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“Heya Ku” Naruto grinned as the figure entered his hospital room, his companion by his side.

Haku frowned at the boy sitting in the bed, confused and concerned “I thought they let you out yesterday.” Naruto shrugged “baa-chan said they found something in my blood that’s concerning them. So I have to stay in for a while.”

“What do you mean? What thing?”

Naruto shrugged again “I don’t know, she won’t tell me. Just said it’s not supposed to be there and I shouldn’t be able to live like it is, Hey Rikka.” The Snow Leopard summons had moved to the boy’s bedside and launched her front end up so her front paws were on the top of the bed and she was ‘standing’ there, able to look over the side and straight at the boy’s face. When Naruto reached out to her she moved closer, eyes closing and purring deeply, nuzzling his hand as he scratched her behind the ears.

Haku frowned at this. Everyone-even Zabuza-san-was terrified of the cat, yet the white furred green eyed cat not only liked Naruto but held affection for him, at some points even sleeping beside the boy “You’ll have to tell me how you do that” he murmured to himself, only to have Naruto grin widely “It’s a secret. Maybe I will tell you, one day.”

The cat huffed then looked at the winged and tailed boy “what mess have you got yourself into this time, cub?” in an distinctly young female voice. Naruto grinned at her and motioned to an shape hanging from the window ledge. A black form sat there, about the size of an normal house cat, watching them “this is Kenbo-chan’s daughter, Aijou, she’s my personal summons now and refuses to leave me.”

“Kenbo?”

“Our mother” the moth spoke itself, it’s voice musically soft and wavering, like a breeze blowing in a reed field “our great mother, mother to use all, the most powerful of our kind and the oldest.” Naruto explained “she was the one to test me originally, the one who had to approve before I could use them” he shrugged “the black moths are an unusual summons. They are ALL females-not a single male among them-and they aren’t summoned when needed like a normal one. Usually one remains with the summoner at all times and sends messages back to the others if it’s needed. There is an HUGE amount of them and each moth contains certain chemicals for certain purposes. Some are highly toxic, some can heal, some have poisons or sedatives, some can cause you to sleep, some cause permanent or temporary paralyzes, some have an natural antidote, some can cause hallucinogens, or can make you high or paranoid and so many other affects. They chose me because I am close to the the land of the dead and that’s what their race is connected to. Apparently only Kenbo-chan can do any or all of their abilities.”

“And what does Aijou do?”

"She has a ability unique to her kind. She is a being similar to an sensor in that she can sense not just chakra but jutsu, ANY sort of jutsu. Even if it's something simple as an illusion or as complicated as the type of contamination Orochimaru had over him."

"So if there was someone in disguise in the village-or THAT guy himself...."

"Yes, she'll see it or them, which is why she is currently seated at the window and how I knew you were coming. She sensed Rikka. Also" he looked at the other critically "that you were injured on the mission you just came off. Does Baachan know?"

"I have healing experience and with what Lady Tsunade has taught me, I can care for myself, Naruto."

"Yes but it still pains you and bleeds a little, doesn't it. I can tell, the way you are almost but not quiet favoring that side. You are injured, but good at hiding it."

Haku opened his mouth, about to protest-or-deny again when another voice from the doorway behind him spoke.

"Typical stubborn ass of a ninja" behind the young man a woman stood in the doorway. She held an clipboard in one hand, an expression of disapproval and severe impatience on her face. She motioned at the other bed in the room "remove the top and get on the bed."

He just blinked at her, not looking away, unimpressed.

The woman looked even more peeved, her chakra starting to flare with her anger "I said move, or do you want me to force you?!"

Still unimpressed.

Naruto exchanged looks with the cat then nodded. The white summons sighed through her nose and slid back off the bed, making a snort sound through her nose before using her bulk and weight to bump her summoner, making him stumble from surprise in the right direction and catch himself, looking down at her in shock "Rikka?"

"I don't see why you are being stubborn. You are injured and need another's aid, simple as that. There is no reason to not allow yourself to be healed if another is offering."

