Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Summary: Hinata's back, Naruto's on his way, and the Kyuubi's influence takes on a new form…

Notes: Again I'm guilty of over doing it a bit, Doh! So I slightly altered the last few paragraphs of the last chapter and included the changes here, enjoy!

Last time on Naruto's Inheritance…

Hinata shook her head back and forth, there were too many connections to ignore. She wanted to tell Neji he was full of shit and slap him upside the head but she couldn't, he was dead on. She returned her cousins gaze and voiced what they were both thinking, "The Kyuubi no Kitsune is alive."

Neji didn't blink, "Yes."

"And it's tied to Naruto," she continued.

Neji nodded in agreement, "Hinata, everything we've ever seen him do, everything about him that's defied explanation, it all fits. Naruto. The Kyuubi. The 4th Hokage. They're all tied together, that's what I saw during the chuunin exams, that's what attacked your eyes."

The hairs on Hinata's arms stood on end, not 40 feet away in Naruto's kitchen sat the most fearsome creature known to man. She turned her gaze back to Naruto's house and watched him sitting, staring at a scroll. The ever present golden chakra flowed throughout his body, it looked stronger than she remembered. Was he was changing?

"My eyes are starting to hurt again," she realized. "I don't think they're healed yet." Hinata released her Byakugan and turned back to Neji. "I have to go to him Neji, I have to help him if I can."

Neji pushed her back against the tree, "No Hinata! You can't go near him! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

"Of course I did, and that's exactly why I have to go!" she said pushing back against him.

"Hinata the Kyuubi isn't just a demon, it's a poison!" Hinata's eyes went wide with realization.

"A poison just for us…"

Chapter 15 – The Kyuubi's new trick

Hinata glared daggers at her cousin, "We don't know that Neji."

"Yes we do Hinata."

"We've both been around him our entire lives! Why aren't we blind already?"

Neji frowned, he'd thought of exactly the same thing but still, "I don't know I don't have all the answers yet, maybe he's changing somehow but it doesn't matter. We're staying away from him for now."

In the blink of an eye the flat of her hand to knocked Neji's left arm up and away from her body, a look of surprise registered on his face and his body rocked forward a few inches out of balance. He tried to throw a leg out in front of himself to halt the movement but before he could she twisted his other arm and forced his body around in a tight circle slamming his back square against the tree.

With a last flicker of motion she'd shifted her grasp of his arms to simple hold of his shoulders and pushed hard effectively pinning the shocked jounin and perfectly reversing their positions. Hinata's eyes blazed with defiance and she stared her cousin down, "I didn't come back to him just to run away from some bastard furball!"

Neji looked at her with a sense of sheer wonderment, who was this woman and what happened to Hinata?! "She's willing to risk so much for him! But why did I expect any less? He's a friend and a comrade and she's a true shinobi after all. This is what we do, who we are."

"Hinata, just tell me one thing…"

"What is it?"

"Did your eyes bother you at all just now when you observed him?"

"No." she lied.

Neji took a deep breath and cracked a smile, "Ok Hinata, lets go see Naruto."

Hinata broke into a huge grin and threw her arms around him, "Thank you Neji!"

He turned a deep shade of red and pushed her away as gentlemanly as possible, this new outfit of his cousin's was too damn skimpy! "Hinata please! There's no need to thank me … just get moving."

Naruto was so engrossed in the freakish scroll that he didn't even sense the two chakra's standing on his front porch. Knock, Knock. Giving the scroll one last dirty look he left it there and went to the door.

"Hinata! Neji,"

"Hi Naruto-kun, how are you?" she asked smiling.

"Great I just, I uh … didn't expect to see you here," he stumbled. That of course was the truth, he hadn't really talked to her since she ran away screaming from him two days ago. He registered Neji's presence but practically forgot as his attention was torn to the new outfit she was wearing made up mostly of the same gear she wore for their training session turned make out paradise turned total disaster.

Naruto's jaw almost hit the porch, "Wow Hinata you look … great." Neji frowned.

Hinata blushed a bit but kept her outward self in check, inside she could feel herself doing summersaults being this close to him again without a trace of the nervousness and fear she'd felt only a moment ago. "So, are you going to invite us in or just stare all day?"

