The team finally reached Tazuna's house and was introduced to Tsunami who began to tend to the Genin like a worried mother. Naruto blushed in embarrassment as he never had this happen to him. He didn't have any injuries, but it was nice to have someone pamper him.

Sasuke glared at Tsunami as soon as she came close to pamper him of his injuries making her frown and look over to Sakura next more cautiously but smiled when the girl gave out a smile of her own.

"You have a lovely house Tsunami-san" Sakura commented to the woman who was tending to her injuries. She smiled brightly at the girls complement, "Thank you Sakura. It's been a little bit of a mess ever since... well.. you know." She said with a sigh making the Genin nod sadly.

Naruto looked out the window before draping a small part of his jacket over his arm. Tsunami saw his arm but didn't seem to be affected by the sight of it, so he assumed it was okay... but he did see a child walking around so he didn't want to scare him. Sakura sat down next to him and looked at him with concern making him smile towards her, "I'm fine Sakura-chan." he reassured her. She slowly nodded before laying her head on his shoulder while he continued to look off...

Kakashi gave a small looked towards the two but then went off towards Sasuke to give him a small talk whole reading his book. "Excuse me, but the food is ready." Naruto gave a look towards Tsunami who said it and got up with Sakura to get the food.. Naruto was keeping a eye on Kakashi who seemed... much more hostile then anytime before... he could conclude that Kakashi did hate him for his burden... and his able to show it since hes out of the village.

He couldn't help but clench his teeth at the thought, he sat down next to Sakura and Tsunami and began to eat the food in a slow pace, his mind getting enthralled by thoughts of his sensei being... a demon in disguise... he shuddered before Kakashi finished his food and waved Sasuke and Sakura outside making Naruto frown slightly and continued to eat slowly with his left hand. While Tazuna frowned and smiled slightly at the thought and got up and gave Tsunami a look. "So... Naruto-kun... Are you and Sakura a couple?" Naruto seemingly choked on that and he hit his chest to try to let the food he choked on fully down before gasping slightly.

"S-Sorry... you just seem to be very close." Tsunami giggled slightly making Naruto go red faced with a small frown... "I wish..." He murmured before grabbing his right arm slightly making Tsunami nod slowly in understanding, his arm was fairly surprising to see before she held up her hand, a jest for him to give her his hand. Giving her a frown but did as he was told and Tsunami grabbed his hand and looked at the scales in a slight awe. "I heard about the legends of Uzumaki... but to really see the scales up close is something special." 

Naruto tilted his head slightly before he remembered that Tazuna did know about them.. "You seem to know a bit about them.. Can you tell me something?" She smiled and nodded in confirmation. "I only know a little, bit they are from stories so i'm not exactly sure if its true or not." Naruto shook his head, "The chance of it being true is better then nothing." Tsunami nodded thinking that it was logical. "Well...I heard from my grandpa that Uzumaki's were able to transform into some type of reptile... he never specified on what it could have been." The blond frowned at that.. Transform?

"I also heard that blood linked Uzumaki's were able to feel the emotions of each other.. The closer they are the more amplified it would be... something about they might not know the emotion they would be feeling... and the only thing that they would do is small signs of that emotion... like a smile or a tear." 

Naruto blinked at that before he looked out the window... "What do you mean by blood link?" Naruto asked curiously making Tsunami put a finger to her chin and thought for a moment, "I think he meant like family members, cousins, parents, siblings... Stuff like that." Naruto tensed slightly... he had moments like that... one was recent, during his boat ride to wave, and then once before he met with Mizuki to give the scroll he tricked him for... "I see... Anything else?" 

Tsunami hummed briefly before she shook her head making him smile and nod nevertheless. "Thank you, it might help me figure out my clans purpose." Naruto smiled before Tazuna came around the corner of a room and held up a scroll. "Well I hope this will help you just as much." Naruto looked at what was in his hands before his eyes lit up as he grabbed the scroll and opened it... what revealed was a defiantly a surprise... the kanji... it was different from anything he had ever seen... "Wow... you really were right.." He murmured before Naruto hummed in thought and placed his hand directly on top of the scroll and pushed a little bit of chakra into it... and in a flash the kanji began moving...

