Naruto 1. Prologue

**Alright everybody, here is the beginning to my attempt at a Naruto fanfiction. Now, it is not quite as strong as my other story, but should become more well defined as I get into the groove of the story. So I hope you enjoy this little prologue.**

*Outside Konohagakure*

"Onii-sama, are you sure you want to do this. We have no connection to this place. We could easily go to any other village."

The one who begged this was a girl with shoulder length light brown hair and very fair white skin. This girl stood at 5' 7" with a C cup chest. Atop her head she had a pair of wolf ears covered in a soft fur, the same color as her hair. She had sky blue eyes that were slightly slitted. She also had a set of three whiskers on each side of her face.

On her fingers and toes where not normal nails. Instead, there were razor sharp claws upon each one that looked like they could tear through flesh like a hot knife through butter.

Sprouting from the base of her spine and sticking through a hole in the back of her ANBU style black pants was an equally fluffy, foot and a half long tail that was currently drooping low.

The girl was about 14 years old and was wearing the traditional Konohagakure ANBU outfit. Around her waist was strapped a simple one handed assassin's dagger, about a foot in length.

In response to her pleading, the one she had been begging opened one of his silver colored, slitted eyes, the other covered by a metal head protector/headband with a picture of a fierce looking wolf engraved into the metal plate in the center.

All of the members of the party had the same headband located somewhere on their person. The first girl had it tied around her hair to keep it in a sort of ponytail.

The boy was also about 15 years old. The boy had long silver/white hair down to the center of his back. He too had wolf ears, but he also had three, snow white tails rather than one. His tails were also longer, measuring at about two and a half feet long.

He was currently leaning up against a tree while sitting on one of its branches. His tails were currently draped to one side and hanging down from the branch.

In terms of clothing, he was wearing all black. His pants flared out around his ankles and became narrower as the came to his waist and stopped just before they became skin tight.

He was wearing a skin tight shirt. The sleeves of the shirt, like the pants flared out as they reached the openings for the hands. The sleeves went down about three inches past the tips of his fingertips.

Over this skin tight shirt was a poncho like cloak that stopped at his elbows. It had a high collar that stopped just below his nose.

Around his wrists was a pair of silver rings. Attached to each ring was a foot long chain with a broadsword looking pendant with two wolf heads for hand guards. In each wolf's mouth was a small red jewel.

Around his neck was a similar silver ring. Attached to this ring was a pendant in the shape of a wolf's head. The head was holding a ring in its mouth. In the center of that ring was another red jewel, exactly like the ones in the wolfs' mouths on the sword pendants.

Strapped to his back was a pair of twin katanas. These katanas were about seventy centimeters in length with pitch black blades and no hand guards. The sheaths had engravings of a wolf and fox with their tails intertwined.

Around his shoulders, a kuda-gitsune was wrapped. As the boy moved, it lifted its head and the boy scratched it under its chin to which it gave of a slight purring noise.

"Sapphire is right, Emerald-nii. We have already seen how they treated the boy. If they find out what you are, they will try to kill you," said another girl, the same age as the first and completely identical as well except for her earth brown eyes.

Her choice of clothing was also quite different. For a top, she was wearing nothing more than a tight cloth to cover her b cup chest. Around her neck, the same headband that the other two were wearing was wrapped.

She was also wearing a pair of skin tight, black shorts, with her tail sticking through a hole in the back. Unlike the rest of the group, who were bare-foot, she was wearing standard ninja sandals. "Plus those deserters are there as well."

The final member of the group, another male, was the twin of the other male. The difference between them was that the second boy had jet black hair, one tail, fair skin, and blood red eyes.

He was wearing the same kind of pants as the other boy and a fishnet shirt. His headband was wrapped around his waist like a belt.

"I agree with Topaz and Sapphire. We could always go back to Kirigakure, Mei Terumi and the Yondaime Mizukage seemed to be quite friendly to…" he started before the two girls screamed no and took on very aggressive auras.

After hearing all of his comrades takes on his decision, he finally stopped scratching the long fox's chin and spoke up.

"That will be enough you three. Ruby, as the current head of the Shadowfang clan, I have made my decision."

The boy, Emerald, stood up and the other three immediately gave him all of their attention. Sapphire had her hands together in front of her, Ruby had his arms crossed in front of his chest, and Topaz had her hands behind her head with her elbows to the side.

All three were not happy about coming to this village after hearing how a certain boy had been treated, but as Emerald was their clan head, they would not go against his choices, the two females more for the boy rather than the position.

"Now, we are going to enter the village. Sapphire, you stay close to me, Topaz, Ruby… try not to kill anyone. We want to join the village and stay inconspicuous, not get the entire village's attention like in Kumogakure."

At the mention of the Kumogakure incident, Both Ruby and Topaz visibly paled.

"Thanks to you two, the Raikage has been trying to catch me and fight me ever since."

"But his attendant was getting to close to you, and," Topaz started before Emerald gave her a cold stare that immediately stopped her attempt at an excuse dead in its tracks.

"As I was saying, I want to head straight for the Hokage. No distractions, no getting separated."

The other three gave nods of understanding. All four gave a whistle and from the forest came two brown wolves the size of tigers, one pitch black wolf and one snow white wolf. All four stopped under the tree that the quartet was currently standing in.

They all jumped down onto the backs of their matching wolf and made their way towards Konohagakure. As they made their way to the village, there was one thought on Emeralds mind as he conversed with the being within him.

"Don't worry Isis; I will get back what is yours. I swear it."

**So, I hope I managed to do fairly well with the character introductions. I know that it is kind of short if you are familiar with my other story but that is for two reasons. First is that I am still trying to get a feel for the story. Second is that this was only the prologue, so its purpose was for character introductions. I hope you enjoyed it. As always Fave, Follow and Review**


	2. The Arrival

**Alright, so here is the next chapter of Rise. For those of you who have followed this story, I humbly thank you. Before I get started, I would like to say some things about how I will be doing this story.**

**First, in this story, people can enter the Academy once they turn fourteen and they study in the Academy for four years, so Naruto is fourteen going into the Academy. Let's be honest, you will be hard pressed to find a twelve year old in a very civilized society with the mental capacity to kill someone and not be completely fucked up in the head after-words. This chapter and the previous one take place during the year that Naruto joined the Academy.**

**Second, The Shadowfang clan and the Inuzuka clan were once the same clan until the Inuzuka broke off around the time of the founding of Konoha, so any techniques the Inuzuka have, so do the Shadowfang. The Inuzuka are dog users and The Shadowfangs are wolf users. Also both the Shadowfang and the Inuzuka can understand any and all canines, no matter the species.**

**Third, Sasuke, Kiba, Yagura, and Itachi are female. Their new names are Sasuki, Shiba, and Izumi. Yager a is still the same name. Also, Mikoto Uchiha is still alive.**

**Finally, Kekkei Genkai can be learned so long as you have the chakra natures for it and the chakra reserves, except for ocular jutsu like the Sharingan or Byakugan or body altering jutsu like Kimimaro's jutsu.**

**Jutsu**

_Thought or mental conversation_

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"It's the fucking Kumo incident all over again!" Emerald yelled to no one in particular. At the moment, he was currently bound and hanging upside down in Konoha's interrogation corps' headquarters. He had been stripped of his headband and katanas and was bound in chakra absorbing chains.

"It was supposed to be simple; Enter Konoha, head to the Hokage's tower, make a deal and get information. Simple. But noooo. I told them to remain inconspicuous. So what does Topaz do, she attacks some violet haired women in a trench coat just because she asked me out to eat."

*Flashback: Several Hours Beforehand*

As the quartet neared the gates to Konoha, they all slowed to a stop. They all dismounted their wolves. The wolves then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Emerald pulled an Anbu style wolf mask out from under his poncho like cloak. He placed it over his face and held it in place using chakra.

He then pulled the hood of his cloak up and over his head so that only the mask could be seen by anyone who happened to look at it.

He then turned to the others and spoke.

"Remember what I said. You are to do nothing to draw attention to us. We are to head straight for the Hokage's tower, no getting sidetracked, and no attacking anyone.

Should we become separated, find somewhere safe to hide or reverse summon out of the village."

The other three nodded their understanding of the plan and got into formation. Emerald and Sapphire stood in front while Ruby and Topaz stood behind them, respectively.

Once they were all in position, they proceeded on foot to the gate. After about five minutes of running, the siblings arrived at the entrance gate to the village.

Upon arrival, two men stepped out of the shadows and stopped the precession.

"Halt, what is your purpose," one of the ninja stated in a firm and intimidating voice. Any normal fourteen or fifteen year old would have been shitting themselves and speechless with fear, but not these four.

"We are traveling shinobi and kunoichi who wish to speak with the Hokage." Emerald stated without falter.

The two gatekeepers looked at each of the individual members of the group and then at each other. The one who did not speak before pulled out a scroll and unfurled it.

Upon seeing the scroll, Sapphire started to reach for her dagger just as Ruby and Topaz got ready to unseal their weapons before Emerald put up one arm, causing the three to cease their actions.

The man stepped forward and held the scroll out to Emerald.

"We need to verify that what you said is true. Please place your hand on this scroll."

Emerald complied with his request and placed his hand in the center of the exposed section of the scroll. As soon as he did, a circle of symbols appeared on the paper around his hand.

Then more symbols spread from the edge of the circle and onto Emerald's hand. As they were covered by his sleeve, he could still feel them spreading up his arm and neck all the way to his temple.

After several seconds, the symbols receded back onto the paper and then disappeared. With a satisfied look, the gatekeeper turned to his companion and nodded his head.

"Alright, you appear to be telling the truth, we will summon someone to take you to the tower."

Not even seconds later, a purple haired girl of about eighteen years, wearing an Anbu cat mask and Anbu attire, appeared in a swirl of leaves.

"Neko, here, will take you directly to the tower." One man said motioning towards the young Anbu member.

She nodded and turned to lead the group. The siblings quickly fell into step behind her.

Unlike their original formation, Sapphire fell in line behind Emerald and kept her hand hovering close to her dagger in the event of an incident. She had a timid look to her as many male citizens were staring at her in a way that she would only allow one person to.

Ruby walked up to Emerald's left and monitored the citizens as their group passed by. He, also, was drawing a lot of lustful glances from the female population. Topaz took up Emerald's right, basking in the attention that she had been drawing.

As the group walked, they heard whispers from the citizens of Konoha. From what they heard most of the whispers were actually aimed at the only one that did not show his face.

Some of the whispers had the general basis that, if he was unwilling to show his face, that he must be very ashamed of how he looks. Had it not been for Emerald ordering them not to start anything, all three would have cut down every last person who insulted their clan head.

But, for every conversation that had these whispers there was also retaliation from at least one member of the conversation.

"What do you mean ashamed," One woman whispered to another, "They are all obviously siblings. If they look like that, then he must be pretty handsome as well. In fact I bet you he just hides his face so girls don't pester him."

Ruby was quite proud for his brother seeing as how that was one reason that he keeps his face hidden in public. Topaz and Sapphire where trying their hardest not to latch onto Emerald and growl at anyone who even looks at him. Emerald just ignored all of these comments as he continued walking with his head held high.

Several minutes of silence went by before the group could finally see the tower peaking over the buildings surrounding them.

The three younger siblings visibly relaxed upon finally seeing their destination arrive without any incidents while Emerald still held an air of unknown authority, and that is where it quickly went wrong.

As the group walked past a well-known dango shop, Anko Miturashi, the Snake Mistress of Konoha, exited the shop. She took one look at the group and turned away.

She didn't even take one step as she suddenly whirled around and locked on to the masked boy standing in the center of the group.

At first she had thought that he was some sort of prisoner or something since he was surrounded by three people with Neko leading them.

That thought didn't last as she realized by the boy's stance that he was most likely not a prisoner. The way he held himself, the boy seemed to exude an aura that seemed very experienced in life for someone his apparent age. Not to mention that she didn't recognize anyone other than Neko.

She wasn't sure what it was, but she just couldn't take her eyes off of him. She approached the group and called out for the group to stop.

Neko stopped and turned to acknowledge the Tokubetsu Jonin. The youngest twins both bristled at the sound of the female voice calling out to their group and stepped in between Emerald and the girl while Ruby took a subtle defensive position next to him.

Emerald only turned enough of his head to see the one calling out to them through the corner of one of his mask's eye holes.

"You, with the mask, show your face," she commanded while walking up to the group.

"You will not tell Onii-sama what to do you…" Sapphire started before she felt Emerald's hand upon her shoulder, causing her to go silent with a slight blush.

"It's fine Sapph," Emerald said. He removed his hand when he felt her relax. He could also sense his other siblings calming themselves as well.

He looked towards the purple haired girl who looked to him to be about twenty. He did not recognize her so decided that it would be fine to show her his face. He put his hand to his mask and released his chakra hold on it, pulling the mask down to reveal his face to the girl, his headband still covering one eye.

As soon as his eye met hers, all thoughts left her head, save one.

'Oh my God, I think I am in love,' Was all she thought. Her cheeks had gone bright red, but Emerald simply ignored it.

He replaced the mask back over his face. As soon as it was once more hidden, Anko's blush died down and she managed to regain her senses.

Unlike Emerald who generally did not care, everyone else was flat out unsurprised to see that reaction from the girl, save Neko who knew and had never seen Anko look like that before.

The reason for this was that even though both Emerald and Ruby were identical twins, save their hair color, eye color, and skin tone, Women were more frequently drawn to Emerald over Ruby.

The brothers had inquired about it before, and every time the girl they questioned would simply say that Emerald held an aura about him that drew them to him.

Neither brother ever figured out what they meant by that, but eventually just stopped caring. This happened right around when Emerald found his mate.

Since that day, long ago, Emerald no longer gave any thought towards female presences around him, hence why he paid no heed to the look he had received from Anko.

Having regained her senses, the purple haired kunoichi seamlessly reverted back to her usual flirty self. She took up a seductive smile and got very close to the masked boy.

"So, handsome, what brings you to Konoha," she asked in a sultry voice. She saw the twin sisters begin to move out of the corner of her eye, but noticed they did nothing in the end.

"We are here to speak with the Hokage. There are some things that we wish to discuss with him," Emerald replied simply.

She brought up a hand and placed it on the cheek of his mask while looking into the eye-holes of his mask, unable to see his eye because of them.

"Well, when you are done with that, why don't you and I go out for a little dinner together? My name is Anko, by the way, Anko Miturashi."

Hearing those words, Topaz finally lost it. She bit her finger to draw blood and swiped it over her left arm. A seal appeared on it briefly before a poof of smoke revealed a Bo staff.

Topaz grabbed the staff before it even got the chance to drop a single centimeter out of the air. She lunged straight for Anko.

Anko saw this coming a mile away and easily jumped out of the way. What she hadn't expected was for Topaz to immediately lodge the staff into the ground and use it to redirect her body towards Anko.

Topaz threw a kick towards the purpled haired girl. As her foot made contact, Anko disappeared only to be replaced by a large log.

Suddenly thousands of shuriken flew at Topaz from behind. Emerald looked to the source of them and saw the purple haired kunoichi standing there with a look that said she already thought she had it in the bag.

Seeing their sister in trouble, Ruby and Sapphire moved to help their sister. Emerald put both of his arms up to stop the both of them.

"Emerald why are you stopping us, Topaz could die. Not to mention that you are the one who told us to not cause a scene," Ruby shouted out. In response, Emerald turned towards them both and removed enough of his mask for them to see his exposed eye.

As soon as they saw the look behind that eye, they immediately fell back. All three of Emerald's siblings knew that look, and what it entailed if they disobeyed.

Seeing that they would no longer interfere, Emerald replaced his mask before speaking.

"What is done is done. The incident has already occurred and won't be fixed by you two interfering. Also, you know our clan's laws. Topaz picked this fight and she must settle it alone, plus, you guys should have a little more faith in family," Emerald said with a hint of pride in his voice.

"We… understand Onii-sama," Sapphire said hesitantly as she continued to watch the shuriken fly towards her slightly older twin.

Anko's look turned into one of pure shock when Topaz deflected every single one. As soon as the last shuriken had been knocked out of the air, Topaz disappeared and reappeared in front of Anko.

She did a quick spin kick, which Anko had only enough time to block. The force sent her flying into the wall of the nearest building.

Anko coughed up a little blood before jumping out of the way of a punch sent by the wolf girl she was fighting.

By this point, several Anbu had arrived on the scene and were preparing to capture the foreign girl. Before they got the chance to, Anko shot snakes out of her sleeves and quickly immobilized the brunette.

The Anbu, seeing that their original target had been restrained, turned and appeared behind the remaining siblings.

Before they could grab them, Sapphire and Ruby just disappeared, along with Topaz just as Anko was preparing to put a kunai between her eyes. The only one remaining was Emerald, who just put his hands up in the air in a non-aggressive stance.

The confused Anbu scattered to find the now missing siblings while one remained and place a chakra restricting seal on the young clan head.

Without his chakra, the mask he wore fell from his face and disappeared in a cloud of smoke before hitting the ground.

The Anbu grabbed his wrist before finding himself lying on the ground with his arm being held behind him.

"Sorry about that, shinobi reflexes," Emerald said casually, as if he had done nothing more than bump into someone accidentally.

Emerald released the stunned Anbu member.

"I will just follow you to where ever you plan to take me. I won't resist," Emerald said as the Anbu got back up.

Deciding against trying to restrain the silver haired boy again, he simply told him to follow. As he walked towards the interrogation departments HQ, he kept a constant eye on the boy and was surprised to see that he truly was making no attempt to escape like his siblings had.

All while this was happening, Anko watched the two walk away and knew that if he was going there, she wouldn't get another chance to see him, and she did not want that.

She immediately turned to the Hokage's tower and ran as fast as she could. She hoped that she could get to the Hokage and convince him to go easy on the boy before it was too late.

Little did she know how unnecessary her actions would be in the end.

*End Flashback*

"Thank god that Jonin underestimated her; otherwise Topaz could be dead right now. That reminds me, I hope that the Raikage's assistant is better. She was still alive when we fled from the village but only barely.

Thanks to that little incident, not only does Kiri have a bounty on my head, but now Kumo does as well. This is just fantastic."

