Hey guys :P I hope you liked that little/big bit of hinting at pairings and the comedy at the end of the last chapter. THIS STORY IS AU, GET OVER IT. All I can say now is… let us dive into the memoirs.

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Naruto ducked back into his room and grabbed his manuscript, ink well, and pen, before running out and chuckling as his father shouted after him, "YOU BRAT! JUST YOU WAIT! I'LL GET YOU YET!"

Naruto ducked into his elder brother's room.

"Hey, can I write in here?" Naruto asked.

His elder brother looked up and nodded emotionlessly before returning to the book he was reading. Naruto smiled and began to write once again.

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"…for a majority of people oppressed take no mercy when they revolt against the minority," Pein finished, walking over to Naruto and stroking his head gently and smiling in pride at his son.

Naruto flushed in embarrassment as the Hyuga woman collected themselves, except Hinata still clung to Naruto and Neji as if they were about to be ripped out of her arms. Hizashi walked toward them and knelt down to be at face level with the children.

He began with a stern, no nonsense tone of voice, "Neji, do you know what you have done?!"

Neji looked up in bewilderment, along with mingled fear, "N-no Tou-san."

Hizashi's eyes softened as he grinned and stole Neji away from Hinata's grip, "You have made me one of the proudest men in the world, protecting your family like that."

It was Neji's turn to blush in embarrassment, "She is my cousin and friend, Tou-san. Of course I would protect her."

Hiashi's head went up to look at Neji, his eyes clouded in confusion, "Hizashi, here I thought that you would show young Neji to hate Hinata."

Hizashi's face twisted into one of anger as he marched over and grabbed his brother by the collar and his fist came up to sail into his face. Hiashi was too surprised that Hizashi would even think of hurting him that he didn't even put up resistance. An elder began the series of hand signs to activate the caged bird seal, but a kunai sailing by his ear stopped him short. Pein was standing, his arm still outstretched from throwing his weapon, his Rinnegan eyes boring intensely into the eyes of the elder, sending a clear warning. He then turned his eyes back to where the two brothers stood. Hizashi's fist had already clashed with Hiashi's jaw.

"How dare you! How dare you even suggest such things?" Hizashi yelled angrily, his white eyes showing the intense vehemence he had for his elder brother.

"I am not like you Hiashi, or like the others in the main branch! I will never condemn Hinata or the child of any main branch member, for they know not what goes on," Hizashi's voice lowered into a hiss as Hinata burst out of Hitomi's arms.

The small girl ran up to her uncle, and wrapped her arms around his legs as she began to cry, "Uncle Hizashi, pwease! Don't hurt daddy! He's just mean sometimes!"

Hizashi looked down in surprise at the young girl and smiled, though that fierce look returned to his face as he spoke to his brother, "If Hinata is the future of the clan, I rejoice. But it would be better if you would be lost much faster."

Hizashi let go of Hiashi's collar and pet the head of his young niece, "Thank you Hinata-chan."

Hinata just sniffed and smiled at her uncle before letting him go. Hizashi gathered Neji into his arms and wished goodnight to Pein, Naruto, Konan, Hitomi, and Hinata. He purposely ignored the elders and his brother and walked away. Suddenly he cried out and Neji came tumbling from his arms, Hizashi clutched the sides of his head as he yelled in pain. Pein signaled to Konan, who grabbed Naruto, and disappeared in a cloud of smoke as Pein launched himself forward, ramming two kunai into the hearts of the two elders, who had activated the caged bird seal at the same time, and then disappeared as well.

Out on the road about two miles away from the great ninja village Naruto sat glumly as he saw the receding figure of the Hokage tower in the middle of Konoha. Pein reached out and ruffled his hair.

"I'm sorry Naruto-chan; we won't be able to return for a long time… But we will return. That I promise you," Pein muttered and Konan nodded to seal the deal, both were grateful when Naruto's face brightened considerably.

Naruto looked back at the village he would not see for quite a while and let his smile slip a bit, but oh well. He was about to wreak havoc somewhere else… though he would miss his first friends.

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Naruto smiled in satisfaction as he finished the chapter. He looked up from his memoirs to look at his elder brother and immediately knew what to write about next.

