Hello! Welcome to the next chapter!

Now put the pitchforks away. No need to attack me for putting this chapter out so late.

As I said before, I planned to have put up this chapter up within a week of the last chapter I posted but…

Life happens. Work started to pick up and then school started. Been swamped with both and then my family and I went on vacation for awhile so I had almost no time to write.

Also, I've got caught up in playing Player Unknowns Battlegrounds, so been enjoying myself.

But I got a laptop that I could play on! But not only that, I wrote this entire chapter on the laptop and I will say writing on a keyboard is SO much more faster than my phone.

So yeah, I apologize for taking so long to post this chapter but hope you can forgive me!

Now, this chapter is more of an interaction chapter. People always 'complain' about not having an interaction with the people Naruto is going to be paired with. So this chapter is of Naruto and Natsumi.

Nothing else to say except for the GUEST who left that wonderful comment about incest.

Yeah, I have a sister and no, I don't feel or even thought about her like that. What I'm writing is fiction, I'm not doing it in real life. If someone writes a story for rape, does that mean they go rape people? I don't know but probably not.

I for one am disgusted with rape stories and say so WITH AN ACCOUNT!

For all the guests that flame, I see nothing but a coward hiding behind a screen afraid to have something traced back to them. I have left less than savory reviews, some that I'm not proud of or regret to some point, but I still did it with this account. I will own up to my words.

Anyways, my "rant" is over now.

Now,

Chapter 3

Academy

Naruto groaned as he was flattened against the ground.

In all the scenarios that Naruto played out in his mind, getting tackled by his sister was not one of them.

And this wasn't an ordinary academy girl either. Most of the academy girls were fangirls or were too 'girly' to sully themselves in physical exercise.

Now Satsuki was the ideal academy student.

She had brains, brawn, and was very easy on the eyes. Countless physical conditioning built muscle and was more attractive in Naruto's eyes.

Not the skinny twigs that were Sakura and Ino. They would die on their first life threatening mission if they didn't have competent teammates.

Naruto, being on the receiving end of Satsuki's tackles could honestly say that she was the only one of the academy students that could injure him.

But being tackled by his sister?

If someone could pick up the Hokage tower and throw it at him, then that would describe the force that his sister tackled him.

And if that wasn't enough, the bone crushing hug that she was giving him only added to his pain.

"Onii-chan! I've wanted to see you so long! When Kaa-chan and Tou-san told me about you, I've been waiting for the day that I would meet you! It's me, Natsumi, your sister!"

Naruto forced himself, and Natsumi by default, into a sitting position.

Naruto didn't realize the position he forced them into.

He was leaning back on his hands as Natsumi was straddling his lap with her arms wrapped around his neck as her face was buried in his chest.

This earned blushes from the students and a very heated glare from a certain Uchiha that contained jealousy.

"Ugh. Can you get off me?" Naruto said.

Natsumi blushed as she got off of him.

Naruto picked himself up off the floor and rubbed the sore spots on his body. After he stretched out the kinks in his body, he finally took notice of Natsumi's appearance. (Same as story cover pic)

He had to admit she was a stunning women. The skin tight sleeves and pants showed off her muscles also. He could tell she worked hard by how well defined her muscles were. They weren't bodybuilder status but you could see she did a lot of physical conditioning.

"So you're my sister?" Naruto said.

"Uh huh!" Natsumi nodded excitedly. "I've been excited to meet you ever since I heard I had a brother! Were you the same way when Jiraiya told you about me!"

"Jiraiya? Who the hell is that?" Naruto asked. Naruto knew who he was. One of the three Sannin, trained by the Third Hokage himself. But Naruto has never seen him in his life so far.

"What do mean who's Jiraiya? He trained tou-san and named him our godfather. I mean, our father is the Fourth Hokage so I don't know how you wouldn't know about Jiraiya."

The other academy students jaws dropped.

They never would have thought the 'dead last' would be the child of arguably one of the greatest Hokage!

Let alone the Fourth still being alive and also had another child!

The girls stared at Natsumi with hearts in their eyes in a typical fangirl fashion with the boys, and some girls, drooling at Natsumi.

"Yeah, well you're the first person to tell me any of this." Naruto responded.

"You mean you didn't know about tou-san and kaa-san?! Or even me?" Natsumi shouted in panic.

Naruto just shook his head. He knew about them, but it would cause problems if he said 'Yeah I knew. The giant nine tailed beast sealed in me told me about you guys.'

'Kit, do you think you can trust her?'