The door to Emerald's cell began to open and Emerald immediately stopped his verbal pondering of his current predicaments within the world.

The door swung fully open to reveal a large man with two parallel scars running diagonally down his face from left to right.

He was wearing a beige flak jacket and pants. His ankles were wrapped up in tape and he had on basic ninja sandals. Around his head, the Konoha headband was wrapped like a bandana, covering the majority of his head.

"Alright boy, we are going to have a little chat," the man said in a very gruff voice while closing the door and turning to look at his target.

At first, when Ibiki had heard that he was to interrogate a fifteen year old boy, he thought this would be a cake walk. His presence alone has been known to cause foreign spies to crack.

To his surprise, not only was this kid not breaking down, he was smiling as if he was looking at an old friend.

As he was looking at the boy, he could have sworn he had seen the boys eyes flash for a brief moment. He flared his chakra, in case the boy had somehow managed to undo the chakra seal to put a Genjutsu on him.

"Oh, and what would you like to chat about Mister…" Emerald trailed off to allow the man to name himself, either not noticing or flat out ignoring the chakra flaring from the man before him.

"Morino, Ibiki Morino and what I would like to talk about is why you are in this village and why you attacked one of our kunoichi," Ibiki stated with every ounce of killing intent he had.

Even more surprised, Ibiki could only feel pure shock. Once more was this fifteen year old punk not only not afraid, he looked like he did not even notice the sheer amounts of killing intent being directed at him.

"If that is all, then it is really quite simple. My siblings and I are here to apply for citizenship and, to be honest, the reason my sister attacked that violet haired woman was probably because she was touching me. My sisters don't like it when women outside of our clan do that."

Ibiki just continued looking at the boy as he hung there. He didn't believe a word that the boy had just said. From what he had been told, the boy had been wearing a head protector with the marking of what could only be assumed to be a relatively new hidden village.

_This kid must be a spy trying to infiltrate Konoha to find its weaknesses so his real village can attack. I will be damned if I let his plan succeed._ Ibiki thought to himself.

Ibiki brought his hands up and swiftly went through all the hand seals for the jutsu that made him feared by every shinobi that has ever had the misfortune of being his victim.

As he approached the last seal, he hit a button on the floor that released Emerald. Emerald tried to right his body but before he hit the ground, Ibiki called out the name of one of his most feared and favorite jutsu.

**Summoning: Torture Chamber**

Before Emerald could react, four chains appeared out of nowhere and bound his arms and legs, pulling in four different directions.

The chains went taught and a cage with several gears around it suddenly wrapped around the two. A large bust (Statue of a person's shoulders and head) fell on top of the cage and chains wrapped around it.

The gears attached to the cage suddenly started spinning, and garret wire wrapped around Emerald's torso.

Emerald looked around the cage curiously as he had never come across this kind of jutsu throughout his journeys through the Elemental Nations. He made a mental note that if he did get citizenship to Konoha, he would have to ask this man to teach it to him.

Taking in everything about his surroundings, Emerald had a good idea of how this jutsu was meant to work.

He knew it was used for torture. He guessed by the gear and wire mechanism, that the man probably controlled how tight the wire was by manipulating the gears, probably with chakra.

Ibiki just stood there and observed the boy. He was actually impressed by the boy's fortitude. He hadn't actually started the torture yet, but as is, it was still pretty intimidating. Little did he know that the boy had spent six months as a small child being experimented on by Orochimaru. There was nothing on this planet he could do to the boy to even compare to that hellish time.

"Alright boy, I will give you one last…"

"Emerald."

"What," Ibiki growled, angry at having been interrupted by the one he is supposed to be interrogating.

"You called me boy, my name is Emerald," Emerald said simply.

"Like I would believe that that is really your name. Do you take me for a fool?!" Ibiki yelled.

"I don't take you for anything, and it is of little concern of mine what you think of my name." Emerald said flatly. This only served to infuriate Ibiki even more.

Never before has one of his targets acted like this. It was as if this boy was just trying to play with him, but that rage quickly subsided as he contemplated exactly what he was going to do to this arrogant little whelp.

"Like I was saying, I will give you one last chance to tell me why you are in our village. What village are you from and why did they send you here?"

Instead of answering the slightly aggravated man, Emerald just remained silent and took on a flat stare. Ibiki noticed this and smirked, thinking that maybe the boy wasn't as fearless as he let on.

"Not as tough as you want me to think you are huh. Has fear got you so terrified that you can't even speak," Ibiki said in his authoritative voice. Emerald didn't even flinch at this accusation or show any signs of emotions.

"I honestly don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about Morino-san, the reason I am not speaking is because I have already told you exactly why I am here.

I am not from another village. My clan never joined one when they formed. But that look of rage you have tells me that you don't believe me so why should I even try to convince you. Not to mention that you are not the one that I wish to speak with anyway."

At this, Ibiki finally gave up on trying to give Emerald a chance. He manipulated his chakra and the gears on the cage began to slowly turn, tightening the wire wrapped around Emerald.

As the jutsu allowed Ibiki to feel exactly what his victim felt, he could feel the wire tighten around the young boy's body.

"You will tell me, one way or another, what I want to know," Ibiki said with a straight face. Emerald did not reply, choosing to just continue staring at his "torturer".

Ibiki continued to tighten the wire agonizingly slowly for several minutes. Once more, Ibiki had to give some respect to this young boy. By this point, even much older and well trained shinobi would have started showing signs of pain or at the least discomfort and yet this boy still had that flat look and showed no signs of discomfort.

"You can't keep up that façade boy, you will give in. You must be nearing your threshold for pain already, just tell me what I want to know, and I can make this end much quicker."

Emerald just continued hanging there with the wire still tightening and now officially tight enough to cut through skin, if it wasn't for his clothes.

Emerald finally opened his mouth to speak, and once more saw that smirk Ibiki had. Seeing that, Emerald decided that it was about time to give up this whole façade, as the man would not believe him no matter what.

"Well, it seems that you are not going to believe me, and my NAME is Emerald. Also I should let you know that your torture is never going to break me," Emerald stated in a matter of fact voice.

A small tick mark formed on Ibiki's head, but was hidden by his headband. "Oh and why is that exactly," he growled at the wolf boy.

"Two reasons actually, the first being that I am nothing but a shadow clone. Even if you did manage to hit my threshold of pain, I would just disappear and return my knowledge to my original."

Hearing this, Ibiki gasped and tried to release the jutsu to worn the others that the boy may still be somewhere in the village, the key word being tried.

As he tried to release the jutsu, he heard Emerald start laughing in the background. As he turned around, he saw Emerald no longer bound by the chains and wire and just standing there with a devious grin that showed off his feral and sharp looking teeth and still laughing.

Ibiki then realized something else. Even though his victim was no longer bound, he could still feel the bindings getting tighter.

He looked down at his own body and gasped. Instead of the boy, it was him that was currently bound. He growled once more and looked to Emerald with hatred.

"What is going on, how did you use a body replacement jutsu without me noticing," He shouted causing Emerald's grin to grow wider.

"I didn't, remember when you flared your chakra? Well right before that, I put you under a very special Genjutsu. You then released me and activated the jutsu. I just manipulated your reality to make it seem like it was being used on me."

Ibiki was outraged at having been made a fool of in such a manner, but he also had a great sense of astonishment. This kid wasn't even old enough to be a gennin and yet he was using high level jutsu as if it was nothing. The fact that he even knew the shadow clone jutsu and could use it to this extent made him a very large threat.

"You don't have to worry Morino-san. Everything that I had told you before and during the Genjutsu was completely true. I have no interest in harming this village. With that bit of information, I bid you ado," Emerald said before poofing into a cloud of smoke.

As soon as he disappeared, the cage that had been around the two ninja as well as the binds around Ibiki flickered and disappeared. The instant this happened, Ibiki blinked and found himself standing in the now empty room in the same spot he was in before he saw the flash in Emerald's clone's eyes.

As soon as he regained his senses, he turned and ran out the door to alert the Hokage immediately.

*Flashback, just before entering the village*

As the siblings made their way towards the Konoha gate, they did not notice Emerald go through the hand signs to produce a shadow clone, nor did they notice him use the body replacement technique with it.

After switching places seamlessly, Emerald allowed the group to get ahead of him. Seeing that they were a good distance ahead of him, he removed his mask and cloak, leaving him with one eye covered by his headband, his pipe fox still wrapped around his shoulders, now visible to the world, his under shirt with the sleeves and his pants.

He sealed his gear in the storage scroll he had bound to his hip and placed the scroll back on his hip. He also adjusted his hair so that it covered the plate with his clan's symbol on his headband, in case any civilians were attentive enough to notice his siblings' headbands.

Once everything was sealed and the scroll was back on his hip, he got back on the path and made his way to another gate into the village.

"What is your business in Konohagakure," one gate keeper asked.

"I am a wanderer and have heard of the many exquisite places to eat in Konoha. I have come to sample these famous delicacies for myself." Emerald said without a hint of dishonesty in his voice.

Once more, just like his clone, the gatekeeper that hadn't said anything stepped up to Emerald with the scroll. Emerald placed his hand on the scroll.

The seal appeared around his hand and then spread up his arm and to his temple. The symbols could be seen on Emeralds face since he wasn't wearing his mask.

Instead of quickly returning to the scroll, the symbols lingered on his temple for a short time. The one with the scroll began to look suspicious just before the symbols finally receded.

Seeing the symbols return back to the scroll with no other problems, the gatekeepers allowed Emerald access.

When they believed that he was out of earshot, they summoned an Anbu member. By this point, unbeknownst to Emerald yet, his sibling had already been confronted.

Neko, having decided that she was no longer needed, answered the call. She arrived at the gate and the gatekeepers walked up to her.

"See that boy," one gatekeeper said, pointing at Emerald. "We want you to follow him, something seems off about him."

Neko nodded and disappeared into the shadows to keep an eye on her new assigned target. As she started to follow her new target, she realized that that boy resembled the black haired boy from the group she was escorting earlier.

Even though he was very far from the group, Emerald had heard everything with his highly sensitive hearing. After all, the Shadowfang clan shared an ancestor with the Inuzuka clan.

He just laughed internally to himself. As he walked through the streets, he did his best to seem like any other wanderer. To his chagrin though, whispers were already spreading like wild fire throughout the female populace that he came across about the "wild looking hotty".

Just like his clone, he just ignored the chatter and made his way to his target and the entire reason that he had split off from the rest of the group.

As he continued to walk, he came to realize that he did not know where it was that he was going so he decided to ask one of the locals for directions.

As he looked for a good person to ask, he felt an immense amount of very powerful chakra heading towards him.

He looked down the road in the direction that the presence was coming from when he spotted a bright orange blur quickly moving towards him.

As the blur got closer, Emerald could make out blond hair above it and instantly realized from the descriptions his pipe fox had given him that that must be The Naruto Uzumaki.

As he continued to observe, he noticed a small group of men with various makeshift weapons chasing the poor boy.

Emerald had heard of the boy being mistreated but was still shocked, to say the least, at this kind of behavior directed at him. Emerald took a sniff at the air and could smell two very distinct things.

The first thing he smelled was an almost overwhelming bloodlust, the next being an equally strong sense of terror.

Once Emerald caught these scents, his resolve was set. The group quickly made its way towards Emerald. Just as Naruto was trying to run around Emerald, he grabbed him by the collar of his absurdly flashy jumpsuit, stopping him dead in his tracks while almost choking him out in the process.

"Please don't hurt me," Naruto whimpered.

"Don't worry," Emerald said in a calming tone which did seem to help the poor frightened boy, "I am not here to hurt you. In fact I am going to help you out."

There was a brief flash of hope in Naruto's eyes at the prospect of someone finally helping him instead of trying to hurt him. That hope was quickly snuffed out as soon as the crowd of about twelve men finally caught up.

"Good job catching the demon, stranger, now hand him over," one villager said while stepping closer to the two teenage boys.

Instead of moving out of their way, Emerald released Naruto and stepped between them and the still cowering Uzumaki. The villagers seem to take offense to this as they started yelling at the "demon lover". Even the women, who not even five minutes earlier were acting as if he was an Adonis, were now not sure how to react.

By this point Neko had managed to get closer to Emerald's position and within ear shot of the mob. She could feel their killing intent and wondered where the boy's Anbu guard was at.

Normally, Neko was in charge of watching over the boy on this day, but for the first time ever, boar decided that he wanted to watch over the boy today.

You see, today was a very tragic day for the village. Fourteen years ago, on this day, the nine-tailed demon fox, Kitsune no Kyuubi, had broken free of its jinchūriki and attacked the village.

Ever since the fox had been sealed by the fourth Hokage, he had been celebrated as a hero. Naruto, on the other hand had been treated as a demon, and as soon as he turned eight years old, he had been kicked out of the orphanage that he had been living in.

It was also around this time that the fox hunt began. On this day, every year, the male villagers would make some weapons and try to beat and torture Naruto, but would normally be stopped by Neko, before they could do anything.

But this year, Boar was supposed to be watching the boy, and things should not have been able to escalate to this point.

Neko was fuming, but rational about the situation. All Anbu had a multi frequency head set built into their masks. Neko used this to contact Boar.

"Hey Boar, this is Neko," She started in a very calm voice, to hide from him her intent for calling.

"What can I do for you Neko," Boar replied.

"I was just checking up on your target's status," she said.

Boar paused for a second before replying.

"He is doing just fine; I am watching him eat ramen in his apartment as we speak," Boar said cheerfully.

Neko had recorded the entire conversation; all with the intent of taking it to the Hokage after this whole thing was done.

Little did most people realize, but Neko had always viewed Naruto as if he was her own, slightly younger brother.

She had first been assigned as his body guard on his eighth birthday. She was only twelve at the time, but showed so much promise that she had both entered and graduated the academy at the age of ten. Shortly after, she was inducted into the Anbu black ops program.

She became very protective of Naruto throughout her time watching over him, and seeing that Boar was obviously just allowing this to happen made her blood just boil.

She got ready to step in and disburse the mob, but stopped when she saw Emerald step between Naruto and his tormentors.

What she saw this complete stranger do gave the young kunoichi a very deep respect for this boy.

"Hey, get out of our way," one villager yelled at Emerald.

"Yeah, we are just giving that demon what it rightfully deserves," yelled another.

This remark made Emerald snarl, causing the mob to back away in slight fear.

"The only demons I see," Emerald snarled angrily, "are you lousy, cowardly and despicable insects who are ganging up on and threatening to harm a defenseless child for your own sick pleasure!" Emerald yelled out.

Some of the more sensible of the mob started to feel ashamed of their actions after hearing what the boy said, but renewed their vigor when the most stubborn of the group tried to rebut.

"You call us demons. We aren't the ones who destroyed half the village, killing many good people in the process."

There were shouts of yeah and that's right going around the group. This only fueled Emeralds rage.

"You truly are lower than scum," Emerald spat. "I know all about that incident fourteen years ago. I also know that this boy is the reason another occurrence of that incident hasn't happened since!"

The mob leaders tried to think of a comeback, but no matter how hard they tried they just couldn't. The longer they tried to think of a comeback, the worse the more humane of the group came to realize how pitiful they were acting.

The ones that were finally coming to their senses began to leave and the mob started shrinking, leaving only four men left.

They all looked between each other and then back at the two teens, with Naruto now finally calming down and standing up.

"You know what; we don't care what you say you bastard, we are going to get our revenge. After all, there are four of us and only one of you," the foolish leader stated bravely before he and the others charged at Naruto and Emerald. Naruto got ready to run, but his legs wouldn't respond.

He could only look on in fear as the four remaining men attacked. He turned and yelled at Emerald to run and just leave him.

Emerald just looked over his shoulder at Naruto and gave him a very toothy grin.

"Don't worry about me, I can hold my own," Emerald laughed. He returned his attention to the men now charging at him.

He bit his left thumb while grabbing his sealing scroll with his right hand. He ripped it from his waist, unfurling it in the process. He then quickly proceeded to run his now bleeding left thumb across the once clean paper.

In a poof of smoke, one of Emerald's katanas, still sheathed, appeared before him. The blade then fell to the ground with the sheath impaling the ground causing the sword to stand. As if it sensed it was no longer needed, the scroll rewound itself within Emerald's hand.

He reattached the scroll to his hip before stepping up to his blade. To those who looked closely, smoke could be seen emanating from the bite on his thumb as it quickly sealed itself, leaving no trace of the wound that was there only seconds before.

Emerald picked up the katana. The blade did not even budge inside the sheath as Emerald dislodged it from the ground.

He then put the blade to his side with his left hand holding the sheath and his right holding the hilt. He then got into a slight crouch.

As soon as the first man came within ten feet of the boys, Emerald made his move. To a normal civilian, Emerald just disappeared and then reappeared behind the poor unsuspecting man. Suddenly, the man just stopped and dropped to the ground unconscious.

To a trained shinobi, he could be seen running to the man's backside and hitting the back of his neck with the katana.

The other three stopped and watched as their leader fell before looking up at the young boy.

"You bastard," They all yelled in unison before simultaneously rushing Emerald. This kind of plan might have worked on a normal civilian, but Emerald was not a normal civilian.

As the men just took wild swings, Emerald easily just danced around and parried each attack as if it was nothing, causing several on-looking women to swoon.

As all this was happening, Neko couldn't help but admire the boy's kenjutsu skills, even if it was only against some untrained civilian's. She could tell just by his stance and the way he held his sword that he was highly proficient using it.

"Stop dancing around you coward and fight seriously," yelled one of the attackers. Up until this point of the fight, Emerald had a happy go lucky expression on his face, but as soon as the man had called him a coward, he took on a much more serious expression.

"All right, you want me to fight seriously, I will fight seriously," Emerald stated without a hint of emotion.

The next thing anyone knew, Emerald was standing in front of Naruto once more. The three men just stood in place, unmoving.

Emerald resealed his Katana and, as if on cue, the three men fell to the ground just as their comrade had. As the civilian population just stared in awe, even Neko could not believe what she had just seen.

Emerald had been moving with such speed that even she, a highly experienced Anbu member, could barely keep up with his movements. She wasn't even entirely sure what all he had done to the men.

