Rise of the Byakugan Jinchūriki!

Summary: What if Naruto was born into the Hyūga clan and therefore had both the Byakugan AND the Kyūbi?

(A/N: Hey all, Leonineus here! This is the non-HP fic I mentioned in the TCML A/N. I just want to say, if I get a Japanese honorific wrong, which I probably will end up doing, can people please enlighten me as to what the mistake is, where it is and what it actually should be. Irritatingly, I can find nowhere on the Internet which gives me a satisfactory or even easy to understand explanation of honorifics. As such, I'm bound to get them wrong often until I learn the correct ones. Oh and sorry if the accents and whatever don't show up properly for anyone, it's just that the double u's in words like "Hyūga" and "Kyūbi" REALLY bug me. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new story, and I must ask that you read the two A/Ns at the end, because one poses an important question and the other explains some of the things in this chapter. Peace out folks, I'll see you at the end of the chapter!)

I am Naruto Hyūga, jinchūriki of the Kyūbi no Kitsune and the heir to the Hyūga clan. My sisters Hinata and Hanabi and cousin Neji are my best friends in the world, even while the rest of the Village Hidden in the Leaves curses me for being the nine-tailed fox's vessel. My greatest ambition is to prove to the rest of the village that being the Kyūbi's jinchūriki does not make me a bad person and to become the Hokage. This is the story of how I achieved that dream.

Introduction

"Push!"

"YOU push!"

"Push! We're almost there! Just a little more effort and we'll be fine!"

"ANBU, how are you doing on that seal?"

"Fine. Are we going to seal the Nine-Tailed Fox inside the child after this?"

"Yes. We are going to have to. I mean, Lady Hyūga's seal is weakening because she's in childbirth. We'll have to move the Kyūbi over to the child afterwards."

"Right."

Silence reigned for a few minutes, punctuated by the occasional yelp from Hitomi Hyūga or cry of "Push!" from the midwife, until finally the air was rent by a deafening wail.

"Well, well. Listen to that; a nice, healthy set of lungs. It's… a boy! Congra- hang on there's another one coming out! You have twins, Lady Hyūga!"

"Yeah, tell me something I don't already fucking KNOW!"

Hiashi Hyūga chose that moment to enter the room. He took his son from the midwife as she turned her attention to the second child. A few seconds later, a second scream split the air as the second child emerged completely. Hitomi sighed with relief as the midwife held the child up and said, "It's a girl!"

Hiashi moved to his wife's side as the midwife handed her their daughter.

"What shall we name them?" asked Hitomi.

Hiashi smiled, "Let's name the girl Hinata."

"And the boy?" asked Hitomi.

Hiashi smiled, holding up his firstborn with a chuckle, "We will call him Naruto!"

Chapter One: Eleven Years Later

"Naruto-kun!"

Naruto turned around to see his sisters and cousin running towards him. "Hey, Hinata-chan, Hanabi-chan, Neji-san!"

Naruto looked a lot like his twin sister, except that where her seemingly pupil-less eyes were lavender, his were a deep cerulean. His dark blue hair stood up in all directions, and he had three whisker-like birthmarks on each cheek. Tied around his forehead was an orange bandana to keep the blue bangs it so magnificently clashed with out of his eyes. Despite this attempt at controlling his hair, it didn't exactly work; the bangs just flopped over the bandana, leading to an odd tiger-stripe effect across his forehead in alternating bands of orange and blue.

"So, cousin, how's your Byakugan coming along?" Neji asked Naruto with a grin, as Naruto embraced his seven-year-old sister.

Naruto chuckled at Neji as the grey-eyed cousin watched him, "Always the shinobi, aren't you Neji-san?"

Neji laughed, "You're still younger than me, cousin. Don't get uppity."

Naruto scowled at him, "By a year! It's not that much of a difference!"

Neji smirked, flicking his cousin on the forehead with one finger in a gesture eerily reminiscent of Itachi Uchiha's action to his brother Sasuke, though none of them knew that. Naruto grabbed said finger and gave it a gentle twist. Neji smirked, "Oh it is on now!" Hinata and Hanabi sighed and rolled their eyes as Naruto and Neji launched into a quick sparring match. They were quite evenly matched, despite Neji having more experience because he was older. Naruto, however, had an asset that even Neji couldn't beat: the Nine-Tailed Fox. His father Hiashi had told him about his being the jinchūriki as soon as he was old enough to understand what he was telling him.

Hinata and Hinabi sat cross-legged on the veranda as Neji and Naruto sparred. A few seconds later, both moved from fists onto kunai. Hiashi and Hitomi both appeared behind the girls accompanied by Hiashi's twin brother and Neji's father Hizashi. "…and how long have they been fighting this time?" queried Hiashi wearily.

"About five minutes so far," murmured Hinata, not taking her eyes off her brother and cousin, "I don't know how much longer it'll go on before one of them beats the other."

