Walking through the village that he used to visit many times through the years, Jiraiya was on guard this time. The glares that he was getting confused him. Granted he had not been there for nearly fifteen years, but this welcome was not what he thought that he was going to get. It was Naruto's birthday and he figured that this village would be a nice and quiet place to let him do what he wanted that day and for him to get some work done on his next novel before they headed back home

But not this time. The pleasant 'Jiraiya how ya doing?' that he would hear when he would walk through the village from all the venders was gone. The second that they learned of who he was they welcomed him with even more open arms than before. But this time they were all glaring at him and Naruto. 'Something isn't right here.'

Keeping his arms crossed as he met the glares that everyone gave them, Naruto had one of his own. "Hey Pervy Sage I thought that you said that everyone loved you in this village. I bet they figured out you were a pervert. I mean they are all looking at us like we are the walking dead."

Stopping and bowing his head, Jiraiya glared at the ground. "This village used to sing my praises and welcome me with open arms. No matter what was going on. So what is it everyone? What is your problem with me this time? Last time I was here you were all so much nicer."

"It is because of what you brought to our village that you are no longer welcome here Jiraiya of the Sannin."

Naruto and Jiraiya both looked up and blinked when they saw a woman with extra-long black hair and clear sky blue eyes walk out of the crowd and stop with her arms crossed. Turning around and blinking his blue eyes up at him, Naruto pointed at her. "Hey Pervy Sage what is she talking about?"

His eyes narrowed, Jiraiya wanted to know the very same thing. "I would like to know what she is talking about as well Naruto. So what of it Akiko? Want to tell me what is going on and why it is my fault?"

Closing her eyes as she walked past them she kept her arms crossed. "Follow me. I will tell you exactly what is going on and you can deal with it."

Arching an eyebrow as he turned his head to look at her, Jiraiya had a glare of his own now. "It?"

"Just follow me. Both of you." Akiko kept her arms crossed. She knew that it was as much her fault as it was his. But blaming it on the strength of the Sannin and saying it all came from him has kept her from being found out. About a bloodline she didn't even realize that she had. She had every intention on giving the thing to him, and yet when he does show up he has a kid that looks older than her daughter with him. Once they were in the woods she stopped and turned a glare on the boy. "So who is he Jiraiya? Is he your son?"

Keeping his eyes even with hers, Jiraiya shook his head side to side. "His name is Naruto and he is my student. We are in the woods Akiko. So tell me. What the hell is going on here?"

With a sigh, Akiko turned around and walked on. Part of her relieved that he wasn't his son. "Had you kept up with what you were doing, and come back a couple times a year I could have told you sooner. And then you could have taken it with you."

Hardening his glare as he followed her, Jiraiya was starting to get irritated with her. "What it are you talking about Akiko?"

"Fourteen years ago today. Fourteen years ago I gave birth to your daughter." Glancing back at the shock on his face when he stopped walking she narrowed her eyes. "I was proud to boast of having your child at first. I had a little girl. But on the day she turned five years old she showed what she truly was and I blame you. And since that day she has been kept in a cell in a cave outside of the village." Closing her eyes with a sigh she turned her head away. "You could have taken her away from here so no one here would have had to deal with her or myself."

"If this is a bad joke Akiko you better start telling the truth right now." Jiraiya was as wide eyed as Naruto was at this news. If what she said was true he had a fourteen year old daughter he knew nothing about!

Turning a glare full of hate on him, Akiko crossed her arms. "So you don't remember the day that I finally gave in to you and we had sex the last time you were here Jiraiya?"

With a nod, Jiraiya still looked shocked as he was trying to wrap his head around what she was saying right now. "That I remember but….."

Closing her eyes as she turned her back to him, Akiko growled. "That was the day it happened. Nine months to the day, today I gave birth to her. She looks just like you with the exception of your stripes and eyes. Hers are more of an ice blue."

Turning and walking on, forcing the two to follow her she sighed. "I was elated at first. I was pregnant with the child of one of the three Sannin. I had hoped that you would have kept up with the schedule you had been keeping. If so you would have come back when I was about seven months pregnant. You never came back. After five years, I figured that I would just go to the Leaf and tell you. I thought that you just got caught up with missions and that is what kept you from the village."

His eyes still wide, Jiraiya nodded as he kept his eyes on her. She was right on that. "In round about way yes that is true. I was sent on a recon by the Third after the death of the Fourth."

Letting out a snorted laugh, Akiko shook her head as she sighed. "I couldn't care less. But it was the morning that I was going to leave when I saw it. That power she had and was using."

His eyes narrowed now, Jiraiya crossed his arms. "You going to tell us what 'that power' was Akiko?"

