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The Kitsune Lord

Chapter 4

The day Kushina Uzumaki gave birth to her three wonderful children; the Kyuubi had been ripped out of her and was used to attack the village.

This eventually led to the legendary battle between her husband and the Kyuubi at the end of which he had to reseal the Kyuubi into his newborn children at the cost of the Sandaime who sacrificed his soul to the Shinigami in Minato's place.

The yang half of Kyuubi was sealed into Mito; his eldest daughter, the yin half in Menma; his son and the soul in his youngest daughter; Narumi.

After the battle, all he could do was thank Kami that they had survived.

When the council found out, there was uproar. They wanted weapons out of his two children and saw the reincarnation of the beast in his third child.

That day another legendary event took place when the Red Death dragged herself out of her hospital bed to personally teach them all a lesson. Mito, Menma and Narumi; they were not weapons, they were not monsters; they were her children and all of them would do well to keep that in mind.

The council wanted to let everyone know about the jinchuuriki status of his children. Minato had only one answer to that; unacceptable.

His children didn't need any more targets drawn on them, 'children of the Red Death and the Yellow Flash' was already more attention necessary, add the fact of them being jinchuuriki... Hell no! Minato wanted his children to live without fear at least inside Konoha and that would be impossible if the civilians knew about their status.

If it had been unto Minato; he would've kept even the council in the dark about his children's status but the information had already reached the council and he could not change that now. The best he could hope for was for the rest of the village to not find out.

But the council kept on arguing and Minato wondered whether they need another reminder that he was the Hokage.

"Silence!" Minato ordered and everyone quieted down at the steel in his voice.

Minato could already see Kushina seething from the other side of the council chamber and spoke swiftly infusing every bit of command into his words, "I will not make the jinchuuriki status of my children public knowledge…." He narrowed his eyes at anyone who even thought of opening his/her mouth to protest.

"And before you say that the village needs to know about the 'threat'," he spat out the words that they had used earlier, "living among them; there is no threat. The seal used on my children will ensure that neither the Kyuubi nor its chakra will ever be released or influence my children in any way or form. They are normal children; not demons. Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi have already lived their lives amongst us for almost a century and there has never been any problem because people were kept in the dark. In fact, it worked out better."

Minato suppressed a smirk at the surprise on their face when they found out that there used to be other jinchuuriki in Konoha.

Minato continued, "It was because someone had found out the identity of the last Kyuubi jinchuuriki that led to the release of the Kyuubi, so it is with reason that I say that my children's status should be kept secret."

Some frowned, "But Hokage-sama, if it is as you say and that an enemy had released the Kyuubi from the previous jinchuuriki, then how can we stop it from happening again? Wouldn't it be better if the matter is dealt with immediately?"

They all understood what he was suggesting; the Kyuubi can only be released again if the jinchuuriki are left alive...

"So what are you suggesting, that we execute my children because they saved all of you asses?" Kushina roared and the council member collapsed back in his chair in fear.

Minato managed to suppress his anger and speak evenly, "The new seal is much more improved than the one used on the previous jinchuuriki. There are fail safes in place so that the Kyuubi cannot be released. And another fact you forget is that the Kyuubi was split into three. Unless someone has enough power and knowledge to rewrite a seal reinforced by the Shinigami, release all three parts of the Kyuubi and then fuse it to form the biju; we are safe."

"Without the soul, even if the chakra is released it will dissipate. The only danger will be of chakra poisoning and that can be avoided easily and without the chakra, even if the soul is released it would be powerless."

Everyone looked at each other skeptically. Minato watched them like a hawk and finally (a bit reluctantly on the part of the civilians) the council agreed with the Hokage's decision.

Minato nodded, "The jinchuuriki status of Mito, Menma and Narumi Namikaze will not leave this room. I am declaring this as a law; if anyone present in this room lets the information out, death is the punishment."

Minato didn't wait to hear anyone's protests and left the council room with his wife.

But things never go as planned, do they? In the end, some of the civilians did exactly what Minato had ordered them not to and as a result, Minato had them executed without a thought. But the damage was done, half of the village knew by that time and by morning it would be all over the village. Minato had no doubt that Danzo had something to do with this but he had no solid proof.

