Summary: What if Naruto was a girl and she was blinded by the villager's when she was six and thrown out into the woods and left to die. Only to find the one person who will help her on her path to becoming the greatest ninja the world has ever seen. My first story, so please tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto no matter how much I want to.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Kyuubi talking"

'Kyuubi thinking'

"Blaze talking"

'Blaze thinking'

Jutsu

Chapter 13: Reaching the summit.

After traveling for a week straight, the konoha team had reached the kage summit with little to no problems.

"Sofu can you tell us who we are trading Ishuka-san for and why you are even trading him in the first place?" Naru asked once the group had spotted the summit.

"Naru-Hime I have told you before that the person we are trading Ishuka-san for is a very important person. I would not trade a prisoner like Ishuka-san for just any one. That being said, I would like it to be a surprise for you, so please stop asking me." Sarutobi sighed out before taking a puff from his pipe.

"But Sofu, everyone I know is back in Konoha. Iwa does not even have a prisoner you could exchange Ishuka-san for that could be a surprise for me" Naru said irritably as she sent a small glare at Sarutobi.

"Naru-chan just because you do not know the person Hokage-Sama is trading Ishuka-san for, does not mean they may not be important to you. It might be someone who was close to your family are even a relative of yours you never met." Haku said from Naru's right with a sigh.

"Yea Naru-chan just because you may not know them, they could still be an important person to you." Sakura said from Naru's left with a smile.

Naru shifted her glare from Sarutobi to Haku and Sakura "That's not the point Haku-kun, Sakura-chan. Even if the person may be of some importance we should not be releasing a P.O.W. like Ishuka-san. I mean look at what he did! Can you honestly tell me your ok with this?" Naru said with venom.

"While I can agree with you Naru, I still think you should at least wait and see who Ishuka-san is being traded for before you say that Hokage-Sama should not do the prisoner exchange. After all, when everything is said and done he is doing it for you. You could at least be thankful for that." Sasuke said from behind Naru.

Turning her glare from Haku and Sakura to Sasuke "But that's just it! Ishuka-san is being let go because of me. After what he did to all of those families, he is being set free because Sarutobi-Sofu wants to make me happy somehow. While I am very grateful that Sofu is trying to do something to make me happy I don't want the price of such a thing to come from letting a person like Ishuka-san go free! Being an orphan myself even if I did not know my parents, I would not want their murderer to go free after he killed them in front of me! What if this was Itachi Sasuke would you want to let him go free if it meant the happiness of one person?!" Naru said through clenched teeth. Sasuke after hearing this gained a look of hatred on his face.

"No Naru I would not, but Hokage-Sama must have his reasons for doing this. I would also kindly ask you to not bring Itachi into this. I may not seek the revenge I want any more, but I do not appreciate what you just implied whether you meant it to be a jab or not." Sasuke said through clenched teeth.

Naru stopped glaring and gained a look of regret "I'm sorry Sasuke I did not mean to bring up the past for you. I just meant to point out a similar situation please forgive me."

Sasuke gave Naru a soft smile before pulling her into a hug "Don't worry about it Naru. I forgive you, but please refrain from bringing up Itachi in the future." Sasuke said before letting Naru go.

"Naru, I get where you are coming from, but not all is as it seems. By granting you this Hokage-Sama is also giving Ishuka-san a chance at redemption" Kakashi said from behind his Icha Icha book.

Naru tilted her head to the side after hearing this "How could Ishuka-san possibly gain some kind of redemption from this?" Naru asked.

"That is a very good question. I am wondering that myself? Does anyone care to share?" Shukaru said from inside his transport cage.

Chuckling Sarutobi took another drag from his pipe and blow out smoke before speaking "Oh, I believe all the clues are in the open. If one cares to look. That being said, while this could be considered a chance at some redemption for you Ishuka-san. This is a small piece of redemption compared to what you did."

"You do not like giving straight answers do you?" Shukaru said with his eyebrow twitching.

Sarutobi gave a soft chuckle before turning to face the oncoming samurais "Ah! Welcome to the Land of Iron Lord Hokage and Leaf shinobi. Come you all must be tired from your long journey. Allow my guards to take the prisoner to his cell until tomorrow when the exchange is to take place. You may also have your ANBU accompany him if you would like but they must stay insight of my samurais at all times" Mifune said as he approached the group of shinobi.

"Thank you Mifune-Dono. Yes that will be fine if your samurai would like they may take Ishuka-san and my ANBU will continue to watch him for the sake of easing my Daimyo's worries. You understand." Sarutobi said with a smile as he shook Mifune's hand.

"Allow me to introduce you to Konoha genin team seven and their support team. This is Kakashi Hatake though you have met him before" Sarutobi said gesturing to Kakashi.

"It is a pleasure to see you again Mifune-Sama" Kakashi said bowing.

"Yes it is good to see you again Kakashi still reading that smut of yours?" Mifune said chuckling

"I don't know what you mean Mifune-Sama I only read the fine works of art Icha Icha paradise." Kakashi said eye smiling.

