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Spectral Ninja	By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 15262 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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“Um, but father, how are we gonna explain what happened to me and how you look so different to anyone else, I don’t want people to hurt you because they think you’re a demon, like they did me” Naruto mused in quiet pain, causing Kain to wince in anger at his new child’s torment.

“Don’t worry about that, Naruto. We’ll tell your grandpa the truth, but to the rest of the village, I will be an rich noble who adopted you. I found, during my youth and motral years that money can buy almost anything. However in our home, We will be who we really are.”

Naruto frowned “We have to hide who and what we really are?”

Kain nodded “I know you don’t wish to, my child, but think of it this way, a game. How many can you fool and for how long?”

Kyuubi joined in on this “foxes are tricksters. If you can fool the humans around you, that will be you being more like me as my niisan and it’ll be a fun game hey don’t you think Raziel?”

“Of course” the spirit laughed “think of it as a fun game, Naruto. The longer you fool everyone, the more fox-like you will be.” He was still a child after all, despite what he’d been through, he would accept it better if he thought it was a game.

Naruto grinned widely and the two souls and one vampire were instantly enchanted by the innocence and beauty of that smile “OK!” He suddenly frowned “how are you going to disguise yourself as an nobleman, and don’t you need money to do that?”

“Of course, my son, but I found that all the gold and jewels my children left in my crypt with me after I slept long ago will give us plenty of money and lend to the illusion. And only I and Raziel know where it is located, so it won’t be stolen. As for the disguise, watch this” he stopped Naruto and raised his arms, calling out a power NOT chakra.

Once the light had faded an handsome noble-looking black haired man stood there, the spitting image of Kain as an human, but infinitely more handsome, he would have all the females of the village swooning just at the look of him. “Or I have this one” there was another flash and the same person stood there, only a lot plainer-like a farmer or even just a normal villager.

“That is...” Naruto stood there, stunned before a sudden grin broke out on his face and he exclaimed “THAT IS SO COOL!” he started dancing around the disguised vampire, reaching out to touch the clothes and skin he could see “can I learn that?! Can I do that?! How do you DO that?!”

Kain was amused by his new son’s excitement “it is an vampire spell. I don’t know if you’d be able to learn it, Raziel never displayed it as a talent, or even tried, so we will have to find out later, when we are settled in and you are training. For now, let’s move on.” The spell faded and they started walking again.

Soon Naruto became tired and ended up in Kains arms, slowly nodding off. As they had reached the sight of the gates Kain used his spell, Looking down at the almost asleep boy, “Raziel, if you can hear me, tell Kyuubi to enact the spell now for the disguise. We are close to the gates.”

Naruto stirred if poked and slowly opened his eyes, looking up at the vampire blearily “father?”

“We are just outside the gates. Get the spell from Kyuubi.”

Sleepily he nodded and cocked his head, listening to his ‘Neesin's’ words. After a long pause he flashed through hand signs, there was a flash of chakra and Naruto-the Naruto from before Raziel and Kain was standing there. Taking his son’s hand Kain lead him slowly towards the gate.

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“Halt! State your business!!” the voice cried from the top of the high wall.

“My name is Kain, I am an nobleman from a far land. I am returning this child to his village after he befriended my dead son and am seeking to do business here, as well as adopt him as my heir.”

“The demon” the figure snarled, “you may not know this but...”

Kain was pissed at this obvious show of hated for his son, so he used his Jump ability to get up to him on the wall, then misted his form up to him, pressing his face violently to the mans. “I know all about the truth of this child. You are a fool, I have seen and fought true demons, true evil and survived and he is NOT one and if I hear you call him that again, you will not even see me move when I slit your throat.”

Just as fast he was back by Naruto’s side and calm while he called up firmly “I have many riches and have decided to settle HERE with my money and fortune. I am also a seasoned soldier and have various skills and abilities any village would be happy to take advantage of. However if you don’t need me and what I can bring to the village then perhaps I should take my child and find another village who would benefit from my presence he looked down at Naruto “come, my son, let’s try somewhere else. Perhaps the nearest village will like my money better.”

To Naruto he whispered "watch this, all humans act the same" he took Naruto's hand again, turned, and started to walk away.

The ninja on the gate was unsure if he had imagined the threat or not, it had all happened so fast, even though the result was real, he was shaking almost violently where he stood. However when his muddled mind finally took in those OTHER words....

The demon had had befriended a rich man's dead son and persuaded his father to settle in the village? With all his.....Wait! He was leaving! If he didn't stop him the village council would have his hide, while the Hokage would kill him for letting someone leave with the demon without his consent! It may solve problems in the village if someone left with the demon, but if he brought money to the village...and not just that it was a danger to the village if someone learned how to manipulate the demon into attacking again. Especially after the way THEY had all treated it!

He had to stop him! If he didn't he was dead! If the council didn't kill him, the Hokage would!

"Wait!" he cried, just in time to see the handsome man leading the demon back towards the trees and almost out of sight "wait! Kain-san, wait! I apologise just don't leave! Sir at least wait to talk to the Hokage before you decided to leave or not!"

With a smirk at Naruto the vampire slowly turned around, eyeing the ninja guard “I have no patience for those underlings who not only do NOT know the difference between an child and demon but feel he has the right to defy the village laws-yes I know about your Third’s law and your villagers thinking you’re smart enough to defy it behind scenes. Be warned, if ANY of you dare make a move against my son while he is mine, you will be met with retaliation. For my business and service to your village ALL abuse and mistreatment stops. The minute someone does so, we move to another more...humane village and you will have to contend with us as competition.”

“Just wait there Kain-san, please, I’ll get the Hokage here and you can talk to him about everything” he looked down at Naruto “I’m...sorry, I...didn’t mean to upset you at any time.”

“Call him but name” Kain said firmly.

“What?” the ninja’s head snapped back to him.

“If you are really sorry for your behavior and mean to improve, you should be able speak to him by name.”

The Hidden Leaf ninja licked his lips nervously his eyes flickering between Naruto and Kain.

“Be warned now, if you don’t we leave, right now” Kain said seriously, “so think about it for a minute.”

“I...” the figure looked panicked “I....”

“You don’t KNOW his name, do you!?” This angered Kain more “you never even bothered!”

“I....”

Kain snorted in disgust “we are out of here. Come NARUTO” he purposely used the boys name as he took his hand and walked away. Naruto went to protest but Raziel whispered in his head “trust father, Naruto.”

Naruto nodded and followed his new father, ignoring the spluttered desperate calls from the ninja and he suddenly found his hearing more acute, allowing for him to hear the ninja cursing and turn to his radio, calling for the Hokage to come to the front gates IMMEDIATELY, it had to do with the...He seemed to stumble here as if afraid to upset Kain more...Uzumaki child.

They were only about three minutes into the trees when a flash appeared in front of them, surrounded by uniformed men and women wearing animal masks. Kain tensed and swept Naruto behind him, about to mist when another figure appeared, landing between the front masked people and Kain himself.

“Grandpa!” Naruto ran to the bearded figure “grandpa, come meet my new father!” He then took the older man’s hand and dragged him towards the disguised vampire. “Hokage...” one of the masked figures started to protest but the grey bearded man just waved the protests away “stand down captain.”

“But sir...”

“I am in no danger here Captain, stand down all of you.”

“Yes sir” all the masked men and women slowly relaxed, but Kain could tell they were still on guard.

Naruto reached his side again, letting go to take Kain’s again “This is my new Chichi, grandpa, his name is Kain and he’s gonna adopt me and live in the village with me and be an ninja for the leaf village! Can he come in, grandpa, huh, can he? Say he can! Please?!”

The older man smirked indulgently at the boy’s excited ranting, his eyes blinking in surprised when he saw the also amused and gentle caring look the handsome black haired man in rich clothes was wearing while he watched the boy too. Maybe what he was saying WAS real and not the excited babbling of a child.

The elder Hokage waited until he had the others attention before he asked firmly “is this true?”

Kain nodded “it is.”

“And why would you adopt a child you barely know?”

“My son knew him, they made friends. When he told me of this child’s suffering at the hands of those he should be able to trust unquestioningly I decided to take him in and make him mine, to GIVE him that life he SHOULD have had.”

“And where is your son now?”

“He no longer resides on this plain.” Which was true, but he knew they would take it as meaning something else.

A few whispers among the masked figures started and Kain glared at them “no he had nothing to do with that.”

“How do you know?” One asked.