Now it was Naruto's turn to blush, "Oh! Yes please come in! Sorry about that I'm still a little bit woozy from that stay in the hospital I guess." He stood to the side and invited them in, as Hinata walked past he locked onto her and leered until she was well into the living room. Suddenly Naruto was aware of something else, something very, very close. He turned his head back to the door jerked back a bit when he found Neji's face about three inches from his.

"It's a nice outfit isn't?" Neji asked in his trademark monotone.

Naruto turned even more red and threw on his biggest grin, "Uh ya it sure is isn't it? Ha ha … oh boy. Care for a water?"

Neji gave just the slightest hint of a grin, "No thanks."

Naruto watched Neji turn around and walk into the house. "Hinata feel free to help yourself, you know where everything is…" Neji shot back around and gave Naruto the stare of death.

"Thanks Naruto-kun!" Hinata called from the kitchen.

Naruto walked in a wide arc around Neji and made his way over to the kitchen. "So what brings you two by?" He thought he saw them exchange some quick glances but it was hard to be sure.

"Well we heard you got out of the hospital and came by to see how you're feeling," Hinata said cheerily.

Naruto looked over at Neji who simply nodded in agreement. "Uh huh," Naruto said stalling for time to think of what else to say. The last he saw Hinata he was groping her near naked body just before she ran away screaming. Now she showed up unannounced with a body guard to say 'hi'. He tried to imagine a more awkward situation but came up empty.

"So what's up with this scroll?" Hinata asked reaching for Naruto's mysterious scroll.

"Don't touch that!" Naruto yelled so fast she jumped back. Seeing the alarmed looks on their faces Naruto quickly explained the how he found the scroll and the strange effect it had on him when he tried to read it.

Hinata and Neji watched the mysterious object very carefully, "So you can pick it up and it's fine, but when you try to open it, it scares you?" Hinata asked.

Naruto got a little flustered, he didn't want her to think that he was actually afraid it. "No it's not like that Hinata-chan, it's almost like a genjutsu or something I swear. Every time I start to open it I'm filled with this freakish sense of dread and fear, it's almost overpowering. I honestly don't know what I should do with it. Hey! Maybe one of you could try?"

"He called me Hinata-chan that time," she noticed.

"Oh I don't think so Naruto," Neji said. "Scrolls really aren't my area of expertise but this sounds untrustworthy, maybe you should have a specialist take a look at this."

Naruto tried to give Neji his best puppy dog eyes, "Come on Neji! You don't have to really open it just peel back the corner and see if it gives you the same creeps it gives me, there's no harm in that." The look on Neji's face gave him the distinct impression the puppy dog eyes were the wrong track.

"Naruto, don't ever look at me like that again."

Hinata picked up the scroll and both boys reacted, "So I just hold it like this right?" she asked.

Naruto raced around the counter and got right behind her. "Yes just like that, now just peel open one little corner of the scroll and tell me if you feel anything strange," he said.

Neji started to protest but to his amazement a quick look from Hinata stopped him cold. Realizing what just happened Neji made a mental note to investigate women in general and figure out why they seemed so much more powerful after puberty.

The three held their breath as Hinata slowly peeled back the corner of the paper, "is this enough?" she asked.

Naruto looked from Hinata to scroll and back again with a worried expression, "Anything?"

"Nothing," she replied. "Should I open it further?"

Naruto took a step back and stared at the scroll and the stunning girl holding it, "God she has perfect skin! I can smell her from here … Arrggh! Not now idiot get a grip! OK, how is it possible that she's not affected by the scroll? If it was a genjutsu then she should be affected just like me. If it's not a genjutsu than we're playing with the unknown and I don't want her to open it any farther and trigger some kind of trap. But even if the damn thing's booby-trapped that explains nothing as to why I'm getting singled out!"

"No just hold it there Hinata, I want to try something." Naruto reached out with his hands and slowly closed them over Hinata's and the scroll. She could feel his sudden closeness and the heat from his presence radiated across her skin causing Hinata to blush slightly and turn her head ever so much in the blonds direction. Even without the Byakugan none of the subtle reactions were lost on Neji whose eyes narrowed and raced between the scroll to Naruto with a dangerous tilt. As his hands made contact with hers Naruto could feel Hinata move ever so slightly … DANGER!

"Ahhh!" Naruto yelped and yanked his hands back again. Hinata yelped in surprise at him and dropped the scroll back onto the counter.

Neji looked like he was about to pounce, "Hinata are you OK?"

