AN: Hopefully I will not have to write a large amount of these things. Please note that all pairings have been decided beforehand, and I do know where I am taking this story. There will be some major changes to canon development, so this is definitely AU. Constructive reviews are welcome, flames will be ignored, and requests for updates I will answer right now as "it will be done when I get it done, and not before." I refuse to put out shoddy writing, and if I have to take extra time to make a chapter good, I will. Please note that there will be no yaoi in this story. I cannot write that with any success, as I only know one person that leans that direction, and I do not like him very much, so I would not want my personal feelings on the subject to cloud any relationships that I put in the story. Therefore, there will be no yaoi pairings at all. I would also entertain the concept of a beta reader, so I can bounce my ideas off of somebody else before going to print.

"Hmm": flashbacks/writing that is being read

"hey": speaking

'heh':thinking

"hey":supernatural creatures talking

'gaki':supernatural thinking

Disclaimer:I have no money, so I cannot own Naruto. I wish I did, but then I would have to deal with horrendous deadlines and I would have to claim a story that seems to have gone on too long. Hence, I am also glad that I do not own Naruto.

"...and so it is that I have found an interesting thing in my research. Even the most subtle of natural abilities can become powerful, if given the right stimulus. New Bloodlines can be born from simple genetic quirks, given the right circumstances. I sometimes wonder if Jiraya-baka's student knew what would come about by sealing that beast into his son. If he did, then I would freely admit that I would at least respect his ingenuity in creating what has certainly become the most powerful force that I have ever seen. It is too bad that he did not have a useful doujutsu, or he would have made a perfect body. As it is, he is my greatest threat. My greatest terror. But also a fine specimen and opponent."

excerpt from the lost research journals of the Hebi-sennin, Orochimaru

Chapter 1:Trigger

Hi no Kuni, Konohakagure no Sato; Date:12/27/0523 (five hundred years after the Rikudo Sennin's mythical defeat of the Juubi, and a little over three years since the third sealing of the Kyuubi no Kitsune

General POV

It is early evening over Konoha, and the sun is almost finished setting. The entire village is bustling with night activities and people getting their dinner, as well as continuing celebrations regarding the cessation of hostilities between Konoha and Kumokagure no Sato.

In the Manor home of the Hyuuga clan, the "festivities" surrounding the third birthday of the heiress of the clan are just now concluding. Though, given the Hyuuga's penchant for stoicism, you can imagine that the so called festivities were not all that festive, but more ceremonial in nature, akin to being stuck in high mass at a religious function all day. The heiress did not have much fun, but as she was a very shy little girl, nobody really knew that, nor would most of them have cared much either way.

As the night starts to deepen, a small form can be seen almost skulking about the parks and markets. This form moves swiftly form shadow to shadow, attempting to avoid most peoples attention, mainly because he does not wish them to look at him with those apathetic eyes. This small form, on the occasion that he passes under a light source, is a blond boy of small stature, wearing a somewhat scuffed white t-shirt, heavy black pants, and heavy duty traditional tabi. The major noticeable features on his face are the three "whisker" marks on each cheek, and his fairly expressive blue eyes. This is a boy whose name and face are well known in Konoha, but are not all that popular, Uzumaki Naruto.

The primary reason that Naruto is out at this time is that he really does not like sleeping in the orphanage that much. Not that they mistreat him, but most of the matrons a extremely reluctant to do any more that the absolute minimum to help him either. Only one of the younger matrons even pays attention to his comings and goings, as well as assuring that his needs are met. As such, he spends as much time outdoors as he can, so that he is not such a burden to the few people that actually care about him. Generally, unless it is meal time or the weather is bad, he can be found outside, moving through the parks in town. He has always felt at home in nature, and being surrounded by nature actually helps with the headaches that he always gets when he is indoors with others.

By his nature, Naruto is a little bit of a lone wolf. This is as much due to his behaviors as it is due to the populaces general dislike of his person. He has terrible headaches and episodes of hypertension whenever he is around large numbers of adults, though he does not know why this is. He is also prone to spontaneous reactions if startled or surprised, and those reactions can sometimes be somewhat violent, even if he does not mean them to be. He has far more muscle mass than is average for his age, and has far more energy than even a typical kid of his age. The matrons have actually taken him to the hospital more than once to see what is the cause of this, but the doctors were stumped by the odd symptoms that he exhibited.

