The Yin and Yang of the Hidden Cloud

Summary: What if Naruto wasn't alone from the start, what if he had a friend who shared his burden, and what if that friend had convinced Naruto that the grass would be greener somewhere else. Join Naruto and his brother in all but blood as they walk their chosen path together.

Normal talking = Hey get back here.

Thinking = Hey get back here

Yelling = HEY GET BACK HERE!

Jutsu/Demon/Summon talking = Hey get back here.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any references to any TV shows, Movies, Games, or Music that may appear!

The Elemental Nations, a land ruled by ninja and a group of samurai. The nations are divided into smaller lands that each is ruled by a Lord or a Daimyo. The lands and lords are the Land of Fire ruled by the Fire Daimyo, the Land of Lightning ruled by the Lightning Daimyo, the Land of Earth ruled by the Earth Daimyo, the land of Wind ruled by the Wind Daimyo, and the Land of Water ruled by the Water Daimyo. Each of the lands ruled by a Daimyo has both major and minor villages and each of these lands has a major Hidden Village which is where the land's ninja live and are trained to serve their land. Right now though let's focus on the Land of Fire which holds the Hidden Leaf Village, the strongest of all the Hidden Villages. The Village of Konoha was a large village surrounded on all sides by a great and beautiful forest with the trees being larger than the average tree. Konoha is ruled by Hiruzen Sarutobi, also known as the Third Hokage, a veteran of all of the Great Shinobi Wars; but our story is not about him so let's move on shall we. It was currently night time in Konoha, around 8 or 9 o'clock, and the street lights were illuminating the village as a people both adults and children were walking around enjoying the night air, going out to eat, or just going home for the night. A common trait shared by all these people was that they all had either large or small smiles and were enjoying their time together, in all it was a beautiful scene when you looked at it but in another part of the village there was a scene that no words could fully describe.

In the village was a thick forest that was fenced off from the public with multiple signs that said "DAGNER" or "KEEP OUT" in big red letters as the forest was almost pitch black dark with all the vegetation looking overgrown and wild. You could hear the sound of many animals either moving around trying to find food or growling at each other ready for a fight. This forest was Training Ground #44 A.K.A The Forest of Death and it was fenced off for the exact same reasons the signs said, it was just too dangerous for people even sometimes trained ninjas to go into. With giant tigers, bears, scorpions, poisonous plants, and many other things in forest that could kill you it was no wonder that only high ranked ninja were allowed to go in there. But yet deep in the forest we find two children huddled together under the roots of a giant tree trying to stay warm and not attract attention to themselves or else they would be pounced upon by the many predators running around the forest at night. The first boy was on the short side standing at only 4 feet even with sun kissed blonde hair that spiked in every direction, blue eyes so bright that the sky would be jealous, tan skin, a rather round face, and three whisker like marks on his cheeks. As for clothes, if they could even be called that, he wore a short sleeved black shirt with an orange swirl symbol on the back; but the shirt was also filled with holes and covered in dirt and dried blood. To cover his lower body he wore blue shorts that went down to his knees but were also covered in holes and dirt. And finally on his feet were a pair of worn and broken down blue ninja sandals that looked ready to fall apart at any given moment. This boy was none other than Naruto Uzumaki, a seven year old boy living in the Forest of Death and one of the two most hated boys in Konoha.

Sitting next to Naruto was another boy of about the same age but standing a little taller at 4'3 with milk chocolate brown skin, chin length black hair with deep violet bangs framing his round but somewhat sunken in face, and deep violet eyes. He wore a torn and dirtied black shirt with his black pants being the same way and he wore no shoes on his feet at all. This boy's name is Hideyoshi (He-Day-Yoshi) Umbra, the other most hated boy in Konoha and Naruto's best friend. These two boys are hated because seven years ago a great beast known as the Nine-Tailed Fox suddenly appeared in the village and destroyed a great deal of it and killed many people. The leader at the time was the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, who fought the fox with two others by the name of Hideaki and Tsubaki Umbra. The three of them fought the fox together and after some time managed to defeat the fox by sealing it into the two boys. Minato's original idea was to seal half of the fox into Naruto and then take the other half with him into the Shinigami, but Hideaki convinced him to seal the other half into his three month old son Hideyoshi. They had argued over it at first but in the end the Yang half of the fox was sealed into Naruto and the Yin half was sealed into Hideyoshi. After the sealing the three heroes died and the two boys were left to the harsh world without their parents. From that day forward the boys were placed in an orphanage that only held them until Hideyoshi and Naruto turned four, at which point they were kicked out and forced to live on the streets for almost a year before the Hokage found them and gave them an apartment in the Red Light District. This act of kindness only made things worse as now the villagers knew where to find the boys and would constantly vandalize their apartment by breaking down the door, smashing in the windows, and writing hurtful words on the walls like "DEMON BRATS", "DEVIL SPAWNS", and "DIE YOU DEMON SHITS". Soon it had become too much for the boys to deal with and decided not to live in the apartment anymore.

