Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the material relating to Pokégirls.
A/N: All right. I'm known for coming up with some interesting crossovers and even more interesting twists…well, here's another one and probably my most bizarre one yet…but by no means my last one. Let the madness begin…in a whole new way.
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Chapter 1
They say the earth will hold its breath just before a great change is about to occur. Depending on how long that breath is hold will determine how great the change will be. It held its breath for a day when a creature of impure natural energy formed and wreaked havoc to all that fell in its path. It once again held its breath for an hour during the birth of one human boy, who would later come to tame the great monster that scarred the world with every movement it made, and then when that man created a whole new way of life for all of mankind.
The earth was slowly drawing in a deep breath which would last a week, as something began to become unburied from deep within its depth, something that should have remained buried…
A group of men, all wearing a plated headband, with a symbol of a musical note engraved on it were finishing unearthing a cavern. All of them were digging away at the rocks to make a bigger opening. Two men stood back and watched their progress. One of them was a tall, pale thin man with serpentine-like eyes while the other had pre-mature aged grey hair, a contract to his boyish youth and round spectacles.
The tall one was the leader, smiling in satisfaction at the quick progress, but he wouldn't have it any other way. If any of these men had been slow at all…well, they would have been 'removed' and replaced with more competent ones. He would not tolerate anything less in any of his goals. As it was, he already planned to reward these men by letting them live…and possibly be used for experiments with a higher percentage of survivability. He had been eager for this moment since another discovery he made during his exodus from his old home village, a place he still held much ire toward for personal reasons. They could not understand his genius, his raw, born talent. He willingly deserted his own home…but only after some uncontrollable events had forced his hand. As it stood, it was for the better that he fled. Now he was a power of his own, a ruler of his own village and master of his own private army, but that was trivial compared to his true goal, one he had held since he began his career as a shinobi.
Now with each rock removed from his path, that goal was closer to being accomplished. With a simple gesture with a hand, his second-in-command, the spectacle-wearing youth, quickly handed him a file that he had personally translated from a very old dialect of the current language being used today. It was one of many that he discovered from an abandoned lab that he accidentally came across in his journeys. As it so happened, that lab he found would turn into the first of many secret bases that he had established when he began to create his own village, Otogakure: The Village Hidden in Sound.
The unexpected information he had learned proved wonders beyond anything he previously imagined were possible. Ideas that he knew were way beyond anyone's time, save for one man: Jim Sukotto Sukebe. It was a strange name for an even stranger man. He was what the great Rikudo Sennin had been, a visionary. But unlike the Sage of Six Paths: this man, although as amazing in skill and genius, was also very unstable and warped. His idealism was based surprisingly similar to the Oto leader's own, a man of science and unlimited thinking, but that was the only thing they had in common. This man, for all his power and amazing knowledge was as flawed and reckless as they came. For one, he had used his scientific knowledge and a form of mysticism to actually create his own breed of slaves to use as his personal army. A fantastic idea…only all these mentioned slaves were female.
The man was a complete and utter pervert!
His army were beings of genetically-engineer women of bizarre combinations, but were originally designed for personal 'pleasure'. That is until, like the Oto leader, his experiments were discovered and scorned for the lack of respect toward fellow human-beings. They belittled and made him out to be a madman after his secret was revealed, even though he had every great intension of sharing his work with the entire world. It was too much for him to take. So he turned his goal to revenge and used his creations to become his soldiers to fight the entire world.
That didn't interest the Oto Leader, though. What he was concerned with was the method of how he created these female beings. From some of the notes he managed to find undisturbed, he learned quickly that some of the beings he engineered had amazing regenerative abilities and powers that made them almost god-like: Immortal!
That was his aim, true immortality. If what he suspected was waiting for him in the cavern he knew to be another of the hidden laboratory of Sukebe, then he may find the lost knowledge he desperately desired.
"Hurry, you weaklings! I must get inside!" shouted the Oto leader.
One man, continuing in his labor, shouted back to him, doubling his efforts to please his master and leader: "Hai, Orochimaru-sama!"