“Before I lost him my son gifted me with the ability to see into the spectral realm, the place where all souls go when they die, no exceptions. Even now whenever I wish I can see and speak to him” which was a half lie.

“He’s here now?” another asked “where?”

“With Naruto” the truth this time, just not all of it “he’s always with Naruto now, he cares for him deeply. He is his brother now.”

The elder man looked to Naruto for conformation and the boy grinned and nodded “he IS grandpa, he gave me his chakra and abilities! Once father teachers me I will be able to do everything he can and did!”

The group stated to whisper about the ‘demon’ manipulating the son of a great nobleman for his chakra and abilities, but Kain glared at them “that is impossible.”

“Why so? He is a demon...” he never finished his sentence as Kain suddenly misted, threw him back with a blow across the face and was back at Naruto’s side before anyone had even seen him move. “NEVER talk about him with such contempt in my presence again! You know NOTHING of what you speak of!!”

“How can YOU say that! You didn’t have to fight a demon killing your entire team before your eyes! You didn’t...why are you grinning?!”

“There you are wrong, fool. I have fought and killed hundreds of demons in my...life. Numerous demons have fallen at my sword and I KNOW the difference. And this child definitely is NOT a demon, even part of one. Even if he was one, my son would know also, not just by his own demon hunting experience but he had THE SIGHT.”

“What sight?”

“To see though any type of deceit or manipulation, any illusion or spell, any lie” this even Naruto knew through Raziel was a lie, at least until the end when he was purified, but Raziel told him not to speak about that. “And I told you, Raziel gave me his sight.”

“So” the old man said “if Naruto was really a demon in disguise or even partly demon, your son-then you would have known and as a demon hunter you would have slayed him, not taken him in as yours, or your son would have before you.”

“Exactly” Kain nodded.

“Kitsune are tricksters, HE could have fooled you both” one of the figures whispered but Kain glared at him “NOT POSSIBLE.”

“He could” the other insisted but Kain glared, locking eyes, firmly saying “NOT POSSIBLE” again.

“He...” Kain glared, killer intent leaking to the other “are you doubting the power of my bloodline!!”

“N...n...no” the masked man stuttered weakly.

Kain nodded “good” he turned to the old man again “your gate guard called you out here, did he give you my message?”

“You will bring your business, riches and bloodline and various abilities to the village in exchange for adopting Naruto and the cease of any and all abuse and mistreatment of him. The minute that part is denied, you will take Naruto and leave the village for another.”

“Why would we possibly stop for you? What would we gain from the...boy” the speaker in a mask obviously changed his sentence halfway through, his silver hair peaking out from behind him.

“When my son went to the spectral realm he merged his soul to Naruto’s, gifting him not only with whatever his own abilities would be but my son’s. Not only will he watch over my son but teach him everything he knows and can do.”

“How did he...?”

“Through a sword, an ancient sword created by one of our most skilled sword smiths centuries ago. My son bonded to the sword, his soul resided in it when he died and when Naruto weilded it, he bonded to him through the sword. Now Naruto is the next Soul Reaver,” he turned to the boy “Raziel, show them your inheritance to him.”

Naruto nodded, drew himself up fully and the ‘spell’ faded, revealing the new boy and even the orange red glow of the Fire Soul Reaver sword. The crowd gasped in horror and shock, backing up and away from them, the old man however not moving “I assume the Soul Reaver is that insubstantial blade in his hand?”

Kain nodded, nodding to Naruto who, after spinning the blade around to show it off, drew it back into his body before enacting the spell again.

"What use is a sword that has no solidarity? No physical form?"

"It DOES have a form, just only against those living beings. Every hit, while may not cut or wound, sucks the soul of the enemy and strengthens the host. After only a few blows-even just the lightest of scratches-the enemy is too weak to fight, ready for the finishing blow, a blow no medic or doctor can revive them from. No enemy will be able to take this weapon from him or use it themselves, since it exists only as his soul and part of his body and it will never break or need replacing or sharpening. However because of this, the weapon is last resort. He has other abilities as well from my son and the sword-when he is trained-will do various other things with the energy gained by the souls it absorbs."

"Such as..."

"Those abilities, and mine, are for your Hokage's ears only. That is, of course, if we have a deal."

"Quiet right about the confidentiality of your abilities." The old man took the opportunity to speak "let us return to the village and my office to further discuss this matter."

Kain nodded and returned to Naruto's side. After reenacting the spell disguise over himself Naruto looked at his new father. In a show of love and protection the vampire lifted the five year old into his arms and onto his left hip (I read that for males the left side is a show of unconscious love and desire to protect and guard. I came to watch people in shopping centers, and seeing men walking on their girlfriend'swife's left side while they're pushing the pram, I believe it).

The Hokage asked him, "do you wish to carry him in our mode of transport, Kain-san?"

Kain grinned "I have my own mode of quick transport, thank you. However I can not transport another the same way and would prefer not to let him out of my sight right now."

The Hokage nodded and with the masked men and women surrounding them they made their way towards the village and through the gates.

Even without the sword Kain had used so many years, he was still a formidable opponent. He had his claws, his strength and his vampiric abilities. He could kill even the most skilled opponent and take their weapon from them in seconds, using it to kill the next. He could use his appearance to terrify an enemy and even use his mind to force the most weak-willed, or even some of the strongest minds, to do his bidding.

His Beguile Form-the one he now wore-and the lesser Human Guise used to be weaker than they were now, the spell breaking the minute he attacked or was attacked. However centuries of practice and control had taught him how to keep command over the spell and fight at the same time.

Though why he would want to do so was beyond him, nothing more terrifying that attacking an rich man for his money and finding said man suddenly wasn't a rich man anymore, but an vampire-Kain had found it a good way to weed out his meals from the common humans.

Bit more of a challenge then just those humans he used to see as 'cattle' before Raziel cleared the madness from him with his sacrifice.

At his age Kain no longer needed to feed regularly from human blood anymore, just with injuries and extensive use of his abilitiesspells, however his extremely long sleep had drained him and using his Beguile Form was further draining.

That was part of the reason he had told them he would work for them, this villages enemies would make an ready source of food, more skilled and a challenge then common mortals.

Over the centuries of his existence Kain had been able to strengthen his spells since gaining them. Where once was weakness or drawbacks, the only weakness was his own energy levels, which had also improved immensely since his 'fledgling' day's.

As they walked through the village Kain picked out those who glared at his new son hatefully, or whispered hateful things, taking note of who to look out for and maybe visit later to Mind Control.

He frowned when he noticed something though, something that deserved later investigation.

A young six year old boy in the crowd looked delighted at the sight of his son, mouthing his name and moving towards them, only to be held back by his frowning older brother.

The boy and his brother both had black hair and eyes, pale white skin and wore shirts with a fan of red and white on the back. Two lines came from either side of the older boy's nose between his eyes and out close to the cheeks, Kain seeing it emphasizing the nose size and shape in an appealing way and for just a second Kain was struck with the thought of how handsome he would be as an vampire.

Oddly he reminded Kain of Raziel's vampiric form when Kain first awakened his son as one, only Raziel had had the most enchanting greenhazel eyes of any human he had ever seen, marking him in his land as the foreigner he was. Not just that, Raziel had KEPT his enchanting eyes when he had become vampire, when all of his brothers had had either black or Kains yellow.

They had always captivated him, those innocent, guileless eyes, no matter what Raziel did.

Too bad becoming the Soul Reaver had completely bleached those eyes of all color, but, he supposed, he had only himself to blame for that.

Could the line Raziel had come from centuries ago survived all this time?

"Kain-san?" the Hokage questioned and it was only now that he realized he had stopped and was staring.

"That boy is the spitting image of my Raziel" Kain nodded towards the boy just slightly to get the old mans attention. "Since my son is still here, he is not his reincarnation, so I can only assume his family is descendants of the family my son had outside our land."

The Hokage looked intreged and confused at the same time "you are an Uchiha? And what do you mean by descendants?"

Kain realized what he had said outside the office and snapped on guard again "that can wait. What are the boys names?"

"The oldest is Itachi Uchiha, heir to the Uchiha clan and the youngest is his brother Sasuke. Their clan was slaughtered by an unknown enemy during the Kyuubi attack five years ago and Itachi has been raising his little brother since then by himself. He sold the clan grounds to the Hyuuga and he and his brother live in an separate area where they can get help if they need it-they're still kids after all." He motioned to an tall beautiful brown haired woman beside them, her white eyes locked on Kain in an unnerving way. If it wasn't for their similarities to Raziel's eyes, Kain would have said she was blind.

