Chapter 17 Next Generation Part three

-With the Observers-

"Most impressive" Shino commented, since like most of the other Shinobi, he was impressed how a girl like Futeki could use two C-rank Jutsu in a row

"Yea, but how in the hell can she see that guy, I thought she was blind" said Konohamaru.

"She is blind, but she is using her Chakra to enhance her hearing and sensing for his Chakra, techniques which are techniques used in the Blind Assassin Style if I'm not mistake" answered Kakashi. As he remembered from Sakura's report on her rescue from "The Hold", that the STORM Shinobi of New Kumo were trained in the Blind Assassin Style.

"Correct", answered Tomoe, "The Raikage gave Futeki permission to learn the Blind Assassin Style. He then allowed her to join the academy once she had mastered some of the sensing techniques to a satisfactory degree. By using these skills she can follow her opponent's movements by sound or Chakra alone, or even detect an incoming attack by sound alone."

When the Konoha, Suna and Kiri groups heard this, many of them could not but be further impressed with the young girl, as to learn techniques like that at her age, was no small feat. It also proved what Tomoe said earlier, that Futeki was more than she appeared.

-Down at the Arena-

After Blocking Tetsu's last attack, Futeki deactivated her last Jutsu, where the wall of Earth fell back into the ground.

"Hmph, about time you grew a pair and started fighting back" replied Futeki with a smirk.

"Like I said I don't want to fight you Futeki, so let just end this" stated Tetsu calmly.

"Fine I will" responded the girl, where she too took out some Kuni and threw them at Tetsu, who remained perfectly still on the top of the earth spike as they flew right pass him.

This of course surprise and confused many of those watching the fight, as Futeki aim had been dead on and yet she still missed, it was as if something had diverted them from hitting Tetsu. (17)

Annoyed by how she somehow missed, Futeki took out several more Shuriken and Kunai and threw them at Tetsu.

Seeing the projectiles coming at him, Tetsu remained perfectly calm and right before they could hit him. Tetsu raised his hand up and waved his hand away and said "Takuetsufuu (Prevailing Wind)! (B)" After which a powerful blast of Wind erupted and blew the Projectiles and Fuketi away, where they young girl was sent flying several out of the fighting square.

-With the Observers-

Naturally after seeing this everyone was completely stunned, even Ayane and all the other New Kumo Shinobi were shocked by Tetsu sudden show of power.

"Impossible, how could a mere Genin create a Wind attack that strong without any hand seals or even a fan?" said Baki in disbelief.

It was at this point that the large group suddenly heard amused laughter coming from behind them. When the tour group turned around and looked up, they saw none other than Naruto sitting on one of the seats and was accompanied by Shinmen Uki, his bodyguards/wives Yugito, Fu and Oaktsu, as well as Secretary/wife Nanao and his other wives Taira, Soifon and Takara.

When everyone saw them, they all thought the exact same thing "When did the hell did they arrive? And how did they appear without us sensing them?"

"Naruto what are you doing here and when did you arrive?" asked Tsunade when she saw the young male blonde. "I though you said you had your talks with Iwa today."

"I was here before any of you arrived, we were just at the other end of the arena, and decided to join you after a little while. As for the talks with Iwa, I finished them early, since you hardly expect me to miss my own daughters Graduation exam" replied Naruto with a smile, which caused everyone else to either shake their heads in disbelief or smile in amusement at Naruto actions.

At the same time, the others saw that Tetsu had been declared the winner, as Fuketi was still trying to regain herself after being blow away by Tetsu's sudden win attack.

"Did you know about his abilities?" asked Tomoe as she turned to her husband.

"Yes, I've known about his abilities from some time. Despite Tetsu having no real desire to fight or be a Shinobi and being more of a joker. He as a phenomenal talent for Futon (Wind Style) Jutsu and as you saw. He has an almost unnatural control over the Wind itself, which you all saw when he defeated Uki's younger sister Futari."

Naturally the four groups of Shinobi were shocked by this news.

"If he had no desire to be a Shinobi, why did he even join the Academy? Also if he had such natural skill, then why didn't he reveal it to his teachers or during his Futon classes?" asked Ayane.

