Discovering his Heritage

Through his Eyes

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This day, like all the others within his sixteen years of life started out normal. Though as Naruto continued throughout the duties that he was assigned, a throbbing in his head started to cause his vision started to glitch out. "What the hell is going on?" Naruto growled out as strange objects continued to flash in front of his eyes.

Since Naruto wasn't alone due to his team being on a patrol since their village had been surrounded by Grass Ninja who were trying to force the village Hidden in the Leaves to support their movement. Upon hearing their comrade call out in pain, Kakashi, Sakura as well as Sasuke all turned towards him with concern growing in their eyes.

"Is everything alright Naruto?" Kakashi inquired of the only one of his students that remained a Genin.

Naruto was about to respond to his sensei when his words were suddenly sucked away when he had to fight off another burst of pain that was trying to tear its way through his skull.

As he was trying to fight this pain, another voice spoke out though this one came from within his own mind. "Naruto, you must stop fighting it and allow the pain to reach its destination." Kurama spoke out that told Naruto not to argue.

Even with Kurama telling him to allow the pain to run its course, Naruto still had the urge to fight though he was able to suppress the urge. Now that Naruto was secure in his decision to allow the pain to run throughout his body, Naruto pulled his hands away from his head.

Naruto immediately regretted this decision since the second that he did so, a massive amount of pain burnt its way into his eyes. Once again, Naruto threw his hands to his head in hopes that this would stop the pain in its tracks though Naruto was about to find out that it was too late for him to do this.

As Naruto was once again fighting against whatever was causing this pain, he had his eyes closed and as such, Naruto missed out on the mortified looks that they had on their faces as he thrashed around in front of them.

Naruto felt as if his eyes were burning inside of him and if he opened them, he feared that only dust would remain. Eventually, the pain brought Naruto to his knees and as the pain continued to gnaw at his eyes; Naruto collapsed onto his side and fell into the darkness of unconsciousness.

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Mindscape

Naruto woke to find himself in an all too familiar section of his mind that housed the Nine-Tailed Fox known as Kurama. The smells and wetness that was associated with waking up within this sewer came flooding towards Naruto.

"Ugh...why did you call...call me here?" Naruto groaned out as he pushed himself into a sitting position.

The individual that Naruto was speaking to, looked at him through the small space between the bars that caged him inside of Naruto's mind. "I called you here to speak to you about what you just went through..." Kurama responded to his host that over the years he had grown quite fond of.

Hearing this caused Naruto's interest to immediately spike and within seconds he was standing on his feet. "What do you know Kurama?" Naruto cried out.

Throughout this, Naruto didn't take his eyes off Kurama which allowed him to see that his tenant wasn't too pleased with being interrupted; though Kurama was able to keep himself from berating his host like he normally would.

"...earlier today, I noticed that there was a seal that within my cage and thinking that the seal would allow my domain to grow or change somehow, I slashed it away and when nothing happened; I put it to the back of my mind until you started screaming in pain..." Kurama spoke out and as he took a moment to catch his breath, Naruto once again thought about interrupting Kurama though he decided against it. "...I assume that when the Fourth Hokage was sealing me inside of you that he must have also sealed away a bloodline though I'm not sure on what the bloodline is as of yet." Kurama finished informing his host.

To say that Naruto was shocked at learning that he had a bloodline sealed within him would have been an understatement though Naruto thought that it was a good thing since he figured having a bloodline would help him become a better Ninja and ensure the safety of his village. Before Naruto was able to respond to what Kurama had just told him, he could feel himself getting pulled away.

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Once again, Naruto opened his eyes though this time around he woke up inside of Konoha's hospital with Tsunade who is also known as the Fifth Hokage staring down upon him. As Naruto stared at the only woman that he had thought of as a mother, his eyes started to give off a slight heat which caused Tsunade's name to flash above her head. Seeing this caused Naruto to internally freak out which thankfully caused the heat he could feel within his eyes as well as the floating name to vanish.

Though as the name and heat vanished, Naruto heard a noise echo within his ears which was then followed by a male voice. "A new skill has been acquired!"

This confused Naruto just as much as what he saw though since Tsunade looked as if she were about to have him committed, Naruto decided that he was going to distract her from doing this. "Lady Tsunade, I assume that I have you to thank for my speedy recovery." Naruto muttered out as he sat himself into a sitting position.

Though Naruto could tell that his Hokage was still quite shocked from whatever she had seen, she was quick in her reply to him. "Naruto, you have been unconscious for three days and during that time; your heart had stopped beating multiple times which caused many of us to think that we were going to lose you." Tsunade explained to the boy that was staring at her.

The moment that Tsunade stopped speaking, Naruto was sending out his own response. "Wait...just wait one damn second. Are you telling me I died...not just once but multiple times during the time that I was unconscious?"

Since Naruto still remembered how painful it was, with the fire blasting its way through his mind, he believed Tsunade when she told him that he had died but something in him still wanted to hear her say it once more.

"Yes Naruto, you died on four sperate occasions and each time we had to restart your heart...though...though this wasn't the only thing that happened." Tsunade informed Naruto who happened to be the one of the most precious people alive to her. Since Tsunade knew that Naruto wasn't the most patient person, she knew that he wouldn't give her much time to catch her breath before he would be demanding answers and as such, she didn't take long before she was talking once again. "While you were unconscious, your eyes kept changing to a purple color though the effect didn't last long and even when you woke up just now your eyes were purple instead of your normal cerulean blue."

Even though Naruto hadn't seen the change that his eyes had undergone, Naruto believed that Lady Tsunade was telling him the truth and since she was one of the few people within the village that he trusted; Naruto was about to tell her what he had learned from Kurama though he was stopped before he could. "I think we should keep what we have learned to ourselves until we figure out who you can truly trust since we don't know if the sealing of your bloodline was an accident or some part of a plot." Kurama explained to his host.

Though Naruto didn't want to keep things from his surrogate mother, Naruto could see the sense in what Kurama was saying and as such decided to heed his advice and keep what he knows to himself for now.

"Can we try to figure it out another day...I am feeling extremely tired again." Naruto muttered out to his Hokage before closing his eyes to emphasize his point.

Assuming that, Naruto would never lie to her, Tsunade gave a quick goodbye before exiting the room. Once Naruto was sure that Tsunade was gone, he opened his eyes once more which caused the same noise and voice he heard before echo within his ears. "A new skill has been acquired!"

Authors notes: Thank you to everyone who had read this chapter. As always, I hope that you enjoyed it and please comment and review with your likes and dislikes and other general comments and I will see you all next time!