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Dark Chakra	By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female > Naruto/Hinata Views: 23308 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Hours later Naruto was frowning at this information "an female of our race, MY FATHER'S line, was here centuries ago, trapped and left her daughter behind to become the first of my genetic mother's line?"
They nodded.
He looked at Kakashi "father says he has no idea of any females having gone missing during from our line. Great granduncle says he can only think of great grandmother, are you sure she was Dragonseeker?"
He nodded "the books said so. She had a mark too, the same as you have tattooed on your shoulder, but as a birthmark on the stomach above the bellybutton."
The blonde nodded "all Dragonseeker are born with that mark. It burns whenever Vampire are nearby."
"You don't have it?" Tsunade asked but he shook his head "no, hence the tattoo."
"The seal, Hokage sama" Kakashi said "even Kushina-chan had it, but Naruto is more like his father than his mother. Then there is the fact that the seal is precisely where it WOULD have been when he was born."
"Humm" the woman rubbed her chin thoughtfully "you are right, it is possible the seal either interferes or locked away the effects of the birthmark." She looked at the blonde "it would have been classed as your kekkai genkai, even if it was not necessary here."
The blonde shrugged, not caring, then cocked his head "great granduncle says he is querying with the Prince and the Ancients to see if any are aware of a missing couple of Dragonseeker lineage from centuries ago perhaps." He blinked a few times then obviously repeated what he was hearing "The Prince suggested that it could have been possible during the human war in our land in the past. Many of our people were caught in the crossfire and lost their lives, it is possible her lifemate was killed during and she wondered off. What was her name if you know at all?"
Kakashi thought about it "the daughter was named Yukari, but the mother....." he seemed to struggle to think about it. Tsunade frowned “do you know her name at all? Was it written in her books or told to anyone before she died? And where ARE these books?”
“Yes” Naruto agreed to her question “information in those books could identify her or her mate.”
Kakashi shook his head “they were with Kushina-chan when the nine-tailed attacked the village. I have no idea what happed to them. It’s possible the nine tailed knows, but since we have no idea if it’s even around anymore let alone able to communicate.....”
Naruto frowned “why would the nine-tailed know?”
“Kushina Uzumaki was the third host of the nine-tailed before you. The beast probably saw it through her eyes.”
“So I.....inherited the ‘position’ from her.”
Both ninja’s exchanged glanced which made him narrow his eyes “what?”
“You weren’t supposed to!” Kakashi said quickly, trying to ignore his superiors glare. Yes, she could be angry at him, but he was desperate to keep in Naruto’s favor. He had lost one student to insanity, another to greed and revenge, Naruto was all he had left “your father didn’t want you to have that responsibility. He wanted you to live a happy life. But the nine-tailed getting free ruined that. Kushina was too weak, she wouldn’t survive resealing. YOU were an Uzumaki through her...”
He glared, “so use a child, a newborn!”
“He had no choice!” he protested.
“He’s right” Tsunade crossed her arms under her breasts “there was suspific conditions only available at the time. Only an human’s will, an human’s mental strength has the ability to hold back the beast. An adult’s chakra pathways are set in their ways, the flood of chakra from the beast would overload and kill them, leading to exactly the same problem again. A child however-or rather a newborn baby-is malleable. As they grow their body adapts to it, even learns use it themselves.”
Kakashi continued "the seal was only meant to give Naruto access to the foxes increased healing and allow a steady stream of chakra to be released into his own, increasing his own to allow a boost of sort if he needed it....."
"But according to something Naruto himself told me, my ex-teammate tampered with it, essentially unlocking it enough so that the buuji could take partial control at times of extreme emotions. This was confirmed by my other teammate Jiriaya."
When he cocked his head at her, Shizune explained "Jiriaya-sama is a seals expert. HE trained Minato-san in both seals and was his team leader when he was young. It was he whom taught him the eight trigrams seals, although he HAD forbid him to use it at the time. He was the one to keep an eye on Naruto's while they were traveling about 13 years ago."
"And he didn't repair the seal himself?"
"No he was unable. After learning from Jariaya-san, Minato-san went on to study and experiment with the subject, himself becoming a Seal Master. That involved changing what he was taught into something to fit his own needs, whatever the situation. When he used the eight trigrams it was no longer exactly what Jiriaya-sama knew. He WAS able to develop an temporary seal to repress the foxes chakra, but it couldn't be used too often or else Naruto-oi would adapt to it."
"And this extra seal used by the.....snake....was powerful enough to screw with the original."
They nodded then Tsunade blinked "how did you know about my ex-teammate being associated with snakes?"
"In my many conversations with my lifemate and her companions. They described him as an 'snake-nin.' However if not them then I would have seen it in your mind. You think of him often."
She sighed "I'll have to get used to your telepathy. I have to keep reminding myself. He was my teammate growing up. He witnessed his parents being killed as a child and should never have became a ninja. He was a kind soul who saw and did too much as a ninja than he shouldn't have. All that death made him obsessed with finding a way to live forever. First it was finding a way to ensure his only few loved ones-us mainly-didn't leave him to death, then somewhere along the way it changed to preventing his own."
"Perhaps" he reasoned "he realized he couldn't keep everyone else alive if HE died first."
"You think?"
"It is why our race is reluctant to associate with humans. WE will live far longer than you can imagine, watching a trusted human friend or allie grow old and die while you yourself are young and stay that way is not an enjoyable experience. It is also why our human lifemates are eventually brought into our world. NOT ONE of the males of our race has not turned her" he suddenly cocked his head, looking thoughtful "well, except one."
"Who?"
"One of my half-sisters, Lara. She is a gifted mage and is able to cleanse the pregnant women of our race of that which is preventing the birth of children. However if she is made fully Carpathian that MAY change. Because of this she and her lifemate are trying to give her time first while mother tries to isolate the lifeform that may be our cure. However the longer they wait, the most dangerous it is, especially for her mate's soul."
