Sandaimes suspicion
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The Sandaime Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, The professor, and holder of the Ape contract. Student of the Shodaime and Nidaime Hokage's. Teacher of the three legendary sannin, Tsunade of Slugs, Jiraiya of Toads and Orochimaru of Snakes, and when all three summoned the creatures, comes to the nickname of the Three Way Deadlock.
His late wife, Biwako, was murdered the night of Naruto's birth when Madara/Obito killed her to take the nine tails out of Kushina Uzumaki.
Looking at the man that had helped to raise her, she noted he looked the same as the last time she'd seen him, minus the black eyes and cracks in his skin. He looked like the same wise man he had once been when he was still alive. His hat and cloak were traditional white robes for a kage with the red fire symbol on his hat signifying he protects the Land of Fire and all the people within it.
He entered with his pipe in hand, as usual, and nodded his head towards her two teachers who were currently bowing to their leader in acknowledgment that they could raise their heads. He then looked at the blonde Uzumaki who was leaning against the wall near the windows, outwardly she was unfazed by the appearance of The Professor, internally, however she was resisting the urge to either run up to him and punch him in the gut as she had done to her father the first time they had met, or to run into his arms and cry her eyes out explaining what would happen and how she had faced it all with her precious people.
As it stood, she did neither of those things as she merely looked calm and collected. She had tied her headband just as the Hokage entered the room.
"Thank-you for contacting me, Iruka, Mizuki. However, I would like to have this matter cleared up in case I misinterpreted something from your missive." everyone in the room knew that was a huge ass lie. The Sandaime Hokage does not misinterpret anything.
'Maybe he was too shocked to focus when he heard the words nine tails and Naruto in the same sentence.' She mused and in turn, Kurama let out a snort.
Clearing his throat Iruka started to talk, "Thank-you for coming so quick despite all the work you have to do, Lord Hokage." 'Yeah right. I bet the old man ran at the opportunity to get away from all that paperwork.' "However, before we started the exam, Naruto said something that sounded as if she knew." This was all said quietly and the only reason she could actually hear them was due to Kurama having heightened her senses years ago.
Nodding, Hokage turned to look at her and spoke, "Naruto. Could you please tell me the reason why you dazed out during your conversation with Iruka today?"
"My tenant was talking to me."
Raising a brow he signalled for everyone, including his ANBU to leave the room. "Who might you be referring to, Naruto?"
Giving the old man a blank look she continued, "The nine-tailed fox demon that was sealed inside of me the night of my birth. Who else would I be talking about, old man?"
"How did you find out about it?" he took a puff of his pipe as he grabbed a chair to sit on.
"Him." when he gave a perplexed look, she continued, "The nail-tails isn't an 'It', he's a male. He has a name as well. I'd tell you but I doubt he'd be pleased." she gave the old man a foxy grin as she saw his internal battle.
With a tilt of his head, he rephrased his question, "Very well, who told you about him?"
"No one."
"Naruto, I am in no mood for your games."
Naruto snapped as her vision tinted slightly, "You're not in the mood for my games, old man? Which one of us decided not to tell the other, she has a demon sealed inside of her that killed hundreds if not thousands of people on the night of her birth?! Who hid the fact, the man that she looked up to, the Yondaime Hokage, was her father and the man that sealed her fate the night of her birth. Who failed to do as his successor requested?! That his child, be treated as a hero! Not to be treated as a demon!"
She stopped there. She had revealed too much. She had lost control. Years and years of practice to not show too much, to not reveal too much went down the drain. Just as when she met her father for the first time she had harmed the man physically, whereas the man that raised her the one before her now, she harmed him emotionally.
Betrayal.
Naruto knew what it felt like. She first felt it when the orphanage tried to harm her on several occasions but hadn't known what it was at the time. She truly felt it when she was in the forest and Mizuki had told her she held the nine-tails. Then again, when Sasuke left the village. When she found out Jiraiya was killed, she felt betrayed by Lady Tsunade for not stopping the man. No, betrayal was something she knew very much, so she instantly recognized the feeling inside her as she looked at the man who should have had her best interests in mind, when you consider the fact Minato Namikaze gave his life for Konoha, only to have her people betray his only child and final decree.
Not like the Sandaime showed it, but she could sense it. Instead, he chose to continue, "We will discuss that in my office later, right now, I want to know who told you everything you currently know, child."
