Author's Note- I apologize in advance for the long talk between Hagoromo and Izumi. Had a lot of points to cover. Hope I got them all. More notes at bottom. I own nothing.

Lady Hyuga stood holding her daughter close. Uchiha Kanda had treated her, Naruto, and his own wounds the best he could. The Medic had also gone to seal the body of Kain into a storage scroll. They would take him back to Konoha for study and to hopefully figure out if he was a Sound Ninja or an impostor. Laying at the the woman's feet slept Naruto, his head resting on the folded up white Medical Ninja jacket of Kanda.

Sensing someone approaching, Hitomi activated her Byakugan to determine friend or foe. She was relieved to see her brother leading a Leaf Village Team. She made out a short blonde-haired Inuzuka Shinobi she didn't recognize with two small Ninken, as well four ANBU. The woman deactivated her Dojutsu and waited.

She didn't have to wait long. Her older brother landed quickly fallowed by everyone else. The dark grey-haired man looked around to check the clearing, then rounded on his sister. "What are you doing here Hitomi?"

'Sometimes he forgets I'm not his baby sister in need of protection, but a powerful Kunoichi that people need to be protected from.' Hitomi thought as she fixed Ige with a hard glare. "It's Lady Hitomi to you and I was saving my daughter."

Ige rolled his eyes at his sisters response. "How did you track the enemy down and get to them ahead of us? Also, what was that massive barrier we saw and what exactly happened here?"

Hitomi stopped glaring as she looked down at Kushina's son. "It was Naruto that tracked Hanabi down and teleported us here instantly. He was also the one that created the barrier, melted those trees over there, destroyed the clearing, killed every enemy we fought, and saved Hanabi."

The tracking team looked down at the young Uzumaki that was sleeping peacefully on the ground. The blonde Inuzuka was looking at all the damage in awe. He new the little kid because Naruto would sometimes come over and play with his distant cousin Kiba, but he had no idea the little guy had such a powerful bite. What till he told everyone.(1)

The Inuzuka turned his head quickly to Hitomi when he registered something she had said and asked in an excited tone. "Lady Hyuga, what you said about Naruto defeating everyone, the enemy was stronger than you but he was stronger than them?"

"No." As one the group turned to see Uchiha Kanda walking up. "Myself and Lady Hyuga could have taken the enemy alone. Their leader presented a complication when he used an unknown jutsu to absorb Lady Hanabi into himself, and activated a pseudo Byakugan. This also connected both him and the child in a way that any injury he received would affect Lady Hanabi; bruise his jaw and you bruise the girl's."

Hitomi continued the explanation. "Me and Kanda separate the leader from his team to try and capture him, as we figured our individual skills would be the best for that task. Naruto fought the four man team alone and defeated them, after demonstrating to the two of us his personal jutsu was up to the task. He was also able to kill our adversary with a powerful Genjutsu so as not to harm my daughter."

"He possesses a fatal Genjutsu?" Ige asked for conformation. His sister just gave him a nod.

Kanda pulled a scroll from his pocket and explained. "I managed to seal away the leader's body. It's the only one that remains as Naruto didn't leave anything of the other four. It's unfortunate as I would have loved to get their weapons for study. Has there been any change in our little hero, Lady Hitomi?"

"No, he is still sleeping peacefully. Do you think it would be ok to wake him so he can teleport everyone back to the village?" The woman asked concerned. She wanted Hanabi home as quickly as possible and away from the boarder.

Kanda thought it over. "No, he needs to sleep. Honestly he appears to be fine but this is new territory for me. His jutsu and the way they work, I can't even begin to understand his candy techniques, there could be a complication I'm not aware of. Lady Tsunade should check him over the moment we get back to the village. We definitely don't need him preforming anymore jutsu tonight."

The Inuzuka Chunin looked over to the trees finally recognizing the smell of marshmallow. He also detected chocolate and peppermint. Candy based attacks, teleportation, barriers, and a Genjutsu that can kill. This story was getting better and better. 'Just wait until I tell Kiba what a badass Naruto is.'

Hitomi looked the tracking team over curiously then turned to address her brother. "Where is my husband. I thought he, Hatake Kakashi, and Lord Jiraiya were leading the team?"

"The earth user gave us some trouble. His or her ability to still someone from underground, and transport them far away, gave us no true means of tracking." Ige explained. "Master Jiraiya was able to use a minor variant of Senjutsu to sense Hanabi and Uchiha Izumi's chakra to give us a heading. It lead us to an abandoned sawmill that was heavily boobytrapped. We managed to make it through with minor injury to discover the enemy had met a second team. Tracks suggested they separated and we weren't sure who had the girls. So Jiraiya took both Kakashi and Hiashi and chased after the first team while we pursued the second."

Hitomi thought over what her big brother said. As it stood right now, their wasn't much they could do to help Izumi. All they could do was hope Jiraiya and his team caught up with the enemy. Looking to Ige she decided to share one other detail she had learned. "We believe this was possibly a team from the new village Hidden Sound. They explained that Cloud Ninja kidnapped the girls and traded Hanabi's Byakugan for services rendered."

The Hyuga Matriarch watched satisfied as her brother's eyes narrowed suspiciously. She gave him a cold smile explaining. "That was my thoughts exactly big brother. Hidden Cloud would have traded the Sharingan before they gave up the Byakugan."

Ige took Hanabi from Hitomi and carried her as the Inuzuka Chunin carried Naruto. They headed back to Konoha with the Inuzuka Chunin and two ANBU. The other two left in hopes of finding Jiraiya and giving aid, as well to inform Lord Hiashi his daughter was safe.

…. Izumi ….

The young Uchiha Kunoichi was floating in a vast pool of water looking up at a golden sky. Izumi honestly didn't know how long she had been there but had no real desire to leave. It was so peaceful here who wouldn't want to stay forever.

"Izumi, my ancestral daughter, it is time you awoke." Came an elderly man's voice from above the floating girl.

Izumi craned her head upward to glare at the fool who would dare interrupt an Uchiha's blissful happiness. She saw a man sitting cross legged in midair with his eyes closed. He appeared to be old with light brown whitish hair and horns. He wore a kimono with six red tomoe along the collar.

"I'm resting." The brown-haired girl growled. She then turned her face back towards the sky. "Go away."

