Naruto, out in the wilderness had turned back into his human form, blond hair back in place, and he had taken his red headed prisoner and tied her up to a tree, after taking away her weapon, which turned out to be a flute of all things.

He leaned against a tree casually and waited for the girl to wake up, and when she did, boy did he regret it.

She opened her eyes slowly and looked about, she noticed Naruto, and that she was tied up and began yelling like a madman..or woman "What the? Where the fuck am I? Who the fuck are you? Where in the fuck did that giant fox go, and why the hell am I tied up!?"

Naruto sighed and rubbed his temple "You're in the forest, tied to a tree. I'm your captor of course, the fox is closer then you think, and you're a threat. Now, you're alive to answer my questions, not ask them"

The..colorful girl glared at him "What the fuck do you want to know, and why the fuck should I tell you anything?"

Naruto sighed, she was really making this difficult "Do you remember how easily your team mates were ripped to pieces by the fox? How Orochimaru abandoned you to die a gruesome death?"

She nodded, not seeing where this was going.

Naruto smirked "Well, unless you want the fox to do all that and more, you will answer whatever I want to know, it's not like you have anyone coming to save you. You're dead to Orochimaru, and Konoha would prefer you dead. Quite simply, I'm your best...no your only hope. The better you answer my questions, the more things you earn yourself"

She scowled at him, but submitted, he was right, she was officially dead to the world "What do you want to know"

Naruto smiled "Everything, everything you can tell me about Orochimaru. His plans, his bases, the extent of his influence, who his allies are, everything"

She paled "You're shitting me right? I don't know any of that shit!"

Naruto growled and emitted a wave of killing intent, which frightened the girl quite substantially, seeing as it was as powerful as Orochimaru's was "How could you not know any of that? You were one of Orochimaru's four strongest guards, you would be privy to all of the important information"

The girl laughed heartlessly "You don't know that son of a bitch then. Even if we were his best four, we were still nothing more then expendable trash to him. He didn't tell any of his plans or important information to anyone except his second in command, Kabuto. The only thing we know is the base we're operating in, we're led from base to base, I can only tell you where...two of his bases are, those are the only ones I've been to, and those are the old bases he doesn't use anymore"

Naruto growled and pressed a Kunai into her throat while unknowingly unleashing the full force of his killing intent, focused entirely on the red head. "Do you know how incredibly useless you are!?" He screamed.

This killing intent was far more potent than the last dose he used, it made Orochimaru's killing intent look like an academy students, after all, he is a Kyuubi.

The girl saw herself being slaughtered right there in his eyes, and she was truly terrified for the first time ever. Orochimaru ruled with fear, but nothing even close to on this level. Her entire emotional being was instantly shattered, and despite her personality, she broke down into tears "P-please don't kill me" She begged him "I-I don't want to die, I never even wanted to work for Orochimaru, I was abducted and forced into working for him"

By the end of her brief sentence she was sent back to her old days, when she was first brought to Orochimaru, as a terrified little girl, her tough persona was her protection, she created it out of necessity for the environment she lived in, and Naruto completely shattered years of work in under five minutes.

Naruto sighed as he watched the girl, who moments ago was cursing like a sailor, now crying and sobbing inconsolably, he really wasn't sure what he disliked more, to see a woman cry, or to see one fling four letter words as much as she had.

As Naruto sat there and looked at the girl, who had since cried herself to sleep, he couldn't help but notice that she was quite a good looking girl.

With the girl asleep, Naruto turned his attention towards Kyuubi 'What were you talking about with the Ichibi earlier? Something about demonic councils and broken laws? What's all this about?'

Kyuubi sighed "Well, in demonic society there are laws, as there are in any society, and no matter how high ranked you are, everyone obeys these laws. Two of the biggest ones are, never get caught, and never create another demon except via procreation."

Naruto paled, Kyuubi broke both of those 'Well, what happens if you break them? Seeing as you've broken both of those'

Kyuubi offered a mirthless laugh "Well, if you get caught, you're on your own. You're dead to the demon world if you get caught. Creating another demon...well, that's the biggest law there is to break, the consequence is death, so I reckon they would send out a force to kill the one in question, along with the demon/s they created"

Naruto paled 'You didn't think this might have been a somewhat important piece of information to tell me before you turned me into a demon!?' He yelled.