Kakashi frowned at him "from what I read of the books it's impossible for your males to have children outside their lifemates. How could you have an half-sister?"
The blonde explained about his great grandfather, his great grandmother and her lifemate and his father. Finally the silver haired scarecrow looked thoughtful, trying to digest it all.
"So your adopted father's grandmother was captured by an enemy who after killing her lifemate somehow kept her alive long enough to rape her and force her to conceive three children before he killed her too. He then proceeded to feed off their blood in an effort to sustain his own life before the two females were able to free their younger brother who escaped. HE fell in love and had kids, your father and his twin sister. The enemy then found and murdered their family-including their father and proceeded to use the twins instead, not only to develop strategies and....spells, but their blood. Through his actions your father freed his twin but became his prisoner. He was too weak to escape the enemies clutches, so 'The Aunts' initiated him into a full Carpathian. Somehow he ended up with four fragments of his grandfather inside him, controlling him to go around and seduce gifted women to conceive him more children to use. To this day, your father has no clue how many women he seduced and made pregnant." He took a deep breath "and to add to all that, his grandmother was a Dragonseeker, an old one."
The blonde nodded.
"So now you're a Dragonseeker by blood AND by heritage."
"If you are correct about the ancestry of my birth mother, it seems so" he looked at the silver haired man "these books, did she allow you to see or read any of them?"
The silver haired nin looked embarrassed "well..."
"What?"
He closed his eyeeyes and sighed "at the time I was.....well it was just after my father...." The blonde's eyes narrowed as he caught a set of painful memories. Being looked at with suspicion, was he like his father? Anger at his only parental figure, a sense of betrayal and hurt.
He delved deeper, careful to keep the other unaware of his intrusion. Being taught that only the mission mattered, not them, not teammates, nothing else. Awed by his powerful father, hero worship. Then one day whispers, failure. He grit his teeth. The entire village rejected, ridiculed the man, all because he decided his teammates were more important.
On one hand as a hunter he understood. When it came to Hunting Vampires, getting the job done was more important than your own life. So many others could die if the evil wasn't stopped.
On the other hand so was honor. If a Vampire was holding someone-human or Carpathian-hostage, the life was more important. However a hunter an male would find a way for both.
If this man valued his teammates over his mission, unless it was something incredibly important or life-threatening, he had his respect.
However despite what the silver haired was raised to be-a weapon-he was still a child. As the whispers grew, the looks, a child weapon raised to believe in the villages....righteousness began to believe them about his father being wrong, how he did something so traitorous.
Now that he knew better-the boy turned into a man and had done just what his father had-had been through what he had, he deeply regretted his actions and words towards his father. He took the words of his dead teammate to heart, even teaching it to his own team-including himself apparently who also took them to heart.
Too bad the other two didn't.
More memories surfaced. His team leader, a young man of blonde hair and blue eyes looking at him with a mixture of sadness and understanding, slowly shaking his head at him as he repeated the 'laws' he had been taught, that teammates weren't important to the mission and so on like a good brain-washed child he was-unemotionally.
He knew who this man was, his biological father. He studied the silver haired man's memories of him and found a person he was satisfied to call his relation-although Razvan would always be the father of his blood and soul as he saw it.
"There is nothing wrong with having two fathers" the serene voice of the only father he knew said "you can honor the man he is as well as myself. You CAN be Naruto Uzumaki as well as Naruto Dragonseeker."
"Trouble is I do not know who the other is and even if I did, I am not sure I wish to know....HIM."
"Whatever happened to you in your past, no matter how painful or dramatic, merely makes you who you are now. Yes you have no memory of your past, but that does not mean you were anything to be ashamed of or scared. It made you the honorable young man we met that day, one who risked his life to save a child, one who hunted Vampires not because he wanted the thrill, but because it was the right thing to do, to protect and save others. You had power others could only dream of, but you almost died protecting children, not revealing in it. The Healer once told me you had the heart of a Carpathian."
This made him feel some relief and joy, the Greatest healer of the Carpathian and human races thought he had the soul of his people.
A sudden image made itself known from the silver haired scarecrow, a surface memory meaning he was currently thinking about it, almost as if HE was picking up HIS thoughts.
His younger blonde self, approaching him from the village gates where he stood, a sunny smile on his face for the man, another figure waiting just outside the gates.
The man waiting was tall and stocky, wearing green and red, a gold stud in one side of the nose, long white hair hanging in spikes down his back. He had long red lines diagonally down his face-over the cheeks and stopping just at the chin-that looked natural, like birthmarks, and carried an huge scroll hanging behind his back.
The man watched them solemnly, eyes on the boy, and for one unguarded moment seemed almost proud of him.
Knowledge of the man was easy to find, Jiriaya, Toad Sage, Sannin, writer of his beloved Icha Icha Paradise books. Pervert. However extremely skilled and could teach the boy a lot more than him.
And, if what the two told him was right, the Seals Master who had trained his biological father as well as trained his team. The man was old-as was his ex team, who was kept younger through nature energy, he could actually SEE that.
As the boy approached him with that disarming delighted smile he could pick up the man's feelings of the sight, the turmoil.
On one side he was proud, his 'student' had come so far from the stubborn idiotic child he was when they first met. Another was worried, worried about him being outside the village protection with this group looking for him-outside HIS protection. A third was filled with sorrow, this grinning teen was all he had left of his team, the other two having left him to learn from a sannin each. Now HE was also joining one to learn. The sannin taught his beloved sensei, how would HE surpass him also?
Another was jealousy, jealous of his opportunity to learn from him. But his student was in danger of his life, he NEEDED this training, this he quickly forced away, it wasn't the time or place and he wasn't going to....taint this parting. Who knew when he would see him again.