Kushina cried in Minato's arms. She feared that her children would be treated the same way that all the other jinchuuriki are and Minato feared the same. Rumors would be rampant; the civilians had no idea about the intricacies of sealing and all they would think of was the Kyuubi inside, not the human jailors.

Damage control was necessary and Minato had no other option but to announce his children's status or the rumors would be worse.

That night Minato spoke to the citizens of Konoha, "We have suffered a great loss. The Kyuubi; the strongest of the biju; had dealt us with a blow that has left us crippled. Many of our friends and family who had lived with us, laughed with us, who we loved and cherished are no longer with us. All of you by now would've wondered how the Kyuubi was defeated… I sealed it. I split the Kyuubi into three and sealed it within my three children."

The crowd gasped and cried out. Minato waited patiently for them to quiet down.

"I know many of you think that my children are what they contain but you need to understand the sacrifice committed by every jinchuuriki who have dedicated their lives to protect you from the beast. A jinchuuriki is the power of that sacrifice. They are not the beast but the jailor. They are the only thing that stands between us and the biju. They protect us. The jinchuuriki of Kyuubi have protected us for a century now. My children are not the first and they will not be the last, as long as there is chakra, there will be jinchuuriki."

Minato waited for the information to sink in and when he heard the faintest mutter of an accusation; not against his children but against whomever the previous jinchuuriki was, he spoke again, "Our enemies are waiting in line to sink their claws on us. It is by their actions that we were attacked yesterday. The Kyuubi was forcefully released from the previous jinchuuriki who was in no condition to defend their self."

Gasps of surprise and fear of these unknown enemies were heard.

"That is why I have decided to let you know. Because it is our duty to protect those who protect us. My children are not heroes; heroes are those souls that sacrificed themselves so that we can contain the Kyuubi. The hero is the Sandaime who gave himself to the Shinigami in return for sealing the Kyuubi. What my children are; are the embodiment of every soul that had sacrificed their selves in the slaughter that was the Kyuubi; my children are the embodiment of the will of fire that was burning within the Sandaime when he stood in front of the Death God. My children are the embodiment of all that we survived. They will grow up to be the protectors of Konoha; they will grow up and honor the will of fire that helped us survive. Today I will introduce you to Konoha's future protectors," Minato nodded at the Anbu beside him and they stepped forward with three bundles securely in their arms.

"My eldest; Mito Namikaze," Cat stepped forward showing a blonde haired child to the crowd.

"My second-born; Menma Namikaze," Hound stepped forward showing another blonde haired child to the crowd.

"My youngest; Narumi Namikaze," Rabbit stepped forward showing the red-head child to the crowd.

"These are the new jinchuuriki of Konoha!"

Minato sat impatiently in his home waiting for the report. A young woman with platinum blonde hair and pale pupil-less blue eyes entered the room.

"Haiti, so how is the situation?" Minato asked.

Yamanaka Haiti sighed as she sat down and smiled softly, "Not bad at all Minato. The people are still adjusting to the news but your revelation about the previous jinchuuriki seems to have a positive impact. The people are more towards seeing your children as heroes. There is a percentage that is entirely neutral with the idea and there is a very small percentage of jinchuuriki-haters but that was unavoidable."

Minato sighed, "That went better than I anticipated."

"Chill Minato, everything will work out fine. Now let me go relay the news to Kushina. I can feel her anxiety all the way here," Haiti chuckled as she left the room.

Minato went to stand near the cribs in the room and smiled down at his three children. Menma and Mito were blonde haired with blue eyes that he only caught a glimpse of. Narumi was the smallest of the three and she had a dusting of light red hair and Minato had never caught a glimpse of her eyes. Now Narumi peered at him with ruby red eyes and Minato's breath got caught in his throat.

He leaned down to pick up the small girl and cradled her. He smiled at her, "It seems you have inherited your grandma's eyes baby girl."

Minato thought about his mother who had the same ruby red eyes. His smile dimmed, "I only hope that you are not as stubborn as her…" he groaned thinking about dealing with a miniature version of his mother and shuddered. Narumi smiled up at him.

Two years passed by perfectly.

Haiti was right, everything did work out.

Minato and Kushina had their hands full raising the three bundles of seemingly limitless energy. Thank God for their friends Mikoto and Haiti. It was mostly Haiti that helped Kushina take care of the three children since Mikoto had Sasuke to deal with.

