THE HOPE OF OTO

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or any other series that I might use for inspiration.

WARNING: Slightly AU and slowish build up and harem.

HAREM: Yakumo (main pairing), Amaru, Sasame, Isaribi, Karin, Tayuya, Guren.

Author Notes:

Alright I know I know I've been scarce in the new year, but I have been busy with a new death note/bleach crossover story that I have been working on and it has kept me busy for a while.

Anyway this is one of my Naruto stories that have been listed as "up and coming" for a while now in my profile and I finally had the guts to begin writting it. Seriously like I already have everything planned for the story but I just didn't know how to begin, yeah I know, wack huh?

Anyway this is a naruto hates konoha story and will carry on like that until the end, If you don't like that kind of story then you really don't have to read.

Now I am going to address an issue. I do not want to read reviews about how cliche it is that Naruto got beatings or assassination attempts on him. Because to me, that's really stupid to say that, it is in fact much more unrealistic for someone to expect things like that not to happen.

In my neighbourhood, a woman was burned alive eight years ago because people in the community suspected that she was a witch, suspected, they didn't even have absolute proof and they still burned the poor woman to death. Now the people in the Naruto verse know that inside Naruto lives a demon that killed their families and that could easily take over him, so wouldn't they have tried to keep their children away from him and/or try to assassinate him or beat him to death. I mean even in canon naruto has lost control many times, like when he almost killed Jiraiya, when he hurt sakura, when he attacked kakashi, and when he lost control against pain, jinchuuriki are dangerous no matter how pure or good they are because of the demon inside them, only a fool really wouldn't try to keep their child as far away as possible from them, unless said child is from a shinobi family, then that is a bit different, since being a shinobi requires that a person tangles with death face to face.

Now some people will say oh but the sandaime made a law and the people wouldn't break the law for fear of imprisonment or death, or they will say that a jounin or A.N.B.U wouldn't attack Naruto and break the law.

If you say so then you should consider the possibility that you have lived a sheltered life and do not know as much as you think you do about real people and real life. Four years ago I read an article in the news paper about a woman in my province who, like the woman who was burned to death in my neighbourhood, was beaten to death by her community because they also believed she was a witch, okay this was slightly different because this woman actually confessed to being a witch but nevertheless people know that it is a crime punishable by life imprisonment or even death to kill, it is a law but a whole community broke that law and killed that woman. The police arrived to stop the assualt, but when they heard that she was a supposed witch, the police officers that were sent allowed the people to continue with the assualt until the woman died, justifying it with claims that they were taught since childhood that a witch must be killed no matter what. This really happened and it was in the front page of the news paper four years ago. If we were to compare this scenario to Naruto then those people would be the civilians and maybe genin and chuunin (people who know next to nothing about seals) and the witch would be Naruto. The Plolice would be the jounin and A.N.B.U who either helped or did nothing out of hate for something they didn't completely understand.

Another one, now this one I read on the news paper only six months ago, in a small town in my country, a policeman was hunting down another man with a spear and a shield in order to kill him because the people of the town believed that the man was a shape shifter. Now we all know that it is a crime to kill someone and especially when said person has harmed no one, but a lice officer was hunting someone with a spear (not his gun) because they believed he was a shapeshifter.

So excuse me if I think it is ridiculous for someone to call me cliche when people of konoha try to assassinate naruto in my fics. The truth of the matter is that people are more then willing to break laws when they are in groups and when they want to get rid of what they consider an abomination.

As for the harem, if you got complaints about the harem and believe that it is unrealistic, then I only have one thing to say to you! My president has five wives, so excuse me for not believing that harems are unrealistic and impossible, especially in the shinobi world that has morally compromising beliefs and way of life.

CHAPTER 1

Purpose and Rebels

If you believe that I will ever give up on you then you really have gone mad! What purpose will there be for my existence if I cannot save you from this wretched life, what will I have to live for if I lose you! Yakumo chan, you are the only thing in this world that is real to me, everything else is either an illusion or some kind of eleborate deception, I will not lose my only link to reality, I will not lose my only precious person and be left alone in this world, neither will I allow you to bare the same fate! We will leave this place together and build a life of happiness, peace, and prosperity, this is my promise to you, it is a promise of a lifetime, believe it!