"Come to see me off, sensei?" the boy's grin showed delight and the affection of an student to his master.
"Yo" the man gave a casual wave when he felt anything but casual.
The boy's smile was gentle "I appreciate it, sensei, I know Baachan is busy as Hokage and Sakura has her shift at the Hospital and the others have missions...." he looked slightly sideways and the man followed his eyes to see a small figure hiding, quickly ducking back out of sight.
He smiled, his lifemate. His lifemate had also come to see him off, even though she lacked the courage to approach.
And by the small smile on his teen self's lips, he knew it as well and was thankful. He turned his head and murmured "when I come back, I'll do something for you both, to show you how much it means to me. But for now if I want to become Hokage I have to train, to become stronger."
His curiosity was peaked "you still want to become Hokage?"
The blonde cocked his head at him "of course" he said, as if the answer should be obvious "I want, no NEED to be able to protect my friends and those I see as family. Iruka-niisan, Baachan, HER, and that includes YOU sensei."
He felt the man's reaction to this, the sense of warmth at knowing that he was THAT important to him, the burst of fear that something would happen and he would loose him like so many others before him when he would not be there to protect or save him. Confusion, he was HIS job to protect him as his sensei, not the other way around.
Before he could speak there was a noise and the moment was broken by the appearance of others, one he recognized as the dog-ninja Kiba, dragging his faintly protesting lifemate with him.
Among them was the blonde woman 'Hokage' and the young man with his hair tied high behind him and a scar across his nose-the teacher Iruka. This man had special meaning to his past self. He looked at him. Kind but stern eyes, authority in his stance, but not that of say the blonde woman.
He looked at the blonde with such fondness and affection that he KNEW this man cared deeply for his past self.
Maybe he should go visit him.
He was his teacher in 'the academy', the first person to truly see his past self as other than a demon and become his friend. HE was 'Iruka-niisan' and that last part of the title said it, niisan, big brother. To his past self this man was family, blood, and in the man's eyes he saw exactly the same thing.
Perhaps he could get to know him, maybe not as a brother, but a human friend.
Knowing he was off topic he went back to the more dormant memories. The blonde man again, smiling, a red headed woman behind him with her arms wrapped contently around his waist, head on his shoulder, watching them practice. By the slight smile on her face as she watched he knew she was happy there like that. The blonde man turned his head to smile at her, the two looking very much in love with each other.
Later she insisted the three of them join her and the blonde man for a picnic, when the other male of the group proclaimed loudly his disagreement he was bopped on the head by the woman before sitting down.
Every other memory of the two showed them very much in love with each other, just the way a Carpathian couple would. And the red headed woman took a special liking to his other teammate and while he tried to repress the jealousy he felt, deep down he admired-no, idolized-his sensei and his wife.
To him, it hurt. It felt like all his life he was seeing these happy families or couples together while he was stuck on the outside looking in. His mother had died when he was a baby and his father had been a skilled ninja, wanted for many missions and too busy for raising a child. Then he had failed a mission and sank into depression before killing himself.
He HAD idolized his father, yes in a way, he WAS his only parent, but the fact that the blonde man was THERE for him was different. It was like the difference between KNOWING you were supposed to do it and actually doing it.
He frowned. If the woman had paid special attention to his teammate, when did she show him these books? When did she tell him about her line?
It came after an particular outburst from the silver haired boy. His emotions all boiled up until one day during a 'spar' section when he almost killed the other boy. It hurt him, the look on his sensei's face at his actions, but it also fed the fire as well.
After a particularly LOUD outburst he stomped away towards his clan home, to be followed by the red head.
He glared at her but she decided to yell back, telling him he was selfish and cared only about himself, not that others around him might be suffering too. The shouting match ended up with her grabbing his arm and dragging him back to her apartment.
He was stuck following her.
If he lashed out at her in any way, he would upset his sensei. Not just that, Kushina-san was a fierce ninja herself. She may not be a high-level one like an jounnin or Sannin, but he had always had the impression it was by choice, not lack of talent.
Kushina-san simply did not like fighting or killing, despite her fierce temper. He snorted when he learned her nickname and that she had a habit of beating up anyone mean to her. 'Red Hot Habinero' indeed.
She was a warrior, but also a female Carpathian at heart like her ancestor, she reminded him a lot like his own mother. Another mother to be proud of. She was a gentle woman like others he had met, he saw that in the love she shared with the blonde, but also had the fierce determination of a Carpathian Hunter.
In a way she and his father were following her ancestry, they appeared to be lifemates. Perhaps the human blood hadn't been enough to dilute that part of their line, Dragonseekers were always a powerful breed.
He even noticed her eyes, her GREEN eyes. True they weren't the metallic green of his father's line, but perhaps it was enough of a sign.
Perhaps because of his Carpathian blood why he was so unique when human and now.
The woman dragged him into her apartment, pushed him into a chair at the dining room table and said firmly "stay there" and left the room.
He grumbled, one DID NOT say no to Kushina Uzumaki and get away without a few broken bones. He suspected the only reason they did was because they were Minato-san's team, no other reason.
He heard her moving things around the sounds of her searching for something. He was just thinking about leaving, damn the consequences, when her voice floated back "don't even think about it."
He raised a mental eyebrow. Did she predict he would try to leave, or did......was she in possession of an Carpathians ability to read minds?
Then of course it could be that she knew the boy well enough to know how his mind works. She HAD been coming to watch them being trained since the team was formed.
He grunted in disgust and crossed his arms over his chest, every bit the image of a stubborn child.
The next thing he knew a very old book was placed in front of him carefully on the table. He looked up at her but before he could complain she told him firmly to read it. He opened his mouth to protest but when he saw her eyes narrow he lowered them to look at the old cover.