On the eve of the triplets' second birthday was the start of everything that would go wrong.

The first assassination attempt on the triplets; or more like the first one that came close enough. Because there had been attempts before, but all of them had been successfully thwarted before the spy or assassin even had a chance.

Menma and Mito were with Kushina and Haiti who was giving them a bath and that was quite the struggle. Narumi was blessedly not quite as troublesome as her siblings who hated baths with a passion. Narumi; she loved baths; she loved anything that included playing in the water. So Narumi was left alone in her room (with an Anbu guard of course) while her mother and Haiti-nee gave baths to her siblings.

The assassin came in quickly and the Anbu guard was down before he could alert anyone.

Narumi stared at the body of Rabbit on the ground, red spreading beneath him.

"Wabit?" She shook the motionless body and tears clouded her eyes and she called out and shook him again. A shadow fell over and turned to look at the tall slim figure behind her. In the hands of the assassin, a ninjato dripping with blood and Narumi could only stare for a moment.

Before she could open her mouth the assassin grabbed her and her head collided with the wall painfully. Narumi was afraid of the man who hurt her Rabbit but the hand clasped over her mouth gave her no space to even cry out. The assassin raised the ninjato and Narumi stared at him with eyes blurred with tears and then warm blood splashed over her as the assassin's head separated from the rest of his body.

Kushina stood behind him with her sword. She wasted no time in moving Narumi away from the beheaded body but Narumi had already seen it and she screamed and cried and sobbed into her mother's shoulder. She kept telling Kushina to wake Rabbit up and Kushina could only cry as she held her daughter who had seen the first of many deaths that she would witness as a shinobi. But Narumi was only two and she couldn't even comprehend exactly what happened.

Inside Narumi, the Kyuubi stirred when it felt its container's distress.

Kyuubi felt extremely tired when it woke up. It knew instinctively that it no longer had any chakra but the humans were fools if they thought that Kyuubi's soul was powerless. It was only a matter of time before its chakra was fully restored and the day that happens, the Soul Containment Seal that bound it to Narumi would become insufficient and it would be free, so it was content to wait.

For six months Kyuubi watched the outside world through the eyes of its container. It was bored and still tired. It had recovered about half-a-tail worth of chakra already but that was not enough.

It was surprised by the way others treated its container and her siblings who contained its chakra. Although its previous containers had never been mistreated; that was because the knowledge of them being jinchuuriki was kept a secret. It had heard about how the other containers of its siblings were treated. So it had reason to be surprised when even knowing the jinchuuriki status of the three human children; people treated them fairly. There was always an undercurrent of fear and respect every time any human other than family interacted with the children. How very interesting.

Months later, Kyuubi had the chance to meet his container in person.

Kyuubi woke up from its nap to see a curious Narumi peering through the bars of its cage. The brat didn't find anything wrong with entering the cage and looking around with wide red eyes.

The brat didn't seem to know that the 'mountain of fur' just lying there was actually the Kyuubi.

Kyuubi contemplated killing the brat but that wouldn't do it any good so it refrained.

It extended one paw and 'gently' nudged the brat out of the cage. Narumi who had her back to the Kyuubi went tumbling out through the bars of the cage.

"Owie!" Narumi sat up rubbing her head and looked behind her but found no one there. Narumi stubbornly pouted and entered the cage once again unaware of the giant red eyes watching her. The moment Narumi had her back to the supposed 'mountain' Kyuubi repeated what it did earlier.

There goes Narumi, tumbling out the cage.

She sat up glared at the mountain and shouted, "That's it! I am gonna kick your butt 'ttbane. Come out you big meanie!"

She waited for someone to come out but no one did. The Kyuubi watched the entire spectacle with amusement. This was more fun than he had in a while.

"If you're not gonna come out then you're a chicken 'ttbane. Come out so I can kick your butt…" She pouted.

The brat seems very articulate for a three year old.

Narumi once again entered the cage with slow steps throwing glares at ever shadow and pouncing at the walls to catch the 'big meanie'. Kyuubi suppressed the chuckle that threatened to come out of it.

Narumi scratched her head in confusion when she found no one again. That was all the distraction Kyuubi needed and there went Narumi tumbling out the cage, again and again and again.