"Naruto still needs you Izumi." The young girl heard the man say sternly. "Your enemies scheme to use you as a tool to gain your brother's trust. If you do not awaken now and save yourself, than you will be partially responsible for Naruto's downfall."

At the mention of her baby brother, perhaps the only thing that could pull the girl's gaze from the golden sky, Izumi craned her head up to look at the old man once more. "Who are you?"

"Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, the Sage Of Six Paths, ancestral father to all Uchiha and many others." Replied the elder as he opened his eyes and glared down at the stubborn Kunoichi.

Izumi looked into the Dojutsu of legend without blinking. She remembered the bed time stories her grandmother told that talked of the legendary Sage Of Six Paths and his Rinnegan. The Uchiha sighed tiredly and stood up reluctantly. The moment the Kunoichi stood from the water and walked upon its surface, all the worries and woes of life came back to the forefront of her thoughts. She looked down at herself to see someone had dressed her up in black silk pajamas, the kind her clan used for patients in the hospital, and she was bone dry.

"You were in the care of your clan after the battle with the Mist Ninja." Hagoromo explained noticing the girl's confused expression. "You came very close to dying from Chakra Exhaustion. In fact, had it not been for Naruto's Storage Seal on your arm, you would have died. I couldn't have prevented you from sinking into the afterlife without its connection. Once the living world gave you treatment, I let you rest.

"What do you mean?" Izumi asked shocked. She pulled up her right sleeve to see the still intact mark upon her wrist.

"I'll explain how that mark allowed me to save you in a moment, but first I must tell you a truth about Naruto related to me." Hagoromo explained. The Sage then went on to tell about his two sons and how Naruto was their generation's reincarnate of Asura.

Izumi thought it over and processed all the Sage had explained. Each of his sons' life force and will passed down in whole to one individual throughout generations. A continuous never ending cycle of badasses. If this cycle of reincarnations fallowed bloodlines than it wasn't to hard to figure out who had been the last two incarnates. Madara was considered a prodigy of prodigies from a clan of Sharingan welding natural born killers, and Hashirama Senju beat his ass like a drum when he betrayed Konoha.

'So if First Hokage was Asura's reincarnate before my brother and Madara wasn't much older than Hashirama, according to the history books and clan history, it stands to reason the new Uchiha incarnate of Indra wouldn't be much older than Naruto. There were only three possible choses; Itachi, Sasuke, and myself if gender isn't an issue. However, if old Indra was as much an asshole as the old Sage suggests, I doubt he would allow his power to appear in a girl like me, so I'm out. Itachi definitely has the strength and several clan elders have stated that in terms of raw power he could be the next Madara, but I just don't see Itachi-kun being Indra's incarnate.'

"It's Sasuke, isn't it?" Izumi asked Hagoromo looking him in the eye. "That's why the heart swap made both him and my brother so powerful. That's the connection between the two of them that me and Itachi-kun couldn't figure out. Just like if Uchiha siblings and close family members switch out Mangekyou Sharingan with one another, they can gain the eternal version."

Hagoromo scoffed at Izumi's explanation of the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. "Sorry dear, but that eye is an abomination that should never have existed. I'll tell you more about that later though. Yes you're correct about Sasuke being Indra's incarnate. You're also correct about the heart swap making them both stronger."

"As you know, Izumi, people are born with one of the five elements as a First Affinity, the exception being Kekkei Genkia users with special higher change chakra natures who have two, and they can learn to use the others they weren't born with as Secondary Affinities with training and time. However, this means there will always be techniques people can't use because they don't have the natural born physical right to use them. Something you may not know, people are also born spiritually aligned to either Yin or Yang Chakra, the very power that makes up reality."

"The best was to explain the natural born power scale to Yin and Yang, is by using you, your brother, and your father as examples. Every Uchiha that can activate the Sharingan has a First Affinity to Fire and Yin Chakra alignment. Ikari, your father, had a low alignment with Yin, which was why he could barely use the Sharingan. Your brother Baisho had a mid level alignment with Yin which aloud him to use the normal Sharingan to an ok degree, but he could barely use the Mangekyou. Truthfully, his power was so weak Baisho couldn't even use the individual jutsu of each eye, the best he could do was a partial Susanoo. You dear have a high level alignment to Yin Chakra, the highest possible a normal person can be born with. That's why you have such an easy time with Sharingan."

"Now just because your born with one alignment doesn't mean you can't train yourself to use the other. Senju Tsunade has a high alignment to Yang but has trained herself to possess a low alignment with Yin to preform some Genjutsu. However, you could never train a learned alignment to be greater than your born alignment. It's highly unlikely your father had any real chance of learning Yang with such a low Yin alignment."

"Naruto and Sasuke, being the reincarnates of my sons', were born with full alignment, Sasuke full Yin and Naruto full Yang. When they swapped hearts it gave each boy the other full alignment as well First Affinity to all five elements. However, like with you, I met Naruto after the surgery here on this plan and gave him my blessing. This allows your little brother to use the Yin/Yang Release, the ultimate amplifier of all natural born abilities. The chakra that exists outside reality's control.

"What do you mean by natural born abilities?" Izumi asked curiously.

"My Dojutsu, dear, is what you get when you apply Yin/Yang Release to the Mangekyou Sharingan. Rinnegan is the ultimate final form the Sharingan can take, manifested by Yin/Yang Chakra. Naruto was born with Uzumaki Chakra Instinct, it's like muscle memory for chakra and can help Uzumaki's learn certain things quicker. It can also allow them to use techniques without hand signs by molding chakra over and over again until the body can do it at will. This ability combined with Yin/Yang Release gives Naruto the ability to use Living Chakra, which is a power capable of learning how to do things outside of Naruto's own will. It can mold itself through Fuinjutsu, learn everything about the seals, and then give that knowledge back to your brother which allows him to gain excessive amounts of knowledge in a short period of time. Literally decades of teachings in a day or week."

At the Sage's explanation, Izumi was shocked. If what this man said was true, than Sasuke could awaken Rinnegan if he ever gained the Mangekyou Sharingan. Well he would still need the Sage's blessing like Naruto to use Yin/Yang Release.

"Why didn't you give your blessing to Sasuke-kun?" The girl asked confused.