Over time things did not change and the boys quickly learned that in the whole village there was only a hand full of people they could trust not to hurt them, but they also learned that no matter what they could always depend on each other. With Hideyoshi being the older of the two he often did his best to protect Naruto even going as far as to give Naruto most of the food he found whenever he could get some as there was only one shop in the village that would serve them and not over charge them. The boys have even unlocked their chakra which happened when they were running from a mob that had gathered to hunt them down. It was at that point that Hideyoshi told Naruto that they should leave the village but Naruto didn't want to go and argued that the village was their home. Hideyoshi argued back by stating that a home had nothing to do with the place you were born or where you lived but where you felt safe and loved, a place where you could let down your guard without worrying that you would be stabbed in the back. Living on the streets and always being on guard for when the villagers, both civilians and ninjas alike, attacked them had forced the boys to grow up faster than any child should have to.

"Naruto we have to go soon, I don't think we'll be able to live like this for much longer." said Hideyoshi in a tired voice. They had tried to get some food from the village earlier but were caught and chased into the Forest of Death by a mob of civilians.

"I know Hideyoshi, but how are we going to do that? What if the Hokage comes after us, where are we going to go and what about our friends?" asked Naruto in a sad voice. He had long since given up on changing this village as no matter what he and Hideyoshi did the village continued to hate them, hell Naruto had at one point seen the Hokage as a grandfather figure but ever since finding out what the old man had been hiding from them that had changed. That's right they know about the Nine-Tailed Fox being sealed inside of them; it wasn't really that hard to figure out with all of the people calling them a demon so all they had to do was a little research. They were even close to finding out who Naruto's parents were though for some reason all records of Naruto's parentage were blocked off or hidden.

"Don't worry about anything Naruto, I've been planning this for a while and I believe I have a solid plan worked out for your first two worries. As for our friends, well I've written them letters tell them what's going on and that we'll write them once we've settled down. You should write them a letter as well." Hideyoshi said as he began to move further back into the tree to get his letters. Naruto couldn't help but smile at Hideyoshi for his forethought. Hideyoshi had always been the brains between the two, not saying that Naruto was dumb but Hideyoshi was smarter while Naruto was stronger. It was Hideyoshi that came up with the idea to train their chakra for when they left the village and it was Naruto that snuck into the library to get the books they needed.

While they didn't know any jutsu yet they could walk on trees, tree jump, and make storage seals. Hideyoshi knew that they didn't have the reserves to pull off any jutsu yet and that attempting to do any would most likely caused them to die of chakra exhaustion. When Hideyoshi came back he had his letters, a pen, and some blank sheets of paper. Naruto took the pen and paper and started writing his letters while Hideyoshi decided to tell him the plan. "Alright Naruto if we're going to get out of here tonight then this is how we're going to do it. I want you to take these letters to our friends and make sure to leave them in a place that only they will find it, then I want you to head to the library and copy down as many of the jutsu in the books that you can find in less than fifteen minutes. While you're doing that I'll be headed for the Hokage Tower to see what I can find on our parents and maybe find the Forbidden Scroll of Seals in less than thirty minutes. When our time ends we'll meet at our old apartment and take off through the north gate." Hideyoshi told Naruto in an almost commander like tone of voice.

"Okay I can do all of that but why are we copying jutsu scrolls?" asked Naruto.

"Because if we are going to leave this village then we'll need to join another village and most villages will want something to prove we are worth letting into their village, what better way than by giving them access to the first village's jutsu." Hideyoshi told Naruto who nodded in understanding. They waited until 11 o'clock before they started their plan which they executed flawlessly, which shouldn't be a surprise since Naruto was the prank master of Konoha and Hideyoshi was always quite stealthy. In only forty-five minutes they met up at their old apartment with Naruto looking sad since he had seen their friends but Hideyoshi looked pissed as all hell.

"That old fucking bastard, I knew he was keeping things from us but I didn't think it was this bad!" Hideyoshi whispered harshly.

"What are you talking about Hideyoshi, what was he hiding from us?" asked Naruto while a little worried since he had only seen Hideyoshi this mad when he caught villagers beating on him.

"That bastard always said that he didn't know who your parents were and that my parents were brave ninja of this village that died during the attack. I found a file that he kept hidden with the Forbidden Scroll of Seals that says that not only did he know both of our parents but our parents were friends and wanted us to be kept safe." said Hideyoshi with his anger growing by the minute. Naruto froze hearing this, he knew the Hokage hid things from them since if both of their parents were ninja of this village how could the Hokage not know them when it's his job to know who works for him. But to hear that he not only did he always deny knowing them but also did so to the face of a poor orphan child that just wanted to know if he was loved or if the villagers were right about them hating him.