On this night, as it grows darker, young Naruto is wandering around an area that he rarely comes to, the part of town where the Hyuuga and the Uchiha live. While walking through this area of tall walls and posts, he starts reminiscing about some of the people his age that he has seen in this part of town, including his two secret friends, Sasu-teme, and Hina-hime. Sasu, more commonly called Uchiha Sasuke, is a moderately happy young fellow, though a tad bit stuck up, especially about the perceived superiority of his family. Naruto has only met with him once or twice, though they really do not know each other that well. Hina-hime, or Hyuuga Hinata, is a girl that he met briefly just the other day. He spoke to her briefly, as she did not talk at all, and she was soon escorted away by the very large man with white eyes, presumably her father.

As he passes by the home of the Hyuuga, he sees something odd. Moving slowly along the outer wall of the Hyuuga compound, going the opposite direction he was going, was a shadow. This shadow belonged to a man that was carrying something. As Naruto skulked closer, he saw that the thing that the man was carrying was none other than Hina-hime! This realization caused something inside him to snap. His headache got suddenly worse, and he seemed to enter one of his Hypertension fits.

Buh-dum!

Buh-dum!

Buh-dum!

His heart pounded in his ears. Suddenly, the headache stopped, and he could suddenly see clearly in the dark. In addition, he started to notice several things that he had overlooked before; things like the very slight jutting out of sections of the wall, a branch overhanging the walkway with a long sharp section on the end of one of its tributary branches, which was nearly falling off, and the fact that the man was walking very close to the opposite wall, and had not seen him yet.

A plan quickly formed in Naruto's mind. He used the sections of wall that were jutting out slightly to "walk" up the wall, like a set of stairs which led almost right to the branch that overhung the walkway. He then scrambled silently over the branch to the sharp branch on the end of it. Grabbing the sharp branch, he felt a strange warmth grow all over his body. He jumped own to the wall that was opposite of where he was and launched himself at the man carrying his new friend at a speed far exceeding what he was used to.

The Kumo Jounin smirked to himself. He had managed to sneak into the Hyuuga compound and kidnap the heiress without being noticed. Now that he was outside of the compound, he thought that he was home free. Suddenly, he heard a rustling in the tree just in front of him. A small blur rushed at his legs with impossible speed. Before he even had a chance to think he heard what sounded like a branch snapping. He then felt immense pain immediately after in his knees and legs as his knee caps were suddenly destroyed by the branch that he heard snapping being smashed into his knees with incredible force.

The jounin immediately fell to his knees, howling in pain, while dropping his package to the ground. The blur then caught the girl and skidded to a stop in font of the man. To his amazement, through the haze of his pain, he saw a small boy not older than his package holding the girl, glaring at him.

"Hina-Hime, are you all right" Naruto asked to the girl that he considered a friend.

"N-n-Naruto-Kun" she whispered, still frightened from her ordeal, "T-t-thank you for catching me."

"Oi, Not a problem. Just doing what I can for my friend. I'll be back in a minute" he replied, smiling broadly at her.

He then picked up the largest remain of the branch that he had broke, wondering as he did so how he had broke the thing so easily. He then glared at the Man that had tried to take his friend with unbridled rage, his eyes faintly glowing a dull gold in the night.

"Now, what did you think that you were doing to my friend, Teme?" he growled at the man.

The man did not answer. Indeed, he could not, as he was still in too much pain. Irritated, Naruto slammed the branch end against the Man's temple, knocking him out cold from pain and the force of the blow. As the adrenaline ebbed from his body, Naruto suddenly felt extremely tired, and started to pass out from exhaustion. The last thing that he heard before he fell was Hinata screaming his name as she stumbled forward to attempt to catch him before he fell.

Later that night, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Sandaime Hokage was standing in a hospital room that was holding Naruto as he lay unconscious. Hyuuga Hiashi, Hinata's father, had caught Naruto just before he hit the ground. He then brought both kids to the hospital, while sending clan members to inform the Hokage and take the Kumo-nin to Ibiki for interrogation.

Hiruzen was incredibly worried about young Naruto, and extremely proud of him at the same time. A three year old boy, bringing down a Jounin, Imagine that! But the damage to his body was seemingly catastrophic. While there was no sense of the demon that the boy held imprisoned, many of his muscles, particularly in his legs, were shredded, though they were rapidly healing, though Hiruzen was at a loss as to how they were healing so quickly. Preliminary examination of Naruto's body showed some interesting results as well.

