Naruto sat on a medical bed as Kushina sat in a chair across the room. Tsunade was sitting in an arm-chair with papers in front of her. Shizune was standing next to Naruto, beads of sweat rolling down her forehead, "Alright. It's the ass-crack of dawn, I haven't had my sake-diluted coffee, and Tonton ate my breakfast," Tsunade complained, making a majority of the people in the room flinch

"T-Tsunade-sama, p-please, calm down," Shizune begged

"No, no, it's fine. Let's just get this over with," Tsunade turned her attention to Kushina, who perked up when they met eye-contact, "okay. Here I am. What do you need?"

"Tsunade-sama, w-would you please make sure my son is alright?" Kushina asked. Tsunade raised an eyebrow, as she looked at Naruto and then back at Kushina, "7 in the morning? For a check-up? For the brat that survived an explosion?" Tsunade questioned. Kushina then grew a tick-mark on her forehead as she tightened her fist, "Yes, exactly you old bat,"

"What did you call me?"

"You losing your earring too, you old warhorse?" Kushina said, a little louder, causing Tsunade to stand up

"I don't have to take this from you,"

"Then do your thing oh great 'Tsunade Senju'!" Kushina shouted

"FINE! I WILL!" Tsunade yelled, marching over to Naruto with a clipboard and pencil, "Alright you little cringe nugget! We're doing a little check-up! Let's start! Name?"

"Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze," Naruto replied

"Date of birth?"

"October 10, XXXX,"

"Have you had any surgery in the last 12 months?"

"Yes," Naruto answered, 'You're the one that worked on me, you should know this,'

"Have you had any drugs or alcohol in the last few weeks?"

"No,"

"Have you had any sexual partners in the last few months?" Tsunade asked, making Kushina look over Tsunade's shoulder and stair directly at Naruto

"No?"

"Alright. Next up," Tsunade gave the clipboard to Shizune as the former placed her index finger in the middle of Naruto's vision, "keep your eye on my finger. I'll use my other hand to test your peripheral vision,"

"Okay," Naruto replied. Tsunade then moved her fingers just outside of Naruto's vision. First the left, then the right, then above him and finally below him. When she was done, she had Naruto hold out his arms, "Alright, hold out your arms. I'm gonna try and push them down, you try your best to resist,"

"Alright," Naruto held out his arms as Tsunade began to push down on his arms. Naruto grit his teeth as he pushed up against Tsunade. Tsunade rolled her eyes as she began pushing against Naruto's arms. It took her a second to realize that something was off. She then looked at Kushina, "Hey, come here," Tsunade ordered. Kushina stood up and walked over to her son, "Is there something wrong?"

"Push down," Tsunade said

"Excuse me?"

"Push. Down," Tsunade repeated, pointing at Naruto's arms. Kushina looked at Tsunade like she was crazy as she placed her hands around her son's arms. It was then that Kushina felt like she was holding onto something that wasn't her son. Naruto's arms felt too dense, too... something. Kushina then began pushing down and was struggling a bit, "What's going on?" Kushina asked

"I... don't know," Tsunade answered, "Shizune, go get me the blood-draw kit,"

"Wait, blood-draw?" Naruto questioned

"Right away, Tsunade-sama!" Shizune bowed, quickly running out of the room

"Wait, what's going on?"

"Nothing, brat. You'll get your ramen after this is all done,"

"I've lost enough blood these past few months! I'm not loosing any more!"

"SHUT-UP!" Tsunade screamed in Naruto's face. Naruto sat there for a few seconds... growling. His heart-beat accelerated, generating a loud drum-like echo in the room. Kushina and Tsunade were confused as to where the noise was coming from until Shizune came into the room with blood-draw equipment, "I've got what you asked for, Tsunade-sama!" Shizune said, handing her master the equipment. Tsunade thanked Shizune as she began to make take Naruto's blood, "Alright, brat. Hold still, this will only hurt for a minute,"

Walking out of the hospital with a blue and white bandage over his arm, Naruto was eating a chocolate-chip muffin as he followed Kushina and Shizune, "How long will it take?" Kushina asked

"A few days, at most. But I have no idea what she's looking for,"

"Hopefully it's not anything bad,"

'Look at them, talking about me like I'm not here. Tch, the least they could've done was tell me that I was gonna die nearly a year ago,' Naruto thought to himself. He continued eating his muffin until he wondered passed an alley-way. Looking down the alley, he stood there, fishing his muffin and tossing the wrapper on the ground, he ran to catch-up with Kushina and Shizune. As he ran away from the alley, something game out of the ground. A man with black and white skin, wearing a black cloak with red clouds.

"" the man said to himself, "yes, it appears so. I must say, he's quite interesting. Training with that one guy in the forest and with Itachi,"

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"Yeah, I agree... anyway, we better find out everything we can. And make sure this gets into the kids' hands," the man said, pulling out a scroll

""

"But that's the fun part,"

"" the man seethed, before disappearing into the ground.

Naruto sat at home, sitting on his bed as he looked up the ceiling, "I need to visit Garou-sensei," he whispered. He then heard a thud on his floor and the sound of something rolling. Sitting up, Naruto looked down at the floor and saw a scroll rolling toward him, "A Heaven Scroll?" Naruto said, "what's a Chunin exam scroll like this doing here?" Naruto wondered, before opening it and seeing something on the paper that made his eye widen... 'Danzo Shimura' written in blood with five dots of blood below his name.