All she had managed to catch was the slight movement he made before reappearing before Naruto. Everything else was nothing more than a brown, black and white blur.

Emerald extended his hand out to Naruto. Naruto just looked from Emerald's hand, to the men lying on the ground and back before shakily taking it. Emerald then hoisted up Naruto, whose legs had given out while watching Emerald, back onto his feet.

"I almost forgot, hey Naruto, do you know where a place called Ichiraku Ramen is located." Emerald asked after remembering where he was going before this whole spectacle.

By this point, thousands of questions were flooding through Naruto's head right now, things like: who are you, how do you know my name, and especially, what did you mean that I was the reason that another Kyuubi attack hadn't happened.

Every last one of those questions was soon instantly forgotten at the mention of his favorite ramen stand in all of existence.

"Yeah I know where it is! It is my most favorite place to eat in the entire world!" Naruto happily exclaimed as if he just one the lottery.

Naruto quickly turned around and started running back in the direction that he had originally come from. Emerald just chuckled to himself lightly before quickly following the boy, but not before he took note of the purple haired kunoichi who appeared beside the unconscious men and sealed them into a special sealing scroll before disappearing once more.

After following the excited boy for several blocks, Emerald could finally see the small stand that was quite well known throughout the Fire Nation for its delicious but simple ramen.

The two teens entered the stand and took seats next to each other.

"Order whatever you like," Emerald told Naruto. "Everything is on me."

Naruto just sat, wide eyed and stared at Emerald. Just as he got ready to shout for joy, Teuchi walked out of the back room and immediately greeted his most valued customer.

"Naruto my boy, it is good to see you. Though it is rather strange to for you to come in on this day of all days. Did the other villagers finally stop that ridiculous hunt, they didn't hurt you did they," The ramen shop owner asked with concern

"No they actually got a pretty big mob and started chasing me, but then this guy saved me!" Naruto exclaimed while pointing at Emerald.

Teuchi looked the unfamiliar silver haired boy up and down and then gave a small smile of approval. Emerald just sat there looking over the menu, completely oblivious.

Teuchi then tried to get his attention. Emerald finally broke his attention away from the glorious menu laid out before him and gave his full attention.

"Naruto here tells me you saved him earlier. I would like to personally thank you for that. Order whatever you like, it's all on the house."

Emerald's jaw just dropped as he immediately started salivating. His eyes grew five sizes larger.

"I… I'll… take five of everything on the menu plus whatever he wants," Emerald barely managed to say.

"Are you sure you can eat all that there is…"

"FIVE of EVERYTHING," Emerald said.

_This kid must eat like Naruto if he can eat that much!_ Teuchi thought to himself as Naruto ordered his usual.

After getting both boys orders, Teuchi went into the back to retrieve the ingredients that he would need for this feast.

Meanwhile with Neko

"Hokage-sama, I have caught these four civilians trying to continue the fox hunt," Neko reported to the Hokage.

At first, Sarutobi, the Hokage, looked confused.

"Neko, why did you catch them, shouldn't it have been Boar's job to do that?" The aging Kage asked.

As soon as he asked, Neko played the recording of her conversation with Boar.

"What is your purpose for playing this recording?"

"I recorded that at the same time that I witnessed the civilians trying to attack Naruto. Boar was either not even actually watching him or was just allowing it to happen." Neko stated in an icy tone.

Upon hearing this, there was a brief flash of rage in the Kage's expression before it returned to its normal calm demeanor.

"Thank you, Neko, for bringing this to my attention. I will personally make sure that Boar is appropriately punished for this. I am surprised that there were only four though," He stated.

"Actually the group started out at about ten or twelve, but the majority dispersed when a young traveler managed to persuade them to leave.

These four were the only ones that remained. They charged Naruto and the other boy but were swiftly and easily incapacitated. The strangest thing is that the boy seemed to know about the nine-tails sealed within Naruto as well."

Sarutobi looked legitimately shocked to hear that four full grown men, civilians they may be, were singlehandedly taken down by a young foreigner. He became even more shocked to find out that he knew of the nine-tails and still helped out his pseudo grandson.

"Thank you Neko, you may take the rest of the day off for your good work and for reporting this to me promptly. Also, if you happen to run into that traveler, let him know that I would like to speak with him."

"Yes, Hokage-sama." Neko said before disappearing with the body flicker technique. Once she was gone, the Hokage immediately started thinking up the worst possible punishment he could for Boar. When he finally made a decision, he called his secretary into his office and had her summon Boar.

Neko may have been given the day off, but instead she decided to go keep an eye on her pseudo Otōto. She knew exactly where to find him to.

She headed straight to her home and changed into some civilian clothing before heading for Ichiraku.

While all this was going on, Emerald and Naruto were quickly going through bowl after bowl of Ramen with neither showing any signs of slowing down.

"Damn, if I had known that you could eat like this, I wouldn't have offered your meal to be free," Teuchi laughed out, happy to see his food was being so enjoyed by this wolf like boy.

Just as he was about to bring out Naruto's tenth bowl and Emerald's fifteenth, Neko walked into the Ramen stand.

Emerald immediately caught her scent and knew that she was the girl with the Neko mask. He then proceeded to pretend that he had not noticed her.

Naruto, on the other hand, caught sight of her and called out to her eagerly.

"Yugao-neesan! What are you doing here?" He asked excitedly.

"Well I heard that some kind person had helped my cute little Otōto, so I came to thank him in person," She said.

Emerald turned around to look at her and she introduced herself.

"Hello, my name is Yugao Uzuki. I would like to thank you for helping out Naruto-kun in my absence."

"It was not a prob…" Emerald paused for a brief second as the memories from his clone returned to him. "lem. My name is Emerald… Do you think you could take me to see the Hokage Uzuki-san; I would like to talk to him about those civilians who had attacked me earlier."

Yugao looked surprised as she was just about to ask him if he would like to speak to the Hokage. She nodded her head and placed a hand on Emerald's shoulder before he stopped her from body flickering.

"Sir, could you put the remainder of my order on hold for a little while, I need to go talk to someone," Emerald asked Teuchi politely.

"No problem my boy, anyone who enjoys my food as much as Naruto here is welcome. Come on back as soon as you are done with your business and those last couple of bowls will be waiting for you, still piping hot." He exclaimed.

Satisfied with this, Emerald looked to Yugao and nodded his head. Then they were both gone in a cloud of smoke, reappearing in the Hokage's office with Boar still getting chewed out by Sarutobi.

As soon as he noticed them, he dismissed Boar and told him he would be sending for him later before turning his attention to the silver haired wolf boy standing with Yugao's hand on his shoulder.

"Yugao, who is this boy," He asked.

"My name is Emerald; I am the one who helped Naruto Uzumaki," Emerald stated with a slight respectful bow.

"Ah I see, very well. I would like to have a word with you. Yugao, you are dismissed."

"Actually, I would like to speak with you as well. I am from the Shadowfang clan, and I would like to discuss citizenship for me and my siblings."

Sarutobi just sat there stone faced, he wasn't sure what to say upon hearing this information. Every Hokage since the founding of the village knew about the split between the Inuzuka clan and the Shadowfang as well as their strength.

It was also well known how much the Shadowfang despised the hidden villages, hence why they did not join one like the Inuzuka.

Sarutobi's instincts kicked in and said that something was not right and he got ready to voice this when Emerald cut him off before he could start.

"I am sure you know, but in the past my clan hated the idea of joining a village, and to be honest, we still do, but we have no other choice. Due to circumstances, we can no longer remain on our own."

"And what circumstances would those be," Sarutobi asked suspiciously.

"When I was younger, I was captured and experimented on by Orochimaru. Most of my clan was wiped out trying to rescue me. The only ones left are my fourteen year old, younger twin sisters, my twin brother and I.

Ever since then, we have had to stay on the move to keep him from recapturing me. He is starting to get to close and we can't stop him on our own. We need help and we figured that this village would be willing to take us in, if not for any reason other than to capture Orochimaru."

Sarutobi narrowed his eyes at the young boy before him. He could tell that that wasn't the whole reason, but the boy was being sincere in admitting that he needed help.

"Alright, you may stay in the village. You will be enrolled in the academy and trained to join the shinobi work force," Sarutobi stated.

Emerald broke out in a huge grin and bowed deeply. "Thank you so much sir, you will not regret this."

Sarutobi nodded his head. "Before you go, I would like to thank you for saving Naruto. There is something that I would like to know though. Why did you help Naruto, and how did you know that he is the container of the nine-tails?"

"I knew because of this little girl here," Emerald stated, pointing at the thing that Sarutobi had thought was some kind of scarf.

To his surprise, the long pipe fox lifted its head and yawned slightly before looking around the room sleepily. Emerald held out his hand and she unwound from his neck and rewound around his arm, lifting herself up about an inch off of his palm to look at the old man.

"Her name is Vega, I had her enter the village and gather information on the citizens."

Hearing this, Sarutobi immediately started flaring his KI before Emerald managed to calm him.

"Don't worry, there was no negative intent. I just needed to make sure that I wouldn't be attacked for any reason. If I had found that this would not have been a safe place for me and my siblings then we would have moved on and tried to find another village."

Sarutobi seemed to accept this and returned to his calm position, allowing Emerald to continue.

"As to why I helped him, I think it would be better to show you rather than try to explain."

Sarutobi looked at the boy curiously. Emerald just lifted his shirt up slightly. To Sarutobi's surprise, a seal formed on the boy's abdomen unlike anything he had ever seen before.

Emerald placed his right palm over the seal and a silver aura of chakra enveloped his hand. The seal started to glow. Then, a scarlet red mist started to float out of the seal and started forming a shape next to him.

Sarutobi did not move, but prepared himself for whatever the boy was doing.

The mist started to rise up to Emeralds height. Then it started to solidify until it took on the form of a person.

In fact, it took on the form of a young girl, who looked to be in her mid-teens. She had waist length long straight white hair that framed her heart shaped face well and ended in deep scarlet red tips. She also had nine long white tails, also ending in scarlet red tips. Her eyes were quite peculiar.

Her irises were split into two colors. The inner most color was a beautiful ice blue color while the outside was a deep scarlet and she had slitted pupils, just like Emerald.

She was barefoot and wearing a scarlet red yukata with chibi foxes printed all over it. The yukata accentuated the girl's slender figure and triple D cup chest.

As soon as the mist stopped flowing out of the seal and the girl completely solidified, Emerald introduced her.

"Hokage-sama, I would like to introduce you to my mate," Emerald paused for a second before continuing, "The Kyuubi no Kitsune, Isis."

"How can this girl be the Kyuubi no Kitsune? Do you take me for a senile old fool? Naruto is the container of the Kyuubi and," Sarutobi started yelling angrily before Emerald interjected.

"Isis, if you would please," He said to Isis.

"Of course," Isis smiled before flaring her chakra. As soon as he felt the nine-tail's chakra coming from the girl, Sarutobi immediately stopped and started trying to process what was going on.

"As you can see, Isis is the Kyuubi. In his haste, the Yondaime slipped up. What was sealed inside of Naruto was part of her chakra. Her physical body and the remainder of her chakra found its way to my clan's location.

I happened to stumble across her barely conscious form. When I touched her to check her vitals, she sealed herself inside of me in her desperation and now, here we are."

Sarutobi couldn't believe his ears.

"Alright then, if you are the Kyuubi, why did you attack our village all those years ago?"

Isis looked ashamed of herself before answering.

"I… I don't know. All I remember of the incident was that the seal was weakened and some masked man broke it completely. When I looked him in the eye, I blacked out and when I regained my senses, I had already sealed myself inside Emerald. If it means anything to you, I apologize for my actions during my blackout" She said sincerely.

Sarutobi seemed to accept this as he made a mental note to investigate this masked man later. Then another question arose.

"If you are sealed inside of Emerald then how are you able to manifest and why do you manifest like this?"

"When I made the seal, I made it with the intentions of being able to escape whenever I chose to, but then I actually met with Emerald within his mind.

After interacting with him, I fell in love and chose to remain within him and we became mates. If I were to completely retake my freedom, it would have killed Emerald. Plus over time, the seal absorbed his chakra and altered so that he took control of it. Now I can't manifest without him allowing me.

Also, the reason I look like this is because we bijuu, as you call us, can take any form we choose, though my true form is a large reddish orange and silver fox."

Sarutobi just remained in his chair and nodded his understanding of the situation. He would need to keep this entire thing secret, or the villagers would be out for the boy's head, not to mention what Danzo would do to get his hands on this boy.

Seeing that he understood, Isis leaned into Emerald and gave him a large hug and kiss on the cheek before fading back into the mist and returning to the seal.

"So if what you say is true, then why don't we just extract the chakra, then Naruto can live a normal peaceful life." Sarutobi said starting to feel some hope for the poor boy that he has tried so hard to protect.

His hope started to fade though when he saw the grim look on Emerald's face.

"That wouldn't work. When I came into contact with the boy, I could sense the chakra within him. It has formed a consciousness. If it is just flat out removed, it will form another nine-tails."

"So what you're saying is that there is nothing that we can do." Sarutobi stated solemnly.

"My sister had come up with a special seal. It will allow us to extract the chakra without harming him, but there are two downsides.

Knowing what I do now, I can tell you, that it will not be a quick process. Now that it has consciousness, it will replenish itself in time unless we completely drain it from him.

We also can't remove all of it at once, the seal holding the chakra within him would kill him if we tried. To counter this, I have a proposal."

Sarutobi looked at Emerald but said nothing. Emerald took this as a sign to continue.

"I would like to induct Naruto into the Shadowfang clan. I will then have my sister Sapphire place the seal on him. Like this, we can draw out the chakra at a steady pace to stay above the reproduction rate.

We can also train and protect him from the civilians trying to hurt him. Plus if we push him hard enough during the training, he will subconsciously tap into the chakra, allowing us to draw it out faster."

As Emerald finished his explanation, Sarutobi once more regained his sense of hope. He did not let that cause him to make a rash decision.

"How can I be sure that you won't just take him and leave the village?" He questioned sternly.

"First off, if that was my intention, I could have just done that while that pup Uzuki-san collected the unconscious civilians I left in the street.

Second, why would I come and talk to you personally about this. If I had those intentions, then this would be suicidal."

Once more Sarutobi nodded in understanding. The boy did make very good points not to mention he could tell that the boy wasn't using Genjutsu or a transformation and it didn't seem like he was lying. He opened a drawer in his desk and pulled his pipe out, promptly filling and lighting it.

"Alright, I will allow it, but you will have tracking seals placed on all of you for securities sake. You will join the Academy starting tomorrow and I will have Naruto move in with you tomorrow."

"Sounds fair to me, Vega," Emerald said to the fox around his arm, "please go and find my siblings and bring them to me. Tell them it was a success, even though Topaz did screw up."

Vega nodded her head and unwound from Emerald's arm before falling lightly to the floor and running to and jumping out of the window.

"Quite a handy little thing she is. Before we finalize this agreement, let us discuss your living arrangements."

"Actually, that reminds me. Vega informed me of an area that no one goes into, filled with many dangerous creatures. I would like to be allowed to set up our clan compound there."

"You can't possibly mean the forest of death, that's insane."

"Not necessarily. There is a territory deep within the forest controlled by wolves; that is where we will go. We will be safe there not just from the creatures but anyone who wishes any of us harm."

"Alright, then it is settled, you can wait in the lobby until your siblings arrive and…" He started before Emerald once more interrupted.

"I am going back to Ichiraku; I have a meal to finish." Emerald said before standing up and making his way to the door.

"But how will your little fox find you if you leave here," Sarutobi questioned.

"I am Vega's master; when she wants to find me, she will." Emerald stated simply before reaching for the door.

Before he could grab the handle, the door burst open and a very irate Anko appeared in the door. She got ready to say something when she saw Emerald standing there.

Whatever words she had, died before she could even get them out. Emerald was confused at the sudden intrusion before his clone's memories floated to the surface.

"Oh, hello Miturashi-san." Emerald said. As if hearing his voice confirmed his presence, Anko immediately glomped onto him.

"Is this normal for her," Emerald asked confused. He looked towards Sarutobi.

"I guess not," he said as he saw the old man standing there with his jaw hanging slack and his pipe slowly sliding out of his mouth.

"Alright Miturashi-san, it is time to let go," Emerald grunted while trying to wriggle out of her grasp.

Before he could get loose, Ibiki came rushing into the room and immediately started talking to the Hokage, completely ignoring the scene going on in front of the door way.

"Hokage-sama, a boy that I was interrogating managed to trick us by sending in a clone. He has infiltrated the village and is god knows where."

"Morino-san, good to see you again," Emerald stated after finally getting free of Anko's hug.

Ibiki swiftly turned around and saw Emerald standing there holding Anko back at arm's length.

"Hokage-sama, this is the one, he claimed to want citizenship…"

"Which I just received," Emerald jumped in.

"Hokage-sama, that can't be true,"

"It can and is, now if you have nothing more to inform me, then you are dismissed, unless you question my decision," Sarutobi said firmly, leaving no room for argument.

"Of course not Hokage-sama, then I will take my leave."

At that Ibiki started to leave the room.

"Hey wait, can you take her with you," Emerald said to him. Ibiki said nothing and just grabbed Anko by the collar and forcibly dragged her out of the office.

"But I wasn't done, let me go damn it. Emerald…" She continued to yell as Ibiki took her out of the tower.

"Well… then… I guess I am off then," Emerald said unsurely. He then quickly left the building before anything else could happen.

He arrived back at Ichiraku's to find Naruto still sitting there, rather bloated, but carrying on a conversation with a girl behind the bar who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old while Yugao sat next to him.

Emerald walked back in and sat down on Naruto's free side. As soon as he sat down, Teuchi came back out carrying the remaining five bowls of Emerald's order.

"Wow, impressive, how did you know I would be back right now?" Emerald asked astonished as Teuchi placed the bowls down in front of him.

"Call it a talent," he replied with a big grin. Emerald opted not to ask more questions and dove right on into the ramen, quickly finishing them.

After he ate the last bite and swallowed the remaining broth, he put the last bowl down. He then noticed the girl from earlier and Yugao both watching him intently.

