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Naruto frowned as he stared at the wall in front of him. SOMETHING was there, he just knew it he could sense it, but what WAS it? How come he couldn't see it? What could possibly be there? Who or what would put something behind a wall in the base of the very Hokage tower itself?
"Maybe I should shift" he thought "after all, things secret are usually revealed in the Spectral plain."
"You could try" Razeil agreed "that way if it turns out to be nothing, at least you know."
"I doubt it is nothing" Kyuubi said "It would not affect us like this if it was nothing. If you see nothing once shifted it is either not meant for us, or not meant for us NOW."
"But where did it come from? I've walked past this spot a thousand times and never sensed anything unusual. Now all of a sudden, here it is."
"As with the items we all received recently, mayhap conditions were met. Perhaps they are reacting to the items themselves."
Kyuubi had a better idea "or this was another thing on a type of timer, which is why it had activated, but nothing is opened yet. It is in the actual Hokage Tower, I doubt it is built by the Guardians or Vampires-or even Hylden."
"So you think it was created and put here by the First Hokage during its construction? That..... whatever it is was was then hidden by jutsu or seal and only to activate at a certain time or condition and right now it's on the final count down?"
Inside his head he felt more than saw her nod.
"Makes sense I suppose, it might not even be me it's reacting to, any of the ninja in here working, or Baachan herself, or even just one of those ninja here going or returning from a mission. Even an ANBU. It could be anyone."
"True" Razeil said "we will not know that until the time comes. No sense worrying about it now. There is something you are forgetting."
"What?" Razeil sounded amused "you are not alone."
"OH!" Naruto blinked as he turned to his companions who had joined him in entering the tower. Lee looked concerned and confused. Sakura seemed worried while Neji just blinked blankly at him.
They had been called to the Hokage's office for a mission when Naruto had sensed the false wall and stopped dead.
"Naruto, are you back?" Sakura asked softly. "Yeah" he blinked, embarrassed "sorry about that."
"You were staring at that wall for at least twenty minutes" Neji said "I do not see anything unusual about it. Why would you?"
Neji must have used the Byukugen to try and see what he was staring at, Naruto realized, meaning it was protected from such sight, and his own wouldn't work. However he had OTHER ways of seeing.....
But that was not important right now, they had been called for a mission and were already late. "I'll explain later, let's go." He motioned them to move on. Neji frowned at him, the wall, then moved to join his temporary teammates.
They had entered the Hokages chambers, Naruto calling out his customary "hey, baachan!" and narrowly avoiding her paperweight "Baka!"
"What took you so long, I called you half an hour ago!?"
"About that" Naruto grinned as he scratched the back of his head in chagrin, "there is a hidden chamber in the base of the tower and I saw it. At least the door."
"WHAT!!!?" the woman stood up, slapping her hands on the desk "Where?! When!? How?!"
"I don't know, but it's time locked and wasn't left by the Vampires or Hylden, so you don't need to disturb Chichi and Janos. You sent them after the Ghost army that's approaching, didn't you?"
The Fifth frowned "no, they went in search of the other Moon Temples Janos-san knew of, especially when there is a full moon this week. We need all the abilities or powers Kain-san can gain."
Naruto frowned but didn't comment on this "I, I mean WE, think it was left by your grandfather."
Her eyes narrowed "how? Why?"
Sakura and Naruto exchanged looks, which of course Tsunade saw and her eyes narrowed even further, what were they hiding from her? She looked at the other two "out."
"The mission...?" Neji started, but the blonde blew her top "CAN WAIT!!! NOW OUT, NOW!!!"
Reluctantly the two males left the room to wait outside, both curious and concerned for their temporary teammates as to what they did that could make their Hokage so absolutely furious at them. Were they keeping secrets from the village? But that was blasphemous, and they wouldn't do that, would they?
All they heard next was muffled yelling from their new leader, murmurs and sometimes protests from the other two, more yelling until eventually they heard the Fifth call for her assistant, who came a-running. After more muffled talking she left again and was soon followed by their mission companions, Naruto calling back over his shoulder "just promise me you won't disturb anything there. You would understand if you saw the place personally. You would want the place preserved and kept the way it was."
"Just go, baka."
With grumbles the winged and tailed boy and his pale red headed teammate motioned the other two males to follow.