"Gaara-nii-san!" Naruto shouted as he jumped over and smiled at him.

Gaara groaned at his tone, and looked up at his younger brother from his book, "Yes Naruto?"

"I need you to tell me again, about the day we met in Sunagakure!" Naruto said excitedly getting a new piece of parchment ready to write everything Gaara and himself recalled.

Gaara looked thoughtful, as if he didn't wish to speak, but agreed, "Sure Naruto, what is it for again?"

"Remember how I said I would write my memoirs?" Naruto asked his elder brother.

Gaara nodded and his lips curled into a small smile, "Ahh, so you are trying to get the story from mother, father and my perspective as well?"

Naruto nodded enthusiastically and Gaara chuckled, "Sure Naruto, let's begin."

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Naruto looked upon the village hidden in the sand with some contempt as people glared as they walked by, obviously not accustomed to outsiders, or at least had equal contempt for them. Pein walked behind him, his own hair dyed a dirty blond, eyes changed by colored contacts into deep cerulean pools not unlike those of his adoptive son. Konan had reverted to her old hair color, but enjoyed playing the wife to Nagato and the mother to Naruto. Deep in her mind though, she wished she didn't have to just 'play' the roles… But for the moment she was content in having what she did right now.

She picked up Naruto, subtly leaking out killer intent to stop the villagers from glaring at her son. As they walked through, it got closer to night and Naruto picked up a whimper of crying and then the strange scent of a tanuki.

"Daddy… I hear something… Can we go check it out?" Naruto asked, peering intently at a large building where a small figure was standing.

Pein nodded and they walked in that direction, and when they were no longer in viewing range of the villagers had began to jump up to the roof where a young red-headed boy had been crying. The boy was sobbing loudly before he turned around and his eyes widened.

"Leave me alone!" He screamed as sand began to encircle him.

Naruto blinked and struggled out of his father's grip, walking over to the red-head. As he did, Pein made an observation, the red haired boy was so surprised when Naruto began to walk toward him that his sand had fell onto the floor. He cast a look at Konan, who happened to be doing the same. Pein mouthed the word 'Ichibi' and began to move up ever so slowly. He was going to pull Naruto away when the young blonde began to speak.

"Jinchuuriki-kun, why is your seal so messed up?" Naruto asked sitting next to the boy that could be a huge threat, his head rolled to the side, as a big foxy grin spread upon his lips.

The boy blinked and backed away, "H-How do you know about my seal?!"

"Misaki told me, he said Shukaku was his friend before he got trapped in a tea pot… whatever that is," Naruto attempted to explain.

The boy looked horribly confused, and scared at the same time, he began to scream as he felt his demon clawing at his mind attempting to get out. Konan ran forward to the child, the pain he was suffering wrenching at her heart greatly. She attempted to reach out to him when he let out another blood curdling scream and fell to the ground unconscious. Suddenly sand rushed out from everywhere, and Konan blinked in surprise as Naruto receded back into his mind as Misaki screamed for him.

"Little one! Come here!" Misaki yelled with urgency, reaching a hand through the bars.

Naruto immediately ran over, "What do you need Misaki-nii-san?"

"Do you trust me?" Misaki asked, the urgency in his voice never fading.

Young Naruto nodded and Misaki took his arm and pulled him through the seal, and only muttered two words as he rammed against the bars, "Stay here."

Misaki bit back a yell of pain as he hit the seal, and the bars, as if they were burning hot seared his skin and he passed through.

Outside; Konan was pulled backward by Pein and he looked over at Naruto who just went slack and was about to be squashed by the huge sand tanuki that had just materialized. He heard the screams and yells of fear coming from the village, and the footsteps of ninja who were getting much too close. A jutsu that his Orochimaru had once used blazed into his mind as he split into six for the first time in a few years. He ran through hand signs and soon a barrier was up, keeping Suna nin out.

Then chakra exploded from Naruto, and a figure Pein hadn't seen for six years showed itself, nine tails floating gently behind him, and eyes slit, Misaki stood on the roof of building. He stared up at the sand tanuki and shook his head as if disappointed.

