Hidden Genes

Summary: There is a type of jutsu only one shinobi could use,the Shodaime became famous for it being impossible for anyone who doesn't have his DNA, and even then it was rare. Sharingan is an Uchiha doujutsu,so no one can have it unless an eye is given, so why does the Kyuubi vessel have both?Why does he move like the Yondaime?

Two weeks later, a very disgruntled Naruto left the Hokage Tower in order to head home. They had just had a day full of pointless D-class missions that involved weeding an old lady's garden, walking dogs or catching that wayward cat, Tora, and taking it back to its owner. He had, quite naturally of him, complained to the old man about it being a waste of skills and ninja and he was pretty sure Sasuke and Sakura agreed with him, even though neither had said anything to support him.

The Hokage had just tried to explain things that Naruto already knew in words that would make them seem like vise messages from the First Hokage himself, but Naruto really wasn't impressed and demanded better missions. For fuck's sake, he was going to go mad in this village! If he had to run and hide in the woods just one more time, now that his birthday was coming, he will definitely let the villagers know just what the Kyuubi could do if Naruto let him. Kurama was still very much hateful towards the village that had kept him prisoner for all these years.

Luckily for them all, Sarutobi had agreed to let Team 7 have a D-rank mission. They were supposed to escort their client to the Land of the Waves and protect them from bandits. Hell of a lot better than any mission they might get here in Konoha ... At least, that's what Narut thought until they met their client, an old man named Tazuna, a bridge builder from a small island in the Land of the Waves in the Water Country. He reeked of alcohol and Naruto seriously doubted this guy could build a sand castle, let alone a bridge and he had an attitude that suddenly made Naruto wonder why he had been complaining about chasing Tora around the village.

Still, at least they got to leave the village.

Would be better if you got a better mission, though. It would seem Kurama agreed with him about the old man, too, but that might have to do something with Tazuna getting pissed off by the talkative fox and kicking him hard enough to dissolve the summoning technique Naruto and Kurama used to give Kurama a physical form. Kurama will now be stuck 'indoors' for the next two months, seeing as they always needed some time to regain the balance of Kurama being fully back in his seal and the energy they had wasted on the corporal form, and seeing as how long Kurama had stayed out - a whole week - they will need to recover a lot of energy.

'Yeah, that's true, but I would prefer old man Tazuna over the villagers any day.' The Jinchuuriki sent back as they approached the edge of the forest. Team 7 would have the rest of the day off to rest and prepare for their mission tomorrow, so Naruto had seen no reason to linger any longer. As soon as they were dismissed, Naruto had left and started making his way away from the village. As had been mentioned before, they were getting edgier and edgier the closer October 10th came, so Naruto always made sure not to linger in the village.

It usually ended in Naruto needing to run and hide in the forest.

At least this year, October 10th may be a quiet day for him.

He felt himself relax when he entered the forest, letting out all the tension from his body with a sigh and a stretch that lifted his orange jacket a little, exposing his tanned stomach and actually showing how little food he ate. Naruto might seem like he was pigging out if he ate somewhere other than at home, but that was because he finally had a decent meal after a while of having to make rations for each day. Not every hunt or fishing trip ended with food in his belly and he could survive on herbs and fruits and vegetables he grew himself only so long.

Besides, the food he grew himself usually takes quite a bit of energy from him, only making him hungrier. That is, the food he makes pronto. He has a garden in front of his home, one that he lets grow according to natures laws. The special garden he has is the one he makes himself, using seeds and his own powers to grow them in times when they could not grow on their own and people refuse to give him even scraps of food, even though he has more than enough money to buy it. At least, he is one of the rare few who has fresh vegetables and fruit during winter. He sometimes uses henge and sells them in the village for a good price. He uses that money to later buy himself some rare few essentials he was allowed to get from the village.

It was a good thing he had Kurama to heal him, because no one wants to give him any medicine or even toothpaste! He really would have been dead without Kurama by now.

He was so deep in his thoughts as he calmly made his way through the woods that he didn't notice that someone was following him. Kurama had felt them, of course, but he knew this person would never hurt Naruto so he let the blond be oblivious to the other's presence. He'd alert him only if the blond's about to give away one of their important secrets.

Uchiha Sasuke watched his teammate a few meters away as the blond made his way into the forest, looking for all the world as though he had past through here more times than he himself could count. He wasn't looking around or hesitating as he walked, so Sasuke guessed that the boy had built himself a small cottage here somewhere, away from the villagers so they couldn't destroy his home like they had the last one.

After the destruction of Naruto's home the night he had hidden in Sasuke's house, the blond disappeared from the homing register as if he had never been a citizen of Konoha. Sasuke would know, as he had searched for him for a very long time and had used every chance he saw Naruto to try and convince the blond to move in with him. Naruto had brought some life to the big and now empty (except Sasuke) Uchiha Compound and Sasauke had wanted him to stay there. If for no other reason, then so that neither of them would be so alone in the world.

But Naruto's records disappeared off of the face of the Earth after that incident and the only information anyone could find on him were his medical visits to the hospital and his attendance to the Academy. Everything else was gone.

So Sasuke had decided to follow him. Of course, this wasn't the first time but Naruto had always somehow managed to slip away form him. But not today. Today, Sasuke was determined to keep a shorter distance and follow Naruto all the way home so he could at least know where his teammate lived. Maybe that way he could even send groceries to the blond. since he knew what the villagers were like towards the sweet boy.

Sasuke had often found himself following Naruto, but that was because the blond had always fascinated him. Even before Sasuke saved him that night, four years ago. He had seen how Naruto was treated and how lonely he was, but Naruto had never become resentful or emo or mean because of that. Instead, as if wanting the deliver a slap in the face or a punch in the gut to all those who shunned him, the blond always smiled, his scarred cheeks never wet with tears, his laughter always contagious, despite no one being willing to join in. He always stood strong and never showed hate or resentment towards anyone, despite their treatment of him.

