The Hunters

Ch 1 - Naruto's Clan Comes Calling

Naruto's 5th year, May 24, The Hokage's Office

Naruto was sitting in the Hokage's office, frightened at where he had just come from, the marketplace. He had gone there and tried to buy some bred, showing he had the money. The vendor simply took his money and told him he didn't feel like it, and when Naruto took his money back, the vendor had claime that 'The Demon Boy" had stolen the money.

Naruto had been beaten as always, and the Sandaime had arrived, sending all those who had beaten him to Ibiki. Now, Naruto was sitting in Sarutobi's office, when the secretary entered, Sarutobi sending her a questioning look.

"Tori-san, what business do you have entering my office without permission." Sarutobi asked, knowing the secretary was aware of Naruto's presence.

"I saw no reasonable purpose for you to be busy, so, I entered to give you this, it is from the Kitanaisuna [Unclean Sand] Clan." The secretary said, handing Sarutobi the black letter. On the letter was yellow-orange writing.

"Arigatou Tori-san, you may pack your things now, discrimination against a citizen is merit for your removal from the premisces, good day." Sarutobi said, the secretary looking shocked when he had told her that she was fired. Sarutobi looked over the letter carefully as the secretary left. Unfortunately, she had inadvertantly given Sarutobi a headache, in telling the council of the letter before giving it to Sarutobi.

Several seconds later, an ANBU appeared, requesting Sarutobi's presence in the council chambers. Sarutobi would've declined and stayed with Naruto, but something on the letter made him think better of it. He took Naruto's small hand and led him to the council chambers.

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The council chambers

Sarutobi entered the council chambers with Naruto, seeming to annoy the council.

"Hokage-sama, we requested your presence, not, his." Koharu said, glaring at Naruto.

"Be that as it may, I have more authority on the issue than you do, I am permitted to have any guest I choose at any strictly political matter, this qualifying." Sarutobi said, lifting the letter. "Now, I take it you called me here to hear what is in this letter?"

"Yes Hokage-sama, it is clear that the Kitanaisuna Clan are interested in an alliance with konoha, possibly even relocating here, as that would be the only thing they could want from us." Danzo said, having heard of this clan and how they worked.

"That is most likely not the case given who this is addressed to." Sarutobi said, looking at the letter again.

"Well, who is it addressed to? The Hyuuga or the Uchiha?" Homura asked.

"Excuse me? Why would you think it's either of them?" Sarutobi asked, fairly nnoyed at how pompous the council was being.

"Well, its rather obvious that it would have to be 1 of our nobilities, and they are the only ones taht would fit the bill, so it has to be one of them." Homura replied, thinking it was the simplest thing in the world.

"Well, the problem with that theory is that it is addressed to neither." Sarutobi said. [Before I go into greater detail, I don't own Naruto, or Prince of Persia]

"Well then who could it possibly be addressed to?!" Danzo asked, having no idea who it could be.

"This letter is addressed to 1 Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto." The council froze in fear at those words for 3 reasons. The Kyuubi-Jinchuuriki, for 1, was being called on by Wind Country's most renowned clan, 2, was related to the yondaime as they had been told once before, and 3, that the Kitanaisuna clan had the resources to take information from the sandaime wihtout his knowledge of the event, as they had never recorded it, so the sandaime had the only record of his lineage. Sarutobi continued.

"I am only going to let Naruto read this, but if he wishes, you may know what it reads." Sarutobi said, handing Naruto the letter. Naruto had been uncharacteristically quiet, and upon hearing the name, he had frozen in place as had the whole council. He looked at the letter, and slowly opened it. When he did, he saw that the same writing that was on the front was on the letter itself as well. He read it to himself.

Dear Naruto,

My name is Akki, I'm your second cousin [our grandmothers were sisters], I am sending this to you from the Kitanaisuna clan compound. I think I should teach you of your heritage first, so you can understand why we don't want those popmpous and discriminative konoha citizens having you in their home. Your mother's name was Uzumaki Kitanaisuna Kushina, your grandfather was an Uzumaki, your grandmother a Kitanaisuna, and your father, regretably, was the yondaime hokage. Both of them are dead, and for this I am sorry, but your father's roots in konoha are not strong enough to keep you there.

