a clan...did they have a bloodline."

Kakashi was silent a moment and said "Hmm....I don't know if it actually was a bloodline but I do know the Uzumaki were famous for 2 things. 1 they were excellent Kenjutsu masters and the 2nd was they were all sensors...but I really don't know. I am just telling what I either experienced or read. I could be wrong or misinformed."

Sasuke and Sakura both looked at Naruto who said "Well either way Kakashi-sensei I thank you for at least giving me something to look into someday. Even if I'm not a real member of the Uzumaki clan in case I was just given the name for some reason, but if I am really a sensor I'll try to honor them either living or dead by becoming the best I could be at both Kenjutsu and chakra sensing."

Sakura looked down and bit her lip and said "Naruto...I'm sorry about earlier...I guess that you changed so much after we graduated I couldn't understand why....and I might have been a bit jelous also since I don't actually have any friends anymore...all I have is a rival in Ino."

Naruto smiled and said "Well, how about we start over as a team, all 3 of us. I'll help both you and Sasuke out and you both help me out, what do you say."

Sasuke said "Oh, and how could you help us out."

Naruto said "Well, I can tell you both the other secret to the tree climbing excercise and also help Sakura get her friendship with Ino back as well while not having to chose over who will wind up with you Sasuke."

Sasuke thought a moment and said "Alright, deal."

Naruto looked at Sakura and she said "If you can, deal."

Naruto nods and walks over to a tree and put one foot on the tree and said "The secret to this is that it's not a race to the top but a goal to achieve. Put your foot on the tree and practice just with one foot until you get the control for it perfect where you stick before going to the next foot and slowly work your way up. Once you can do it without thinking about it, it's just basically running laps up and down a tree after that to build up your stamina....as for your friendship, Sasuke the last of his clan with a bloodline, that means he gets to have more then one wife, lover, or girlfriend so you both can share."

The shocked looks on Sasuke and Sakura face was priceless and Kakashi laughed as he saw Sasuke who was excited as he understood the secret to getting the excercise before he paled right before Sakura shrieked in happiness and kissed Naruto on the cheek."

Naruto laughed as he rubbed his head and Sasuke said "I hate you Naruto."

Naruto said "What are rivals for Teme, making each others lives hell. Now come on, my rents due next week." as he laughed and began to run toward the Hokage tower shocking Sasuke and Sakura since Naruto hadn't put back on his weights and both looked at each other and Sakura asked "When did Naruto get so fast."

Sasuke said "Damn...I guess he really can out run ANBU."

Kakashi looked at them and thought "Actually, that was fast but not as fast as Naruto can be since he's just litely jogging. Naruto true speed should be WAY faster then that, even before the he began weight training."

After Team 7 chased Tora and Naruto got another mission he was leaving the Hokage tower when Kakashi walked up beside him and said "Good job on making peace with your teammates Naruto." as Naruto stepped out of the tower.

Naruto frowned and said "I didn't do it for them. I did it to repay you for not only all you did for me when I was younger but what you did today." as he winced as he grabbed his head

Kakashi saw this and said "I figured as much...but still, you should think you did it for yourself also, I mean Sasuke and Sakura seem to respect you now some."

Naruto looked down and said "For how long. Until I do something they don't expect, until I served my purpose. People don't change on an instant. Maybe someday I can count them as friends but for now I'll just take them as teammates but I will still keep my secrets and my guard." as he began to walk away.

Kakashi said "Why." as he looked at Naruto who looked back rubbed the palm of his hand against his temple and said "Because it hurts worse when your betrayed by someone you trust. Been there, done that." as he walked away.

Kakashi looked down and thought "Just try Naruto, not everyone will betray you." as he left in a swirl of leaves.

As Naruto walked into the Yamanaka flower shop Inoichi looked up and blinked and said "Hello Naruto, what are you doing here today. Need something."

Naruto said "Actually, is Ino around, I was wanting to talk to her about something."

Ino heard her name came out of the back and said "Oh, it's just you Naruto, what do you want, I was busy."

Naruto crossed his arms and said "I came here to make a deal with you Ino."

Inoichi looked on curriously and Ino said "Oh, what kind of deal and why should I care."