The Sage gave a tired sigh. "The way Naruto grew up was appalling, but it did force him to mature early. Sasuke is still a child and I didn't believe he was ready for the burden or responsibility of such power. Plus it wouldn't have done much for him without Mangekyou Sharingan. It would have enhanced his physical ability sure, but not much else. Besides, it's very possible he will gain Yin/Yang Release on his own like Madara did."

"What, Madara had Rinnegan? I'm pretty sure I would have remembered someone mentioning that fact at some point!" Izumi exclaimed confused. How could Madara lose to the First Hokage with that Dojutsu.

"During the final battle with Senju Hashirama, Madara stole a piece of the First Hokage's flesh and faked his death." Hagoromo explained to the stunned Izumi. "He then grafted the piece of flesh upon his own body and left to hide and await the Rinnegan's awakening. These were facts he learned from a special stone tablet your clan is in possession of, a tablet I wrote long ago. There is much more to this story but I can't get into that right now. All you really need to know is Madara did awaken the Rinnegan when his body finally unlocked Yin/Yang Release on its own, but he was to old by then to do anything with it. Also, because of Hashirama's living skin cells grafted on his body, Madara also had Wood Release."

"There is another reason why I met Naruto up here though, Izumi." The Sage said seriously. "I wanted him to intervene regarding the Uchiha Rebellion."

"It was you that started my little brother on that path!" Izumi angrily shouted. "He was four, he didn't need that crap hanging over his head! He deserved to be a child, not your agent of change!"

"My options were severely limited Izumi." Hagoromo explained placating. "As it stands, there are quite a few people I would love to call up here and yell at if I could. Unfortunately, I only have a strong enough connection with my sons' incarnates to meet with them, and only after they have gained the full seven natures."

Izumi was still seething but tried to calm down. She then gave the old fool a glare and asked. "If that's true than how am I here?"

"The Storage Tag on your arm, do you know what it's created from?" Hagoromo asked the mad Kunoichi.

Izumi rolled her eyes not getting what was so important about a seal. "Yes, it's made from ink and Naruto's blood."

The horned Sage gave the young girl a smile and asked. "You have no idea why that's so important? Let me ask you something Izumi, why don't more people have Storage Seals on their bodies. It's much more effective than a scroll you carry in your pocket."

At the girl's inquisitive look Hagoromo continued. "It's because a seal tag made from blood continues to possess the chakra and living cells of the creator. So if someone tried to make their blood tag on another person the jutsu simply fails because different chakras aren't compatible enough. Also, the tag creator can't use the recipients blood, sense their chakra wouldn't mold well with someone else's blood."

"However, if the seal creator has a special chakra, like an Uzumaki, Senju, or other chakra based Kekkei Genkia users, the recipient will die. Usually in very gory and graphic explosions of higher nature manipulation. The greater power and chakra would attempt to override the recipient's Chakra Network, causing the person to self destruct. A wood user's cells would make you explode into a malformed tree and Naruto' cell would have caused the person to explode." Hagoromo explained seriously.

Izumi pulled her right sleeve up again to look at the tag. She remembered when Naruto made it for her to hold the wakizashi. Her little brother explained the same facts the Sage did about it being more convenient than a scroll or scabbard. No one could still the blade and it would automatically store itself back into the tag when not in use. Even right now she knew the sword was inside the storage space.

Hagoromo allowed the girl a moment to process the information before continuing. "The reason your brother could use his blood for the tag without killing you, despite his Uzumaki Chakra, was because you and he share a genetic and spiritual link. Even though you don't share a mother, you do share a father. When you came close to dying from Chakra Exhaustion, the power in the tag began leaking out into your body. Thanks to Naruto's living cells present in the tag, you now have all five elements as well full Yang and Yin Release. It's thanks to this fact I'm able to talk with you now. It was also how I kept you alive until the living work could help. Basically, your little brother's love, and the fact he could never bring himself to harm you, allowed his living cells to power your body without negative consequences. Like how Madara survived the First Hokage's living cells because they were both incarnates."

"Will I gain Rinnegan?" Izumi asked still staring at her wrist. She then looked up at the Sage excitedly.

"No, Naruto and Sasuke are the only two people alive that can use Yin/Yang Release because of their spiritual connection to me, and Sasuke is the only one of the two that has the natural born ability to awaken Rinnegan." Hagoromo explained sadly. (2) It was unfortunate that he wasn't a true god as he would have loved to gift this girl his eyes. Someone of Izumi's heart with his power would definitely bring a true piece to the world.

Izumi excitement deflated into a pout until Hagoromo explained something else. "However, you will gain the original Sharingan."

The young girl looked up confused at the old man's words. "What do you mean by that sir?"

"Over the course of generations the Sharingan has devolved into what it is today." The Sage explained. "My son Indra awoke the Mangekyou Sharingan early in life but never went blind, nor did his children and grandchildren. As the centuries passed, the Uchiha's power began to weaken. Now the Mangekyou Sharingan causes blindness as well death from a chakra sickness that affects the lungs. The sickness and blindness comes from the fact an Uchiha's body is forcing power through a malformed Dojutsu, the normal Sharingan is fine but Mangekyou has deteriorated from what it was originally. However, thanks to the fact you now possess full Yin and full Yang alignment, the genetic defects of today will be offset and you will possess the pure Sharingan of the first Uchiha."

"So does switching out eyes with close family also gain you the pure form of Sharingan, and the Uchiha have just mislabeled it?" Izumi asked scared. What the Sage said about the Mangekyou worried her sense Itachi had it.

Hagoromo closed his eyes and stroked his beard as he thought of the best way to explain that particular abomination. "Do you remember the enemy water user your team fought that almost killed you?"

"No offense sir, but how could I possibly forget that monster?" Izumi asked sarcastically.

Hagoromo smiled and continued. "His water techniques required a First Affinity to water. You now have that requirement and you watched those jutsu through your Sharingan. Think upon them for a moment and tell me if there's a problem with you using any of the water techniques now."

Izumi closed her eyes and remembered back to the fight. She saw the way Suimizu Hozuki molded his chakra for each technique. Though he never used hand signs except for the water ball, Izumi was smart enough to figure out which signs were needed to duplicate the effects. However, as she recalled his regeneration the girl saw a problem. The was the man's flesh molded from water was impossible. There was no rational way the jutsu could work. She looked at the Sage in shock and asked, already figuring out what Hagoromo wanted her to see.