Kyuubi shrugged "Not really. Me and you each wield nine tails of power, last I checked I was the only nine tails. So all we have to go against is eight tails and less, we can handle them. Once you get a bit more powerful that is. Speaking of which, I suggest we get you a human trainer for a while, That Sannin, the one that taught the Yondaime, you should get him to train you"

Naruto sighed 'You forget that I'm a missing-nin? He'll try to kill me!'

Kyuubi shook his giant head "I very highly doubt that he would try to kill the son of his student, even if he was a missing-nin"

Naruto's brain faltered as it processed what he just heard 'My father? His student? But you just...Yondaime...dad...' Naruto couldn't handle the revelation and passed out. Kyuubi sighed 'At least he didn't go apeshit..'

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Naruto woke up the next morning quite early, he leaned forward and his memories from last night flood ed his mind "The Yondaime was my dad...I can't believe I never figured it out, he looks so much like me..." He glanced over and saw the red headed girl was still asleep, still tied to the tree.

He decided sleeping like that couldn't feel good so he cut her down from the tree and tied her feet so she couldn't run, he didn't bother tying her hands, she was no threat to him. With her bindings reassigned he quickly left the site to go fetch some breakfast.

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Naruto returned to the site about thirty-five minutes later to find said red head nearly hysterical, and looking around the entire area apparently looking for something. He quirked an eyebrow and crouched down to her level "Looking for somethin'?" He asked.

She looked up from the ground suddenly and her eyes locked with his and she recoiled in fear, and instantly scooted as far away as she could, up against a thick tree. All the while crying and begging him not to kill her.

Naruto sighed and set the fish he had caught down on a rock and walked up to her slowly. When he reached her he bent down and lifted her chin with his hand and looked directly into her eyes "Hey. I'm not going to hurt you, alright? I'm certainly not going to kill you either, what would be the point in killing a victim?"

The girl was confused "Why? Why would you keep me around if I'm useless to you...Orochimaru would have killed me the moment I said I didn't know anything.." She trailed off.

Naruto growled at the mere fact that he could be compared to that snake fuck "I am nothing like him!" he yelled, again frightening the girl "I am not that snake fuck. You want a real reason for why I'm not going to kill you? Fine, it's because your life, no one that cares if you're alive or dead, or how you feel I can't do anything to someone like you"

The girl was still hopelessly confused "Why wouldn't you do anything to me just because of my past? Why would you care about my past?"

Naruto sighed "Because...you're just like me. I was hated by my entire village my whole life, I didn't have anyone who gave half a shit about me until a while after I became a genin, then Orochimaru had to go and fuck everything up, now I'm a nuke-nin because of him!" He said, voice slowly rising into a yell as his emotions grew stronger.

She couldn't help it as a tear fell from her eye, not of sadness but of happiness. She wasn't alone in the world, she wasn't the only person who went through her life. She was never hated by anyone, but she was alone from a very young age. She suddenly remembered that she had been looking for something and her eyes widened slightly "You didn't happen to see my flute around here did you? I can't find it and it means a lot to me."

Naruto pulled her flute out from behind his back almost instantly "You mean this?" He said, nodding towards the flute, to which she nodded happily "It's your weapon, isn't it? A very peculiar choice"

She sighed and looked downcast, but nodded her answer to it being her weapon. He nodded and held the flute out to her "Okay, I was just wondering. You want some fish? I caught plenty in case you were hungry"

She took the flute happily, but was once again completely baffled by his actions "If you know it's my weapon...why did you give it to me?"

Naruto turned back from the fish and offered his foxy grin "Because, it's important to you. Also, I'm not worried about you attacking me. By the way, what's your name? We haven't been properly introduced"

She again quirked an eyebrow, but smiled "My names Tayuya"

Naruto grinned and stuck his arm out to her "Well, nice to meet 'cha Tayuya, names Uzumaki Naruto"

She took his hand after looking at it for a moment and they shook hands. Naruto hoisted her up to her feet from his grip on her hand and looked at her feet and 'hmmed' "Are you gonna leave if I unbind your feet?" He asked. She shook her head no and he pulled out a Kunai and slashed the ropes tying up her feet.