Once a distance, Naruto lead them to his apartment block where he activated privacy seals "okay here's the mission run-down. You all know about the Ghost army approaching, right?” When the others nodded Naruto continued “apparently they are being controlled by a very powerful demon. his soul and body have been separated and sealed in different locations. However SOMEONE or SOMETHING has violated one of the temples and freed his soul and is now trying to reunite the two. Which is WHY the army is headed this way, to try and get the the location of his body and free them. If both were to be combined again it means bad news for ALL the worlds, material and spectral.
We are hired to protect an priestess called Shion. She is going to the location of the body to uses her chakra to ensure it stays locked inside. She has been getting threats and people have been trying to kill her to prevent it, so the evil can escape. We are to protect her and ensure she finishes the job. Baachan chose us for the job. Go get your packs for long missions and anything you think you might need and can carry and meet at the west gates in five minutes." Naruto looked at Neji "YOU will lead this mission, but I have orders to take charge if it comes to it, if Kyuubi or Razeil have better plans."
Knowing that the boys two.....inner companions were centuries old and likely more experienced then them the Hyuga nodded "right" followed by the other two and after Naruto deactivated the seals they all left.
"Got a mission?" said a voice behind him and Hinata walked out, sliding her arms around his waist as she cuddled up to him.
"Yeah" he answered.
"Just promise me you'll be careful" she murmured into his jacket.
He smiled down at her "of course. The guys won't let it go any other way. They said if I have the NERVE to get in too deep, they're gonna drag Shikamaru up off his ass and force him to shadow jump them to my side. After kicking the enemies ass, they'll kick MY ass all the way back to Hidden Leaf."
Hinata laughed against him "Kiba?"
"Nope" Naruto said "Sasuke."
This burst her out laughing "I can imagine. He's ALWAYS been overwhelmingly protective of you and Itachi."
"And without 'Tachi here to try and protect...." he laughed back "and don't forget, YOU are one of those he's always protective of, even from your cousin."
"Don't remind me" she said dryly "there's some things he still won't let me do, even WITH my teammates being people he trusts."
"Even though Choji, Shikamaru, Kiba and Shino are our brothers, the three of us have been together since we could practically walk" Naruto said softly to her "that makes our bond a lot stronger than with them. He knew how fragile you were then and that despite how you've changed and matured over the last few years, you STILL are, just as despite niisan and neesan and chichi, I am alone and even despised by many.
It's an Uchiha trait, to see things in their life as THEIRS, THEIRS to protect, THEIRS to guard. Itachi is the same to Sasuke, but he is more mature and knows when to let go, or at least rely on others to do so. He relies on US, because he knows he can't do it himself. At least not right now."
"I know" Hinata sighed before reluctantly pulling away from him "go get ready. I'll see you when you get back."
Naruto reached out and grabbed her, sweeping her into a long kiss before pulling back and smiling before moving off. He was a little late to meet the others, but the look in his eyes told the others what had happened, so no one protested. They moved off.

Two nights later Naruto grinned as the three enemy tangled with his shadow clones, convinced it was him among them. He was crouched on the roof of one of the buildings with his team, the rest watching with him.
Sakura sweat-dropped “did you have to be so LOUD and obnoxious about it?!”
The winged and tailed boy grinned at her “It got their attention, didn’t it? They aren’t able to get to her while WE track the priestess and protect her.”
“The Priestess is behind a waterfall in the back of the sanctuary” Neji said “with one foe in pursuit.”
“Let’s go!” Lee exclaimed.
“You and Sakura will ‘help’ the clones and clean up here, I will go in alone this time” Neji said “I want to test this enemy, see what he can do.”
“Right” the others said, understanding that the so-called child prodigy wanted to evaluate their opposition by engaging their leader in battle. Naruto however said “I’m going with you. These guys can clean up. If it looks like he’ll get past you, I’ll be there, but only to protect her. Unless you need direct help I’ll leave it to you.”
“Right” the Hyuga said this time.
Naruto watched the Hyuga intercept the enemies attack, Razeil monitoring the other two through their nature link, in case THEY needed help. He needen’t have worried however, not long after BOTH groups engaged the enemy, they suddenly fled. Naruto frowned as he watched them go. When they had first arrived he could have sworn they had demon chakra-or at least an inkling, but it was gone so fast it was ridiculous. Obviously they had somehow been given a sample of demon power-but used it too fast-their bodies unable to maintain it. “Crash and burn” he murmured as they were soon out of sight.
During the journey back to the sanctuary Naruto frowned, his clones were doing something he never suspected. They were taking the dead bodies and cleaning them up, binding wounds, cleaning up blood, removing bloody weapons and from somewhere came the knowledge they were doing it so HE could bring them back. Why were his clones assuming he would bring back every single person who died nobly on a mission? He would have to have a talk to them when they returned, as weird as that sounded.