"Shu-Shu… How did you let yourself become corrupted like this?" Masaki asked in a disapproving tone of voice.

Shukaku's tail twitched as his eyes rolled toward Masaki and growled, "King of foxes… How did you let yourself become a pawn of those uptight gods?"

Masaki smiled, "Because. I felt like helping instead of harming."

Shukaku glared at him, "How the hell did you beat me? You are a weakling, bending to the will of the gods!"

"No, no, Shu-Shu. I was trying to cure an arrogance that would destroy these humans," Misaki said smiling ever larger.

Shukaku swung at him in frustration and Misaki jumped onto the tanuki's arm, the amount of chakra he dispelled keeping the sand from encasing him. Shukaku smirked, as he expected this from an old ally. He swung around fiercely and Misaki was caught off guard as he sailed down to the ground. Masaki grunted in pain as he felt his head jolt as he landed. He sat up abruptly and cursed as he held the back of his head, Shukaku laughing darkly.

Misaki's amber pools began to change as chakra wrapped around his angry form, crimson bled into the irises and he glared up at the one-tail, "Shukaku, you called me a weakling? You, who can barely control your eight elements with that stupid measly tail?"

Shukaku grinned a bloodthirsty grin, "There he is! The true Kyuubi, Misaki, the king of foxes. This will be interesting."

Misaki began gathering chakra savagely; so much that young Naruto surely would have died if it was all released at once. One voice stopped him though, the woman that had become Naruto's surrogate mother.

"Fox, if you hurt my son, I'll castrate you!" Konan shrieked as killer intent leaked out of her.

Misaki chuckled as his eye twitched and his amber eyes returned, it might have been stupid to be scared of a woman, but as his mate used to warn him, 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'

Misaki looked back in time to see Shukaku's arm snapping out at him and he flipped away from the sudden attack. With a taunting smirk on his lips he laughed heartily.

"Shukaku, you are still fat AND slow!" Misaki said chuckling.

Shukaku roared in anger and brought his hand down like a hammer. Misaki smirked ever larger and the hand sailed down to the ground as he jumped away. Shukaku roared again as he tried to pull his hand up from hole in the roof he just caused. Misaki then wasted no time in jumping onto his arm.

He ran up the arm, dodging sand attacks as he jumped and sprinted onto his head as Shukaku shook his massive body in a furious manner, trying to get the fox off of him. Misaki winced as he felt cuts accumulating as he ran up Shukaku's arm. Misaki just kept holding on as he reached the unconscious young boy half submerged in sand. He shook him lightly and Shukaku let out a wild shriek as the sand rapidly deteriorated. Misaki looked out to the crowd outside the large purple walls of chakra and sighed. He summoned up a very large amount of chakra in his hara and released it. The pulse poured over the whole village and extended a few miles out. Every human caught in the blast of chakra fell unconscious, except for the boy he held in his arms, which was too dazed to do anything at the moment. Misaki frowned as Konan and Pein fell unconscious as well, Pein's six clones disappearing as well, but it couldn't be helped. He set the paralyzed young red head on the ground and lifted up his shirt.

"There's the problem," He muttered as he made a nick in his finger and focused chakra there.

His life's essence was surrounded by flowing chakra as he began to erase the mistake in the seal; whoever had tried to seal Ichibi in the child had made a mistake and left Shukaku's hatred unsealed, causing the horrible side effects of eating away at the Jinchuuriki's sanity. The boy began to scream and clutched at Misaki's arm and his heart shriveled before he steeled himself to it, and began to reseal the hatred as quickly as he could manage. The young boy's calm breaths as he drifted off were music to his ears. He picked up the young boy and grabbed the other two adults when Pein had awoken. He jumped away and stared amazed at the red-headed child.

"Is he asleep?!" Pein asked in surprise.

Misaki nodded, "I fixed the messed up seal, an element was not sealed properly."

Pein nodded and took the slumbering Konan from Misaki and looked at the mass of gathered citizens below and around them unconscious.

"What will we do about them?" Pein said, frowning at the amount of work this would take to repress memories.

