AN: Hello all its does Dragon here once more. Sorry about the late delivery, things have been kind of hectic as I stated before having a kid and all. Either way I am happy to present to you the next chapter for the story. I hope you all enjoy this and what's more I am really sorry about the wait but here is the next chapter for the story of Mind of the Ten-Tails!

Chapter 5

At the Hokage office Minato watched it's family interact with Naruto through the crystal ball on his desk. This ball was part of the security system within the village. It allows me to tell a view of a specific Target or targets by keying into the truck with signature. It's perfect for not only finding criminals to spying around for potential dangers or spies.

Right now Minato watch Naruto look around as he was introduced to the statesman's daughter and wife. While Minato was happy at his Angel not only helping a new member of the village and making a new friend, he couldn't help but worry about her being close to the boy who may or may not be a spy. Just like his wife he hope the boy wasn't a threat that way his daughter would not be hurt with what he would have to do.

Hearing a knock, Minato seals the crystal ball back into the desk and look towards the door. "Come in," he called out.

The door open to reveal Iruka who was carrying some papers in his hands. He bowed to his leader, a smile on his face. "I have the report about Naruto you asked for Lord Fourth," he greeted as he handed Minato the papers.

"Thank you Iruka," Minato replied, a smile on his face as he looked over the papers briefly. "Hey Iruka, what's your personal opinion of the boy? I'm curious how you see him after your interaction."

The Chunin teacher thought it over carefully before coming up with his answer. "That boys questionably strong to be honest," Iruka repliedwhich definitely got Minato's attention. "During our spar I noticed he was moving awkwardly, like he was trying to not go too hard. His strikes were strong, stronger than any Genin I have spared against so far. Not to mention that he was able to lift me off the ground when I had him pinned. But that's not what makes me see him as so dangerous or interesting. It seems he has a knack for using his chakra like no one I have seen before."

Minato looked at Iruka in confusion. " during our spy, the boy was able to manipulate his chakra and move it to his limbs as if he was doing it by instinct. It may be looking too much into it, but by how much it fluctuated, showed he had no clue he was even doing it. That boy is skill and adaptability will Propel him far as he learns more."

Minato hummed as he dismissed the teacher, thinking over everything as he grabbed the report. 'We either have a gem in our hands or a ticking bomb,' he thought. 'I guess only time will tell if something needs to be done or not.'

Minato watch through the crystal ball that he resummoned and watched Naruto enter a changing room with a handful of clothing. Thankfully he didn't see Naruto inside the room, just entering it.

Naruto has been trying different outfits, so far none felt good to him. They all just felt too constricting for his taste, and felt like he was being weighed down.

The pair of clothing he had now actually felt better to him as he looked the off it over before putting the shirt on first.

"This is a complete waste of time," Juubi growled in anger. "We could be using this time to get stronger and finding out more of who we were. But instead we are wasting our time with these girls, shopping for clothing."

"Come now Juubi, it's not so bad," Shinju replied, trying to calm it's roommate. "This could be beneficial since everyone else is wearing clothing of different kinds. It will help the young lord not only make new companions, but help us to blend in better. Something that is fundamental for these warriors it appears."

"We are going to be standing our regardless!" Juubi replied as his power flashes for a moment due to his temper but it quickly died down. "We are most likely being watched by these warriors from the village anyway, so what's the point of holding back and risk ourselves being too weak to defend ourselves should the need arise."

"Juubi, Shinju is right," Naruto said as he finished fastening the avk belt around the waistline of the fresh pants. "We can't risk this whole place seeing me as an enemy. I actually kind of like it here, even if mostly because Naruko and Hinata who have been nothing but nice to me since I met them yesterday. I also still need to find out why I feel such a powerful pull towards Naruko too. I am sorry Juubi, but we are staying here and getting stronger by this village's rules." The wolf pup huffed in annoyance, but did not argue seeing a losing battle here.

Seeing that the discussion has ended, Naruto looked himself over and had to admit that he liked the way it looked. It was a, as the shopkeeper called, a battle kimono. It was pure white with black seems outlining it. It stopped at his waist where his black belt tied it up and kept it closed. He wore white slacks that hung tightly to him but showed how tone they were for his age. On his feet were the usual shinobi sandals that felt light to him. Under the pants and kimono was mesh armor that protected his body.

"Are you done yet, Naruto?" Naruko asked from outside the dressing room. Naruto chuckled lightly at her impatience that he found to be cute.