"Naruto kun...do you really think we can do it, do you really think we can somehow escape the Sandaime Hokage's A.N.B.U squads? I mean, we're just little kids, we're only six year olds and not very well trained, and...sniff...and that bitch Kurenai sensei and the Hokage sealed away my powers!" Said Yakumo angrily and hatefully, she is a six year old little girl with shoulder length brown hair, teal coloured eyes and white creamy skin. She is wearing a red kimomo that reaches her thighs and hugs them like a mini skirt with black spandex shorts underneath and black ninja sandals.

"Shhhhh...don't cry Yakumo chan, you know I hate it when you don't smile! I promise you we will leave soon, I just have to finalize a few things that's all." Said a six year old Naruto in a placating manner, patting Yakumo at the top of the head gently with his other arm wrapped around her waste. She on the other hand was sitting on his lap with her face burried into his chest, her arms tightly wrapped around his torso, as if he would suddenly disappear if she ever let go of him.

Naruto is a blonde haired six year old boy with deep blue slanted eyes and three whisker like lines on each of his cheeks and longer then average canine teeth that jutt out of his lips that complete his feral appearance. He is dressed in a blue sleeveless T-shirt with black ninja pants and blue ninja sandals.

"Y-you promise?" Asked Yakumo hopefully, removing her head from his chest to stare at Naruto with an unintentional and teary puppy eyes technique, pulling the strings painfully deep within the blonde's heart.

"Hai! I promise, I won't go back on my word, besides, I have a plan." Said the blonde, trying to supress the concerned expression on his face, but Yakumo, knowing him too well saw right through it and it made her all the more worried. She knew Naruto kun wouldn't go back on his word and she knew how smart and insightful he was, she had no doubt in her mind that he would figure out a way for them to escape the village, but that was not what worried her. What made her so worried was the fact that Naruto kun was keeping secretes from her lately, he had never kept secretes from her until roughly six months ago, when she first noticed the subtle changes in his behaviour.

She was scared, she suspected that Naruto kun was doing business with some dangerous people that he wasn't telling her about. She'd tried to follow him on a few ocassions but nothing had been done that was out of the ordinary or would cause reason for suspicion, but that was suspicious in itself to her. How could someone with the plans that she and Naruto had not act suspicious at all for a whole week when she was following him, sure this wouldn't be a surprise to someone who didn't know about his plans, but to her, who knew almost everything about him, this was way too suspicious.

"N-Naruto kun...is there something you want to tell me about, is there something you're hiding from me? Sniff...I...I know you've been up to something dangerous, I...I don't want you to suffer because of me, we don't have to leave, we can stay here...sniff...sniff...I don't want us to leave if the sacrifice you make becomes too much, or worse, if I lose you in the process!" Cried Yakumo, burying her tear stained face against his chest.

"Yakumo chan I..."

"Please Naruto Kun, please tell me what's bothering you...I want us to do this together, I want to share the burden with you! Sniff...I don't want you to suffer alone...tell me...tell me what's wrong damn it! Sniff...is it the Kyubi? Is it bothering you? Is it escaping? Just tell me! Please, I want to help sniff sniff!" Cried Yakumo, beating the sides of her fists against Naruto's chest repeatedly in frustration.

"Tell her..." Said an angelic but motherly voice from inside Naruto's head.

"K-Ka chan? But why, I don't want to worry her, I'm trying to protect her feelings. Didn't you say that I had to protect the heart of someone that I love, if I tell her then..."

"Do not be a fool Naru chan. By keeping secretes from her, you are giving her the impression that she hasn't earned your trust. Do you know how much that must hurt for her, to believe that the person she loves and trusts the most does not feel the same way about her?" Replied the voice, scoulding the six year old with a motherly tone.