She nodded quickly, "Yes I'm fine, Naruto?"

Naruto shot the scroll another dirty look, "You didn't feel that? That was the strongest one yet, stupid scroll!"

"No, I didn't feel anything at all. And you definitely felt something?" she asked. Naruto nodded vehemently. "Neji why don't you take a look at this with your Byakugan? I want to get a closer look at this."

Neji tried to protest again, he most definitely didn't want to use his Byakugan this close to Naruto. "Hinata this isn't a good idea, we really need to…"

"Neji, Naruto is our friend and we need to help him OK? Just take a look," she admonished.

Naruto watched the exchange and picked up on some kind of unspoken conversation between the two. Whatever they were doing here was definitely about the other day he decided, she must not feel safe alone with him he realized a little sadly. He decided to prod her a little bit to be sure, "If Neji doesn't want to why don't you take a look Hinata-chan?" he asked.

"Oh I couldn't, I've been training extra hard lately and I need to rest my eyes," she replied. Her eyes did need some rest she figured so it wasn't a total lie. Naruto seemed satisfied with that and she handed the scroll over to an unhappy Neji, "Take a look."

Neji shot her one last annoyed glance and activated his Byakugan. Despite his better judgment he took the opportunity to chance a sideways glance at Naruto with his keki-genki and noted the blurry gold chakra. "He looks the same as at the hospital, still totally unique of course but otherwise nothing really seems out of place, no pain either."

The Hyuuga mentally filed away his findings and got back to the task at hand. Looking down he started scanning the mysterious scroll. Naruto and Hinata watched from the other side of the counter. "Hmmm," he mumbled. "Nothing suspicious in the casing."

Naruto shifted his weight and glanced around in curiosity, something smelled absolutely delicious. On instinct he followed his nose thirty degrees to the right and identified Hinata as the source of the smell. She was still focused on Neji and the scroll. "Oh my God that's Hinata? She makes ramen smell like dog food. What the hell is this some kind of super perfume? Sniff, sniff. No, it's not perfume at all, it's just her! Holy shit how can she smell like that?!"

"The paper is clean too," Neji announced. "Just the core is left…"

Naruto took the tiniest step closer to Hinata and drank in her heavenly nectar, he knew somewhere in the back of his mind that his eyes were rolling into the back of his head but he didn't care, the only thing he cared about was sinking into her aroma. The very thought of it sent his mind into summersaults, "it's like ecstasy wrapped in orgasm wrapped in bacon! Sniff, sniff. Oh man I don't think I can stand this, she smells like, like I want to run my tongue over every inch of her supple, gorgeous body! Shit! Shit! Shit!"

"Naruto? Why are you sniffing my cousin?"

Naruto's eyes flung open, his nose was actually touching the side of her head and he could see her staring at him out of her left eye. She looked a little nervous. He took a slow step back and straightened his shoulders trying to look as normal as humanly possible, "Uh … Your hair smells really nice, Strawberry?"

Hinata's heart was beating a thousand beats per minute, for one odd moment the knowledge of what might lie inside of Naruto had her convinced that he was going to take a bite. She was so dumbfounded that she answered before it even registered that he'd asked a question, "Irish Spring."

"Oh," he replied awkwardly. "thought it was strawberry…"

Neji was halfway across the kitchen counter and looked ready to punch Naruto in the face. "Naruto, why were you sniffing my cousin?" he growled menacingly.

Naruto turned to face the enraged man and felt about half of his wits return, "I didn't sniff your cousin."

"Yes you did, I just saw you. With my Byakugan!"

Naruto crossed his arms and looked positively indignant, "Then I would think you'd know the difference, I smelled her Neji, I didn't sniff her. Geeesh."

Hinata was beside herself, a mix of excitement, fear, and shock at Naruto's odd behavior tore her in about 17 emotional directions at once. She didn't know whether to slap him, kiss him, or call for an exorcist.

Neji handed the scroll back to Naruto careful never to break eye contact, "Nothing, it's just a scroll."

"Oh," Naruto said grinning sheepishly. "Here let me just take that from you there…" Naruto tugged but Neji didn't let go.

"Neji!" Hinata scolded.

Neji let go of the scroll and gave Naruto a very unnerving grin. "It's probably time we got going anyway, glad to see you're Ok Naruto." With that the dangerous jounin walked out the front door, but Naruto knew as well as anyone that he was still being watched by the Byakugan.