The three in the room went wide eye as they saw the kanji change before there eyes and the kanjis made ones that the three could read. Tsunami looked over his shoulder and began reading aloud. "To ride the tide across the ocean, hold your hand out of righteous blood, and give up a drop to be granted passage of the rising and flowing tides of Uzushiogakure." Tsunami looked towards her father and saw he was fairly confused.... but Naruto seemed to have a mind of what to do. "You know what to do Naruto-kun?" Tsunami asked making him smile sheepishly and look up at her. "I have a idea."

He rolled it up and handed it back towards Tazuna who seemed to raise his hand, "Keep it, it is your heritage." He said knowingly making Naruto frown but nodded nevertheless. He looked outside from the nearest window and saw Sakura climbing up a tree with her feet... he smiled slightly.. but his smiled faded when he saw Kakashi coaching Sasuke up the tree.. "Hey, can you tell the others I will be training a little deep in the forest, don't want to bother them.." Naruto asked making Tsunami nod with a sad smile... the blond walked out the back door and gave one last look towards the pink haired girl before he compressed his chakra and ran out deeper into the forest...

...

Naruto groaned as he fell directly on his back, the exercise was not easy in the slightest. Naruto could tell this was similar to the leaf exercise that his sensei Iruka made him do... so he assumed it was a chakra control exercise. He sighed as he closed his eyes and tried to concentrate on his chakra... that is when he heard a twig snap and he snapped his eyes open and shot up and looked around... when he saw a girl with a basket of a type of plant. "O-oh, sorry... I didn't mean to wake you... I tried to be quiet." Naruto blinked at that... was he concentrating so hard he actually been laying there for a while?

"It's fine.. I was just trying to train." He sighed before he looked back up at the tree and tried once more to go up the tree only to fall right back down. He sighed in annoyance before he heard the girl giggle. "I can help you if you want?" Naruto gave her a odd look... before he closed his eyes... the chakra in the girl... was very... familiar. "Sure, if you know how to help." The girl didn't seem to be here to cause any harm.. so he assumed she was here to pick herbs and that was it... how wrong he could be. "Alright, try doing this." She got next to him and laid down, her feet to the tree trunk before she raised her foot and placed it until it stuck.

"If you do it like this, you will know just the amount of chakra to stick, and you get use to it easier." She smiled making him nod in determination and do the similar strategy as she did. He slowly and surely, began to walk up the tree... slowly at first... until he opened his eyes and looked down to see that he was actually going very high up... that is when he lost his concentration and grabbed ahold of a nearby tree branch and chuckled sheepishly. "Good job!" The girl below shouted making him smile and look down at her slightly before he flipped himself over and down at the ground, much more prepared then before.

"Thank you... um." He wondered cause he didn't ask for her name. "Haku." she smiled as he gave a small chuckle and scratched his head. "Naruto." The girl gave a smile but there was something off... "He really is lady Kushinas child..."  Before Kushina told her about how she and her husband thought of his name... among planning everything for his future... She seemed to frown internally. "So how do you know this exercise Haku-san?" She gave him a smile, "Well my masters taught me, they are very kind..." She gave a far away look before looking towards him, then towards his arm in curiosity, "I see your arm is wrapped up, are you hurt?" She asked concerned making him shake his head and grab his arm and throw his jacket over it.

"It's nothing..." Haku nodded never the less as the blond got up and continued running up and down the tree as Haku watch and grab at a few Herbs around them... It got dark and Naruto jumped down from the tree with a sweat evident on his face and gave her a big smile, "Thank you for showing me how to do this exercise." He said before he turned around and gave a shout out. "We should do this again, maybe if you ever are near Konoha we can train some more?" He shouted before he ran off in the direction he came from. "It may be a possibility... Naruto-san."

TBC

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