"Simply put, the boy became a Shinobi because he needs money. You see his sister was born with a very weak body and she gets sick very easily. There is a treatment, but sadly the operation is very expensive and since both their parents are dead, she depends on him. That's why he joined the Academy, since he saw being a Shinobi the only way he could possibly earn enough money to pay for his sister operation. The whole class clown thing is a façade he has going, so that people won't think much of him, especially when he skips class to care for his sister" explained Naruto sadly.

"But why does he hide it?" asked Hinata.

"He doesn't want to gain attention, where people would find out about him and his sister, and would pity them. This is something he does not want, as he is a rather proud boy" Naruto answered, since in many ways Tetsu reminded him of himself when he was the young boy's age.

"But how is he able to have such control over the Wind?" asked Temari, as she never seen anyone have such natural control over their affinity at such a young age.

"I've a theory towards that, but I'm afraid I can't share it right now, since I'm not a hundred per cent certain of it yet" stated Naruto, where before anyone could even try to ask further. Naruto said the next match was about to start, which was between two young Kunochi, one of whom Naruto was very interested in.

The girl in question was named Naoru Suiteki, like Tetsu, she was a refugee from the same village that Naruto allowed into the New Kumo after their village was destroyed by Rogue Shinobi. According to her instructor's reports, she had excellent control over her Chakra and had a possible talent for medical Ninjutsu. She also showed signs of having a high aptitude when it came to Suiton (Water Style), not unlike Tetsu, when it came to Futon.

Suiteki was a medium tall attractive young girl, with long dark hair that was done up in a long ponytail that reached down below her back. She wore a bright blue dress that had wave designs and short selves and was spilt on the sides. That would give her plenty of freedom to move around and wore cream shorts underneath, along with long black stockings and simple saddles.

As the Shinobi representatives watched the fight, many were impressed with Suiteki's Suiton skills, which seemed so natural, where she used water from a water satchel that she carried on her lower back, to fight her female opponent. During the fight Suiteki, used a Mizu Bushin no Jutsu (Water Clone Technique) to attack and distract her opponent. While she used her remaining water to use Suiton: Suiben (Water Style: Water Whip) to bind and hold the other girl.

After the fight was declare over and Suiteki the winner, Naruto and the others continued to watch the next couple battles for the next several minutes, where eventually the instructor called out then names Amako Raizo and Ishida Soken.

Raizo was about average height for a thirteen year old, with white hair and crimson red eyes he wore simple red button shirt with black pants and a long black coat.

Soken was roughly the same height as Raizo, with a narrow frame; he had short dark hair and grey eyes and wore grey shorts and a white shirt and carried bow on his back.

When the three Kages and their parties heard the name Amako, they all had a surprised looks.

"Amako! As in the Amako Clan?" asked Homura, where he got a nodded of acknowledgement from Naruto.

"But I thought the Amako Clan was wiped out after the Civil War" stated the Shinobi Elder.

"That's actually incorrect, after the Godaime Raikage Amako Zankuro was killed, what was left of his Clan fled the country, fearing that we would've killed them all in revenge for what they did" answered Naruto.

"But if they all fled, why is he still here?" asked Ino.

"The reason is because we found him shortly after the Godaime Raikage was killed, before his Clan fled the country. Once the War ended, I decided to let him stay and allowed him to become a Shinobi when he applied to join the Academy" explained Naruto.

Before anyone else in the group could ask anything more about Raizo or his clan, Naruto indicated that the match was about to start and that he wished to watch it.

-Down in the arena-

As soon as the two Genin stood opposite one another Soken glared angrily at Raizo, as he took off his bow and prepared to fight.

"You're going to pay for what you and your Clan did to my family and everyone else in my Clan" stated Soken angrily as he gathered his Chakra and had it form into an arrow where he strung it onto his bow.

"I may be of the Amako Clan Soken, but I have had nothing to do with what the Godaime Raikage and what the rest of my Clan did" replied Raizo calmly, but with a tone of remorse as he remembered what his Clan had done.

"Tsk, save your excuse, you're just like "him" his blood runs through your veins after all!"

"Maybe, but it is not by choice and although I may have "his" blood running through my veins, I am not "him" and "he" is dead."

"Then maybe you should join him!" yell Soken, after which the referee shouted begin and Soken fired his Chakura no Ya (Chakra Arrow) (C) at Raizo. Who disappeared and reappeared behind Soken and kicked him hard in the back, while his Chakra arrow flew to the other end of the large arena and exploded when it hit the wall.