"Do you know who they were?" asked Naruto with hope clear in his voice because if Hideyoshi knew who he was than Naruto would finally know just who he was and where he came from. It would seem that Hideyoshi noticed this thought to correct Naruto's line of thought.

"Yes I do as the file does have the names of both your and my own parents names just no pictures, but Naruto before I tell you their names I need you to understand who your parents are doesn't determine who you are. Only Naruto can say who Naruto is." Hideyoshi told him with a straight face. Naruto was quiet for a few moments before he nodded his head in understanding. "Your Parents names are Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, meaning that you're the son of the Fourth Hokage." Hideyoshi said while watching Naruto closely for his reaction.

"So my dad was the one who cursed us to live a life of pure hell." said Naruto with his voice shaking a bit showing he was on the verge of breaking down.

"Naruto listen to me, I know this seems bad but from what we know about the Fourth Hokage we can tell he was a kind and noble man even to his enemies so let's hold off on judging him until we know the whole story." said Hideyoshi. Naruto took a deep breath to calm his nerves before nodding his head; Hideyoshi had always had his best interests at heart so why shouldn't he listen to him now. "Alright now we have been here longer than we should have already so let's get going before we get caught." said Hideyoshi before they both took off.

TWO WEEKS LATER

It's been two weeks since Hideyoshi and Naruto have left the Hidden Leaf Village and they have just now reached border of the Land of Bears and the Land of Lightning. They would have gotten to this point sooner but they are still young, haven't been eating properly, haven't been trained properly, and they ran into a few problems along the way. Right now the boys were tired and were resting up against a tree to catch their breath and regain some of their chakra. They were sure the Hokage had noticed they were gone by now and had sent out Hunter Nin to find them which is why they pushed so hard to leave the Land of Fire, but they knew that if push came to shove the Hunter Nin would leave the Land of Fire and just try not to get caught while looking for them. The boys knew that if they were caught by the Hunter Nin then they would be dragged back to the village and life would be even worse than before.

"Hey Hideyoshi, you never told me why we were going to the Hidden Cloud Village anyway." said Naruto.

"Naruto I found out quite a bit from that file the Hokage was hiding, like how the my family used to be a clan before they wiped out alongside the Uzumaki clan, though there is the chance that there are members of the Uzumaki and Umbra clan scatted around." Hideyoshi informed Naruto before pausing to make sure he was following. "My clan was a nomadic clan before they settled somewhere in the Land of Lightning, so I'm hoping that by us joining the Hidden Cloud Village I'll be able to look for any of my clan while doing research on your clan." said Hideyoshi.

"Alright I understand all that but can I see the file you copied, there seems to be so much information in it?" asked Naruto.

"Sure thing, just give me a second." said Hideyoshi as he held out his right hand and applied a little chakra which showed a seal on his palm and in a puff of smoke appeared a rolled up scroll.

Naruto took the scroll and sat there reading for ten minutes before they got up and continued their journey. It was another four days of walking with only short breaks to regain their energy but now they have walked into trouble as they were surrounded by bandits. This wasn't the first time they have encountered bandits but those other times were with just regular bandits, this time there was a rouge ninja among the group and from the crossed out headband around his neck he was from the Hidden Cloud Village.

"Damnit this isn't good, the only reason Naruto and I made it passed those other groups of bandits was because none of them were skilled in anyway so we could easily beat them with only a little taijutsu, but now we have a ninja to deal with!" thought Hideyoshi with more than a little panic in his thoughts. There may have only been five bandits in total but they were still untrained kids so they had a right to panic.

"Well what do we have here two kids out in the cold lonely world on their own, we should help them boys and besides I'm sure we can get a good amount of Ryo for them on the slave market." said the rouge ninja with a sinister voice. (For the record Ryo will be the same value as American money) The Missing Nin's four lackeys started to close in on the boys.

"What do you say Naruto, you take two and I take two?" asked Hideyoshi.

"Yea let's do this!" said Naruto as he ran at two of the bandits while Hideyoshi ran at the other two.

WITH NARUTO AND TWO OF THE BANDITS

While running Naruto slide under Bandit#1's legs while punching him in the nuts causing the bandit to fall to knees while holding his crotch. Naruto then rolled to the side to avoid Bandit#2 from grabbing him. Bandit#2 tried again but this time Naruto crouched down then quickly shot up using his head to knock the bandit in the jaw. Just then Bandit#1 came back into the fight and grabbed Naruto from behind and allowed Bandit#2 to punch Naruto in the stomach twice causing Naruto to lose his breath. Bandit#1 then threw Naruto to the ground and tried to stomp on him only for Naruto to roll to the side and sweep Bandit#1's feet from under him. Naruto then picked up a nicely sized rock and smashed it against Bandit#1's left temple and knocked him but then quickly moved to the side in order to avoid being hit by Bandit#2. Naruto jumped on Bandit#2's back and started hammering the rock into his head in order to knock him out.