Naruto smirked and said "Because I can give you the 2 things you want most, your friendship with Sakura and Sasuke as your boyfriend." causing Ino to go wide eyed and Inoichi to look at Naruto with narrowed eyes.

Ino said "And why should I believe you."

Naruto said "Because I also know your secret. The one you kept from everyone. The real reason why you were second highest kunoichi in our class. What do you think would happen if Sakura were to find out that you let her have first place out of sympathy and she didn't actually earn it."

Ino eyes widen and Inoichi said "I don't like this conversation and I don't think I want you here Naruto."

Naruto said "Please give me 5 minutes Yamanaka-sama, let me at least tell you what my deal is and then if you want I will leave forever and never approach you, your daughter or business again. Please."

Inoichi frowned and Ino said "Alright, what is this deal."

Naruto grabbed his head above the right side of his head and winced as he said "Earlier today I told Sakura that Sasuke, being the last of his bloodline in the village he can have multiple wives, lovers, or girlfriends because of the clan restoration law which means that you and Sakura can have your friendship back if you are both willing to share. Now that is between you 3 and personally I don't care about that but what I do care about is since our team class graduated Sakura has been letting her skills get weaker and weaker always trying to impress Sasuke with her looks and afraid to even do enough to break a sweat much less actual training. Our sensei finally had enough and showed us the chakra control excercise tree climbing. He told us that we won't get a higher ranked mission until we can go up and down a tree 25 times in a row without stopping and Sakura has trouble even doing it 3 times. What I want is for you to renew your rivalry with Sakura but not over a guy but over who the better kunoichi is. I am willing to slip the information to you about Sakura current level so you can work to beat her level and that way everyone will win in the end. If you and Sakura decide to share Sasuke then he gets 2 strong kunoichi to start his family with who can keep all the other girls away from him, you both get strong enough to protect yourselves on mission and earn the respect of your fellow ninja, your teammates won't have to worry about protecting you as much afraid that your the weakest member on the team, and Konoha gets a pair of strong kunoichi to show the world the strength of the leaf village."

Ino thought a moment and Inoichi said "What do you get out of this. I mean I don't see why you would want Ino and Sakura to do that."

Naruto said "A friend of mine pointed out that most of our ninja who die on missions are because they had to continue to do missions after they should have retired because they had nothing else to support them. You and your family have this flower shop and Sakura right now has her parents merchant business and Sasuke has his family wealth but I am working myself to death doing 2 to 3 missions a day just to pay my bills and get the things I need to survive. If my team were able to get higher ranked missions then I won't have to take as many missions and I can focus more on my training and hopefully find something else to help support me because if I become injured odds are I will starve to death on the street homeless unless I can do something now while I still have a chance. By having Ino push Sakura to get stronger, Sakura will work harder to push Ino to get stronger which will make you happy because you won't have to worry as much about her taking care of herself and I can help myself get stronger as well so someday I might reach my goal of being Hokage. Like I said, in the end, everyone wins."

Ino said "But why should I do it. I mean I can just be Sakura friend and we share Sasuke, why should I work myself to get stronger so Sakura will get stronger."

Naruto smirked and said "Because someone has to be the one to get the first date, the first kiss, or be the first to marry him. In the end yours and Sakura competitive nature will force you to fight each other either in a battle of words or a battle of skills. With my help of telling you Sakura levels then you can make sure you come out on top. If not Sakura might just sneak past you and take Sasuke all for herself. I mean why share when you can have it all alone. Nothing is forcing Sasuke to have more then one girlfriend, he just has the option to and Sakura is on Sasuke team and gets more chances to impress him then you do. What if her skills outshine yours."

Ino said "Like hell I will let forehead beat me." as she put her hands on her hips.

Naruto asked "Then do we have a deal, you become Sakura rival in her ninja skills and I will be your little spy so you know how hard you have to work to beat her."

Ino said "Fine, you got yourself a deal."

Naruto said "Good, Sakura will most likely be able to do 25 times up and down a tree with the tree walking excercise by the end of next week. Now I got to go. I hope I can still do missions for you in the future Yamanaka-sama."

Inoichi said "Ino, would you step outside a minute. I want to ask Naruto something private."

