Note: This feels like its been a week since I last updated this. Well at least it's going smoothly, I hope I can make another chapter before another test or an assignment comes out.

Tranquility

A Day Ago

Kiyone sometimes wished everything was simple, but…her right eyebrow twitched as she stared at the compound in front of her. She mentally hoped to avoid something like this as she could feel the stares on their heads. Most had aimed their stares at Naruto, with her cloak on her hood covering her face, she glared at the crowd over her shoulder, making them scramble and went back to what they usually do. She sighed; well at least they found a place to stay.

"This would be our new home, right?" She snapped her attention at Naruto and nodded.

"Yes, I'm guessing you have everything you want with you?" Naruto nodded, both of them step into the gates of the Namikaze Compound. This is going to take some time getting used to, not to mention that the villagers around the vicinity are scowling as to why they are moving in. Closing the gates behind them, before slapping a seal on the wall near the door, if anyone she doesn't know comes by, she'll know for sure. Putting the sack near the compound door, she whistled a tune as an eagle flew and landed on her shoulder. Brushing some of its feathers she took a small scroll out of her pocket and tied it around its leg and nodded at it before it took to the sky and flew into distance. She didn't turn around when she heard the tall tell sign of a faint flapping of a haori; she knows that he is already there and that she is the only one currently that could see and hear him. Looking down, she smiled at Naruto who looked around in awe.

"You can go around and explore if you want, just be careful not to break stuff, ok?" Naruto look at her, and gave her wide smile before zipping into the house and begun exploring every crack and cranny of the house. Seeing the Yondaime following his son with curiosity, Kiyone summoned a kage bunshin to follow them, just in case if Naruto wanted to go in to the house. It wasn't until they are gone that she felt three spikes of chakras coming towards the house. Taking off her cloak and sealing it in the storage scroll along with her katana; she put them in her sack where they remain hidden in the shadows. She wasn't surprise to hear a knock on the door behind her. Putting the storage scroll in her bag, she opened the door.

Minato followed his son with a smile as he watched Naruto run to the house, he navigate around the house by running in excitement. After seeing the wide garden and a big backyard yard, Naruto couldn't wait to run around. Seeing Kiyone by the compound door, Naruto ran to her.

"Tenshi-san!" Kiyone looked up with a smile at Naruto who grabbed her hand, while Minato look at Kiyone and noticed that she is a kage bunshin.

"So are you ready to explore the house?" Naruto nodded with a grin, after unlocking the door, Naruto pulled Kiyone in excitedly. Kicking off his shoes, Naruto stepped onto the dusty wood floor, ignoring the dust; he waited for Kiyone to take off hers. Kiyone blinked at Naruto before shaking her head.

"Before we continue on, Uzumaki-kun, you should know I'm not the real Tenshi Kiyone-san." Naruto blinked at her in confusion.

"Eh? Why?"

"It's because I'm a kage bunshin, the real Tenshi Kiyone is answering the door at the moment. It's almost like she's here, but at the same time, she isn't." The clone explained, Naruto looked at the clone who felt a little saddened that the real Kiyone isn't around now, but feeling his hand being squeezed gently, he looked up and saw the clone has the same gentle smile as the real one.

"So are you ready to explore?" Naruto blinked, and nodded at the clone with a wide grin. Finding out how many rooms wasn't easy. With Minato guiding them, they were able to avoid few dangerous rooms and some of the traps that had been set within the compound. There's a library, gym, a room full of weapons, the clone blinked before staring at Minato questioning. Minato noticed her stare, laughed nervously while she shook her head. Naruto who'd fallen in love with the library, looked around and decided that room. Under the guidance of Minato, the clone pointed out the books and scrolls that Naruto is able to take without triggering a trap. Leaving Naruto alone in the library, the clone began to explore the other rooms with Minato leading the way.

Next there's two kitchens, two living room, two waiting rooms, a study room, few master bedrooms, a lot of guest rooms, and a room with a banner inside that said 'Welcome Home, Naruto'. Hesitating, the clone looked for Naruto, and found out he was still in the library. Naruto, who is engrossed in a book he is reading, 'Tales of the Gutsy Ninja', kept on reading and didn't notice she was there. Sighing, the clone went to the room she was in and look at Minato, not surprised to see a somber face with a sad smile.