The young Otsusuki opened the curtains and smiled at the girls. "How do I look?" He asked in curiosity. He may have liked it, but he wasn't sure if it was okay.

Kushina was impressed as she looked Naruto's clothing over. 'I mean it's not my style, but it definitely works for him. It gives him more of a regal look, sort of like the Hyuga without the usual snooty attitude. But for a boy without the usual skill of an academy student, he is much more times for someone of his age which shows work.' " you look good now itself, that outfit really suits you well. What do you think girls?" The red hair as mother looked towards the younger girls and could not help but to giggle at their expressions.

Naruko's face was a bright red and she did her best to look anywhere but at Naruto. Hinata kept fidgeting nervously with her fingers as she had her entire face turned red. It looked like the poor Hyuga girl was going to pass out.

Giving her daughter and Hinata a slight nudge knocked both girls out of their trance. This also caused they're blush to deepen when they realized they were staring realized "Are you girls going to answer Naruto or are you two a bit too distracted?"

"Yes, I mean NO!" Naruko stuttered as she looked back and forth between her mother and a confused Naruto. "You look…I'm great Naruto. I like the…uhh white of your clothes."

"I…i..i. think you lo…look nice Otsusuki," Hinata stuttered having trouble looking Naruto in the eyes.

Confused at why they were not looking him in the eyes, Naruto smiled at them and nodded happily at them. "Thank you, I also like these clothes as well. They are comfy and I have a lot of room to move around in."

Smiling happily at his Joy, Kushina looked at the cart that had other clothing on it. "Since you like that one so much, let's get you clothes that are similar to it then."

They all nodded and they but more clothing which took about half an hour. Naruto continue talkin, or at best listen, two to three girls. He let me know more about the village as he was shown a part that had a bunch of kids playing on it. After a while more they arrived at a clearing with these wooden poles lined next to each other. Sitting on the middle stump was a very beautiful woman eating a stick of dango.

She was a tall woman with a strong, slender frame. She had light brown eyes that were pupil-less much like Hinata's. She had black hair with a violet tint to it while it was styled in a short, spiky, fanned-ponytail. She wore a mesh bodysuit that just amped the allure of her body. Over that, she wore a tan overcoat with a purple inseam and a pocket on each side. She wore a dark orange mini skirt, a dark blue belt, and pale grey shin guards. In addition to the Konoha forehead protector, she also wore a small pendant that looked like a snake fang and a wristwatch.

After munching happily on the finished dongle she hums happily and tossed the stick which stuck itself into a tree that had several other dango sticks were imbedded into showing great accuracy.

What impressed Naruto and Shinju was the fact that the woman had her eyes closed the entire time. Naruto nearly jumped in fright though when he heard the Juubi call out to him.

"Be careful around that woman young lord!" Juubi growled in. "She has something about her that make my instincts go haywire; she's dangerous young lord."

"Big sis Anko!" Naruko cried out as she charged at the now smirking women. When she collided into Anko, the violet haired women burst into a cloud of smoke.

This surprised Naruto as he didn't expect the women to just vanish into smoke like that. Apparently neither did Naruko as she toppled over her own feet and landed over the stump. This led to Kushina laughing out loud and a gentle giggle from Hinata.

"Big sis, that was not funny!" Naruko groaned as she stood up, rubbing the bump on her head.

Anko appear next to Norco with an amusement that she pet the young girls head. "Come on kiddo just a little joke. Consider it payback for the prank last week."

" but you already got your pay back when I paid for your Dango the next day which cost me two weeks of my allowance!" Naruko replied with her arms crossed. Anko just shrugged before the air was knocked out of her when Naruko hugged her again. The violet headed woman smirked and returned the hug.

'That's her older sister?' Naruto thought as Kushina hugged the woman next and Hinata merely bowed to her in greeting. 'They look nothing alike though, not even the feeling coming from them is the same. Anyone, she looks more like Hinata since their hair is more similar in color along with no pupils for eyes.'

After greetings we're done, uncle took note of Naruto as she looked him over. 'Not bad looking for his age and I can see he has something hidden by just looking into his eyes. The question is, what is it?' "So whose the third runt? Did little red over here bag herself a boyfriend or maybe the Hyuga brat?"

Upon her words, both Naruko's and Hinata's faces became a bright red and they couldn't find words to respond. They looked towards Naruto only to look away at his now confused expression which they admittedly found cute. Kushina was doing her best to keep her composure as she found the girls reactions adorable and hilarious.