Orochimaru watched with mild respect when the same man started beating his fellow comrades, pushing them to move faster and coordinated them to focus on the larger boulders instead of steadily removing all the smaller ones around them, allowing the large ones to roll easily out of the way. Same man, being as impatient as his leader to finish the job, finally yelled at all the men to move, his hands becoming a blur of motion as he performed hand-signs that would allow him to use a power only those of shinobi training could know how to accomplish. This power was called chakra, a source of energy discovered and mastered by the Sage of Six Paths, the Father of Shinobi.
The man didn't slow in his process as the men realized they needed to move. He continued on and finished, even when three of his comrades were still trying to move out of his way. He brought two fingers to his lips and took in a deep breath and when he exhaled, a great ball of fire was formed from his breath and flew straight and true at its target; surprisingly accurate at the base of the opening. The giant fireball blew away the rubble or melted down the rocks and reduced the few men that did not move in time to nothing but ashes.
The result, though, was more than to Orochimaru's delight. The entrance was perfectly cleared and the molten rock was quickly cooling due to the somewhat cold-moist air. The snake-like leader of Oto turned to his second-in-command.
"Kabuto…make that man an active jonin and keep him in the favored listings. Talent like his cannot be wasted," Orochimaru said.
The spectacle-wearing youth nodded, "Hai, Orochimaru-sama."
"Otokage!" shouted one of the men, almost dreading that he called out when his leader narrowed his yellowish, slitted eyes in his direction in irritation. "T-There is something moving inside!" He instantly started to back away when the movement inside the cavern moved at an impressive speed. "Look out, it's—argh!"
His warning came too late when a monstrous hand reached out from the darkness and grabbed his entire head. There was only a brief moment to see the hand had only three digits, ending with long talons. There was even a spray of blood from where the talons dug into the man's skull before his entire body was yanked into the cavern. His muffled screams ended quickly after a sloppy, wet sound emitted, and soon what sounded like crunching bones and flesh followed.
"A monster!?" one of the men cried, backing away and looking ready to bolt, as did most of the other men.
The only reason they did not was they knew the outcome of showing cowardliness now: death… and by the hands of their own Otokage. He would not tolerate cowardness in any form, no matter the situation from any of his subordinates; having given enough examples with the terrifying methods he used to kill the ones that had lost their courage and were stupid enough to not run away for their lives afterwards. What also kept them from running for their lives was that Orochimaru did not look the least bit afraid, if anything, he was smiling like a fiend at the wet, gory noise echoing around them.
"So the creature's supposed immortality is true!" he said to himself, looking more gleeful by the minute.
"You know what that is?!" Kabuto uttered, feeling as worried as the men, but fighting with all his will to keep a composed exterior next to his master.
"Ah, yes…I do, in fact," Orochimaru replied, slowly taking a step back as the darkness in the cavern started to shift again. "It's something that hasn't been seen on this earth in some time…something very exquisite!"
"…W-What is it then?" Kabuto wondered, careful not to sound too demanding toward his merciless leader.
"Kukukuku! To you it will sound very silly, but in that creature's time, the term for her kind was both feared and awed," Orochimaru replied, extending out a hand quickly and snatching one of his unsuspecting men, who barely had time to realize what was about to happen, until he was flung head first at the darkness, where he was snatched up by the same type of hands that had gotten his comrade, and then soon died the same way as the sound of crunching gore echoed again. "She is what the old world called…A Pokégirl!"
"…Say what?" Kabuto replied, not sure if he should laugh or worry at the ridiculous title he just heard.
His master laughed with no shame. "I was just as skeptical, too, when I first heard that word, but it's what that thing and her kind were all called. I cannot deny that."
"Why was such a monster called something so…if you'll excuse the crude use of wording…so lame?" Kabuto asked, keeping an eye on the moving darkness as whatever it was munched on one of the victims Orochimaru had willingly provided it.
"This was back far beyond the time of the Elemental Nations, in a time when the world was re-created by creatures like this one here," Orochimaru answered. "The people in that era had learned to deal with these things, containing them with technology we lost over time. These devices could literally hold these Pokegirls and allow the capturer to carry them on their person wherever they went!"
"…So Poke is short term for pocket?" Kabuto deduced. "…Pocket Girls?"
"That's the basis…but oh, there is so much more to them!" Orochimaru said, licking his wickedly long tongue. "There were some that were so powerful they were considered goddesses among the human and other Pokegirls like them! This is one of those said Pokegirls…a Legendary by rank."