"I'll be blunt, I want to know if you want me to tell him who he is or we'll wait till he is a bit older so he can handle the truth." Minato look at her with surprise, while the person before him is a clone, but she still has the same personality as the real Kiyone.

"I'm not sure anymore, I wanted to tell him how much Kushina and I cherished him, but knowing Sandaime-sama, and the fact I'm dead, my status as the Yellow Flash has caused me to have a lot of enemies to go after me. When the Kyuubi arrived, I-I didn't have…" The clone saw his hands clenched into fists and narrows her eyes.

"Lyra-chan, please take care of my imouto for me." A look of surprise crossed over her face.

"Why?" Kiyone gave the woman her smile, which has the same sadness when she left the clan for her own reasons.

"It's because of who I am, I'm Shinigami-sama's daughter as I'm also his Yami No Tenshi, no one knows that except for you, kaa-san and Kira-san knows this. It's also because of the fact of my reputation here as Death Angel that I've gain a lot of enemies." The woman went silent for a while, before sighing. Gesturing for her to come closer, Kiyone did but wasn't prepared for the blow to the head.

"Itai! Why did you do that?"

"It's because you're a baka, baka. I swear, you've been hanging around that kitsune, he's been rubbing on you." The woman blinked when she saw Kiyone's red face and it suddenly dawn her before flames erupted behind her.

"I can't believe this!" Gritting her teeth, the woman glared at the ground.

"You are coming to visit her?" Kiyone looked at her and was surprised to see a pair of sad blue eyes that made her flinched away in shame. Mustering a smile, Kiyone nodded at the woman who sighed in relief. Kiyone grabbed her wrist and opened it so she could put a piece of paper in it. The woman blinked before looking at Kiyone.

"What's this?"

"It's a seal; you will know when the time comes. Just channel you chakra into it." The woman's blue eyes narrowed at the seal before looking at Kiyone.

"Why?" The smile on Kiyone's face turned to a frown as she stared at the Tenshi Compound.

"A lot of things haves changed, and we both noticed the change in that person."

The clone sighed and wished the real Kiyone would control her memories, because they were sort of getting out of hand.

"It's your choice when to tell him, but it would be a lot easier if we tell him soon than later." The clone as she muttered under her breath, between the two dead people, they let out a sigh. How on earth are they going to get out of this mess? The clone wondered before her eyes widen.

"Three people at the gate, they are trying to interrogate the real one." Minato's blue eyes sharpened at this before phasing through the wall to go meet up with the real Kiyone at the door.

A While Ago

Blinking, Kiyone quirked a smile at the three old people in front of her.

"Is there something I can help you?" Kiyone asked as she kept her plastered smile, somehow these three just rubbed her in the wrong way. Two of them analyzed Kiyone with careful caution gaze; the third one looked at her and seen nothing but an ordinary shinobi, or rather an ordinary chuunin.

"We are the Sandaime's advisors. My name is Homura, this Koharu and this is Danzo. We would like to ask as to why you are living in our deceased Hokage's house?" The old man with the glasses said as he gestured to the people he is introducing her to. She kept her blank face with a smile, but inwardly she wondered as to why Sandaime didn't tell them, unless…

"I'm sorry, but the real owner of this house is currently occupied, perhaps it would be best if you ask Hokage-sama himself. After all, he was the one that discuss the housing arrangements with the real owner." She wasn't lying, but she wasn't telling the truth either. The council looked at each other before looking at her again.

"Really? How unfortunate, we've asked him but he wouldn't budge. Is the owner of the house here?" Koharu said as she looked at Kiyone with curiosity. Kiyone blinked this time, and shifted her gaze to Danzo, he was shifting his gaze at the walls of the compound. Closing the door of the compound once she stepped out and gives them a smile.

"I'm sorry, but we are currently unpacking our items into the compound. The owner is indeed in the house, but I'm afraid the owner is currently busy now." Kiyone said lying through her teeth, as she gives them an easily mastered sympathetic smile while carefully looking at Danzo.

"Is there a problem?" She asked Danzo, who snapped back his attention at her.

"You seem to be paying attention to the walls of our house." (Translation: What are you up to?) Kiyone said with a smile, but her eyes show wariness.