"Why did his appearance interest you, Kain-san?" the old man asked.

"His little brother's reaction to my son, he was concerned greatly."

"Arh yes. It seems the youngest Uchiha and one other, the younger heir to the Hyuuga have been getting to know the boy, although the way Sasuke and Naruto fight, you would think they were brothers, not Itachi and he."

Kain grinned "yes, Raziel and his brother's were the same way, constantly viaing for my attention, despite that he was the oldest of them all."

"You had more than one? Son's I mean?"

Kain nodded "Raziel, Zephon, Turel, Rahab, Dumah, Melchiah. Raziel was the first and Melchiah was the weakest."

"What happened to them?"

Kain sighed "I wasn't always a good father. I betrayed him once and when he came for revenge, his brother's tried to kill him. He ended up having to kill them to get to me. I couldn't tell him the truth, I was corrupted on my birth by an outside source and was unable, although I tried. When my son gave me his sight and bonded fully to the sword I wielded, he cleared me of both the madness and purified my sight. When Naruto touched the sword while I slept, he awakened my son's spirit and then, after they had got to know each other I awakened and they told me what was going on. Naruto consented to merging with my son I took him as my new child. He has, after all become so after merging with him. The older he gets, the more he'll resemble Raziel in personality and abilities. He won't BECOME him, just both of them in one body."

“And the OTHER?” The Hokage asked curiously but cautiously.

“I know about HER, but she isn’t all she seems. She was being controlled by an Uchiha, it seems and had not only adopted Naruto as her brother but accepted Raziel as her brother as well.”

“HER?!” the old man looked shocked and horrified “it’s a SHE?”

Kain grinned “you were unaware. Yes, HE is a SHE.”

The Hokage sighed as they resumed walking “it seems we have a lot to talk about Kain-san.”

“Indeed” the disguised vampire replied as Naruto’s head dropped to his shoulder, thumb stuck in his mouth as he started to drop off to sleep again, the long day finally catching up to him. They walked the rest of the way to the tower in silence, entering the office, the Third motioning to the masked men away “the content of this meeting will be confidential, call for Yukiko and Itachi, see if Momoko will watch Sasuke.”

“Yes Hokage sir.”

“Yukiko?” Kain questioned.

“One of my few ANBU who likes Naruto. Unfortunately she has a family of her own and is semi-retired. When she’s on duty I charge her with guarding little Naruto.”

“I’m not little” Naruto mumbled from where Kain had moved the boy to his knee, still hugging the disguised vampire.

The Third laughed just enough to be heard but not disturb the boy from his near-asleep state “of course you’re not, Naruto, you’re a big boy now.” The disguised boy nodded listfully as if in agreement but not quiet managing it before he was asleep.

They were silent until two figures turned up, one obviously a woman in the same uniform as the others had been with an owl mask and the other the young man Kain had seen before.

The Third nodded the masked figure to Naruto "take him back to his apartment and wait with him there, Yukiko. This man wishes to adopt Naruto and give him a better life than he has had. Until he is approved though, this time is crucial. Have any other ANBU you trust aid you."

The woman nodded and went to gently take the child, but Kain would not release him just yet. "What do you mean, crucial?"

"Our entrance into the village was hardly secret and once it gets around you wish to adopt him and your son has....bonded with him, any of those who hated him enough to victimize him before will be coming out of the wood-work so to speak just for a final go at him before they think you wil take him supposedly away. This will give us a chance to not only capture them but if you win the approval of both myself and the council to make examples of them to the rest of the village for what will happen if they try to violate the Forths Law, which will be reinforced with further consequences to allow you to...punish any transgressors with our permission. However I don't see the council willingly doing anything to endanger or punish their favorites for anything against Naruto. The bastards see it as keeping him in line."

"The bastards, it is child abuse, nothing more, nothing less." Kain said to which the old man nodded, motioning the young man inside and to close and lock the door.

Kain reluctantly handed his new son over to the woman, after whispering to Raziel and Kyuubi to alert him of any danger and looking at the woman with "when he awakens, tell him I'm in a meeting with his grandpa he'd find boring and will come to him when it's over." The woman nodded and gently carried the child away "I'll play with him if that should happen until then, Kain-san. He likes playing ninja's." Kain nodded, pleased that the human knew how to keep his son happy.

The boy closed and locked the door after she was gone, the old man made another motion and silently the boy started to move around, touching places on the wall, there was a flash of what Kain assumed was this 'chakra' and soon the entire room flashed, Kain hissed at the light hurting his sensitive eyes.

When the light faded he found the boy standing protectively and at attention behind the old man's chair.

"What was that?!" he hissed.

"Itachi is in training to be ANBU. He specializes in stealth and silence. He just surrounded this room in an silence jitsu so no one but us will be privy to this conversation."

"Good" Kain grinned toothily "then I can dispense of this disguise and reveal the real me. Holding this form is using energy and I haven't feed yet since I awoke." Slowly the Beguile Form spell faded, revealing the cloven feet and hands, skin thick like hide-or rather natural Armour, hair long and snow white behind him tied in a single tail, eyes with yellow colored irises and the top canine teeth long and pointed. He wore black leather pants with plate Armour here and there protecting sensitive areas on the legs down to ankles, fingerless gloves over the two clawed fingers and thumb, covered in thick plate Armour, a skin-tight greysilver shirt, a red cloak-type cape over one shoulder, attached at the chest with a swirl designed clasp. On the red cloak was a strange design that resembled an crowned bat. Skin grew up around the sides of his hair, somehow resembling an high pair of bat ears even though his own high pointed ears were behind these, an simple silver hoop earring in his left ear.

Even sitting in the chair he was obviously very tall, under all those armored plates and skin he was obviously very muscular, even more so then the Thirds very son, Asuma, he was obviously some used to heavy labor and skilled sword work.

The boy hissed in anger and fear, pulling a strange type of knife Kain had never seen before, moving protectively in front of the old man who said in a calm voice “stop Itachi.”

The boy spun to look at the man “but Hokage?!”

In a calm level voice the old man said “if he was a threat to me he would have either killed me in the outside of the village or on the walk to the tower, Itachi. On the way to the tower in the crowded streets of the village he could have easily slipped a knife under my ribs and killed me and no one would have been the wiser with the way the crowd was causing a ruckus. He is no threat, at least right now. Isn’t that right, Kain-san?”

“Indeed” the vampire nodded “and please, just call me Kain.”

“Kain then, I am Hiruzen Sarutobi, Third Hokage of Konoha-The Village Hidden In The Leaves. For now you may call me Hiruzen.”

Kain grinned again “formal huh” when the Third just smiled and shrugged, the boy reluctantly putting his weapon away and stood straight and at attention again, Kain smirked “in that case I am Kain, Scion Of Balance, once Bearer of the Soul Reaver, once king now last of the vampires and Slayer of the Hylden and once ruler of Nosgoth. I have many abilities and spells, am nearly immortal and I will work for your village, but only if I can adopt Naruto as my son and the abuse stops, otherwise I take him to another village that will treat him as he disserves” the toothy grin went decidedly evil “I protect what is mine, and with Raziel’s mergence with Naruto, he is my son and therefore mine.” He looked serious again “you tell that to your village, if I am allowed to adopt Naruto-and I better-I will treat those who try to harm him with...lethal consequences. Children are the only exempt, though I have my ways of solving that problem.”

“How much of what you told me was true? How much is not?”

"Most of what I said about Raziel and Naruto is true there were merely...parts I left out. My intentions and feelings were all true. As I said before, there were merely parts I left out. You see, the story of myself and my...children is long and many centuries old."

The Third sat back in his chair and made a motion "then by all means, tell us, we are listening."

"The story begins not with me, but the origin of my race."

"Then by all means, begin there."

Kain nodded then took a deep breath and began.

"At least 200,000 years ago there existed three intelligent races. They were the humans, the Angelic-looking Vampires and the demonic-looking Hylden.

These three races existed in relative harmony, the two more advanced races aiding and guiding humans who, at one time or other, began to idolize the two races.

Then something happened to the angelic vampires."

"What?" they questioned.

"A faction was growing among the angelic vampires, a religious faction. They believed a voice they had been hearing was that of God, the one true God and all should worship him. They claimed he was the one responsible for everything, all life and controlled the 'wheel of fate' where all souls went on death to be purified BY HIM before returning to life, reincarnated."