"Not around me you don't Nii-san! Or have you forgotten what Blaze will do to 'your works of art' if you do?" Naru said glaring at Kakashi and making air quotes at his reference of art. Mifune had to admit with the girls outfit and flaming bird on her shoulder it made for quite the imposing sight even if the girl appeared to be blind if the cloth on her eyes was anything to go off of. 'Wait… is that bird… smirking at Kakashi? Need to cut back on my sake.' Mifune thought to himself with a sweat drop forming on the back of his head.

"No, no, of course not Imouto, I would never read them in front of you." Kakashi said sweating a little.

"Yea, he does it behind you" Sakura said also glaring at Kakashi which caused him to start sweating more as he put a hand on his hip pouch were he kept his precious and keeping his one eye on (in his opinion) Naru's stupid Icha hating flaming turkey 'how could anyone hate the greatness of Icha Icha?' Kakashi thought to himself.

"Ahem. Yes well this is my little Hime, Naru Uzumaki of the Uzumaki and her friend and teammate Sakura Haruno. We also have Naru-Hime's familiar Blaze" Sarutobi continued while he pushed his copy of Icha Icha paradise further into his robe while pretending to be getting more tobacco for his pipe.

"Nice to meet you Mifune-Sama" both girls said as they bowed to the leader of Iron and blaze singing, give a bow of his head.

"It is nice to meet you as well young ladies and my flaming friend. You in particularly young Uzumaki, I can expect great things from you young one great thing's indeed" Mifune said smiling as he gave a curt nod of his head in return.

"I am afraid I don't know what you mean Mifune-Sama" Naru said tilting her head.

"I am talking about your clans Fuuinjutsu skills young Uzumaki. Though, your Katana's look a bit plane if of slightly above average quality. Please allow my smiths to forge you two new Katanas out of Irons finest chakra metal. After all I do owe your clan a debt for helping Iron with our seals on our samurai armor. It is the least I can do" Mifune said with a soft smile.

"Oh, I couldn't think of it Mifune-Sama. But I thank you just the same" Naru said completely shocked that the leader of Iron would offer her something like that.

"Nonsense, I insist. I will have my smiths begin at once, though I will need one of your Katana's and your arm length in order for them to get the size of the Katanas to fit you perfectly" Mifune snapped his fingers and his secretary came and measured Naru's arm length and one of the samurais came and asked for one of her Katana's. Naru bowed and handed one of her Katanas to him with the sharp end of the blade facing her to show respect.

Mifune smiled at seeing this act of respect to his samurai "Well done young Uzumaki, you are well versed in the art of kenjutsu to show the proper way to pass on your Katana's. Now I know that giving you these Katanas is the right thing to do" Mifune said while Sarutobi smiled on in pride at his surrogate granddaughter.

"Yes well done my little hime, but let us finish the introductions so we may go inside and warm up yes?" Sarutobi said chuckling.

"Next up is Sasuke Uchiha of the Uchiha clan" Sarutobi said.

"It is an honor to meet you Mifune-Sama" Sasuke said bowing.

"Ah yes the last of the Uchiha clan. I was sorry to hear about your clan's demise" Mifune said with a soft expression on his face.

"Thank you Mifune-Sama that is kind of you to say" Sasuke said coming up from his bow.

"Next are Zabuza Momochi and his adoptive son Haku Momochi of the kouri clan" Sarutobi said taking a puff from his pipe.

"Greetings Mifune-Sama" greeted both Zabuza and Haku.

"Greeting to you as well Zabuza-san, Haku-san. Also I was not aware that any of the kouri clan survived Kiris's bloodline purge?" Mifune said shocked at the news.

"My mother was one of the few to survive the purge and changed her name before meeting my father" Haku explained.

"I see. Well welcome all of you. If you would all follow me, we will go inside and warm up and my samurai will show you to your rooms and we will have the prisoner exchange tomorrow. Tsukage-Dono is already here with his shinobi and prisoner so I hope all goes well tomorrow. Though I must say I was very put off and displeased to see who Tsukage-Dono's prisoner was. Sarutobi-Dono we must have a long talk before your group heads back to Konoha and I will come to Konoha when young Uzumaki's new Katanas are done to give them to her and we can talk about setting up a trade between Iron and Konoha at that time. What do you think Hokage-Dono?" Mifune said with slight apprehension of the current situation.

"Yes that would be acceptable Mifune-Dono. I believe we will have much to work out over such an agreement indeed" Sarutobi said catching on to Mifune's hidden meaning. After that both Mifunes contingent and the Konoha shinobi left to go inside and warm up. All hoping that tomorrow's prisoner exchange would be done without trouble.

A/n: ok first and foremost I am sorry about not updating sooner. I know you have all heard me say this before so I will not waste your time by saying some excuse other then I had a hard time trying to get back in the groove of the story and then kind of forgot about it with my limited attention span when I am stressed. I had started this chapter a long time ago, but it was lost when my laptop broke down with all my notes for this story on it so I apologize that my chapters may have some things overlapping or contradicting in them. I will be rereading the story to try and get everything straightened out. I will also be going over the chapters and fixing all the spelling and grammar as best I can, so if you have the story added to your alert list be prepared to have some notifications soon. Other then that I had to restart this chapter from scratch and it was harder then I had thought it would be so I hope you like it.

Japanese suffix explainer as found at.

Sofu = mine grandfather

Kouri = ice (And yes I know it is not vary original so sue me. They never gave Haku's clan name)