Lady Tsunade was taken aback when she saw Naruto. It was him, the boy in the near crumpled photo her sensei had given her on his death bed. Those features were unmistakable and it made her nearly soar through the roof. But it was his eyes that made her shiver a bit. The amount of hatred in his eyes whenever they locked was impossible to ignore. It was like he was making it well known that he didn't appreciate what was going to happen. 

Shikaku welcomed her and Inoichi, they had lunch, and every time she tried to start a conversation with Naruto she would be ignored. He only talked with Shikamaru and even then it wasn't much. When lunch had come to an end Shikaku and Yoshino left them alone in the sitting room. Naruto sat across from them drawing while Shikamaru stayed by his side. "Shikamaru you can step out of the room, we'd like to do this alone," Tsunade said politely. 

Shikamaru got up but stopped when Naruto latched onto his hand. "Stay," It was a command and one Shikamaru followed. 

"I'm sorry Naruto but Shikamaru can't be here while we assess your mental state," She tried again, gesturing for Shikamaru to leave but Naruto had another trick up his sleeve. 

Quite literally.

He slipped a carving tool from the space between his kimono-like top and held it to his throat. "If Shikamaru leaves I'll slit my throat," Was Naruto's reply as he held it tightly. Shikamaru placed his hand over Naruto's and held firm. 

Inoichi narrowed his eyes at the threat but he was willing to call the bluff, Tsunade however wasn't. "Alright he can stay but he has to be on the other side of the room," She conceded. 

Naruto could go with that and allowed Shikamaru to take the sharp tool. He got up and went to the other side of the room to watch. With that being said the assessment was started. 

"Name for the record please," Inoichi said as he took out a scroll and ink. 

"Naruto Uzumaki,"

"Alright moving onto the ordeal that brought you here, what is your current stance with ninjas?" Tsunade asked, she knew Shikamaru told her he hated them but she needed to hear it from his mouth. 

"I hate shinobi, just sitting here with you two is making me physically ill," Naruto said honestly as his eyes narrowed into slits as his face lost color. He really looked like he wanted to hurl but was just staying still to be somewhat polite. His eyes however blazed with hatred. "As if I'd ever want to become the thing that murdered my parents and my entire village. The thing that left me looking like this!" 

Naruto pulled his shirt off and ripped off the bandages to display the pulsing whip marks that looked absolutely horrid. Shikamaru looked away as he felt the hatred inside himself burn for whoever did it. 

"I understand and while that is horrible don't you want to get revenge. Make them hurt like how you were?" Tsunade was playing the 'revenge card' pity she didn't know that Naruto wasn't that type of person. 

"Excuse me? That's the fucking reason you're having a war in the first place! Revenge, what revenge? I don't know how they look and why the fuck would I hunt them down for. It won't bring back my village, it is sure as hell ain't making me feel better and my parents are never going to rise from whatever state they were left in," He snapped at her. 

"I bet Shikamaru doesn't tell you how he has to be in order to talk to me," He started with a knowing look as he pulled back on his shirt. "He has to strip everything that has to do with shinobi, vest, headband, pouch, and if he so much as smells like the blood he has to go take a deep shower, and then we can talk. I will never become a shinobi and don't care whatever war is going on, I have nothing else to live for and my soulmate is the only reason I tolerate living in the curbside village instead of committing suicide." 

Delivered with every bit of truth he had left in him Naruto marched out of the room and back to his room. Once he was out of earshot Shikamaru wanted to find out the real reason why she had come here. "Lady Hokage what is your reasoning for this, he is only one person an untrained one at that. He's highly traumatized, suicidal so why try anyway?"

"Since you're his soulmate I guess you deserve to know. Naruto Uzumaki was originally an orphan of the Leaf. He was meant to be a ninja but he ran away. On Lord Third's deathbed, he told me that Naruto was the container for the Nine-Tails, the beast the Fourth had conquered that fateful night and sealed into his son. His son being Naruto, your soulmate." 

Shikamaru had most of this information already but the new information was just as shocking. A Jinchuriki who had no desire to become a ninja was a big problem but it was too late and Naruto was far beyond helping people now. Being the Fourth's child, however, all of this could have been avoided. "Wait couldn't this all be avoided if you had given him the treatment he deserved?" He questioned.

"Yes, Jiraiya and I are his godparents, sadly at the time we were both out of the village and Hiruzen thought Naruto would rather be among children his own age instead of being kept safe in the Hokage Mansion. When Naruto had left the village, Hiruzen spent his last years looking for him and passed the task onto me. Naruto is an incredible asset and could be the pivotal point in the war," She said biting her nail. 

"But I can't ignore his hatred, his trauma, and his suicidal tendencies. I'll have to come back another time Shikamaru and this time I aim to give him proper treatment."

"You can try but I doubt you'll get anywhere with that," Shikamaru showed them the door. Unbeknownst to them, Naruto was listening to the entire conversation with a scowl on his face. 

'He wasn't supposed to know you old bitch,' He seethed in his mind. 

A dark chuckle rose inside his mind signaling his partner was finally awake. 'Kurama gets these wounds healed, it's time to start putting my plan in motion.'

'No problem Naruto,' 

As Naruto climbed the stairs to his room, his features darkened as Kurama pulsed his chakra forward. Sharp fangs, black whiskers, and red eyes with slits. He was well aware of his Jinchuriki status.