Hinata followed her cousin and made it all the way to the door before she turned around, "Naruto?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm glad you're Ok too. Maybe … I could buy you some ramen sometime? I thought we could talk some more."

It wasn't easy for Naruto to get to sleep, conflicting thoughts of Hinata, the Kyuubi, his parents, and about a million other little things assaulted his tired mind until late into the night. He wasn't sure exactly what time he managed to get to sleep but whatever time it was one thing was clear, it definitely way too early to woken up by Jiraiya's ugly mug.

"What kind of ninja are you?!" the hyperactive sannin bellowed. "Get your ass out of bed, the Hokage wants to see you!"

Naruto groaned loudly hiding underneath his pillow and asked his mother for another ten minutes, what he got was 2.3 seconds and a water jutsu. "What the hell is wrong with you?! Why do you always have to use freezing cold water?" Naruto whined ringing out his pajamas.

Jiraiya turned his nose up at his pupils hurtful expression and shrugged. "You're a leaf nin, next time get up when you're told you big baby. Besides, the Ice Wave is the only water jutsu I can remember this time of morning."

Giving his sensei one last dirty look Naruto started flinging his soaked clothing off and headed toward the bathroom. "Instead of perving on me why don't you check out the little present I left you in the kitchen?" He called out disappearing around the corner.

"Don't flatter yourself kid!" Jiraiya called back grinning, his insults were getting better. He wandered over to the counter and found it bare save one lonely looking scroll casing. He picked up the tube and popped out of the scroll itself, it certainly wasn't new but it wasn't the oldest looking scroll he'd ever seen either. A quick jerk revealed an expansive blank surface and a frown, "I've got plenty of blanks smart ass!"

"I'm not so sure it's blank." Naruto responded entering the room fully changed.

"Tsunade-sama? You wanted to see me?" Naruto asked peaking his head in the door.

Tsunade looked up from her ever present pile of paperwork and smiled, anything was better than reading through this crap. As if Shinobi activities were the primary cause of deforestation in fire country! Honestly it amazed her to no end the kind of bullshit the Hokage had to deal with.

"Yes, yes, come in Naruto and take a seat," she said sweetly motioning him in.

The hairs on the back of Naruto's neck stood up, he knew better than to trust Tsunade sounding sweet. A familiar chair sat in the center of her office looking just like he remembered leaving it, of course if his last visit to this office was any indication that could have been four or five chairs ago. A quick check revealed an identical chair sitting in the corner behind the door where most visitors probably never noticed it, not good. "Uh, I'll just stand thanks," he said nervously. Entering the room he noticed something else was off, a weird smell that seemed vaguely familiar but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Tsunade caught his distraction and slammed her hands against the solid mahogany desk with a loud bang, "Well I'm glad to see you're feeling better, so well in fact that you checked yourself out of the damn hospital via the second story window!"

Naruto flinched but instinctively tried not to break eye contact because in truth his attention was being forcefully yanked elsewhere, "Are her breasts still bouncing from hitting the desk? How the hell do they do that? And were they always that big? NO! What the hell are you doing you freak? Do not look at the Hokages breasts!" he told himself.

"Well? Do have anything to say for yourself?!" Tsunade demanded angrily.

Naruto shook his head so hard his neck cracked, "What? Oh! No Hokage-sama, I'm sorry I left the hospital like that but … I was feeling much better when I woke up and I can't stand those places when I'm not sick you know?" he confessed trying to look as innocent as possible.

She tried to yell again but that sheepish look zapped the anger right out of her, not many people spent as much time in the hospital as poor Naruto. It was something she'd hoped he'd outgrown but pushing his limits and never backing down from anything where two traits that he didn't seem to have lost on his trip. The tired Hokage let out a big sigh and threw herself back into the chair. "Fine, just don't do it again," she said waving her hand dismissively.

Naruto's eye twitched slightly, "Oh my god! The way they move, it's like they're two seconds behind the rest of her body. Imagine what they look like when they're exposed …"

"Well anyway there were actually two reasons I wanted to call you in here, the first is the cause of your little accident on the training fields, I've already talked to Kakashi about what happened and I know you pushed your limits on purpose … you want to explain that?" Tsunade asked raising an eyebrow.