Naruto couldn’t bring back every single person who died, nobly or otherwise, it would mess with the order of things. Those meant to be reincarnated wouldn’t and it would interfere in the circle of life. As an Guardian of nature’s Balance he shouldn’t do that, he couldn’t do that. Nature was the cycle of life and death, while the spectral realm was the circle of death to life. Both had a set balance and he couldn’t mess with it without repercussions.
For now he would continue to act the part he had given himself outside the village. His father-his REAL father-was the Forth Hokage, too many people might figure it out. If he continued to act the hyperactive knuckleheaded idiot then those possible enemies coming after him would underestimate him.
Hours later they knelt on the floor in front of the daises and waited while the curtain rose.
The young guard with them spoke with reverence and a little awe “behold, Shion, the Priestess of the Land Of Ogres.”
“I am Neji Hyuga. My lady” Neji said as her eyes slowly moved over them ”Captain of the Leaf’s team 7.”
“I am Rock Lee” the green clad ninja saluted.
“Hi” Sakura smiled before introducing herself.
“Naruto Uzumaki, how’s it hangin?!” Naruto said before gaining an elbow to the stomach for his attitude. The night before Naruto had spoke to his team about his act, stating the ‘dumb blonde’ loudmouth act would benefit the team by making it LOOK like they were hampered (or was that helped) by someone so....well he said maybe Sakura should act a little mean to him. When Sakura protested, Naruto pointed out where it would help and that even if she hit him, both she-and him-knew exactly what they could both take and get away with, they HAD trained together both as a team AND as an group.
So the pale red head reluctantly agreed and now they decided was a good time to test it all out.
While he protested and she yelled at him about manners and making them look bad, Neji spoke “we’ve come to escort Lady Shion to the sealing shrine.”
“A lot of lives were lost in the assault last night” the young man with them went on “and just as Lady Shion foretold, Susski was among that number” his voice was sad and soft in the end and they could see the boy cared for the other.
There was a scoff “naturally. But as you can see I still breathe. I’m sure they shoulder no regret” her voice was haunty with self-importance, or was that bitterness?
Naruto immediately felt rage in him, ANOTHER one?! Why did HE always get the messed-up andor self important people? First Inari, then Koyuki, NOW her?!
Before he knew what he had done he had jumped up to her and had gripped the front of her kimono, pulling her up far enough to him so he could snarl at her. He told her those men had died for her and how dare she! She should show them AND their memories a little respect. The next thing he knew he was picking up images from her mind, images of him in his disguise being impaled on some dark energy. He was so shocked, and confused, especially when as it did he FELT.....an definitely familiar energy, that he didn’t protest when the others pulled him away from her, protesting about him ‘manhandling the client.’
He felt his link tremble and knew he was in trouble when eight other simultaneous souls caught it as well.
“Naruto!?” came his families cries of concern and fear.
“I’m fine” he answered back “an image I picked up. Apparently our client can see the future.”
“But...” they tried to protest but Naruto assured them, just in time to hear a whisper directed at him. Still upset about her attitude he mocked her until she nearly screamed at him “you’re going to be pierced through the chest and die very soon!”
Naruto snorted and turned and left, throwing over his shoulder “been there, done that. don’t hold your breath” and was gone, presumably to cool down a bit.
Later on they sat to talk while the forces willing to guard the priestess gathered. Neji looked at Naruto “what did you see?”
“What?” the others looked to the Hyunga “what do you mean?”
“Naruto saw something from the Priestess before he released her before. I asked what he saw.”
The other three looked at the winged and tailed ninja for answers.
“It’s true she saw me being stabbed-by some sort of dark tentacle” he said as he rubbed his chin “however she saw my IN MY DISGUISE, the first flaw in her vision.”
“What else?” Sakura asked curiously.
“She didn’t see the end, my death, ONLY the actual supposed act” he added “I have both Niisan and Neesan, I doubt an simple stab through the chest will suffice.”
“There was something else, something you are not telling us” Neji said “just the vision would not have shocked you so much.”
“When the vision came on I caught a scent, something I have never scented before but Niisan has. If our theories are right, it explains the visions, but raises so many questions.”
“Explain.”
Naruto sighed “it would take too long.”
“We have the time.” The winged and tailed other sighed “alright, sit down.”
Once all three were comfortable Naruto spoke “when she had her vision, I scented another, someone Niisan knew eons ago and we never expected to sent here and now.”