'I'm not sure. Judging by her reaction, she was genuinely upset and confused.' Naruto responded. 'If my guess is correct, I would say she probably had a argument or a falling with Minato and Kushina. Unlike all the other clan kids, she uses 'san' and not 'sama' when addressing them. By her personality, she should be referring to them by 'sama' but she isn't.'

'I'm not sure kit. But it's your call.'

"Alright! Take your seats!" Iruka yelled.

Naruto took his seat on the right of Satsuki while Natsumi took the seat next to Naruto.

"Alright class, today are your graduation exams. Please follow me to the next room when I call your name. First up, Shino Aburame."

Shino followed Iruka out of the classroom as the class started to talk amongst themselves.

Naruto turned to Natsumi and stuck out his fist. She looked at him puzzled.

"What do you want me to do?" She questioned.

"I want you to bump fists with me." Naruto responded.

She looked at him as to see why he would suddenly ask this from her. Satsuki, who was listening and watching from the side, was also wondering why Naruto asked this.

After a moment of contemplation, Natsumi did as he said and touched fists with Naruto.

Mindscape

Natsumi opened her eyes to find herself in a familiar place.

A sewer.

"Why am I back here? I hate this place."

She looked around and saw the place she visited the first time when she tried to use the nine tails' power. Which also happened to be when she got in a fight with her parents when she found out she had a brother.

Though, instead of a dark and gloomy sewer, there were cracks in the ceiling with bright light shining through. Almost as if it was on the verge of collapsing and opening up to the open and beautiful world beyond the sewer.

"So, your mind is similar to how mine used to be."

Natsumi turned around as she heard her brother's voice but had to quickly shield her eyes as she was assaulted by the bright rays of the sun.

It took her a moment before she got used to the bright light. When she did, her jaw dropped at what she saw.

A beautiful open field that seemed to go on forever with a forest off to the side. A small lake not to far away from the forest. And then she saw her brother.

He was standing on the edge of the field. Right where the field met the sewer.

"This is my mindscape." Naruto spoke.

Natsumi walked towards him but stopped at the edge where the two mindscapes met. As if she wasn't allowed to cross over to the beautiful field.

Seeing this, Naruto took the initiative and grabbed her by her arm and pulled her over.

She stumbled slightly but regained her bearings. She felt fresh air brush against her skin, the smell of the the trees and grass flood her nose and the slight mist the wind carried from the lake.

"H-how?" Natsumi asked astonished.

"Because I have accepted what I am and found peace with what I hold."

"How? The tailed beasts are mindless creatures who seek nothing but death and destruction! The nine tails must have tricked you! Where is the cage holding it back?!"

Naruto sighed at her response. Leave it up to Minato and Kushina to put those ideas in her head.

"The tailed beasts are not mindless. They have a consciousness and have emotions just as you and I. They are portrayed as mindless because where they go, they cause destruction. But can you recall an instance in history where they destroyed a forest with no humans or attacked a desert or mountain range that held no people?" Naruto asked her.

She calmed down and thought about it. The only records of the tailed beasts attacking and destroying things were the villages or places where people were residing in. Her eyes widened at her realization.

"I see you figured it out. The tailed beasts have only attacked places with populations, but why? Well, if someone came to your home and attacked you or tried to seal you away, would you not fight back?" Naruto told her.

"For centuries, humans have attacked the beasts out of fear or tried to capture them for a source of power. And it always failed until Hashirama and Mito appeared and ruined it." Naruto said.

"But they are our ancestors! How can you talk about them like that?" Natsumi fired back.

"Sure they were our ancestors and however many greats grandparents, but they were still cold and idiots. They were cold for capturing every last tailed beast and idiots for giving all the other villages the tailed beasts. Although, none of that would have happened if it wasn't for that bastard Madara Uchiha. He was the one to summon the nine tails to fight Hashirama. Just Hashirama and Mito sealed him away along with the other beasts."

"Well did you want them to keep them for Konoha and have all the other villages attack the village over and over again?!" Natsumi yelled. She was arguing but he could see the tears falling down her face. She knew he was right but was holding onto whatever hope she had that everything her parents told her wasn't a lie.

"No. If they left the beasts alone, they would have went to their resting areas and never bothered humanity so long as they stayed away. Hashirama and Mito were good people and wanted peace. But they could not see the error in their ways. Although what they thought they were doing was for the best, it made things more difficult and moved further away from peace."

Natsumi fell to her knees as she didn't even try to stop the tears flowing down her face.

"How do you know all this? Who told you?" She sobbed. Everything her parents told her, Jiraiya told her, was all a lie. She wanted, needed, something to show they didn't lie to her.

"I told him." A booming voice sounded behind her.

She turned around and she could only fear for her life.