"This thing?!" Kabuto said in disbelief.
"...The Pale male is correct," came a surprisingly intelligent and angelic-like voice.
What he expected to match the horrifying claw that had snagged two of their men, did not in fact match the woman that stepped out of the cavern and entered the light. The first thing all of them noted was that she wore no clothing, nor from her features appear to need them. Her body was covered with pale white fur, nearly so fine as to act like a second skin, leaving her curved body completely exposed to them. She gazed at them with red compound-like eyes, shifting them quickly from one man to the other, folding the two sets of slender chitinous plated armor-like arms under her impressive breasts, looking solidly like D-cups, and very firm. Behind her was a set of moth-like wings nearly as colorfully decorated like those of a butterfly. She used these wings to wrap around her nude body, making an elegant cape-like gown around her as she continued into the tunnel they were occupying. Like her fur, she opposed pale-white hair that fell gracefully over her shoulders, giving her insectile face a very beautiful frame.
"Ah…Cocooner, I believe your name is, correct? I am honored that you have revealed your Queen-form to me," Orochimaru said, surprising everyone as he bowed respectfully to the abnormally pale woman.
"More so…as I haven't chosen to devour you…at least not for the time being," the creature proclaimed as Cocooner stated stiffly.
"All the more to be humbled in your presence," Orochimaru said, bowing even deeper.
"I must thank you for providing me with material so that I could assimilate enough genetic material to wane my feral state…and to update me to the current time of this world," Cocooner said simply, even though her eyes were staring at them all with a hungry gleam.
"I shall do more for you…if you are willing to hear me out?" Orochimaru offered, signaling silently for Kabuto to slowly back away. Out of all his servants, he relied too much on that particular youth to waste losing him by some accident. All the men present, even the one he just promoted, were better suited to be meat-shields to strive off the Pokégirl's hunger should she chose to 'fed' again.
His subordinate eagerly backed away from the frightening woman, taking a position that would still allow him to aid his master, but also keep the men between him and 'it'.
"I shall hear you out…but know that if I do not find what you have to say satisfactory, I will devour you and everyone here. Understood?" Cocooner stated in a cold, detached manner.
"Once more you honor me," Orochimaru chuckled. "Please, allow me to welcome you to the new world. I must warn you that you are probably the only surviving member of your kind…much has changed since you were last…active upon it."
"The data from those two lackeys of yours is quickly being processed into my own, updating me to this worlds current history. Although, they both were very poor subjects and knew very little…but I will correct this shortly…providing I'm displeased with this conversation," Cocooner revealed, tapping her near human-like feet impatiently on the stony ground.
"Then I shall cut to the chase. I am a chaser of knowledge, a scientist by your definition, but I seek to be more! This world has lost many of its old technology as you already know from those buffoons had already alerted you. I wish to gain what was lost! I have the skills and the resources, but I lack the needed information to complete some of my more sensitive research," Orochimaru explained, giving her his trademark gleaming gaze. "I wish to learn what Sukebe knew and recreate what he did…and in return, I can provide you with all the material you could ever want, and if not right away, I have means of obtaining whatever you desire quickly."
The tall albino Pokégirl hummed softly in thought. "Do you think you can hope to understand even a fraction of what Sukebe knew? I have met many foolish human males that believed they could do this…and all of them I have assimilated into my genetic stockpile."
"I can indeed! Because I can offer you what those men could not! Fresh material that has been altered after years and years!" Orochimaru said, not liking he had to play his only trump card, but his instincts were warning him that he was on very thin ice with this creature. He had no doubts he could handle her if it came down to a fight, but it would be easier to have her cooperate with him first.
He guessed right as the first sign of emotion played across her inhuman face: interest. "You are referring to what your world call…Kekkei Genkai, correct?"
"Yes! I see you learn extremely fast from even that little bit of consumption," Orochimaru said with glee. "That is exactly what I'm referring to. There have been many mutations since your kind disappeared from this world. Humanity has adapted and changed and with it…its DNA. I can provide you with wondrous material from all the Kekkei Genkai caring humans…if you agree to help me learn what Sukebe knew."