Slowly he opened it and at first he only pretended to read it, but then words he didn't understand caught his eyes. Words like 'lifemate' and 'Karpatii' and 'Vampire'. He was a born genius, mind constantly seeking stimulation, knowledge, so this intrigued him.
Before he knew it he was engrossed in the pages, deeply, never looking up even when food was pushed to him, when his senses detected his sensei there and talking to the woman.
When the book was over he was not satisfied, he wanted to know more. He looked up to find it was dark and his sensei's wife sitting opposite him, watching.
"Well?" she asked "what do you think?" He tried to stay cool, unattached "it's an interesting work of fiction. Did you write it?"
"It's not fiction" she said calmly "it's real." He was startled "but..."
"The woman who wrote this was MY ancestor, the first Uzumaki. The origin of our clan. These are HER books written to her daughter, her diaries, so she would know who and what she was and came from."
Many thoughts whirred around his head. However when he opened his mouth to scoff, the young woman stood long enough to move her shirt just high enough to reveal a mark on her stomach, above her bellybutton.
A birthmark obviously but in the shape of a dragon. (A.N-I know Kushina was known for wearing dresses, but I think at home in the middle of the night she would go for a more comfortable t-shirt and pants.)
His eyes widened.
She went on "you are one of three only who know this. Myself and Minato-kun are the others, not even the Hokage knows" as she let the top drop back into place.
"But....why me?"
She sighed heavily "I know what it's like feeling like you're not a part of anything, on the outside looking in. I'm the jinchūriki of the nine-tailed, do you think that's all roses? There is a reason I concentrate most my attention on Obito, Kaka. You are so smart I know one day you'll surpass Minato-kun in everything...." she held her hand up to stop his protests "he knows it as well as I and deep down so do you, you have so much raw talent you only need to learn to use. However Obito needs help. He finds everything so difficult to do he hides his pain behind that goofball act. Did you know his own clan abuse him?"
Kakashi shook his head.
"They see him as an waste of space, a useless ninja. They haven't even taught him any clan jutsu's yet. Why else do you think he hasn't even unlocked the Sharingan yet? They won't tell him or even teach him. The only reason they haven't disowned him or thrown him out of the clan is because they think it will make them look bad for casting out a child! As soon as he's old enough and fails his first mission that's exactly what they intend to do!" Kakashi had seen his sensei's wife's temper before, but THIS was something new.
His mind was whirring "so you are trying to help him become someone better so he WILL succeed. You don't bother with me because I can do it myself."
"Yes and no" she said "I know you're just as..... damaged as he after what happened to your father, but Minato-kun can easily teach you everything you need to know. You pick up most things so easily. You could go so far on your own once you know how. But HE can't, no one wants to teach him except us and you've seen how he reacts to Minato-kun trying to. He needs for someone drill it into his head he's worth the effort, no matter what he's saying."
"So by giving me this book to read and letting me in on this secret you are showing me you DO believe in my worth to you both, that even though you are paying special attention to HIM, it doesn't mean I'm anything less to you."
She nodded.
"What did you mean by I pick up MOST things easily?"
She sighed heavily "you may be smart, a genus perhaps, but you continue to be stubborn in your beliefs about how a ninja should be. You could go so far with a flexible mind, but you restrict yourself by believing you are always right. That stubborn streak will get you into so much trouble down the line. Believing you can only rely on yourself and that the team isn't important can doom you. What do you think will happen when you abandon your teammates for the mission?"
He narrowed his eyes at her.
"Believe me, you'll be seen as worse than your father for it and NO ONE will want to go on missions with you. No ninja will ever trust you again. Neither will the village. And before you say it, ANY ninja who has had experience in battle let alone a mission KNOWS how important teamwork is let alone having each others back. Why else do you think you are chosen in teams and train in teams, not individually?"
When he went to speak, she did, three words "the Chunnin Exams."
"What?"
"The Chunnin Exams are supposed to prepare you for real life, real missions, yet what happens if you reach the end alone? Why so much empathize on team work? Yes, the last part is about showing individual strengths to others, but why does the REAL exams force you to fight other teams together instead of apart?"
He blinked at her.
She sighed heavily and gently took the book from him "when you're ready I'll be here. Until then, go home." He narrowed his eyes "I want to know more."
"What you want and what you're ready for are two different things, Kaka."
When his temper began to rise so did hers. Knowing his sensei's wife and her reputation he quickly backed down. He had no wish to be beaten within an inch of his life.
So he left. He was determined, he WOULD read the rest of those books, even if he had to lie to her for it.
However life interfered-or rather war did.
The next time he saw anything of the young couple was in hospital where he sat much like he did now, one side of his face damaged and bandaged, his teammates sacrifice in his mind just as his....gift burned in his head.
He was tormented, the teachings in the Academy waring with his sensei's with his teammates last actions. Which was right? Why did he feel so conflicted? His teammate had just done what he was supposed to, right? Died so they could complete the mission.
The sound of paper turning in the wind caught his attention though, turning quickly towards it (and cursing as he was immediately dizzy) only for him to find three old books beside the bed on the table, a sheet of paper in top.
Catching it up he read with his one good eye and it widened.
Gently and reverently he moved the bottom two books into the bottom of the cabinet by the table and then picked up the first of them with slightly shaking hands.
He continued to read even when his one uncovered eye began to hurt, the organ not used to taking the strain of working for both. He continued even when the nurses threatened to sedate him, only putting the books away long enough for them to leave.
The desire to know, to learn of this big secret burned inside him as nothing had before. He HAD to know about them, this ancestor and her race.
Naruto felt like he was reading over his shoulder as he read the man's mind of the memories of the words, finding nothing new than what he already knew or had experienced himself. What HE wan't to know simply was the name of the female, or even her lifemates name might help. The silver haired human had been correct on the child's birth name-Yukari Dragonseeker, but as of yet the mother had not used her own name, or her lifemate's.