"That does not sound good." The old man said and Kain nodded. "I assume these Angelic vampires were your ancestors?" Kain grinned "in a manner of speaking, yes."

"Then by all means, continue" the Third motioned.

The vampire obliged "the faction continued to grow, corrupting others until the were a cult, any refusing to change either disappearing or turning up brainwashed, until the entire race were now believers and followers.

With the entire race now under the belief of this God they turned their attention to others. Can you guess who was first?"

"The Hylden" The Third said "it would have been tactically sound. The human already idolized both races, if both worshipped, the humans would have been easy to convince."

"Unfortunately yes. You see the...parasite calling itself 'The Elder God' needed that fanaticism to get stronger, the more beings that die in denial of the truth, blinded by it on the moment of their death, the more powerful he becomes. So you can probably guess what happened when no matter what the vampires said and did, the Hylden refused to conform to their once allies new beliefs."

"War" the Third breathed to which the ancient vampire nodded "indeed. For almost a thousand years the war raged, each new generation brought up in their beliefs as the generation before either died of age or killed on the battle field, each death feeding that despicable parasite."

"No one learned the truth?" Itachi frowned.

"Raziel" Kain said, "and his gift of sight showed me."

"No one else?" Kain shook his head. The Third sighed "most frustrating. What happened to the humans?"

"They began to hate both races, being stuck in the middle of this war. Nothing like finding out your heroes are human after all and as falicable as yourself to disillusion you. They used the advances gained from both races to build boats and ships and tame horses so they could spread out around the planet into hundreds of lands and places, settling down to their own lives."

"Arh" The Third nodded "Man settling the hundreds of lands and the birth of the five nations."

"Six" Kain added "Nosgoth, MY birth land. There is probably hundreds more out there."

Unfazed the Third nodded.

"What happened to the Vampires and Hylden?" the younger man asked.

"The Vampires, using ancient forbidden magic, found a way to get rid of the Hylden, with their gods blessing. They built nine huge pillars, linking it together to create an type of dimensional gateway and commissioned an highly rated and highly skilled human blacksmith to create a sword for them, a special sword that they fused with their spirit, the very power of their being to serve as the key to that gate.

The nine pillars were linked to both the very life of the planet and the existence of nine Vampires, called Guardians, each pillar allowing, in a very symbiotic relationship, that Guardian associated with it, control over the very element."

"What do you mean, symbiotic with their element?"

"Like The Pillar of Dimensions, The Pillar of States, The Pillar of Nature, The Pillar of Energy, The Pillar of The Mind, The Pillar of Death, The Pillar of Time, The Pillar of Conflict. And the last one, the one that maintains the link each has with their pillar, the one who keeps all the others in line and bares the key for the lock, The Pillar of-and guardian-of Balance."

"And you said you were the Scion Of Balance. You are the current Guardian. Shouldn't you be in your land?"

"I shall explain" Kain said to which the Third nodded.

"The Pillars were a giant dimensional gate to another world, the sword, the key. The Vampires used this gate to send all Hylden, warriors, children, babies and even females through to another world, trapping them there forever."

This angered and horrified the Third, it was bad enough to incite an religious war with a race whose only 'crime' was refusal to conform, to you beliefs, but to involve the innocent like children and babies! That was in itself an act of evil fanaticism in his eyes.

"However things didn't go fully as planned." This got their attention "what do you mean?"

"As the Hylden were being pulled into the other world they retaliated, cursing the entire Vampire race."

"What do you mean?"

"They cursed them with impotence, an inability to conceive and birth children, not just that, no longer could they eat and drink like normal people, instead they thirst for blood, blood was the only way to maintain their lives and bodies, not just that but the blood of humans. And one last thing, the worse thing of everything else they could have done to them."

"What?" they asked, thinking what could be worse than having the take human blood to live and being unable to conceive children and continue their line.

"The Vampires discovered over the next hundred so years they were nearly completely immortal, certainly they didn't age and if they DID find a way to kill themselves, they became wraiths, still remaining on this plain, or rather a warped mirror-image."

"I see," The Third said "and that was too horrifying for them."

"Sir?" the younger boy questioned.

"They could no longer die and return to their god to be purified and reborn. The entire bases of their religion was now cut off to them."

Kain nodded "exactly, and no longer able to do so, the 'Elder God' cut off all contact and access with the Vampires and moved to humans.

Over the next hundreds of years or so, unable to take the silence of their god, most of the remaining race killed themselves, including the guardians, however the Vampires discovered they did have ONE way to conceive, as it were. It was unconventional, but it worked. However the results were...unusual." He motioned at himself, the thickness of his skin and the crown of his head.

"And that was..."

"They could turn dead humans into...shadows of themselves, and I mean that literally."

"How so?"

"They place their own blood in the body to reanimate it, and a piece of their own soul in it. The results were different to them and most Vampires born directly from the original race appear more... unusual than any human or true Vampire and any turned by THOSE appear more human than us, but it worked, these new Vampires could continue the race."

"So you were once human?" Kain nodded "the first successful turned Vampire was a human named Vorador, the blacksmith who created that sword to lock the pillar gateway."

"And that sword was the one you son was trapped in, the same one that Naruto handled and awoke him-the Soul Reaver."

"Exactly" Kain nodded "you are smarter than any other human I have met. I think I may enjoy living here if your people are as much of an challenge as you."

"I will take that as a compliment" the Third said "but please, continue, how did YOU come in to this?"

"Without any more Vampires being born and most of the guardians now dead from suicide, the pillars were choosing their own guardians among humans. However they had neither the strength nor the power to maintain the gateway, so out of desperation once new guardians were born, the Vampires that were left would kidnap those children, from families if need be, and raise them not only in all knowledge of what they had to do to control and maintain their pillar, but what they would soon become, turning them into their race once they reached the right age."

This further angered the Third, kidnapping children, sometimes from loving homes, just because they were supposed to maintain an gateway, a problem that the Vampires caused in the first place. Then something occurred to him "that means Raziel and your other sons aren't really your sons."

Kain glared at him "my blood and my soul went in to making them, if that doesn't make them mine, I'd hate to see what humans constitute as sons."

The Third opened his mouth to speak, but then closed it when he realized the mancreature truly believed it, and who was he to step all over that? ESPECIALLY with him so willing to adopt Naruto like he was. Hell it was this belief that was allowing him to see Naruto as his own flesh and blood anyway.

So he changed the subject "YOU were one of these children?"

"No" Kain grinned toothily "that stopped at the generation before mine, when the new human guardians betrayed their masters."

"How so?"

About two hundred and fifty years before my birth, the new generation of guardians were born and taken in by the Vampires left, including the most powerful but gentlest soul of the race, the oldest to survive, a man named Janos Audron. He had been the Guardian of the Soul Reaver for thousands of years-since before the wars-and was the only one not to fight. He may have believed in the 'Elder God' but he didn't believe in what the others had done, though he took his Gaurdian position VERY seriously. He was the one to make Vorador."

"A pacifist?" the Third questioned softly "In a manner of speaking" Kain said "Janos was an smart man, he was a Sage for his time."

This surprised the Third, aware that one of his own ex-students was also a Sage. "What happened with this new generation?"

"The new chosen were corrupted, two in particular, one by 'The Elder God', another was being controlled, on occasion, by the Hylden. Warped by their centuries of imprisonment, the Hylden had become evil, angry, after revenge and wanting to take over the world for their own.

The 'Elder God' convinced Moebius The Timestreamer that the pillars belonged to the humans, that the Vampires were a plague on the face of the planet, so before they can be turned, the guardians of Time and Death lead the others against the Vampires.

Claiming the pillars as their own, the group incited an homicidal hatred of all Vampires, Founding an huge army they called 'The Sarafan' to hunt them down. The names of those six top Sarafan were Raziel, Zephon, Turel, Rahab, Dumah and Melchiah."

"Your sons" the Third was amused.

"Yes" Kain grinned.

"So?" the younger man said.

"Turn your enemy into you allie."

"The irony of it to me was too good to pass. Killed for hunting my kind, only to become the new generation of my children. However I knew Raziel's destiny and was seeking to change it. That doesn't come yet though.

Continuing on....

Soon all but two were left, by the names of Janos Audron and Vorador."

"The Tenth guardian and the creator of the Soul Reaver" The Third understood the tactical advantage of this.