Her compound eyes narrowed in thought, raising an elegantly thin finger up to her chin to stroke it in thought. "If you can provide me with enough genetic material and provide me a safe haven to conduct my own experiments…with no interference from anyone. Then I shall give you what you seek. But understand, if you fail in providing me what I want, then I shall devour you along with all your men and take what I will need to carry out my agenda."
"Fair enough…and in an act of good faith…" He slowly began to walk back, positioning himself behind all the people that had aided in digging the tunnel to the cavern, including the one he had just recently promoted, standing right next to Kabuto, who smirked in understanding and slowly moved to stand behind his master. "I give you all these men to start your projects on."
"O-Orochimaru-sama?!" his newly promoted jonin shouted in alarm.
"This is adequate…I accept this meager offering," Cocooner accepted as her mouth began to open up…and her body began to morph as it grew taller in height.
Both Orochimaru and Kabuto reared back in fright at the horrifying change that came over the Pokégirl, even for one as detached as the man known throughout all the Elemental Nations as the Snake Sannin of the Three Legendary Sannin; he could not stop the fright that befell him when the seemingly beautiful creature turned into a creature befitting only in nightmares. Yet, he quickly found himself overcoming that fear and his sharp mind instead focused on her act of catching and devouring that he was allowed to bear witness to. Their screams and cries for help meant little to him, it was all simply a necessary sacrifice he had to do: one he had been willingly prepared to do should things gone as they had.
As the monstrous being worked her way through the screaming men. She did not note at all the set of eyes that had been watching the encounter since its beginning. Solid gold eyes widened in worry at what was to come from the hellish union of these two individuals, grimacing in fear. This outcome would lead to much disaster for the entire world that had long forgotten the existence of her kind. She knew her sister, Cocooner, was all too aware of this, and she could only shudder at what the monstrous Pokégirl had planned now. Her sister had something in the workings; else she would have simply devoured the arrogant snake-like man already and be done with it. No, she could feel her fellow Legendary plotting something, having a very good idea what she was aiming to do. The golden eyes closed and there was a faint disturbance in the surrounding shadows, and then everything was still.
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A child was flung out of an orphanage, barely seven years old and scared, he was tossed out into the street by the very owner of the orphanage, screaming at the top of her lungs and cursing his existence. He slammed down face first in the dirty street and curled up into a tiny ball as he clinched his jaw to try and mask the pain. He barely had time to get over it when something metallic clunked just by his legs. Looking up, he saw a kunai had come within an inch of nicking his skin.
"That's a warning to you, you little scum! If I ever see you come near this place, I will throw one of those to end your pointless life!" shouted the caretaker, who already had another kunai aimed at him should he actually try.
"B-But I don't understand? All I did was use one of the spare blankets…w-why am I being thrown out?" Little Uzumaki Naruto whimpered sadly as he looked at the person he was told to respect and listen to, someone he was told would watch out for him until he was old enough to care for himself. Someone who he was told was meant to care for him, but she didn't.
Ever since he could remember, she had treated him differently from the other kids. Keeping him apart from them and giving him half the portions of food that the other kids got, and always handing him used up, raggy clothes that had become too filthy or torn for the other children to wear.
She glared at him and started to throw the kunai. "Just go away and die, you little thief!"
That kunai never left her hand as another had appeared around it and crushed the caretaker's against its metal. A man wearing an animal mask of a dog and Anbu standard gear stood next to the woman and backhanded her, not at all caring that he used more strength than he should have, as the blow knocked two of her teeth loose and a spurt of blood shoot out of her nose.
"You just had to try something on my last night on this duty, didn't you?" the Anbu said with a lazy tone. "Oh well, can't be helped. Expect to see Ibiki very soon after I make a report of this incident to the Hokage. Bye now!"
He vanished and reappeared next to Naruto and then they both vanished again from sight, leaving the woman trembling in pure terror after what the Anbu had just stated.
The Anbu and the boy appeared just outside of the Hokage's office. He knocked once before entering after hearing permission to go inside. As soon as he cracked the door open, the blonde-haired boy rushed by the Anbu and nearly tackled the old man sitting at a desk. The boy leapt into the man's arms, who willingly accepted him and pulled him into his lap with a curious look on his face.