A few more times of the same trick and Narumi sat down on the grass floor outside the cage pouting. Kyuubi chuckled out loud. That's when Narumi actually looked up the 'mountain' to see red eyes peering at her. Seeing the brat looking at him, the Kyuubi gave a smile showing a row of huge fangs.

"Do you know who I am brat?"

"You have very large teeth!" She said in awe. Kyuubi withheld a sigh, what did it hope to achieve talking to a three year old brat any way?

"And long ears… like a Rabbit! Are you a rabbit? But you look like a puppy?"

Kyuubi growled, "I am the nine-tailed fox you brat!"

"You're a fox? You don't look like one… Why do you have nine tails anyway? That's a lot of tails… Are they fluffy?"

"…"

"Do you have a name? Or can I give you one? Pretty please? Oh, and my name is Narumi Namikaze 'ttbane. Do you know where we are? I think I got lost… But that's okay now we can find a way out together!"

The brat kept on talking and Kyuubi growled. In the end, Kyuubi decided to just ignore the little monkey and go back to sleep. It will try to scare her when she is old enough to understand that giant fangs were something to be afraid of. And its tails were fluffy and it was proud of it but no way was it going to let the monkey touch it.

"Hey, hey! Are you going to sleep, 'ttbane?"

Kyuubi ignored her.

The next day when Narumi regaled her tale of meeting a giant puppy in a cage to a chuckling Kushina, Kyuubi felt like banging its head on the cage. Thank God the brat didn't mention 'fox' or 'nine tails'.

Something stirred in the darkness while no one noticed.

Kyuubi had become a part of Narumi's life these days. Narumi still called Kyuubi a puppy and even though it was annoyed it didn't correct her because Kushina might figure things out if Narumi tells her that the giant 'puppy' was actually a fox. It didn't want the seal master interfering with the seal.

The triplet's third birthday came and the family celebrated together with a few friends in private. Haiti who had become a sister to the triplets' was a constant member of the family now. She took care of the kids when Minato and Kushina were too busy with missions or paperwork. Kushina had started going back on missions a year ago.

Then the parasite opened its eyes for the first time.

Kyuubi felt agitated by the change in the atmosphere. Something was going on and it didn't like it. It had recovered about a tail worth of chakra by now. Outside its cage, the forest darkened. Kyuubi growled and stepped back; fear clawing at its insides.

The parasite looked around where it had landed. It seems to be inside someone's mind. But it was very weak and considering the utter defeat it had experienced earlier at the hands of its enemies, it was a surprise it even survived. The parasite had been strong once. It was a God! Now it was powerless, its enemies had stripped it of its powers and it had barely escaped the dimension with its life. Now it was in a new dimension and seems to be sealed inside someone. It was not a bad situation at all. The person is a child and there seems to be some form of energy running through the child's body; liquid power.

'I have never felt energy like this before! It feels wonderful,' but the moment it tried to feed on the child's energy it got pushed back. It didn't understand and tried again only to get similar results.

The parasite growled; it needed energy, power! It had to get back to its original power so that it could go back and rip its enemies to shreds.

That's when it sensed another presence within the child; one with a darker soul and a poisonous power. The parasite moved towards the direction it felt the power from.

The parasite looked at the cage containing the beast. The beast looked almost like a fox. The parasite used its Fear illusion. It was one of its powers to cause fear so immense that its prey would not be able to stop it from taking the energy it needed. But since it was weak now the illusion was weak as well.

Kyuubi felt a sudden spike in fear and panicked for a moment before shaking off the weak illusion. Kyuubi growled into the shadows of the forest outside its cage.

The parasite growled in frustration and hid behind the trees. Its illusion was too weak and it would not be able to take the energy without distracting the prey or the prey will resist it. Desperate for the energy the parasite tried taking the energy anyway and imagine its surprise when it tried to take Kyuubi's energy and it flowed easily into the parasite.

Kyuubi's eyes widened when its power drained away leaving it drowsy and weak. Due to the seal binding its soul it could not put up any resistance to the parasite.

Kyuubi went back into slumber and the last thing it heard was the maniacal cackle.

Then the nightmares started.

Narumi could not spend one night without screaming awake. Menma and Mito were both worried about their sister. The three of them were very close and always slept together.

Narumi dreamt of blood and death and torture daily. It became so bad that she was afraid to go to sleep.

Kushina and Minato worried that it was the fox but the seal remained strong on Narumi. They did not know what to do.