It suddenly occurred to him that it was possible that the male could have been the Dragonseeker and the female an converted human, it was entirely possible that the male was one of the ancients sent out over their world by their old Prince-Mikhail's father-to hunt the vampire centuries ago. Perhaps they found the portal, fought the vampire to keep it from the doorway, and the hunter was killed along with it, leaving the female behind. So she wandered through, either in her grieving or with the hopes of leaving their daughter with someone else to raise. Which explained why she didn't summon another Carpathian to take the baby to the Old Prince to raise, she didn't know others.
Although that didn't explain how she knew so much to put in the books.
He was about the draw out of his mind, resigned in the knowledge they would never know, when something caught his attention, a name, other than the daughters. Going back over it he looked carefully.
Aleesa Dragonseeker.
He blinked. Then blinked again. Then looked a third time. 'your parents-Aleesa Dragonseeker and Korbin Justicano.'
What? He came from BOTH Dragonseeker AND Justicano? His best friend was Byron, the last male Justicano, the other being his sister. Was he related to his friend? He HAD to know. He reached out on their shared mental path to his friend.
"Byron?"
The reply came back after a long pause "Naru? What is it?" He couldn't help but smile at the concern in his friends voice. Byron Justicano had been the one to teach him jewelry making, the other Carpathian also a Jem Caller. He had learned so much from the other male, not just his gift, and his lifemate-a talented pianist and opera writer. The two of them quickly became friends and her family took him into their life as one of them.
Something, he learned, just wasn't done in the Scarletti line.
"I am fine, my brother. First I have found my lifemate."
"I am glad, my friend." Another voice came in, feminine and musical "you must bring her here, Naruto, so we may meet her."
"The second is I have discovered some information that I need to confirm with you. If it's true it may mean not only am I descended from Carpathians but two different lines."
Stunned silence then a cautious "how can I help?"
"One of the names found was Korbin Justicano. Do you know this name or him."
There was a long pause in what he could sense him thinking and conversing with his sister. Finally he came back with "a great uncle. He and his lifemate died fighting vampires centuries ago. I don't remember him but sister says she met him once."
He fought to repress a shiver of excitement and asked calmly "What about his lifemate? Does she remember anything about her?"
Again he referred with her "It was an old revered line, she doesn't remember which." He blinked "according to what I learned a pregnant female who lost her lifemate wandered into an portal between ours and another world and there gave birth to a daughter, Yukari. She left diaries behind for her daughter. That female and her lifemate were named as Aleesa Dragonseeker and Korbin Justicano."
"That IS possible" his best friend said "so your line came from that daughter of a true Dragonseeker. You must be pleased, it means you truly are a part of your families line."
"And YOURS" he pointed out "I am related to my father AND you now."
"Yes" he sounded pleased "we are brothers now. It also means you were born with Carpathian blood, meaning you may have been born human, but you are one of us-more so now."
"Yes" he said with a smile "I need you to also pass a message along to the Prince for me, since I have not shared blood with him. Tell him that this world contains many females capable of being lifemates. I have identified four as definite in my lifemates village alone. However this world is....not the sort of thing that I would wish for us to be associated normally with."
"What is wrong with it?" Byron sounded concerned.
"These mortals have an ability called chakra, a unity of mind and spirit. With it they can do anything from hypnotize to create fire. However they use it as a weapon against each other. There are five major villages here and those born with this power are trained from the moment they can walk to fight and kill each other."
He sensed Antonietta's absolute horror at this and Byron's fury. He went on "and that is not all" he said.
"What else?!"
"It appears this is where I came from originally."
Byron paused "Your home?"
"It seems so. Around ten years ago someone matching my description and power disappeared from here. His name was Naruto Uzumaki. The Uzumaki line was the descendants of that female Carpathian."
"How did you end up in our world?"
"From what we pieced together it was jealousy. The 'ninja' here are teamed up when they first start out. My....other self had the misfortune of being teamed with an obsessive fangirl and the stuck up arrogant object of said lust. When the arrogant ass left, joining an enemy seeking power, the fangirl became unhinged, trapped my other self to promising to try and return him back to the village, while convincing everyone around her of her normalcy.
When he failed and left for training elsewhere, she seems to have fully become insane. After he returned she set up a trap. The end result was he....I was crippled by a blow to the spine and almost died. At some point I crawled away and entered the portal, ending up on the other side, our home."
"How did you survive, heal?"
"Apparently the day I was born an entity attacked the village I came from, one of nine and the most powerful of the lot. It was slaughtering villagers and those with charka-here called Shinobi-and the then leader used a seal, a type of safeguard, to forcibly pull the entity from it's body and separate it's spirit into two, one half he sealed inside me, the other himself before the price of the seal imprisoned his soul in something called the 'shirigami', in his stomach. This 'death god' apparently will be slowly digesting both his and the creatures spirit for eternity. My genetic mother AND father's last act was to sacrifice themselves to protect me from the creatures claw as the soul was extracted."
"How does that apply to your healing?"
"Apparently the creature was pure chakra and the seal allowed me to use small amounts of it's power, including healing. Later an enemy of this village tampered with the seal, allowing it to open more to the power. From what I learned it meant even though each time I used too much of it's power I caused damage to my body, it also meant I became for a short time inhuman in strength and power."
"And this thing allowed you to heal the damage?"
"That is unknown. No one, least of all me, seems to know if the creature was gone-extracted-at that point, or still remained. However......." he told his best friend about the discussion they had in those first days, plus everything else said on the subject afterwards.
"You are right, I think we may never know for sure unless you were to remember."
"From what I have learned of this village and the abuse my past self suffered, I'm not sure that would be a good thing." However he bid his friend a farewell and came back to reality to find both figures staring at him "what is it?"
"You were silent for some time" Tsunade said, followed by Kakashi with "who were you talking to?"