Naruto's eyes widened in shock. How could he have not thought about that. His mother had warned him about this before, that it was the actions of a person that spoke louder then his words, and sometimes spoke louder then even his thoughts. Just because his intention and thoughts were to protect her and shield her heart from pain didn't mean that it would magically happen if his actions provoked the opposite reaction.

"Do not let it bother you too much Naru chan, what is important is that you learn from your mistakes and not repeat them. She has earned our trust already, tell her everything, besides, if we can not trust her, then there is no one that we can ever trust in this cursed world." Said the voice in a sage like tone.

"Kaa chan...arigatou, I will tell her everything, I think it is a good idea, I don't want her to hurt anymore." Replied the blonde bundle.

"Okay, I will tell you my plans." Said Naruto with a dead serious tone, surprising Yakumo slightly, she hadn't really expected him to cave in so quickly, he was usually stubborn in his views, beliefs, and decisions.

"N-Nani! Y-you will?" Asked Yakumo hopefully.

"Hai, I trust you! Besides, you and I are partners, we have a better chance of success if we work together." Said Naruto, staring at Yakumo blankly.

Yakumo knew that her Naruto kun was serious by the look in his face. She would never admit it but it scared her to no ends when he was like this, because it felt like he didn't have emotions at all when he had that look, he was just cold, almost like a...a killing machine.

"Um...sniff...okay...sniff." Replied Yakumo.

"Alright then, first of all, I am going to show you something, it is a letter from my biological mother. She used a time lapse seal on me just before she died, a seal that would activate when I reached the age of ten, the same age that she and my father graduated the ninja acedemy. But she made provision for the possibility of me graduating earlier then they did, she wanted me to have the gifts she left for me as soon as I was ready to begin my higher level ninja education, she set it up that I would be able to release the seal with my blood and chakra if I was able to discover it before the age of ten. Thanks to meeting Kaa cha um..Kyubi at an early age, I was able to view all of my memories up until the day I was born and thus discovered the seal, and...all my memories that the Sandaime Hokage had sealed away!" Said Naruto with an angry snarl, giving Yakumo a chance to digest the information.

"What! But I thought that you said you had never met your parents, I thought you were an orphan since birth?" Snapped Yakumo with a betrayed expression on her face.

"Yes I did, but I didn't lie to you, that was the truth, I have never met my parents in person and they did die on the day of my birth, that is why my mother put a time lapse seal on me, so that she can comunicate with me and bare me some gifts even from beyond the grave." Explained Naruto.

"Oh! I um...I see...um...what was in the seal...if its not too private?" Asked Yakumo nervously, a small red hue forming on her cheeks from embarrassment.

'Damn it Yakumo! He probably thinks you're too nosy for your own good, I can't believe I asked him about something so personal!' Thought Yakumo.

"What was in the seal? I'll do better then tell you, I'll let you read her letter." Said Naruto, causing Yakumo's eyes to widen in surprise again. She didn't expect him to let her read something so...private. She only expected him to give her a brief summary of what was inside the seal.

"What! But...you...um...you don't have to...if you don't want to, its too personal...isn't it?" Asked Yakumo, trying to fight against her own curiosity.

"No, its fine, I want to share this with you, you're the closest thing I have to family, I consider you like that at least, I love you that much." Said Naruto, trying his hardest to resist the blush on his cheeks.

"Um...thank you, I...um...I love you too.." Said Yakumo with a cute blush on her cheeks, averting her eyes from her only friend to hide her embarrassment.

'Why am I feeling like this, I mean, he's my only precious person, it's alright to tell him that I love him isn't it?' Thought Yakumo, unable to comprehend the attraction between male and female, maybe because of her young age perhaps.

"Alright then, you remember the scroll with the mind transfer techniques that I gave to you right?" Asked Naruto.

"H-hai, demo... what does this have to do with your mother's seal and letter Naruto kun?" Asked Yakumo with a cute, confused pout.