Weeks of nightmares had Narumi tired and weary.

In the end Haiti suggested a mind walk to find out the root of Narumi's problems. It was a risky move since Narumi was a jinchuuriki and so young, but they had run out of options.

Haiti entered Narumi's mind on the following week.

Narumi's mind now looked like a decaying forest and Haiti shuddered at the damage done. She moved forward when she heard sobbing. As she moved along the forest something brushed past her senses. She looked behind her but found nothing.

In the end Haiti entered an area of the forest that remained untouched by the decay and death. Soon she came upon the cage containing the Kyuubi. The sight of the massive beast instilled fear in her but she was confused. The fox seemed very inactive, as in its mind was quite like it was in a deep sleep. But if the fox wasn't responsible for Narumi's condition then who was?

Something moved inside the cage and Haiti stiffened. But as she peered closer she could see the tiny form of Narumi curled up against the sleeping fox. Haiti froze in fear.

"Narumi!" Haiti called gaining the child's attention. Haiti risked a glance at the fox to see if it woke up but the Kyuubi remained still.

Narumi looked up at the voice of her nee-san and saw Haiti standing outside the cage.

"Haiti-nee…" Narumi called pathetically through tears.

Haiti crouched down and spoke urgently, "Naru-chan, please come out of the cage, it's not safe in there."

Narumi shook her head, "No Haiti-nee. This is the only place safe…" She whimpered, "You have to come in here now Haiti-nee!"

"What are you saying Naru-chan?" Haiti extended her hand inside the cage to the child; she cautiously kept an eye on the towering form of the Kitsune.

"There's a monster out there!" Narumi took hold of Haiti's hand intent on pulling her inside the cage.

"What monster?" Haiti asked confused, the Kyuubi is in there…

"Me"

Haiti's hand slipped out of Narumi's hand and Haiti found herself grabbed from behind and thrown against the forest behind her.

"Haiti-nee!" Narumi stumbled and fell forward. She saw the monstrous figure dragging her nee-san into the forest and sobbed.

She crawled back towards Kyuubi and gripped its fur and pulled, "Wake up! Wake up… Please… I'm scared…" She whimpered curling up against the Kyuubi. Narumi's chakra flowed into Kyuubi and the biju once again woke up from its slumber.

It looked around in surprise and saw the little monkey curled up against its fur. The indignation it felt was quickly replaced by surprise and gratitude when it found out that it was Narumi's chakra that was keeping the Kitsune from slipping back into slumber. One fluffy tail curled up protectively around the child and Narumi opened her eyes to look at the Kitsune in surprise.

"You're awa-"

She was cut off by a blood-curdling scream and Narumi whimpered; "Haiti-nee… There's a monster out there and it got Haiti-nee… We have to save her…"

"Kit," the Kitsune started softly, "Listen carefully to what I say…"

Haiti stared at the monster in fear. This was not the Kyuubi… It was something else entirely and she was terrified of it. Fear gripped her like a vice and panic clouded her mind. The parasite stared at its new prey gleefully and tried to absorb her energy. It was surprised once again when it found that it could not absorb the energy at all. It growled. It had got a significant amount of energy from the fox, not even close to its original power but a satisfactory amount none the less. So it increased the power of its illusion.

Haiti's mind was collapsing in on itself from the pressure of the illusion. But she was a Yamanaka and she persevered. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew that she could get away from this but that thought was lost in her panic.

"Tell me human… Tell me all about this world of yours…" The parasite growled at her.

Haiti began speaking.

In the end the parasite figured out all about this strange new world where everyone had chakra running through their bodies. It found out about the biju and the one that was sealed into its host. The parasite wondered whether its absorption powers only worked on bijus…

The parasite looked down at Haiti whose eyes had become a blank white in colour.

It grinned, "I have work for you…"

The Haiti who woke up after the mind walk was not the one that the Namikaze family loved.

She informed Kushina and Minato that the Kyuubi was responsible for Narumi's condition. The Kyuubi was projecting its memories into the young girl's mind.

Kushina and Minato felt panic at the thought of their beloved daughter being under the influence of the Kyuubi. So they added another seal; The Divine Protection Seal to Narumi cutting of the Kyuubi from the outside world as well as stopping any influence but Haiti said that the damage was done. That Narumi will continue to have nightmares.