"How, is it a Kekkei Genkia?"

The Sage shook his head no and explained. "Some would call it that but not me. I call it a mutation. The Hozuki Clan has somehow gained an unnatural affinity to water, an inhuman First Born Affinity if you will. Though it may seem powerful, and it is, the ability comes with a high cost. You saw how that man and his sister acted. There own power drove them both insane in various ways to the point they enjoyed the pain and suffering of others. Even the more rational members of the clan aren't much better."

Izumi thought it over and asked. "Though all that seems very terrible, how does it relate to the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan?"

"How strong you are with Yin or Yang, in other words how much chakra your body stores from these universal pools of energy, is judged by how much your soul aligns to them. Only Naruto and Sasuke were born with full alignment and everyone else just has varying degrees, as I've already explained. However, when an Uchiha gains the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, it is really because they have gained an unnatural alignment to Yin. This will offset the physical damage the Dojutsu causes, but it replaces it with mental issues such as paranoia and anxiety. These were the same mental issues that caused Madara to betray the Leaf and his former childhood friend."

"I know Itachi has the Mangekyou, Izumi, and my heart goes out to him. Your love's father, Fugaku, also possesses the advanced eye as well, though the sickness is slow to take him. Both the blindness and sickness hit each individual Uchiha differently. Some go blind faster than others and some die more slowly than others, or vice versa, but the outcome is all the same. Also, before you ask, Sasuke can't save either his father or brother by sharing his living cells. He doesn't have a special chakra to carry the seven natures to another person." (3)

"Speaking of Itachi, I believe he is compromised." Hagoromo explained seriously.

"What do you mean Itach-kun is compromised?" Izumi exclaimed.

"I feel his heart has shifted to think killing your clan is the only way to truly end the conflict. I'm not sure how but I don't think it was a natural shift. Until you can uncover more, you can't trust him fully. This could put Naruto himself in grave danger dear, you must be smart about this. I feel someone close to this situation has found away to still Uchiha power, but their not a direct descendant of mine so they exist outside my gaze." (4)

This statement wasn't fully true. Hagoromo wasn't lying about only truly being able to check in on descendants, but he knew what they knew for the most part. Itachi suspected Danzo of stilling Shisui's right eye and using it himself, which would explain why the young Uchiha ANBU suddenly had similar thoughts as the leader of Root regarding his clan and village. Itachi was a victim of his own hubris, thinking Shisui's Kotoamatsukami wouldn't work on him if Danzo cast it. Also, the crafty old bastard could have found a way to use the Genjutsu so the young Uchiha would never sense the attack. Telling Izumi the truth wouldn't really help as only a true moral impasse could snap Itachi out of the illusion. Even being confronted with the truth wouldn't be enough to force the hypnotized brain to reject its new programming. It was better if both Izumi and Naruto focused on the clan and not Root, that was the foolish Hiruzen Sarutobi's job. (4)

Hagoromo looked down at the water carefully and said to Izumi. "Your time with me is almost over, but there is more you must know about your powers and current situation. Naruto's living cells carried more than the seven natures, they also carried his natural born abilities. You will receive Naruto's Uzumaki Chakra Instinct. You can use it to learn jutsu quicker or learn to use certain techniques without hand signs. You will also gain Naruto's base born chakra levels, the ones he had before becoming a Jinchuriki. Your reserves of chakra will be equal to a thirteen year old Naruto without Jinchuriki status. The same level he would have had with your physical build and training. Trust me it's a lot.

"Now Izumi, I want you to do me a favor and look down." Hagoromo requested.

Unsure, the young Kunoichi looked into the reflective surface of the water and saw her eyes. They appeared as active Sharingan, only her three tomoes were gone. In their place we're three thick solid black lines that started thick at the edges and grew thinner as they spiraled towards the middle. Horrified, she looked back up at Hagoromo and shrieked. "How, I can't posses the Mangekyou!"

"I know Itachi told you that it requires the act of killing a loved one to awaken the eye, but that's not always the case. Shisui awoke it when he saw a boy he was friends with die in front of him. Fugaku awoke his during the war in much the same way, and Itachi saw Shisui die. Intense emotional strain is what truly forces Mangekyou to flourish. You dear, faced an enemy that seemed immortal and wanted to kill you for the fun of it. To defeat him took every ounce of power you had to stop him, a fact that almost killed you. All this compounded stress caused the Mangekyou to manifest." (5)

"Now Izumi, at the moment you are being stolen away from Hidden Leaf." Hagoromo explained. Seeing Izumi's angry scowl he continued. "However, I don't think these men have any intention of actually getting away. They all appear to be conditioned to be emotionless, but no matter what we always have some kind of emotion unless we're truly born without them. These men are preparing themselves to die, they are filled with a resolve to do their duty. I believe someone is trying to gain favor with Naruto or the Uchiha by staging a fake kidnapping and rescue, and these Shinobi are willing to die just to sell the lie. You can't let this plan succeed. Naruto maybe very power and mature for his age, but he is still young and impressionable."

Izumi sensed the time with her old ancestor was almost at an end. She lunged forward and hugged him tightly sitting in his lap. "Thank you for everything you've done to help me, Naruto, and our clan."

Hagoromo smiled happily down at Izumi and hugged her back. "Good luck my ancestral daughter. I hope I don't see you again for many many years. Long after you've had sons and daughters of your own and the happy memories that go with them."

…. Close to the Land Of Whirlpools ….

The team of five fake Cloud Ninja were jumping from tree to tree getting close to the designated ambush area. It had been decided by Danzo that a small abandoned village just on the other side of the boarder was the best spot to conduct the mock battle. All of a sudden the leader was forced to dodge left as his teammate, the one carrying Izumi, was hurled at his back and became stuck in a tree trunk. He watched his man wrench himself forcibly from the hole and apply medical chakra to fix his dislocated shoulder.

As one all five Root Ninja leaped to the ground and circled Izumi. The girl was standing in a lightly wooded area staring at her hands in shock. The leader of the team was trying his best to read the situation. The last thing the young Uchiha should have remembered was battling Hozuki Suimizu. Yet she wasn't looking around her in shock but at herself. The mission could still succeed if they recaptured the girl, so the man began hand signs.