"Hello my name is Naruto Otsusuki, not runt," Naruto replied not understanding what was so funny though his eyes widened in a few moments when he figured it out. "And yes, I am the boyfriend of both Naruko and Hinata. It's nice to meet you Miss Anko. He gave the shocked woman a slight bow, completely missing the surprised expression from Kushina, Naruko, and Hinata.

Getting over her shock quickly, Anko whistled in appreciation. "Damn, didn't expect Naruko and Hinata to snag themselves the same man," Anko replied with a teasing grin as she saw that he completely misunderstood. She was not going to miss this juicy chance to tease her little sister and her friend. "So, do you all kiss him one at-a-time or is it a three-way smooch at once?"

That was too much for poor Hinata who went back to her old habits and passed out. Naruko felt her face could melt at any time now so she moved to hide behind her amused and shocked mother.

Worried Naruto moved towards Hinata as he looked her over, not sure why she passed out. "Hinata, are you okay? Why did you fall asleep so suddenly? Hinata!?"

When he worried Lee touch the young girl's forehead, he felt his chakra begin to latch onto her. He quickly pulled away and shocked, not expecting that to happen know why it did happen.

"Don't worry Naruto," Kushina said as she checked om Hinata and found out the she was alright. "Shed ok, just passed out from being shocked by your statement. I'm curious though, you DO know what a boyfriend is correct?"

"Yes I believe I do," Naruto replied. "Its where your friend is a boy, right? Hence the term 'boyfriend'. That would make me Naruko, Hinata, and your boyfriend since we are all friends right?"

Kushina stared in disbelief at Naruto before she and Uncle fell back laughing at the boys misunderstanding. She did feel a tad bit bad for laughing, but she couldn't help it. It was just too funny for her! Anko just thought this kid gave her a lot of blackmail material

No Naruto that's not what boyfriend means," Naruko said before Anko quickly covered her mouth.

"No boyfriend works exactly like that," Anko said with an amused grin to the confused boy. "You are definitely the boyfriend to Naruko and Hinata. You're just not the boyfriend to Kushina because she is too old for the term. In fact…OW!" Anko cried in pain when the girl she held decided to stop her and bit the older woman hand hard enough to draw a little blood.

The violet haired women let go and glared angrily at the embarrassed Naruko who only glared back.

"We are definitely friends Naruto," Naruko said while keeping her eyes on her sister figure. "A boyfriend means that we are dating which we are not doing. We are just friends. Don't listen to Anko since she just likes to mess with people."

Naruto nodded in understanding, seeing that he got the term wrong. Though he was confused a bit as he looked to the blonde haired girl. "Then why is it called a boyfriend? Don't you think that is misleading and what's dating?"

Now they all looked at him in confusion, not seeing how he knew so little about these things these days. The life of a Shinobi is quick and perilous, so children are a lot earlier than other kids about these types of stuff. "We will explain later Naruto," Naruko said, not sure how to explain it to him at the moment.

"Yeah she will but first she has to pay the due she is owed for biting my hand," Anko said with a predators gleam as she looked to the scared Naruko who backed away in fear of her sister. "Where do you think that your running to brat!" she tossed a kunai at the blonde girl who became too paralyzed from fear to move out the way.

Naruto seeing his friend in danger became protective as his instincts screamed at him to move. Not hearing the Juubi telling him to stop, Naruto rushed forward with the chakra rushing in his legs, pushing him at greater speeds. He appeared in front of Naruko before the blade could reach her. He quickly grabbed the blade from the air and sensed Anko was behind his friend and struck forward with his new weapon ready to strike and protect her.

Anko, who was behind Naruko with a kunai in her hand, snapped out of her shock at Naruto whose new blade was approaching fast so she lifted her weapon and quickly blocked Naruto's strike. She wasn't expecting the power behind the strike though which quickly cost her. The moment steel met steel Anko was pushed back and her arm was pushed upward. Before she could recover though, Naruto free fist rushed towards her face and Anko had no time to defend herself so she braced herself for the pain that was sure to come.

Thankfully Anko did not have to worry as Kushina had snapped out of her shock and reacted quickly. The mother shot out her signature Chakra Chains from her back that instantly wrapped around Naruto's fist and arm.

The result was Naruto's body instantly stopping as his chakra felt wrong to him. He was able to figure that the chains somehow messed up his chakra body and caused him to feel sluggish and unable to move. It felt like Naruto's chakra would not listen to him.