Naruto, with his mind willed a folded scroll to appear on his hand before handing it over to his best friend. Some might have wondered how someone can just will something into existence, but the truth of the matter was that although their physical contact felt real, there was actually nothing real about it. They were communicating through a modified mind transfer jutsu that Yakumo created for the sole purpose of communicating with her best friend. The jutsu required that her Naruto kun be at least 2 miles within her position, from then on it was a simple matter of her creating a mind link between the two of them, combined with her skill in genjutsu, she could create a mental plain where she and Naruto could communicate with each other as if they were in the physical realm. The jutsu was so good that if a person was not made aware that he or she was inside her jutsu, then it was almost impossible to figure it out, much less break it. The scary part was that she could do this despite her bloodline limit being sealed away, or rather, the mental manifestation of her bloodline limit being sealed away.

"Um...well you see...um, here...this will explain everything to you." Said Naruto, putting the letter into her hand.

Dear Naruto kun

Sochi, my baby, please forgive your Kaa chan! I didn't mean to die on you Naruto kun, I wanted to raise you up myself, I wanted to be there on your first day at the academy, when you first graduated, your first date, and I wanted to be there on your wedding day. It pains my heart to know that I won't be able to be there for you, I can't believe life can be so unfair, but you shouldn't dwell on the past sochi kun, please be a strong boy for mommy, I know you'll grow up to become a very powerful shinobi one day, just like your father.

Sochi kun, I don't have a lot of time left, you and I are lying together on your crib as I write this letter, the kyubi has been ripped away from me by a man that I believe to be Uchiha Madara. I do not know how he has managed to live this long, but be sure to remember that name and make sure you become strong, he will definately return for the kyubi one day. Your father , he has gone to do battle with him and the kyubi to protect the village, yes sochi, your father is the Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato, it shouldn't be hard for you to figure it out though, you look exactly like him, no one can deny you your heritage, even though we were married under secrecy.

Sochi, I am going to tell you some important things that you need to be aware of if you are to survive this cruel and harsh ninja world. Sochi, the Kyubi has always been kept by Uzumaki clan, your great ancestor, Uzumaki Mito was the first container, I was the second, and there is no doubt in my mind that your father is going to seal it inside of you.

Now don't be scared sochi kun, we Uzumaki have very powerful bodies and our chakra reserves are excessively high, far higher then any shinobi family and far more potent. Moreover, our family are the undesputed masters of seals and barriers, these abilities are also crucial in our ability to contain the fox, as we have a very strong affinity to seals and barriers.

Sochi, I know the life of a jinchuuriki, it is very harsh, demanding, and heart breaking, sochi kun, I need you to find someone special for yourself, someone to love and treasure, because only pure love can save you from the darkness that is born within a person when they are bonded to a tailed beast. I wish I could have been that person for you Naru chan, but I can't, I'm as good as dead already, I'm already living on borrowed time.

Naru chan, be careful who you trust, you are the last heir of the great Uzumaki clan and the only son of the Yellow Flash of Konoha, a lot of people will want to attach themselves to you, or use you for various reasons, the ninja world is full of deception and treachery, make sure you have a keen eye Naruto kun, this is not what a normal mother would teach their son, but we are not a normal family, we are a shinobi family, do not give your trust to others freely sochi, be careful, be very careful.

Do not worry too much though, you will have the strength to match or even surpass your father and I, Kaa chan will make sure of it. I have sealed behind your neck a hidden time lapse storage seal that will be activated when you reach the age of ten, the same age me and your father graduated the academy. But, if you discover this letter before that, then know this, the seal can be revealed and openned by only your blood and chakra. Do not trust anyone with the contents or even the existense of this seal, not even the Hokage, these are family secretes Naruto kun, they should be treasured and kept within the clan and family.

Inside the seal are all the uzumaki clan seals and barrier techniques that I am aware of and everything about our family and history, dating back to our origin from the sage of the six paths. You will learn more about the sage within those notes and you will learn about our homeland, Ushiogakure no saito.

I also have a lot of water techniques sealed inside the scroll, our family have a strong affintity to water and we have all the water techniques you can think of, use them wisely Naruto kun.