"Yes. You see as an original Vampire, Janos Audron was wingered. That meant..."

"Get up high and stay there" The Third nodded.

"Exactly, and that's why it took so long for them to actually get to him. They eventually killed Janos and took his heart, and in retaliation Vorador attacked the Guardians, killing six of them before they hunted him down as well.

Almost at the same time the guardian of Death, corrupted by the Hylden influence, murdered the guardian of balance, a female named Ariel. With one guardian dead, another was chosen at the moment of her death and his birth."

"You" the Third guessed.

"Yes, unfortunately fate was against me, against all of us."

"What do you mean?"

"At the moment of my birth, Ariel was murdered and I was chosen, at the moment of my first breath, Nupraptor, the guardian of the Mind and Ariel's lover found his loves body. Driven mad by grief, guilt and paranoid delusions of betrayal and hate, Nupraptor went insane.

I told you each pillar was linked to their guardian and each other, can you imagine the effect that madness had on the remaining five guardians, including one newborn baby?"

"By all that's holy" the Third breathed in horror.

Kain nodded and told them about his life growing up as a young noble man, then about his murder, how the guardian of the Death pillar had offered him his revenge and used Janos' heart to resurrect him as a Vampire.

"He had some desperate idea he could redeem himself by 'giving the pillars back to the vampires', but the problem was, in order for the pillars to be fixed, the old generation of guardians had to die in order for the next to take their place, but that included me. As the last vampire, that meant not only did our line cease to exist, but those who ever had any hope of maintaining the gate."

"So it was kill yourself and let the pillars go to a generation of humans too weak to maintain the gate-which would let a race of demon-like beings bent on destroying all life on the planet out and loose, or kill the other guardians and live and be the only being left to try and maintain the gate yourself" the Third supplied to which Kain nodded, "and do not forget, I was not only corrupted by Nupraptor's madness but the pillars were also so."

"Damned if you do, damned if you don't" the younger man breathed.

The Vampire nodded and told them about leading a group of other vampires, some newly made and some made at least a century before in an army and effort to take over and rule the planet, but being stopped at the city called Meridian. The Sarafan Lord-who turned out to be a Hylden free of the pillars. Finding the Vampire Janos inside the machine built to kill the vampires and the following events.

Next raised his six vampire sons and was his using Moebius’ the Time Streamers device to travel through time and see both the future and past including the fate of his favored son, Raziel.

When Raziel evolved-as their race did-to grow the wings similar to the ancient vampires-"I knew the time to save my son from his destined fate was running out. So I made a mistake, in an effort or desperate act to stop it, I threw him into the abyss.”

“Abyss?”

“A place in our world that time stops in. An hole in the world where time has no meaning. There is only one problem with the place, one serious drawback.”

“What?”

“Imagine a place of nothing but pain, a place where time seems to drag on endlessly and forever, then imagine being there for centuries, nothing but endless, endless pain. I thought by cursing Raziel to that place I was actually saving him from his fate, the dark and furious soul trapped in the blade, a spirit so mad and veracious in its insanity it is as if all the evil of the world was contained in one piece of metal for eons.”

“And sending him there didn’t?”

"I know that now, as do you, but remember, I wasn't exactly able to reason properly then. It was all I could think of and I thought at least there he'd be contained and as far away from the blade as possible."

"And he wasn't."

"No. He popped up a few centuries later, a mere shadow of his former self in both mind and body and blazed his way through his brothers in his effort to get to me for what he saw as revenge, killing them a second time and taking there souls to enhance himself.

You see apparently a vampires soul stuck in the Spectral realm too long changes, adapting to, for lack of a better term, eat souls instead of blood. However unlike Raziel those souls are ever trapped there, unable to leave. Somehow Raziel could use the corpse of the long-dead to regenerate his physical body and come back 'to life' as it were.

Maybe it's because his destiny was incomplete, maybe because that parasite of a false god really did bring him out for his own ends, or maybe he was truly the...unique soul I knew he was from the moment I first saw him as a Sarafan."

"What do you mean?"

"While all of us putter around, following our preordained lives, HE had free will, a choice, history and fate moves according to HIS choice of actions. There have been a few people like that, in anyone's history, people who, just by their mere actions, set the course of fate and history a certain way and even some become legends for it. Naruto will be one."

"I know what you mean" the Third motioned at the scrolls around the room, baring the artwork of three different men. "The former Hokages', leaders of our village."

The vampire looked around and frowned "YOU are the Third, that makes four. Why is that?"

"The Forth was Minato Namuzaki" the Third motioned at the picture of the blonde man wearing an long white coat edged in red flame smiling cheekily "he died five years ago when he stopped the Kyuubi from totally destroying this village. When he died, I was asked to come out of retirement until an replacement can be found. I am still here."

Kain was looking at the picture while he said softly "he's Naruto's father, isn't he." The Third frowned, his eyes narrowing in suspicion "I don't know what you mean." The vampire snorted "please, you don't live for centuries-even millennium-without being observant. They are not only the spitting image of each other, but when your five senses are enhanced way past human standards, small nuances are easy to see."

The Third opened his mouth, hesitated then closed it with a sigh “Yes, you’re right.”

“Hokage?” the boy questioned.

The older man looked up at the younger man “this is an SSS class secret, Itachi.”

“Yes Sensai.” the boy said obediently.

“Yes he WAS Minato’s son. However as his son he is prone to all that danger. You see Minato was very skilled and very powerful, not just as Hokage. He was highly skilled and made numerous enemies in and out of the village. If I had of given Naruto his fathers name and not his mothers...”

“Those enemy would come after an helpless child in some sort of revenge” the vampire nodded.

“Exactly. I planned to tell him once he was old enough to take care of himself.”

The vampire made a motion of dismissal “going on...” When the Hokage nodded he continued “I lured Raziel into the past and....” he told them of the next events, leading up to when he met him in a church. “He was mad, obsessed with resurrecting Janos Audron, convinced he was the only one who knew the truth of his destiny. It was then I learned the secret of my resurrection, how I bore The Heart Of Darkness, as Raziel ripped it from my chest.”

“He...” The Third was horrified.

“When I awoke I found myself in the realm of the Hylen. After fighting my way out I made my way towards where Raziel was located.” He told them the rest of the events.

“How did you end up here? With Naruto.”

He told them about how, after destroying the ‘Elder God’ finally he lead the next generation of vampires to destroy the Hylen once and for all. Purified by Raziel’s sacrifice he ruled the land in peace and fairness until the new generation of vampires began getting a bit too egotistic and greedy, dominating humans like cattle, as if they were gods and the humans were scum. “I may have thought that way in the past, when I was tainted, but not after Raziel purified me. They had their chance and when they refused to change-even becoming worse-I had no choice but the hunt them down and destroy them too. Weary, realizing again I was the last I went into torpor (I heard this word on Vampires-The Masquerade and liked it) in my crypt.

When I awoke it was to an five year old boy standing by my stone coffin, glowing with the energy of my son and gripping the crumbling Soul Reaver.”

"Naruto" the Third whispered.

"It seems when he took up the sword, whether out of curiosity or in plans of self defense, the swords long inactivity and 'starvation', as it were, effectively destroyed it. Raziel's soul, once again free of the blade, moved to the nearest vessel. After experiencing the boy's life through his eyes, he was truely angered. One thing you should know about Raziel is he loves children, always has. He was very protective of his 'little brothers' part of the reason it hurt so much when his brothers tried to kill him, I suppose.

So when he saw Naruto's life he told him about his and told him with his consent they could merge souls, it would give Naruto all his abilities and power to protect himself and that he cares about." He looked up at the younger male "by what I witnessed outside that includes yourself and your brother along with the Third here?"

The boy nodded "and the Hyuuga heir and the ANBU Yukiko. Also Ayame and her father at a certain Ramen stand."

The vampire nodded and went on “and when they found HER there as well, she decided to do the same.”

“Yes, you mentioned that before, that HE was a SHE. Naruto told you?”

“Raziel. Even though they are merging, their personalities, currently, are still separate. However the older he gets the more they will become one.”

“And what exactly did he tell you about...HER?”

“Her name is Kyuubi, she is a nine tailed demon fox and she didn’t willingly attack the village, to quote ‘It's all my fault for the villagers cruel treatment of you. If I hadn't let myself be controlled by that miserable Uchiha, you wouldn't have suffered so much!’” He looked up at the boy “which was another reason you both interested me so much.”