Crowding her summoner until he was trapped between her and the bed, the cat ignored his protests until he exclaimed "all right, all right! Just let me go so I can do so!" Backing up the cat watched CAREFULLY while Haku removed his top clothing and climbed onto the hospital bed, a swab of bandages around his stomach, the right side stained with blood. While Tsunade moved forward to cut them away and examine the wound there, the great cat curled up on the end of the bed, on top of his masters feet (maybe to keep him there?) looking a little disgruntled "sometimes I don't understand you humans. If you get injured and have a way to heal nearby, no matter what or who is involved, you take it. There is no reason to allow yourself to remain injured."

Before anyone else could speak, Naruto had "a lot of ninja do this, Rikka. It's got to do with either instinct or stubbornness."

The cat raised his head to look at him "how so, YOU came straight for help when you were in trouble."

"There is a difference. One, on missions, a ninja learns to rely on themselves, to protect or defend themselves, even in matters such as this. From children they are taught only the mission matters, not themselves and not their teammates, so have learned to rely only on their own skills and chakra to survive. When you have gone through a few missions like that it becomes integrated that YOU are the only one who can protect you. Knowing you are injured enough to need another's help feels wrong, especially to say someone like Haku or Zabuza."

The cat cocked it's head at him, looking thoughtful "but you don't have this feeling or instinct."

Naruto shook his head "we were lucky. Since we were five we have learned differently. Since five the seven of us learned to trust and rely mostly on only each other. If something happens to one, the others would do everything necessary-short of full out desertion-to find and save them. When Sasuke and I became a team under Kakashi-sensei, he just reinforced those beliefs."

The cat eyed him critically for a few seconds then nodded "it is that you may be right, cub. Perhaps the way they raise ninjas these days needs work."

Naruto shrugged "in some cases having someone run to your rescue every time you're in trouble will cause more trouble than good, but in a lot of others it wasn't done when it was needed or too late, and a lot of good ninja were lost because of it."

The cat huffed and placed her head back on her paws "humans are strange and complicate things a lot more than they need to be."

"That we do, Rikka" Naruto said, earning a sharp look from his godmother, she KNEW he was no longer considered human, at least in terms of body, but he still seemed to consider himself one, at least mentally. She had began to realize through Janos-san he was now an hybrid of human and the original Ancient Vampires. The only reason he was anywhere near human as it was now though was that connection he shared to his Skulk and the Guardians, this seemed to keep him hovering just before the line. If anything were to happen to severe that link-the gods forbid.

Not that there would anything wrong with him becoming fully one of the Original Ancient Vampires, it was just that she had no idea what it would do to those linked to him, let alone him and his 'tenants' and Tsunade DID NOT want to find out.

Janos couldn't tell her much about them, he had no memories of his kind before the curse, and any information past those theories and logical conclusions through pieced together small bits of information and history here and there was scarce.

It made her both concerned and terrified, she had no idea what was going to happen to her godson as he grew up, and no way of knowing how to stop it. If only the Originals had felt fit to leave them information on their kind, instead or as well as the glyphs.

But then of course they COULD have done just that, only for the Hylden to find and destroy it.

She sighed as she finished healing the wound under her hands and stood straight and back a step "there, that wasn't so difficult, was it."

The ninja just glared. Used to it by now as all the other stubborn asses who came her way, Tsunade stepped away from the bed and spoke as the cat jumped down "I suggest you go rest for a few hours, just let the area settle. In fact I'm signing you off missions for now."

While the ninja glared at her the summons used her body to push her master outside the room with an "I will make sure, alpha."

Once gone, she picked up her clipboard and turned back to the main patient "now, as for YOU...."

Naruto sweat-dropped, he just KNEW he was going to get in trouble for SOMETHING.

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"So" the female healer said after another full examination "Hinata tells me you had an near-death experience."

"I wouldn't call it that exactly " he said in answer.

"Then you tell me what it was."

"Apparently an jutsu attached to neesan's seal that needed a trigger to happen. Left by my father-biological one that was."

"Tell me what happened."

After a deep breath, the tailed and winged boy began-

-FLASHBACK-

"Hold on, Naruto, hang in there" Kyuubi said in an soft concerned voice as she stroked the tailed and winged boy's hair. She sat in the field of flowers cross-legged, the boys head pillowed on her thigh, his body stretched out beside her.