Izumi, however, didn't fully register anyone around her. The old Sage said she would gain Naruto's natural born reserves of power, but this was ridiculous. The Uchiha Kunoichi had always figured the fox's presence inside the little redhead explained why he had so much power, never once did Izumi think Naruto was just born this strong. She remembered Master Ojo explaining once that her little brother used ninety six to ninety eight percent of his chakra reserves to maintain the seal, even with his own Master Tag in place of Lord Fourth's. That meant at most Naruto could access two to four percent of his chakra every time he preformed one of his more powerful jutsu. However, she never truly understood just what that meant until now. It was like every cell in her body was charged with power. (6)

Suddenly, Izumi began to feel something wrong. It was like something was trying to drag her down. Snapping out of her daze, the Uchiha saw shackles and chains of mud attached to her wrists. The area surrounding the Kunoichi's feet was also mud and she was stuck up to her ankles. In the back of her mind anger began to grow. At first, Izumi couldn't understand why she was getting mad, until she remembered her grandmother explaining about Hiruzen Sarutobi, The Professor and God Of Shinobi.

Lord Third had managed to learn and master every technique the Leaf Village had to offer, excluding Kekkei Genkia related techniques. He was held as the strongest Kage living right now and the longest serving Kage Konoha had ever had. It was said in his prime he could have beaten any Kage Konoha ever had before him.

One of the techniques he was truly credited for was mud style jutsu. It required a First Affinity to Earth and a strong Secondary Affinity to Water. The user actually combined both elemental releases within themselves before using mud jutsu. It wasn't a Kekkei Genkia by no means, but it was considered the closest anyone had ever come to creating one through pure willpower. The benefit was you didn't have to waist time and energy using a water techniques and an earth technique to create a collaboration mud jutsu. It was said to be the pinnacle of earth mastery, the legacy of the honorable Lord Third Hokage, and this bastard had the audacity to dress as a fake Cloud Ninja and use it to potential undermine the Hidden Leaf Village.

"Who the hell do you think you are, asshole!" Izumi screamed as she channeled pure Yang Chakra through her muscles and unleashed it in a wave of pure destructive force. The shackles broke apart as the two enemy Ninja trying to grab her were thrown backwards.

The young Uchiha sprinted full force to the earth user and grabbed his single strap vest with her right hand and slammed his into a tree. Still seething about the use of a prized village technique, Izumi began to unconsciously channel chakra to her left eye. Her Mangekyou Sharingan activated as she and the team leader made eye contact.

It was like viewing someone's life and memories from their perspective. The young girl saw everything associated with the man's education involving earth techniques. She saw him cruelly drilled from a young age to master advanced jutsu. The young girl watched from his nine year old memory's eyes as he fought and killed an eight year old blonde girl that could have been a Yamanaka. He drowned her in Earth Release: Dark Swamp. (7)

She watched through his eyes as he carried out dark mission in the dead of night. Izumi saw him use an earth jutsu, Earth Release: Underground Mud Current, to still children and other people from their homes without ever setting foot inside the village walls. It sickened her when Izumi realized that the man had created the jutsu himself thanks to the second-hand teachings of the Third Hokage.

In the span of only half a second Izumi had learned every earth technique the man had to offer. She allowed his brain dead body to drop bonelessly to the ground as she turned to face the remaining four Shinobi. The Uchiha's mind quickly began to analyze her Mangekyou ability as she covered herself in Earth Release: Samurai Mud Armor.

'So, I have a Genjutsu that lets me rip information and memories related to a specific subject from an enemy's mind. It also appears to be completely fatal.' Izumi thought as she summoned her wakizashi and prepared for battle. Her new reserves of power surged strong and steady.

…. Trailing Behind Fake Cloud Team ….

Kakashi led Jiraiya and Hiashi through the trees in pursuit of the First Team of kidnappers. All three men fallowed behind Kakashi's Ninken Pakkun the Pug as he tracked the enemy. It had been sever hours sense they separated from the other half of the team, and everyone was praying for a favorable outcome.

Mid leap two ANBU appeared by Shunshin. Nobody reacted as they had already knew both men were approaching. Jiraiya asked in an emotionless voice. "Report?"

It was Lizard that spoke. "Sir, Lady Hanabi Hyuga has been successfully retrieved and is on her way back to the village as we speak. Uchiha Izumi was not with her. The enemy that had Hanabi in possession appeared to be from Hidden Sound, but we have yet to confirm that. It is also possible the enemy we are chasing comes from Hidden Cloud, as the possible Sound Ninja explained this."

"Good work on a speedy retrieval." Kakashi commented.

"Our team wasn't the one that saved Lady Hanabi, another group intercepted the enemy as they attempted to sneak over the boarder to the Land Of Rice Fields." Lizard explained.

"Who!" Kakashi asked shocked.

However, before anyone could answer him Hiashi spoke up harshly. "I appreciate the fact my daughter is safe but Izumi isn't. We need to focus on the mission and explanations can be given after. At our current pace and direction, we should gain on the enemy just after the boarder to The Land Of Whirlpools."

No one said anything as they were all in agreement.

Jiraiya was lost in thought as old memories came back to the surface of his mind. Hiashi saying the 'boarder' was in honor of the fallen Hidden Whirlpool Village. Technically, the entire region was a protectorate of the Land Of Fire now. Leaf ANBU patrolled the boarder leading to The Land Of Bears on the territory's other side.

'If only the Uzumaki still lived there.' Jiraiya thought in sadness and anger. 'We could have signaled ahead to get aid in intercepting the enemy.'

'Hold on, what's that!' The Toad Sage concluded his thoughts surprised at felling an incredible chakra from somewhere ahead. The five men all came to a stop to assess the situation.

"I thought all the Uzumaki were dead save for Naruto himself." The Lizard ANBU commented in a monotone voice.

"That's no Uzumaki." Kakashi stated with an eye smile. "That is Uchiha Izumi. This is her chakra we're felling. She must have woken up and figured out someone had kidnapped her. Guess she's a little upset about it."

