A/N: I do not own Naruto.

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Summary: AU. FemNaruto. The child of Yondaime is sent to a temple that they might be protected from the life of a jinchuriki. Sometimes there is no escape from danger and fate. Thus, she returns to the home of her father and mother as a priestess, skilled in barriers, healing, summons and seals.

Duality

Prologue

"My how quickly things change in the span of a few hours," thought Minato Namikaze as he watched the life seep from his wife's eyes.

Not even a minute into life outside the womb had his daughter been threatened by a masked man. There were precious few options so the beast that had once been imprisoned by his wife, then set free to ravage his village and now split sealed into himself and his newborn.

Was it the fate of all jinchuriki to spend their life in constant peril from threats outside and within? And for what? The Kyuubi had been no great boon to Kushina and it would only increase the target on Naru's back.

It struck him then that his poor Naru would be parentless and thrown into a world of wolves and worse. It broke his heart that her life had been decided for her mere minutes after taking her first breath.

And now as he breathed his last with his wife, he hoped the girl's godfather would make good on his promise. If a boy was born, then the Ninja Academy he should enter. If a girl, then to the Great Fire Temple she was to go. It simply would not do to have her suffer the same fate as her mother.

Out of harm's way with no burden to experience the agony of Kushina, whom he sadly noted had already passed on, filled with questions about a child she was never going to raise. He knew, he knew, that she would be a fine mother. It just wasn't her fate.

A lazy eye belonging to Kakashi Hatake drifted over the forms of a docile woman, an injured teen and a sullen child.

The woman was quite pretty with long dark hair and eyes and a kind, patient face, though it was currently showing a great deal of concern. Indeed, the child seemed uneasy and irritated at the same time, bearing similar features to his mother, albeit shorter, spikier hair.

The teen, judging by her looks, was the oddity. Her left arm was heavily bandaged in a sling. Long, striking red hair framed a youthful heart shaped face, marked with whiskers, with equally kind violet eyes. She had a sturdy, lean build her age, one no doubt Sakura would be jealous of.

She was wearing a relatively tight fitting black dress that stopped mid-thigh. Finished with a long, deep red sash and chain wrapped around her waist and a detached fingerless glove that ended near her elbow on her right arm. She didn't appear to be wearing normal sandals, but a band covered her delicate foot nonetheless.

She didn't fit in with the rest of the family and Tazuna didn't seem too surprised to her there. Who was she anyway? He supposed the family was just as curious who they were.

The dark haired woman rushed to her feet with a simple concerned, "Dad?"

Tazuna for his part smiled weakly and introduced his family. "This is my daughter, Tsunami. And my grandson, Inari."

The woman returned the weak smile and the boy seemed disinterested in them all together. The teen drank them in slowly, pausing to study the symbol on their hitai-ate.

"And whose the third?" Kakashi asked.

"Ah," Tazuna said with a smaller, but genuine smile. "This is Naru. Inari pulled her from a river some time ago. She's staying with us until her arm heals."

Kakashi nodded, seemingly fine with this answer. He noticed his female student, Sakura Haruno, seemed wary of her. Sasuke Uchiha seemed at least as much disinterested as Tazuna's grandson.

Continuing his introductions, Tazuna cleared his throat. "This tall one here is Kakashi Hatake and he is the one I hired to guard me while I finish the bridge. The other two nobodies are Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno."

This earned him stifled laughs and death glares. Although, Inari became visibly upset at this.

"My replacement then?" Questioned Naru.

Kakashi shot Tazuna a questioning look, mirrored by Sasuke.

"I promised a full explanation earlier, didn't I," Tazuna said. "I warn you, this is a long tale."

"We've got the time," Kakashi responded, "You owe us a justification for the incident earlier."

Tazuna nodded, as if to say indeed.