Standing in all its glory, free from its cage, to her knowledge, was the nine tailed fox. What she didn't notice is the black collar around his neck that said 'Seal' on it.

"H-how?! You were suppose to be behind the cage! How are you free?!" Natsumi asked as she scrambled backwards on her hands and feet.

"That is the nine tails that is sealed inside of you. Your father thought he could separate my consciousness from my chakra. He was wrong. He did separate a part of me though." Kurama said. "H separated my Yin and Yang chakra and sealed them inside of you two. My Yin half in Naruto and my Yang half into you. But, I chose to move most of my consciousness to my Yin half during the sealing. I left enough behind to control my Yang chakra as if I didn't, you would have died as the chakra would have poisoned your newborn chakra coils."

Natsumi had stopped moving as Kurama was speaking. She never realized Naruto had set her on her feet and was now walking them towards the massive beast.

"What he says is true." Naruto started. "Though he didn't mention that you can't fully separate Yin and Yang chakra. Without the other, they would be unstable and flow however they want such as 'light and darkness.' You can't have one without the other."

"So you also have part of the nine tails chakra in you?" Natsumi questioned.

"No. He has me inside of him." Kurama cut in. "We tailed beasts have our Yin and Yang chakra mixed. So even if our chakra is split in two, we still have a piece of the other half with us. Overtime it will regenerate and make us complete again."

"But if it would make you complete again, what if you were sealed between two hosts? Would both half regenerate fully?"

"Bingo."

"But wouldn't that make two of you then?"

"Ding ding ding! We have a winner!" Came a different loud and booming voice from behind them.

They all turned towards the sewer part of the shared mindscape. At the edge stood a giant cage that would hold Kurama easily.

A large creature that looked identical to Kurama appeared next to the cage and gave a ferocious grin. The only difference between the new fox and Kurama was that its fur was a bit more reddish in color.

"Who are you?" Natsumi questioned.

She recognized the cage but not the fox. Whenever she came to her mindscape she always saw wildly thrashing chakra. It hit the cage from time to time trying to escape but couldn't.

"Looks like you have reformed as well. Albeit not completely." Kurama said as he walked up to the cage.

"Yes. Well when you have sixteen years to sit behind a cage and do nothing, you have nothing better to do, brother." The nIne tails behind the cage said. "Now, why don't you let me out of this cage. You don't want your dear old sister to rot behind a cage all her life do you?" The female fox said.

"I think being behind that cage suits you very well. After all, if I were to release you, you would most likely attack Naruto her. And I can't allow you to harm my partner."

Natsumi went wide eyed at was able to get the nine tails to be his partner?!

The female nine tails growled at that.

"What did that filthy creature bribe you with to be his little pet?! Did he promise you freedom in return for using your power whenever he wishes?! You sicken me! The mightiest of the tailed beasts reduced to nothing but a mere pet to a disgusting human."

"Seems she got that nasty attitude you used to have, eh Kurama?" Naruto said as he and Kurama laughed a bit.

"Kurama, who is that?" Natsumi questioned.

"That's the name of the nine tails here. Kurama." Naruto gestured to Kurama.

"The nine tails has a name?"

"Of course we do." Kurama started. "Just like you have a name, so do the tailed beasts. Although, I'm not so sure about her over there." Kurama finished looking at the female nine tails.

"Of course I do. It's Kurumi. Self given." The now named Kurumi said.

"Nice to meet ya Kurumi." Naruto said as he walked towards the cage.

Natsumi looked worried and was all but frightened when Kurumi slammed her paw against the cage.

Naruto, however, stood there unfazed at her attempt to scare him.

"Listen, I know you don't like being locked in a cage and hate humans but we are not all bad." Naruto voiced. "Kurama and I have come to an agreement of stopping this cycle of sealing your siblings every time a Jinchuuriki dies. I want to find a way to free all the tailed beasts and make a seal that would never allow any of them to be sealed again."

"Lies! All lies! Is that the crap you told Kurama! That you would free him when you found a way?! Your nothing but a filthy human that is filled with nothing but greed and hate." Kurumi yelled at Naruto.

"It is true Kurumi. The boy isn't lying." Kurama spoke up as he walked up to the cage. He towered over Kurumi. Mostly from the fact that her seal was tighter and hasn't fully regained all of her Yin chakra. "Afterall, if he wasn't telling the truth, could I do this?"

Kurama turned and swung his arm out and smack Naruto. Naruto flew over the forest in the distance and out of sight.

Natsumi's jaw dropped at that. The nine tails just smacked her brother miles out of sight.

"If I didn't have any say or control in the mindscape, then the seal would have stopped me from hitting him." Kurama explained.