"I admire the uniqueness of it." (Translation: None of your business.) Kiyone tilt her head and frowned.

"He's been trying to get past the security I put up before and after I died, now that you put up another, he is trying to figure out what it is." Minato said as he phased through the wall. Hearing this, she wondered if she should've henge herself to pretend she is the Yondaime at the beginning, a sweat drop slowly formed the back of her head as she came to the conclusion that many things could go wrong if that were to happen. Inwardly sighing, she decided to take another approach.

"I understand. I would like to help you contact this person that built the exterior if you like?" (Translation: I would suggest you leave.) Kiyone's green eyes hardened, and she and Danzo stare at each other before Danzo decided to leave, that is when Kiyone called after him with a smile.

"(1)A story before you leave, a paranoid hunter boarded his door with several locks. He always locks his door before going out and coming back into his house. His dog dutifully watches and went with him during his many hunts. A hungry wolf watch him leaves his house and goes back in after the hunt is finished. One day, villagers broke down the hunter's door and came across his mangled body. Now, tell me what happen to the hunter?" Danzo's remaining eye narrowed at her while Minato look at her with confusion as to why she ask this, until realization dawned him.

"The wolf killed him." Danzo said, not understanding the point of this story. Kiyoone's smile turns into a smirk.

"Good, now tell me how the wolf got in the house when the hunter boarded up every window and doors?" Homura and Koharu looks at each other, confused as to why this story was brought up. Danzo's eye narrowed further, his scowl became evident.

"The dog." Minato whispered the answer with wide eyes, the dog was replaced by the wolf after watching the hunter and dog several times. The dog was killed by the wolf and with careful deceptiveness, the wolf followed the hunter into the house, acting like the hunter's dog before it struck. Kiyone's smirk goes into a scowl as she glared at Danzo.

"I would suggest beware of your actions, otherwise it's going to come back to haunt you." Kiyone said as she moves back into the compound, and shutting the door firmly behind her.

"Your story, it has some very interesting meanings." Kiyone scowl went down into a smirk as she faced Minato with a smirk.

"It doesn't take a genius to figure out what it is. Besides," Knowing that Naruto isn't around, she let out a full blown predatory smirk. "I'm going to enjoy playing with those people coming after Uzumaki-kun's life." That smirk turns into a smile. "In the meantime, I've put a seal on the door, just to notify me if there are any hostile people coming by." Minato turned towards the seal on the door, and is impressed.

"That seal is called 'Miru'(2), its design to sense the oncoming chakras before they reach the door or the walls, and by then it will alert me with their presence. I was the one who made it." Minato looks at her in surprise; she doesn't seem like the person to make seals. Seeing that expression, she shrugged with a smirk before looking up and seeing the eagle coming back before landing on her shoulder again. Frowning, she took the scroll from its leg before giving it a piece of meat. Taking the meat in its golden beak, it flew before nestling itself on one of the trees in the compound. Unrolling the scroll, her frown became a smile; it looks like an old friend of hers is going to pay a visit here very soon.

Unknown Village

The eagle swept through the land into the snowy lands, and landed on a cloak figure's shoulder. Black leather gloved fingers petted its feathers, before those fingers took the scroll from the bird and sending it off to a nearby tree. Unrolling the scroll, the figure read it before letting out a puff of hot air as he puts down the scroll and putting it in his sack.

"I wonder why I'm needed here." The figure in black coat with gold pins in one corner said while gazing over the snowy village. Onyx eyes stared at the particular house, and he smirk. There is one thing nii-san made a mistake, he never did ask about taking his eyes. Smirking, he received a scroll from Kiyone, tracking down the remaining living Hyōton was no small feat except for some in the Underworld. He frowned when he heard someone crying, following the sound. He found a pre-teen, crying on the bridge and shivering. Sighing he put down his sack and took out a smaller black cloak and cover the boy. The pre-teen looked at him in surprise.

"W-why?" The figure raised an eyebrow at this, his onyx eyes gleaming under the hood.

"Do I need a reason to help someone?" Silence stood between them as they stare at each other.

"Where are your parents?" The man asked the boy who looked away.

"They're dead, both of them." The man blinked before sitting next to the boy.

"I'm sorry." The man said as the boy nodded, obviously heard this sentence before. The man looked at the boy, and he quirked up a smile before giving the boy a piece of paper.