Kushina cried as she held her daughter that night.

No one noticed Haiti's eyes turn a blank white once in a while.

The parasite grew frustrated when it found out that the Kitsune had instructed Narumi on how to form mental barriers. And likely the fox also told Narumi about its illusion of fear so it would not work on her anymore.

When the parasite entered this world it had no body. Even now it existed as a soul without any solid form. It needed a body and if the information given by Haiti was correct its current host would make a perfect body to take over. The Uzumaki vitality was precious, not to mention the fact once it possessed a human body it can travel around finding all the other 'jinchuuriki' and absorbing the biju chakra; including its host's siblings. That was not possible with Narumi being protected inside the mental barriers.

The illusion woven by the parasite was both powerful and weak. It was powerful that it can influence even the strongest into feeling mind numbing fear but it was weak in the sense that it could be easily broken if one could think past the fear. Usually, a good distraction would be enough to render its illusion useless and hence it was completely useless against those who know about the illusion. The parasite usually would absorb the energy by the time its prey would discover that they were under an illusion. But now Narumi was out of its clutches due to the fox.

The parasite thought and planned while Narumi's life slowly went downhill.

Narumi pleaded to her parents that the monster haunting her was not the Kyuubi. She pleaded that it had captured Haiti-nee.

Kushina and Minato could only look at their youngest child with grief because she was being driven mad by the Kyuubi. Haiti was there to comfort them at every moment.

Minato blamed himself for sealing the soul in his daughter and could no longer face his daughter. Kushina crumbled under the grief that even being an Uzumaki Seal master she was unable to help her daughter.

The parasite wanted to take over Narumi's body but for that it had to break Narumi's will. How was that possible when Narumi's mind was safe inside the fox's cage? It was simple. Destroy her from the outside world.

It destroyed her family first and it was easy with Haiti out there to do its bidding.

Menma and Mito who used to sleep with Narumi became plagued with nightmares of their sister murdering them in the most gruesome of ways. This was done using well-placed genjutsus and Yamanaka jutsu by Haiti, no one figured it out. Menma and Mito persevered for a week but after that they began fearing their sister.

Haiti made sure they overheard a particular conversation between her and Kushina. Menma and Mito heard about Narumi being under the fox's influence and their fear grew until they refused to even interact with Narumi.

Narumi was quickly heart-broken. Kushina and Minato tried their best to convince Menma and Mito to treat Narumi with love but things only got worse to the point that Menma and Mito were afraid to even eat with Narumi. It wasn't that they didn't love Narumi but they were just children and they were scared. Haiti helped pour fuel to the building fire.

Narumi was moved to the room in the attic since Menma and Mito were too afraid of her.

Minato and Kushina tried to make up for the actions of Menma and Mito by burying Narumi in gifts and toys and all they could give. But Haiti kept reminding them that their daughter was still under the influence of the Kyuubi.

Their family slowly fell apart despite Kushina and Minato's hard work. It became tradition that Narumi always ate dinner in her room with Kushina or Minato while the other parent ate with Menma and Mito in the dining room.

The triplets no longer studied together so Minato took over teaching Narumi while Kushina helped Menma and Mito.

Minato and Kushina were being torn apart by their children still they tried their best to be there for all three of their children.

Whenever Minato and Kushina somehow convince Menma and Mito to spend time with Narumi, Haiti would use a well-placed intervention.

The parasite grinned as Narumi's mind slowly succumbed to the psychological torture it was being put through. Her beloved siblings could no longer even look at her without flinching and her parents' smiles became strained each day. Her daily life became tinged with regret and sadness.

But it wasn't enough for the parasite. Because no matter who all stepped back from Narumi, the girl still had Kyuubi. During all this time Narumi had became closer with the Kyuubi who had finally caved to its instincts and took in the kit as its own.

So the parasite decided it was time to up the ante.

It changed Narumi's aura so that anyone who comes near her was plagued by either fear of her or hatred. It had absorbed enough chakra from the fox to be able to use its illusion and influence the outside world as well. The aura wasn't very strong but it had a cumulative effect.

Narumi's parent who she spends most of her time with were the second ones affected. The first ones affected were Narumi's Anbu guards. It was a miracle that they hadn't attacked Narumi, but it soon became clear that they wouldn't lift a finger if Narumi was attacked by someone else.