Hizashi chuckled, "Ahhh… how cute, they're scrapping like the children they are. Admittedly, they should be a little better behaved, being members of the Hyūga clan, but…" He trailed off as Neji finally dealt Naruto a painful snap-kick to the chin and sent him crashing into a tree trunk.

"Owwwww…" moaned Naruto as he struggled out of the crater in the tree. He turned when he heard laughter.

"Nice try, Naruto…" said Hizashi with a broad grin, "…but you'll have to get better before you can beat my son!"

Naruto grinned somewhat frighteningly, "Oh really? Well I'll just have to get better!"

Neji smiled at his cousin, "I'd like to be there the day you become more powerful than me. But isn't today the day that we graduate from the Academy and get assigned to our squads? Hopefully we'll get assigned together! We'd be amazing, the Hyūga Trio, we'd be unstoppable as shinobi!"

"A little ambitious, aren't you Neji-san?" quipped Naruto, darting forwards and flicking his cousin on the forehead.

"Ok, that is it!" shouted Neji, jumping on his cousin and wrestling him to the ground.

"Naruto-kun, Neji-kun, we haven't got time to fight! We have to get to the Academy for our graduation!" Hinata cried.

Naruto shoved Neji off him and leapt to his feet. Neji staggered upright, laughing. They quickly sprinted out of the Hyūga compound and across town to the Academy, where they slipped into their classroom at speed and lined up. "Nice to know you have finally turned up, Naruto, Hinata, Neji."

"Sorry, Iruka-sensei!" said Naruto, rubbing a hand sheepishly over the back of his head as they ran, "My fault, I got carried away in sparring practice back at home and lost track of time. Slowed everybody down, it won't happen again."

Iruka smiled; he'd always liked Naruto, "It's ok Naruto, just please try and be on time in future."

"Will do, Iruka-sensei!"

Iruka smiled slightly before he unfurled a scroll and said, "Ok, first up, Shino Aburame. You need to successfully turn into me with a Transformation Jutsu to graduate."

Shino nodded, easily performing the task before stepping backwards.

"Next, Chōji Akimichi!"

Chōji also easily completed it. And on it went.

Sakura Haruno, a pink-haired girl with a slightly nasal voice, performed the Jutsu with an ease that made Naruto frown; she seemed to be trying to show off.

Hinata was next; she smiled reassuringly at her twin as she stepped forwards, performed the jutsu and stepped back into line. Naruto stepped forwards, concentrated, and then experienced a moment of panic. As a result, he overcompensated and somehow managed to not only turn into Iruka-sensei, but fill the entire room with identical copies of him. Iruka stared around for a moment, before experimentally punching one of the clones. The clone winced slightly before he vanished in a puff of smoke.

Iruka turned on Naruto after Naruto embarrassedly dispelled the clones, "Naruto, how the hell did you learn perfect Shadow Clone Technique?"

Naruto stared at him, while everybody stared at Naruto, "I… I don't know… I accidentally panicked and overcompensated, and I guess that caused the jutsu to occur."

Iruka stared at him for a moment, before shaking his head in exasperation, "You know what, I used to think it was impossible to learn a jutsu completely by accident, but I've since learnt that where you're concerned, anything can happen." Most of the class, particularly the other two Hyūga in the room, laughed at that. Naruto nodded graciously, gave an exaggerated court bow and stepped back into line. Neji was next. In an attempt to outdo Naruto, he tried to combine a Transformation Jutsu with a genjutsu to turn everybody else into copies of Iruka-sensei as well. This doesn't exactly work out right; there was a massive blast of chakra and then Neji was lying on the floor in a singed and smoking heap, his eyes crossed and his tongue hanging out.

Naruto bent over his cousin with a mischievous grin as Neji tried to make his eyes focus, "You know, Neji? That wasn't exactly the smartest plan. I think my chakra reserves are better than yours."

Neji rolled over onto his back and scowled at his cousin with his eyes still crossed. "Shove it, Naruto. You may have better chakra but I have better control!"

Naruto smirked, "You may have better control, but I am infinitely cooler."

Neji grumbled as Hinata helped him up, "We'll see about that, cousin!"

Iruka smirked, "Ok kiddies, break it up. Next up, Kiba Inuzuka!"

As Naruto, Neji and Hinata walked out of the Academy later on that day wearing their new headbands proudly, they were greeted by their parents. Naruto hugged his mother as the three new genin reached their parents, "We graduated, okaa-san! Can we go get some ramen?"

Hiashi laughed, ruffling his son's already-messy hair, "You and your ramen craze."

Naruto scowled, flipping his fringe over his headband to keep it out of his eyes, "Not my fault Ichiraku Ramen is so delicious!"

Hitomi smiled fondly at her son, "Well as you guys have graduated, you deserve a reward. Let's all go to Ichiraku's, I assume my husband will pay?" This last was addressed to Hiashi, who gave her a beleaguered look that made everybody laugh. Naruto gave Neji a gentle punch on the shoulder, smirking, "You do know I'm not going to let you forget that you managed to blow yourself up, right?"