"You bastard!" They turned to the direction Naruto was smacked to to see him running at them with a fire in his eyes.

"Naruto, take it easy. It was just to show that I-"

Kurama never got to finish as a Giant Rasengan slammed into his midsection and sent him flying back a hundred yards.

"I don't care! That was a cheap shot! We said no more cheap shots last time we sparred!"

Kurama groaned as he sat up and rubbed his stomach. "Yeah yeah. No more, for reals this time."

Natsumi was still speechless. First Kurama smacked her brother across the mindscape. THEN, her brother came in, at what she believed to be Jonin speed, and slammed a Rasengan into the nine tails chest.

Her father's own personal jutsu that took him three years to make! And to top it off, the thing was massive! At least the size of an apartment room or even a small house meant for one, maybe two people!

"That was entertaining." Kurumi said. "I can see you are telling the truth. For that, I respect you boy. For you to turn the hateful and destructive Kurama into a willing partner speaks volumes of your person."

Naruto bowed to her.

"Thank you Kurumi."

"But her." Kurumi directed her gaze to Natsumi.

"What about me?" Natsumi said as she started to sweat at her intense gaze.

"You have yet to gain my respect. So, until you show progress like Naruto here, you will not get help from me willingly. I will not filter my chakra for you. You have to earn it."

"Why?! What is so bad about me that you won't help me?" Natsumi sounded disappointed and a bit hurt that Kurumi didn't respect her.

"Your brother has faced the hardships and hatred of humanity. Just looking into his eyes I can see it all. He has lived through pain and even killed. He has struggled to just live his life. While you had it nice while your parents abandoned your brother. You humans call us tailed beasts monsters and demons, but your own kind kill and treat each other like trash for the dumbest reasons ever. Your never ending hunger for power and money causes wars and death everywhere you go."

Natsumi turned to Naruto shocked.

"What does she mean hardships? You killed before? Say it isn't true! Mom and dad didn't abandon you did they? It's all a lie right?! You were protected by the Hokage and Jiraiya right? And what about Kakashi?"

Naruto just looked at Kurama who nodded. Naruto nodded back and walked up to Natsumi.

"Natsumi," Natsumi wiped her tears and saw Naruto holding out his fist like just before they came to the mindscape.

She stuck her fist out like before and touched hers with his.

The moment she touched his fist, she became flooded with memories that weren't hers. She was bombarded with memories of Naruto, since his birth that he couldn't remember himself but were unlocked by Kurama.

She saw the discussion her parents had after sealing Kurama. How they took her and left two dead blood clones to appear as if they were dead. To when Hiruzen came and found Naruto with her 'dead' parents. Then his miserable life in the orphanage even if he only lived there until he four when they kicked him out. Then came the glares and the rare, but still brutal, beatings. She almost puked as she saw some of them. She then saw an Uchiha, who she recognized as her mother had a picture of her and Mikoto from when they were on a Genin team together.

She was with appeared to be her two daughters. One seemed about four years older while the other was around the age of Naruto at that time. They were some of the only people that were kind to Naruto. Them and the old man and his daughter who ran the ramen restaurant. Then she saw Hiruzen lie repeatedly to Naruto as he asked who his parents were and why he was hated over and over again.

Then came the incident where a trio of Uchiha attacked him. She saw him use the kekkei genkai that the First Hokage was known for. She saw he passed out from his wounds but not before an Anbu carried him to the hospital.

Then came the inbetween stuff. Him meeting and befriending Kurama. Training with him and signing a summoning contract with the Fox clan. To when he single handedly killed the Uchiha's who wanted to start a civil war.

She then saw up until she entered the academy when the memories stopped.

When she opened her eyes, she saw Naruto looking at her with an emotionless face. She had to wipe her face as the tears she unknowingly let out blurred her vision.

"That has been my life since Minato and Kushina abandoned me here. I have not had a good life. I was constantly hated." Naruto said as he turned around. "You may not believe it or think nothing is wrong. But just know tha-" He never finished as he felt arms wrap around him as Natsumi hugged him from behind.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't know any of that happened to you! T-they lied to me! I didn't know! Please, PLEASE forgive me!"

She was crying as she buried his face into his back. She started to whimper as she felt separate himself from her hug.

She cried even harder as Naruto embraced her back in a real hug and held her.

"I can't forgive you because there is nothing to forgive you for. This wasn't any of your fault. You were just born when they left me. It would be wrong to hold it against you." Naruto said as he rubbed her back. "I understand that they did raise you and they are your parents. So I understand if you still talk to them. I won't hold it against you." Natsumi nodded as she didn't trust her voice.