"Naruto, what is the matter?" Sarutobi Hiruzen asked the boy.
The Inu-masked Anbu answered, as the boy was now crying loudly on his leader's white robe. "…He was just thrown out of the orphanage, Hokage-sama. I'm afraid that the caretaker had finally snapped and let her prejudice toward the boy get the best of her."
"I'm sure it can be resolved. After all, this isn't the first time Naruto has done something to upset her," Sarutobi said in good humor, only for the boy to cry harder and the silent response from his Anbu captain. "…Or was it?"
"I only saw through the windows as I was watching the boy. He was put aside once more from the children and stuck up in the attic without anything to sleep on. He then took the intuitive to procure a blanket from the storage room, one of the many spares they kept on hand," Inu reported coolly, but not at all pleased with what had happened. He had a very high boiling point. There was hardly anything that got him upset; being one of the few people to make Anbu at a young age. He had to have a cool head and a controlled temper, but when it came to the treatment of the boy, he found he would act somewhat hastily or feel his anger rising quickly. "He nearly got back up to the attic with the blanket, when the caretaker caught him and finally started to show her real nature toward him." He pulled out a kunai, the one that he had snagged from the woman after he stopped her. "In a very distinctive way."
"Have her taken to Ibiki immediately…tell him to take his time with her," Sarutobi immediately said as his eyes locked on the weapon.
"Jiji…what did I do wrong?" came the boy's voice.
Both Hokage and Anbu looked down at him with pity, even if Inu's was hidden behind his mask.
"You did nothing wrong, my boy. I'm just sorry you have to go through this," Sarutobi said caringly, patting the boy's back, not in the least bit daunted that the front of his robes were getting soaking wet. It shamed him that he had to force this young one to live this life, one where he alone held the entire ire of the whole village for something that was completely out of his power.
"T-Then why do I keep getting punished?" Naruto cried weakly.
"I'm afraid it is all because of a great misunderstanding some of the people in this village have yet to realize," he told the young boy, wishing he could just flat-out tell him the real reason, but now was not the time while he was still so young. "One day, you will understand."
"But I wanna understand now!" the boy whined loudly, feeling he had the right to know.
"Now, Naruto, we've talked about this many…"
"He should be granted the knowledge he seeks, Hokage-sama…" came a distorted voice from everywhere.
Inu reached for his sword and scanned the entire office, trying to locate the source of the voice. Sarutobi meanwhile looked as pale as a ghost. "…I-It can't be."
From the center of the office, a shapeless mass of darkness began to pool up. It started to take somewhat of a form, if nothing more than an outline of a feminine frame with an impressive chest puffed out for all to see. Her head began to form into a narrow muzzle, looking similar to that of a jackal's. Eyes of solid gold appeared the mouthless muzzle and they bore into the old man as her canine-like ears perked up over her head.
"It is a pleasure to finally speak to you, Sandaime of Konohagakure no Sato," said the shadowy entity.
"…I…I never thought I would be privileged to see, let alone, speak to you," Sarutobi said, hugging the now scared blonde close to his chest.
"Nor would you have, or anyone…but circumstances have forced my hand into revealing myself once again to humans," replied the shadowy, jackal-woman.
"H-Hokage-sama? Who…what is this person?" Inu asked in worry, inching away to give himself more space from the shadowy being, already preparing his counter should the being attack, but feeling very unsure if anything he did could actually harm this entity.
"Stand down, Inu…it's a long…and very complicated story," Sarutobi replied. "Please, tell me why you have revealed yourself. From what I was told about you from the late Yondaime, you had stated you would never allow yourself to be known to anyone else."
The shadowy woman nodded her head, or appeared to as where her head was distorted enough for her 'face' and 'ears' to look as if they had tilted. "That was true…until an incident which had just recently occurred had happened. I thought the world could continue without the existence of my kind, but it seems a force beyond either of our control have deemed otherwise."
"You're kind? The Yondaime never mentioned that there were more like you," Sarutobi said worriedly.
"As he wouldn't. He feared if any more knowledge of my kind were to leak out, then the world would have seeked me and others like me out," she said.
"Jiji…who is the shadowy woman?" Naruto dared to ask, feeling very frightened of her.