All five men took off once more heading to help their fellow Kunoichi. Jiraiya had one final thought before focusing on running. 'Sense when does a Genin fall into a coma and wake up a low level Kage?'

…. Abandoned Village ….

An eight man team of Root's finest laid in wait to ambush the fake Cloud Ninja. Each member was silent as a grave waiting on its occupant. The plan was to loss a few Shinobi in hopes that Naruto would feel grateful to Danzo, as well obligated to fill in for the dead Root Ninja.

The silent Root Commander, identified only by the ANBU mark on his black cloak right shoulder, felt an incredible chakra coming from the direction of Hidden Leaf. He left behind his squad and made his way towards the battle taking place.

…. Izumi ….

After she formed her mud armor the remaining four enemies surrounded the girl. Izumi casually twirled her wakizashi in her right hand waiting for the fools to make the first move. The one directly behind her coated his hands in green chakra and attacked the girl's knees with Chakra Scalpels. The Kunoichi Shunshined to the guy's left side so quick all anyone saw was a blur. The armor jutsu she was wearing was very heavy but acted like a second set of muscles. This meant you didn't lose speed but gained three times the attack power. The lovely brown-haired girl viciously kicked the man away as he flew past. Breaking his ribs and sending him bouncing away like a rag doll.

Izumi quickly turned to her left sensing chakra mold. The fake Cloud Ninja began to form a water jutsu of some kind that coagulated in front of him. "Water Release: Starch Syrup Capturing Field" the man called while the small mass surged forth and the young girl easily jumped over it.

'That was stupid, way to telegraph your attack, idiot." Izumi thought. However, the Kunoichi felt a tug on her right leg that made the girl change her opinion. The man's partner to Izumi's right had produced a whip and wrapped the end around the girl's ankle. He then used a crack-the-whip like motion with his right arm and chakra to make the girl fall straight back down.

Realizing she would be caught in the syrupy jutsu, Izumi quickly threw her wakizashi at the whip user, forcing him to let go of the weapon's handle, and began making hand signs quickly. Her mud armor broke apart and formed a liquid disk underneath the Uchiha that hardened. She called out as the mud jutsu and her crashed into the syrup. "Earth Release: Mud Shield!"

The girl jump away as the water jutsu tried to close over her. Landing a distance away she tried to reapply her mud armor but had to dodge a wind coated shuriken instead. Looking to the final member of the team she saw him coating another shuriken preparing to throw it. Once more Izumi attempted to reform the earth armor, only to feel an immense pain from her back; her lungs wouldn't work properly as they only filled with half a breath.

She turned her head to see the medic from before all healed up. Izumi realized he must have fixed his ribs after bouncing away. In her anger the small girl surprised everyone present by giving a chakra enhanced left handed bitch-slap to the fool's jaw. The blow actually picked him up off his feet and caused him to spin like a top through the air. As he made a three sixty rotation his eyes met the angry Mangekyou of Izumi.

Once more the young Uchiha found herself going down someone else's memory lane from their perspective. She saw a woman laying on a stone floor with a kanji seal around her. The woman's stomach was in bloody ruins and the child was desperately trying to heal the lady that had his same sandy blonde hair. Actually managing to pull off the life saving work, he sat back on his ankles tiredly as the woman opened her dead emotionless grey eyes. She picked up a kunai laying at her side and rapidly stabbed herself in the abdomen. "Again, Lord Danzo demands perfection."

The second time around the boy hadn't saved his mother, and before Izumi could process that horror, she found herself in another memory. This time the man was ruining across an open shoreline fallowing a second all black and white masked wearing Ninja. The man in front was carrying a bound and gagged woman. The dark haired terrified lady looked to be eight months pregnant and Civilian, judging by her inexperienced frightened eyes and her state of dress; a simple blue silk nightgown. From the man's eyes Izumi looked back to see Mist Ninja in hot pursuit.

"Number 53!" The leader called gaining the medics attention. "The woman is not important, only what she carries inside. Complete the mission and I'll buy you time to escape."

After stating the dark orders, the lead Root Ninja hurled the woman skyward and turned back to face the pursuing enemy. The medic leaped at the woman, removed the fetus, and continued going without ever looking back at the dying mother. Through his eyes Izumi saw the baby was a boy with white-hair and two red dots on his forehead. The child had not survived the return journey to Konoha.

The Genjutsu ended just as suddenly as it began. Izumi watched with mixed felling as the dead man crashed to the ground. He had been a bastard, but no one every gave him a choice in the matter. Turning to face the remaining three enemy, the young Uchiha quickly covered herself in a dense dome of earth and began attempting to heal her lungs.

In the darkness Izumi's new medical jutsu flared. It bathed the earthen walls with green light and the young girl instantly began to pull some of the chakra back as it was far to much. The Uchiha remembered Master Ojo explaining once that Naruto could never use normal medical jutsu except for the formula on his right arm. His status as a Jinchuriki made his chakra far to unstable to ever be controlled to such a small and precise degree.

'Looks like that's one weakness from Naruto I didn't gain.' Izumi thought to herself as she finally began to breath easier. 'Then again the Sage Of Six Paths said I would have my brother's natural reserves of chakra, the one he was born with prior to becoming a Jinchuriki. That must be why I can still control my chakra well. Hagoromo said it would be the equivalent of a thirteen year old Naruto without Kyuubi.'

Outside the protective dome, Izumi could hear the sound of water rushing by and figured the water user was trying to wash away the earth jutsu. Finally, the young girl finished repairing her lungs and stood up ready. Her left eye hurt and the Kunoichi figured it would be a bad idea to keep using her mind ripping technique.

Suddenly the top of the dome gave way and gallons of water rushed in. It quickly pooled at Izumi's feet and thickened into syrup. The remaining walls failed and washed away from the Kunoichi in a wide circle as the water weight inside the dome finally overcame the earth construct. The Uchiha was about to start hand signs to break the syrup jutsu but a whip came from her right and wrapped around the girl's torso; pinning Izumi's arms to her side.

The girl quickly but calmly studied her situation. The water user was to her left and the whip user was to the right. She didn't see the shuriken wind user though. Finally, she felt molded chakra from above her and quickly looked towards the sky. The bastard was falling towards her with a kunai knife in each hand. Thanks to the Sharingan's abilities the girl read his movements expertly, and realized he planned to stab her in the shoulders while knocking her unconscious with a head-butt.