Ino frowned and walked outside and after the glass door closed Inoichi said "Alright, I admit the trap you just set up for her was good and I can see how there is no downside for her but what I want to know is why are you really doing this."

Naruto said "The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Team 7 isn't a team, we are just 3 people stuck together to do a mission. Sasuke thinks he always right because of his clan, Sakura will always agree with Sasuke wanting to impress him and both think I am to stupid to know anything or do anything right. Ino will push Sakura to get stronger and Sakura will want Sasuke approval and constantly bug him about her progress and what he thinks which he will try to avoid or ignore which gives me a chance to do my own training and go about my own life so that way I can hurry up and reach Chunnin and request a transfer to another squad or begin doing solo missions, maybe the hunter nins or ANBU."

Inoichi asked "That still doesn't seem like a reason for you to go out of your way to come here today."

Naruto frowned and said "Because of me taking extra missions I have to take the 3 hours we are waiting on Kakashi-sensei each day to train myself as best as I can. Sasuke and Sakura see me doing this and they are starting to think that I'm getting tutor lessons from ninja and that I only became a ninja because of the Hokage and me being so close to each other. They are also starting to think the only way I can have a friend is if the person is ordered to be my friend and I can tell they are already thinking about spying on me to learn what I know as well as spying on my friend which might cause them to stumble across certian classified info which Sakura being the gossip queen she is will get herself killed after she spread the word around. Sasuke only cares about power to kill who ever it is that killed his clan and will most likely think of me as a stepping stone to test himself and will try to kill me. Either way my life will basically be over so the only way to protect myself is to distract them and the only thing that could destract both that I could think of was Ino."

Inoichi frowned and said "So you used her to protect yourself."

Naruto closed his eyes and said "Do you know the reason the Sandaime hasn't stepped down and found another replacement and will still be in office when he dies....it's because he known for years like I figured out that the Godaime will most likely do 3 things, one have me killed or banashed, two is turn me into a weapon like other Jinchuuriki and possibly breeding stock, or three is put me in political marriage. He couldn't stand to face the Yondaime when he dies and tell him that he cursed his legacy to those fates while living. The only way I will find any happiness or joy in my life is to get it while Jiji is alive because the rest of my life is cursed. How many people on the council with you either see me as a demon or Konoha weapon."

Inoichi frowned as he looked at Naruto and said "Your different Naruto, somethings happened because you weren't like this a couple of days ago."

Naruto said "A couple of days ago I didn't know I was dying." as he covered his mouth realizing what he said.

Inoichi eyes widen and said "WHAT....what do you mean your dying."

Naruto said "Look, I need to get going. I got a mission to complete. Sorry for bothering you." as he quickly ran out the door nearly knocking Ino over and Ino walked in and said "Dad, whats wrong. What did the baka say to make you yell like that."

Inoichi frowned and said "Nothing Ino...I just remember something and I need to go take care of it. Watch over the shop until I get back."

Ino said "Fine but I want you to tell me what Naruto said."

Inoichi said "Just wanting to know if he could get another mission dear. Nothing to worry about." as he left.

When Inoichi got to the Sandaime office after getting in to see him the Sandaime said "Hello Inoichi, what brings you here today."

Inoichi bit his lip and said "Sir...is there something wrong with Naruto that you haven't spoken about."

The Sandaime frowned and said "No, why."

Inoichi then explained about Naruto stop at his shop and the Sandaime said "I don't know what he's talking about....it's probably just stress getting to him from all the work but I'll have my doctor do a check up on him and ask him just to be sure it's not something he hasn't informed me about. If he thought it was enough of a secret to act the way he did he might not be willing to tell even me about it. I'll check into this but I ask that you keep it quite until I can."

Inoichi nods and left and the Sandaime said "ANBU.....find me Naruto Uzumaki and bring him to me."

Naruto was about to enter his apartment when 4 ANBU appeared and Naruto frowned and thought "Damn."

After being brought to the Hokage tower and the ANBU dismissing them the Sandiame said "Naruto, I am sure your wondering why your here."

Naruto said "Yamanaka-sama came by and told you what I said, didn't he."