Razeil sat beside her, cloven hands soothingly stroking the wings, two 'fingers' and 'thumb' of each hand expertly finding the right spots to sooth his little brother and host while he added his own voice to his little sisters.

Even here in his mindscape his skin virtually glowed with the lines of purple flowing through his veins, both spirits merging their own chakraenergy to try and heal him-or at least hold off the worse of the poison until he was strong enough to do it on his own.

Occasionally one of the others would join them, Hinata able to bring them in through her ability as Mind Guardian, both Sasuke and Sakura the most frequent, Sakura sitting cross-legged beside her teammate and holding his hand while she listened with avid interest to stories of the life Kyuubi could remember with her brothers, Razeil telling her stories of the time he grew up in, of glyphs and huge crystals and statues that moved in the enhancement temples, of murals depicting events in the history of the Original Vampires and Hylden. Both knowing their stories would be heard by Naruto too, even in his state.

Sasuke came too get to know his other brother and sister and fellow guardians, sometimes joining Sakura in her listening.

Occasionally when they could, all other eight guardians-even Kain-would be able to enter, the group of ten other Guardians doing what they could to help their helpless brother to get better and stay strong.

It was one such time with Hinata and Sakura themselves when IT happened. Sakura and the two beings were sitting in their usual place when something yellow and white, moving fast enough to be only seen as a flash of light, trying to hit the two down. Only centuries of instinct had them rolling away, in opposite directions to be a more confusing target, the connection between them lost as Hinata and Sakura were booted out.

Terrified something was in Naruto's mind attacking who she now saw as her brother and sister, Sakura lept to her feet and, after a moment of dizziness from the abrupt change of location, tore out of the house and towards their apartment.

Hinata sat on the couch, head in hands, looking stunned. She cried her name and ran forward towards her. The winged girl looked up and saw her, blinked then cried "get the others!"

Sakura nodded and moved as fast as her ninja-trained speed could go. She didn't remember EVER moving that fast.

In Naruto's mind both souls were trying to avoid the attacking blur, but it was pushing them further and further away from Naruto's spirit body, and any time now, without them to maintain his spirit, he could slip away-followed by his body-then it would be too late.

Suddenly a shadow nearby moved, reaching out and catching the blonde figure in mid lunge.

Out of the shadow a figure moved, followed by another until eight shapes detached themselves, forming a line between the trapped figure and the two souls. As one they crouched, weapons raised and on the defense, one speaking in a hard voice "you are NOT going to touch them!"

In front of the two souls was the other eight Guardians, Sakura and Hinata directly in front of Kyuubi while Sasuke and Kain protected Razeil. Hinata's wings were spread behind her, blocking sight of the demon fox from the figure.

It was Sasuke who had spoken.

"You won't hurt them" Hinata said.

"Yeah" Kiba yelled, making everyone sweet-drop at the drop back into his old habit of acting.

The figure spoke, male, young but only in mid twenties, voice hard "you're risking Naruto's life. Those two were harming him, poisoning him."

"THEY didn't harm him, OR poison him. Another did!" Sakura snapped upset someone they didn't know was saying something bad about HER brother and sister. Especially when it wasn't true. "THEY are the only reason he hasn't died yet! And YOU just stopped them! If he dies, it will be all YOUR fault!"

"Why would we kill Naru? If he dies, so do we" Kyuubi spoke herself "after all, you made it that way, didn't you, when you created the seal. That's how you're here, isn't it, by implanting enough of your chakra into the seal that should anything cause Naruto to near the point of death, your imprint would react like you."

"Kyuubi?" they questioned "you KNOW who this is?!"

"Only one person it could be." Suddenly another figure-this one a woman-stepped out of the line of trees behind the trapped figure and she sweat-dropped "TWO people."

The new woman, also a red head, this one with green eyes spoke in an soft but deadly voice "hello, Kyuubi. Let my husband go if you don't mind. We don't have much time here."

The demon soul glared at her "I WOULD, except I didn't do it" then mumbled something about her always getting the blame for things before looking to the Nara "Shika?"

The eyes of both new figures turned to the Nara who didn't relax in the slightest "he attacked you both, neesan. Not exactly showing his trustworthiness."