Recovering quickly, Soken turned around and fired another arrow at Raizo, who evaded it like the other one, and then appeared in front of Soken and gave him a strong punch in the stomach, causing him to keel over in pain.

"Give up, you can't win if you can't hit me" stated Raizo as she stood over Soken.

"NEVER!" yelled Soken as he got up and swung his bow at Raizo, which jumped back to avoid it. After which Soken fired three arrows made out of Chakra in rapid succession, but like before Raizo skilfully avoid them with his high speed.

-With the Observers-

As Naruto and the others watched the battle progress, many were impressed with Raizo's speed, which on pair with Lee without his weights back when he was competing in the Chunin exam.

"Look at him go" commented Tenten as she watched the young boy evaded all his opponents attacks.

"Yosh! Truly he is in the springtime of his youth" declared Lee.

"But how is he able to be so fast?" asked Neji. "I highly doubt that New Kumo's academy would follow the same kind of physical training that Gai-sensei did when training Lee."

"I believe it's more to do with his Bloodlimit, than physical training, am I correct?" stated Kakashi, as she turned to Naruto and the others.

"You are Hatakae-san" replied Takara.

"What exactly is the Amako Bloodlimit?" asked Udon.

"Raizo and his Clan Bloodlmit is called the Kuraingusandāparusu (Crying Thunder pulse). It allows the user to amplify his or her bioelectric current, thereby allowing the user to create Lightning Jutsu's without having to use Chakra or use hand seals to a limited degree. They can even combine their bioelectric current with their Lightning Chakra to increase the attack power of any Lightning Technique that they use. But the Bloodlimits greatest ability is that it allows its users to natural enhance their bodies, speed, strength and power, by using their bioelectric current to electrically stimulating their nervous system and speed up their neural synapses. This is what Raizo is using to enhance his speed to such an extent, it's even said that the Raiton no Yoroi (Lightning Style Armour) was based on this Bloodlimit" explained Nanao as if she was quoting a book. (16)

"Well it certainly explains things" answered Neji, since he had found it hard to believe and a young boy. Who wasn't even a Genin yet, could be as fast as Lee was when they were younger. Since Lee had spent a whole year in specialized training under Gai to be that fast. Although like most things that increase a person's natural abilities quickly, the technique Raizo was using was taking its toll on his body, as by using his Byakugan. Neji could see the stress the technique was putting Raizo's body the longer he used it, since he was clearly not use to moving so fast, yet impressively Raizo hid this, as he maintain a expressionless façade.

But as worn out as Raizo was becoming, Soken was even more exhausted, as by using his Chakura no Ya multiple times, he was running low on Chakra very quickly, where he could barely stand.

-Down at the Arena-

"I suggest that you forfeit now Soken you've used up nearly all of your Chakra, you cannot continue, I do not wish to hurt you" stated Raizo. Since for the majority of the fight he had been doing nothing more than dodging Soken's attacks, hoping to wear the Ishida member down. As he didn't want to hurt him, given what his Clan had done to Soken's family and Clan members.

"I'll never give up to you!" spat Soken before he fired another Chakra arrow at Raizo, who avoided it like all the others. But unlike this time, Soken raised his hand up and had the arrow change its direction to follow Raizo.

Sadly though, Soken overestimated his control, where instead of moving to where Raizo was, the arrow moved too far and headed straight to where the students who had yet to fight were waiting. The arrow hit the top section of the arena wall that they were standing next to and cause a small explosion.

When the Chakra arrow hit the wall, most of the students were able to jump away. The only exception was a young girl who tripped when she tried to jump away from the explosion. Those watching could only watch in horror as a large piece of the wall broke off and crashed on top of the helpless girl.

But just as the dust settled from the fallen chuck of the wall, the students, instructors and other observers saw a human shaped silhouette appear in the dust cloud, where after a few seconds, Raizo walked out of the dust cloud holding the young girl in his arms.

Upon seeing Raizo, everyone quickly realized that in the space of only two seconds, Raizo had crossed the distance from where he was fighting to the young girl and carried her away from the falling piece of wall.