The Sandaime nods and Naruto sighed and said "Don't worry about it. My body is perfect fine and will live until it's killed or dies of old age."

The Sandaime thought over what Naruto just said and asked "I'll be the judge of that, now what is going on Naruto. Everyone who interacts with you has been telling me about how you have been changing in the last couple of weeks as well as the fact you seem to act like you got a headache all the time. I want answers and your not leaving until I am satisfied."

Naruto glared at the Sandaime and said "Answers, how the hell can I tell you that I hate my fucking father guts and that I wish the bastard was burning in hell but don't worry, he will be back here in the land of the living soon and I'll cease to exist."

The Sandaimes eyes widen and asked "What do you mean." in a concerned voice.

Naruto said "The bastard cheated death. He didn't get his soul sealed in the Shinigami like you said he did but instead sealed his soul into the seal. I told Kakashi about how it seemed I wasn't actually learning seals but actually relearning them. I couldn't figure out what it was until I found this." as he raised his shirt and pointed to the seal and said "That's a soul binding seal, of coarse it would be on a seal holding a demon but why is it seperate away form the main seal, especially when there is already another soul binding seal in the seal. The answer is my father didn't like sacrificing his life and wanted another chance to live and sealed his soul into my body and is slowly replacing my soul which is why the knowledge I am getting of things I don't know having never encountered it or should know is his knowledge. The clan restoration act, I never even heard about it but it came to me earlier today and I meantioned how Sasuke should fall under it and that is only one of a handful of things. I have had strange memories popping up...Kakashi meantioned how his teammate was killed and gave his eye...I know what his teammate looked like, Obito wore goggles over his eyes and Rin was an Inuzuka. How could I know that when he never told me those details and I never seen a picture of them. How do I know my name came from a book wrote by Jiraiya. The only answer I can come up with is the bastard is taking over my body replacing my soul with his and when he does I'll cease to exist. My greatest fear growing up was cease to exist and now I find out that fear is coming true." as he had tears flowing down his eyes by the end.

Sarutobi looked at the crying teen in front of him and said "I....I don't know what to say Naruto...I....I'll contact Jiraiya and have him come to look at the seal and if you are right see if we can somehow stop that from happening."

Naruto snorts and said "It won't work. To seal it off you would have to seal off Kyuubi chakra which would kill me because you can't block something under pressure without causing it to explode and why would he want to stop his greatest prodigy that he saw as a son from returning to the land of the living when he couldn't even come once to check on his godson. Now if you don't mind I want to go home and get some sleep. Maybe I'll see you again, maybe not, but then whose going to care when I'm gone." in a tired voice.

Sarutobi looked down and said "You can go...and Naruto...I'm sorry."

Naruto left and Sarutobi began to write on a scroll and bit his thumb flashing through handsigns and said "Kuchiyose no jutsu." as a monkey appeared and he said "Take this scroll to Jiraiya as quickly as possible."

The next few days went quickly by for Naruto with the Sandaime not saying anything about the confession Naruto had but giving Naruto a sad look as Naruto came in with Team 7 for missions and then went to the woods to train. Everyone seem to tell there was something wrong as the way he carried himself seem to have changed where he was kind and soft spoken to everyone he met and even went out of his way to help others.

Naruto was sparring against a kagebunshin using Kenjutsu when a memory from a 'bird' who was in a tree came to him and all the other 'birds in the area as well as the Kagebunshin he was fighting.

A small smile came to his face and after a few minutes he jumped back as a kunai hit where he was a moment before as his Kagebunshin went up in smoke.

Tenten appeared grabbing his sword the Kagebunshin dropped and slashed at Naruto who blocked and she said "You got pretty good at detecting thrown weapons to dodge that."

Naruto snorts and said "You weren't really aiming at me and only needed to nick me to see which was real. You had 5 minutes to aim also since you first arrived."

Tenten eyes widen and she slashed again and said "So you knew I was there huh."

Naruto said "I have Kagebunshin watching around the area in hiding making sure no one spies on my training." as he slashed at her and she blocked before they both began to pick up speed slash and block with no real pattern.