"I'm sorry, where are my manners? I don't believe I have met you before, my name is Emerald and it is a pleasure to meet you, may I ask your name?"

"Cute, brave and a gentleman, you're quite the package aren't you Emerald-san. My name is Ayame and I am this stand's owner's daughter. It is a pleasure to meet you and thank you for saving Naruto-kun. He is like a younger brother to me and Yugao-san."

"It was my pleasure," Emerald said with a curt smile. He then stood up and thanked Teuchi and Ayame. He took one step out of the stand before being tackled to the ground by Sapphire and Topaz.

Ruby walked up to the large family heap to find Sapphire and Topaz furiously nuzzling into a disoriented Emerald's chest.

Hearing the Commotion, Yugao and Naruto peeked out of the stand. Naruto started laughing uncontrollably while Yugao covered her mouth and tried to conceal her giggles.

Ruby then decided to help his brother and removed his sisters from Emerald's person. Emerald gathered his sense and got up.

As soon as he did, Vega ran up his body and wrapped gently around his neck. Emerald then pulled out a small sack that he had in his pocket and gave the little fox a piece of dried beef to which she happily nibbled.

"Alright everyone, as I am sure Vega has informed you, we have gained our citizenship. We will be joining the Academy tomorrow."

As soon as Naruto heard Emerald say that he would be joining the Academy, he got inwardly excited and hoped maybe he would end up in his class.

"Alright Vega, you should know the way to this "Forest of Death" place," Emerald said. Vega nodded her head and pointed her nose in the direction to the forest.

Before they could start walking in that direction, Yugao stepped in front of the group in a slightly frantic state.

"You can't honestly be going into that place," she said. She was worried since this was the first boy that Naruto had ever encountered that treated him like a normal boy and she didn't want to see him die.

"We will be fine; after all you saw what Topaz could do against Miturashi-san and she is the weakest of the four of us, plus there is a safe zone that we will go to," Emerald said matter-of-factly.

"How did you know about that fight, and how do you know these three," She asked suspiciously.

"Remember the masked boy of the group that was taken away," Emerald hinted. "Well that was my shadow clone."

"At least let me watch over you guys until you get to this supposed safe zone," She pleaded. At the least she would keep them safe and she could retrieve them in the mornings and drop them off in the evenings so Naruto wouldn't lose his new found friend.

"That is fine by me but it is rather unnecessary," Emerald stated nonchalantly. His sisters on the other hand were furiously growling and trying to fight against Ruby's grasp to go and tear Yugao apart.

Yugao relaxed a bit and led the group to the forest while Naruto also left to return to his apartment. As soon as they got to the fence they all jumped over the fence.

"Alright, where is this safe zone," Yugao asked.

Instead of a response, she heard an ear splitting howl, forcing her to cover her ears and turn towards the source.

She stood staring at Emerald as he finally finished howling.

"What are you doing, you need to be quiet or you could draw things to us," Yugao hissed. Suddenly there was another howl followed by the sound of something large hitting the ground and moving towards them quickly.

Yugao quickly grabbed the kunai she kept strapped to her leg and got ready to defend the siblings from whatever was coming.

Suddenly the three wolves that Topaz, Sapphire and Ruby had road in on appeared growling menacingly with a white one the size of an elephant leading them.

Yugao readied to attack when she saw Emerald just walk up to the snarling white wolf. She moved to stop him but stopped in shock as the wolf lowered its head and Emerald started to pet its muzzle.

Emerald turned around and his sibling walked over and mounted their wolves.

"Uzuki-san, you can ride with me. The wolves won't let you ride them by yourself." Emerald told her. She crept up slowly until she was right beside Emerald.

The large white wolf laid itself down and the two mounted it. "Hold on tightly," Emerald cautioned. "She likes to run fast."

Yugao wrapped her arms around Emerald and blushed slightly at the contact, but brushed it away. Topaz and Sapphire didn't like this but stayed their hands.

The wolf stood up and turned back towards the forest. Before Yugao could even brace herself, the wolf took off into the forest with the other three following close behind.

After about five minutes they reached a large clearing filled with wolves of varying sizes and colors. It was here that the wolves stopped.

As soon as everyone dismounted, the wolves wandered away to their own areas.

"How can you live here; there is nothing here!" Yugao exclaimed.

"Just stand back and watch, Sapph, help me out over here," Emerald said while walking over to an area of the clearing with nothing there.

Yugao just looked on in interest as to what they were about to do. They walked several meters apart and turned and faced each other. Emerald nodded his head and both put their arms straight out to their sides.

Then they both flashed through hand signs. They finished their hand signs at the exact same time and yelled out there jutsu in unison:

Joint technique, Mokuton: Shichuka no Jutsu

Suddenly, an immense building started to form from the ground. It finally stopped growing at about three stories high. Yugao couldn't believe what she was seeing. Not only had these two just used a high level Kekkei Genkai, but they also used a joint jutsu as if it was nothing.

Both Emerald and Sapphire walked to the front of the newly formed house and admired their work.

"Alright Yugao, do you have any more worries, because if not then you should be fine to leave," Emerald stated bluntly.

She just nodded numbly and disappeared.

"Alright Sapphire, you work on setting up the barrier seals. Topaz and Ruby, you two go out hunting and bring back enough meat to last us for some time, I will take care of making our water supply," Emerald instructed everyone.

They all then broke to go to their specified tasks.

*Next Day at the Academy*

Iruka walked into the excited classroom to start the day. He looked around the room and noticed Naruto and Sasuke fighting as usual.

He knew it would resolve itself so motioned for the new students to enter. Once more, Emerald was wearing his cloak, mask and Katana whilst his siblings were also in their normal attire.

The students still had not taken notice of the unfamiliar students at the front of the class, but how could they when all of their eyes were on Naruto and Sasuke.

At the moment, Naruto was squatting on the desk in front of Sasuke and they were staring each other down. Emerald saw this and a wicked idea came to his head.

While Iruka was, unsuccessfully, trying to get the classes attention, Emerald grabbed the chalk board eraser from the board behind him and chucked it at Naruto's rear.

The sudden force and surprise caused Naruto to fall forward as his and Sasuke's lips made contact. They broke the false kiss and clutched at their throats gagging.

This caused all the girls to start wailing before grabbing Naruto and beating him half to death. Emerald was just standing there hunched over and laughing uncontrollably.

This drew the attention of the girls and Sasuke. One of the girls then picked up a chair and hurled it at Emerald while yelling about how it was his fault that they lost Sasuke's first kiss.

Emerald just ducked as the chair sailed over head and smashed against the board. As he was standing up, the entire class had gone silent and everyone was in their seats.

Confused by the sudden calm, he looked at Iruka and noticed that his head was shrinking to a normal size. Emerald just decided not to ask any questions.

"Alright class, like I was trying to say earlier, we will be having four new siblings joining our class. We will begin by having them introduce themselves and performing one of the entry jutsu."

Sapphire stood up first and gave her name to the class. Murmurs of how pretty she was could be heard all around the room, especially amongst the boys. She then performed the clone jutsu.

Iruka then motioned for the next one to go. Topaz jumped up and immediately took pleasure in the looks the boys were giving her already.

She then introduced herself and performed a transformation. When the smoke cleared, she was still dressed the same way, but she now stood about a foot taller. She also looked older and now had a D size chest.

Every boy in the class, save Naruto who was still lying unconscious on the floor, was pinching there nose to staunch severe nosebleeds. To top it off, Topaz struck a very provocative pose, almost taking out Iruka along with the students before releasing the transformation. The girls just sat there staring daggers at the girl.

As soon as she stepped out of the way, Ruby stepped up and introduced himself. He two used the transformation jutsu and turned into Iruka, before changing back.

He too heard whispers of how good looking he is from all but the most die-hard Sasuke fan girls. Finally it was Emerald's turn.

"Hello, my name is Emerald Shadowfang," he said simply. He then started to look around the room and noticed the brooding Uchiha giving him a death glare for what he caused to happen earlier. He also happened to notice the Inuzuka heiress, Shiba, in his class was giving him a strange look as well

Though it couldn't be seen because of his mask, Emerald smirked to himself. He then reached up to his mask and pulled it away from his face while pulling his hood down.

As soon as the young Uchiha saw Emerald's face, Sasuke jolted up and stared with pure rage. Everyone else in the class just gasped.

The reason being that Emerald had performed a transformation under his mask. The face that he used was one very close to Sasuke.

Emerald had taken Sasuke's older sister, Izumi's face. Emerald had done this because he was well aware of the Uchiha massacre that had occurred several years before, leaving only Sasuke and his mother Mikoto Uchiha as the sole survivors.

Emerald replaced the mask and dropped the transformation, revealing his darker skin and silver hair but still concealing his face.

"Very… very good you four," Iruka said warily. He had been watching all four closely and knew that Emerald had not gone through the transformation before he came into the class and hadn't done a single hand sign, and yet he had, in fact, done the transformation.

"Alright class, let's make our way out to the sparring field, also could someone take Naruto to the nurse's office?"

Choji went over and picked up Naruto while the rest of the class walked out to the training field.

Iruka walked into the middle of the field and started explaining the rules of the spars they would be taking part in.

He then proceeded to call out students to practice. He started off with Emerald and Sasuke. Both made their way onto the field and turned to face each other.

Before they started Sasuke yelled out:

"How do you know that bitch's face?"

"Simple, I ran into her about a year ago. She told me that she was impressed by my skill Sasuki-chan," Emerald said, intentionally trying to get under the Uchiha's skin.

It seemed to work as she was soon seething with rage and in a fighting stance. Emerald saw this and smirked before grabbing both of his Katana, sheath and all.

He then locked them together using a special mechanism in the handles to form a bow without a string. Iruka walked between the two and put his hand up in the air.

As soon as he dropped his arm he jumped out of the circle. Immediately, Sasuke made a clone, while Emerald focused chakra into the katanas in his hand.

A silver string like bit of chakra formed between the tips of both katanas. Emerald took hold of this chakra string and pulled back and a chakra arrow formed.

Both Sasukes in front of him ran in separate directions towards Emerald. Emerald lifted up the bow, and took aim, not at either of the Sasukes, but at the tree just on the edge of the field.

All of the girls were cheering for Sasuke and jeering at Emerald. Just as the two Sasuke's were about to punch Emerald, a kunai came flying from the tree. Emerald shot the arrow at the kunai, effectively stopping it.

Once the two Sasuke's made contact with Emerald, they both disappeared in a poof of smoke, blocking Emerald's field of vision.

He sniffed at the air and then immediately ducked, as Sasuke's foot went flying right by where his head was. This motion plus Sasuke's momentum cleared the smoke.

At this point the girls were madly cheering for Sasuke before they heard Topaz say something that would set them all off.

"Emerald-nii, finish this already, that Uchiha girl doesn't stand a chance anyway," Topaz said in a bored tone.

"What are you talking about; no one can beat our Sasuke-kun," One girl yelled.

"Yeah and don't you dare call Sasuke-kun a girl you little bitch," yelled another girl. Topaz just ignored these girls.

Emerald nodded towards her and then looked back at Sasuke. Sasuke then ran at Emerald. He just stood there and dropped his bow.

As soon as Sasuke was in his reach, Emerald immediately grabbed her wrist and lifted her up off of her feet. He then swiftly brought her down on her back and held her down.

"How… how did you know my real name and gender," Sasuki managed to say between gasps for breath.

Emerald leaned down closely so only she would hear. "Your sister told me your real name, and the reason why you are pretending to be a boy, as well as why she did what she did."

"Tell me, tell me why she did it. What possible reason could she have for killing off our entire clan?!" Sasuki screamed furiously.

"Only if you can beat me," Emerald said as Iruka went in to declare Emerald the winner.

"Alright you two, you are free to head home, you guys are done for the day," Iruka said. Emerald nodded and released Sasuki before heading back to the building.

"Nii-sama, where are you going," Sapphire called out to him.

"I am just going to go collect the newest member of our clan," he replied. He entered the building and made his way to the nurse's office.

He walked in to find that Naruto had regained consciousness.

"Who the hell are you," he asked Emerald. Emerald removed his mask and Naruto lit up.

"Holy crap it's you, what are you doing in the nurse's office?"

"I came to collect you," Emerald started before he noticed the terrified look on Naruto's face.

"Relax, I already told you I am not going to harm you. How would you like to join me and my siblings' clan?" Emerald asked, getting right to the point.

"Are you asking me what I think you are," Naruto started to ask in slight disbelief.

"What I am asking you is if you would like to become part of my family," Emerald said.

Naruto went bug eyed at the prospect at finally having people to call family. The sudden shock of finally getting what he has always wanted sent his brain into overload and he passed out with huge grin on his face.

Emerald just shook his head and laughed before going and picking him up and piggybacking him on his back.

"You may be excited now but once we start your training… well, we'll see how excited you are then. Just know that when we are done with you, you may not have the nine-tail's chakra anymore, but you will definitely be a fighter worthy of the name Shadowfang. With this, I hereby welcome you, Naruto Uzumaki, to the Shadowfang Clan." Emerald whispered to the still unconscious Naruto.

**Alright guys, there is the second chapter of Rise. This is also the longest chapter I have ever written. I hope ypu all enjoyed it and I would like to ask that you guys check out the Hollow Convergence by Ajarel. He is just starting out but is actually very good. If you guys could at least give it a look, I am sure Ajarel would greatly appreciate it. Thank you and remember, Review, Fave and Follow**


	3. The errands

**Animals Speaking**

_Thoughts_

**Jutsu**

_Mental Conversation_

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With Naruto now resting with a goofy grin on his back, Emerald made his way out of the infirmary and off of the Academy grounds.

As he walked through the Academy gates, he suddenly caught the scent of the Inuzuka from his class. As he continued walking he noticed that the Inuzuka girl was staying at roughly the same distance.

He immediately stopped and noticed that she seemed to draw slightly closer before stopping herself. Emerald just sighed and shook his head and decided that she was not worth the effort to try to lose her.

He soon began to continue walking through the village that was only just beginning to wake up. As Emerald carried Naruto on his back, he could hear the hushed whispers coming from the few villagers that had made their way into the streets already to begin their day.

Just as he ignored the Inuzuka, he also ignored these whispers as well. Due to his more animalistic traits, he had himself been treated as a demon in some of the other villages though never stayed long enough to receive more than just some negative names.

Emerald could easily tolerate mistreatment aimed at him, simply viewing them as a slight annoyance, nothing more. It was when it was aimed at those he cared about or under his protection that he took offense.

Whenever he would hear comments aimed at Naruto, he would immediately turn to the source and give out a low growl, effectively silencing the chatter.

After he finally made his way back to the forest, he noticed that the Inuzuka's scent had disappeared. He also noticed a scent coming from the forest that he recognized, but couldn't quite place.

Deciding that it wasn't a big deal, Emerald hopped the fence and entered the forest. As he got closer to the newly made Shadowfang Clan compound, he noticed the scent he smelled at the entrance getting stronger and stronger.

[Deeper within the Forest]

After she had been dragged out of the Hokage's office the previous day, she had searched all over Konoha trying to find the mysterious boy who she now knew to be named Emerald.

After having nearly ransacked half the village and still being unable to find out where the boy was currently staying or living, she decided to let off some steam in the forest.

She knew that there was a clearing up ahead that was occupied by a pack of wolves. Ever since she found it, she would come there to train or meditate.

She knew she didn't have to fear the wolves, as they would leave her alone so long as she didn't show any aggression towards them or their pups.

As she came upon the clearing, she quickly noticed that something wasn't right. She tried to enter the clearing only to run into some sort of barrier.

As she viewed the clearing through the barrier, all she could see was an empty clearing. Thanks to Sapphires special barrier, only members of the Shadowfang and their guests could enter the clearing as well as sense or see what is going on inside.

Knowing that not many enter the forest of death, for obvious reasons, unless they had to, Anko immediately knew that something was wrong.

Just as she came to this realization, she felt two familiar chakra signatures approaching rather quickly. She immediately masked her own and hid herself amongst the leaves of the nearest tree.

Not even a minute later, her eyes went wide when she saw Emerald appear just in front of the edge of the barrier.

She got ready to call out to him before she stopped and analyzed the situation.

_What is he doing this deep in the forest of death? Also, why is he carrying Naruto-kun on his back?_

These two questions stood prominent in her mind as she slowly drew a kunai from her pouch and got ready to move in.

Before she got the chance, Emerald walked forward right through the barrier. Anko could only stand there and stare at the spot where her newly formed crush had just been standing.

Not only had he managed to get into the clearing as if there was no barrier, but as soon as he did, he just disappeared without a trace.

Anko swiftly jumped down to where Emerald had been and continued staring at the clearing, as if Emerald would just suddenly appear.

She slowly raised her right hand and placed it forward on the barrier. She could immediately feel her hand come into contact with the invisibly wall.

_Damn, if he could enter it so easily, then he must have something to do with this barrier's construction, but what, and what does it have to do with Naruto-kun?_

With this new revelation, Anko once more hid herself amongst the surrounding foliage and waited for either more people to arrive or Emerald to leave again. Lucky for her she wouldn't need to wait long.

[With Emerald]

After entering the clearing, Emerald gave nods of recognition to several of the wolf pups that were happily running around the clearing and playing with each other while their parents were out hunting.

One particular pup ran up to Emerald and stopped at his feet and looked up at him. This pup had a reddish orange coat and was still relatively young.

**Tou-sama, who is that boy on your back? His scent is similar to yours and Isis-nee-sama's,** yipped the little pup excitedly.

"It is because he is a very special person Flit," Emerald said as he knelt down to stroke the little pup's ears.

Flit just sat there and wagged his tail happily at the attention he was receiving from his pseudo father.

Ever since Emerald found him, sick and barely alive only a month ago, along with the dead bodies of both his parents, Emerald took the little wolf pup in and nursed him back to health in that one month.

Flit was still fairly sad after losing both his parents to some hunters, but quickly began to look to Emerald as if he was his real father. Until a week before coming to Konoha, you would rarely ever see Flit without Emerald and vice versa.

For his own safety, he had gone with Emerald's partner when the pack moved to join the pack within the forest of death.

Ever since the last of the Shadowfang set up their compound, Flit has spent as much time with Emerald as he could.