Naruto's brain quickly shifted gears and he blushed uncomfortably trying to avoid her gaze, he'd already beat himself up over this. It was stupid and impatient and he knew it, and of course Kakashi-sensei deciphered everything including his motives from fifty feet away as per usual. Trying to hide anything around that guy was nearly impossible, Naruto made a mental note right there and then find out what his secret was, or buy his own mask. "It was a stupid move, I'm sorry I did it and it won't happen again. I still can't believe I put Kakashi-sensei in danger like that … fuck!"

"Watch the mouth, and try not to forget about the danger you put yourself in!" she admonished.

But inwardly she was more than just a little impressed, "He's more upset about Kakashi, good to see he hasn't changed in that way. You're like your father in more than just the looks department Naruto. Luckily no one got hurt and this guilt should be more than enough to keep you careful for now."

"Good, I'm glad you understand your mistake. Because if you didn't I was going to have to hold you back from the chuunin exams next week," she said smiling in satisfaction at the horrified look that crept across his face. "But you seemed to have learned your lesson."

Sniff, Sniff. Damn there it was again, what the hell was that? He didn't want to be rude to Tsunade-sama and look away but for some reason the source of that strange new scent was simply commanding his attention. Without actually moving his eyes Naruto scanned his peripheral vision looking for the source of the strange smell. During his trip he'd learned how to actually focus in and observe details in what was normally the ignored outer edges of his vision. It was one of those skills he and his sensei disagreed on heartily at first. It didn't help that Jiraiya introduced the skill as his 'knocker stare jutsu'. Naruto swore to the moon and back that he would never sink so low but the insistent sannin demanded Naruto learn it on the grounds that when he eventually did start staring at women's breasts the handy technique would keep him and by proxy Jiraiya, out of trouble. He refused for a quite a while until the old pervert finally convinced him that the skill could be useful for loads of actual mission related activities and not just staring at women's breasts. As far as Naruto knew this was the first time it had been used for a legitimate purpose.

"Something wrong Naruto?"

"No nothing," he lied. "You said there was something else?"

"Why yes in fact there is one more thing," she replied with a huge grin. The over endowed Hokage put her arms at her sides and puffed out her chest for emphasis. "It just so happens that I have something very special for you young mister Namikaze, two very special something's to be precise."

Naruto's momentary distraction of guilt at the events of the day before vanished at the sight of Tsunade's emphasis. He knew it was wrong but it was like there were two bison fighting for dominance beneath the poor abused fabric of her shirt and he couldn't tear his attention away despite himself. "Two … very special something's?" he asked nervously.

"Oh you better believe it, most men would die to get their hands on these, and many have …" she whispered in a low tone teasing him. A quick look at his stony face had the woman struggling not a bust a gut laughing, she was having no end of fun dragging the moment out. When would she ever get another chance to do something like this anyway?

Naruto's brain was working overdrive trying to sort through the multitude of sensory inputs vying for his immediate attention. The thick, seductive aroma was continuing its intrusion into his consciousness and he still had no idea what it was! Tsunade didn't seem to notice at all based on her expression but then again he hadn't looked at her face in the last two minutes. "If I didn't know any better I'd swear someone slipped me some sake! Did she just say something? And why the hell am using Ero-Sennin's technique to stare at her knockers all the sudden? Stupid Jiraiya! Stupid knockers!"

"Well? Don't you want to see them?" she asked coyly.

Naruto swallowed hard, somewhere in the back of his mind he knew that she had to be having a different conversation than the one he was hearing, there was simply no way she could be talking about what it sounded like she was talking about. "She's old enough to be my moth … grandmother!" he told himself desperately. "Just act normal and everything will be OK," Naruto slowly shook his head up and down.

A devilish grin crossed Tsunade's face, "Well then what are we waiting for? Personally I can't wait to see what you do with them, just let me get these out for you," she said bending down in her chair and reaching for something near the floor.

Now Tsunade knew that her 'endowments' were the source of more than one man's fantasies and thus made sure that her shirt was always tightly secured to avoid any unwanted wardrobe malfunctions, especially during (God forbid) combat! That said she also learned at a very young age how she could put the way men leered at her to her advantage, so the cagey kunoichi made sure that she didn't cover up her assets too much either. It was a bit of a balancing act as it were, show too much and she'd lose respect from both the men and many of the women she commanded, show not enough and lose one of her favorite and often most effective weapons. And besides, what was the fun in being this blasted if she never got to knock the random chump unconscious with a nosebleed? In the end she settled on a two piece shirt that held each breast separately and tied off in the back. The garment fit all her criteria, it showed some cleavage but not too much, and it held secure and provided some protection for fighting. And of course the way she wore it allowed her to move and twist in such a way that a whole lot would be hanging out when she so desired.