After 30 minutes of this both were sweating and panting slightly with Tenten being the one panting more and she went for a reverse slash to the right which Naruto blocked pulling both swords above their heads as he moved in closer to Tenten forcing her smaller frame to fall back but she used her feet to trip him causing both to fall and Naruto letting go of his sword to grab Tenten and turn her where she would fall on top of him instead of him on her and as they hit the ground Tenten held the blade she had in her hand against his neck and said "I win." with a victorious smirk.

Before she had a chance to move Naruto knocked the sword away from his neck to over his head and flipped them where she was on the bottom and he was on top of her and with him holding her arms at the wrist which she was still holding the sword and he asked "Do you." as he looked into her eyes and saw the almond color and Tenten tried a moment to get free and started to open her mouth to speak when her eyes went wide as she found herself being kissed by Naruto. She tried to get her hands free but were still being held down as she tried to move her head but found she couldn't because of her arms that had been holding the sword above her head.

As she tried to get free, she moaned trying to speak as Naruto continued to kiss her she felt her body responding to the knee that was rubbing gently against the crotch of her shorts and before long her mind was losing the battle to get free as her body betrayed her and she closed her eyes and slowly started to return the kiss and as her body got more and more turned on she didn't notice the hold on her hands was now gone and her hands had moved to Naruto hair running her finger through it before she moved her hands to the bottom of his shirt and began to scratch at his back as her fingers traced the muscles of his shoulder.

They continued to kiss and Tenten's hand roamed across Naruto flesh not noticing that she had been moved to the one on top as they continued to kiss as her body approached it's first orgasm which soon went into a second before she past out from the treatment of her body being pleased even though it just from the kissing and the treatment his knee gave her as well as the exhaustion she had due to the spar they had.

As she woke up she found herself leaning against the chest of Naruto listening to his heartbeat and found that she was sitting on his lap and they had been moved over to a tree which he was leaning against.

She looked around and saw blood slowly forming around Naruto eyes that had closed as well as slowly leaking out of his nose and ears and she said "Shit, what's going on." as she tried to wake Naruto up and couldn't so she began to scream for help before making a decision and going back to town to get help.

Several hours later Tenten was in the waiting room of the hospital when the Sandaime walked out and said "Tenten, please come with me."

Tenten got up and followed him and soon came to a room where Naruto was in with IV hooked up to him and bandages around his head and she asked "What was happening to him."and thought "Did I do that to him somehow."'

The Sandaime who had closed the door said "Has Naruto told you about his dying."

Tenten eyes went wide and screamed "WHAT....what do you mean he's dying." as she looked at the Sandaime.

The Sandaime winced and said "I guess he didn't want anyone to know....Naruto had been examining the Kyuubi seal and he discovered that there is another soul sealed inside of Naruto as well as the Kyuubi. Based on the information he told me, one of his greatest fears was coming true. He believes the second soul is his father Minato, sealed his soul into that seal and is replacing his soul with his father so he believes that he is going to cease to exist while Minato takes over his body...at this point I do not know if that is Naruto in the bed now or if it is Minato in that bed now...What was happening to Naruto is he was having brain swelling from information overload.....I shouldn't do this but if it is still Naruto and you want to I can allow you to stay here with him until he awakes because I figure you have the best chance fo telling if it is him."

Tenten said "Thank you." as she got up and moved to where Naruto was and saw he had several bandages around his head covering his eyes and ears. She frowned and thought "How much do you have to suffer Naruto." as she sat down in the chair next to his bed and looked at him sadly as she gave his hand a comforting squeeze.

Several hours later Tenten awoke to the sound of waves crashing against the shore and an old church type bell ringing and she blinked a few minutes and saw the sun shinning down on her and she sat up and found herself on a beach and saw an ocean and as she looked around she saw a small pool of water in the middle of the sand and she saw a light house not to far away with a bell hanging on it and a rope going inside the lighthouse which was being pulled from inside and she thought "Where am I and how did I get here."

She got up and looked around and did not recognise anything and thought "It looks like just a beach with no trees or anything but sand, water, and that light house. I guess I'll have to go there to get answers since someone is ringing that bell." as she started to walk toward the light house.