She reached down and rubbed her sore ankles gratefully "Mmm, thanks, they were starting to get rope burned"

Naruto merely smiled and started a quick fire with a weak katon jutsu and set the fish over it to cook, and they both sat down on either side of the fire, with Tayuya handling her flute protectively.

Naruto, curious as ever. Asked "So, how do you use the flute to fight? I've never seen anyone fight with an instrument"

She smiled slightly "Well, I use the sound waves I can create with the flute to disturb a persons senses and cast genjutsu's, I also..." She trailed off, not wanting to divulge all her secrets.

Naruto smiled warmly "It's alright if you don't want to tell me, I understand everyone needs to have some secrets, I myself have far to many at this point"

Now that peeked her interest, and also reminded her of what he said before "I was wondering, you said your whole village hated you, why do they hate you?"

Naruto sighed "That has to do with one of my...secrets. Sorry, but I don't know you well enough to trust that kind of a thing to you"

She nodded in understanding, she was after all, technically his prisoner still. Plus they only knew each other a very short amount of time.

They sat in silence for a while, eating the fish which had finished cooking, after a while of just sitting there, watching the sun creep higher into the sky, Naruto spoke "So, I was wondering. You've got no one to go back to, or looking for you. I've got no one to travel with, wanna join me? Sure beats being alone, plus, you ain't gonna find a stronger person"

Tayuya thought about it for a minute, she really didn't have any arguments against it, she had no one to look after, or to look after her, she had no family, no friends, no one. "Alright, I've got no reason not to join you"

Naruto grinned, then laughed "Oh man, I can't believe that"

Tayuya started to get angry, thinking he was asking her to join him just to laugh at her answer. "What?" she asked/demanded.

Naruto regained himself "Nothing, it's just I just realized that, with you joining me, every teammate I've ever had has been a female now, and everyone has had talent with Genjutsu, though you're the second to specialize at it"

Tayuya smirked, than a question popped into her head "Umm, so. We're working together now...you got any plans or objectives?"

Naruto nodded "Yep, my...mentor insists on me finding someone to help train me a bit, and he insists on Jiraiya of the Sannin. So once he leaves the village we'll join up with him for a little while, see what he could possibly teach me, maybe even teach you something, who knows?"

Tayuya's eyes widened in fear, Jiraiya was one of the only people in the world that Orochimaru feared. "Are you crazy? You said it yourself, you're a missing-nin! He'll rip you to shreds!"

Naruto shrugged "That is a possibility, though a very very unlikely one. I happen to know something, Jiraiya would never hurt me, unless I like, destroyed Konoha or something"

Tayuya furrowed her brow, her life was on the line too "Why wouldn't he hurt you? What's so special about you?"

Naruto smirked "Well, Jiraiya was the Yondaime's Sensei, but in reality they were more like a father and son than teacher and student. I highly doubt Jiraiya would kill the son of his 'son'"

Tayuya cocked her head to the side in confusion, just when her brain sorted through what he said "Huh? Did you just say you're the son of the Yondaime? He never had a son"

Naruto smirked "That's what the world thinks. Apparently it was covered up for whatever reason, but the Yondaime had a son, born on the very same night that he died"

Tayuya was stunned speechless. After a few moments of gaping like a fish, she said the first thing that came to her mind "Well, you do look a lot like he did, 'cept your hair's a bit shorter"

Naruto smirked "Yeah, I can't believe I never figured out he was my dad until I was told. I can be so dense with some things that it's not even funny"

Tayuya giggled at his comment 'I wonder how dense he is about girls?'

Naruto suddenly looked down at himself and his eyes widened marginally "Why the hell am I still wearing these civilian rags? Ewww. I'll be right back" He quickly hopped off into the woods, only to reemerge about three minutes later back in his full gear.

Tayuya eyed him up and down like a piece of meat 'Well, these clothes definitely don't attempt to conceal his ripped body, who would have guessed that body was hidden under all those clothes? Hmm, maybe this partnership will be better than I thought, it's already way better then that snake'