After he finished scratching Flit, Emerald stood up as did the excited pup. Emerald then started walking towards the actual compound where Emerald and his siblings now took up residence.

As he walked, Flit ran around him while staying with him, hence how he got his name. Emerald reached the door and entered the building with Flit following close behind.

Emerald traversed the many maze like corridors with relative ease before coming to a room. As he opened the room, Flit rushed in with Emerald close behind.

Aside from the bed in the corner and the one window along the back wall, there was nothing else in the room besides two more doors, one leading to a closet and the other to the bathroom, though the bathroom was lacking in a few things, like a sink, and shower… and the toilet.

Emerald walked over to the bed and gently moved Naruto off his back and onto the bed. He then walked back to the door before noticing that Flit wasn't following him.

He looked back to see Flit looking at Naruto with a curious look.

"Come along Flit, let Naruto-kun rest. He is going to need it," Emerald told the little pup.

Flit looked back at Naruto one more time before turning and softly padding back out the door.

"Hey Flit; I have an errand that requires me to run back into the village, would you like to come with me?"

**Yeah I want to come,** Flit said happily. With that being said, the two made their way to the entrance to the clearing.

They both stepped out of the barrier and no sooner had Emerald's trailing foot left the barrier, than he was swiftly tackled to the ground with a kunai to his jugular.

As he got his bearings, he looked up to see a stone faced Anko staring down at him aggressively.

"Good morning Miturashi-san," Emerald greeted.

"Cut it," she replied sharply. "What did you do to Naruto-kun," She hissed at him threateningly.

Emerald took note of the suffix she added to his name and decided that she had no intentions of harming Naruto.

"Naruto is fine. My clan has recently adopted him. When I informed him, he simply passed out from joy, nothing more," Emerald stated.

In response, Anko started to push the kunai against Emerald's neck, drawing blood. Seeing this, Flit immediately started bristling his fur and growling as threateningly as he could at her before Emerald gestured for him to calm down with his hand.

"Don't lie to me. The Civilian Council would never allow it," Anko said, voice brimming with unspoken threats that all promised pain if she didn't get the truth.

"Well it is the truth. When I was making arrangements for citizenship with the Hokage, he agreed to it," Emerald stated just as calmly as ever.

"Take me to see him," Anko stated firmly.

"See who?" Emerald questioned, unsure if she meant Naruto or the Hokage.

"Naruto-kun, I want to see for myself that what you say about him being unharmed is true. After I have confirmed this, then I will go and see the Hokage personally, to check up on your claims." She said.

"If that is what you wish, then that won't be a problem. Flit," Emerald then directed at the young pup, who was still on edge and ready to attack if it became necessary.

"I need you to fetch one of the other pups and have it come with you, do you understand," Emerald asked him.

**Yes, tou-sama**, Flit replied before swiftly running into the barrier.

The entire time the pup was gone, Anko did not move a muscle. It wasn't long before two wolf pups came bounding out of the barrier.

One was Flit while the other was a dark brown female pup from the Forest of Death pack. As soon as she saw Anko she immediately yipped happily.

**It's the snake lady**, Emerald heard her yip excitedly.

"You know her little one," Emerald asked, legitimately confused. After all, from what Vega had told him, no one ever came into the forest.

**Yeah, she would come into the clearing and do this strange dance sometimes**. Replied the little wolf happily.

"Oh did she now," Emerald replied while looking back at Anko. "Did the elders know about this?"

**Yeah, they just left her alone so long as she left us alone. They also told us to not go near her because she was doing something called 'training'.**

"I see," Emerald said, surprised that the elder wolves had allowed this, but decided that if they could trust her then so could he.

Throughout this entire conversation, Anko just continued straddling Emerald's torso with her kunai to his neck. Now though, she was also looking at him as if he was insane.

Not only was he talking to a wolf pup as if he could understand it, but he was also completely ignoring the fact that at any moment she could open up his neck and there was little he could do to stop her.

Due to the fact he was currently wearing his mask, she couldn't tell what his facial expressions were. She could feel his heart beat through the kunai in her hand.

Other than the initial surprise from being tackled, Emerald's heart beat was rather calm and steady. Anko was actually pretty impressed by this.

_Either this kid has balls of steel, or he really is insane to be this calm right now._ She thought to herself.

She was then broken from her thoughts when Emerald stopped his conversation.

"Miturashi-san, this pup will take you to the room where Naruto is currently resting. I would do it myself but I have some things to take care of in the village and I would like to get them done before my siblings come back."

Anko listened to what Emerald said. She still didn't trust him entirely knowing that the council wouldn't allow Naruto to be brought into a clan, even if the Hokage wanted to allow it.

She got up off of him slowly, and withdrew her Kunai from his neck, but kept it in hand, in case it would be necessary. Due to not being able to see the clearing, she didn't know what kind of traps where there.

Emerald stood back up before pulling something from his sleeve. Seeing this, Anko got ready to tackle him again before stopping herself when she saw what he had.

Out of his sleeve, Emerald pulled an ink well and a fine brush.

"May I see your arm please, Miturashi-san," Emerald said.

Hesitantly, she brought her arm up for Emerald to do with as he intended. She wasn't sure what exactly she was expecting, but it definitely wasn't for Emerald to draw a wolf's head on her wrist.

As soon as he finished, he blew gently on the ink to dry it faster, inadvertently sending a slight shiver up Anko's arm and throughout the rest of her body.

As soon as he stopped, she whimpered slightly at the loss of stimulation before noticing the mark disappearing.

"What was up with that weird mark," Anko asked accusingly.

"That is my clan's mark," Emerald said while removing his mask and pointing to his headband. "It will allow you access to the clearing. If you show it to wolves they will know that you are trusted by my clan and will not attack you.

With this, you will be able to return to this clearing to train as you have in the past. If you wish to continue your training here though, I would recommend doing it when my sisters are not here."

"How did you know that I train here," She questioned, slightly creeped out by the statement but still almost transfixed by his lone visible eye.

"This little one told me that you trained here often," He replied, pointing to the brown pup.

"Uh-huh," she replied, still not believing him, though a part of her did.

"Like I said Miturashi-san, I am sort of in a hurry, so I will be taking my leave now. This youngling will take you to Naruto-kun.

If you wish, you may stay in the clearing until I return, but I wouldn't recommend that. If you wish to leave then have the pup show you back to the entrance and you may leave at your discretion."

"Why would you not recommend me staying," Anko asked, feeling slightly hurt.

"Because my sisters may try to kill you if they find you and I am not there to stop them," Emerald said bluntly.

"I think I will just go check on Naruto now," Anko said, not really showing any reaction to what Emerald had said.

With that the little pup bounded into the barrier. Anko slowly walked up to the barrier and tentatively put her hand up to it.

When she found that her hand suddenly disappeared, she continued to cautiously step through the barrier.

As soon as she was gone, Emerald howled out. Shortly after, the White wolf came back only smaller than before. Now instead of being the size of an elephant, it was once more the size of a tiger.

This specific Wolf happened to be Emerald's nin-partner. She looked at Emerald and then down at Flit who happily ran up to her and started playfully nipping at her paws.

Just as Emerald took over as Flit's father, she took over as his mother figure. She leaned her head down and nuzzled the excitable little pup.

**What is it you need of me?** She asked Emerald as she stopped nuzzling Flit to look up at him.

"Well, I was heading into the village to run some errands. I figure I could get you and Flit registered as my nin-partners while I am at it."

**That is fine by me. Hop on; I will take us to the forest's entrance.** She replied sweetly.

"Thank you Furostomi that would be appreciated. Come here Flit."

As Emerald said this, Flit ran straight for him and launched himself into Emerald's arms. With Flit in tow, Emerald mounted Furostomi and she took off into the forest towards the boundary gate.

As they ran through the forest, Emerald felt the tug of Isis wanting to talk to him through their mental link.

_What is it that you need my mate?_ Emerald said mentally to Isis.

_You simply don't know what you do to females do you?_ Isis asked in a sly yet playful tone.

_I am not sure that I understand what you mean Isis_. He replied, confused by her words.

_Do not worry about it my love. When we get to the gate, could you bring me out, I wish to walk with my mate_. Isis asked.

Emerald sent her a mental ok before he focused on keeping hold of Flit. After they closed the link, Emerald did not hear as Isis mused one final thought to herself.

_Just continue to be yourself and everything will fall into place._ Isis giggled in a slightly perverted way.

It wasn't much longer before they reached the gate. Emerald quickly dismounted with Flit and then proceeded to bring out Isis.

As she materialized this time, instead of the yukata she had previously been wearing when she met the Hokage, she was now wearing a sort of scarlet miniskirt with a pair of skin tight, mid-thigh length black shorts underneath.

Her top looked like she had taken a kimono and cut it just below her bust line and it made her large bust VERY apparent. If someone were to look from below they would see that the bottoms of her rather large breasts could be seen. The sleeves reached out to just past her finger tips, just like Emeralds.

When her fingers could be seen, one would see the blood red finger nail polish that she was wearing, which matched the polish on her toe nails.

For footwear, unlike Emerald who was barefoot, she was wearing a pair of shinobi ankle sandals that were open at the toes.

Even though, in the Hokage's office, she seemed to be as tall as Emerald, in reality, she was actually several inches shorter than him, which is how Isis liked it. After all, she did enjoy resting her head on his shoulder.

It always was much more comfortable for the both of them when she was shorter than him. She also did not have her tails or ears present. To anyone without a very good sense of smell or chakra perception, she looked like your average run of the mill kunoichi, save for her slitted, two colored eyes.

As soon as Isis had fully formed, she immediately attached herself to Emerald's right arm. Flit happily ran around the two in circles while Furostomi just glared at Isis.

The two females got along just about as well as oil and water, but, to the chagrin of both parties, they were both very dear and important people to Emerald and so would tolerate each other's company.

That's not to say that Isis didn't lord her mate status over Furostomi every chance she got, such as right now.

"Hey, Furostomi, could you take the size of a normal wolf please? We don't want to give the Konoha citizens a heart attack." Emerald asked her kindly.

**Of course,** she replied just as kindly while reducing her size. As soon as she had, Flit stopped circling Emerald and Isis and hopped up on her back. Furostomi then looked back and gently nuzzled the little pup now resting comfortably on her back.

With everyone now ready, Emerald proceeded to walk into the village from the forest with Isis at his side and Furostomi and Flit right behind.

After he had removed his mask, to show Anko his headband he had sealed the mask away. He knew that there was no one in the village that would recognize him from anything more than when he first came to the village the previous day so he had no worry of showing his face right now in public.

It wasn't long before the group started drawing a lot of attention from the civilians of the now very crowded streets.

The many women of the village were staring daggers at Isis. There were two reasons for this. Some of the women were glaring at her because their boyfriends or husbands were currently, literally, drooling at the sight of her body.

Those who were single were giving angry looks because of the fact that she was hanging onto Emerald.

The men of the village weren't fairing much better. The ones whose eyes weren't currently transfixed on the beautiful vixen were trying to kill Emerald with their rage filled stares.

Emerald just continued his walk through the streets, on his way to the village veterinarian's office, where he would get his partners registered.

After several minutes of no one approaching, mainly because they were afraid of the wolf currently walking with the group, one poor fool decided to throw his life away.

"Hey there beautiful," a male said as he nervously walked up on her free side while trying to ignore the adult wolf and growling wolf pup behind him.

Instead of stopping or even acknowledging the man, Isis chose to simply lean in closer to Emerald and release contented noises, hoping to dissuade the annoying human from talking to her.

To her disdain, the man was not only very foolish, he was also very persistent.

"Why don't you leave that demon brat there for a real man?"

Now Emerald couldn't care less about being called a demon, after all, having three tails and wolf ears will generally garner that reaction. Isis on the other hand was livid.

Had it not been for Emerald gripping her arm tightly, she would have ripped that man's tongue clean from his head.

Knowing that he did not want to draw any more attention to them than they had already, she instead decided to just openly turn him down.

"I will not tolerate you bad mouthing my mate. If you wish to keep what makes you such a 'man', then I would suggest never speaking to me again you insolent whelp!" The man didn't take that well.

"Listen here you little bitch," the man snarled before grabbing for her arm.

As soon as his hand came into contact with her arm, the next thing he knew was that he was lying on the ground with both Furostomi and Flit growling mere inches from his face.

The next thing that registered in his mind was the excruciating pain in the arm that had grabbed for Isis. He slowly looked to it to see that it was very disfigured and clearly very broken.

As soon as he saw it, the full pain hit his brain like a bullet train. He immediately started screaming at the top of his lungs.

He suddenly stopped when he found a kunai less than an inch from his carotid artery.

"I want you to listen very closely to what I have to say you worthless piece of shit," Emerald snarled at the man now sniveling beneath his blade.

"Say whatever you like about me, but so help me, if you ever touch her without her permission then it will be more than just your arm that I break."

As soon as he finished what he was saying, he withdrew his kunai and the group continued on their way. After that little display, no one else dared approach the small group.

It wasn't much longer before they finally found themselves standing in front of the Konoha Veterinary office.

Aside from the sign above the door or the non-descript sounds of various animals coming from inside, one would never guess that this building was one of the biggest veterinary offices within all of Konoha.

This was also the only place that registered nin-animal partners. Having found their location, Emerald walked to the door and held it open for Isis and Furostomi.

Once everyone was inside, Emerald made his way to the receptionist's desk with Furostomi and Flit.

"How may I help you today," the female receptionist asked without looking up.

"Yes," Emerald replied. "I would like to register these two as my partners."

At this, the receptionist stood up to look at Emerald and his animals. As soon as she saw his appearance as well as his partners, her brain literally froze.

Emerald just stood there looking back at her for several minutes before she finally snapped out of it. The first thing she did when she regained her senses was start to rub her eyes before taking a second look at him.

"Are you okay Miss," Emerald asked as she continued to stare at him as if he had a second head.

"I know it isn't possible, but are you an Inuzuka by any chance," She asked Emerald.

At the sound of that name, Emerald's eyes became even thinner slits for the briefest second before returning to their normal size. The receptionist missed this as Emerald replied in a deceptively calm voice.

"I am not an Inuzuka," He replied simply, his voice not relaying the irritation he felt for having been compared to an Inuzuka.

The receptionist nodded in acceptance before handing Emerald some paper work to fill out. As he took the paper work, he thought back to what she had said earlier.

He kept wondering to himself what she meant by it can't be possible that he was an Inuzuka. He couldn't come up with an answer so just shuffled it to the back of his mind for later contemplation.

It wasn't long before he finished the paper work and went to the desk to give it to the receptionist. She looked over the paper work.

Satisfied with the paperwork, she paged the veterinarian. As Emerald heard the door to the back open, he turned to look at the Head Veterinarian.

When he saw her, his hair started to bristle and he had to consciously keep himself under control. The reason for this was that the woman he was looking at was none other than the current heiress to the Inuzuka clan, Hana Inuzuka.

Unlike the rest of her clan, Hana didn't have the telltale physical traits of the Inuzuka or Shadowfang. In fact, if it wasn't for the fang like tattoos under her eyes, no one but an Inuzuka or Shadowfang would be able to tell.

She looked away from the clipboard in her hand. She was honestly quite surprised to see someone in Konoha was registering wolves for nin-partners.

For most of her life, she had never heard of the wolves forming a partnership with anyone save her own mother, who was partnered with a wolf/dog mutt.

As she made her way towards the desk, she noticed that the strange boy was keeping his exposed eye on her the entire time that she was approaching him.

Being an Inuzuka, she normally received many lustful stares from the male populace, seeing as how the Inuzuka were known to be very feral lovers.

She herself was still a virgin, but that is not to say that when she had her special alone time, she wasn't wild herself.

Not to mention her various fantasies, some of which would cause her own mother to blush.

These looks she took notice to but disregarded, but the look the boy was giving her unsettled her. It wasn't the usual, lust filled stare. It was more like the stare you give someone when you view them as an enemy.

She saw his headband and thought she recognized the symbol on it, but couldn't quite place where she had seen it. What also caught her attention was how the boy looked exactly like a male Inuzuka, but that was impossible after all.

She was drawn from her observations by her receptionist handing her a different clip board. She took it from the woman and looked it over.

As soon as she saw the boy's surname, she got that strange feeling again, like she had seen it somewhere before. She just shook this feeling off once more before addressing the feral-looking boy who was still studying her.

"Well Shadowfang-san, it seems that everything is in order. All that is left is for us to do a full physical exam of your partners here as well as full immunization.

The process should take about three hours. You may stay here if you like or you can leave them here and come and pick them up later," Hana said, trying to sound upbeat to hide her unease at being in this boy's presence.

He simply nodded his head before finally looking away from her for the first time since she entered the room.

Emerald turned and kneeled to look at the wolves behind them and made sure to speak so only they would hear him.

"Alright you two, I am going to leave you here with the Inuzuka for a while. Whatever you do, don't let her know that I can understand you.

Flit, I need you to be strong for me and remember that Furostomi will be with you," Emerald reassured the little pup who looked sad to be in a strange place like this without Emerald.

Both silently nodded their heads before Emerald stood back up and looked to the Inuzuka. Emerald had already established that she did not know anything about his clan.

"Alright, I will leave them in you care, please take good care of them," He said while giving her a slight bow.

With that said, Furostomi, with Flit still on her back, walked around Emerald and followed the Inuzuka into the back room.

Once the door shut behind them, Emerald turned around walked over to Isis, who immediately reattached herself to his side.

With a new three hour time window, Emerald decided to fulfill his year old promise to Izumi Uchiha. After filling Isis in on their new destination, Emerald had Vega point him in the direction that he needed to go.

It wasn't long before Emerald found himself standing in front of the gate to the massive Uchiha Clan compound.

The pair swiftly entered the compound and found themselves walking past many empty and abandoned buildings.

After several blocks of this, Emerald and Isis found themselves in front of the door to the Clan head household.

Next to the door, there was a long rope. Emerald grabbed it and gave it a light tug, only to hear a very loud gong resound through the building.

After several seconds, the door was opened to reveal a very beautiful raven haired woman. Her beauty even managed to bring a slight rush of blood to Emerald's cheeks. Had it not been for his dark skin tone, you would easily see the beginnings of a blush on his face.