After coming out of the dust cloud, Raizo placed the girl down, who was fairly shook up from what happened. Quickly enough, one of the instructors went up to the girl and took her away to be checked up. But before she left she thanked Raizo for saving her, although strangely enough, she look hesitant at first, as if she was unsure whether she should thank him or not.

Once everything settled down a bit, the referee of the match stated that the match was to be declared unfinished given what had happened and because Soken was unable to fight. After which Soken was taken away to be taken care of for Chakra exhaustion, where he would most likely receive some kind of punishment for endangering his classmates.

-With the Observers-

"Well that was certainly more exciting than I expected" commented Taira.

"Agreed, the boy went too far, although considering that he went up against Raizo of all people, I can't say I blame for lashing out" stated Soifon.

"What do you mean, I get that he hates that Raizo brat because he is an Amako. But that still doesn't explain why he hates him to that extent or why that girl was so hesitant to even thank. Even after he saved her life, you think she be a little more grateful" Jiraiya remarked.

"Soken's reasons for hating Raizo so much is similar to the reason why the Yondaime Tsuchikage Ryoku and Iwa hate's me" answered Naruto neutrally.

"What do you mean?" asked Choji, not fully understand what Naruto was saying.

"To put it simply, Raizo is the son of the former Godaime Raikage Amako Zankuro."

"He's his son!" repeated Koharu in shock, where Naruto just nodded again.

"You knew this and yet you let him live and allowed him to become a Shinobi for your village" said Danzo. Who couldn't believe that Naruto was actually that naïve and that he would let the son of his former enemy live and allow him to be trained as a Shinobi in his own village. Since to Danzo to do something like that was not only foolish, but was basically giving Raizo an open invitation to try and kill Naruto.

"Unlike you Danzo I refuse to kill innocent children, simply because of who their parents are" Naruto replied with a sneer. "Raizo, may be Zankuro's son, but he isn't Zankuro himself and children should not be punished for their parents sin."

"And what will you do, when he comes seeking revenge on you for killing his father?" asked Danzo, since he found Naruto reasoning for letting Raizo live not only foolhardy, but naive. Although on the other hand, the fact of who Raizo was, presented an opportunity that could be useful to him (Danzo) at a later time.

"Should that day ever come, I will deal with it accordingly, but until then I will put my faith in Raizo and allow him to make his own choices. By believing he can become better than his father and possibly redeem his Clan in the future" stated Naruto.

At this, Danzo only scoffed, since at that moment Naruto sounded just like the Sandaime, giving one of his speeches of peaceful coexisting, "Naïve fool."

Soon after, the excitement of the pervious match died down and the instructors decided continued and finish the remaining matches off, where for the next hour, Naruto and the others watched the remaining Genin candidates fight one another.

Eventually they came to the last three matches, which was what Nartuo and the others wanted to see the most, since they involved Naruto's three daughters Nene, Yoshiko and Yami.

Nene match was the first of the remaining three to start, where she faced against a young girl, who looked to be about twelve.

Surprisingly though the match didn't last very long, where as soon as the referee cried "Begin" Nene disappeared and reappeared in front of the opponent, where she delivered a strong punch to the stomach. Nene then followed up with a series of strong kicks and a few more punches. In less than a minute the battle was over, where the young girl was lying on the ground with several injuries.

"Hmph that went quicker than I thought" commented Anko in surprise, as she had to admit Nene was pretty fast for her age. Not as fast as Tetsu and Raizo, but fast none the less.

"Nene-chan is really strong, isn't she Tou-san?" said Aiko, as she turned to her father Iruka.

"That she is, I'm guessing you've been training her and her sisters" Iruka commented where he turned to Naruto.

"I may have taught them a thing or two" replied Naruto with a small smirk.

"Yea I beat, but then again she and her sisters will need it to beat back all the guys that will probably come after them. Once they get a little older" Kiba said with a smile, as he remembered the image of what Nene and her sister were to look like when they got older. Although that smirk quickly disappeared with he saw Naruto frown and began to generate Lightning around his body.

"If those little "punks" think that they can go near my little girls, they're going to be in for a rude shock!" stated Naruto. As he held up his hand and generated even more Lightning and had a sadistic smile on his face, (one that impressed even Anko), as he thought about all about the different "fun" things he would do to any boys that tried to date his little girls.

