Ch. 5

*time skip- 2 weeks*

"Why am I the way I am?"

Kurama opened his eyes and lifted his massive head from his arms. His head tilted down and his eyes locked onto the small blond standing before his prison.

"What do you mean?" He asked with a raised brow.

Naruko took a seat in front of the massive bars that separated them. Her legs crossed and her hands rested on her thighs.

"I'm physically stronger and faster then everyone else. When I hurt myself training, the injuries I sustain are gone by morning. How? Why?" The blond asked, her voice was calm yet full of curiosity.

"We tailed beasts are pure chakra given both form and sentience." The fox began." We are walking natural disasters. Our power far outweighs that of you humans." He admitted." It's only natural that those that contain us are both stronger and faster then their peers." He told her.

Naruko bit her bottom lip as she though over his words. Could the kyubi be the reason for her physical prowess? Even her healing? Then a sudden question popped up in her mind.

She looked up at him and spoke." If you and the other tailed beasts are so much stronger then us humans, then how did you all get beaten?" She asked curiously.

If it was anyone else, kurama would've snapped at them and told them off, but he could tell that Naruko wasn't insulting him but she was rather truthfully curious as to how he and the rest of his brethren lost to a bunch of humans.

"Seals." He answered simply and seeing the curious look in her blue eyes, he continued." Seals are probably the strongest thing humans have every created. There is no limitations when it comes to seals. With them you could instantly teleport from one place to another, like your second and fourth hokage did." He rested his chin on the palm of his left hand." You could theoretically do anything with seals, so long as the seals are made correctly that is, but another thing they're good for is sealing us tailed beasts away inside you puny humans."

Naruko looked up at the seal that rested in the center of the large gate before her." What kind of seal is this one then?" She asked.

"The seal that keeps me locked up inside of you is truly a work of art." Kurama said with a bit of distain in his voice. Even if this seal did steal his freedom, it was still an amazingly crafted seal and he could show at least some respect for its creator." This seal is called the eight trigrams seal. It's function is to slowly purify my chakra before adding it to your own reserves, so your already large chakra reserve will continue to grow as you do." He suddenly closed his eyes.

"Was your last container like me?" She asked suddenly.

Kuramas eyes snapped open and he looked  down at the girl before him. He watched her closely as he began to speak.

"My last containers seal was not like this one, hers did not siphon my chakra directly into her own reserves so no, your mother was not like you."

Naruko stilled. Her mother? Her mother was the kyubis last container? But the hokage had told her that both of her parents parishes the night of her birth in the kyubi attack, he said he didn't know who they were, but if  she was the kyubis last jailer then the hokage had to know her! so that would mean...

"Did... did you kill her?" She asked in such a quiet tone that kurama had barely heard her. But he did hear her.

His ears twitched atop his head." I did." He replied truthfully. He could feel the sudden wave of emotions emanating from the blond before him. Confusion, anger, curiosity,  and then a sudden acceptance.

"Tell me how." She demanded softly as she looked down at her lap."tell me how she d-died." Her voice wavered slightly.

"I ran my claw through both her and the fourth hokages stomach the night you were born." He told her softly." The fourth was trying to seal me away inside of you, so I tried to kill you... but they both jumped in the way." He stared down at her shaking form. It was clear to see that she was quietly crying." If it makes it hurt less, know that she died quickly, if anything, it was a mercy."

"M-mercy?" She sobbed.

"I was ripped from your mothers seal Naruko, no human survives that. Your mother somehow did, for a time that is. If I hadn't killed her then and there, she would've suffered even more before she finally passed."

"H-her name." Narukos shoulders shook." What was her name?" She asked with a sniffle.

Kurama let out a sigh." Uzumaki." Kurama spoke gruffly." Kushina uzumaki." He closed his eyes once more." She had red hair." He told her before he quickly fell asleep.

Naruko sat there, her shoulders shaking as she cried." Kushina uzumaki, red hair." She mumbled out.

She repeated those words a few more times before she faded from her mind scape.

****

Hiruzen was jerked awake when his office literally shook. His brown eyes quickly sharpened, all evidence of his previous nap was gone.

"Lord hokage!" His office door blasted open as his secretary practically flew into the room.

"What's going on!" He demanded as a loud ' boom' echoed throughout the tower before it shook once more, causing him to stumble a bit as he stood up from his chair.

"Sir!" The women cried out." It Naruko! She's broken into the archive room!" She hurried out." The Anbu tried to stop her but she just-" she struggled to find the words." -I've never seen someone move that fast before sir! The Anbu just dropped!" She exclaimed.

Hiruzens mind was racing a thousand miles a minute. What was Naruko doing in the ninja archive room? How did she get in there in the first place and why would she attack his Anbu?

'What- no who. Who is she looking for?' He asked himself.

*CRACK*

Hiruzen jumped backwards as an entire filing cabinet broke through his office floor and embedded itself halfway into his ceiling.

With a small huff he practically flew forward, blasting past his scared secretary and down to the basement of the hokages tower where the archive room was located.

Once he entered the basement he looked around in surprise. Multiple Anbu were lying on the ground, some sitting up against a wall, with obvious signs of broken bones and possible concussions. There were more Anbu tending to the wounded as he passed them by.