"Take this and pour your chakra into it." The boy looks at him with surprise, before nodding warily as if he knew what chakra is. Pouring his chakra into the paper, the piece of paper started forming words eerily before forming two kanji. 氷遁. The poor boy was so surprised that he drop the paper. The man looked down and picked up the paper.

"I see, so you're the person I'm looking for." The man said while hiding the piece of paper in his pocket. The boy looked at him in surprise again.

"Y-you're not going to kill me?" The man looked at the boy and laughed. The boy looked at him as if he has two heads.

"If I were to do that, I would've done that a long time ago." The boy looked at the man, and began to laugh as well.

"So what's your name kid?" The boy looked at him with his black eyes, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Haku." The man smile at this, and he took of his hood. Raven hair with a porcelain white skin, onyx eyes that held mysteries, while his smile is with sincerity.

"It's nice to meet you, my name is Sen Matsuda."

Meanwhile in the Underworld

"Toshiko-nee, do you think Kiyone-nee would come and visit us?" A red hair girl with green eyes asked the raven hair girl with blue eyes. Toshiko, who is a little older than the red hair girl, hummed at this, as she looked at the busy town outside of their window.

"I'm sure she'll come, Natsumi-chan." Natsumi look at Toshiko and let out a smile.

"All right girls, time to go to bed." A woman, with long black hair and blue eyes said. She was dressed in a blue dress with a white apron.

"Hai!" Once the girls fell asleep, the woman turn off the light and closed the door gently. A frown grew on her face as a hint of blood stagger through the hallway. Eyes wide, she went after the scent of blood and through the screen door open. Bodies sewn across the floor making a giant pool of blood, in the middle is a girl with long raven hair tied up in a pony tail, her red eyes coldly stare at her with a hint of sadness, her katana bathed in red.

"Ashura…" Red eyes connected with her blue, before staring down at the bodies.

"Lyra, I wished you haven't seen this." Eyes wide, Lyra stepped back while Ashura gently smile and took a step.

"Why?" Ashura stopped and closed her eyes, her smile not fading.

"It's what Kaa-san and Tou-san wanted." And with a mad battle cry, she ran towards Lyra with her bloody sword.

To Be Continued!

Omake: Questions for the Dead

Kiyone sighed and relax against the wall; that was a lot of screen time.

"You did fairly well." Kiyone looked up to see Keiichi a few feet away from her, holding soda cans in both hands. She smile before gingerly took a soda can from one his hands.

"Thanks." Keiichi gives her a smirk, which she returned equally, before decided to sit right next her.

"I'm guessing you're turning into the big bad fox further in the series." Kiyone said as she opened her soda can by removing the tab, hearing a click; she took a few gulps from the bubbly liquid before stopping and holding the can by the top lazily. Keiichi, who already opened his can, looked at Kiyone with curiosity.

"Hmm, maybe. Though I was wondering…" Kiyone hummed as to continue.

"How were you able to get through that compound security? I asked the aurthoress, and she is being tight lipped about it." Kiyone's eyes looked at the kitsune demon before shrugging her shoulders.

"Who knows, that will be explained in the next chapter, which will be somewhat soon." Keiichi raised an eyebrow and shook his head.

"You and your secrets, I guess I'll have to wait till the chapter comes out. So you're not going to tell me Sen Matsuda's true name?" Kiyone, in the midst of drinking her soda, choked. There is no way she is going to tell Keiichi about Matsuda's true name. Coughing, with the slight help from Keiichi by patting her back, she gave him a hesitant smile.

"I'm afraid that'll come into the story later." Keiichi sighed, well at least he tried. Though he did remember, that the Sen Matsuda look very familiar to him. A male with long black spiky mane, red eyes glow in the dark with spinning tomoes, wearing something similar akin to samurai armor. Keiichi growled in annoyance, Matsuda would definitely not be related to that guy. Keiichi paused, could he?

(1) – This is a short story I've once heard a long time ago, but I forgot what it is about or what the title is.

(2) – 'Miru' means watch, it a special seal I made up to sense chakras from humans in a few feet range around the premises, alerting the user a head of time to either make a quick getaway, or to greet someone at the door a head of time if people were to come at the door.

Read and Review, and I'm terribly sorry for the cliffhanger.