"My best friend and brother-in-blood. It seems we are related now in more then just mind."
"What do you mean?" He was surprised when the blonde bowed to him in apology "I apologize for my behavior, Kakashi Hatake, I should have seeked permission first."
The silverette looked confused "why?"
"I looked into your memories seeking the information we sought." The cyclops looked concerned and alarmed "what did you see?"
"I sought only the knowledge you gained from the books, nothing more. Rest assured, anything else is yours to keep." The silver haired scarecrow relaxed "thank you for respecting my privacy. Did you find what we needed?"
"I did indeed. Aleesa Dragonseeker and Korbin Justicano. Justicano is my best friends line-of which he and his sister are the last. I just confirmed with him the existence of a great uncle by that name."
"So you truly are of Dragonseeker ancestry, or at least half." Tsunade frowned "why is it so important he is one?"
Kakashi spoke, answering himself "the Dragonseeker's are a powerful and ancient line, lady Hokage, similar to the Uchiha. They were known as seerers, as powerful mages, and not one ever went vampire or betrayed their people. If his father's side has mage blood in him, he's all the more powerful now, especially since he was brought across by one AND has it in his ancestry. I don't know about the other line, but Hidden Leaf would benefit greatly from having a clan with his abilities located here."
Tsunade frowned "what about any others?" she looked at Naruto "how many Dragonseeker's are there?"
"Pure blood there is one left, my Grand uncle Dominic. Half blood is my great aunts. THEY brought my father across even though he was only part. When they did he was full Carpathian. My father's twin was brought into HIS family by HER lifemate. Then there is my father's daughter's through possession."
"So not many of you left" the woman said softly, thoughtfully, only for Kakashi to interrupt her thoughts "may I remind you, Lady Hokage, that YOU share the same ancestry, as do many in Hidden Leaf."
The blonde froze "what do you mean?"
"Lady Hokage's grandmother was Uzumaki. And many families in Kohona have at one time or another had an Uzumaki in their line-our villages WERE allies" he pointed to the red whirl patch on his sleeve "this is THEIR symbol. Only the major clans have never.....introduced their bloodlines into them."
"That would explain all the compatible women in your village" he murmured "their blood must be stronger than the others."
Kakashi nodded "I wouldn't be surprised, it would make them compatible with Carpathian men. Tell me, is TSUNADE-hime one of those? What about Shizune?"
Naruto nodded "BOTH are" he looked at the other blonde "YOU are lit up so strongly it almost blinds me. Either your lifemate is near and your blood is reacting to it....."
"Or it's a sign her Uzumaki blood is dominant in her, at least right now" Kakashi finished.
The blonde Carpathian nodded "where is this village located? I should go see them, they may have females we can find. Also I should see if they have knowledge of their ancestry."
Both ninja exchanged looks.
He narrowed his eyes "what is it?"
"The village no longer exists and there are only a few Uzumaki left scattered around the nations. As a clan they no longer exist."
His eyes narrowed and a dangerous aura surrounded him as he spoke slowly, evenly, giving the two the impression of clenched teeth "what happened?"
"The Uzumaki's were always known for their longer life-span, more vitality and skill with seals and creating them. Around the time of my grandfather a few of the villages began to fear them. They banded together and attacked them, destroying the village and almost wiping out the entire clan. By the time my grandfather found out and tried to help, it was too late. The only ones to survive were either on missions or out of the village at the time. Even now we have no idea who or how many are still alive."
"Where is the remains of their village located?"
"Why?"
"I wish to see it for myself. There may be clues there on Aleesa and her lifemate I can use in researching what happened."
"They are dead and even IF they are the origin of the Uzumaki line, what does it change now?"
"ALL Carpathians care for each other. We may have different familial lines, but our connection to each other through our prince makes us family, no matter where they came from. Besides, I'm sure my Grand uncle would like to know about his missing or unknown relative."
Kakashi spoke "I know where the village remains are. After Kushina-san let me read those journals I became obsessed with finding it. Minato-sensai got me assigned to a mission nearby so I could go there. After he became Hokage he gave me permission to spend a week of leave to go stay and fully explore. I found a few items I gave to Kushina-san but I can not only take you there, but show you where I found them."
His eyes narrowed "what sort of items? Where are they currently?"
"They LOOKED like simple trinkets, some small things like jewellery, but Minato probably locked them away in the clan-compound with everything else they owned that night. After Kushina-san got pregnant to him he insisted she move in with him into his clan compound out of her apartment because it's covered in protective seals and powerful jutsu's. It was one area the nine-tailed couldn't destroy that night, though he tried."
"So I would need to be acknowledged as the Namikaze heir to enter."
Kakashi shook his head "I don't know how that would work. The wards are keyed in to accept only those of your father's line. You are fully Dragonseeker now, even if you were able to enter before, NOW you are pure Uzumaki. I don't think Minato would have been able to key it to a pure blood since there is none of your line from before left."
Tsunade frowned, concerned "so the clan compound may be completely inaccessible to everyone now. Even if we announced Naruto's return and reinstated him as the last of both lines publicly, he can't claim the lands and property as his heritage" she looked thoughtful "I will summon Jiriaya back to look at these seals and wards, he taught Minato-bõ, he may know how to get around it."
Naruto spoke himself, looking at Kakashi "can YOU enter?"
The scarecrow looked thoughtful "I could when they were alive, I have no idea if I can anymore. We COULD try...."
"Not now" Naruto said "you need to recover your health and I need to take care of this issue with my lifemates clan. I promised my lifemate I would NOT control her clan's minds or force their compliance in that way, but this has gone on long enough. There will be no more delays in our joining in the human way."
"Just don't kill anyone" Tsunade growled "and on my end I'll get you reinstated as Naruto UzumakiNamikaze and your heritage, including all scrolls and money."