Unfortunately for them both it was an accident this particular time and it took most of Naruto's remaining self control not to choke and soon as she bent down, the way the fabric concealing her legendary mounds parted gave Naruto the most complete view of her body he'd ever imagined or in this particular case, dreaded beyond belief.

Naruto's mind started filling with what had to be the most disturbing mental images to date, and started praying fervently that she didn't look up and see his eyes rolling back into his head. "Oh shit … Please straighten up, please straighten up!" he pleaded with her silently. "I don't know how much more of this I can take."

Tsunade tried to open the lower drawer on her desk but to her dismay found the stubborn thing wouldn't budge. "Damn thing open up," she commanded giving it a gentle tug.

Naruto flinched, the drawer didn't move when she tugged on it but something else sure did … "Oh dear God they're still swinging!"

"Stupid antique crap," she muttered under her breath. She gave the insolent drawer another solid tug jerking the desk and her own body in the process.

Naruto's leg started twitching.

"Just one second Naruto the stupid thing's stuck," she said not bothering to look up. "Come on!" she spat trying a side to side jiggle.

He sent command after command telling his eyes to close but they adamantly refused, opting instead to record every minuet detail of Tsunade's vast, sweat sheened breasts rocking and undulating with every jerk and tug. Stifling a groan the boiling genin took a page from his genjutsu training and bit into his own lip trying to break the spell his Hokage was unintentionally casting.

Tsunade had lost her patience. "Open up you piece of shit!" she yelled and started yanking up and down against the handle furiously. After twenty seconds the jammed thing finally unstuck and flew open revealing the object of her search. Grabbing the article in question the victorious Sannin sat straight up and held the prize high, "I GOT THEM! Do you have any idea how hard that is for me not to break the … Naruto? Where'd you go?"

Tsunade jumped up in dismay only to find her young subordinate on floor at the foot of her desk, "Naruto!"

"COLD!" Naruto bolted upright to find himself covered in freezing water. The shocked genin immediately locked onto an image of Shizune holding a suspiciously empty bucket and very smug looking grin.

"Shizune! What the heck is going … Tsunade!" he yelled looking around quickly. He was slightly relieved to see a smiling Hokage standing over him. If she was in a good mood than she must not have noticed why he passed out.

"Geeez Naruto, I never took you for the excitable type, the way you passed out would have made Hinata proud," she grinned. His wits fully restored Naruto also spotted a giggling Sakura in the background and Tsunade followed his eyes. "Get back to work you letch!" Tsunade snarled and watched in satisfaction as the pick haired girl spun and ran out of the room. Turning back around she could see the question in Naruto's eyes, "Too much time around that pervert Kakashi if you ask me, it's a wonder you turned out at all."

Naruto was about to ask her just what she meant by that when his voice was cut off by two surprisingly strong yet petite hands pinching his cheeks. "Tsunade …" Shizune protested with a pout. "How can you say that to poor cute little Naruto-kun here?"

Tsunade rolled her eyes, "Quit flirting already girl, if you want this one you're going to have to get in line." She watched in amusement as both Shizune and Naruto blushed a deep red and jumped apart.

Shizune tried her best to look indignant, "I wasn't flirting I was just giving him a hard time!"

"Uh huh, tell it to the judge, now why don't you give lover boy and me a second so I can finish our talk," Tsunade replied. With a gasp and another blush the embarrassed Kunoichi tossed Naruto an undecipherable look and marched out of the room. "Naruto, you know that you're way too much like your father right?"

Naruto shook off his own blush and reviewed the question in his head to make sure he got that right, "What do you mean? I thought that was a good thing."

Tsunade gave Naruto an look that somehow managed to combine slightly amused and deadly serious. "I mean that your father was a real heart breaker with the ladies is what. That damn guy had girls falling all over him no matter what he did, and it looks like you've inherited his charisma. Try not to abuse the power OK?"

"Shizune likes me too?" he wondered in amazement.

"But that's not all you inherited, and if you think you can stay awake long enough I'd like to give you something else your father left for you," she said.