Hizashi frowned, stepping forwards as he stared at his son and nephew, "What's this?"

Naruto grinned, laughing at Neji's expression as he turned to his uncle, "I accidentally managed to use a perfect Shadow Clone Jutsu when I did my Transformation Jutsu, so Neji decided to try going one better. He tried to combine his Transformation Jutsu with a genjutsu to make everybody look like Iruka-sensei as well. Unfortunately he just lost control of his chakra and exploded." He gave Neji a little punch on the shoulder.

Neji scowled, "Snitch!"

Hizashi sighed, "Neji, how many times have I told you? Naruto-san is a natural prodigy because of his enormous chakra reserves, trying to surpass him will just get you hurt. You know that but you still keep trying to pass him."

Neji had the good grace to look ashamed, "Ok, otou-san, I'm sorry. I won't do it again."

Hizashi nodded, before rounding on his nephew, "And you, Naruto, don't encourage him to try, alright?"

Naruto snapped to attention and saluted, though his eyes were still sparkling with mischief, "Ok, oji-san, will do!"

Meanwhile, outside town, a dark figure was walking towards the gates. At his side walked a small panther cub, and he wore a heavy pack on his back. There was a sheathed kodachi slung across his back with the hilt protruding over his shoulder, a tantō knife in a horizontal sheath mounted on the back of his belt, and a long chain looped around his arm. Strapped to his wrist was a small harness holding a kusarigama attached to the end of the chain. Tears were coursing down his face. The two chūnin at the gate, Kotetsu Hagane and Izuno Kamizuki, intercepted him as he took a step over the threshold, "Hold it. State your purpose in coming into the Village Hidden in the Leaves."

The small figure looked up, and a pair of sea-green eyes shone from beneath the hood, "My name is Shizukashi, I come from Kagegakure, the Village Hidden in the Shadows, seeking shelter. My home is destroyed, and I have nowhere to go. If I can, I would like to see the Hokage."

Kotetsu glanced at Izuno, before crouching and saying, "I'm afraid I can't grant you an audience with the Hokage just like that, we need a specific reason to do that."

Shizukashi did not respond; he simply gripped the hem of his shirt and raised it, revealing a strange mark on his chest. The two chūnin stared at him, then at each other, for a full minute before nodding and beckoning to him to follow them.

As Shizukashi followed the two chūnin into the village, he noticed a family of eight walking along the road in his direction. Six had the same eyes, almost blank except for a little colour. Two of the four children, both boys, were laughing and joking. The other two, a girl who looked to be the twin of one of the boys and another girl who looked to be her little sister, watched them fondly as they chatted. The two boys and the older girl all wore identical hitai-ate with a spiral leaf on them. Shizukashi fiddled with his own headband slightly, straightening it and moving a couple of his bangs out of the way so that the emblem of the Kagegakure, a crescent moon encompassing a hexagram, showed prominently. He gently touched Izuno's sleeve. When the man looked down he nodded towards the family, "Who are they?"

The chūnin glanced across at them for a moment before saying, "They are the Hyūga clan, one of the most prominent clans of the Leaf Village. The Uchiha clan used to be close to them in fame, but then disaster struck and now there are only two left."

Shizukashi nodded, regarding the family curiously. The taller boy seemed different to him, familiar; and in his gut, he felt the beast within stir.

Naruto Hyūga was just laughing at a joke Neji had just told when he spotted two chūnin escorting a small figure along the street ahead. Though Naruto could not specify the reason why, the fox within seemed to wake, sniffing the air. In the deepest recesses of Naruto's mind, he heard it say two words in its deep, rumbling voice, "Oni Kurohyoo…"

(First A/N: Do you think I should put the three Hyūga children on one team or on different teams as per canon? Either way I've worked out who I want to pair with who, it'll just mean I have to come up with different ideas for how I want to set things out. There will be a poll on my page to vote between same team and different teams.)

(Second A/N: Hey guys, I'm moving into a different genre than Harry Potter for once! Now, I know that as the lady of a house like Hyūga, Hinata's mother would not swear at people, but as my mother is a midwife I know that women giving birth can make angry longshoremen with Tourette's Syndrome appear prim and proper by comparison. Also, as we never find out Hinata's mother's name, I dubbed her "Hitomi". It's somewhat appropriate considering Hitomi means "beautiful eyes" in Japanese. Also, certain differences will arise. Neji will not be the ice-blooded jerk he is in canon, and Hinata will not have her crush on Naruto (obviously). Naruto himself will be more grown-up and mature, and definitely a bit more handsome. I'm afraid I have to lose his lovable blond hair, but the overall style is still there. It's just deep blue instead of blond now. I appreciate that the image may be a little difficult to imagine, but trying to explain how a son born to two dark-haired parents has very bright hair would be a complete nightmare. Anyway, sorry this is such a long A/N, but I had a lot to say, and unfortunately there is even more to say, but I'll leave that until the start of the next chapter. Adios!)