The boy seemed stuck between shock at what Kain had said and what the Third had said “sensai?!”

"Yes, Itachi. You see, what most people know about the Forth's sacrifice is incorrect, or at least most of it."

He pulled out a scroll and unraveled it. "What is this?"

"A storage scroll sensei."

"Right, and what does it do?"

"It's used to store supplies or items, either during missions or in general."

The older man picked up an odd paper weight on his desk and placed it over the seal, activating it-ignoring Kains murmur of "fascinating" as the item disappeared.

"Now what is it?"

The black haired boy frowned "an storage scroll with an paper weight in it."

"Are you sure that the paper weight isn't an scroll now?"

"Of course not, Sensei! It's a paper weight! Being stored in a scroll doesn't change....."

"Exactly" the old man interrupted, nodding.

The boy trailed of his words, eyes widening as what he was truly saying hit him. "Naruto. Naruto is the storage scroll and the demon is the paper weight, isn't it."

The Third nodded "the Forth didn't kill it as most people assume. The Kyuubi is a creature of pure chakra, it can't be killed. Instead he contained it. If he had of used some object it would have just broken free and continued it's attack, trapping it in an animal would have just allowed it to take over.

Only an human, with its conscious of will could hold it back, someone who could control it with its own will and the Forth's seal.

However an adult are set in their chakra pathways, such a sudden influx would burn them out instantly, killing them, again allowing the fox freedom.

But a child, or rather a baby, their pathways are only new. As they grow their body would grow around the chakra, even adapting to it. And Minato was the sort to believe 'never ask of another what you aren't willing to sacrifice yourself....'"

"So he sacrificed his own son to it?! I could never...I would never risk Sasuke like that! I couldn't! Look at the way people treat him! And by leaving him alone with no parents to protect and guide him, he effectively ensured his own son would have no reason to ignore the foxes whispers of power and murder! What was he thinking!?"

Kain nodded in total agreement and the Third spoke "he wanted his son to be treated as the hero he was, for sacrificing his youth and future to contain 'the menace' and saving and protecting the village." He sighed "unfortunately despite my making it a law to speak of Naruto's...extra item and harm him, that doesn't mean that parents can't encourage their children to do so, they even persuade and reward their children for being cruel as possible. After all, who would punish a child for being mean, they are just kids."

"I will be solving that myself" Kain said "first with your council, then with the parents." At the Thirds look he shrugged then grinned toothily "don't fear, I will not harm them, only remind them of their place and how to PROPERLY raise a child."

"How do you propose to get through the council?"

Kains grinned widened "they may think they are above it, but all these guys are the same. You are a ninja village, every competing village wants an advantage over the other. My abilities as a vampire and Naruto's with Raziel sharing his will give your village an huge boost over the others."

"What abilities?"

"Myself, mist" his body faded, leaving an fuzzy image which slowly faded back and he went on "teleport" a light gathered between his hands and he disappeared to appear on the other side of the room. Walking back to the chair he continued "however that is only short distances over areas I know. I can jump an long distances, Berserk and Fury are temporary boosters, Fury allows an single strike with all my strength behind it, Berserk allows multiple strikes for a limit of at least five to ten seconds so fast they can't be seen. Charm is I can control those of....lower minds to temporarily do my will. Mind control is a stronger one, meaning they do my will permanently. Spirit Wrack is the ability to force an beings soul from their body and take it over as if my own.

Telekinetics lets me move things I can't touch" he raised a hand and the storage scroll raised into the air, turned, and set back down again.

"Immolate" he raised a hand again and the scroll burst into flames "however that takes more energy than normal. I have two disguises, Human Guise..." the form faded and became and black haired villager, nothing special, certainly no one you'd take notice of in a crowd.

"And Beguile Form" this time he looked like the man they had seen before.

"Wolf form" this time he looked like a combination of wolf and man, kind of like an Inukuza. He turned back, said "bat form". As they watched closely his body broke apart, the room filling with hundreds of bats. They filled the room, flying around them, before massing in a corner and joining to become the vampire again.

"Light, better shade your eyes" they did so and there was a flash of blinding light.

"Energy" crackling electricity arched around his arms. "I can't do Inspire Hate or Blood Gout here, Repel produces an temporary shield around me, Stun uses enough force to, well, stun them.

Sanctuary allows me to return to my crypt.”

“What about your son....Raziel?”

“From what I’ve seen, he climbs walls like a spider, his agility, speed and strength are more than human, he can swim like a fish without needing to breathe, he can phase through grates or gates in the Spectral realm, Telepathy, Telekinesis and Constrict.”

“Constrict?”

“He calls on the ability, runs at high speeds around an enemy and the band of power he produces therefore traps the enemy for an limited time.

The Soul Reaver itself has enhancements of various elements. Fire-he can use the power of the sword to shoot off balls of flame. Darkness-he can wrap himself in a cloak of darkness, making himself invisible to any technology or even human sight. Light-temporary blindness of an enemy, Water-temporary flooding of the area around him, Wind is similar to the force glyph except instead of affecting the entire area around him, he only affects the one area in front of him he concentrates on.

He picked up some Glyphs from ancient times which awared him with various spells. Sunlight, Force, Water, Stone and Sound. Force flings any enemy around him away violently. Stone allows him to create an sudden earthquake to knock his enemy over. Sunlight produces a flash of blinding light, water a wave of water, Sound high pitched noise, and, well you can probably guess the rest.”

The third nodded, “and you said something about a test?”

Kain grinned "I will make a binding contract with them. If we loose, not only will they gain myself and Raziel as warriors for your village, no questions asked and to do whatever they ask, but my riches to do with as they desire."

The Third looked alarmed by this idea "and if you win?"

"Full and unquestioning legal custody of Naruto. Naruto's full inheritance to be transferred to him-not me-upon the moment he is legally 'of age'..." at the Thirds look he smiled "do not worry, I will always protect him. If not me, Raziel and the Kyuubi will." At his relieved look, he went on "ALL abuse and persecution stops, punishable by either myself, yourself or the ANBU, or I am in my rights to take Naruto and leave the village with all my riches and they loose of our abilities and not be considered or accused of being missing nin-with their blessings of course."

"And how will you know they won't find some loophole?" The Third asked to which the vampire snorted "you don't rule your entire birth land for a couple of millenniums without perfecting such skills, ESPECIALLY when you're born aristocrat. Besides, as a sign of trust I was going to allow your office to draw it up."

"You should know the council might demand you be interrogated by the T&I department."

"Well there is a few ways around that" Kain started "one, you provide an transcript of what was said here, with the threat that any such move will mean both Naruto and I disappear in such a way even your hunter-nins won't find us. That means no demon fox vessel, no Raziel and I to use and no riches.”

“Or” the young man spoke out “claim they are Uhicha’s. The way the council fawns over me and Sasuke as the last of a prized line, they wouldn’t dare do anything to upset them.” He looked at the old man “there IS some mention in the records of past Uchiha’s of a son who left to join an war called Raziel. I doubt the council will believe this guy is the same one, or Kain-sama here is immortal. We can say he’s extremely hard to kill. As for his son, we can say that he had records of that Raziel finding a wife and having kids, that his son is the descendant of that one and named after him, that Kain-sama’s wife was his decendant.”

"And the records? How will you explain the fact there are none from Kain's side."

Kain snorted "destroyed in the war with the Hylden" he answered "it's a bit hard to keep such records safe when there is fires and fighting and destruction all around you."

"Or you can keep it as Kain-sama is an ex-nin and last of his bloodline from his land far across the sea, retired to a rich merchant. His son, who is descended from the Uchiha's, traveled here, hoping to establish talks for trading, but was attacked and his men killed. Naruto found him, but not in time to help and he died. When Naruto touched his sword, the sons soul was awoken from the blade where his soul went when it died and they merged.

Kain-sama, worried over his sons silence, came to our land looking and found Naruto, the destroyed sword and his son's body. After a misunderstanding he spoke to his son through Naruto, found out about his history, and with his sons insisting, decided to adopt Naruto."

Kain made a motion "whatever you decide to say I'm sure will be fine...." he suddenly faded off, eyes locked to something beside his chair "Raziel?"

Looking closely the boy and older man were both able to distinguish an figure fade into existence beside the vampires' chair.

