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The Uzumaki family.
They are the Family of Longevity, the ones who were attuned to the spiralling winds, those with life forces that healed wounds, the ones who sealed away evils into masks, and shared their powers with others. They were a family where red hair was common, and anything else was rare for them. They were a powerful family who had once been feared, though they were healers and ones who avoided conflict, thanks to their bad tempers.
They could share their life energy with others to heal their wounds, and had a natural ability to feel and command the wind. Thanks to their healing ability, they were considered a prize off that alone. That very same ability could be used to enhance others, making their blood famed as that which could make any family that took them in stronger.
Of course, all of these abilities were only passed down through the Main Family, with any Branch family only possessing a singular ability, and weakened.
"I'm glad I was born with blond instead of red hair right about now."
Uzumaki Naruto.
The current heir to the Uzumaki clan, 1 of 3 remaining Uzumaki left alive.
The only member of the Main Family he should say, since the other 2 Uzumaki who were still alive did not have all of the abilities of the clan. His older male cousin, Uzumaki Nagato, had only inheritted the clan's ability to use the wind element and life force, but no way to transfer power to others or heal. That placed him into the category of a branch family member, since he didn't inherit all of the abilities.
The other was his older female cousin, Uzumaki Karin, who only inheritted the ability to heal others, but she did not inherit the transfer ability, which meant that the only way for her to heal others was to have them suck her life force out of her through biting her. She didn't inherit any of the other abilities of the clan.
He was different.
'I have a powerful life force, I'm attuned to the wind, I can transfer my life force to others and heal them, and make them stronger... though I never learned how to seal before I ran away.' Naruto was the only one without red hair.
Which had helped him.
He had run away from his family when he was nothing but a 6 year old child, but who could blame him. Both of his parents were killed on the day he was born, and he was raised by his cousin. He had been raised with ALL of the expectations of reviving the clan. The Uzumaki clan wasn't even respected by the other Demon Slaying clans, they were feared, and they were desired. The other clans wanted to wipe them out via marraige, that way their abilities could be taken from them and used to strengthen the other clans.
Unlike other Demon Slaying clans, the Uzumaki clan didn't kill demons.
They sealed those who couldn't be talked down to.
'Which helps, because we don't really have any enemies among the demons to track us down... I can hide away from my family in peace.' Naruto sighed in relief as he ruffled his own hair. He had been living on his own for 10 years now, where he would move from city to city, travel from school to school, whenever it looked like one of his familiies familiars get close to his location.
He couldn't change his last name, he was still proud of his family, but he couldn't take it anymore.
"Uzumaki."
"Uzumaki Naruto is not here at the moment, please leave a message at the beep." Naruto stated when a person spoke from behind him. Naruto had wondered to the top of the current high school that he was attending. He couldn't help but wander how long it would be before he had to move to a different city, when the next familiar would find him.
He didn't want to go back home.
He didn't want to be the heir.
He didn't want to get married to some girl from the Himejima clan that he didn't even like, because his family had made some stupid deal with that clan in order for them to add new blood to the Uzumaki clan. He didn't want to get married to some girl he didn't know, to make an alliance with a clan he didn't care about.
"Are you going to make a beep?"
"Nope... go away Uchiha." Naruto stated to the one person in his current school that he might actually miss when he moves to the next school. A guy who was a great rival, somebody he could compete with in a fair match. Naruto looked out over the city, his blue eyes took in everything that he could see.
This would be his last week in this school, not that anyone knew it.
He felt a hand on his shoulder, and he was forcefully turned around.
"Explain what happened the other day... my older brother stabbed me in the chest, and the last thing I remember is you touching me, and then when I woke up, my wound was gone, and my brother was dead... what did you do?" Uchiha Sasuke demanded as he got in Naruto's face. He opened his school uniform and showed a mostly healed wound, with only the smallest of traces that it had been healed.
Naruto looked away from him.
"I don't know, some kind of miracle."
"What did you do to me?" Sasuke demanded again as he pulled his fist back, but Naruto sucker punched him in the jaw first and knocked him off his feet. It was a cheap shot, but it got him off of Naruto, which was the entire point.
Naruto stormed off.
-Later-
"I shouldn't have healed him... I should have just left him to die. I just thought he would forget it, nobody else saw what happened." Naruto was in the middle of packing up all of the belongings in his apartment.
He had healed his rival, and given him the power boost needed to kill his brother, but he shouldn't have done it. He should have just allowed his rival to die, and at least then he wouldn't have risked being tracked down by his family. He guessed he had a week before somebody found him, but if Sasuke had told anyone what had happened, then he might only have a day or two left before somebody found his current location.
He needed to erase his scent from the apartment, and then get out of town as quickly as possible.
"Damnit... Naruto you loser retard. You could have just not gotten involved, but you had to play the hero. You had to save his life, and now he must have talked to the police about what happened. If the police know, it's only a matter of time before Nagato sends in some heavy hitters to get me." Naruto finished packing all of his clothes into a suitcase. He didn't own a lot of stuff, because he was moving around a lot. It helped him to pack lightly, because at the first sign of one of the family guardians or familiars showing up, he needed to erase his tracks as soon as possible and escape.
If they got his scent, he was not escaping.
Where to next though.