"THAT'S IT YOU LITTLE BRAT LET'S SEE HOW YOU LIKE THIS!" yelled Bandit#2 as he ran toward a rock to attempt to smash Naruto into it. Naruto noticed this and waited for the right moment before he jumped off and allowed Bandit #2 to knock himself out on the tree.

"Ha, that's what you get when you mess with Naruto Uzumaki!" said Naruto.

WITH HIDEYOSHI AND THE OTHER TWO BANDITS

Hideyoshi sidestepped a punch from Bandit#3 and then quickly ducked under another punch but this time it was from Bandit#4. Hideyoshi then punched Bandit#3 in the throat which caused the bandit to grab his throat and left himself open to a kick straight to the nuts. This caused Bandit#3 to fall to his knees with one hand holding the front of his neck and the other hand holding his privates, only for his to then fall unconscious from being chopped in the back of his neck. However Hideyoshi was too slow to react and was punched in the face by Bandit#4 and then quickly kneed in the stomach forcing Hideyoshi to his knees. Hideyoshi leaned his head to the right to avoid a punch then quickly grabbed the arm of Bandit#4 and used it to swing himself up and knee Bandit#4 in his temple and knocked him out.

"Alright now that just leaves-." before Hideyoshi could finish he was spin kicked in the face by the Missing Nin with the kick being powerful enough to send him crashing into a tree.

"HIDEYOSHI ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?" yelled Naruto as he ran over to check on Hideyoshi.

"I'm fine Naruto, it'll take more than that to put me down but we'll need to go all out with this guy just to survive." Hideyoshi told Naruto as he got up.

"I'll admit that you two surprised me with how you handled my underlings but that just shows that I should ask for more Ryo for you. Now come quietly so I don't have to ruff up my new products." said the Missing Nin with a cruel smile on his face.

The fight didn't last long and ended with Naruto on his hands and knees panting with cuts and bruises all over his body. Hideyoshi didn't look any better; in fact he looked worse as he had a kunai sticking out of his left shoulder, blood running down the right side of his face, and his right arm was broken. The boys did manage to land some hits on the Missing Nin but that just seemed to make him mad and then he started to really beat on them, hell Hideyoshi looked so bad because he decided to shield Naruto from some of those attacks with his own body.

"Damn you boys are tuff, most of the other kids I did this to went down after the first or second punch but here you two are still trying to stand." said the Missing Nin.

"Damnit, I have to protect Naruto but my body is in so much pain that I can barely move." thought Hideyoshi in frustration. Not only had this bastard sold other children into slavery but he was planning on doing the same to them and was actually having fun beating the shit out of them!

"YOU BASTARD I'LL TAKE YOU OUT RIGHT NOW!" yelled Naruto as he ran forward.

"NO NARUTO, DON'T DO IT!" Hideyoshi yelled after him but his cried fell on deaf ears. Hideyoshi watched helplessly as Naruto was hit by a chakra enhanced kick and flew into a tree where two kunai impaled him through his shoulders and pinned him to the tree. Naruto passed out from the pain and Hideyoshi seemed to have his body racked with more pain as he watched Naruto be pinned to a tree like that. Suddenly Hideyoshi hunched over in pain as he felt his eyes burn and his skin crawl as his body shook. The Missing Nin took his eyes from Naruto and looked at Hideyoshi before walking towards him.

"Alright Kid, your friend is out cold now so that leaves just you so just-." the Missing Nin was cut off then Hideyoshi's head shot up and made the Missing Nin take a step back. Hideyoshi had a snarl on his face that would make most grown men shit their pants in fear but what scared the Missing Nin was Hideyoshi's eyes. Hideyoshi's eyes were obsidian black with a violet pentagram acting as his pupil and violet cracks in the black area and around the eyes.

"Hahaha, you have fucked up now because I'm going to kill you!" said Hideyoshi in a new dark and demented voice that made it sound like multiple voices at once. The Missing Nin stepped back further when from Hideyoshi's back burst forth two black serpents with deep violet eyes and violet tribal markings going down their backs. Each serpent had large mouths filled with rows of razor sharp teeth that dripped with yellow drool. (Just in case it wasn't covered by my disclaimer: I don't own the Darkness)

"I don't know what you are but you're not going to kill me! Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder!" said the Missing Nin with fear deep in his voice as he released a wave of lightning from his hands that tore up the ground as it headed towards Hideyoshi. The serpents quickly wrapped around Hideyoshi and blocked the attack which shocked the Missing Nin as he had put all he could into that jutsu. The serpents unwrapped to show an angry Hideyoshi standing with most of his injuries healing.