“Who?”
Naruto looked at Lee then Neji “you know about us being the new Guardians and what it entails?” the two nodded. Neji had recently began patching things up with his cousin and in return she was telling him about her life and what was REALLY going on in Hidden Leaf.
“I sensed......how can I put this delicately.....time from her.”
“Time?” the others didn’t understand.
“I know it’s hard to understand, but it’s also hard to explain. As a Balance Guardian I can sense each individual one of us, of the others. We all have our own unique scent is the only way to describe it. With Niisan being an vampire once, his senses evolved to be able to scent others, plus Neesan’s senses as an buji AND animal. Every person in the world has their own unique ‘scent’ to us-be it human or animal. It’s like being able to smell a bloodline but not exactly. One person can smell similar to another-like twins-smelling of their bloodline, like bits of their father’s scent mixed with their mother’s scent making them THEM.”
“Oh I see” Lee said “so you’re saying each person in the world smells different to each other to you. They can smell similar because of shared blood but no two people are alike.”
“Exactly.”
Neji frowned “are you saying that the priestess smells like someone you know? And that there is NO WAY that she could be just related or it a coincidence?” Naruto nodded.
“Who?”
“Moebius The Time Streamer.” Silence before Lee ventured with “who?”
“Moebius The Time Streamer” Naruto repeated “the one corrupted by the Elder God, the one who lead the rebellion against the vampires and incited an genocidal hatred for my grandfather and fathers kind that resulted in the destruction of all but one of each-original and new. Moebius the master manipulator who was nothing but an puppet himself.”
There was a stunned silence before Neji asked "are you implying that Lady Shion, priestess of the Land Of Ogres is actually Moebius The Time Streamer?"
Naruto nodded "either his reincarnation or some sort of direct descendant. If she was his reincarnation it is entirely possible an small inclining of the power he wielded has come with him, hence the ability to see future events, but not prevent them."
Sakura frowned "the guardians could have kids?"
"And there you reach my point of confusion" Naruto nodded to her "it was assumed that they couldn't. I mean the guardians were supposed to be immortal to outside forces, how many kids would they spawn in that period of time? The original guardians could only reproduce by turning others, but the other guardians were human. Moebius himself was more than fifty years old before chichi killed him. Could the new guardians have been the offspring of the old before uncle Vodador killed them? I mean the only ones to survive uncle were Mortanius, Malek and Moebius himself."
"I see your point" Neji said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully "there is many variables here."
Naruto nodded "Aerial the Balance guardian and Nupraptor The Mind guardian were known lovers both inside and outside the circle, just like Hinata and I. It was BECAUSE of their love that the circle was corrupted in the first place."
Neji frowned "you think you and Hinata are possibly THEIR reincarnations? That history will repeat itself if you die?"
"I don't know, but Neesan brought up a few interesting ideas I will need to confirm with grandfather."
"Like what?"
"The possibility that the pillars WEREN'T choosing random people."
"What do you mean?"
"Think about it for a minute. The original vampires would want to ensure the pillars stayed in the hands of those capable of maintaining them. They wouldn't risk some random human-or worse-would inherit the position when one died. What would be the best way for that?"
Neji's white eyes widened "Genetics!"
"Exactly." The other two frowned "what do you mean?"
"I mean before raising the pillars the Original vampires either interbred or bred heavily with humans, ensuring the chosen guardians had others in their lines. When they died-either by suicide because of the curse or murder, the next born into their line were naturally the next guardians, they were genetically able to handle the power."
Sakura's eyes widened as well "so all those stories about the originals kidnapping the new guardians from their families and raising them...."
"They were family anyway, whether they knew it or not."
"It also explains how they KNEW who each of the next was" Sakura said "they probably kept track of each line."
"And how Mortanius knew that father would be capable of becoming vampire with grandfather's heart" Naruto said.
"That means Aerial DID have kids!" Sakura grinned "Kain-sama was her grandson or something!"
"Not necessarily" Naruto protested, but even he knew it was weak. Sakura's smile deepened, became softer "that means you and Kain-sama really ARE related in some way."
"It also puts a new angle on the whole MoebiusMortanius thing."
"What do you mean?" they asked him.
"What if that practice continued until the new generation? The previous guardians having children to others? The last of the vampires encouraging Moebius and the others to go out, find people and have relationships? I mean they find people, fall in love and then get told once they are pregnant that they are going to be killed and brought back as vampires. Would YOU want to go back to them, looking like chichi or worse? Knowing you were officially dead, at least to them."