There is also the blood clone and shadow clone techniques inside the scroll. Sochi kun, the shadow clone returns all of its experiences and memories when it is dispelled. This technique was an Uzumaki creation that was inspired by our lack of chakra control in our early years of ninja development. You can use the shadow clone technique to train your chakra control, study sealing arts or any large text of information, and practise your ninjutsu with it, as anything the clone learns will be transfered back to you in the form of photographic memories.

Now be careful, this technique is very chakra extensive, although as an Uzumaki, and the son of the great Yondaime Hokage, you wouldn't have to worry too much about your chakra, but be careful of dispelling too many clones at once, especially if you were using them for studying large blocks of text.

Your father was a specialist of space time techniques and one of his greatest creations was the Hirashin no jutsu, an instant transportation technique that amplifies his speed and reflexes to an unreal level, I have stored all of his space time techniques and seals inside the storage seal, and also his ninjutsu, including the rasengan, these are the techniques that made your father a legend, I have no doubt in my mind that you will one day be able to master them. Your father wanted to create a third level of the Hirashin, maybe you will one day be able to improve it. He also wanted to add a nature element to the rasengan, nevertheless you have in your possession all of his notes, use them wisely.

Sochi, kaa chan did something illegal, but I did it for you sochi kun, I am sure that it will benefit you in the future, there is no doubt in my mind about it.

Naru chan, there is a scroll that is given to the Hokage by the clans of konoha when he takes the position as a form of trust between the village and the clans of the village. The scroll contains all of the techniques of all of the clans inside it. This is done by the clans in order to prove their loyalty to the village and their trust in the Hokage and the village. This also promotes good relations between the two parties. More then that sochi, is that this scroll is also made to ensure the continued existense of the clans. Sometimes, a clan will be destroyed, like our own was destroyed all those years ago, and sometimes clan techniques and information about the clans can be lost during the chaos and destruction. The clans allow the Hokage to keep a scroll of all their techniques so that the little kids who survive the carnage can have access to information and techniques of their clan, the Hokage will make sure that they get a copy of the section of the scroll within his possession that contains the properties of said survivor's clan.

The clans of Konoha are the Yamanaka clan, the Kurama clan, Uchiha, Hyuga, Aburame,Inuzuka, Akimichi, and the Nara clan. Sochi, I'm not proud of what I have done, but this is the ninja world, a ninja must always use whatever advantage that is given to them, deception, trickery, whatever is neccessary, a ninja must do to achieve their goals. My goal is to protect the people I love sochi kun, and you are the person I love the most, that is why I made copies of the scroll that was entrusted to Minato kun by the clans.

Your father has an obligation to uphold, he made an oath to them that he would protect their secretes as the Hokage, but I am under no such obligation, for I never made such an oath. Use what I have given you wisely Naruto kun, yes, kaa chan can be quite deceptive and diabolical, but I want what is best for you, I want you to survive and live a long and prosperous life, and I want you to be happy. To do that, you will need a lot of strength, even as a baby, only a few minutes after your birth you were dancing and tangling with life and death, your life will be even harder, but you will pull through, Kaa chan has made sure of it.

One more thing sochi, I left all of my research and studies of the medical ninja arts, it wasn't my forte, I never took interest in that field until I got married to Minato kun, sochi, us Uzumaki are blessed with longetivity, we can even live up to twice the age of normal human beings, or even shinobi, I didn't want to outlive your father too much, so I delved into the medical field so that I can find a way to prolong his life, but as you can see, I have run out of time myself, but I will leave my research with you, maybe you can find a way to prolong the life of your own special person.

This is it Naru chan, Minato kun should be back soon, I don't know what is going to happen, but I know he will seal the kyubi inside of you no matter how much I protest, it is his duty as the Hokage, he will no doubt train you well, but should something happen to him, you have the storage seal to help you.

I love you Naruto kun, Kaa chan loves you so much! Never forget that, ever! No matter what you do, no matter what you become and no matter where you go, never forget my love, I will never forsake you Naruto kun, and make sure you have lots of grandchildren ready for kaa chan to spoil, goodbye...my sochi!