"FOOL, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DEFY ME!" yelled Hideyoshi as the serpents shot forward and attempted to rip into the Missing Nin. The Missing Nin managed to jump back and dodged the first one but the second one managed to sink its teeth into his leg and then procced to slam him into the ground multiple times before flinging him into a tree back first. Before the Missing Nin could recover both serpents latched onto both of his arms and tore them from their sockets causing blood to spray everywhere.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" screamed the Missing Nin from the pain of being brutally dismembered. Just then one of the serpents wrapped around the Missing Nin's neck and brought him in front of Hideyoshi.

"HAHAHA, IT'S OVER WORTHLESS SCUM!" yelled Hideyoshi as the second serpent reared itself back and then launched into the Missing Nin chest and out of his back before coming back around with his heart in its mouth. Last thing the Missing Nin saw before having his soul sent to hell was the dark serpent of Hideyoshi swallowing his heart whole. The serpents then through the body away and returned to Hideyoshi's side as he made his way over to Naruto and had the serpents pull the kunai out of his shoulders and then caught Naruto in his arms. Once that was done Hideyoshi's serpents sunk back into his back and his eyes returned to normal, but after that Hideyoshi quickly put Naruto down and then quickly turned around and threw up. He had no idea what had just happened to him but he knew that he had just killed someone and the mutilated body wasn't that far away from him. Hideyoshi continued to vomit until there was nothing left in his stomach and he was just dry heaving. Soon Hideyoshi fainted without ever realizing that a serpent seal had appeared on his right shoulder.

AN HOUR LATER

An hour had passed since the fight with the Missing Nin and his underlings, who had woken up thirty minutes ago but ran once they saw the body of their former boss, and now we see our heroes on the backs of two ninja who were each wearing black shinobi sandals with metal greaves, black pants, steel gray chest plates over short sleeve black shirts, and black gloves with metal gauntlets. The only difference between the two ninja were the masks they wore with the one carrying Naruto wearing a tiger mask and the one carrying Hideyoshi wearing a lion mask and both masks the symbol for the Hidden Cloud Village on their foreheads.

"Captain Lion, what do you think happened in that field?" asked the tiger masked ninja.

"I don't know Tiger but what I do know is that that bastard Taka is dead and since these boys are hurt with one being by a puddle of vomit it's safe to say at least one of them saw what happened." said Captain Lion.

"Sir, what about the seal on the boy's arm?" asked Tiger.

"From what I can tell it's a storage seal meant to only be opened by a specific person's chakra, whose chakra is supposed to open it I don't know but we'll find out." said Captain Lion.

BACK IN THE HIDDEN LEAF VILLAGE

Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village, was an old man who was NOT happy to be Hokage right now. It's been two weeks since Naruto and Hideyoshi had disappeared and he has been doing everything in his power to find them. He sent out Hunter Nin and even called in one of his old students to search for them but so far neither of them had come back with good news. Hiruzen looked out his window in the Hokage Office to see the village below and couldn't help but frown a bit. When word had gotten out that Naruto and Hideyoshi were nowhere to be found most of the village had actually started to celebrate, thinking that the ones they thought of as demons had died. Only a few hadn't celebrated and Hiruzen knew that those few were the ones that really cared for the boys. Hiruzen knew of the boys' treatment in the village as he had visited them each time they ended up in the hospital but the people were just misguided to him, they placed their blame for the Nine-Tailed Fox's attack on the boys. To Hiruzen the people just needed time to get over their hatred and their pain. He knew the boys weren't dead because the villagers would have paraded their bodies around the village if that happened so that left him with the fact that they somehow managed to run away. To be honest Hiruzen expected the boys to endure their treatment since every time they asked him why they were hated he would tell them that he didn't know but they should forgive the villagers. Now though the boys were gone and the village had lost not only both of its Jinchuriki but also the legacy of the Fourth Hokage and quite possible the last of the Umbra Clan.

"Where are you boys, don't you know that the village needs you?" Hiruzen asked himself in thought.

Hiruzen was taken from his thoughts when his window was opened and through it came a rather tall man at 6'4 with long spikey white hair and red lines coming from under his eyes down to his chin. He wore dark green pants, a dark green long sleeved top under a red vest, a horned headband with the symbol for oil on it, red wooden sandals, and a large scroll strapped horizontally to his back. This man was Jiraiya the Toad Sage, Konoha's spymaster and one of Hiruzen's students.

"Jiraiya please tell me you have good news." said Hiruzen.

"Sorry Sensei but I've got nothing, it seems that the boys are either staying away from any village or they're just not in the Land of Fire anymore." said Jiraiya with a serious tone of voice.