Bluegrey skin covered the figure, hands and feet much the same as his "fathers". From the very base of his middle back hung two strips of jaggered skin and flesh, his entire body muscle and sinew, but with no stomach, hips and groin. Yet everything was kept together by the skin, muscles, ligaments and sinew.

For some reason he wore protective armlets of thick leather-like cloth wrapped from his hands all the way up his arms to his mid upper arm, just below the shoulders, as well as shin guards of leather and armor-similar to the ones his "father" wore.

His bottom ribs stood out, almost as if someone had disemboweled him, and they remembered how Kain had told them vampires souls too long in the land of the dead became twisted shadows of their former selves. Why would you need human or vampire digestive or reproductive organs when you no longer reproduced or eat as an living being did?

At least HE was distinguishable as a human or humanoid.

The eyes were solid white, much like the Hyuuga eyes except no iris or pupil was distinguishable, unlike the black circle in an Hyuuga's eyes. The eyes were ringed by thick black areas, making the face appear more sunken in than they were and emphasizing the solid white of his eyes.

The hair was stringy black but cut short similar to Might Gai's, revealing high pointed ears like his 'fathers'.

The strangest thing about the figure though was the strip of brown cloth wrapped around the full shoulders and hanging loosely down the back over one shoulder like a scarf.

The other end was wrapped around most of the figures face, from the nose and cheek bones down, like a certain ANBU Black Ops member, the cloth baring what looked like two reversed fancy half-R symbol in tattered white, upside down-almost coming from the center of each cheek.

The figure glanced at them, looking back to his father and the head cocked slightly sideways.

As they watched, Kain's mouth pursed in an sign of anger and determination and he nodded "return to Naruto, my son. I'm coming."

At first they were confused, the figure hadn't spoken, but then they remembered the last vampire mentioning something called 'the whisper', an telepathic ability between vampires that allowed them to communicate silently between each other and realized that despite what he was now, the once-Uchiha was still basically an vampire soul.

The Soul Reaver looked at them intentely again before fading away into nothing.

Kain immediately rose from his chair.

"Kain-sama?" they questioned. To which he replied "I told Kyuubi and Raziel for one of them to alert me if Naruto is attacked or in imminent danger. For Raziel to arrive personally like he did instead of whispering me means someone has died already."

The Third stood "this is serious. We need to stop it." He looked at the boy with them "Itachi, send my most trusted ANBU to Naruto's apartment, right now. Let them know someone is attacking Naruto and his guardians, all of whom are following my direct orders. Any violation will be severely punished. Kain-sama..."

"I can find my own way" the vampire snorted, his form blurring as it slowly changed color, going almost pitch black.

"But you don't know where...."

Kain snorted again "no matter what he is, Raziel is still my son and part of me is inside him. I can find him anywhere." And before they could speak his form broke up into hundreds of bats, all of which flew out the door when a figure opened it, multiple cries of shock and surprise as well as a few of alarm echoing in the halls until the swarm had reached an open window.

Together the oldest Uchiha and Third Hokage moved out of the building, the Uchiha heir moving off to seek the nearest ANBU while the leader continued on, aware of his guards moving to his side as the heir moved away.

He was almost there by the time ANBU Black Ops joined him with the older Uchiha, when he heard fighting, yelled jitsu's, the sound of kunai against kunai and a dark, almost evil laugh that could only be the vampire himself. The sound sent a shiver down even the Thirds spine and was soon followed by screams of pain and horror followed by a cry of something from Kain.

"What does Vae Victis mean?" One ANBU muttered.

"It doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard before" another murmured "not any jitsu or bloodline before."

"Who you hear is Kain-sama, Naruto's soon-to-be father. He is an extremely powerful being, an ex-ninja and Hokage from a village past the elemental countries." The Third spoke out as they moved "he is the last of his line and kind and has pledged his bloodline and abilities not to mention vast wealth in exchange for Naruto legally as his child."

The group of Black Ops gasped collectively.

"The only condition is that any and all abuse of the child stop." The Third managed to glare at the group without looking "I'm sure I don't need to tell MY ANBU about how we have lost many a great ninja in recent years and need every advantage over the other nations we can get, especially with the loss of the Uchiha clan."

"Hai Hokage" the group chorused.

"So you know what to do" he said firmly.

"Hai Hokage" the group chorused again.

There came those two words again, but this time it was followed by another voice they didn't recognize, steely with determination and anger, younger than the vampires but just as world-weary and baring an accent they didn't recognize.

"Woe be to the conquered."

However instead of out loud like anyone else's voice the Spirit Wraith's voice appeared in their heads, but not just in their heads, it seemed to echo in the air around them, definitely holding the hard edge they'd come to expect from the Uchiha clan.

"Who....?" the same ANBU asked.

The new voice was followed by Kains dark laugh again.

"That must be Raziel" the Third murmured almost to himself before speaking out loud to his men.

"Who you heard just now was Raziel, Kain sama's son. He died long ago in battle, but because of his...unique heritage his spirit can return and fight. He has chosen Naruto to not only be his new family-as Kain sama did-but he uses Naruto as his vessel to our world. Except in battle when someone falls, then he can use their flesh as his own. Apparently his unique heritage gives only he this ability."

"Heritage?"

The older Uchiha spoke "he's half Uchiha, half Kain sama's clan, vampire. The unique combination makes him an entirely new being."

There were collective gasps "UCHICHA!"

"Yes" the boy said "two Uchiha cousins were exiled from the clan for....unseamly and inappropriate behavior with each other. They're entire existence was totally deleted from any record or memory. The two moved to Kain sama's land with his blessing and had a daughter together. She was Raziel's mother, Kain Sama's wife. Her name was Uhma, but don't mention her in front of him, she eventually betrayed him and the memory is painful to him."

"How did she betray him?"

"Their land was being invaded by demons. Kain sama was going to go after the Hylden lord but Uhma felt SHE would be the one to free her people. She took an ancient relic straight from Kain himself and left him with it, an ancient relic that was the only protection against the weapon that the Hylden lord held, the very same ancient powerful weapon that Kain had once held himself before the Hylden lord had taken it from him during a previous battle.

By the time Kain had caught up with her, she was on the verge of death, she died in his arms."

The ANBU understood the sensitivity of this and accepted this. As they reached the apartment block The Third spoke again "Kain and his son, as the last of their clan and kind, when they reached maturity don't just reach sexual maturity, they physically evolve. Both will appear...inhuman, but remember-they are allies."

"Hai Hokage" the group chorused a third time.

The group reached the apartment complex, entering through windows and doors to a terrifying sight.

Bodies littered the apartment, some bloodless, some without any visible mark, some with either kunai wounds or embedded with senbon or shuiken.

Naruto was in the female ANBU's arms in a corner, head buried in her chest to hide from what was happening around him. Two male ANBU stood in front of them, kunai raised in the defensive position, the blades bloody.

Kain and the bluegrey skinned figure were standing in the midst of the attacking ninja's and figures, back to back, Kain with his hands-claws, the other held the same fiery wraith blade Naruto had shown before, raised in the air.

As they watched the insubstantial blade made contact with an attacker, not physically harming him, but all the same he stumbled back, gasping and clutching his chest as if having a heart attack.

If the wraith was hit, there was a brief spurt of BLUE blood and then just as fast it was gone, the flesh healed with the next strike of his weapon.

Itachi spoke, his Sharingan activated "he's absorbing chakra. Somehow that strange blade of his takes a persons chakra with only that split second contact and transfers part of it to him. He could maintain a fight indefinitely as long as any contact was made regularly."

This intrigued The Third as his ANBU lept forward to enter the fray. "Could a persons chakra be what Kain-sama sees as a soul? After all, a persons chakra is the energy and current of a body."

"It could be possible, but Kain sama and this other's body are different to anything I've ever seen before. It's like their dead or their bodies are no longer producing their own chakra. Instead they have became able to absorb anothers chakra. The more chakra they absorb, the stronger they become. It explains why Kain sama drinks human blood, it's used as the physical connection to his victim-like his son uses his wraith blade."

"So these...spells he uses are just signless genjitsu's?"

"It's possible. I mean they were ancient before Kain sama found and used them. He said the Hylden and his kinds ancestors were highly intelligent and advanced, perhaps these 'spells' were genjitsu's they developed without hand signs that only THEY can use."

"And somehow some of those genjitsu's were adapted for human use." The oldest Uchiha nodded.

"Humm" The Third hummed thoughtfully as he stroked his beard, "perhaps he would know, not only of a way to adapt his own abilities to genjitsu's, but a way to discover how to adapt them from vampire to human."