"Naruto, calm down please," he heard Naruko say as she held his chained hand to get his attention. "I am okay. Big sis does stuff like that to surprise me. She wasn't trying to hurt me nor would she ever hurrt me. I am okay I promise."

Seeing Naruto's look of understanding, which took a bit due to his sluggish movements, Kushina slowly retracted her chains. She was careful as she analyzed him for any further threat that he could pose. She wasn't too shocked when Naruto dropped to one knee in exhaustion as it tends to happen when she uses it on normal civilians and weaker shinobi. What did surprise her was when the young man stood up almost immediately!

Most Jonin would have trouble recovering from not only having her chains drain their chakra but stopping their relative flow at the same time. For a fresh academy student with no prior knowledge of chakra to this extent should not be getting up like nothing happened when the process should have been more than enough to knock him out. Only someone with high amounts of chakra, a Jinchuriki, or even another Uzumaki should recover this quickly.

"I am sorry," Naruto said towards Anko, breaking Kushina's train of thought. Naruto had completely regained his bearings and focused his attention on the girls. "It would seem I have completely misread the situation and thought that Naruko was in danger. I am sorry for attacking you Ms. Anko." He said the last part towards the violet haired women who simply just waved off his apology with a grin.

"Its all good runt, you were just looking for my brat over here," she said not at all bothered by the incident. "I can't say I can blame you or be mad since that means she has someone looking out for her when we aren't all around to keep an eye on her. But damn I mist say that you have one hell of a strong arm swing! I felt that swing impact throughout my entire arm!"

Naruto looked down at his arm that held the kunai while in his own thoughts as he had no clue where that sudden rush of power came from. He couldn't tell if it was either the Juubi or the Shinju as it felt different from them. The power felt much more….primal than them. "Thank you for the compliment, I just wish I knew how I did that exactly. It's the first time I did anything like that to be honest."

While surprising to Anko, she didn't show it as she just nodded. "Well in the end I can't let a kid like you get the better of me so easily," she said with her grin getting more vicious. "So I am going to have to make sure that I get my pound of flesh from you when it suits me. Oh, I wonder what your blood will taste like!" She licked her lips slowly which unnerved Naruto.

'I don't bleed according to Shinju,' Naruto thought as he watched her reach for another kunai on her belt. 'That will lead to more trouble if they find out about that!'

Thankfully divine intervention came in the form of Kushina again as she appeared next to Anko and slammed her fist into the vicious women's head.

"Cut it out Anko," Kushina glared which made Anko flinch back like a child. "You are threatening the poor boy for nothing major and you haven't even fully introduced yourself to him as of yet."

"Geez Kushina I was just messing with the runt," Anko said as she rubbed the store spot on her head. The hardened glare made Anko sweat in fear of the deadly mother as she looked back to Naruto and coughed into her fist to recollect herself. "Hey there runt! The Anko Mitarahsi! The sexy and single kunoichu of Konoha!"

Naruto nodded at the women's strange introduction before he noticed something that confused him. Not only did memory flashes of this women appear in his mind, some of which showed her much younger than she is now, but her last name is different from her sister and mother. Didn't most siblings have the same last name which showed they are related?

"If you don't mind me asking but aren't you related to Naruko?" he asked. "How come your last name is different from Naruko and Kushina?"

"She is not related to us by blood," Naruko said. "Anko has been around me since I was young due to my mom basically taking her in. She's been like a sister to me ever since."

"Yeah I went through some shit when I was younger," Anko said with her arms crossed as a look of anger flashed over her features before going away. "Kushina was there for me and took me in and has been the family I never had. Their family is among the very few people I trust with my life."

Naruto nodded at that, not fully understanding but accepting it. Before he could reply, the Juubi spoke out to him.

"Naruto I think it's time for you to go," he said impatiently. "You need to form into your landscape so that you can train. Plus, I have something to show you that will come in handy for all of us." Nodding mentally, Naruto looked to the group.

"As fun as this day has been, I think its best that I start heading home," Naruto said. "Hinata has yet to wake up so she should probably get home and I now have nothing amongst other stuff that I need to put away."

Kushina nodded at his point before she made a Shadow Clone that went to pick up Hinata. That made Naruto's eyes widened as he focused on the clone for a moment. The original Kushina looked to Anko and Naruko as she gestured to them. "Ok you two let's head back to the house that way I can get started on making dinner. Naruto, you are more than welcomed to join us."