"I doubt that Jiraiya as either of the boys have any training to survive out in the wild on their own and neither of them have unlocked their chakra so leaving the Land of Fire would take too long." explained Hiruzen.

"Then the only conclusions I can come to is that they're dead or they were actually taken from us instead of running away." said Jiraiya.

"Well they're not dead or we would have felt the Fox's chakra be released by now so that leaves us with they were taken, but the question is by whom and for what purpose." said Hiruzen.

"Well I doubt the Hidden Mist did it sense they have their own problems going on, the Hidden Stone is still too weak to try something like this, the Hidden Sand are our allies, and it's still too soon after the Hyuga Affair for the Hidden Cloud to try something so that only really leaves-." Jiraiya didn't finish as the answer came to him and Hiruzen at the same time. Only one person could get in and out of Konoha undetected, only one person had the skill to adduct children from right under the Hokage's nose, and only one person was slippery enough to go unfound by Jiraiya's vast spy network.

"Orochimaru!" both Jiraiya and Hiruzen said at the same time with wide eyes. Hiruzen then stood up and slammed his hand on the desk.

"Jiraiya if Orochimaru really does have those boys then I want you to have every spy you have stop what they're doing and focus on finding Orochimaru, we have to get them out of Orochimaru's hands!" said Hiruzen. Jiraiya just nodded and they left in a swirl of leafs.

IN THE HIDDEN CLOUD VILLAGE HOSPITAL

Lying in a hospital bed we find Naruto in a hospital gown before he begins to stir and opens his eyes to a sight he is in all honesty too familiar with. "Great I'm in a hospital room again, I hate these places." Naruto thought to himself. He looked over to his side to see Hideyoshi in a bed like him but he was still knocked out. "What the hell happened to us?" Naruto asked to himself.

"I was hoping you would be able to answer that." said a voice on the other side of Naruto. Naruto quickly turned to the voice and saw a large man with bulging muscles, combed back blonde hair, a small mustache, a small pointed goatee, black eyes, and was the same skin tone as Hideyoshi. He wore black shinobi sandals, white and red greaves, black pants with a green wrap and a gold plated belt with a demon face as the buckle, large gold armbraces on his fore arms, and what looked like Kage robes that were white with blue lining the symbol for lightning on it.

"I'm sorry Sir but who are you and where am I?" asked Naruto in a respectful voice since Hideyoshi drilled it into his head to at least try and be respectful to people you don't know.

"I'm Aye and you are in a Hidden Cloud Village hospital." said Aye with a neutral face as he stared at Naruto whose eyes had widened when he heard that he and Hideyoshi were finally in the Hidden Cloud Village.

"We made it, ALRIGHT WE FINALLY MADE IT TO THE HIDDEN CLOUD!" Naruto whispered before he yelled in excitement. Aye raised an eyebrow at this as he was not expecting for the two boys to be trying to get to his village.

"And what were you two trying to accomplish by coming here?" asked Aye with his eyes slightly narrowed.

"We were trying to join this village and get away from Konoha." said Naruto as if it was an obvious thing. Aye's eyes narrowed even further when he heard the name of the village the two boys came from.

"What makes you think you two would be allowed to join this village?" asked Aye with an edge to his voice. It wasn't that he had anything personal against the boys but it wasn't unheard of for villages to send small children as spies into other villages.

"I don't know; it was Hideyoshi that came up with the plan to come here." said Naruto.

"And who is Hideyoshi?" asked Aye trying to get as much information out of the boy as possible. That is when they heard a groan from the other bed and turned to see Hideyoshi starting to sit up. When Hideyoshi opened his eyes he saw Naruto sitting in a hospital bed and seemingly talking to some big muscled man. Hideyoshi was quick to recognize the man and even though he still felt sick from what he remembered doing earlier he quickly became serious.

"Naruto!" Hideyoshi said in a tone of voice that Naruto knew all too well and was immediately behind Hideyoshi. Aye frowned at this and his body tensed.

"That was a conditioned response and the violet eyed boy seems to recognize me, it is looking more and more like they might be spies." Aye thought to himself. "I'll ask you the same question I just asked your friend. Who is Hideyoshi?" asked Aye.

"I'm Hideyoshi Raikage-sama and this is my little brother Naruto." said Hideyoshi as he shifted a bit to hide Naruto behind him. He may only be older by three months but that didn't matter to him, Naruto was his little brother and because of that he would protect Naruto with his life. Aye noticed this and he was slightly impressed since it reminded him a little of how he was with his own brother.

"Well your little brother said that you planned to come here from Konoha, so why don't you tell me why." said Aye.

"We were hated and abused in Konoha for something that was out of our control and since I've recently come into some information saying that my family had once settled in the Land of Lighting so I thought coming here was a great idea, not to mention that Naruto and I still want to be ninja." explained Hideyoshi. The fact that the Hideyoshi's family once lived in his land intrigued Aye enough for him to calm down just a bit but still be suspicious especially since Hideyoshi was tense.