Namikaze Uzumaki Kushina

"Oh Naruto kun! I...I'm so sorry!" Wailed Yakumo, launching herself into the blonde's chest, tears flowing down her cheeks rapidly.

"This is so sad! Why is life so unfair to you, why do all the bad things always have to happen to you! This is so unfair...sniff sniff!" Cried Yakumo, releasing heart breaking sobs from her throat.

"Hey now...don't cry Yakumo chan! I'm fine...really, Kaa chan told me not to dwell on the past, I miss her, I wish I could have been raised by her, but she wanted me to be happy, she sacrificed everything for my happiness and did so much to ensure that I had a chance to survive this world, I won't disappoint her. So please, don't cry, the only thing I want to see is your smile, not your tears!" Begged Naruto, trying to maintain a stoic expression but failing miserably, tears threatening to fall out of his own eyes too. The two children cried in each others arms for fifteen minutes straight, releasing all of their supressed pain and sorrow to each other.

"The Ido demon made her kill her own parents, her beloved sensei, who she thought believed in her betrayed her and sealed her powers with the help of the Hokage, the remainder of her family deserted her and wanted nothing to do with her, and she is imprisoned in her own home under constant A.N.B.U watch, and has been denied her dream of becoming a great kunoichi of her clan despite her unhealthy physical condition...all of this and she still cries for you, believing that you have had a far worse life then her...what a strange girl...she didn't even comment on the fact that you are the son of the yondaime hokage." Said the Kyubi.

"Sniff...look what you did to me, you...sniff...made me cry, boys aren't supposed to cry...sniff!" Said the blonde in between sobs. Yakumo giggled childishly at her friends attempt to be a man, she couldn't help it, it was so cute.

"Sniff...sorry, I didn't mean to..." Replied Yakumo, unable to supress her laughter. For some strange reason she felt so much better now, almost as if a heavy burden had just been lifted off of her shoulders, she felt so calm and carefree. Naruto laughed with her, he just realised how stupid he must have sounded talking about boys not crying even though he was choking with his own sobs.

"You should stop fooling around, how long do you think the girl can hold this jutsu up for?" Warned the Kyubi, causing Naruto's eyes to widen slightly.

"Ahem...Yakumo chan, I have to tell you something important before we run out of time." Said Naruto, wiping away the tears from his face with a serious expression.

Yakumo, realising that her Naru kun wasn't playing around anymore adopted her own serious expression.

"What is it Naruto kun?" Asked Yakumo.

"Yakumo, I have already a way for us to not only escape the village, but to stay safe and receive proper training until we are ready to take on the Hidden Leaf Village." Said Naruto with a serious expression.

Yakumo's eyes widened in awe and surprise, and a little happiness too.

"Sugoi! How...how did you do it?" Asked Yakumo with childish curiosity.

"I have been collaborating with an older boy by the name Yakushi Kabuto for quite a while now, I met him on the same day that I met Kaa chan...I mean Kyubi. He is the adopted son of the best medical ninja currently living in the village. Together with my mother's research that I have, and his knowledge, we have come up with a possible cure for your physical condition." Explained Naruto, causing Yakumo's eyes to widen in disbelief and happiness.

"B-but how? You didn't even examine me or take any blood samples? And what has this cure got to do with our escape, not that I'm not greatful off course!" Asked Yakumo, not able to believe what to her was too good to be true. She didn't know much about medical stuff, but she had been through so many tests and examinations in her life of imprisonment that it was impossible for her not to at least know enough to question Naruto about a few things.