The other woman blinked at him "an Nara" her eyes moved over the rest "an Hyuuga, Inuzuka, Amachi, Abrahume..." she stared at Sakura then moved on " an Uchiha...." she frowned and looked him over closer "Sasuke?"

The youngest Uchiha didn't react past a blink, not moving other than the occasional concerned look in his Skulk brothers direction. The red headed other woman frowned in confusion and concern "what is going on?!"

"Maybe your 'HUSBAND' should have asked that first before attacking the only two keeping Naruto alive" Sasuke snarled. The woman saw the boy laying in the grass, gasped in horror and concern and moved towards him, only to skid to a stop suddenly as an kunai buried itself into the ground in front of her.

The male still trapped in the shadow tried to move to protect her, but was still unable to escape.

"What was that for!?!" the red head snapped, only for Kiba to snap back "stay away from him! You aren't obviously an allie or you wouldn't have tried to hurt neesan and niisan or stop them from helping Naru! We don't trust you!"

She blinked at them "neesan and niisan?" when Sasuke shifted a little she saw the figure behind them. "Who and WHAT are you?!"

Sasuke drew himself up proudly and spoke "HE is Razeil Uchiha, our brother, one of the first EVER Uchiha's, long before they were Uchiha's. He is a true ancient soul, alive long before the ten tailed. And THIS...." He motioned at Kain "is his adopted father, kage of Nosgoth, Scion and Guardian of the Earths Balance, Advisor of the Fire Lord, the deadliest and most powerful Hunter-nin in all the Elemental Nations, Bloodshadow, Kain. Kain-sama also happens to be Naru's adopted father and the one who protected him in his childhood-other than Niisan and neesan-from those bastard villagers until he could protect himself-or we could."

"Protected him?" the woman frowned, then looked pissed "what did they do to my baby?!" and for just a minute chakra swirled around her with her KI. The man trapped frowned as well "what are you talking about? I wanted him to be treated as a hero!"

"Well guess what, he wasn't. In fact the exact opposite. Except for us, the Third and one or two others they treated him as an freak, an demon, or more seriously-a punching bag to take their tempers out on. They never saw him as anything human. The only reason they stopped after Kain-sama turned up, was he wouldn't take any shit. They did something-or tried-he would punish them every time and since Kain sama is the Fire Lords advisor, they couldn't demand retribution. They learned not to screw with him, and Kain sama had his ways of getting the truth from people."

The two figures looked at the vampire who just showed them his fangs in a snarl.

The figure trapped in the shadow relaxed “release me, I think we need to talk.”

Sasuke opened his mouth to speak but Kyuubi did “do it, Shikamaru.”

“But Kyuubi!” Sasuke protested. She turned to look at the Uchiha “If you trust me at all, trust me in this, he wouldn’t attack us again.” The youngest Uchiha opened and closed his mouth a few times then sighed and nodded, putting his weapons away and motioned the others “do what she said.”

The group reluctantly did so, allowing their ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ to sit next to their sick brother, the group sitting in an protective circle around the three. THEN Shikamaru released the man with a warning “just remember, we’ll protect our brothers and sister with our lives.”

Back on his feet and able to move again, the man approached the woman, surrounding her in his arms and gently guided her towards the group. Both frowned at the still figure “is that....really Naruto?”

“It is” the vampire ghoul said “events have happened since you died. Powers he bares have been unlocked, heritage has been unlocked and he has come into abilities through us both that makes him totally unique among any other being in the entire universe.”

“And this new appearance is part of all that?”

“It is” Kain said “he has recently been discovered to be one of the last two original breed of my ancestors.” He looked at the blonde haired man as he sat and guided the woman to sit by his side “do you know about something called The Pillars Of Nosgoth?”

The man hesitated, thinking “I think Tsunade-hime once told me about it. She said since I was related to the Senju line I should know about their history. Something about these powerful chakra pillars holding back an evil race and the race who built them were revered by her line.”

“What was the races name?”

“Ancient.....something. I can’t really remember. I was a child when she told me.”

“Was it ancient original vampires?” Choji said.

After a pause he nodded “I think that was it, why?” He seemed to realize and looked around at them “wait, are you saying....”