When she got there she knocked on the door and said "Hello, anyone there." as the bell rang some more and after knocking a couple more times frowned and she slowly opened the door and blinked and said "What the hell." as she saw another beach with a giant whirlpool in the center of it and she saw a woman with red hair sitting near the whirlpool waving at her and she looked at the light house walls again and thought "Wierd." as she walked over to the woman who smiled and said in a kind voice "Hello. Who are you if you don't mind me asking."

Tenten frowned and said "It's proper respect to give ones name when asking anothers."

The woman tilted her head to the side and said "Is it...I've been here so long alone I guess I must have forgotten that. Well I'm Kushina and you are."

Tenten said "My name is Tenten. Where are we." as she looked around.

Kushina frowned and said "Um...sorry for asking but is your last name Ookami."

Tenten frowned and asked "Why."

Kushina rubbed her temples and said "Your definately Evee daughter. You got the same look she had when she didn't like something someone asked her...look at you...you look like your 15....what the hell going on Minato, why the hell is our god daughter here after 15 years and our son isn't."

Tenten thought a moment and thought 'Minato, but that's the name of Naruto dad and..." her eyes widen and said "What the hells going on. You Naruto mother, aren't you."

Kushina said "Why are you so upset. Didn't Minato or Dustin tell you how to activate the seal on your neck to get here. Didn't they explain how this works." as she looked confused.

Tenten frowned and asked "How what works, the last thing I remember was sitting by Naruto bedside after that bastard you called a husband tried to kill Naruto by taking over his body and now I wake up in this strange place."

Kushina said "Woah, slow down and don't get upset.....Look, I know this may sound crazy but I've been stuck in this place since the day my son was born. I don't know what your talking about taking over our son body. What the hell is Minato doing and why hasn't he placed the whirlpool light house seal on Naruto so I can be in his life like he was suppose to."

Tenten blinked and said "You don't know." in a questioning tone.

Kushina asked "Know what." looking confused

Tenten said "The Yondaime Hokage died sealing the Kyuubi no Kitsune into Naruto, October 10th, nearly 16 years ago."

Kushina paled as she covered her mouth and said "Oh god...Oh Minato...Oh Naruto....What's been happening to my baby..please, tell me everything, I must know." in a frantic voice.

Tenten said "Um...well this is wierd...sure.." as she opened her mouth and Kushina said "WAIT."

Tenten looked confused and Kushina asked "You don't know about this place do you."

Tenten shook her head no and Kushina sighed and said "I don't know how much you know about your family past or the past of the people of Whirlpool so I will give you a little explanation so that you will understand what this place is and how we are here. The land of Water is not actually as it appears on most maps. It is actually a chain of islands that is constantly changing do to the tides, weather, and other things. A road today will be a river tomorrow and a mountain the next day. It is this reason why the land of Water was originally known as Whirlpool however around 100 years ago, a group of pirates landed on the north side of the island and set up a pirate port and they began to take as much of the land they could until they were stopped. They land they were able to obtain is what became known as the land of Water while the rest of the land was still known as Whirlpool. Now in the land of Whirlpool the protectors and leaders of the land who defended the people there from the pirates were the Uzumaki family. Because of this the people of Whirlpool loved and respected us including the Ookami clan who were a clan of blacksmiths. In fact there was a long running joke that the day an Ookami runs out of weapons is the day the world ends."

Tenten blushed and said "So it's not just me."

Kushina laughed and said "No, in fact your mother carried close to 7000 weapons on her at a time. I told her once she loved them more then she did Dustin."

Tenten smiled a little and said "So...what is this place."

Kushina said "Oh right...Well you see, the Uzumaki clan were originally fisherman until the pirates came as most of the life in the land of Whirlpool revolved around the water and as such we developed a bloodline that allows us to detect chakra, even in the slightest form. It allowed us to find fish and if people went overboards we could find them quickly and rescue them. It was the second reason that this was created." as she waved her hand around.

Tenten said "I don't understand, what is this."