Sensing his discomfort, she spoke directly to him. "My name is Anubust, young one. I am a being from a time long before the time of the Elemental Nations, when the world was far different than the one we live in now."
"Anu..bust?" Inu uttered. His gaze unable to help but look at the healthy 'chest' of the entity, who looked right back at him.
"It was the name given to me by my creator and master. He chose the name of a forgotten god…and using his perverted way of thinking, warped it to give me the…provocative name," the entity said with an annoyed sigh.
"Well, it suits you for sure," Inu couldn't help but remark, trying his best to actually look the entity in the eye now out of respect.
Seeing that he was in some form trying to be a gentlemen, a pair of feminine shaped arms appeared from the dark mass that made up her being and folded them under her bust, squeezing them teasingly together.
"I have always thought so..." she said, surprising him with a teasing tone.
"Ahem," Sarutobi grunted, covering the poor, confused child's eyes with a hand from the sight. "Can you please explain the incident that you mentioned and why it has made you appear?"
"I would prefer to discuss this matter…in the Namikaze Compound," Anubust stated.
The old Hokage gave a very stern look. "I'm afraid that can't happen…since the death of the Yondaime, no one has been able to get passed the seals of his home. I would take…"
Anubust silenced him with a pulse of power, nearly slamming them back. "There is no time for your shinobi politics, human! The entire world has begun to change from that which you know!" The strange power that rolled off the entity disappeared and she gave the blonde boy an apologetic look as best as she could with her near blank face. "Forgive that outburst…it has been some time since I've been tamed."
"Tamed?" Inu muttered.
The shadowy woman leaned toward him. "A term I will explain in due time…"
He blinked at the hint of flirting in her voice toward him, feeling his heart begin to beat faster. "…S-Swell."
"Let's move this discussion to the Namikaze Compound. This really is for the best of everyone in you village," Anubust said once more.
Sarutobi frowned hard, not liking where this was going, but as he was wary of upsetting this powerful being before him, he relented some.
"Fine, but first allow me to get Naruto secured in a hotel for tonight, and then we will…"
He felt another low wave of power press over him. It wasn't killing intent, just a wave of raw force wash over him.
"I will not apologize again. As I've stated, this is no time for petty secrets. This involves young Naruto more than anyone in this village," Anubust stated firmly.
Sarutobi cursed silently and glaring at her, quickly averting his eyes when she narrowed hers.
"Fine…" he relented. He picked up the still confused boy, sighing at all the questions he knew the boy would throw at him after this was all over. Signaling for Inu to tag along, he and the trusted Anbu Captain shushined to the front of the gates.
Here was where the old man grimaced here as he took the boy's hand and pricked one of his fingers, quickly apologizing to him doing, and then placed the bleeding digit on the seal of the gate. It glowed brightly for a second and the gate swung open. He hushed Naruto when he asked what exactly happened, promising he would explain everything once they were safely inside. Inu quickly closed the gate behind him after he scanned to make sure there were no unwanted eyes on them as they entered the long closed-off compound.
It surprised the two older men when Anubust appeared right before them.
"How did you get in passed the seal?!" Sarutobi demanded in shock.
She chuckled and waved for them to follow her into the main building as she turned to 'float' away from them. "Minato-san and I had an agreement…"
Sarutobi frowned at her back. "This must be my karma finally catching up with me…none of this is turning out well by the minute."
Inu shrugged. They entered the house and Anubust motioned for them to sit on the couch, but waved for Naruto to come over to her. He looked at his grandfather-like figure, who nodded that it was all right. Cautiously, the little boy approached the shadow-massed woman.
She lowered herself so her face was leveled with his and her golden eyes curled, as if she was smiling. Inu felt his heart melt right then at that beautiful expression. Naruto just looked at her curiously as she patted the top of his head.
"Naruto-san, you are very young, but I need you to take everything that I am going to say very seriously. Can you do that?"
To the boy's credit, his face became solemn and he nodded very calmly.
She gave him another eye smile. "Very good. I knew your father, Naruto-san. I knew both your parents when they were alive." She hushed him with a finger on his lips when he was about to shout out in excitement. "Listen to me first and then we will discuss everything."
Begrudgingly, he did as he was asked.