They realized what he was saying "so you think they rebelled because they didn't want to be killed and changed because it would cause their others to reject and even fear them?"
"I think it gave the Elder God an excellent opening to manipulate Moebius. I'm not saying he was innocent in all this, but....."
They could get what he was saying.
Now that Neji thought about it, it made sense. The Elder God manipulated the Time Streamer into believing that the pillars belonged to humans, that the vampires were just an old dying race that deserved to die out for taking people from their families and loved ones and turning them into inhuman creatures. With his feelings or even love for his partner and the possibility of memories of his birth family, Moebius wouldn't have been hard to make believe him. From there is wouldn't have been hard to continually brainwash the guardian and twist things his way.
Until Mortanius's desperate actions to redeem himself with Kain and Kain through Razeil, causing an domino effect.
Now that Neji thought about it he was on the verge of an incredible revelation. Bloodlines!!!! Of course!!! By the gods!! Every bloodline ability in AND OUT of Hidden Leaf could be broke down to an associated Guardianship! Could it really be that simple!? Was every bloodline ability in all the nations actually inherited power from their ancestor-an guardian?! Even the Hyuga ability itself could be explained that way. Their ability to 'see' an enemies chakra and manipulate it was energy, wasn't Chakra just one of it's forms? And the ability to see distances could easily be just a form of the mind ability.
Energy and Mind.
The Sharingan was Mind and Time.
The Abarume was nature, as was the Inuzukas.
This explained a group of clan heirs becoming the new generation of guardians. Inherited positions.
However this brought up two more questions for him. Why the Abarume became Time Guardian instead of the Lady Shion, he would have been better as Nature. And WHY Kyuubi? She was NEVER human. She wasn't born one, descendant of one, even had a smidgen of human blood in her. How could a buji inherit an human or even vampire 'condition'?
Naruto must have read his mind because he nodded "now you see what is confusing us."
Neji narrowed his eyes at him "and what are your theories? I know you three must have some."
"In regards to Shino, that's simple. The Balance Guardian CAN choose who becomes the next, however that would go against what was SUPPOSED to happen, so they are unstable-like chichi choosing niisan's brothers. You know how that turned out."
Neji nodded.
"Either Lady Shion was MEANT to be it, but something happened to block the signal and nature was forced to choose Shino, or she IS Moebius' reincarnation and nature rejected her, so because of our connection chose him instead."
"A sound theory" Neji agreed.
"It would explain why his ability to manipulate time was so weak."
"Or he IS the inherited Time Guardian, only that blood is weak in his line" Neji said, thinking again of the nature angle. Naruto nodded "there is also the fact that both father and I are Balance guardians. It could be on an instinctual level when we figured out what was going on, we instantly choice Shino for the position, but like father and nissan's brothers, he was never meant for the part."
Neji nodded in agreement "you think that's what happened with Kyuubi?"
"It's a possibility" Naruto nodded this time "but I'm not sure."
"What other theories are there?"
"Neesan says there is one angle she is willing to bet on."
"What?"
"She has only had three hosts, but each time she leaves something of herself behind. Call it an bloodline. She says if SHE can leave something behind, why can't she unknowingly gain something as well."
"What do you mean?"
Her previous hosts were my mother, Kushina Uzumaki, princess of Whirlpool, Maito Uzumaki, her aunt and wife of the First Hokage......"
"And the third?" Lee asked, but Neji answered that "think about it a minute."
Lee looked thoughtful but Sakura herself answered in awe "The Sage Of The Six Paths."
The other three realized what the forth was saying. The Sage, the First's wife and the Princess of the now destroyed Whirlpool Country. All three powerful in their own right and that meant any one of them could have been the inherited Dimensions Guardian. It was possible ONE of them passed that blood-that genetic code onto the buji. After all, the demon wasn't really a living being in the sense of the way they were, the fact she-like her siblings-was pure chakra, meant perhaps all the body swapping and exposure to their hosts passed something to her, just like SHE passed to them. The buji was essentially human enough now to have an genetic code. Naruto had to admit, his neesan's human appearance looked remarkably like photographs he had seen of his mother.
In fact, he was willing to bet it was his MOTHER who had been the next guardian.
“So there’s the possibility that the buji picked up some part of genetic code from a previous host and it enabled her to BECOME the next Dimension Guardian.” Neji said “It could also explain why it seems more....human.”
“Maybe” Naruto murmured.
Any further talk was stopped as there was a knock on the door, the others were ready to go.
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