"Why are you so tense?" asked Aye.

"Because Raikage-sama I did a great deal of research about this village and you before we came here and I know that you are a stern person who believes actions speak louder than words, you have no problem sacrificing your men if the situation calls for it, you have a short temper, and you see Jinchuriki as tools rather than people." said Hideyoshi. Aye winced on the inside at this but understood what Hideyoshi was talking about, though it seemed the boy's information was dated since he had changed a bit after he became Raikage.

Aye sighed as he thought about things before pointing to a chair in the corner of the room with the boys' clothes folded on it. "Get dressed and then come with me to my office since I believe we have much to talk about. I'll be outside when you're ready." said Aye as he walked out the door. It didn't take long for the boys to get dressed in their rags and follow Aye to his office, though while they walked Aye noticed how guarded the boys were and how Hideyoshi kept looking around as if watching for danger. When they arrived at the office there was a woman standing there with green eyes, light gray hair that was pulled into a bun, and a skin tone that was slightly darker than Hideyoshi's and Aye's. She wore a formal high colored and long sleeved dress shirt, a business skirt, black sandals, and long earrings. Aye introduced her as his assistant Mabui and said that she would be recording what they would talk about. Naruto didn't pay her much mind but Hideyoshi did.

"She looks to be maybe in her late teen, if she's already the Raikage's assistant than she must be skilled." Hideyoshi thought to himself.

"Alright boys, now that we are in my office I want you to tell me everything that led you to coming here." said Aye as he sat behind his desk. From there Hideyoshi told the Raikage their story, from how they were treated in the village, how at most the villagers were punished lightly for their crimes, how they lived from day to day, how they escaped the village, and Hideyoshi even told Aye what he remembered of their fight with the Missing Nin. At the end of the tale Aye had a knowing look on his face while Mabui was shocked at two small boys could survive all of that. "Alright let's start from the beginning, why were you two treated like that by your own village?" asked Aye while paying close attention.

"To put it simply Raikage-sama, Naruto and I are the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tailed Fox with Naruto holding the yang half and I holding the yin half." Hideyoshi said to the Raikage with a straight face.

"I thought you two were Jinchuriki from your treatment but I didn't think it was just different halves of the same Biju. Though allow me to clarify some things for you, I know my reputation outside and inside my village but I've changed a bit since I became Raikage after my father. I'm still have a bad temper and I still prefer actions over words but my views on Jinchuriki have changed since my brother and my niece are Jinchuriki, you'll meet them later, and I show more compassion for my men and try to avoid losing any of them if I can." said Aye as Hideyoshi watched both him and Mabui carefully.

"Okay I admit that my information is out dated, but what does this mean for me and Naruto?" asked Hideyoshi.

"Since neither of you are a spy you can join the village and when you turn ten you and Naruto can join our ninja academy; Mabui get the papers I need to grant these boys citizenship." said Aye while Mabui nodded and got the papers.

Once the papers were filled out they decided to go over everything else that Hideyoshi had told Aye since they would have to do it sooner or later anyway and Aye was their Raikage now. "Alright boys lets continue our talk; can you tell me what was that power you used in your fight with Taka, the Missing Nin you fought?" asked Aye.

"I'm sorry Raikage-sama but that was truly the first time I've ever done something like that and didn't even know I could do it. But from what I remember I can tell you that the power felt dark and I could literally feel myself almost swimming in a controlled insanity." said Hideyoshi.

"Hmm, we'll work on that later for now let's get down to some really important stuff as you said yourself that you stole some things from Konoha." said Aye.

"Ah yes, well I suggest you brace yourself Raikage-sama because I've have stolen a jutsu that will help you defeat your greatest enemy." said Hideyoshi with a smirk.

"And my greatest enemy would be?" asked Aye.

"Paperwork!" said Hideyoshi and Naruto at the same time. Before either of the boys could react they were lifted into air by the front of their shirts and were looking into the wide eyes of the Raikage.

"If you two are lying to me I will crush your bones slowly, have you healed, and then repeat the process until I die." Aye said with a dangerous edge to his voice. Both Hideyoshi and Naruto became rather pale after hearing that and Hideyoshi quickly raised his right hand and pumped chakra into his palm causing a scroll to appear.

"In this scroll is a copy of the jutsu we copied from Konoha's library and Forbidden Scroll of Seals; go to the one named Shadow Clone jutsu and read its description." said Hideyoshi. The boys fell to the ground when the Raikage dropped them in order to look through the scroll, when he finally got to the jutsu in question he read the description and his eyes nearly fell out of their sockets.

"Hideyoshi, Naruto, if you have anything else to tell me do it now as I plan on learning this jutsu as fast as possible." said Aye in a serious voice. Hideyoshi and Naruto looked at each other before nodding.