Misaki just shrugged and took the young boy over to the edge of the roof. He looked around and nicked the red head as little as he could with a claw, and when a drop of blood appeared he placed the finger that had caught the drop on the ground and pushed chakra into it. Blood began to flow as if from a newly made wound. And then Misaki lit that same hand on fire and lit the roof top slightly, leaving burn marks, and then turning back to a dubious looking Pein.

"It'll make it look like an incident that never happened, did," Masaki said, his smile never fading.

Pein nodded quietly and readjusted his grip on Konan before Misaki began to set the pace in running away. He held the peaceful red head against his chest as he ran. They waited until they reached an oasis to stop, and Misaki put down the child in his arms before collapsing onto his side, panting loudly.

Pein looked over at him as he caught up, "You okay Misaki?"

Misaki just nodded before a huge amount of chakra was suppressed and Pein shielded his eyes from a sudden blinding light. When the light had finally gone away Naruto was lying there, next to the other young Jinchuuriki, snoring quietly, obvious fatigue reflected in how his small body was laying there. Pein sat down; his arms still wrapped around Konan's sleeping form. He looked down at the woman, and smiled softly. Her aroma was enticing as he leaned his head down closer to her.

'Just one kiss…' He thought to himself as their lips were only a few millimeters apart.

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Gaara stopped looking at Naruto's writing hand, "THAT'S WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO?!"

Naruto chuckled and nodded, "Yeah, isn't dad smooth?"

Gaara let out a deep laugh and shook his head, "No wonder I saw them like that when I woke up! I thought he didn't try to get his thing on with Ma until later."

Naruto looked at him strangely, "You woke up? Dad sure left that out."

Gaara smirked devilishly, "Because he was nervous as hell, and now I have blackmail."

Naruto rolled his eyes and chuckled before speaking, "Alright, alright, now let's get on with the story, eh?

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As Pein was about to place his lips to Konan's a small voice that sounded moderately tired spoke out, "Mister, what are you doing to that lady?"

Pein's head whipped up so quickly it was a wonder how in the world he did not suffer from whiplash, he sputtered and set Konan down gently before turning his full attention to the young child sitting up, rubbing the sand out of his eyes.

"Well mister? What were you doing?" He asked, sitting patiently for an answer.

Pein just chuckled nervously and walked over to the young child, "I was checking if her face was dirty of course!"

The boy nodded and looked around, "Where am I?"

Pein sighed and sat with him, "Well, we are somewhere away from your village."

"Why did you take me away?" the child asked.

"Because I need you to help us," Pein gestured at Konan and Naruto, "You are one of eight very special people. People who are jailers for things beyond your and others' comprehension."

He ruffled his hair, "And it would be nice to have you join us, like a true family."

The young boy had the decency to blush at the act of affection. It was strange how only his uncle, who had tried to kill him, had ever gotten truly close to him… Now he was skeptical and a bit wary. The boy scooted away from the older man before glaring at him, his distrust shining through his pale green eyes.

Pein just smiled, "Little one, we are not here to hurt you. You have inside of you a being as well?"

The boy just nodded mutely, inching forward slightly, his mind tenderly saying that this man could be trusted. He sat down next to the man again and looked across the horizon, not knowing where the earth ended and where the sky began. He felt a gentle hand on his shoulder and almost flinched, but he smiled liking a feeling of safety in the weight of the hand.

"What's your name boy?" Pein asked.

"Gaara."

"Well Gaara-Kun, would you like to join our small family?" Pein asked the young boy.

Gaara stared at the man and jsut bit his lip before nodding.

"Yes."

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Naruto smiled as he finished the chapter on that note. Gaara ruffled his hair and kicked him and his manuscript out for the night, in the morning they would continue.

"Where did the time go?" He asked himself as he walked past a window, it was pitch black outside.

He just yawned in disinterest and walked to his room, put away the manuscript and fell asleep as soon a his head hit the pillow.

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GAH! THIS TOOK SO LONG TO GET IT OUT THE WAY I WANTED!! I'M SO SORRY FOR THE TERRIBLE WAIT!! Hopefully the next one wil be out faster, hopefully.