"If you wish" he seemed amused by this "at least my lifemate will be able to make use of the scrolls."
Tsunade looked alarmed "you are going to give scrolls on Namikaze family jutsu's to an Hyuuga!"
His look at her made her back up a little in defense "what use are they to me? I can not use chakra so they do not matter. And in case you forgot, human, she is my lifemate and in your eyes married to me, meaning entitled to everything I have and more."
"He has a point, Lady Hokage" Kakashi said "and she will need to know any of them so someone can teach their kids-if she was to conceive before he brings her across. If he doesn't wait someone else will have to teach them these things."
"Just....don't give them too anyone else then. The Hyuuga's are arrogant enough, they don't need the forth and the last Uzumaki's jutsu's in their arsenal as well."
"May I remind you that anything learned or heard under YOUR command supersedes clan law" the other blonde grunted "as in the case of mission information or things learned from the Hokage his or herself. If you were to give these jutsu's to my lifemates cousin and tell him to learn them so he can train our children-not that I plan on MY offspring being turned into your weapons-then anything he reads or learns through them CAN NOT be taught to any of their clan. It is an member-specified order and jutsu. Legally the Hyuuga can not force him to teach or reveal it to another. If they try they are breaking a law of the Hokage AND village and are therefore open to YOUR punishment."
She blinked at him "how do you know that? I didn't even know that!" He blinked back "I studied all I could find on your village and IN your village. Those laws are in your library for all to read."
The woman sweat-dropped. "I have to constantly remind myself you are NOT the Naruto we knew. He would never have been caught studying unless Iruka bribed him. Even then he would have found some way to get out of it" she muttered.
"It seemed it was only the reading he had trouble with" Kakashi said "he had no trouble learning new things. He was constantly bugging all us adults to learn new things, be it jutsu or 'a cool new move'. Half the reason he went with Jiriaya-sama was not his own protection but to learn the Rasegan."
"Rasegan?"
"An level A rank wind attack which involves compressing air into a tight circular motion with all the destructive power of a tornado" Tsunade said "essentially an twister the size and shape of a small ball."
"Sounds fascinating, and did he teach......me this?"
"I never saw it since Naruto went on THAT mission not long after returning, but Jariaya claimed he did and apparently he was boasting about it to his fellow ex-classmates."
Kakashi raised one hand and something baseball sized and shaped appeared on his palm, spinning madly "I had enough time to copy it with the sharingan before he left."
The blonde studied it for a second then raised his own hand with an identical item in it, only larger-about the size of an cantaloupe. They goggled at it as the one in the cyclops' hand dispersed.
"How did you.....?"
"I thought you didn't remember!"
He snorted "I am a child of Mother Nature as well as a Carpathian. Controlling all six elements is no trouble. Tell me, if we can command storms and lightening, why would this be any difference?"
"He's right" Kakashi said "Think about it, storms would be a combination of wind, water, fire AND lightening."
"How do you figure? Fire? Wind?"
"In order to create clouds you need superheated water. Wind to manipulate the clouds and lightening to energize the entire thing."
She hesitated then nodded. Then something occurred to her and she looked at him "FIVE elements? What is the sixth?"
Kakashi had caught that as well "wind, water, fire, Earth and lightening-or electricity. There is a sixth?" His eyes suddenly widened "do you mean....NATURE? Like with chakra energy and the sages?"
He cocked his head at him "all five of those elements are part of nature energy. What makes you think the last is that?"
They hesitated then nodded "so what IS the sixth element?"
He grinned, startling them and reminding them of his previous personality. It also warmed them, knowing the boy they all loved or deeply cared for was still there.
Before they could speak he had suddenly cocked his head and seemed to be listening to something. They waited for him to come out of it before asking him "what is it?"
"A message from my friend Byron, he is the last male Justicano. I asked him to report to the Prince on the going on here and the fact a lot of your women are lifemates."
"And?"
"The Prince is pleased I found my lifemate and that I have located AT LEAST five other women for our males. He is interested in coming here to form an alliance, however we can not risk him."
"What do you mean?"
"If the gate should close while he is here it would cut us off from him. This would devastate and kill our race. Added to this it would give the Vampires an opportunity to try and kill him. Lately the prince has had to be hidden as the Vampires seem more than a little desperate to kill him, sacrificing everything just for a shot at him.
Normally Gregori his second-in-command and son-in-law would take his place, but he has the twins to worry about. He is our people's greatest healer, to loose him would be just as bad as loosing the prince. The princes brother is also unable-with his lifemate and son, being as he is."
"What do you mean by that?"
"The princes brother was betrayed by one of us-who had turned vampire. He injured him and then gave him to humans to be tortured. Even now he has....difficulty around large groups."
They understood this. Ninja didn't exactly have an easy time and many ended up traumatized by their life, either 'retired', burnt out, or dying in battle. The lucky few who missed the really....bad missions could never truly appreciate what they had, how lucky they were.
BOTH ninja had lived through war and loosing those they cared for, they could understand being unable to be around others-especially strangers.
"So who did they decide on to send?"
"That is what they are organizing now. My sister and brother-in-law volunteered, but father and mother denied them, so did one of the grand aunts, but her knowledge on Xavier and his brothers is needed there" he cocked his head then looked at them "it seems that both Gary Jansen and Josef are speaking to the prince now. Both are unmated males, Gary was a human male close friend of the healer and turned to save his life, he is now part of the healers family. Josef is, in a way, my nephew."
"Nephew?"
He nodded "his mother when he was born was unable to handle the world outside her head and so my brother-kin Byron's sister took him in with her lifemate and raised him. Byron and I have been like brothers since we met, even his lifemates family accepted me, which I am told never happens with them and outsiders. Her clan is very powerful, they have money, influence and an powerful lineage.