"We may be able to learn variations of SOME, but not most of them. Most of them would require his races particular chakra, only someone who could have an almost limitless amount of chakra, at least temporarily."

"Like Naruto?" The Third looked at the oldest Uchiha.

The boy nodded "perhaps that's what the vampire meant by him training Naruto to use his sons and his abilities. If his son was dead like him when he was reborn as his son, it's possible he inherited his 'spells' through the sharing of his soul and blood."

"Like an keki genki." The Third spoke "he mentioned them sharing the telekinesis, they would also share 'the whisper' ability."

"Imagine a group of Leaf ninja with the ability to use this 'whisper'" the boy said "no more need for hand signs during stealth and assassination missions, no need for radios and no chance of an enemy overhearing orders or conversations between fighters."

"Our ninja would have an distinct advantage over any enemy" The Third rubbed his chin thoughtfully "and Raziel is merging with Naruto. If he gains this ability he can not only communicate with Kain sama without an enemy knowing so, but with his added telepathic ability, possibly his future team and others."

"Hokage sensai?"

"Kain sama told us, Itachi. He said that Raziel uses 'the whisper' with him, but he also has telepathy with others. That was the voice we heard in our heads on the way here."

Itachi realized he was right and nodded in agreement.

There was a sudden roar of "ENOUGH!" and a flash of power from an unusual source.

Naruto.

Taking advantage of the distraction the Third’s ANBU jumped forward, overpowering those left.

Slowly Kain relaxed his stance, followed by the blue skinned figure as his strange weapon disappeared, standing up straight as he turned to look at the Hokage. After a long pause and eying the old man the vampire bowed respectfully followed silently by the other. “Hiruzen-sama.”

The Third knew what Kain was doing here. By using his name, Kain was showing his statue as an ex-ruler and powerful aristocrat, but by bowing and calling him ‘sama’ he was showing his respect and his acquiescence.

“Kain-san” the Third nodded back, showing those around them the respect and acceptance was mutual.

“But Hokage-sama!” one of the men being tied with chakra bonds screamed “they're demons! Just like that other creature!”

Kain struck the man across the face “my sons and I are no more demons than you. Attacking a child, how low can you get.”

“He’s a demon!” the man screamed.

“HE’S A CHILD!” the vampire roared back.

“The demon uses the appearance of a child to fool everyone into THINKING he’s innocent” one of the other men spoke up with “but when it has convinced everyone of it’s innocence it will attack again, killing us all. UNLESS we do something to stop it!”

"You're a bastard!" the woman holding the five year old snarled "not only insulting this poor child but the third and forth as well!"

"Wait" one man blinked in shock at her "we didn't..."

"You guys all profess to love, idolize and admire the forth, but every time you abuse this child you slander and insult him and his name! If I was Minato-san I would not only be disgusted with this village but it's people and I would turn away from it with the knowledge I gave my life to save a bunch of blind bigots!"

"No! He wouldn't! He would be proud...."

"What, proud that a bunch of bigots persecuted a mere child! Proud the child he wanted seen as a hero for holding at bay to save lives the demon you accuse him of being was being treated like crap! Proud those fools don't have any belief or faith in him to know what the hell he was doing when he did it! Proud they didn't once consider that he hadn't done every little thing he could to ensure that the child he loved more than any of you bastards would remain a human child, not become the demon! Or did you think the Forth didn't know what he was doing? Would YOU give you're life if there was even the slimmest chance it wouldn't work??!! No, bastards!!!"

"No! We....he..." some of the men looked shocked at this idea, as if they had never thought about it from that angle before.

"Bunch of morons" the woman huffed, holding the child close, who grinned and hid his face in 'Yikiko-san's' neck.

The Third stepped forward and gave Kain a questioning look who nodded in confirmation. "More so than you know. Only one child was born the night of the Kyuubi attack, only one child with the chakra to possibly contain such a threat...." he nodded to the woman who set up a sound-proof jutsu around her and the boy so he didn't hear, this was something to be told later, when he was old and wise enough to understand. Old enough to be able to claim his inheritance.

The men and even a few women, all tied and in the throes of having their believes fall down around them, looked up at him.

With a motion the Third had the female ANBU move slightly, allowing everyone to see the child "take away the...marks on the cheeks and who is he an spitting miniature image of? Who does he remind you off? Look closely at him."

Silence.

One spoke out slowly "he looks familiar...."

Another's eyes slowly widened and he cried our in horror and disbelief "Hokage, you can't mean..."

"I do" the old man nodded.

"But he never....."

"He did" the old man nodded again.

"But I never heard of him having.....I mean he never....."

"After his actions in The Last Shinobi War, he gained a lot of enemies both inside and outside the village. What kind of life would his child have both here and outside the village if every person with a grudge against his father found out who his parents were? How many enemies out there would either try to kill him or hold him for ransom against the village? So I gave him his mothers last name, it was the only way to keep him safe short of a babysitter ANBU twenty-four-seven. The village can't afford that unfortunately."

This made sense to them, even the ones who didn't know what they were talking about.

"I had no idea HE had a son" the same prisoner murmured softly to himself before looking up at the Hokage with wide eyes "Hokage I'm sorry, so sorry. Punish me, do whatever you have to for me to atone but I want to be his guard, I want to be the one who watches over him, even if I don't get paid."

"What makes you think you will ever get out of prison for your actions? It's bad enough one of my ninja disobeyed my orders, as well as the Forth's Law, but one of my own personal ANBU? You are trained and charged with not only my safety but to obey me unquestioningly. Yet here you are, not only endangering and killing fellow ANBU but the son of your past Hokage. A man you not only admired but worked under yourself mizu."

"I know" the man hung his head in shame "I don't remember how I sunk so low" his head suddenly snapped up, hope in his face "but I can begin to make up for it!"

"What did you have in mind?" The Third frowned.

"Information and proof of those among the village who are working against you to end the child's life. It was the council who spread the story of Naruto-san being the fox when you refused to allow his murder the night the Forth trapped the fox. They thought others would do it for them without their obvious influence. I've been gathering proof since I joined. I have it, and names of most their spies!"

"Tensu NO!" one of the men yelled, only to be silenced by a well-placed senbon needle to the neck. He fell over onto the floor, unconscious.

"Take them to Ibiki" the Hokage motioned to his ANBU "see if he can get anything useful out of them. Leave mizu here, for now."

"Hai Hokage" the group each seized the captive men and women and began to move them away.

"No, damn you, let me GO!" one of the captives refused, struggling violently, eyes locking to the man left, seated calmly and passively in his spot "TRAITOR!!!!"

"No, we are the traitors," the man said firmly "we betrayed everything this village stood for, we betrayed memory and sacrifice of The Forth. I had forgotten that in my pride."

"NO!" before anyone could stop him the ninja had twisted in the ANBU's grip and seized his captures kunai, flinging it straight at the tied man on the floor who's expression was saying "well if I die here and now, my sins will die with me."

They held their breaths in horror.

Seconds before the point could touch there was a blue and black flash. When everything cleared they saw the figure of the vampire's son there, blade embedded in his heart.

Cries of horror started up, the blue-skinned figure looked the man he had saved dead in the eyes seriously for long seconds, then there was a long flash of green and he was gone, completely disappeared without a trace.

"Where'd he go?" the man asked, looking around after having blinked heavily a few times.

“Naruto?” the Third looked to the boy as the shield faded. The boy’s eyes flashed white and he looked at the vampire and giggled, voice deeper and more mature “you looked so funny, father. I would have thought you were used to that by now.”

“It is NOT amusing, Raziel” the vampire said firmly, angrily.

The boy giggled again and blinked, returning to normal.

“He’s fine” the vampire said to the Third “just back with Naruto again.”

“Good” the Third nodded, turning to the tied man “If you have names and proof of guilt we need it right away so we can send it to THE Fire Lord. With his backing we can find those guilty in my ninja and the council and get rid of them. Hopefully replacing them with more...trustworthy people.” he motioned for the remaining ANBU to take him to the tower to be questioned while he turned and motioned the woman and the child with him as he motioned to Kain’s side “now, Kain-sama, I will send for my highest legal mind and we will sit down with him to plan out this contract. Yukiko meanwhile will feed Naruto dinner and put him to bed and sit with him to guard him while he sleeps and us adults...” he smiled at the child “...do adult stuff.”

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