"Your parents were very important people, but in more ways than you can imagine. Your father in particular…You see, no one knew his lineage, being an orphan much like yourself, Naruto-san. Even he did not know whose family he belonged to, that is until I appeared before him as I have to you," Anubust explained. "He hailed from a very powerful bloodline, one that was thought to be extinct after a certain event in forgotten history. Your father, Naruto-san, was a descendent of the very man who created me and my sisters… Jim Sukotto Sukebe."
"You mean, you were created by a human?" Sarutobi awed greatly.
"He was no mere human, Sandaime-san. He was a genius, one the likes the world has never seen before until your great Rikudo Sennin was born. He possessed knowledge for science the world could not hope to understand, and he was a master of mysticism. He started to use his gifts to create my sisters and I to help mankind, believing we could help the human race progress. But soon his ideas were discovered and then were met with distain. The world took his ideas as perverted and insane, and soon labeled him a monster among men. In rage, he turned his creations onto the world and wagged war with all of mankind," Anubust replied.
"…He thought he could take on the world? Wow, he did go insane," Inu remarked.
"But he could have actually succeeded, if it weren't for one single flaw in his design with his creations," Anubust retorted seriously. "You see, originally, my sisters were created to help mankind: particularly the male procession of the race. My sisters were meant to help ease men's stress and frustration through sexual intercourse, and be able to fulfill any man's desire. And I must quickly remind you, he was the biggest pervert as well as a super-genius. In his haste for revenge he did not remove the sexual side of their nature, but he was smart enough to figure out a way to keep that side of them under control and not fall prey to their sexual needs. One human discovered that he could gain the loyalty of my kind through intercourse, or taming as it was described. Once they learned that they could recruit my sisters through this act, they began to turn on Sukebe and that was when he started to lose the war."
"That's a bit confusing…just because a human had sex with your sisters, they immediately turned sides against their creator?" Inu voiced his opinion. "I mean, that's very awesome, but that makes them sound very vain."
Anubust gave the Anbu one an eye-smile. "You have no idea, Inu-kun…that was one of the many reasons my sisters fell apart and we lost the war to humanity. That was the biggest flaw in our design. Because of the enhancements he created in my sisters, it left our minds unstable to a degree that we can go feral like an animal and become very dangerous. Sex is the stimulating shock we need to retain our clarity and keep our human-like intelligence. Sadly, we cannot tame ourselves only prolong the fall of becoming feral for a short bit. We had to have human companions to tame us to keep us lucid and safe to be around."
"Umm…what is sex?" Naruto asked innocently.
Sarutobi was about to reply with a brief excuse to prolong that explanation, but Anubust beat him to it.
"It is an act of extreme intimacy between two people, Naruto-san. It is how humans reproduce, and at times, relieve great stress that builds up in the body due to normal life-style," Anubust tapped his nose. "Do not worry about the mechanics of it right now. They will eventually be explained as you grow."
Sarutobi coughed into his hand, giving the entity a stern look. "That will remain to be seen."
Anubust just smiled at him, as if in humor. "No, he will be taught and he will be made to ready this world for what is to come."
"Just exactly what are you planning, Anubust?" Sarutobi demanded finally.
"This world has forgotten too much, and Naruto is the only person who can unlock the lost knowledge that has been stored away within these lands. His genetic code will be your key to unlocking Sukebe's remaining laboratories," Anubust answered.
"He is too young for this. He cannot take on such a responsibility," Sarutobi started critically.
"But he can and already has proven he can bear it with the burden sealed inside him," Anubust replied and narrowed her eye when the Hokage shot her a warning glare. "Yes, I know everything about the night of the Kyuubi and what Minato had no choice but to do. And as I've stated, this is no time for your little secrets. They pale in comparison."
"You keep stating that but what exactly makes our secrets less important to yours?" Sarutobi grunted in frustration.
"The answer is simple. It was because of my kind that the world that you knew nearly died completely," Anubust said simply.
"W-What?!" the two men shouted.