Fascinating, indeed.

And so when he finally had a chance to help and protect Naruto, Sasuke had taken it so he could see that brightness up close and he had grown addicted to it. Sort of. All he knows is that he wants to protect that brightness but Naruto doesn't allow anyone to see him vulnerable, making Sasuke's job a lot harder than it needs to be.

So Sasuke had decided to do it from the shadows and that included taking care of bullies, making sure no one attacked Naruto in the streets or even this, trying to find out where the blond lived so he could get him some food. He might be the only one to have actually noticed how thin Naruto was, but that might be because he always observed him and he, as such, knew Naruto better than anyone else.

There was one thing that Sasuke knew he couldn't help with, though: Naruto's loneliness. Sasuke was a loner by Nature. When he was little, his family had been more than enough, In fact, if it were only him and his older brother left in the world, he wouldn't have minded. With them all gone, he had learned of loneliness, but Naruto chased that away, as if he had one thousand families and his clan and maybe a million friend to boot, although he had no idea what having friends felt like, since he had never had a single friend in his life.

Except Naruto.

Sasuke ignored his blush as he followed the blond. Okay, so he wanted to be Naruto's friend, because Naruto could so easily dispel the loneliness he felt, but he knew just one friend wasn't enough for Naruto. Naruto was loud and obnoxious and happy and bright and cheerful. People like that usually had and needed far more than one broody kid out for revenge against his only remaining family like Sasuke could provide and they usually had far more friends than one would think possible. Real friends, too, not those acquaintances you forget about by the end of the day and only remember the next time they greet you.

For Sasuke, Naruto was enough, perfectly enough. He wouldn't need anyone else but Naruto. But Naruto would need far more than Sasuke and that's what caused the raven to hesitate.

But now they were on the same team so at least they could see each other more and maybe Sasuke could become a friend to Naruto, because Sasuke had long since considered Naruto a friend and even more. It hadn't come as sudden as anyone would have thought. Sasuke had always noticed Naruto - it was kind of impossible with the blue eyes and the blond hair and the orange he loved wearing - he had just pretended that he hadn't when they were younger, until they started arguing and ever since then, he never even pretended. He never would again.

He was snapped out of his thoughts when they approached a small clearing up ahead with a gigantic oak in the middle of it. Sasuke couldn't help but marvel at how big and beautiful it was. It must have been as old as Konoha at the very least, if not far older, for it to grow this big. It branches reached across the clearing quite a bit, almost reaching the forest line, but leaving plenty of sunlight for a small garden placed there. Sasuke frowned when he saw some pickles, tomatoes, lettuce, cabbage and potatoes growing there. Under the shade of the tree there were some other vegetables that didn't need so much sunlight and got just the right amount from the rays of light that got through the small gaps in the leaves.

Sasuke focused mack on Naruto when he saw the blond gain a skip in his step and head over to the garden, checking it over and humming as he plucked a few ripe tomatoes - Sasuke will deny it to his dying day that he felt his mouth salivation when he saw how nice the tomatoes looked; it was his favorite food and he was only human, despite being and Uchiha. Sue him - and a cucumber before going towards the west side of the clearing. Sasuke followed, not really that surprised when he saw a little stream there. He wasn't all that surprised when Naruto took out a net of fish there either, the net filled with four fish. Naruto frowned and threw away the youngest of his catch, letting it live, before leaving the river side after refiling a bucket of water.

He watched again as Naruto returned to his shade garden and put the bucket down. Expecting for Naruto to use the water to refreshen his plants, Sasuke had not expected for the blond to suddenly bring his hands together and to start making hand seals. He recognized one he had read usually being attributed to water jutsus and he nearly fell out of his tree when Suiton: Suiryƫdan no Jutsu transformed the water in the bucket into five small dragons that started running around the plants.

Then he got another surprise when Naruto took out a seed and walked a little ways away from the shade garden to a patch of dirt that had nothing on it but was obviously dug out by Naruto himself. He placed the seed on the ground, not even in, and brought his hands together in a prayer position, his fingers overlapping each other and he seemed to emit quite a bit of chakra as Sasuke could feel it from his position at the edge of the clearing.

Kurama was startled from his little half nap when he felt Naruto reaching for the chakra he used when he was about to use Mokuton and he tried to warn his host, but Naruto's eyes were already red with the Sharingan and the slit pupil before the Kyuubi could react and his chakra was pushed into the ground, which swallowed the seed and a moment later, to Sasuke's surprise and Kurama's dismay, a beautiful paprika stem emerged from the ground with five red peppers on it, much to Naruto's delight.

His joy lasted only for a short while, as Kurama finally managed to get his attention. Kit! Sasuke's followed you! He saw everything, Naruto!

Naruto felt his eyes widen and return to normal and he whirled around and indeed, he saw Sasuke, standing in the tree not too far away with a flabbergasted expression on his face. ''Sa-Sasuke?'' It would seem that it was only trough luck that he had been turned with his back towards him or Sasuke would have seen two more secrets that he shouldn't have.

And Sasuke couldn't help but stare, as he did not believe his eyes and what he had seen. There was no way he had seen what he thought he had seen. There was no way Naruto had just made a plant grow in seconds just by pushing chakra into it. He snapped back to his senses, though, when he heard the frightened voice of the blond calling his name and he looked up to see the panicked face of his teammate, indicating that what he saw just now was indeed the truth and not some hallucination.

Blue eyes met black and all Sasuke could say, could do, was utter the blond's name.

''Naruto...''