"True, but Kabuto was able to get access to all of the data on you that has been collected by the village, including blood samples amongst other things. We were able to make a diagnosis and come up with a cure, although Kabuto did most of the work. I also found out that Kabuto is not a loyal Konoha shinobi, he is a spy that answers directly to Orochimaru Of The Densetsu no Sannin, if you didn't know, Orochimaru is a rogue shinobi that deserted the Hidden Leaf. But what most people do not know, is that he has his own hidden village, Otogakure no saito. Kabuto told me that he has talked to Orochimaru and that he wants us to be a part of his hidden village and unlike Konoha, will not hinder our growth, Orochimaru promises proper training and power if we agree to help him destroy the Hidden Leaf and stay loyal to Oto.." Said Naruto, taking a breathe from his long explanation to give Yakumo a chance to digest the information.

Yakumo didn't know how to feel about this, on the one hand she was very happy that she would not only be cured of her disease, but would also be able to become a proper kunoichi and not have to live in a place she hated so much. But on the other hand, she had heard very bad things about this Orochimaru, the Densetsu no Sannin were the Hokage's students, and she hated the Hokage and didn't trust him at all, so why would she trust his student. Sure he was a missing ninja and hated konoha it seemed just like her, but she didn't like his association with the Hokage one bit.

"I...I don't know Naruto kun, I heard some very bad things about him when my medical observers thought I wasn't conscious. Like I heard that he did cruel experiments on people, and even children!" Said Yakumo. Naruto flinched when Yakumo mentioned experiments and children, causing Yakumo to narrow her eyes at him with a speak up or die expression, making the blonde to gulp nervously.

"What is it? Tell me!" Demanded Yakumo ominously.

"Um...you see, I had to agree to an experiment that Orochimaru wants to conduct on me as part of the deal. You see, because of Kaa chan, I am the only one who can survive the experiment, and it will give me a lot of power if the experiment is successful, I will be near invincible, Kaa chan has assured me that she won't let me die though, she thinks...she knows I can survive the experiment!" Said Naruto defensively, the look on his friend's face was too scary for comfort, the last thing he wanted was for her to use her genjutsu on him, he didn't fancy finding out if the Kurama clan's genjutsu could be dispelled by his kaa chan or not.

"What! Are you insane! What on kami's planet made you agree to something so stupid Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto! I'm going to kill you!" Screamed Yakumo, tackling the blonde onto the ground with her hands wrapped around his throat.

"How dare you! What am I going to do if you die huh you selfish bastard! You wana risk your life just for power, why would you do that? I thought you loved me sniff!" Screamed Yakumo furiously. Normally she wouldn't have had enough strength to subdue him, but inside her jutsu, she could do anything she wanted, even overpower him if she wanted to.

'Damn she must really be mad if she called me by my full name!' Thought the blonde.

"Ack...can't...breathe..." Wizzed out the blond.

"Why! I knew it was too good to be true!" Said Yakumo, burying her face into Naruto's chest. She couldn't take it, she couldn't risk losing him of all people, not him, anything but that!

"Yakumo chan...do you trust me?" Asked Naruto simply, having regained his breathe after the petite girl's assualt on his person.

"H-hai, I trust you Naruto kun.." Said Yakumo.

"Then believe me when I say that I won't die on you. We're going to leave this place together, I am going to survive Orochimaru san's experiment, and we are going to heal you and unseal your true power. We will get our vengence, for you and for me, and we will live in a village where our talents and abilities will be appreciated. I promise, please believe in me, Yakumo chan..." Said Naruto, his arms wrapped around the petite girl who was snuggled on top of him.

"You promise...you promise you won't die and leave me alone?" Asked Yakumo with a cute teary eyed pout.

"Hai, I promise!" Said Naruto with a deternined facial expression.

"O-Okay, I...I believe in you Naruto kun." Said Yakumo with a meaningful look, trying to pass on her feelings unto Naruto.

"Arigatou..." Trailed off Naruto, staring in slight shock at Yakumo's transparent form, only to realise that he was also disappearing.

"We're out of time, I can't believe two hours have already passed, it felt so short." Said Naruto with a disappointed expression on his face.

"I'm sorry Naruto but I...I can't hold the jutsu up any longer, I'm getting tired, gomenassai!" Apologised Yakumo, trying to hold back the tears threatening to spill from her eyes. This is the part she hated the most, because it would only be a week before she would be able to see Naruto kun again, unless she escaped and went to his apartment again, but that was too dangerous, they didn't want to risk the possibility of someone discovering their connection to each other, heck nobody even knew that they knew each other.