"The nine-tails." She curled her lips upwards slightly at the look in his eyes.
"How did you- when did you meet him?"
Taping her chin and tugging at some of her hair, she made it look like she was trying to remember the incident when she stopped making a light-bulb-moment gesture. "It was ages back on my birthday, Shisui had taken me away from the villagers so as I was on dads head, Shusui was training not far from me with his Sharingan and that woke up the fox. He kept blabbing about Madara Uchiha and how he was going to kill the man for controlling him like that. Really, he's just a giant fuzzy ball of negative energy." she shook her head sighing as she placed her hands on her hips.
"You're not acting quite like your past self," grunted Kurama.
"I'm trying not to make the changes to obvious and besides, I can't act like a complete idiot I was as a kid. That'd hurt my ego a bit too much."
"You spent far too much time with the Uchiha brat if you're thinking about your ego."
"Hey! You have an ago the same size, if not bigger than his!"
"Yet, I am thousands of years old and a being of chakra. I am allowed and have the right power to back up said ego. He does not. Now before you protest further, the old fool is talking."
"Could you repeat that? I was talking to the nine-tails."
"Why did you not mention before, that you knew who you were and what you contained?"
"Why should I? It was not my duty to tell you something you already knew. I was also kinda waiting for you to tell me yourself. I was about to make genin and still, no one told me so I thought, I'll take matters into my own hands." She shrugged her shoulders as if it was an ordinary thing to keep secrets from the man who gave her the money and means to live and grow. "It's not like I pledged to tell you everything. That's gonna happen after this, isn't it, Lord third?"
"You are right, my child. However, I did all I could to raise you in a way that I could, however-"
"However your civilian council disagreed? They should never have any say in what the shinobi side does! If we were under martial law, they wouldn't have any more than a 5% say in what happens! I am the daughter of their precious yondaime! Not only do they think his seal weak, but they shame him by trying to harm his only child! His legacy! Why?! Why do they think, Konoha's seals master that the mere name of, even in death, strikes fear into the hearts of Iwagakure, who gave his life to protect their lives, could not make a competent seal?! His wife was the heir to Uzushiogakure, where seals were practically a bloodline! Uzumaki Kushina was disliked for being a foreigner, yet she also was the jinchuriki for the nine-tails! Tell me! What are yours and their excuse?!"
"I think I'm a damn good actress. To put this much anger into something that really doesn't bother me anymore. I deserve a trophy and some jutsu scrolls as a prize."
"I shall concede that much, brat."
"Naruto, I have no words that could make a difference in the way you have been treated, and I am sure nothing I do would ever change that. Despite the way you have been treated, you have turned out to be a lovely, sweet and outspoken child. Truly, if my shinobi cannot see that you physically look like Minato and behave like Kushina, what is it you want, my dear?" the look on Hiruzen's face, was that of defeat. The look of utter defeat made his old age even more pronounced.
"Nothing. I want nothing from these people that can't see an innocent child from an entity of chakra. Maybe me and Sunagakures jinchuriki should swap villages for a few months and see the differences between the two of us.
"Sunagakures jinchuriki? The Shukaku one tails host? What is wrong with the boy?"
Waving her hand, she decided to have some fun, "Oh nothing much. He is the son youngest son of their Kazekage. He's had many assassination attempts on him but he doesn't have the Kage's protection upon him. His dad's the one that ordered those assassination attempts, actually. His mother's love for him entered the sand and it protects him, or something like that. He's a mass murderer and has the one tails whispering in his head all the time." She decided to stop there, anything more would be getting too personal.
"How do you know this?" his eyes, though shrouded by his hat, had squinted even further. He clearly didn't believe that this person in front of him right now was the child he saw run around the village, making the ANBU chase after her after pulling pranks, that yelled all day about being Hokage and loved ramen.
Softening her eyes she replied, "I am the host of the most powerful of the nine tailed beasts. Only few may become jinchuriki and even fewer may have a bond with them. He was raised by the Sage of Sixth Paths who gave a small amount of his chakra to all of them, connecting them if they wish to. Because of that, I can communicate with them, however, if there should be something like a meeting that may only be done in my mindscape and no one else's."
He nodded, externally showing he understood and would comply however internally he was thinking something else. 'I am unsure as to whether or not this is the same child as I have always known. There is no henge nor genjutsu and I don't sense any seals that would be able to do this. As much as I hate to admit, if Naruto doesn't return to her old self, I may just have to place people to watch her. For her sake and the sake of Konoha.'