"If it is okay with you, could I stay with you for awhile? I just can't stay with them knowing what you went through and them lying to me." She mumbled in his chest but Naruto heard loud and clear.

"Of course. It is the job of an older brother to protect his sister, right?" Naruto said with a smile.

Natsumi pulled her head back and smiled back at him. She saw him smiling and couldn't help but notice how handsome he looked, A blush started to form on her cheeks before a tug on her head broke her from her thoughts.

"I guess someone is trying to reach us." Naruto told her. "Let's get back to the world, shall we?" He said with a cheeky grin.

She nodded before her vision went black.

Academy

"Natsumi Namikaze!" Iruka yelled at the girl as she seemed to be fist bumping Naruto.

Natsumi opened her eyes to see a red faced Iruka with a vein on his forehead.

She chuckled and rubbed the back of her head.

"Did ya say something, sensei?"

Iruka collapsed to the ground at that response. He could have sworn he heard a certain cyclops laughing across the village.

"It's time to take your exam. Follow me." Iruka walked out the classroom with Natsumi following him.

But not before turning around and smiling at Naruto who smiled back at her.

This didn't go unnoticed by a certain Uchiha.

Hokage Tower

"So, what do you think they were doing?" Questioned a tall bearded man. This was Asuma Sarutobi.

"Maybe they were just sizing each other up? Or maybe they became friends?" Questioned a red eyed Jonin. This was Kurenai Yuhi.

"What do you think Kakashi?" Asuma turned to his fellow Jonin only to see him wiping a tear from his eye. No doubt from Natsumi's response to Iruka moments before.

"It doesn't matter. What does is that with Natsumi here, that puts an uneven number of estimated graduation students." Hiruzen said behind his desk. "We need to figure out what the teams will be."

"We told you already, Hiruzen. Let us take Naruto and train him. We owe it to him and I doubt he has any real training and mostly will get killed on his first mission outside of the village." Came the voice of Minato Namikaze.

He along with Kushina were in the room watching the interactions from the crystal ball. It was a shock to all the Jonin present that 'The Yellow Flash' and 'Red Hot Habenero' were still alive and had another child.

Most of the Jonin got a verbal lashing when they told them to kill the 'demon' only tp be silenced by the killing intent released by the pair. They then proceeded to worry for their lives when they were informed that Naruto was their son.

"And I told you that I will not allow that. When he graduates, he will be on a team just like all the other graduates." Hiruzen told them.

Arguing started to break out between Asuma, Kurenai, and Kakashi. They all cared for the boy and showed some type of affection to him. They even provided him with money or food when he needed it.

All but Kakashi. He was too absorbed in his own self-loathing to look after the boy.

"ENOUGH!" Hiruzen yelled ending the argument. "I will decide what happens to him! And I have finally came to a decision!"

He grabbed two pieces of paper and started writing on them.

He then gave one to an Anbu member who he then told to deliver it to the academy.

"What was that Lord Third?" Kurenai asked.

"This."

He then grabbed the second paper and lifted it and showed it to them.

"You can't be serious?!"

"Is this a joke?"

"Surely this isn't real right?"

"How are you not gonna let us teach our son, ttbane?!"

"I am completely serious! He deserves it after all this village has put him through, myself included." Hiruzen said with a authority. "And I will also be resigning from Hokage once more."

Shouts started to break out.

"Silence! I have done this far longer than any Hokage has before.I will be stepping down once I find an appropriate candidate in mind to become the Fifth Hokage."

"What about Lord Fourth?" Came the voice of a random Jonin.

"He abandoned his village. He is no longer worthy to lead a village if he can't be trusted to look after his own kin."

Minato frowned at that.

"So, I will be resigning after the Chunin exams." He stated.

He turned around and looked out the window.

"And I already have someone in mind."

And that concludes chapter 3!

Not really sure what to explain, but if you are confused or have questions feel free to pm me. I will try my best to respond and answer your questions.

And I know this story doesn't have action so far and it may not have much. Maybe some major fights when needed but other than that, this will be a plot driven story.

Mainly because writing fighting scenes is hard! And I don't read a story for the action but the story. I find when I come across a long fight scene in a fanfic, I tend to skip it because it doesn't really interest me to read a fight scene. If it is short then I'll read it.

So, sorry if you were expecting an action packed story but this story won't be. There will be at obvious times such as the chunin exams or when an antagonist shows up but I'm not gonna go and have an entire chapter be a training montage.

Anyways,

Thanks for all the favorites and follows! This story is growing as faster than the original version! So, Thank You guys so much!

Hope you enjoyed this chapter!