First of all, his chakra was far denser than normal. It was almost as dense as the chakra of the beast that he held inside, or that of a summons. Also, his chakra network had mutated in an interesting fashion to compensate for the additional pressure. He now had nearly three times the Chakra pathways, and nearly 5 times the Tenketsu that a normal person would have. In addition, he constantly had chakra flowing throughout his body, which the Iryou-nin thought was why he was healing so fast. This also had the interesting side effect of reinforcing his skin, making it harder to penatrate, as well as constantly reinforcing his musculature, allowing him to use more of his muscle at once, which explained why he was able to move as fast as reported in the encounter, as well as why he was able to snap a fairly thick branch under his own power. The effect was not unlike the Hachimon, though the gates had not been forced open, according to the medics.

The most worrisome thing that the medics had noticed was a massive spike in his brain activity, almost like he was attempting to process a huge amount of information, even while asleep. They said that the most activity was in the area of the brain that governs the senses of touch, taste, and smell. Hiruzen did not doubt that if Naruto was awake, there would be increased activity in the areas governing sight and hearing as well. The area of his brain that processes information brought in by the senses to form plans of action based on the input was also working overtime, almost like it would in most of his seasoned Jounin.

These oddities had caused Hiruzen to do something rather...rash. He had requested that Enma, his personal summon and leader of the Saru tribe of summons, to pass information through the Gama and Namekuji summon clans to get his loyal students back to Konoha as soon as possible. He had arranged with the bosses of those summon clans to reverse summon both of his students to Konoha immediately.

Just as he was taking a final look at Naruto's sleeping form, as well as the form of Hinata in the next bed, he sensed the presence of his two remaining students behind him. He turned an looked at his students. Jiraya looked worried, as his godson was in some unknown medical situation, while Tsunade looked more intrigued than anything else.

"What exactly happened to him, sensei?" Jiraya asked.

"We are not entirely sure, Jiraya" Hiruzen replied, "but the massive changes to his body and mind were triggered when he attempted, and succeeded, to stop a Kumo Jounin from kidnapping young Hinata here."

He then proceeded to explain what exactly the changes were to his body, according to the med-nins. As he finished his description of the symptoms, both of his students had shell-shocked looks on their faces. Neither had ever heard of anything that could cause such specific, widespread changes to someone's physiology, short of a...bloodline. Tsunade's eyes widened at that thought.

"Sensei, have the medics taken a look at his actual bloodwork yet?" She asked. Hiruzen merely shook his head, wondering where she was going with this. "we need to check that bloodwork, sensei. It is possible that he has awakened some form of bloodline. Now I know that neither of his parents ever had one, but they did have specific genetic tendencies toward their specialties. If those tendencies have somehow amplified in Naruto by chance, we could be looking at the birth of a new Kekkei Genkai. It would not be the first time that genetic predilections gave birth to a new bloodline."

Hiruzen thought about this for a moment, and gave his permission to get the bloodwork done. One of the Med-nin came in soon after to get a sample from Naruto, though they had to use a chakra reinforced needle to actually draw anything out. They then took the sample to the lab to be tested. The Sannin and the Hokage, meanwhile, left the room to discuss what should be done in the case that it was a bloodline.

A/N: And done. First chapter is finally done. Please note that I am going to gloss over much of the next few years in the next two chapters. I generally find fics that spend too much time in the early childhood stage somewhat boring and dry. The only reason that I can see for this type of stalling is to establish relations with any OC's that an author adds. As I do not intend to use many OC's except as space fillers, such as guards, academy teachers, and random ninja met on missions and in the village, there is no reason for me to dally in this time-frame. Please note that this fic is nominally counted as a response to Brown Phantom's Hidden Bloodline challenge. Please note that the actual bloodline is his hyper-condensed chakra, and most of the other abilities come from a series of genetic quirks that Naruto gained form his parents, and his status as Kyuubi's Container. Also, do not expect him to bother using the beasts chakra much, as he really will not need it with what I have in mind. As I said before, Constructive reviews are always welcome, especially as this is my first fic that I am actually posting. Applications for beta reader will be entertained, but flames will be ignored. Thank you for your time, and I will see you people in a week or so when the next chapter is done.