If it wasn't for the fact that Emerald knew Izumi, he would think that this woman before him was in her mid to late twenties, not in her early forties.

She had a heart shaped face that was framed nicely by her mid back length raven hair. She had milky white skin that made her onyx colored eyes stand out brilliantly.

She had a nice E-sized bust, narrow waist and, though he couldn't tell due to her clothes, a very large and very firm ass.

She was wearing a navy blue kimono with the Uchiha clan symbol on the back. The front was slightly open, exposing a lot of cleavage.

At the sight of the buxom Uchiha, Isis relinquished her hold on Isis and took several steps back with a light smile that did little to reveal what was currently going through her head.

When she opened the door, Mikoto saw the feral looking boy standing in front of her and wasn't entirely sure what to think of him at first.

As she discretely looked up and down the boy, the first thought that came to mind was that he was very hansom.

It was after this thought that she took notice of the girl standing just behind him and smiling at her and had to stop herself from gaping at her beauty.

She quickly recollected herself before she finally spoke up.

"Hello, I am Mikoto Uchiha. I am the current Matriarch of the Uchiha clan. How may I help you," She asked politely.

Instead of answering her, Emerald reached into his sleeve and pulled out a scroll sealed with the Uchiha clan insignia.

As soon as Mikoto saw that seal, her kind caring demeanor disappeared immediately and was replaced with a cold and emotionless one.

"Where did you get that," she hissed at him with so much venom that even Emerald felt a little uneasy being the one it was directed at.

"One year ago, while I was traveling, I came into contact with Izumi Uchiha. I fought with her and was beaten.

Before we started the fight, she made me promise that if I lost, I would deliver this scroll to you should I ever come to Konoha," Emerald explained, making sure there was no misunderstanding.

"What is in it," She asked.

"I don't know," Emerald started. "She never told me, she simply gave it to me and told me to deliver it. I didn't feel it was my place to ask."

Hearing this, she stuck her hand out for Emerald to give her the scroll.

Without another word, Emerald handed it over. Mikoto grabbed it and bit her thumb to draw blood.

Without taking her eyes off of Emerald, she smeared the blood on the seal and it started to smoke before disappearing.

Once she opened the scroll, she turned her eyes from Emerald to the scroll and started to read. As she read, her expressions kept shifting.

At first she still held that cold anger. Soon that anger started to die and was replaced by tears. This held up for a little while before she started to smile while crying more.

When she finished reading the scroll, she rolled it back up and placed it within her kimono sleeve. Seeing that his task was done, Emerald got ready to leave before being wrapped up in a bone crushing hug by the Uchiha matriarch.

The hug was so sudden that he couldn't brace himself.

"I am so glad that she is not a heartless murderer," Mikoto said while crying into Emerald's chest and hugging him tighter.

"That is all well and good Uchiha-san, but… I… can't… breathe." Emerald started to gasp out.

Mikoto, in her overjoyed state, didn't hear this as she continued to hug tighter.

"Oh, no need to be so formal. You can call me Mikoto," She said before she suddenly heard a loud snap that even made Isis cringe.

The next thing she noticed was that Emerald's body went completely rigid for about one second before going completely limp in her arms. She lightly placed the boy on the ground.

She looked up to see the girl from earlier swiftly moving towards her and the boy before noticing a strange white substance floating out of his mouth and towards the sky.

When she looked closely, she saw that the top had a little face, reminiscent of the face of the boy from which it was currently floating from.

Intrigued by this, Mikoto started to reach out to touch it before the other girl suddenly grabbed it.

"Back in you go," she said before jamming the thing back into Emerald's mouth. Mikoto looked at her like she was insane before Emerald suddenly shot up into a sitting position, gasping.

This put his face less than an inch from Mikoto's, causing her to blush slightly.

"What happened, why am I on the ground," Emerald started asking out in confusion.

"Don't worry about it Emerald," Isis said with a giggle while taking note of Mikoto's reaction to Emerald being so close to her face.

As Emerald was trying to regain his bearings, Mikoto quickly pulled her face back and sat back on her legs to give him some space.

Emerald finally pulled himself up off the ground and dusted himself off, still a little concerned with his black out but seemingly fine none-the –less.

With the deed done, Emerald and Isis bid Mikoto fair well and turned to leave. As they walked away, Isis looked over her shoulder to see Mikoto with a deep blush and clutching her hand to her chest.

Isis just giggled to herself, seeing that her plans for the future may not be as hard as she originally thought that they would be on the female end.

Unbeknownst to the two, an Anbu member wearing a hawk mask appeared before Mikoto telling her that the Shinobi council was being summoned.

Not even five minutes later, the same Anbu member appeared before Emerald and Isis.

"Excuse me; I need you both to follow me please." The Anbu said.

**What could the Civilian council be meeting with Mikoto for, what does the Anbu want with Emerald, and what could Isis be planning for our young protagonist. Find out this and more next time on Rise.**


	4. The Council

**I apologize for the long wait. I will just let you guys get to the story.**

**Without Further ado, here is chapter four of Rise of the Shadowfang Clan.**

**Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. (If I did, Sakura wouldn't have been such an annoying banshee for all of her Genin years)**

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*Konoha Council meeting room*

The Shinobi Council, which consisted of all of the current heads of the shinobi clans as well as several elected shinobi officials, filed into the room. They were all idly chatting with each other over why the Civilian Council wanted to call this meeting all of the sudden.

They immediately stopped their chatter as soon as the Civilian Council members made their way into the room to join them. Save for two people, no one noticed the mysterious figure hiding within the shadows along one of the ceiling's corners.

The two who had noticed, one Inuzuka Tsume and one Hyuuga Hiashi, chose to say nothing. From what they could tell, it wasn't a spy from an enemy village. Hiashi returned his attention to the civilians while it bothered Tsume that she couldn't get any distinguishing read on the mysterious visitor's scent.

Once the last of the Civilian Council members made their way into the room, they each took their seats at the U shaped table that both councils shared. Something to be noted was that both councils were currently glaring at each other across the gap in the table.

Not a sound was heard as both sides continued to glare, until one of the more observant civilians happened to notice that the shinobi side now had one more chair than it did during the last meeting.

Breaking the almost palpable silence, the Council member decided to have his curiosity sated.

"Excuse me but, why is there an extra chair on the Shinobi Council's side? Was there another representative elected, because that wasn't agreed upon by a majority vote in the last meeting," the man said.

At first the Shinobi all looked perplexed by this, until they all started looking around and noticed the remaining, unoccupied chair next to Tsume at the end of the table. Every Shinobi just stared at the chair as if it would provide them the answer as to why it was there.

Seeing their confusion, the one who asked stated another question. "Wait, are you telling me that none of you know who that seat belongs to?"

Nara Shikaku spoke up for the rest of the clans. "We are not sure who that seat belongs to. We haven't heard anything about it."

"The extra seat will be explained shortly. First, I would like to know why the Civilian Council has called this meeting."

Everyone in the room turned their attention to the third Hokage as he and the Council Elders, Shimura Danzo, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu, entered the room, shutting the door behind them.

Everyone stood up in respect for their Hokage. Once he took his seat at the bend in the table with the elders taking their seats just behind him, the remaining council members took their own seats.

Once everyone was seated and their attention was given, the head of the Civilian Council, a small stick of a man, stood up and cleared his throat.

"We, the Civilian Council members have gotten wind that you allowed one of the village clans to adopt the dem…"

The man stopped what he was saying as soon as he felt the combined KI from the Hokage as well as several of the Clan heads.

"… I mean one Uzumaki Naruto. According to the regulations put into place, it must be decided by a unanimous vote whether or not it is allowed to be adopted into one of the clans within the village.

To my knowledge, no such meeting had taken place. We would like to enforce our right according to the charter to retain custody. We would like the clan that has adopted it to return it to us at once."

The twiggy little man finished and sat down in his seat while flinching slightly due to the shinobi all glaring at him for his blatant disrespect for not only the clans but for Naruto as well.

While most clan's didn't actively hate the boy, they also didn't do much to protect him. Most of the clans understood exactly what he was and new that hating the boy was pointless since it wasn't him that had attacked the village.

One clan in particular was adamant about helping Naruto as best they could. That was the Inuzuka clan. They would always do whatever they could to help the poor boy without allowing the Civilian Council to get wind of it.

The civilians on the other hand were too blind to realize that Naruto is the nine-tails' jailer, NOT the nine-tails.

It took a short amount of time before the clan heads realized what exactly had just been said. As soon as they figured it out, they started looking at each other, trying to figure out who had actively tried to defy the Council.

Seeing their confusion, Hiruzen cleared his throat to get everyone's attention. Once all eyes were on him, he began to address the occupants in the room.

"I am sorry Council, but Naruto-kun's adoption is final and legal within the Konoha charter. The clan in question was not one of the village clans and therefore falls outside of its jurisdiction."

This sent the room into a vicious frenzy with the Civilian Council cheering at the "loss" of the demon brat while the Shinobi were all in an outrage.

The only ones who were not currently making a scene where the elders, as they had already been filled in on the entire situation the previous day.

Suddenly, Tsume decided to make her outrage known.

"Hokage-sama, how can you just give Naruto away to some foreign clan?! I thought he was like a grandson to you," She yelled.

The Hokage normally would have given her a severe death glare as well as a blast of his KI, but he knew that she had good reason to be angry with him.

Ever since Naruto was left alone, the Inuzuka had been fighting tooth and nail to try to get him adopted into their clan, with no success due to the Civilian Council shooting the request down immediately.

Before the Hokage could explain himself, the door burst open with the very frantic bird masked Anbu member and Isis entering the room.

"Hokage-sama, I have bad news. It seems that while I was escorting him here, I lost track of the clan head you sent me to retrieve."

While the Anbu member was trying to explain himself, Isis walked over to the corner where the mysterious person was currently sitting upside down.

While the Civilians were all busy watching the Anbu member, the Shinobi locked onto Isis. They were all currently wondering why she was here and why she was making herself comfortable in a Council meeting.

Their eyes snapped back to the Hokage when he dismissed the Anbu. Tsume once more started to yell angrily at the Hokage.

"Well! Are you going to explain yourself? And you," she said, directing her attention towards Isis. "Who are you and what gives you the authority to just waltz on in here during a Council meeting?"

Isis said nothing as she had a bored look on her face. She just looked to the Hokage, who was finally prepared to start answering some questions.

"To answer your first question Inuzuka-san; I didn't adopt him into a foreign clan. Naruto is still a member of Konoha, as is the clan he is now a part of."

Hearing this, the Civilian's stopped their celebrating. Every last person in the room was currently very confused on what the Hokage meant.

Shikaku, being the first to get an inkling of what it was the Hokage had meant, was the first to offer an idea.

"You exploited a loophole in the charter, didn't you Hokage-sama?"

Everyone looked at the Nara head to explain what he meant. Seeing that everyone was giving him their full attention, he began to elaborate.

"Look at it this way. If the Hokage adopted Naruto into a clan that was not a part of Konoha, but Naruto is still considered a member of the village, then that means that he was adopted into a clan that was applying to become members of the village."

"But then that still means that we are within our rights to take back custody," interjected a very fat, pink-haired banshee like woman.

"Not necessarily Haruno-san. If the adoption was completed before the citizenship, then that means he wasn't under the Charter's jurisdiction at the time," explained the Nara.

The entirety of the Civilian council looked gob-smacked at the blatant abuse of a loophole in what they thought was their perfect system.

The Hokage just nodded to confirm what the Nara had suggested. With that, the majority of the Shinobi council smirked at the Hokage's method for outsmarting the Civilian council, much to the ire of the civilians.

"Now, to answer you second question Inuzuka-san. This woman is a part of the clan that had adopted Naruto," the aged kage said simply, avoiding mentioning her true identity.

As if on cue, everyone looked at Isis then at the empty seat and back. It wasn't until it finally registered in their minds that a new clan had just become part of Konoha that they realized that meant they also gained a seat in the council as well.

Finally coming to this realization, one of the Civilian members finally asked the question that was on almost everyone's, collective mind.

"Where is this new clan's head? If he is now an official member of Konoha, then he is also required to be present for all Council meetings."

Everyone started to shake their heads, but then Ibiki, one of the elected officials for the shinobi, suddenly started frowning as he realized who it was that that seat belonged to.

"Oh but he is here. He has been here throughout the entire meeting so far, as I am sure both Hyuuga-san and Inuzuka-san have already noticed." The Hokage said in a very knowing tone.

All eyes fell on the two clan heads. Immediately, both looked at the dark corner of the room by Tsume's end of the table.

Seeing where they were looking, everyone else's attention turned to the darkened corner. They all felt astounded that none of them had noticed that overly dark and lingering shadow before that point in the meeting.

As if trying to keep them in shock, an Anbu style wolf mask began to fade into view as the shadows receded just a little bit. Loud gasps could be heard around the room, especially from the Civilian side as, to them, it seemed like some sort of wolf spirit just materialized right out of the shadows.

The clan heads were a whole other story. Aside from Tsume and Hiashi, every clan head immediately got into a defensive posture. They were all feeling extremely uneasy knowing that someone had just been sitting in that room and they had no idea he was there until that point.

"So Shadowfang-san, what do you think of your first council meeting so far?"

As soon as Tsume heard Hiruzen say that name, she immediately looked at him before looking back at Emerald while baring her teeth. Her hair also seemed to rise like the hackles of a canine.

"I have to say," Emerald stated, "that I am amazed that anything gets done during these meetings. Just by observing the interactions between the two councils, I think it is quite obvious that they both hold great disdain for each other."

"What do you mean by things getting done," Hiruzen questioned.

"What I mean is that it is quite obvious that the Civilian Council believes that they are the alphas in this meeting," Emerald started before turning his masked face to said council.

For some reason that they couldn't grasp, a sudden chill ran down the backs of every Civilian Council member as Emerald looked upon them.

"What they don't seem to realize is that they are nothing more than omegas. There is not one person in this room aside from themselves that couldn't easily kill that entire council before any of them even got the chance to blink.

From my experiences during my travels, I have seen far more effective councils than this one. In fact, I question why you even have a 'Civilian' Council."

The rest of the room, save the Hokage and elders, were in a stunned silence as they all sat there and realized how true those words were.

This silence was suddenly broken by a growling Tsume. Everyone looked at her and could see that she seemed to be ready to attack.

"What are you doing here?! I thought the Shadowfang hated the villages," Tsume snarled out at Emerald.

Emerald didn't even seem the least bit perturbed by this as he calmly and unwaveringly replied to the snarling Inuzuka.

"We still do. If it wasn't for certain circumstances, I probably wouldn't be here now. To be quite honest, once these circumstances are taken care of, I will probably leave this village and never return."

"That was not part of our agreement," Hiruzen snapped suddenly. "I will not allow you to just leave and take Naruto with…" Emerald interrupted the Hokage before he had a chance to finish his thought.

"Calm yourself Hokage-sama. Whether Naruto decides to leave with us or not is completely up to him to decide. I will not force him to leave nor will I force him to remain. He will have the exact same option that the Inuzuka were given when the First Hokage offered to accept our clan into the Village.

We Shadowfang may not like the Inuzuka anymore, but we gave them the choice and respected that choice. Any clan member is given the choice of leaving the clan at any point in their life."

This seemed to really strike the aged Hokage. He felt that it would not be wise to allow them to go. He also knew that, given the opportunity, Naruto would probably choose to remain with the clan. They would be the first ones that he could truly call family.

He also knew that, when they discussed citizenship, the clan would probably only stay until Orochimaru was taken care of and the nine tails' chakra had been removed from Naruto. He was now dreading what would happen after that because he just didn't know what Naruto would do.

To Hiruzen, Naruto was just as precious as his true grandson, Konohamaru. Not as a weapon, but as a boy who he had come to feel familial with.

Hiruzen slowly sank back into his seat, contemplating how to proceed from there. Suddenly, the twiggy little Civilian Council head stood up.

"Wait, you mean THE Shadowfang clan, the clan known for being some of the most vicious and strongest non-allied shinobi?" The man asked incredulously. "I heard that they had been wiped out."

"What you heard is almost correct. The majority of my clan had been killed. The only ones remaining are me, my twin brother and my younger twin sisters."

Upon hearing that they had managed to gain one of the strongest clans, the Civilians immediately tried to come up with ways of putting them under their thumb.

'If we can show him the truth about that demon brat, he may just kill him for us,' one civilian thought to himself with glee.

"How can we be sure that you are truly part of that clan," Tsume countered. What he would do next would put every doubt she had six feet under.

Instead of just replying, Emerald began to laugh to himself. Once he stopped laughing, everyone heard a shuffling noise. When the noise stopped, Emerald's hand emerged from the shadows holding a scroll.

The scroll unfurled to reveal several names written in blood on its surface. As soon as she laid eyes on that scroll, Tsume felt like all the air in her lungs just got sucked right out.

Everyone else just looked confused, unsure of what the scroll proved. "I don't get it," said Mikoto. "How does that scroll prove that he is really a Shadowfang?"

"Would you like to explain this one Inuzuka," Emerald asked sadistically.

All eyes turned to the shell shocked woman. She slowly regained her senses and shakily began to explain. Everyone in the room was unnerved at seeing something that could shake the normally unwavering and aggressive Inuzuka head.

"That… that scroll is the wolf summoning contract. The only one allowed to possess that scroll is the head of the Shadowfang clan."

"That is correct. I see that living in the village hasn't made you Inuzuka forget about ancient tradition," Emerald said snidely.

At that moment, Tsume suddenly bolted up and got ready to attack Emerald and Isis. The  
Hokage was about to jump in and restrain her, but what happened next, no one saw coming.

"Sit," Emerald said in a commanding tone before she had moved from the spot. Suddenly, the two fang-like marks on her cheeks began to glow purple.

Everyone was astonished as they saw her slowly sitting back down. They could tell that she was trying to fight it, by the look she had on her face, but the harder she seemed to struggle against whatever was forcing her back into her seat, the brighter her markings glowed.

"That should now be more than enough proof that I am who I say I am," Emerald said in a matter of fact tone.