Naruto looked up at her and nodded, whatever sent him into that hormonal rage earlier seemed defeated by his impromptu bath. "So you did find something in the Hokage vaults then?" he asked.

She nodded the affirmative to his deduction. "They were originally left in your family's vault but Sarutobi wisely had them moved the day he died. If he hadn't I'm sure they would have been stolen by now. There's only two of them but still, it's part of your legacy and a treasure beyond anything if you could ever learn how to use them." She held out her hand and offered a piece of cloth wrapped around whatever it was.

Naruto reached out and took hold of the package like it was made of fine china, for a reason he couldn't identify he looked up at Tsunade for permission. "Go ahead," she nodded. One fold at a time Naruto opened the package to reveal a set of two incredible kunai the likes of which he'd never seen before. Picking one up he inspected the weapon turning it over in his hands, the metal seemed to reflect the light with wisps of blue like fire itself made up part of the blade. The standard center blade was flanked by two smaller ones rising at forty five degree angles and the handle was wrapped in some kind of sturdy cloth emblazoned with an elegant seal he couldn't make out despite his training with Jiraiya.

"What are they?" he finally asked.

"Those are two of your father's Hirashin kunai Naruto, as far as I know the rest have been destroyed," she said.

He tore his eyes away from the weapon and gave her a questioning look, "Hirashin?"

Now it was Tsunade's turn to look surprised, "You don't know what the Hirashin is?" Naruto shook his head no. "Have you ever heard of Konoha's Yellow Flash?" Again he didn't. "Well, I guess we have a lot to talk about then don't we?"

Naruto left the Hokage's office in a daze, he knew that his father was considered one of the greatest shinobi in the village's history but this! He'd spent three years building up the body flicker to a point of combat usefulness but even he wouldn't use it against a jounin opponent outside of sparring, there were just too many ways to exploit it. But the jutsu his father developed rose above all of those weaknesses and even helped the man change the course of an entire war by his own hand! Naruto couldn't help but marvel at the idea, fighting two or three enemies was hard enough but his father regularly slew ten, twenty, or more experienced shinobi almost single handedly. And now half of his father's lost jutsu lay in his hands, "Is the rest still out there or did it die with him?" He wondered.

The most obvious place would have been the family vault of course but these kunai were the only thing removed by the third and anything else she told him grimly would have already been sorted through by those seeking to steal the 4th's legendary techniques. There was no proof of course and the vault looked secure the day Naruto moved into the house, but it was logical to assume that if the 3rd could gain access than so could another powerful shinobi. There was still the issue of those weird scrolls as well but Neji had already confirmed they were blank and now Ero-Sennin had one so that was just a matter of time.

Walking home slowly Naruto became aware of something else prickling at the edge of his senses, a delicious smell was wafting by. For the briefest of moments he thought he was smelling his favorite ramen but that wasn't possible he realized, Ichiraku's was on the other side of town. "Oh no! This smells a lot like in Tsunade's office…" Feeling immediately uneasy Naruto started walking quickly and noted with some comfort that the smell seemed to be past.

Lost in his thoughts he never saw the poor woman he nearly knocked over. "I'm so sorry!" he started to bluster catching an eyeful of the attractive young brunette. But he froze up immediately when another glorious aroma blasted his olfactory senses. "Holy shit what is it now?!" The young woman stood up and slapped him soundly across the face and stormed straight past the stunned Naruto. The slap brought him a step closer to reality and he turned around to watch her walk away, and the way her hips swayed back and forth ever so seductively with each lively stride … "Wait, where'd the smell go?"

"Oh my God! Hinata, then Tsunade, then her, I'm smelling women!" he realized with a shock. "But how is that possible unless … " Naruto soared away in the direction of his apartment as fast as he could manage, it was time for another visit.

"Didn't have to come here for almost a year and now it's two times in as many days," Naruto mumbled looking around the passageways of his mindscape. Of course considering his last visit here he realized that this might not be the best of ideas but this really wasn't something he could just let go. If he was right the fox and he had a few issues they needed work out.

"I know you know I'm here, could you quit ignoring me for a second?" he yelled out into the darkness. He wanted to sound firm yet respectful, the demon was still too unpredictable to tempt fate just quite yet. After what seemed like forever the fox apparently reached the end of his patience first.

"Unless you're here to inform me of our new heir there's nothing to discuss," the now familiar voice boomed out.