"Well I'm the son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki." said Naruto as Aye's jaw dropped.

"And I'm a member of the Umbra Clan." said Hideyoshi.

"THE UMBRA CLAN!" yelled Aye.

"You know of my clan Raikage-sama?" asked Hideyoshi.

"I've only heard stories about them but now that I know you're a member of that clan I believe the serpents you summoned from your back were part of your bloodline; Which reminds me that when my men found you there was a storage seal on your right shoulder." said Aye. Hideyoshi quickly pulled up the right sleeve of his shirt and saw the seal and pumped some chakra into it. In a puff of smoke a scroll appeared with a violet flame symbol on it. Hideyoshi quickly unrolled the scroll and started to read it out loud.

Dear Hideyoshi,

If you are reading this then your mother and I are dead and you have unlocked your bloodline, the Seed of Insanity. My son I am so sorry that I'm not around to help you with our shared bloodline but more importantly I'm sorry we're not around to raise you like we wanted. Your mother would have also written something in this letter but sadly she is already gone and I'm sad yet happy to say I'll soon be joining her so let hurry and tell some important things that you need to know. First our bloodline manifests itself in every member of the Umbra Clan and is different for each person. An example of this is how your mother could summon wings made of pure darkness and I could turn my arms into claws made of pure darkness. Anyway the Seed of Insanity is called that because it causes the user to act insane but don't worry the user is in complete control though you'll lose a lot of your morals. Finally the most important thing I need to tell you about our bloodline is that it has levels with the first level being when you awaken it, the second level will allow you access to secret techniques of our clan, and the final level will allow you to destroy your enemy's mind with pure insanity but the only way to achieve these levels of our bloodline is to feed it dark hearts or the hearts of evil people. At the bottom of this letter is a seal containing all recorded information on our clan so that you can know how to run it along with a list of all the jutsu we can do with our bloodline, there aren't many so you'll have to make some up as you go. Enough with the bloodline, let's talk personal now. Your mother and I love you very much Hideyoshi and we will be proud of you no matter what you do. We know you'll do great things, we never wanted you to be a Jinchuriki but we also didn't want young Naruto to be alone in a village that we knew would hate him because let's face it People can be really stupid. We love you son and will be watching you from the other side. Oh you should also know that Naruto's mother was the Jinchuriki for the Nine-Tails before you two, she was attack by some man claiming to be Madara Uchiha and he forced the Nine-Tails to attack. Good luck my son and try to look after Naruto, if he's anything like his parents he'll be the world greatest trouble maker.

With love, your father, Hideaki Umbra.

After reading the letter everything in the office was quiet and Hideyoshi was shedding silent tears. He then felt a hand on his right shoulder and looked to see Naruto giving him a comforting look to which Hideyoshi nodded in return.

"Naruto, be letters to you from your parents as well if I have one, they must be somewhere in the Hokage's office, I promise you right now on my very soul that we will get those letters so you can read them!" promised Hideyoshi with a fire in his wet eyes. Naruto's eyes watered a bit but he still nodded his head, he had felt a bit jealous of Hideyoshi since he got to know that his parents loved him but hearing Hideyoshi promise to help him find and read the letters his parents must have left for him made him feel better.

"Well if you boy are so dead set on doing that then you had better get stronger as I doubt Hiruzen will just give you the letters so until then Mabui take Kumo's newest residents to an apartment complex so they can rest; I'm sure it's been a long day for them." said Aye with a small smirk on his face.

"Right away Raikage-sama." said Mabui.

"Before we go Raikage-sama, Naruto and I would like to rebuild our clans here in the village and before you ask, yes we know what this means and are prepared to take up the CRA. I made sure that even though Naruto acts like an idiot that he very really became an idiot." said Hideyoshi.

"HEY I DON'T ACT LIKE AN IDIOT YOU ASS!" yelled Naruto though Hideyoshi ignored him.

"Very well boys we'll discuss this more at another time now go rest." said Aye as the boys nodded and walked out with Mabui. Once they were gone Aye leaned back in his seat and let out a deep sigh before laughing like a mad man. "Really Hiruzen Sarutobi, they called you "The Professor" and "The God of Shinobi" but you let your village treat its most valuable assets like trash, oh your old age must be getting to you if you did something so stupid. Don't worry though I'm sure those two will become great here in Kumo." said Aye as he couldn't wait to see what the boys would become in the future. What Aye didn't know was just how right he was as Naruto and Hideyoshi would become two of the greatest ninja to ever live and would give their parents, friends, family, and Kumo all the credit.

Well everyone there is the first chapter of my very first story on this site. I hope you like it and please review it to tell me what mistakes I made or if you have questions. Until next time listen for when the dragon roars! :)