He nodded his head and said he would take his leave, however, requested that Naruto should come to his office once she had eaten something to finish having their meeting. She also nodded in an affirmative manner and made her way out the building. Not bothering to go back into the classroom where she should have gone, instead, she went for a walk. She needed to think things through.
Walking through the village, people began to whisper and talk in hush voices, pointing at her. They seemed to be shocked she had passed her exam and was allowed to wear the headband.
As she made her way to team 7's training ground, she sensed a very familiar chakra signature. Mount Myoboku would have to fall and burn before she forgot that signature.
Kakashi.
Her heartbeat sped at the thought of seeing him again. Although technically, she had only seen him a few hours ago, the mere thought that this Kakashi wasn't her Kakashi yet it was her Kakashi, made her heartache. She wouldn't be able to playfully pull at his hair, tease him, flirt with him... or even touch him, not even a hug. They were not lovers here, not yet. She couldn't get her hopes up though. She planned on changing a lot of things that may end up changing how he sees her.
"Well, I'll just have to work for his love more than before! Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze never gives up, dattebayo!"
"I wondered how long it would be before you started saying that infernal phrase you got from your mother, che."
"You've been awfully talkative today, not that I'm complaining or anything, I'm just wondering why?"
"I'm not obligated to tell you why. And what makes you think you will get your dog loving silver-haired male to love you again?"
"I did it once, back then I only knew a few things about sensei, but this time, I know everything thing about him, down to the faded white scars he has on his body and what a nice body it is." she ended wiping a bit of blood from dripping down her nose.
"A gentle reminder, you're in the body of a twelve near 13-year-old. He will have as much lust for you as he does for cats. NONE!"
"Ahh, but he doesn't have to lust after me, quite just yet. That can come later-"
"Your body will go into heat as it did in your own time."
That made her blood run cold. In her original timeline, she would go into heat every three months and Kakashi was the only one who was able to sate her. She had tried with a few people, once with Sasuke, Neji, Genma, Raido, Kiba and even Gaara, yet none had been able to get her body back to normal. And unlike a normal fox, she would not go out of heat after a set time, it had to be done through physical contact.
Going into heat was a painful thing, her body would heat up and no amount of cold showers would cool her down. She would lust after men that she knew and they would her. Her pheromones were that strong that they would attract even those who did not have use of their chakra (civilians).
"When?" She whispered.
"If I am correct, you have two months before you should start your cycles and your heat will initiate six weeks after that, 13 weeks from today, just under four months from now. However, that could change to be sooner as well, since you are more in tune with my chakra now that you were in the original time, so that may have an effect on your cycle, making it come sooner and perhaps last longer as it did after the war."
She mentally groaned. It seemed that somewhere, someone really hated her. Here she was, in her old body, a season away from going into heat and she had no lover, she would have to devise a plan to seduce Kakashi in order for him to touch her and sate her more carnal desires.
"It would seem, you have no choice and neither does your wolf. Will you tell him the truth, or will you keep it to yourself?"
"I don't like keeping secrets nor do I like lying to him. I'll give him a test of sorts after our test and see what comes of it. Most likely, either way, I would tell him but perhaps not everything?"
"What would you keep to yourself?"
"I won't tell him about the Uchiha coup, that is personal to Itachi, if I have his permission then I will tell Kakashi. I think I'll tell him about Obito being alive, how to approach that conversation will need full-on planning and strategies, hmm I wonder. Do you think I'd be able to transfer memories using the kotoamatsukami?
"Theoretically, you should be able to. The fundamentals of it allow the caster to show anything they wish so showing memories should be no problem. However, I would incorporate one of the Yamanaka clan techniques to make the memory more reliable and un-bias. Why? Who would you show your memories to?"
"Ideally, Obito to show him Kakashi isn't the source of all unhappiness and death. Sasuke, I'd show him after the chunin exams so he would be able to understand his brother better and Kakashi after he has started to develop feelings for me if he does. I don't want him to date me because he would feel obligated to yeah, but obviously, I may have to change the plan since not everything goes my way."
She stopped talking to the fox when she felt Kakashi only a few meters away from her. Her heart rate once again sped up and she internally debated on what she should do. After ten seconds of having her eyes, she opened them and let out a breath slowly turning around.
TO BE CONTINUED!!