"Yeah about that, is it just my imagination or did you … ALTER me in some little way you might have forgotten to mention?"Naruto asked the ceiling. The distinct sound of a 50 ton fox chuckling drifted through the murky corridors.

"I thought you might need some additional motivation considering your track record,"the Kyuubi offered.

"My track record! Why of all the … I'll have you know my track record is just fine thank you very much!" Naruto yelled back with complete indignity.

"You think me a fool puny human? Three years with that disgusting letch of a Sannin and never once did you pursue a woman. He even brought you a few on occasion but would you partake? Of course not, you were too good weren't you? And then instead of allowing either one of us to enjoy the experience I was forced to sit and listen while that toad mated with his and yours! You're pathetic."

Naruto was aghast, he and the bastard fox shared a long history of mutual hate, distrust, and an expansive repertoire of insults. But never had the fox cut so low nor assaulted his manhood on this level. Then again, what was he complaining about?

"What do mean you had to listen? That was me! I was the one who had to sit and listen to that pervert flopping around while you were sealed up safe and sound!" he hollered.

"Safe and sound? I see what you see, I hear what you hear, and I heard the entire disgusting episode. Do you have any idea how frustrating that was? It's been SEVENTEEN YEARS!"

"Oh my God," Naruto mumbled, a horrible realization creeping across his face. "Are you saying that if I have sex that you … you have sex too!"

"We're getting off topic, none of this is important. What is important is our deal, or have you forgotten?"

"But you did something to me! That's not fair, you altered the deal!"

"Pray I don't alter it any further." came the terse reply.

Naruto pulled his hair in frustration, he was playing poker against the dealer here and there wasn't much he could do. Somehow he was going to have to find some leverage on the damn furball but that would have to wait. For now he would just have to resort to whining!

"Look I swear I'm going to get this done for you OK? But you've got to undo whatever it was you did to me. Do you have any idea what kind of sick fantasies just ran through my head earlier about the woman I used to call Baachan?!" he yelled.

"Wow, you have issues human."

"I don't have issues, you gave me issues!"

"I gave you an increased sensitivity to your own species pheromones and nothing more, don't blame me if you want to mate with your Baachan," the demon teased.

"You son of a bitch!"

A great sigh rolled across Naruto with enough force to knock him from his feet. "I'm fox you idiot, not a dog. And with that brilliant commentary …"

Naruto's eyes flew open with a start, "That no good low down shit eating bastard son of a … SOMETHING! " The Kyuubi just kicked him out of his own mind.

The mighty demon leaned back and relaxed to reflect, or least it seemed like he leaned back and relaxed. Not having a body for seventeen years even he was beginning to forget what leaning back and relaxing actually felt like, but still it was one of those old habits he'd been unable to shed. But even so he mused, the attempt somehow managed to bring a measure of comfort similar to the real thing.

But if his unexpected visit from his container was any indication, there was plenty to worry about. Along with everything else that seemed to be going wrong on a daily basis now the little monk was stalling!

"What an irritating turn of events, for him to stumble across those scrolls just as I set him on his mission! Even this idiot is bound to start piecing together what's happening eventually, it would seem that stimulating his limbic system was a good idea after all. The more dopamine his brain accumulates the less control he'll have until finally he abandons all reason and mates with the nearest female whether she likes it or not, poor thing." The mighty kitsune imagined he shuttered at the thought.

No, the containers morals would only hold up for so long even though he was now aware of what was happening, it was just a matter of time. And by the time anyone was able to sort out what was wrong it should be too late, far too late.

Satisfied the demon turned his thoughts back to their conversation in amusement. "I still can't believe he's going to fight me on this …"

Authors Notes: Anybody catch the line from Star Wars?

So as promised I'm starting to reveal pieces of the puzzle instead of creating more, hope that makes for some interesting material :) With this update I'll be getting close to 70,000 words! Wow, I never thought I'd hit anything like that when I started, just crazy. Anyways I've set an unofficial target of about 100K words for this story so it's time to build towards a conclusion, but the way things are going I'm thinking 120K is more likely, wheeew!

As some have also noticed I'm slowing down on my updates as well, that's probably going to continue as I take on 1 or perhaps 2 other stories and life starts to get in the way as well. In fact I'm headed out for vacation a few days after publishing this chapter. Yeah for me! :)

And thanks again for the reviews and support!