The whip contained some kind of jutsu running through it that made the braided leather unbreakable. With her feet stuck in the syrup there was no way to dodge the attack. If her right eye couldn't save her, Izumi knew this fight was over. The Uchiha channeled power to her Mangekyou Sharingan and activated the right eye as she closed her left.

It was like a pulse of chakra emitted from her pupil and the eye began to bleed. Izumi's began to experience tunnel vision as the jutsu washed over her falling enemy. The young girl watched as his kunai rusted away and time began to ravage his body. His hair grew long and white as a beard and mustache sprouted doing the same. His muscles atrophied as he aged to dust and blew away in the wind, he never even had time to scream.

Realizing the power of her right eye Mangekyou, Izumi quickly looked to the whip user in hopes of freeing her arms.

Triggering the activation Izumi once more experienced the tunnel vision. The moment the man realized he was being attacked by the same technique that killed his comrade, he abandoned his whip and jumped to the left just as his hair began to grow long and a beard sprouted. With no one applying chakra, the young Kunoichi snapped the leather braid instantly. She went through hand signs and the ground around her exploded in a violent irruption of mud, freeing the Uchiha and sending her skyward.

Landing on a thick branch the Kunoichi closed her right eye to the pain and looked down with her left. She received a shock as she noticed all the damage time had done to her enemy was erased. He was back to being in his thirties with short hair and no beard.

'So it's not a Ninjutsu but a Genjutsu.' Izumi thought. 'My jutsu is similar to Izanagi, an illusion cast against reality itself. I deceive reality into speeding up time within a specific spot. If the target escapes before dying reality will correct the mistake.'

The Kunoichi summoned her power once more and reapplied the earth armor. Sprinting down the tree surface, Izumi wildly attacked her adversaries with speed and superior strength. The now whip-less whip user pulled two kunai to replace his destroyed weapon and his last remaining partner created a sword of water, both meeting the enraged girl head on.

The fake Cloud Ninja knew they couldn't match Izumi's strength while she wore that armor. They began to rely on evasive tactics while trying to deliver crippling blows. Reacting on instinct Izumi did the splits and spun her body quickly at ground level. Both men were forced to jump away to avoid getting their legs broke. The young Uchiha then pushed off the ground with her right hand, going after the whip user. The Kunoichi figured he was the weakest one without his primary weapon.

She spun through the air in a powerful Taijutsu tornado attack in hopes of delivering a fatal blow to the enemy's head. The older and more experienced opponent countered each kick expertly, turning lethal attacks into glancing hits. When they landed on the ground the brown-haired girl spun once again like she was going to continue pressing the attack. The man crouched low under the kick but failed to avoid the tip of Izumi's wakizashi as it entered his forehead, splitting the Cloud Ninja Headband in two. It had returned to the seal a while ago and the girl had saved the surprise for an opportunity like this, summoning it in reverse grip fashion to kill the man behind her.

Pulling her blade from the dead man's head, Izumi walked up to the water user. "You don't have to die here in this place. You don't have to die without anyone knowing you or your birth name. Let me help you break free of Root and Danzo."

The man gave Izumi no reaction to the spoken truth. No flinch or sign of any recognition to his organization or leader's name. Izumi continued her heart-felt plea. "I know the truth from the memories of your two comrades, the ones' whose minds I destroyed stilling their jutsu. I saw what was done to them and I can only guess what was done to you. Please let me help you."

The man gave no response as he gathered his chakra. He began forming hand signs for an obscure technique that Izumi had never seen the likes of. She watched as a dangerous amount of Water Chakra molded in the man's chest.

"We are the unseen ones who support the great tree of Konoha from the depths of the earth." The man said in a raspy voice that sounded like it hadn't been used in a while. "If I must now water that tree to keep my Master's secrets, than for the good of Konoha I will."

"Water Release: Forbidden Blood Flower Bloom."

It was a gory self-sacrificing jutsu that turned the user's blood into extremely fast and devastating projectiles, shooting out of their chest like thousands of shrapnel. The Forest for half a mile was completely torn away at the ground and broken trees littered the ground like confetti, except for the one strip directly behind Izumi and her lavender colored Susanoo ribcage. The young girl looked on sadly at the dead fool's remains. The celestial bones faded as she dropped to her knees exhausted.

…. Jiraiya ….

"What the hell was that!" The old hermit exclaimed. They had heard a massive sound, kind of like a squishy wet bomb going off, followed by multiple logs and trees being ripped apart. Every man picked up the pace as they hurried, worried for the young girl.

Hiashi activated his Byakugan, something he had tried not to do very often to conserve chakra, but couldn't see anything yet. It was the dead medic he saw first, his blank dead expression unnerving, quickly fallowed by the gory corpse of the water user and the impaled forehead of the whip user. Relieved, the Hyuga Clan Head saw Izumi kneeling on the ground breathing hard. She appeared exhausted but otherwise fine. He quickly relayed his visual to the others.

As they made it to Izumi the girl tried to raise Her wakizashi in defense, until she realized no one was attacking. Her sword disappeared in a puff of smoke as she shakily stood up. Hiashi quickly ran to her and picked the child up bridal style. "You have used a large amount of chakra in a small amount of time. Your body isn't used to that level of strain, resulting in severe muscle fatigue."

Jiraiya walked up to Hiashi and asked. "How's she doing?"

The Hyuga used his Byakugan to examine the girl and noticed slight damage to her lungs. It wasn't anything to worry about at the moment but the Leaf Hospital would have to take a look. It actually appeared like the girl may have healed herself. Hiashi tried to recall hearing about Izumi receiving medical training but came up blank. He let it go for the moment and addressed Jiraiya. "She is in no immediate danger but the girl needs rest."

"The girl is right here you know." Izumi said rolling her eyes. Honestly, grownup men could be such a pain in the ass.

Jiraiya smiled down at the annoyed girl. "Will get you home soon, little Izumi-chan, right after we've gathered what's left of the enemies you defeated."

However, this was not to be. The moment the Sage finished talking every corpse gave off nauseous fumes as they began to melt. It was like someone had doused them with a corrosive fast acting acid.

Izumi scrunched her nose at the revolting smell. "Ah, what is that?"