Kushina raised her hair and said "You see this seal. Each Uzumaki had this seal placed on them when they were 10 years old so that they could help the people and their family. This seal is a link to this...I guess you could call it a genjutsu but it can't be dispelled as it's powered by each person who has this seal on them. We called this place the Whirlpool and the place you woke up to appear here is called the lighthouse but it actually is your mind. The ocean you saw was your memories, like the waves of a sea they could crash onto the shores and if you touch them you would see a random memory. Then there was the pool of knowledge where everything you know, not the things you remember but your actual knowledge is stored in that pool. The island itself represents your will, your spirit to live. The bigger the island the more will to live you have. Last is the weather. It represents your emotions. If you are calm the weather is calm, if your emotions are upset the weather is upset which causes the sea to swirl and throws memories at you like they do when you are upset. Do you understand so far."

Tenten nods and she said "So what is this for. I mean I understand what you said so far but I don't get it."

Kushina said "Think of this, EVERYONE who has this seal on them could come to this place and speak as we are now, now imagine an Uzumaki on hundreds of ships, searching for a single ship lost at sea, how far of a range do you think we could cover by being able to use this to talk to each other regardless of the range between us."

Tenten eyes widen as she understood and said "But how did I get here."

Kushina thought a moment and said "This place has several secrets that I will tell you about later. I know you have the seal on you because I placed it on you as an infant after your mother passed away...hmm...I know, you meantioned how you were with my son before you got here and I also want to know about my son's life so what you can do is show me your memories of my son and from that we can figure out how your here. Deal."

Tenten blinked and asked "But how do I show you my memories of Naruto."

Kushina said "Like this." as she walked over to the whirlpool and put her hand on it and the whirlpool changed and showed Kushina holding Naruto right after he was born for several minutes before Minato drew the soul binding seal on Naruto and Kushina sealed herself into it.

Kushina stood up and said "This works like the ocean in a way but you can control what you see or show others. You can either just think about something and every memory of that will show up or you can chose specific memories and those will show up. Just placed your hand on the whirlpool while thinking about what you want me to see."

Tenten thought a moment and said "Alright." as she walked over and placed her hand on it and the whirlpool changed and showed the events at the cabin when Naruto learned about the Kyuubi, then Tenten talking with her dad about Naruto, going to Naruto apartment, the events at the accademy, talking in the woods, then the make out session causing Tenten to blush, the Sandaime telling about Naruto confession of what he thought was happening to him. Then it showed as Tenten sat beside Naruto as he rested and her falling asleep next to him.

When it was over Kushina who face had become neutral durring it looked at Tenten and said "I....I know what is happening and has happened. I also know how your hear now."

Tenten said "Then will you explain it to me."

Kushina sighed and said "They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. In Naruto case that was true. Minato was an orphan who never knew who his parents were and he felt terrible about that all his life. It was a wound that never actually healed for him. When we found out I was going to die we discussed ideas about how to help Naruto not feel the same pain Minato felt by me not being there. We had came up with a couple of ideas. One was this, where I would seal my soul and body inside this seal on Naruto stomach and Minato would draw the whirlpool seal on Naruto and it would link us together with you as well so that way I could not only be there in Naruto life but also yours to try and help you in areas where Evee would have been there for you. We had talked about a few other ideas...the what ifs and what nots you get when you know you might not live to see another day...one idea Minato came up with was a family scroll with all our knowledge but he was afraid of it getting stolen and used against our family and so he came up with a set of books. 10 in total that could only be opened by a member of our blood. Each book is all the knowledge he has on each subject the book is about. A book on chakra theories would be all his knowledge of chakra control, manipulations, chakra theories, and things of this nature....the book on sealing would have all his knowledge of sealing in it. The longer a blood relative holds onto the book the more he or she would get the knowledge from it but if anyone else touched it or read it they would only see normal subject the book is about and not get the knowledge of it. They were not meant to be absorbed quickly which is what I believe has happened I think.....If I only had some way to I would kick Jiraiya, Sarutobi, and Dustin ass for abandoning Naruto like they did."

Tenten said "So how am I here and why are you mad with dad. I mean he didn't do nothing."

Kushina said "Exactly. You and Naruto were suppose to grow up together and form a bond so that way you both would have a loving and happy life together when you were husband and wife. Even with that other girl being added in. Dustin knows all this and yet it's not until Naruto 15 years old that you finally meet Naruto. After everything that happened and everything I meant to Dustin and everything I sacrificed to him and he abandons my son.....I really should have cut off his dick after he took my cherry like that."