The group nodded “Naruto has become an ancient original vampire.”

“But....how?”

“A combination of things, we think” the female demon said “YOUR histories line, newly theorized connections to some of the clans and bloodlines finally the connection he shares with Raziel-niisan.”

The two adults looked at the wraith “why you?”

“It’s more like his connection to Kain sama with HIS connection to the race.”

“Why him?”

Kain spoke himself “I’m a vampire, one of the more....recent versions. When I died I was brought back using something called The Heart Of Darkness. The original vampires could be brought back from death if their heart was replaced inside them. The Heart Of Darkness was the heart of the very last of the original race. HIS blood runs in my veins and when I raised Razeil here.....”

“I see. Razeil got it from you, and since he is inside Naruto, it somehow passed to him, activating his own heritage, making him a pure-breed.”

They nodded.

“Tell us EVERYTHING.”

"I can do one better than that" the female demon fox said "I can show you through Naruto's own memories." She motioned to the blank space of whiteness between them.

Showing only the most important memories-and those they would WANT to know about him-she gave them years of information in what seemed only a few hours.

As the most recent memory-the finding of the Black Moths summons-faded away they sat in silence, letting the two digest what they had seen.

Finally the woman looked at the others "is all this true?"

The eight nodded.

She looked at the demon fox spirit "so all this time, you and....your brothers weren't parts of some evil creature. The Ten-Tailed was an simple gentle being no different than us except it was contaminated by the 'gate' it used to come to our world and BECAME evil. Naruto used Razeil-san's purified sword's soul and cleared it from both you and the one-tailed and his host."

They nodded again.

She looked at her fellow red head, eyes sad "so this entire time I held you inside me and hated you, it wasn't your fault. You weren't in control of yourself, it wasn't who you truly were."

"It's not your fault" the demon fox spirit leaned forward to touch her hand comfortingly "at the time we only did what we could, what we KNEW then." she looked sad and pained "I killed so many the day Naruto was born, deprived so many families of their loved ones, killed so many noble warriors-including you both....." the pain increased, causing the group around them to instinctively move closer, hands touching her in comfort, support and forgiveness.

"I know, but that doesn't excuse me-US. We should have questioned....The Sage held you all for years and never did evil or such and we never questioned why when we become vessels to you individually you are supposedly evil. If the Sage held all of you in your full form, how come he wasn't corrupted?"

The man spoke "If he really WAS one of these complete guardians it's possible...."

Shikamaru followed his line of thought "his abilities as an complete allowed him to either hold back or control the level of corruption. After all, the guardians WERE created to contain the Hylden inside the pillars and with the ten tailed being corrupted by the Hylden gate....."

It made sense! Janos Auldron had said he had met the ten tailed inside the Hylden world, so either the Buji WAS an Hylden-highly evolved-which they doubted, or it had been one of another group of beings who existed there. Perhaps the original inhabitants before the Hylden were trapped there.

It would give a new meaning to what the last ancient original vampires had said about both he and the Juubi hunting down the Hylden in that world. Janos would have felt guilty his people trapped the Hylden race in the world of the Buji, where obviously they killed off the ten tailed's race and decided to help him in his effort to restore his world. He taught the creature all about his people's magic and vica versa, so they could 'pool' their knowledge in the hunt.

Then they end up chasing some of them through a portal and one of them contaminated. However it was also possible-being a being from another world-that the energy of the very planet also contributed to its sickness. After all, Janos was born and raised in their world, but not the Ten tailed. After all, look what happened to the Hylden in its world, how THEY ended up looking, it was only logical for the reverse to apply to the Juubi.

"So" the man said thoughtfully "the masked one-eyed man I fought that night was Madara Uchiha possessing the body of my thought-dead student Obito. THAT was the reason for the one eye-Kakashi has the other. Madara Uchiha has been seeking all these years to assert himself as Hokage-through any means necessary. Including but not exclusively trying to corrupt the Uchiha clan and when that failed-slaughtering them, casting an powerful jutsu over Orochimaru to make him 'turn evil', Using the....Kyuubi-chan to attack the village just as a distraction for something he wanted, using Danzo, EVEN having spies in the village among those we most trusted."