"Don't worry about it. We will be leaving this place the next time we meet. Stay safe Yakumo chan, until I come for you." Said the blond as he vanished from the plain along with Yakumo, only to wake up in a meditative position on a thick branch of a tree two miles away from the Kurama mansion.

"Finally boss! I was just about to kick you in the nuts, guard duty is boring you know, why can't you make us do something more exciting?" Wined one of his four doppelgangers watching over the blond while he was unconscious.

It was something important that he practised nowadays. He would make five doppelgangers whenever he 'met' Yakumo. One would set up a cloaking genjutsu that Yakumo had taught him to hide his location and presence while the other four would be on guard duty from within the jutsu.

At home, was another doppellganger posing as him. He knew that the Hokage had a way of watching him because kyubi could always sense it when someone was watching them. He had figured part of the Hokage's jutsu out when he discovered chakra seal tags on each of his clothing items and even all around his apartment. So he'd done what he thought was one of his most ingenius plans. He'd created a blood clone of himself and made it live inside his apartment and wear his ordinary clothes that had chakra seal tags on them while he moved out and started living in one of Orochimaru's old and undiscovered secrete hideouts that Kabuto had told him about. But the person living inside his apartment wasn't just a blood clone. Naruto knew, after he unsealed some of his memories that had been blocked away with the help of Kyubi that the Sandaime Hokage sometimes did examinations on his seal when he was knocked unconscious, and if the examination was done on the clone, then there would be a whole lot of trouble.

Luckily, he had access to all the notes of the Four Symbols Seal that his tousan used to seal the kyubi inside of him. He had discovered that his father had combined two Four Symbols Seals to create the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style to seal the yang chakra of the kyubi inside of him, while using the dead demon consuming seal to seperate the yin chakra and seal it into himself so that he can take it to the stomach of the death god.

Naruto wasn't sure why his father had done it, he still needed to gain a far greater understanding of the sealing arts to comprehend his father's reasoning, but that didn't matter for now. What mattered was that he had been able to learn the Four Symbols Seal and the Eight Trigrams Sealing Sryle that his father created so that he can replicate the seal on his stomach.

He then placed the seal on the blood clone's stomach and then, with the help of his kaa chan was able to pump six tails worth of youki into the seal on his clone and stored it there in the exact same manner that his kaa chan was sealed into him. But, Naruto knew that should there be another attack or assasination attempt on him, or rather, his clone, then the Hokage would once again try to seal away his memories of the incident, and in doing so, would discover that the other memory blocks were missing. Luckily, his Kaa chan knew exactly how to replicate the memory blocks, she'd spent countless hours studying them before they had made their first contact. This meant that they could reseal away the memories of his clone to the time before he discovered his kaa chan, better known as the kyubi. This way, they were not able to stay one step ahead of the Hokage, but many, many steps ahead of him. While his clone was posing as him, Naruto had spent all his time learning and training in Orochimaru's old hideout, Kabuto came to check him out and spar with him from time to time. Sometimes they would disccus their plans for the future, and other times they would discuss medicine and science together, he had learned a lot from the notes his biological kaa chan left him on the field and had learned even more from Kabuto, all for the sake of helping out his first precious person, or rather, first precious human.

'It is almost time, I have to go to the hide out and meet Kabuto to finalize things, Yakumo chan...hold on just a little longer.' Thought Naruto before disappearing in a shunshuin, his shadow clones disappearing in puffs of smoke right after his departure.

End Chapter

Alright, that was actually the longest first chapter I have written so far, my first chapters are usually really short.

Anyway Naruto will specialize in Sound Jutsu, Water Jutsu, Seals and Barriers. And also the experiment that Oro will do on him will give him a very powerful ability, one that I won't reveal as of yet.

Yakumo will special in Genjutsu and Mind tranfer/control techniques

Hope yaw enjoyed it.