Tenten paled and said "Woah, woah, wait a minute...you had sex with my dad....wait, Marriage." in a shocked voice.

Kushina said "Yeah, him, Evee and me caught a ship to escape from the land of Whirlpool when it was attacked and we didn't know if the mist ninja were still after us and if so how long we were going to live. Your dad came to me and tried to comfort me and he pulled this stupid crap about how we could die tomorrow and asked if there were things I regret not having a chance to do and he asked me if I wanted to die a virgin....Normally I would have beat the shit out of him but I was so upset seeing all our friends and family die I gave it and took the chance to be with him....turns out he pulled the same line on your mom earlier that day and lets just say he blew it when he was with me."

Tenten said "You don't mean..." with wide eyes as she covered her mouth.

Kushina nods and said "He only lasted 30 seconds before he lost it and passed out on top of me........Evee came in and lost it and we both beat the shit out of him for using us that way and playing on our moment of weakness...but we got our revenge."

Tenten said "Really, how."

Kushina smirked and Tenten thought "That's where Naruto got it." and Kushina said "Well, for the next 3 months we made him think we were both pregnant from that day even though we weren't and made him wait on us cooking our dinner, massages, working to pay for our food and cloths, taking us shopping, visits to the hotsprings. We took him for everything he had."

Tenten laughed and said "Serves him right....so...what now. You never did tell how I was here and about this marriage thing."

Kushina said "Oh right...well you know how you were fell asleep by Naruto. I think your hand touched the seal on Naruto stomach linking you and me so we could talk here and now. If you move your hand away the link will be lost...unless you put the whirlpool seal on Naruto and once you do then he can come here and he will actually power the seal for him and me since the seal is on him....It might also give us both a chance to enter his mind and help him recover from all that knowledge being shoved onto him....so will you help me so I can finally meet my son."

Tenten thought a moment and said "First I want you to know I like someone else and don't like Naruto that way....if you agree to let me and him work things out our self I will but I won't be forced into some arrange marriage....and what other girl."

Kushina said "That can wait till later. I need to teach you the seal so you can put it on Naruto neck before something happens and we lose our link."

Tenten nods and Kushina began to draw the seal on the sand while explaining it to Tenten.

When Tenten awoke she found herself laying over Naruto stomach and blushed as her hand was resting on his crotch and thought "Must may sure NEVER to tell Kushina or Naruto that.....wow, he really is big...BAD THOUGHTS. I LIKE NEJI DAMN IT..."

She shook her head and turned Naruto over and blinked as she looked at Naruto neck and thought "He has the seal....or wait, it's missing the relay seal." as she got out a bottle of ink from a scroll she had on her and began to draw the relay seal. Once she did she sent chakra into the seal and said "SEAL."

A moment later she heard the bell ringing in her head and closed her eyes and sent chakra into the seal on her neck and appeared on her beach and ran to the light house and inside it and saw Kushina who said "So, it worked."

Tenten said "Yeah, he had the seal already, it was just missing the relay seal."

Kushina bit her lip and said "I see...Let's go over to Naruto." as she pointed toward the new lighthouse and Tenten said "Why is the Whirlpool so much bigger now."

Kushina said "Hmm...Oh yeah, the more people connected to the Whirlpool the bigger and deeper it gets. It's based on how many memories the person has.....let's go see my son." as she walked to the lighthouse.

When they got to the lighthouse Kushina frowned and said "The only way to enter someone's mind without permission is if 2 or more people tried to enter it using this. That is why I told you that you didn't have to worry about me entering your mind."

Tenten said "But now that Naruto is connected couldn't you both come into my mind."

Kushina said "We could if we both agreed to do it but I know how personal a girls mind is and would not do so unless it was a life or death situation and would make sure that you knew we were there. He's maybe my son but your also my goddaughter. I won't betray one for the other."

Tenten smiled and said "Thank you godmother."

Kushina nods and places her hand on the door and motioned for Tenten to do the same and as she did they both pulled the door open and gasped as they saw the sea was up to the door with the sea being a storm with black clouds, lightning, and rain.