"What did you do to her," asked an incredulous Akimichi Chouza. Everyone else just numbly nodded, all wondering the same thing. In all their years, no one has ever seen Tsume respond to a command with anything but a severe beating to the one who issued it.

"Those marks the Inuzuka have on their cheeks are not mere tattoos. They are a special obedience seal. Back when our clans first started working on their techniques, the Inuzuka created the man-beast transformation technique.

When they first came up with it, only a few could use it without losing themselves in blood lust. In order to still be able to use the technique, the Inuzuka and Shadowfang worked together to create the obedience seal.

Once it was perfected, it was immediately applied to every Inuzuka after that. The use of the seal held up for so long that it integrated with the DNA of the Inuzuka. Every Inuzuka is now born with the fully functioning seal."

As everyone sat there and thought about what they had just learned, Shikaku spoke up once again.

"So basically, you are telling us that you can pretty much control any Inuzuka because of that seal," He said in a questioning yet accusatory tone.

At first, the civilian who thought about manipulating Emerald got excited at the prospect of not only trying to control the Shadowfang but getting the Inuzuka as an added bonus. His newest hope died pretty quickly when everyone saw the mask turn from side to side in a negative manner.

"While it may be true that the seal forces obedience on the one who it has been activated on, certain conditions must be met in order for the command to take.

The first condition is that the one issuing the command must either be born into either the Shadowfang clan or the Inuzuka clan.

The second condition is that the one issuing the command must be equal or higher in status to the one receiving the command."

Seeing the looks of confusion on the faces of the other council members, Emerald elaborated. "You all know of the canine social order right? There are Alphas, Betas, and Omegas."

Everyone nodded to show that they understood so Emerald continued with the conditions.

"The final condition is the one receiving the command must be attempting to attack an ally or clansman without just cause. Unless these conditions are met, the seal cannot be activated," Emerald then snapped his fingers and the marks stopped glowing.

Tsume just slumped down in her chair, exhausted from trying to fight against the seal so hard and for so long.

"As you can see, Inuzuka-san and I are both Alphas and she was getting ready to attack me when I had given her no just reason to do so. These conditions were put into place in order to prevent us Shadowfang members from subjugating the Inuzuka as well as preventing the Inuzuka from abusing it against each other."

"So does that mean that you Shadowfang also have that mark," questioned Ibiki.

Once more, Emerald shook his head in the negative. "We Shadowfang use a slightly modified version of the man-beast transformation technique and have full control of ourselves." Emerald explained.

"Oh, and before I forget, that isn't going to work on me Mummy-san," Emerald said, directing this statement at Danzo.

Throughout the entire time that everyone's attention had been on Emerald, Danzo had pulled up the bandages over his right eye to reveal a Sharingan hidden underneath.

Due to having studied the Sharingan in depth using research that he had stolen from Orochimaru during his imprisonment with the snake sannin, Emerald recognized the telltale signs that Danzo was using the Sharingan of an Uchiha named Shisui.

Thanks to Vega, Emerald knew that Danzo had that eye, which is why he was still wearing his mask. "This mask of mine blocks all Genjutsu without fail," Emerald said with a hidden smirk.

Immediately, everyone turned their attention to Danzo, who had quickly re-covered his eye as if nothing had even happened. He showed no signs of guilt and the sensor types could feel no chakra emanating from him.

Everyone turned back to Emerald while Danzo glared at him behind their backs. "My bad, I must have been mistaken," Emerald said innocently.

"Well, if there is nothing else then I guess this meeting is adjourned," The Hokage said before standing up.

Before anyone could leave, Emerald spoke up one more time. "Actually, I have one more thing that I would like to say while everyone is still here."

Emerald dropped down from the ceiling, with his hood covering his head so only the mask was visible though his three long white tails were gently swaying behind him.

Seeing his appearance, the Shinobi, except for those who already knew about his special traits, were slightly stunned though most hid it better than others. What caught them most off guard was the fact that Emerald wasn't even old enough to officially be a Genin.

The civilians, on the other hand, looked horrified before the head passed out from sheer fear. One of the more brave, or stupid, civilians blatantly yelled out that Emerald was a demon to which he just laughed.

"Before everyone leaves, I would like to issue a warning to every last one of you. Naruto is now a member of my clan and my family, and if I so much as hear or see someone treating that poor boy or anyone else in my clan wrong, I will retaliate tenfold without hesitation.

I suggest that you spread the word throughout the village. I wouldn't want to see someone lose their life because of their ignorance," Emerald said with double meaning behind his words. He followed this up with a large blast of his KI.

The strong wave of aggression surprised everyone even more, as more of the Civilian Council passed out from fear, as well as two of the younger Shinobi representatives. It was at this point that Hiruzen intervened.

"Shadowfang-san, enough! I will not have you threatening my villagers! Everyone else out, I need to speak with Shadowfang-san alone."

Everyone simply got up and left the room with some shinobi dragging the poor bastards who had lost consciousness out with them.

"Shadowfang-san, would you care to explain your blatant act of aggression towards my village? Would you also like to explain why you called out Shimura-san in the middle of the meeting," Hiruzen billowed.

"Why don't you ask Mummy-san yourself," Emerald stated coldly.

The Hokage turned to Danzo. "Danzo, what does he mean?!"

Danzo just glared back at Emerald before replying. "I have no clue what he is talking about Hokage-sama."

"Oh really, Mummy-san. Then how do you explain this," Emerald questioned as he pulled a scroll out of his sleeve. He then threw the scroll to Danzo.

Danzo caught the scroll in his left hand. He looked at the scroll warily before turning it over in his hands. Finding no hidden traps on the seal or outside, Danzo deemed it to not be a trap.

He then opened the scroll. As soon as he did, there was a poof of smoke before the body of an incapacitated masked shinobi appeared on the floor.

The mask of the boy was a blank Anbu mask and there were very severe injuries covering the majority of his body. At first, the boy appeared to be dead, but started to breath shortly after being unsealed from the scroll. On the outside, Danzo was calm and collected, but on the inside was a completely different matter.

'Damn it all. No wonder he never reported back to me. How did this little brat incapacitate one of my best ROOT members," Danzo thought to himself.

"Danzo, why is this shinobi wearing the mask of the ROOT? That organization of yours should have been disbanded long ago." Hiruzen asked Danzo aggressively.

"I can answer that question Hokage-sama," Emerald said with a sly hint to his voice. Both Hiruzen and Danzo looked to the lupine boy, Hiruzen in confusion and Danzo in anger.

"I should first explain as to why that emotionless puppet was in a sealing scroll. Last night I was out in the forest hunting. I caught this boy's scent following me. I slowed down to see as to what his intentions were.

As soon as he caught up with me, he tried to order me to go with him to Mummy-san. When I refused, he suddenly attacked me. After I incapacitated him, I did a little information gathering from him and found out quite a bit about Mummy-san here.

For instance, he never disbanded ROOT. In fact, he has been giving them separate missions, mostly assassinations, which were not sanctioned or were even downright refused by the Hokage's office.

In addition, in order to replace members who died in the field, Mummy-san would kidnap members of the various clans. Through a brainwashing procedure, he would make them emotionless puppets loyal only to him."

Even though Danzo managed to reign in his expressions and retake his expressionless face, he was mentally screaming while trying to figure out how this little bastard had managed to get this information out of Hinoe.

Danzo new that the seal had not been triggered and the various other seals placed on ROOT members would prevent anyone but a Sharingan user from getting any information from mind probing techniques.

"Hokage-sama, I have no clue what this boy is talking about. ROOT does not still exis…" Danzo was cut off by the sound of static as Emerald pressed the play button on a small hand held audio recorder.

'No, don't tell me that that fool forgot to make sure the boy didn't have any transmitting, audio, or video recording devices active when he confronted him."

To Danzo's horror, the exact scenario he had been thinking about came to pass. The recording started out with the sound of something moving through the trees before the object stopped.

For several seconds, the only sound that could be heard was the gentle blowing of the wind. Then, the rustling of leaves and branches could be heard approaching.

Once more the rustling stopped. From the sound coming from the recording, the second person stopped about twenty feet away from the source of the recording.

"Tell me Anbu-san, is there any particular reason that you are following me?"

This voice was clearly Emerald's. As soon as he finished, the voice of the one that he was talking to started speaking. What alarmed the Hokage immediately was the fact that he couldn't identify the voice. This worried him so much due to the fact that he knew the voices of every active Shinobi, seeing as he was the one who assigned all of their missions as well as received their verbal reports.

"I am a member of the ninja corps known as ROOT. Danzo-sama has sent me to deliver his request of your presence, Shadowfang-san." The voice answered tonelessly.

"Hmph, and if I refuse his summons," Emerald asked challengingly.

The subtle sound of a blade being removed from its sheath could be heard before the mysterious voice spoke again.

"Then I am to bring you by force if necessary." The boy replied with no hints of any emotion or reaction to Emerald's tone.

Emerald just laughed loudly at the opposing boy's threat.

"That is far easier said, than done," Emerald said condescendingly.

An audible click was heard as Emerald stopped the recording there. Homura and Koharu seemed to be rather unfazed by this information where-as the Hokage looked like he was stuck between confusion, shock and rage.

Hiruzen turned and looked directly at Danzo while flaring his KI. Even Emerald, who had been the target of many a powerful KI before, found it to be slightly more difficult to breath than normal under this intense aura.

By this point, Danzo was openly glaring at Emerald for having exposed his operations and possibly ruining them.

'I have to think fast. ROOT maybe out in the open, but I can still get that old fool to allow it to remain.' Danzo thought to himself before coming up with a brilliant lie to save his own ass while turning some doubt onto Emerald.

'I have to think of something to discredit this boy,' Danzo thought hurriedly. After some quick contemplation, he seemed to have come up with a plan.

'There is no way that he really got that information. He is probably just using conjecture and assumptions and just got lucky that they were true.

It is too late to try to deny ROOT's existence now, but if I can distract that old fool long enough then I can manage to convince him to allow it to remain. If I play this right, I may even be able to have that little shit placed under my control.'

"Well Danzo, what is the meaning of this!" Hiruzen all but yelled, flaring his chakra all the while.

Danzo regained his emotionless expression while weaving his carefully crafted plan into action.

"I will admit that ROOT is still in operation, but this boy's claim that I am having clan members kidnapped and brainwashed is nothing more than baseless conjecture. I sent this young man," Danzo said gesturing towards the still unconscious Hinoe, "to bring the boy in to make sure that he wasn't a threat.

Seeing as how he not only refused and resisted but also severely injured a Konoha shinobi, I believe that Shadowfang-san has motives beyond what he has told you. It is my belief that you should have him interrogated."

Emerald snickered when he heard this, earning a glare.

"I am sorry but did you forget that I had been captured by Orochimaru for several months. There are very few people in all of the Elemental Nations who would be willing to go far enough to get me to admit anything that I was trying to keep secret.

Plus, Morino-san already has first-hand experience dealing with one of my shadow clones and can attest to my physical resistance to torture at the least."

Danzo then realized that what he said was true. After witnessing what some of Orochimaru's experiments had done to some, it would take forms of torture that not even he would be willing to attempt to get information out of this boy.

Danzo mentally had to admit that the fact that this boy was still sane after even just one month under that psychopath's inhumane treatment was impressive in and of itself.

This is especially true since word of the destruction of his clan reached Konoha roughly ten years ago meaning that he has been on the run for at least ten years. This kid probably had more skill at the current age of sixteen than most of Konoha's forces did after several years in service.

To Danzo, this only made the boy more of a target to be controlled and molded into the perfect mindless weapon. With this boy under his thumb, not only could he help to insure the prosperity of Konoha, but he could even take over and turn the village into the military might that he believed that it should be.

"That is true," Danzo stated, not concerned in the least. He had already come up with another solution that would work just as well… or so he thought.

"That is why I would recommend having a Yamanaka do a full mind walking just to make sure he is not just lying to us all."

"I wouldn't recommend that," both Emerald and Isis said in perfect unison. While Emerald said it quite calmly, Isis sounded like she was fuming.

"That is my territory," Isis growled out," and I don't like anyone but my mate in MY territory."

"Technically speaking, it is my territory," Emerald interjected. Isis just glared at him and he said no more. Even after their warning, the wizened Hokage thought it would probably still be a good idea to make sure that the young clan head did not have any ulterior motives that he had not informed them of.

He looked to Elders Koharu and Homura. Homura gave a slight nod while the look Koharu was giving him said to listen to the two.

Going by majority vote, with the snap of his fingers, a young man appeared beside the Hokage. He was wearing the standard Anbu attire along with a snake Anbu mask. He also appeared to be in his mid twenties.

The young man's only defining features were his strikingly bright blond hair held in a short ponytail, a clear sign of his relation to the Yamanaka clan.

"Hebi, I want you to perform a mind walking on Shadowfang-san," Hiruzen stated. "Inu, Neko, please restrain Shadowfang-san so he doesn't interfere."

Immediately, Neko and Inu appeared to Emerald's left and right respectively. While Inu did not hesitate to restrain Emerald, Neko did for a few seconds before also restraining him.

Inu was a rather young looking male with silver-white, spiky hair that somehow seemed to defy gravity as it was perpetually standing straight up. He was also wearing the traditional Anbu attire, as was Neko.

To both of their surprise, he offered no form of resistance.

The young Yamanaka Anbu walked up to Emerald and prepared his clans signature jutsu. As he was about to place his hand on Emerald's head, Emerald offered one last warning.

"I really wouldn't recommend doing that Yamanaka-san."

Ignoring the boy's words, Hebi placed his hand on Emerald's head. The instant he did, Isis let out a very feral growl before turning into a blood red mist and floating back into the seal on Emerald's stomach.

This sudden transformation severely caught Neko and Inu off guard, as they had not been briefed on Emerald's "prisoner".

Everyone stood around for a few seconds when, suddenly, Hebi ripped his hand away from Emerald's head as if his hand was on fire. He also started screaming at the top of his lungs in fear and clawing at his skin.

"Quickly, restrain him before he hurts himself!" Hiruzen ordered. Neko immediately released Emerald and ran over to Hebi while Inu tightened his grip on Emerald, even though he was still showing no signs of resisting. As he did this, he noticed a small orange book fall from Emerald's person, though the boy hadn't seemed to notice.

Finding that she couldn't calm him down by normal means, she went with the old tried and true method of just knocking him unconscious with a swift chop to his neck.

Once Hebi's unconscious form was taken away, all eyes fell on the young Shadowfang.

"I warned you that it was a bad idea to go in there," was all Emerald had to say about the situation that just occurred.

Rather than threaten or berate Emerald for what happened, the old kage just put his palm to his face as he released an exasperated breath.

Everyone else in the room just stared as they watched the young Anbu member being dragged out of the room by Neko. Then, all eyes turned to the wolf masked boy being restrained, ironically, by the dog masked Anbu member.

"I did give him fair warning," Emerald stated simply.

"Shadowfang-san, can you please call out your tenant," Hiruzen asked.

Emerald moved the arm that had previously been restrained by Neko to his stomach and it was once again surrounded by the silver aura of his chakra.

Inu, even after witnessing her enter the seal, was still quite shocked when he saw Isis materialize out of the scarlet colored mist pouring from his restrainy's gut.

Isis. Looked. PISSED.

Even the normally perfectly controlled War-Hawk, Danzo, took a step back upon seeing the look of absolute fury upon her face, while Koharu just nodded her head in a knowing fashion over her fellow females righteous feminine anger.

"If you ever try something like that again, I will level this village and everyone in it to the ground." Isis growled at the rapidly paling Kage.

"And you," She said before stalking towards Emerald and Inu. On instinct, Inu released the boy and slowly backed away with his hands in the air while Emerald straightened.

Had he not been wearing his mask, everyone in the room would see the nervous smile on his face as he too tried to back away from the glowering bijuu in human form.

He didn't get far before she had him by his collar. She pulled his face towards hers and looked into the eyeholes of his mask.

"We will be having a LONG 'conversation' later."

Everyone in the room could literally hear as Emerald swallowed nervously. They felt that they could somewhat understand why the boy did.

They had no idea that the reason was not because of a lecture but because of what Isis really meant by conversation.

After that little display finally ended and Isis calmed down, Danzo once more looked smug. After seeing that, he thought that he had pretty much won.

"As you can see Hokage-sama, the boy is clearly hiding something. I believe that he should be put under my watch." Danzo said with a smug grin on his face.

The speed with which the Hokage turned a glare on the bandaged man made everyone cringe and wonder how he hadn't just snapped his own neck doing that.

"Shimura-san, this boy has already proven to me that I can trust him more than I can trust you at the moment. It is quite obvious that you only wish to use this boy.

I'm officially relieving you of your position as an elder and having all of you assets seized until such a time as I have found it wise to return them to you. You are also to have your chakra sealed and ROOT unequivocally abolished.

Every last shinobi that you have tainted is to be rehabilitated and released back into the general populace. Those that can be successfully trusted to integrate back into the shinobi system will do so while the rest will have their chakra sealed."

Hearing the Hokage's decision, Danzo went into a rage. He immediately went to reach for his facial bandages but suddenly found that he could not move his arm. He also felt his chakra slowly draining away.

As he started to lose consciousness, he managed to turn around just enough to see the form of Dragon, the Anbu captain, standing there.

It didn't take long for him to figure out that the captain had just used the jutsu that got him that post.

What only a select few knew was that Dragon had the special ability to completely seal the chakra of whoever he touches.

It is, in fact, his technique that is used to make Konoha's chakra restraints, some of the best and most powerful in the entirety of the Elemental Nations.

As Danzo finally lost consciousness, Sarutobi ordered Dragon to take the man to the Yamanaka and have their best mind-walker gather all the information on ROOT that Danzo had.

As soon as Dragon and Danzo's unconscious body were gone, he turned back to his remaining two elders.

Homura looked like he wasn't sure how to feel about the situation while Koharu just had the same serious look that she always does.

He then turned to Emerald who was standing there looking back at him with Isis once more standing behind him, looking none too happy with anyone in the room at the moment.

He then looked back to the remaining elders. "You two are free to leave."

Hearing the exhaustion in their leader's voice, the two wordlessly complied and left the room. He then looked to Inu and Neko, who had just returned to the room.