No one answered as they were to lost in thought. This tactic was an old ANBU trick, though it was used by other villages, were a Ninja had a suicide tag located somewhere on there body that stored some kind of corrosive substance. A paper tag in their pocket would work but usually it was hidden better than that. They activated the tag when they entered a hostile situation, and every so often pulsed chakra to it to show they were both still alive and conscious. If they were captured alive and conscious they activated the jutsu killing themselves while dissolving their body, leaving nothing for an enemy to use. If they were unconscious then they couldn't pulse chakra to the tag. Once a certain amount of time passed with no confirmation the Ninja wasn't compromised, the suicide jutsu would activate itself.

Hiashi activated his Byakugan and began examining the area around him hard. Every tense adult standing around those melting bodies had already deduced a problem with the situation. These men had not been killed at the same time, so therefore the suicide tags shouldn't have activated at the same time. There would have been time delays starting with the first man that died until the last man that died. This concluded there was still an enemy around that had activated the tags to prevent the bodies being taken. However, no one said anything as they didn't want to alarm Izumi.

Jiraiya studied Hiashi closely and realized he hadn't seen anyone else. The enemy must have triggered the jutsu then fled. It didn't matter either way as they had the girl back safe. In a gruff voice the Sage ordered. "Let's head home, there's nothing more we can do here."

Hiashi handed Izumi to the ANBU Lizard to carry piggyback style and they all headed out. The young Uchiha looked back at the spot were the Root Ninja died and thought fiercely. 'Good, get me home quickly. I'll be having words with the honorable Third Hokage.'

In the brush, just outside of Hiashi's secretly documented range of vision, the Root Commander watched the Leaf Ninja leave silently. He had activated his brothers' tags the moment Jiraiya moved to gather the remains. He had observed the battle closely and witnessed first hand the power of Uchiha Izumi. Though he didn't fully understand what all he had seen, the Commander had no concern Lord Danzo wouldn't unravel the girl's secrets. He Shunshined away to give his report. Just as the sun began to appear on the horizon.

…. Land Of Rice Fields, Undisclosed Location ….

Orochimaru made his way down the underground dark hallway heading for a ritual room. The candlelight danced over the evil man's face as he gave an amused smirk. To think retrieving the Byakugan would prove to be so difficult. He had no real plans for the Kekkei Genkai per say, but he wasn't one to dismiss something with such great potential.

Entering the small dark room the Snake Sannin walked up a Genjutsu subdued man sitting on the ground. He began hand signs and slammed his palms upon the earthen floor. An intricate kanji seal diagram surrounded the sacrifice and dust began to gather over the victim. The man snapped out of his trance long enough to give one short scream of terror and pain before being consumed by the Jutsu.

The Sannin looked down uncaring at his once living subordinate. "Rise Kain, and give your report. Why did you fail me?"

Undead with eyes of black, Kain slowly stood to his full height. Realizing what happened, his master brought him back after dying, the man knelt down in submission. "Please, forgive my failure Lord Orochimaru. I was bested by a boy of eight named Naruto Uzumaki. His jutsu and ability were unlike anything you have ever mentioned being possible."

Author's Note:

(1)- Inuzuka expression. Wasn't referring to Naruto's actually bite.

(2)- Hope that isn't confusing. Basically Yin/Yang Release is the ultimate amplifier of natural born abilities only. Sharingan is not a natural born ability of Naruto. Sasuke could awaken Rinnegan and give them to Naruto, and Naruto would have full control over them. Unless I accidentally create a character that I can't conceivable see Naruto defeating with his own power, than that scenario will not happen.

(3)- This explains something that, in my opinion, wasn't fully addressed in Naruto. Why could people like Kakashi, Ao, and Nagato use hand-me-down Dojutsu's, when anyone that tried to use hand-me-down cells from the First Hokage Died? Higher chakra is a function of ever cell in the body plus the Chakra Network. A Dojutsu is a special physical anomaly that an individual possesses. If you graft Uchiha or Hyuga flesh into yourself, you won't get there Dojutsu. If you graft flesh from a user of Wood Release, Ice Release, Explosion Release, Scorch Release ext., you die in graphic fashion. You turn into a tree, you freeze solid, you simply explode, you turn into a mummy. You can't tell me Leaf was the only Village that tried to cultivate a hand-me-down Kekkei Genkia. Naruto's chakra is special, Sasuke's isn't. Naruto's chakra, because it's Uzumaki and has the Chakra Instinct naturally from birth, can keep the memory of all seven natures when his cells leave his body, Sasuke's can't. Not sure if that completely matches Cannon but for the plot of my story it's the general rule.

(4)- simple, Danzo met with Itachi in his tea room, Itachi was being the submissive agent/solder/spy whatever, Danzo used his Genjutsu on Itachi through the face bandages and because Itachi never had his Sharingan active, he never knew he was under attack. Danzo used that eye in a room full of Kages, Samurai, and their closes subordinates and was only caught because of a stolen Byakugan. It's not beyond the realm of reason to think he couldn't have used it on Itachi if the circumstances were just right.

(5)- I get it's a little weak of an explanation for her gaining Mangekyou, but I really couldn't think of anything else. I didn't want her to lose a teammate or something like that. I guess her heart is more pure than other Uchiha. No curse of hatred.

(6)- Got those measurements from Google. Not sure how accurate they are regarding Cannon but I think there close. First Hokage was shown to possess excessive reserves of chakra and he was only a Senju and the incarnate of Ashura, while Naruto was also the incarnate, an Uzumaki, and the son of an Uzumaki Jinchuriki. Even without Jinchuriki status Naruto would have still been a power house. I know having Kurama sealed inside him has made those reserves bigger even by the age of twelve, but Izumi has base Naruto power.

(7)- Smaller version of Jiraiya's Earth Release: Swamp Of The Underworld.

Also- As far as power flex goes, Izumi's was much less than Obito's. She killed five throw away Root Ninja while Obito took out a shit load of Mist ANBU types. She hasn't really gained a physical upgrade. Her increased strength was the earth armor mostly. Brief moment with the first Root Ninja she jacked the earth armor from was greater levels of chakra with great chakra control. Obito's got White Zetsu grafted on his body and the seven natures. His physical upgrade was much stronger.