"There was one creation of Sukebe, one that he had made for nothing but total destruction. It was an abomination even to my sisters. Were she not created by Sukebe along with us, we would not even call her one of our own. Her name was Typhonna, and she possessed powers that could destroy the entire world. She was unleashed on the world and nearly destroyed entire continents that ended up in her path, but she was too wild, even for Sukebe to control. She began to act out on her own and started to attack at random, even her own kind. But even her great power wasn't unlimited. She did weaken and forced into hibernation where she rested in a secret location for centuries…until she finally re-awoken," Anubust revealed, unconsciously hugging Naruto close to her, who did not seem to mind at all. "That was when the world almost died. Typhonna wanted to find an opponent to fight, but she could not realize that there was none to be found. When she realized she could not find one, she unleashed her rage upon everything. Many of my sisters sacrificed their lives to battle Typhonna, killing almost all of us, along with many humans who were their Tamers. Over time, she finally was killed and with her death the near extinction of my kind, but humanity still survived and continued on…and forgotten the ones that paid the ultimate price."
"That is remarkable…but how did you survive all this time?" Sarutobi asked.
"I…cannot die. Some of my sisters and I were granted immortality by Sukebe that granted us eternal youth and longevity, but I will say we can still die if enough damage is thrown at us. I helped as best as I could, but I'm a neutral force, at least I have acted as such until now," Anubust said. "After all the deaths, I felt it was only right that I be the one to remember them all and to keep the knowledge of that time, and then give it to one worthy. So I've spent my immortal life tracking down any members of Sukebe's line. He may have been insane near the end as the world picked him as, but he never once lost sight of what truly mattered to him. He had a wife, even with the harem he kept close by, and she bore a child that was lost in the masses as humanity started to rebuild itself. I tracked that child's line through the centuries, to all the descendants of Sukebe up to finally Minato…and his son."
"You stated that only Naruto can unlock Sukebe's knowledge. Am I to take it that you wish to give that to Naruto?" Sarutobi said.
Anubust nodded her head in that ghostly fashion. "I have been with his father long enough to see his traits in this boy. He will use it wisely and with proper guidance, he will see that this world does not make the same mistakes it had before."
"Umm, Anubust-san…I know you asked me to be quiet until you were done talking…b-but I really want to know…who was my father, and my mother, too," Naruto said, drawing everyone's attention back to him, nearly forgetting that he had been curled up against Anubust most of that time.
"You have been patient enough…your father…was Yondaime, Namikaze Minato. And your mother was Uzumaki Kushina," Anubust said, ignoring the Sandaime who clearly was not happy about the news she just gave away.
"M-My father was the Yondaime?" Naruto uttered in pure shock.
"Yes," Anubust reassured. She then started to laugh as the little boy gaped so wide just before his eyes rolled back and he passed out.
Inu chuckled more while Sarutobi just shook his head.
"You weren't kidding when you said things will change."
"I mean every word that I say, Sandaime-san. The boy will need his heritage for any creditability for what he will be beginning," she combed her fingers through his blonde locks as she gazed down at his passed out form. "The road he will have to follow will be harder than any road before, even for the people that walk the path to become Hokage…" She paused for a moment as she gazed up at the old leader. "You will have to change this village, as well, Sarutobi-san. In its current state, it will not be ready for what is to come…and also, I have one favor to ask."
"Somehow I doubt I could deny it, but what is the favor?" Sarutobi sighed tiredly, already estimating the amount of paperwork he would be facing in the near future.
"The human woman who ran the orphanage…I wish to be the one that sees she is properly punished," Anubust said darkly. "I have watched Naruto-san since he was put in that place, as I have for all children who have been forced to become orphans…and I cannot condone what she has willingly done to a child. Even if it was only Naruto, she has shown to have it in her to harm a child: I will not tolerate a human that will harm an innocent child."
Sarutobi could not help but smile at her words. He was in full agreement with her in that respect. He was a hard man when he needed to be, making choices that sent good men and women to their deaths and ones that forced families apart, but the one thing he would not relent was when a child was being harmed.
"She will be with Ibiki in the I&T department, I will send an order that will grant you access to deal with that woman as you see fit," Sarutobi offered.
The entity smiled once more with her eyes and started to carry Naruto up to one of the many rooms in the compound. "Sleep one more time as a child, little Naruto-san. Have one more night of innocent dreams. I will see you are ready to meet whatever my sister Cocooner has in store…I promise you…as I promised your father and mother."