"The two of you are to tell no one of what has occurred in this room. This is to be a SS class secret.

Shadowfang-san, while my ex-team mate may have crossed the line, he was right to have doubts about you. You must admit that you are a complete mystery to us. That aside, I wish to apologize on behalf of the village for what has happened today.

Though it is against my better judgement, I am going to trust you for now. That does not mean that you will not still having tracking seals placed on you and your clan mates.

If you would follow Neko, she will take you to get it placed on you. I will also dispatch an Anbu member to retrieve your siblings and do the same for them as well as Naruto-kun."

Emerald just nodded his head in response and followed Neko out of the room. Inu then walked up beside the old man.

"Hokage-sama, would you like me to keep an eye on him," he asked. The tired old Kage just released an exasperated sigh before shaking his head no.

With that being said, Inu left in a swirl of leaves, though not before picking up and pocketing the book that had fallen off of the young clan head's person.

"This is going to be a long day," Hiruzen muttered to himself upon heading back to his office to try and tackle the never ending mountains of paper work that magically seem to multiply in his office whenever he is away.

*Twenty minutes later*

The placing of the tracking seal was a relatively quick procedure that didn't last long.

We now find Emerald sitting with his legs dangling off of a building into an alley way. As he looks around at the people moving about the streets in the now wide awake village, he lazily plays with a senbon in his right hand.

He knew that he still had an hour before he could go and pick up Furostomi and Flit, but he didn't have the slightest clue as to what to do to kill that time.

He had returned Isis to his seal so as to avoid drawing more attention than they already had that day. By this point he was more than sure that word had got around about what he had done to that civilian that couldn't take a hint.

He was about to get up and leave when he suddenly caught the strong smell of Sake and cigarettes. Looking towards the source, Emerald noticed what looked to be a very drunken Jonin stumbling around the alley.

*With Asuma*

Sarutobi Asuma was a well-known and highly respected Jonin in Konoha. The son of the third Hokage, Hiruzen, Asuma stands at just over six feet tall. He had short spiky black hair, a beard, the usual Jonin attire with a sash with the Kanji for fire on it and, at the moment, an incredibly drunken look on his face.

He was currently carrying a bottle of Sake, half empty, in his left hand and a lit cigarette in his right. When he wasn't taking a drag from the cigarette he was taking a mouthful from the Sake.

The reason for his current drunken state was the fact that his girlfriend since first year of the Academy, Yuhi Kurenai, had just dumped him the night before.

Never having been a big fan of his bad smoking habit, she gave him an ultimatum when he showed up at her house after returning to the village after spending several years with the Twelve Guardian Ninja. Either he would quit smoking or she would leave him for good.

When he couldn't convince her to change her mind and she slammed the door in his face, he then spent the rest of the evening up until now drinking himself stupid.

As he continued to stumble and sway, he mumbled about how his ex was nothing more than an ungrateful bitch.

It was with much surprise to both parties when into the same alley walked Kurenai. They both looked at each other in surprise before Kurenai turned to try and leave.

Before she got very far, Asuma had grabbed her wrist and pinned her to the wall with it. With a smug smile now on his face, he looked at Kurenai.

"Sho, I think now that we have had shome time to cool off, I think itsh about time you gave me that kish I wash looking for yeshterday," He slurred drunkenly.

As he leaned in to kiss her, she pulled away from his face and slapped him with her free hand. This caused his head to turn slightly to the side and away from her while he dropped his bottle.

"Damn it Asuma, I told you last night that if you don't stop smoking then I was going to leave you. Now let go of me right now," She yelled angrily as she tried to break free of his drunken grip.

He slowly rubbed the spot she hit with his now free hand before looking back at her angrily.

"You're going to be shorry you shtupid bitch," He yelled before raising his hand to slap her. She got ready to put him in a Genjutsu. Before she got the chance, his grip suddenly went slack as he got a vacant look in his eyes.

He then proceeded to tilt backwards before hitting the ground with a heavy thud. She tentatively walked up to him and looked at him. It was then that she noticed a small senbon needle sticking out of his neck from where she knew to be a pressure point.

She looked up from his limp body only to find no one in the alley aside from the two of them. As she was turning to look up, a hooded figure wearing all black and no shoes landed a little ways to her left.

She got into a defensive stance only to relax as she saw him move over to her unconscious ex before removing the needle.

It became clear to her that this person had just helped her out. He took the senbon and slipped it into a pouch on his waist before turning to exit the alley way.

Seeing her savior about to leave, Kurenai called out to him.

"Please, wait," she said. The figure stopped and turned around enough for her to see the wolf style Anbu mask that he was wearing.

This left her confused. She her friend Neko was in the Anbu, so Kurenai knew the codenames of every active Anbu member and she knew that there was no Ōkami.

"Are you okay?"

Kurenai was snapped out of her thoughts by the surprisingly young sounding voice that spoke to her. Recollecting herself she replied.

"Yes, I am thanks to you," she said, bowing her head to the young boy.

"That's good to hear," was the mysterious figure's simple reply. As she was lifting her head to ask the kid his name, she was shocked to see herself alone in the alley.

She took one last look around the alley before giving up on locating the boy. She quickly flared her chakra to alert the nearest Anbu of distress before leaving the alley way herself.

*with Emerald*

After having saved the red eyed woman, Emerald finally remembered something that he wanted to have done and could do to kill some time.

With his new destination in mind, Emerald weaved through the many civilians, most of which stopped to give him strange looks due to his current attire.

After only a few minutes, Emerald found himself in front of a small ninja equipment shop. From what Vega had told him, this shop was the best for weapons appraisal and had a very good reputation.

He made his way inside and to the cashier's desk. With no one in sight, Emerald rang the small silver bell located next to the register, wincing at the high pitched ding.

"Yeah yeah, I'm coming," came a girl's voice. The young girl walked out from behind the curtains located behind and to the right of the counter.

Emerald took note of the brown, two bun style hair-do the girl had, as well as the rather uncommon Chinese style outfit that she wore.

"Hello, my name is Tenten. What can I do for you today sir," she asked Emerald politely.

"I have some weapons I would like appraised. I would also like to place an order for some tools." Emerald stated.

Tenten nodded her head before walking back behind the curtain. Not much later, a very gruff looking man walked out.

The man was completely bald with a grizzly looking beard of brown. He had several scars marring his face with one long one going across his left eye, which was a milky white color, signifying his blindness in it.

He was wearing a brown long sleeved button up shirt and some heavy looking pants and work shoes. Over top of that was what looked like a blacksmith's apron.

"My little girl told me we had a young customer but I didn't expect a pipsqueak like you," the man said before grinning. "The name's Munechika and what can I do for you?"

Emerald reached down to the sealing scroll on his hip and unrolled it on the counter. He then bit his thumb and unsealed two sets of weapons.

The first weapons were the Katana that Emerald often carried. With an appraising eye, Munechika picked up one of the sheathed blades.

Without even trying to unsheathe it, he slowly turned it around in his hands. He ran his hands over every inch of the sheath while inspecting the workmanship that went into the hilt and the sheath.

He was very surprised at how light the Katana was. He could easily tell that whatever this blade was made of was unlike anything that he had ever seen.

He took particular notice of the engraving as well as the detail that went into them. With one hand still gripping the sheath, his other hand moved its way to the sword's hilt.

As he got ready to tug, Tenten walked back in the room to see how things were going. The instant her eyes landed on the katana, it was in her hands.

Both Emerald and Munechika stared at Munechika's empty hands as their brains tried to process the sudden disappearance of the weapon.

It wasn't until they heard Tenten squeal that they finally noticed where it went. They both looked over and sweat dropped when they saw the stars in her eyes as she looked all over Emerald's most prized weapon.

As she moved to unsheathe the sword, Emerald noticed a slight reaction in the other weapon sitting on the table but said nothing.

Tenten now had her hand on the sheath with the other on the hilt. The stars in her eyes disappeared as a small look of frustration popped onto her face.

After tugging several more times in several different positions but no matter what she did, the sword would not be unsheathed.

With a huff, she shoved the sword down on the table and looked at Emerald angrily.

"How could you let such a beautiful weapon like this get so bad that it can't be unsheathed," she said angrily.

Emerald just chuckled before picking the weapon back up. With no effort at all, Emerald drew the sword from its sheath.

The pitch black blade seemed to take all of the light around it and completely absorbed it. There wasn't even a reflection off of the blades dark surface.

Both Tenten and Munechika looked at the blade in awe as Emerald held it out to Tenten. With shaky hands, Tenten reached for the sword.

As soon as her hand touched the hilt, she withdrew it when she was shocked on the hand. Once more Emerald chuckled.

"The weapons that I make tend to be very particular about who they let use them," Emerald said. He then placed the blade down on the counter.

"You're saying you made this yourself," Munechika asked him in surprise. "What metal is it made from?"

"It is a special chakra conducting metal, which is all that I can tell you."

"What do you mean that the weapon is particular," Tenten asked curiously.

"Like Kiri's legendary swords, the weapons I make choose their owners, not the other way around. I am not sure why that is but only myself and whoever the weapon chooses can use it, except," Emerald paused before looking at the other weapon on the table.

When Tenten saw it she had stars in her eyes again. Completely forgetting what had just happened, Tenten immediately snatched up the kyoketsu-shoge.

Kyoketsu-shoge are double sided blades attached to a ring by a long metal chain. This particular one was made of a midnight blue metal with a silver wavelike pattern running up the blade

Emerald was about to warn her when he stopped after seeing just how easily Tenten picked it up. Suddenly, Tenten stopped her investigation of the weapon and looked sheepish while putting the blade back on the counter.

When Munechika went to inspect the kyoketsu-shoge, he quickly withdrew his hand when he received a sharp shock.

Rather than touch any of the weapons, the store owner inspected them without touching. To the untrained eye, the katana looked like it was covered in dirt and grime, resulting in its pitch black appearance.

Munechika did not have an untrained eye. Just by looking at it, he could tell that the blade was as clean as could be and naturally black in color. What had him stumped was how no light reflected off of the blade.

Munechika has seen black bladed weapons before, but all of them still gave off slight reflections of light. Emerald's blade, on the other hand, not only didn't reflect light, it seemed to draw it in as even the area around the blade seemed to be slightly darker the longer the blade sat there.

Finishing his inspection of the katana, he moved his sights to the kyoketsu-shoge. He marveled at the coloration of the blade as well as how well-crafted it was. As a weapons appraiser, he had met many weapons makers from around Hi no Kuni and he could honestly say that the workmanship of that weapon was on par with four of the best weapons makers he had ever come across.

Returning his attention to the boy before him, he slowly processed everything that he had observed of the weapons.

"Alright kid. From a monetary standpoint, your weapons are worthless." He stopped, expecting an indignant snort or angry comment about the appraiser's skills. What he wasn't expecting was a simple nod of the boy's head, earning the boy more respect in the aged blacksmith's mind.

"From a craftsman's standpoint, these weapons are beyond magnificent. The work is incredibly well done and it is obvious that you took great care and effort into making these weapons."

As Munechika finished his appraisal, he couldn't help but feel honored at having seen such magnificent weapons in person, though it saddened him greatly for what he was about to say.

"I am sorry, but I can't buy these weapons from you. Beautiful though they may be, I can't sell them very well if they won't accept my customers."

Munechika had been expecting many things from this boy, but a light chuckle was not one of them.

"I am afraid you misunderstand Munechika-san. I did not wish to sell them. I just wanted an opinion on the craftsmanship from the perspective of another."

As he finished speaking, he noticed the way that Tenten seemed to still be enraptured by his weapons.

"You seem to really like weapons don't you," Emerald asked her in a jovial tone that very few ever heard.

With a vigor that slightly caught Emerald off guard, Tenten shook her head up and down.

"Weapons are my passion," Tenten exclaimed enthusiastically.

"Then it would be my great pleasure to bestow upon you Tozan Tsume," Emerald said while gesturing towards the kyoketsu-shoge.

Tenten looked at it in wonder as she gingerly picked it up while whispering "Climbing claw" in wonder.

"How much do you want for it," Munechika asked while reaching into the money store box.

Emerald just shook his head before replying.

"It is free. This weapon has never even reacted to another let alone let someone pick it up. This girl here has done something even I, its maker, couldn't do. Tozan Tsume has chosen its owner. Who am I to not fulfil its wish?

The only thing I want in return is to see its ability. Try channeling chakra into it," Emerald instructed.

Looking a little confused as well as curious, she looked to her father who looked just as curious about what the outcome would be.

Doing as Emerald instructed, Tenten sent some of her chakra into the weapon in her hands. She was surprised when, unlike all the other chakra conducting weapons she has used before, the blade seemed to draw her chakra into itself rather than her having to force it in.

Shortly after she started sending it chakra, the blade started to glow a light blue. Just as soon as it started, the glow faded.

Tenten and Munechika both looked confused while Emerald looked disappointed under his mask.

"Don't worry," Emerald said. "Sometimes you just need some time to bond with it." Tenten just shook her head in acknowledgement before she then tried to channel chakra into it again, only to receive the same results.

Watching her continue to try and failing, Emerald then turned back to Munechika.

"Before I go, I would like to place an order for three hundred senbon and five hundred kunai," Emerald stated, snapping Munechika to attention.

"No problem, I can have your order ready by the end of the week."

As Munechika finished speaking, he noticed Emerald reaching into a pouch on his hip and pull out a sack filled with what he assumed was ryu.

"How much do I owe you?"

Munechika just shook his head from side to side with a smile.

"You don't owe anything. Consider this order on the house," he said.

"But…" Emerald started before Munechika silenced him by reaching across the counter and putting one of his grizzled hands on Emerald's shoulder.

"Listen kid. I am pretty sure that you just made my daughter's YEAR by giving her that kyoketsu-shoge. As her father, that has earned you my respect. Consider this order my return gift to you.

Also, because I like you so much already, I'll throw in a twenty percent discount on all orders and stock for you as well, how does that sound?"

Emerald still felt uncomfortable receiving a gift like this but accepted none the less.

"All I need now is your name to put on the order," Munechika said while pulling out a pad of paper and jotting down the order.

"Shadowfang Emerald," Emerald stated. Hearing his surname, Munechika stopped for a second and started to scratch his chin in thought.

"Where have I heard that name before," He murmured to himself, though Emerald still easily heard it.

After a few more seconds of thought, he just shrugged his shoulders. Seeing that everything was in order, Emerald turned around and exited the store.

Just as he walked out the door, he heard Tenten gasp. He guessed that she finally noticed the tails which both father and daughter somehow seemed to miss.

Shortly after, he then heard Munechika exclaim, "That's where I know that name from."

Emerald just snickered under his mask as he looked to the sky. Using the position of the sun, Emerald figured that it was just about time to get Furostomi and Flit.

*Five minutes later*

Emerald found himself once more outside of the Konoha Veterinary Office. He removed his mask and then looked around to make sure no one was watching.

Sure that he would not be seen, Emerald proceeded to bring Isis back out of the seal. After having some time in the seal by herself, her mood seemed to have increased greatly, though Emerald could still tell that she was still a little mad at him for not trying harder to stop that Anbu member from entering his mind.

It isn't like either of them really had anything to hide, Isis just really didn't like the thought of anyone but her and Emerald in there.

Now That she was calmer, she was once more attached to Emerald's arm as they walked into the building.

After retrieving the two wolves without seeing the Inuzuka vet, Emerald walked back out of the building with Flit in his arms, tail wagging furiously, and Furostomi and Isis to his left and right respectively.

As they all turned towards the Forest of Death, they saw a massive dust cloud moving towards them at and incredible speed.

They tried to make out what was in the dust cloud, but could not as it was too thick. As they continued to stand there, the dust cloud finally reached them.

Coughing and waving one hand in the air to clear the dust, Isis was left wondering what on Kami's green Earth that could have been.

She then became acutely aware of something being amiss. Furostomi also took notice of the slight change.

Looking around, the two soon came to realize that Emerald had mysteriously disappeared in that strange cloud of dust.

They turned to look in the direction that they saw the cloud move in, but it was already gone. They looked at each other and nodded.

As they got ready to give chase, they suddenly heard the panting of two very familiar voices.

"Furostomi-chan, Isis-nee," both Topaz and Sapphire called out as they staggered up to the two, panting and gasping for air.

"What happened to you two," Isis asked with hints of mirth in her voice.

"We (pant pant) found that purple pineapple haired (pant) bimbo from yesterday in the clearing (pant) with Naruto-kun," Topaz panted out in exhaustion.

"After she saw us (pant) she bolted. We have been chasing her for the last half hour, but she managed to get away. Where is Nii-sama," Sapphire finished after she caught her breath.

"Before I answer that question, was that dust cloud that just came through here Anko-chan?" Isis questioned.

Upon seeing the two girls' confused stares, Isis face palmed. "The purple haired bimbo," Isis elaborated in a deadpanned voice.

Seeing both girls nod their heads, Isis looked in the direction that the dust cloud had gone in again, she got a slightly devious glint in her eye.

"Emerald-koi went running that way after Flit went chasing after a cat," Isis lied smoothly while pointing in a different direction from the dust cloud.

The twin sisters looked back to each other before deciding that being around their eldest brother was more important than finding some cheap floozy.

As they got ready to take off, Furostomi opened her muzzle to say something, but Isis wrapped her hand around it to silence her.

Not noticing this, the two sisters quickly took to the roofs in search of their brother. Seeing the two gone, Furostomi shook her head to free her muzzle.

"Why did you lie to them like that," she asked Isis. All she got in response was a very vulpine smile as Isis silently walked off in the direction that she could sense Emerald in.

Knowing she wouldn't get an answer out of the decidedly annoying fox, the she-wolf just turned around and followed after her in silence.

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**Once more, I would like to apologize for my long absence. Between Beta reading, work, school, and other pain in the ass life problems, I just lost my muse and drive to write.**

**But fear not! My muse is with me once more and my drive is back with a vengeance. To all of you still sticking with me here, I humbly thank you. To those following both of my stories rejoice for I have already begun the next chapter for Digi Academy and I am proud to say that I am quite satisfied with the lemon, which is already done. All that is left is the rest of the chapter.**

**Until next time everyone.**


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Naruto, Adventure, Romance