"She was manipulating water. I figured that she would have chakra and could do stuff with you being her father. But she was turning it into ice and blue crystals."

Stopping with an angry glare, Jiraiya fisted his hands. It was a cruel joke! "Stop right there Akiko. There is no way."

Turning on him with hate fully in her eyes, Akiko put her hands on her hips. "No way what?"

Opening glaring eyes he met her glaring blue ones. "There is no way that she is my daughter if she can do that. Those are kekkei genkai and I don't have any. She had to get them by blood. How she has both is beyond me, but I can't be her father."

Tears shinning in her eyes she walked up to him and slapped him so hard his head jerked to the side. "I blame you for her being able to use them because of the chakra you had. I blamed you in the village so I wouldn't be ran out! She got those cursed powers from me."

Flinching as he jerked his head back to her blue eyes, Jiraiya didn't know what to think on that one. "You?!"

Turning from him Akiko sighed. "My grandmother told me about it after I told her what Juuri was doing. Yes that is what I named her, I wanted it to sound more like yours than mine. My grandmother said that her parents were from two different clans. Her mother could use ice, her father crystal. They thought they sealed it away correctly when Grandma was born. Then my mother. And me. Three generations from two kekkei genkai holders with no chakra abilities at all. Then Juuri. The only thing we can figure is that we carried it in our blood and your chakra woke it up in her."

All Jiraiya could do was look at her. He hadn't thought about what her blood may or may not have had. At the time he was drunk and she said yes and he wasn't going to back down from a chance to have some fun.

Turning and moving on making them follow her, Akiko made it to a small clearing where you could see the mouth of the cave. "I just wish I had known. Had I known what could have happened, I would have killed her before she was born. Before I got any attachment to her at all. That was the only reason why I couldn't kill her at five. I let myself love the monster for five years. That is why she hasn't been out of that cave or that damned cell for nine years."

Whether or not this girl was Jiraiya's daughter, Naruto had finally had enough of listening to this woman and the way that she talked about her own daughter! Her own child! His blue eyes focused and full of rage, glared at her. "You have no right. What gives you the right to do that to your own child! You are standing there blaming it on Jiraiya like he was the only one! You got no right to judge anyone after you treat your own child like scum. You make me sick."

Laughing as she looked at Naruto, Akiko smiled. "You know nothing about me. No I don't want anything to do with the monster anymore. And now that her father is here he can take her away and I never have to be bothered with her again. And now that you know Jiraiya you better take her with you. Because I will not be returning to this cave." Then she turned and headed back toward the village.

Crossing his arms Naruto glared. "I tell ya Pervy Sage you know how to pick them. She is a bitch."

Headed for the cave, Jiraiya knew that even if he didn't believe she was his after he seen her or not, he couldn't leave her there. "Naruto stay out here for a moment. I am going to go in and talk to her and get her out."

With a sigh as he dropped his bag, Naruto then sat down himself. "Right."

Walking in the mouth of the cave he saw deep inside it the glow of a small oil lamp. Making his way toward the light he sighed as his heart broke. His daughter or not the sound of feet and chains could be heard as she was clearly moving away from the bars of the cell. Away from him. His daughter or not he was not going to let this girl stay there and suffer. He would take her to the Leaf where she could be happy and free.

But when he could finally see her, his eyes went wide with shock. And the shock and tears that sprang into her beautiful eyes, he knew beyond any doubt. This was his little girl. She was a female version of him with blue stripes and eyes. He turned to glare toward the outside of the cave. How anyone could do this to their own child enraged him. She didn't even try to find him just locked her away like trash!

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Sitting with her head bowed and leaning against the bars, Juuri wondered when her mother was going to come and give her food. She learned to ration food over the years so she wouldn't be so hungry when it was brought to her. It seemed that the older she got the fewer times her mother would bring food to her.

But she was pulled from her thoughts when she heard someone coming. She listened for a moment then gasped when she realized it wasn't her mother coming. Moving she paled as she tried to get as far away from the bars as she could. Cursing the damn chains that she was forced to wear as well as being imprisoned in this place. 'Who is it? It isn't mother. What do they want? Did she tell them about me?'

But when the one who was coming toward her could be seen her entire body froze in pure shock! It was her father! And she knew it was him because of the picture that her mother gave her a few years ago. A picture from a bingo book! She didn't know if what her mother said was true about him, but according to her it was her father's fault that she was in the situation that she was in. Right now, she could only hope that it was a lie her mother fed her all these years about him. And that he wasn't as cruel as her mother was to her.

Slowly pushing herself up to stand on shaky legs she hugged herself and flinched when he turned back to look at her. "Why are you here? What do you want?"