Kushina and Minato could no longer spend any time with their daughter without being affected by her aura. Kushina cried to Haiti one day that she could no longer stand to be in Narumi's presence without feeling the need to hurt Narumi.

Haiti held the sobbing woman and told her that she will take care of Narumi from now on since for some reason Haiti alone didn't get affected by this aura.

By Narumi's fourth birthday her only human contact had became Haiti, just as the parasite planned.

Kushina began taking longer and longer missions because of her guilt and Minato began drowning himself in paperwork. Whenever the both of them got any time they worked on seals after seals to come up with something that could help Narumi. Nothing worked.

No one was there to notice how Haiti abused Narumi except the Anbu guards who didn't care. But Narumi remained strong; barely.

Next, the parasite destroyed her life outside her home.

The people of Konoha had accepted the fact that the three children of their Hokage were jinchuuriki. They no longer lingered on their fear of what lay inside the children. Also, Minato has been careful to keep the fact that Narumi contained the Kyuubi's soul a secret. All it took was a few well placed rumors by Haiti for that to change.

Minato only found out a few days too late that somehow the villagers had found out that Narumi was the holder of the Kyuubi's soul. This wouldn't have caused many problems but there was another rumor that Narumi was under the Kyuubi's influence and was manipulating the Hokage and the rest of his family. Minato upped Narumi's protection details but it didn't take long for the anbu to be influenced by Narumi's poisonous aura.

The glares and whispers began two months after Narumi's fourth birthday.

Each day spend living in a world that hated her was crumbling Narumi's will.

Inside her the parasite laughed.

The beatings began two months later. Everything was planned out perfectly. Haiti always made sure that there were no evidences of the beatings.

When Narumi finally crumbled and told her parents about the beatings, Haiti convinced them that it was the fox playing tricks with Narumi's mind. Kushina and Minato never outright told Narumi that they didn't believe her, but Narumi could see it in their eyes.

Narumi concluded that her parents hated her by the way they tried so hard to avoid her but the truth was far from it.

It was torture for them to watch what was becoming of their daughter due to the 'fox'. It was painful for them stand near and feel nothing but fear and hate. It was painful for them and they avoided her thinking it was for the better.

A week after the fifth birthday of the triplets, Narumi was on the verge of losing herself.

Haiti told Minato and Kushina that they needed a vacation. Narumi's aura was causing an immense strain on their mind trying to resist it and they needed space away from Narumi. Minato and Kushina were vehemently against it, but then Haiti said that if they get some distance it might improve Menma and Mito's attitude towards Narumi. Times spend away from Narumi's aura might help them rediscover their love for Narumi… That was what convinced them in the end; a chance that maybe things could be alright again.

The day the rest of the family left on the vacation, Haiti spoke to Narumi with on how her parents no longer needed her.

Then came the day Naruto found her getting beaten by the crowd.

This whole chapter is about Narumi's past. And you can see that although Narumi was neglected by her family it wasn't really their fault. And if you have any confusions about Haiti; she does love Narumi but after the mind walk she was under the control of the parasite and her actions were under its orders. Even the people who attacked Narumi were under the parasite's influence. Naruto will fix things but a lot of damage has been done already. Also, Menma and Mito don't hate Narumi as well but they are very afraid. It is an extreme version of what happens between Gaara and his siblings. And also the thing about Minato's mother having red eyes, I just made that up. Let's assume that Minato's mother had red eyes.

I want to know your opinion on what happens to Haiti. Should I have Naruto fix her or should she die?

I am also wondering on how Narumi would react to her parents since she believes they hate her and ignore her on purpose. Should she understand or should she be angry at them? I am leaning on a bit of both but tell me what you think.

What do you think Narumi's Kyuubi's gender should be? Keep in mind that even if Narumi's Kyuubi is female there would be no pairing with Naruto since he already has his own Kyuubi.

I wanted something different from the usual arrogant siblings and ignorant parents' trope (since I already have a fanfic like that) and I got this. So tell me what you think…

I really apologize for keeping you waiting like this but I need to concentrate on my studies more so I am really busy and there is also the fact that I don't have a personal laptop at my hostel and writing fanfics on laptops provided there is not really appreciated by the teachers so yeah… I can't really do anything unless I am home and that only happens like once or twice a month. I hope you understand.