The group nodded again.

"Humph" the blonde male sat back, looking thoughtful.

The other red head spoke "so THAT'S why only you two can help, Naru. Since all three of you are connected, you can use the purified spirit form of the sword to constantly clear the poison in him. As it flows, you both cleanse part of him, only to have more take it's place. Why don't you do it all at once?"

Sakura answered this "we discovered through medical exams that Naruto's body adapts faster than humanly possible. We think it's a combination of his Uzumaki blood, Kyuubi neesan's chakra influence and his connection to the planet as an born Balance guardian. The minute the Moth Mother surrounded him in the poison, his body was adapting to it. If Kyuubi and Razeil completely cleanse him while they work, it may have a negative effect."

"I see. So by maintaining a set level of the poison inside him, you can ensure his body adapts, but doesn't do anything.....unpredictable with it, like absorb too much and make him dependent on it to maintain his health" the man suddenly frowned, they had kept the two from Naruto before, what if it had had an detrimental affect on the pre-teen?

"Which is why Naruto's Skulk and our other fellow guardians interfered" Kyuubi said, as if reading his 'mind'.

"But what if it's too late" the woman fretted "and it's all our fault."

"MY fault" the man corrected "I'm the one who attacked without warning" he looked guilty.

"You didn't know, you could only judge by what you knew and saw" Kyuubi soothed him "no one can blame you for being overprotective." When Sasuke opened his mouth, the demon fox glared at him. The youngest Uchiha lowered his eyes, looking disgruntled.

"I will give him my chakra" the man decided "hopefully not only will it help, but strengthen him. This version of me contains all the knowledge of my jutsu's, the location of all hidden files and stashes in my clan home and...." he looked at the other red headed woman and smiled "anything else about us he would want to know."

The red head smiled as well, took his hands in hers and nodded her agreement to join hers as well.

"But.....!"

Kyuubi held up a hand for silence "that is the whole reason you are here, isn't it. You both were implanted to ensure-should the seal break and I get loose OR Naru is close to death-both your chakra implants strengthens him, not just body, so he can fight back."

They nodded.

"So they're chakra clones" Shikamaru said "implanted the day they died to ensure Naruto is safe." He looked at the others "If the seal around Kyuubi-neesan was damaged or broken, they would turn up and defend Naru long enough to infuse him with their chakra and give him the power to fight back. Minato-san's knowledge would include seals so niisan could repair or replace the seal-thus locking her back up. If he was dying from some outside force, it would grant him the chakra he needed to heal or fight back, plus the knowledge to possibly escape."

"So the only reason he attacked neesan was she is out of the seal and that programmed response was she was escaping and to seal her back up?"

The demon fox nodded "the Forth couldn't possibly predict what has happened. If I escaped Naru, previously it would have killed him" she glared at the man "not to mention myself with it. Did your original really think-even corrupted as I was-I would take that risk?!"

The man shrugged.

Kain stood "I need to leave. I was in the middle of a mission." Hinata nodded and the man faded out.
Shikamaru was next with Choji "we need sleep, we just returned from one."

Then they were gone, each giving a reason, until only the two, Naruto, Kyuubi, Razeil, Hinata, Sasuke and Sakura were left. Sakura frowned at Kyuubi who nodded minutely, she closed her eyes, sighed heavily and stood.

Sasuke, however, was having none of it, sitting where he was and glaring at them with the typical Uchiha stare. He didn’t trust these two. Razeil approached him and laid an cloven hand on his shoulder, looking into his eyes as he spoke in only his head “do you trust us?”

“You KNOW I do.”

“Then trust us to know what to do here. They only want to make up for their actions here and help Naruto. Let them. Give Naruto this time, however brief, with his true parents. He will NEVER get this chance again.”

When Sasuke opened his mouth the protest, the wraiths eyes narrowed and he said gently “What would YOU want in his place?” Sasuke sighed heavily, closed his eyes and nodded. “Thank you, Sasuke” he turned the other gently around and guided him toward Hinata “Now go.”

The youngest Uchiha gave both a long look before moving to his ‘sister’s’ side and taking her hand in his.

The two faded out.

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