"I already went to Mizugakure academy, and I can't go back to Sunagakure acacemy... damnit, I'm running out of schools to visit." Naruto pulled up a map that had the nation of Japan on it, and he had circled all of the high schools in the nation. Those that were X-d out where the ones where he had already been to, and if he went back it would be even easier for him to get tracked down.
If he could graduate high school and make it into regular human society, then his family wouldn't be able to do anything about it. He still had to graduate though, which was harder than you could imagine when you constantly had to change schools.
"Uzumaki Naruto."
"Damnit, listen, I don't want to go back to-" Naruto jumped when he felt killing intent, and his bed was chopped in half. He had sensed the killing intent only a single moment before the attack was launched, and he rolled across the floor.
A yokai.
It wasn't a friendly one either, a large half-mantis looking creature with scythes for arms. It was giving off a hungry aura, the aura of a yokai who was lusting for power.
Which was why Naruto reached under his destroyed bed and pulled out a smoke bomb, and threw it against the wall to set it off. The second the yokai's vision was clouded, Naruto rushed towards the open window and jumped out of it. His eyes were watering, and the yokai was howling in pain when the pepper gas in the smoke bomb took effect. Naruto avoided rubbing his eyes, and took a water bottle from his suitcase as he ran, and dumped that over his face.
He had built up a resistance to pepper spray thanks to his smoke bombs.
'Okay, so word got out that there was an Uzumaki in town that had healing powers... so I only have like half a day at most before Nagato sends somebody after me.' Naruto thought as his apartment wall was destroyed, and the yokai burst out of it with closed eyes.
"I'll eat you head first for that Uzumaki brat!"
Naruto kept running without responding, before he ducked behind some very smelly trashcans. The blinded yokai rushed in the direction he had been running, and Naruto smirked only for a second when the yokai chased where he thought Naruto was about to go. The yokai couldn't see him or smell him, but was angry enough to go where he thought Naruto had been running.
'Naruto Escape Tactic 2, Pepper Bomb. Yokai had powerful vision and excellent senses of smell, blind them and weaken their sense of smell to escape.' Naruto grabbed his other smoke bomb and tossed it towards where the yokai was when he noticed it stop. It's vision must have been returning, and the power hungry creature howled in pain when it got a second dose of pepper spray to the eyes and nose. Naruto nodded his head and grabbed a lid off a trash can, and flung it into the opposite alleyway.
The yokai took the bait, and Naruto made his escape at that moment.
-The Next Day (Apartment Remains)-
"He was here... smoke bombs made from extremely spicy peppers... I can't smell him, but instant ramen cups... and a headband with a spiral on it... and he was injured." A young woman stated as he looked over the ruins of the destroyed apartment. She saw the destroyed bed, and on the wall there was a massive stain where the smoke bomb had gone off.
Dried blood was on the carpet, but only a very small amount, so whatever wound that Naruto suffered would be extremely small. It could be so small that Naruto didn't even notice it at all.
"The Young Master is currently evasive. He's evaded the family for 10 years now. He knows how to escape a yokai, that's for sure." A black haired, kimono wearing woman stated as she listened to her surroundings with the white cat ears on top of her head. She looked around, hoping for some other sign that she could use.
The other woman, a woman with long and messy white hair, yellow eyes, and wolf ears on her head was crouched on the ground and sniffed the blood.
"... The scent of pepper is too strong, I can't track his blood." The wolf-woman got up to the destroyed wall and noticed another few drops of dried blood were on the street. She jumped out of the apartment, and the cat-woman joined her. The two of them landed, and looked around for any other drops of blood or other signs of where Naruto had gone. "He can't have gotten too far, even if we can't track him by scent. Lets bring the little man back home!"
The cat woman kept her mouth shut.
She examined some trash can.
She looked over to where there were signs of a yokai rampaging, and then saw one of the trashcan lids across the street in the opposite alley.
"He went that way." The cat-woman stated as she pointed the wrong way.
"Lets get him then!"
"Yes... the yokai after him went this way, so I'll finish off the demon who was after him." The cat-woman looked towards where Naruto had actually gone. She watched as her companion ran the wrong direction, towards where the yokai had gone. She nodded her head, before she turned and ran where Naruto had actually gone.
With any hope, she could catch his scent.
"Sorry Ginko, but I question if your loyalty is to the Uzumaki family, or to the Young Master. If he doesn't want to go back home, I'm not going to let you force him." The cat woman whispered as she hoped, she truly hoped, that she caught some sign of her future, no, her current master. The sooner she could get back to his side, the safer he would become.
Still, it was rather amazing.
While he possessed all of the Uzumaki family abilities, he hadn't been trained in anything but on how to heal others and pass his life force onto them. He hadn't studied Sealing, or how to use his Wind powers at all. Yet he had managed to get by for 10 years, and escaped several yokai attacks mostly unharmed. His lack of training only made his continued escape from his family all the more impressive.
Well, it helped that she was preventing Ginko from ever getting his scent.
If Ginko got Naruto's scent, there was nowhere in Japan that he would be able to hide from her nose. It wasn't like she could actually ask Ginko if she actually planned to force Naruto back home, because that might just reveal that she herself wasn't trying to bring Naruto home.
Well, hopefully she could find Naruto before any of the other family yokai.
Chapter End!
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