Your power is simply too great. Now, if you are anything like an Uzumaki, or a Namikaze for that matter, you absolutely hate reading history, but this is recquired to help you understand things. Your father loved that village with all his heart, and gave his life to defeat the Kyuubi no Kitsune and defend the village. However, he had to sacrifice the lives of 2 souls, 1 soul would leave world of the living, the other would be condemned to hold the soul of the defeated. You see, he did not kill the Kyuubi, he sealed it into your body.

Now, always remember, you are not the kyuubi, you are its jailor, and it was with a heavy heart that your father sealed it within you. Your father had 2 different wishes for you, one was public, the other was given only to us and the uzumakis. The first that you be seen as a hero, and the second, that we or the uzumakis take you in should his first wish be neglected. Our spies tell us that the second is to be enacted, and since the uzumakis have yet to act, we are sending out for you.

Now, about our clan. We have several clan jutsus, however, they cannot rightly be called jutsus, for as soon as you awaken your bloodline, you do not need chakra to use the jutsus. I'll get to that when you get here, but our clan history, orignally, we were but 1 person, in an ancient civilization called babylon. Babylon was a Persian kingdom, the persians were a kingdom of thief armies and desert-oriented cities. The last Prince of this kingdom was our clan founder. Persia and the desert landscape around it eventually became wind country, but that is not entirely relevent.

The Prince, no one ever having been told his name, had started our clan's noteable history when he stole the Toki no Tantou [dagger of time] from another civilization, however, the rest of the army that was there with him had taken what was called the Toki no Suna [Sands of Time] from the kingdom he stole the Toki no Tantou. He was lter tricked into opening the Toki no Suna. The Toki no Suna turned the entire city of babylon into wasteland, monsters of sand being created from the people corrupted by the Toki no Suna. He eventually used the Toki no Tantou, coupled with the hourglass that held the Toki no Suna to manipulate time, stopping the Toki no Suna from ever being opened.

Later on in his life, regardless of having stopped himself from opening the Toki no Suna, he began being hunted by the guardian of the timeline, known as the dahaka. In order to keep the dahaka from killing him, he traveled back in time to when the Toki no Suna were created. He had reasoned, that if the Toki no Suna were never made, then he would never have manipulated time, and so he set off to do just that and stopped the Toki no Suna from coming into existence.

When he returned to his home in babylon, he found that while he had been away, due to his changing of the past, his kingdom was now being destroyed in war. He found the one who ws leading the war, and learned that it was the same person who had tricked him into opening the Toki no Suna in the first place. The person in question used the Toki no Tantou to recreate the Toki no Suna, the prince bound by a bladed chain being wielded by a guard of the person who had recreated the Toki no Suna. He became infected by the Toki no Suna as well this time, via the chain binding him in place, and though only the chain was infected, it was now bound to the prince, and the prince was now tainted as well.

The tainted chain had turned his left arm black, glowing markings the color of this writing appearing on the same arm. He eventually transformed into dark and corrupted version of himself, wielding a chain that would spawn from his left arm, this chain being the same type of chain that he had lodged in his arm, only empowered by the strength he was receiving from the Toki no Suna. As he fought in this state, his strength would constantly wither away, his strength replenishing itself when receiving more of the Toki no Suna.

He eventually defeated the man who had tricked him, the Toki no Suna vanishing from the records of the world, the Toki no Tantou being hidden by its original creator.

Most people only know of our incredible skill in battle, but what people don't know is the way our skill works, we gain incredible skill after awakening our bloodline, and should we make a single mistake that causes our death, we can fix this mistake thanks to our bloodline. Someone of the Kitanaisuna is nigh unkillable unless they run out of chakra using jutsus other than our clan jutsus. You must be Invinceable to defeat a member of our clan and live. You can find me in Sunagakure on the 30th of may, you will know which one I am, I will be the only one with our bloodline, the physical manifestation is the left arm of our clan founder, so look for the girl with the black arm.

Love,

Kitanaisuna Akki

Naruto finished reading the letter, and reread the part about his father's wishes. He was shell-shocked at all that he had learned. He had pretty much just read his grandmother's clan founder's biography. And he had a bloodline also, apparently a very formiddable one. He knew that the council could not learn of what was in this letter, and had decided to go and see his Cousin in Suna.

"Jiji? I need to be in Suna on the 30th to meet my 2nd cousin, can you take me there?" Naruto asked, Sarutobi looking at him strangely. He expected Naruto to be bragging about whatever was in the letter, but it appeared that whatever was on that letter, was important enough for Naruto to want to keep it a secret.