Byron is a Gem Caller like me-he trained me-and can make jewellery sought by celebrities, politicians, rich people and the like. His lifemate Antonia is an pianist in high demand for her talent around the world.
Vlad, Josef's adopted father and Byron's sisters lifemate is a well-known and sought after sculptor.
They have another son together, but I think Josef hopes to find his lifemate here."
"So this Byron and his sister are the last of the Justicano line, the.....husband of the woman who started the Uzumaki line with their daughter. The other half is your fathers, Dragonseeker."
He nodded.
"The other volunteer is an man once human but turned into a Carpathian after the healer of your race turned him to save his life since they were friends-now he's part of their clan."
He nodded again.
"And these two unmated males are volunteering to be the emissaries here from your prince."
"Correct. Both are unmated males, it is possible their mates are here, among the females of this village. It is possible they are somewhere else, another village perhaps."
The blonde woman frowned at this "if the lifemate of an Carpathian male is in another village, what happens? Will he fight against us or other villages for them?"
He shook his head "No, he would stay out of it. If you were trying to invade them or threatened him or his own, that would be another matter."
"Tsunade-sama I have an theory" Shizune spoke out, looking thoughtful "I don't think another village would apply."
They looked at her "why?"
"Bloodlines." Tsunade frowned at her "what about them?"
"Hidden Leaf not only has Uzumaki blood throughout it, it also has the most clans with bloodline abilities since the massacre of them many years ago. What if bloodline abilities were the result of Uzumaki blood being closer to the original-or even the result of Carpathian blood mixed with the chakra of a ninja? We don't know exactly how long ago the girl and her ninja mate was" she looked at Naruto "you said your kind were children until they reached 250. Is it possible the child brought her mate across then, but before then their children were gifted?"
He thought about it "if the daughter was born here, the earth here is clean of all contamination by the Mage, 250 years of untainted earth may have ensured the females children-half-breed or not-survived, leading to multiple children while she and her lifemate lived. Those children could have moved on themselves to various places around the land over time, leading to breeding with particularly strong genes with ninja which, logically, lead to what you call bloodlines."
Kakashi's eyes widened "so you're saying you think our bloodline abilities are because they are also descended from this child, only an indirect line unlike the Uzumaki. That the massacre of both those with bloodlines and the Uzumaki could be connected. Perhaps someone in the Elemental nations knows about this-or at least suspects something and did something to try and completely wipe them out? It could be that since Hidden Leaf accepts and welcomes bloodlines and the Uzumaki, they haven't been able to fully wipe them out." Something suddenly occurred to him and his one visible eye widened on his leader "hokage?!"
She nodded "I just thought of that as well. It explains a few things if it's true."
Shizune looked confused "lady Tsunade?"
The blonde woman turned on her "it explains so much, just think about it. The sudden massacre of Whirlpool and it's people, the hunt down of those with Bloodlines, even the murder of our ninja with such abilities on missions!" The other woman's eyes widened but she was going on "there is also Fugaku's sudden belief in their superiority and right to rule and the planned coup! If that civil war happened then many in Hidden Leaf would be murdered, both Uchiha AND others in the village. And not many know that we found records in the Uchiha clan grounds that their first targets were those with bloodlines, including Naruto himself!"
Shizune looked stunned "so the Uchiha are responsible for the decimation of the bloodlines?"
"No, I'm saying someone manipulated them into wiping themselves out. Whether it was through civil war or what actually happened, another bloodline is almost gone."
"Wait" Kakashi said "sensei said something to me the night of the Kyuubi's attack, about a man in an mask. He said he had only one eye visible and the mask was a white spiral. He said he took Naruto from him and threatened to kill him if he didn't let him take the nine tailed. He said that night was his fault and he was going to 'save' us all. What if the entire point of the foxes attack was just that, murder as many bloodlines in the village as possible."
"This awakens the thought of an possible explanation" Naruto said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully "if someone here knows of Carpathians and lifemates and the history of the the Uzumaki, perhaps through these diaries, they may be working to destroy any chance of lifemates being born or conceived. This is something an Vampire would conceive of. Or even a so-called Vampire Hunter."
Tsunade looked alarmed "how could a Vampire be here?!"
He continued looking thoughtful "if this started before the night of my birth, before the bloodline massacres, it didn't come though the portal when I did, meaning it was either with or followed the female when SHE arrived, or....."
"Or?"
"He also is a descendant of the female, who turned."
Stunned silence for a few seconds before Kakashi breathed what they all were thinking "a Vampire Uzumaki."
He nodded "it is entirely possible he has no idea what is happening on the other side of the portal, so has nothing to do with my so-called uncles and the Xavier triplets plots. It many be that he is acting out of paranoia, killing off the bloodlines to destroy potential mates, just in case another is born who becomes Carpathian. If there is no more in the line and no potential mates for them, there is no one to stop and destroy him."
"Like you" Tsunade said and he nodded "I have faced and destroyed Vampires before, I would definitely be a threat to him-if I was aware of him."
Tsunade frowned "in a round about way, his actions actually ensured another who could destroy him, think about it. If it wasn't for the nine-tailed being sealed in you that night, you probably would have grown up normal, no knowledge of the portal, a normal ninja and probably thinking those diaries were just stories or legends."
"I think you are right" he looked disturbed, like the thought of never becoming what he was scared him.
When Kakashi's head started to droop, Tsunade straightened "it is time you went back to sleep, you still have a lot of rest needed if you want to renew your chakra" she motioned the other blonde and her student to leave with her, frowning at Naruto "we still have a lot to discuss, you have an clan to see about your lifemate and a Vampire to find."
The two nodded and started to leave with her when the silver cyclops called out to him "WAIT!" When he stopped and looked back the man sighed softly "when you can, come back and see me. I....I want to get to know the new you."
He hesitated then nodded before all three were gone.
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