"Move!" He ordered the Anbu that surrounded the large hole in the wall -that used to be a door- and they parted for him. He walked forward, only to duck as another filing cabinet flew over his head and hit another agent behind him. Said agent let out a heavy ' oof!' Before he was carried to the ground by the large metal cabinet.

Finally hiruzen could see her. Her shoulder length blond hair was a mess and she was wearing a plain white t-shirt and a pair of burnt orange pajama paints. Hiruzen frowned as he saw the desperate look on her face as she ripped open a cabinet drawer and began to frantically read through the file names while mumbling something under her breath that he couldn't quite make out.

He took a deep breath and spoke." NARUKO UZUMAKI THAT IS ENOUGH!" gone was the grandfatherly tone and in its place, a hard battle worn tone, one that befitted him as both the third hokage and the current god of shinobi.

Naruko stilled." You!" She spat out as her head snapped in his direction and hiruzen took a step back in surprise. Never had he seen such hatred on narukos face before, never had he heard such hate in her voice before.

Naruko slammed the drawer closed and turned the rest of her body to face him, her blue eyes were narrowed and a sneer was plastered onto her face.

"You lying, stupid jerk!" Naruko snapped. Her voice turning almost demonic as her blue eyes began to flash red."You lied to me!" She spat and hiruzen took another step back as her whisker marks darkened and her flashing eyes settled on a bloody red. Her chakra flared and her fingernails grew into claws.

"Naruko." Hiruzen spoke cautiously, his tone much softer now seeing as the blond had unknowingly began to draw on the kyubis chakra." Naruko you need to calm down." He told her softly as he raised his hands in an effort to show that he meant know harm.

"Don't tell me what to do you lier!" She growled out.

"Lier?" Hiruzen asked softly." Naruko-Chan, what have I lied to you about?" He asked softly while internally, he swallowed a lump in his throat. It was easy to see that she had discovered something about her heritage. She was in the archive room which held the names and faces of every shinobi this village ever had, past and present. Thankfully this room only had their names and general information recorded. The black ops stuff was held somewhere else entirely.

Now he just needed to find out which parent she knew about and how she gained such knowledge.

"Her name!" She growled out as she clenched her fists, her blood red eyes now hidden behind her blond hair."say it!" She ordered." Say her name!"

"Naruko.." his voice was still calm but it had a certain edge to it." You need to calm down now, I don't wanna have to order my ninja to subdue you." It was obvious to him that she was talking about her mother, but he couldn't just say it out loud, every veteran Anbu in the room knew who Kushina was, more importantly, they knew of who she hung around most.

"I can't find her! Why isn't her file here? Why are you hiding her from me?" Naruko demanded as she motioned to the completely wrecked room around her. Cabinets and drawers were strewn about and discarded files were lying everywhere. She had read through every name in this room and she could find her mothers name." Tell me what you know!" She demanded with a blood chilling growl. When Hiruzen didn't reply she let out a bone chilling roar that caused everything around them to vibrate."Now!" She ordered with tears spilling from her eyes.

"Kushina uzumak."

Hiruzens head jerked to the right and he saw Kakashi standing next to him with his Anbu mask off.

"Kakashi!" He hissed out but the man ignored him.

Kakashi took a step towards the raging girl and spoke again." Your mothers name was Kushina uzumaki." He told her again, though his tone was soft.

Naruko looked up at him and everyone felt a wave of relief as her blood red eyes returned to their natural blue. Her darkens whiskers faded and her claws retracted as her chakra settled.

"Y-you know?" She asked in a soft quiet tone. Her tear filled eyes seemingly stared into his very soul.

Kakashi walked up to her and dropped to his knees." I do." He replied as he reached his hands up and rubbed the child's arms soothingly." She was an amazing person." He told her.

Naruko sniffled as a fresh wave of tears hit her." W-why c-can't I find her f-file?" She sobbed out.

"It's not here, but I can bring it to you." He told her as he reached into the pouch on his lower back and pulled out a piece of paper with a seal written on it. He showered it to her." But I need to put this on you okay?"

Her blue eyes looked at the seal skeptically." W-what does it do?" She asked as she eyed the seal.

"It'll stop you from accessing your chakra, it'll feel weird at first but you'll get used to it and it doesn't hurt you." Seeing the skeptical look in her eyes, he gave her a smile eye smile." I promise." He added. "After I put this on you I'll take you to a quiet room where I'll retrieve your mother file and I'll show it to you, but I can't do any of that unless I know for sure that you won't hurt yourself or anyone else okay?"

After a few seconds of silence, the blond nodded her head and agreed. Kakashi gently put the chakra suppression seal on her upper back and she stumbled a bit before he caught her.

To Naruko it felt really weird. It felt as if a wall had suddenly sprung up between her and her chakra and she knew that even if she wanted to, she wouldn't be able to mold any chakra until the seal was taken off.

But when her chakra was sealed off, so was the ungodly rage that she had felt and with that, her mind began to clear. She understood that everything she had done tonight was highly illegal. She had broken into the hokages tower and entered a highly restricted area while assaulting multiple Anbu agents in the process before completely trashing the place in her blind rage.

She'd be lucky if they didn't throw her in prison.

"Come." Kakashi spoke softly as he wrapped his arms around the small child and picked her up." Let's get you out of here okay?" Naruko didn't respond, she simply buried her face into the crook of his neck.

Kakashi turned around and began to carry the girl out of the destroyed room. He ignored the hokages ' I'll deal with you later' look and proceeded onwards.