"Sure Naruto, but first, do you want to tell the council what was on the letter?" Sarutobi asked, Naruto shaking his head vigorously.

"The council, and the rest of konoha, didn't do what this letter says tou-chan [I've explained it before, for a male chan is a teasing or nickname, when used for parents however, dad goes to daddy and mom goes to mommy, keep in mind, the kid's only 5] asked, so I'm going to go to my other families. I have the uzumakis, my Kaa-chan's Tou-chan's clan, and these guys, my Kaa-chan's Kaa-chan's clan." Naruto said, Sarutobi accepting the reason. The council was shocked that this boy had such a strong lineage, but hd decided that it explined why he was chosen by the Yondaime for the sealing. The fact that he didn't have the heart to be selfish and ask someone else to sacrifice their child had nothing to do with it in their minds, they saw that power came before principle.

"Very well, at a civilian's pace it will take a week to reach Suna, and as such, we shall leave today. Please send for Hatake Kakashi, Tenzou, Gekkou Hayate, and Uzuki Yuugao, we leave at noon." Sarutobi said, looking at the clock to see that it said 11:30.

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A week later, on the way to Suna

"Naruto, I am surprised at your patience, youare very clm at this point and yet, as a 5-year-old, you should be aching to see Suna, is something on your mind?" Hayate asked as he saw Naruto look up.

"Sorry Hayate-san, I think you would know about Kitsune-san, he seems to be a little, well, scared, something to do with awkening my bloodline, but the letter didn't say anything about my bloodline messing with seals. Weird..." Naruto said, Hayate shifting uncomfortably. If the Kyuubi was scared, how strong would Nruto become if the cause of The Kyuubi's fear was the inevitable awakening of Naruto's bloodline?

"As long s he's still in the seal, it shouldn't matter. Look over there, we're almost in Suna." Hayate said, picking Naruto up so he could see better. All 4 of the Jounin along with Sarutobi were on very friendly terms with Naruto, and were both happy and sad that he would probably be living with his family in Kaze no Kuni, but at least he would be among family.

"Yay! I get to meet my family soon!" Naruto was very happy about being able to have family. He was worried about Konoha sure, but he couldn't really see konoha falling. He was pretty sure the Uchihas were going to try and kill him soon anyway. "Hey Jiji, when you get back, could you please tell everyone that I died? The people of Konoha don't need the stress of me being with my family, so could you just say I died?"

"Sure thing Naruto, that's actually very thoughtful of you." Sarutobi said, not wanting to say the boy was dead but seeing how it could calm the nerves of the citizens. s they entered Sun, with the permission of the guards, they proceeded to look for Akki.

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Sunagakure Marketplace

The group had been following rumors on someone of the Kitanaisuna Clan being here and had eventually been led here, looking intently for a girl with a black arm with glowing markings. The 5 ninja were baffled when Naruto shouted, pointing to a building off in the distance. That building was the Kazekage mansion.

"Over there!" Nruto saw the glowing markings on the left arm of a 12-year-old girl heading towards the Kazekge mansion nd all of the Konoha-nin, Kakashi picking Naruto up, shunshin'd to the girl, appearing in a few swirls of leaves. Naruto wriggled his way out of Kakashi's grip and rn over to the girl, jumping up nd mnaging to tackle her to the ground.

:"Oof!" The girl hit the sand, surprised little bundle of blonde had knocked her over, but picked him up s she stood, the gears in her head starting to turn. Kid who looked like an orphan, looks like a kid yondaime with whiskers, escorted by Konoha-nins. "Naruto?" The boy smiled even wider, somehow, and she smiled also. "Well, looks like you came like I asked, you want to go to the Clan compound or are you just here for some questions?"

"I wanna live with the rest of you guys!" Naruto said, fairly hyperctive. The girl smiled, looking at the Konoha-nins.

"I'm really very sorry, but you can't follow us to the compound, are you okay with me leaving with Naruto?" The girl asked. "My name's Kitanaisuna Akki, and, quite frankly, while you guys are probably more trustworthy ninja, I can't risk some council lackey of a yamanaka probing your minds for the whereabouts of our clan compound. We aren't a very... forgiving... group of people."

"No problem at all, just make sure Naruto is treated well." Sarutobi said, signaling for himself and his Ninjas to leave.