"Its alrigh t," Naruto replied as he grabbed some of the bags. "I would like to put everything away and get some rest."

Kushina nodded as both her and Naruko, who gave the boy a quick hug, but him farewell. Anko just smirked as they all left, leaving Naruto by himself.

"Finally!" Juubi cried out. "I thought those humans would never leave! Now you can get back home so we can get everything back on track."

Naruto nodded as he made his way back home which took about fifteen minutes. After taking the time to out everything away, he laid his head on his bed and closed his eyes.

-Mindscape-

Naruto entered his mind where the Shinju would be located. The lights in the area flowed calmly like before as he walked through the liquid chakra as he came upon the giant tree. What surprised him was that the Shinju seemed to have some new branches that were bigger along with it being taller and wider than he last saw it.

"Hello young lord," Shinju greeted it's container. "Welcome back to your mind."

"Hello to you too Shinju," Naruto greeted while looked around the area. "Where is Juubi?"

"Right over here young lord," Juubi's voice spoke up from behind Naruto.

The young man turned around and saw that the wolf pup had grown abit. What was most surprising was not the fact that the pup grew a few inches in height already, but the fact it had a new addition to its features. It eyes that were once black and white, were now pure white and pupil-less; much like Hinata's.

The Juubi had the Byakugan!

"Your eyes are like Hinata's!" Naruto yelled in surprise. "How did that happen?!"

"It would seem that you already had that power inside of you," Juubi replied, pleased by the development. "When your chakra connected itself to that Hinata girl, it absorbed some of her chakra and traits and passed it towards myself. This led to our chakra changing to match the unique ability of hers and thus my change in appearance with my eyes. The dojutsu was added to me while the chakra taken was added to Shinju. And it appears the damn tree was right as there is more to that girl than meets the eye as her chakra mutated when in contact with ours, giving us a bigger boost in power than normal. It's glorious!"

"That's all well and good but how do I use it then?" Naruto asked. "You said I possess it too now, so how do I use it?"

"From what we found, you can turn it and off by simply transferring chakra to and from your eyes," Shinju replied. "And the best part, thanks to your unique make-up the most is the that your pupils will be slightly faded now instead of no longer being there."

"So what exactly does this mean for us," Naruto asked. "I know from the basic memories that I can use it to see chakra but I could already do that naturally when I focus on it. So what else do these eyes do for us?"

"It would seem the Byakugan will give you a much sharper natural eyesight," Juubi explained as he sat on his hind legs while reactivating the bloodline. "Not only that but it seems to allow us to see some thing called chakra points instead of just chakra flow and a form of x-ray vision which could be of use. It also seems to allow us to look in a more 360 degrees vision so we can now even see behind us without having to turn around. That helps when just sensing out chakra didn't work for us. As for any fighting applications, I really don't know for sure how that will help us. We will have to experiment and maybe learn something that could compliment it's advantages."

"Naruto," Shinju begin, gaining the white haired boys attention now. "so would like to suggest that you hide the fact that you now possess the Byakugan."

This confused Naruto as he could not see a viable reason to hide his new ability from others. Hinata has it and it's on full display along with her other family members from what he was told by her.

"Naruto, we have no idea what else these new eyes of yours can do," Shinju answered the unasked question. "I recommend that until we have more information of this power, we should keep it to ourselves. Plus, we have no idea how the people of this village will react to someone else beside that family having those eyes. I doubt it's pure coincidence that only young Hinata's family has the Byakugan. We have no idea what they will do to someone not related to them and has their kekai genkai. So, I think it's safer to secretly look into it and learn more that way."

"While I hate the idea," Juubi replied with annoyance. "The Shinju is right here so for now, we will train and learn more about in the mindscape at night. This way we can practice away from prying eyes and not be set back too much. We have a lot of abilities to learn young lord and I would like we not waste time to master them."

Naruto nodded as he looked between his two tenants. "So if that is the case, where will we begin?"

AN: and that is the end of that. Sorry everyone that this story took so long to write up. There's just been so much going on these past few months that it's hard to find time to type sometimes. I'm actually very happy the way this chapter turned out even though it's sort of a information dump oh, sorry. Either way, I really hope you all enjoyed the chapter and the idea that that is coming out to. Naruto have to go for it and a lot more to learn. I will see you all the next chapter!

Dragon Soul94 is out!