"Damn who would've ever guessed that the brat was the overprotective father type" Tsunade thought.

"Huuhhh, Why do all men have to like this, when it comes to their daughters" though Yugito with a sigh.

"A word of advice dog-boy" said Karui in a low voice. "Unless you want to become a human Lightning rod, you won't say the word boyfriend around the Rokudaime, as its kind of a taboo word with him. Besides between you and me, I don't think there be many boys willing to go after those three when they get older."

"Why the hell not? Those three will be knockouts once they hit puberty" Kiba whispered back.

"Well think about it, The Rokudaime is the strongest Shinobi and Kage alive. He also rules over the strongest Shinobi nation and commands thousands of loyal assassins. Not to mention he wields one of the strongest Bloodlines in exist and contains the strongest of the Nine tailed beasts. Most guys would be too scared to ask them out in case they piss him off.

At this kind of reasoning Kiba had to agree and that Karui did have a point, which kind of made Kiba pity any guy that did try to date Nene and her sisters. Since given the look that Naruto had right now, those poor souls would be in for a world of suffering.

Soon enough though, Kiba was brought out of his musing by Sakura, who suddenly spoke up.

"What is she doing down there."

-With Nene in the Arena-

After being declared the winner by the referee and seeing that her opponent couldn't move due to the injuries she received from her attacks, Nene quickly walked over to the girl and kneeled down to her.

"Don't move, I'll help you."

Listening to what Nene was telling her, the girl did what she was told. After which Nene closed her eyes and placed her hand on the girl's forehead and channelled her Chakra into the girl. When she did this, her hand glowed green and spread throughout the girl's body and healed all her injuries within seconds.

Once all of the girl's injuries where healed, Nene helped the girl up, who thanked her, after which they left the arena together.

-With the Observers-

"Did she use some kind of Medical Ninjutsu?" asked Ino.

"She couldn't have, she didn't do any hand seals" stated Tsunade, since she found it unlikely that New Kumo's Academy would teach any Medical Ninjutsu that advance. "All she did was touch her forehead."

"Actually, all she did was channel her Chakra into the girl's body" explained Naruto, gaining everyone's attention again.

"What do you mean by that?" asked Sakura.

"Like my mother, both Nene and Yoshiko were born with special Chakra that grants them special abilities. Nene's Chakra allows her to heal injuries at a much higher rate, similar to the In'yu Shōmetsu (Yin Healing Wound Destruction) technique that snake Kabuto uses. She can also heal other people as you saw by simply sending her Chakra into another person's body. The full extent of her Chakra's healing power is still unknown, but I've seen her heal many serious injuries in minutes, that would normally take days if not weeks to heal"

"Amazing" thought Tsunade as she thought about the possibilities of having someone like Nene as a medic-nin. Given how it was obvious that if Nene could be trained to use her Chakra correctly, she could very well become one of the greatest Medics to have ever lived.

"I wouldn't get any ideas if I were you Tsunade" commented Naruto, when he saw the thoughtful look on Tsunade's face. "Retsu has already made plans to make Nene her apprentice, once she gets a little older."

At hearing this, Tsunade was naturally a little disappointed, since it wasn't every day that one would find a person with such an obvious talent to be a Medic as Nene. But she soon got over it, since she knew that Unohana would train the girl well.

"If you do not mind me asking Raikage-sama, but since your daughter has this remarkable ability. Would I be correct in assuming that her twin has the same ability?" asked Shino.

"No Yoshiko's Chakra has a completely different ability" answered Naruto.

"And what is her ability?" asked Neji.

"You're about to find out" Naruto responded as he indicated back at the arena, as Yoshiko and her opponent were called out and walked out to the middle of the arena.

-With Yoshiko in the Arena-

After walking to the middle of the arena, Yoshiko and her opponent faced off against one another.

After the referee shouted "Begin!" Yoshiko's opponent made the first move where he took out a Kunai and threw it as her.

Naturally Yoshiko dunked under the Kunai and charged at her opponent, who quickly blocked her punch with his arm. After which for the next few minutes, the two Genin fought each other in Taijutsu.

As the fight progressed, the two would be Genin proved to be evenly matched, although Yoshiko was much faster than her opponent, which she used to her advantage and delivered a strong kick to the boy's stomach before he could block it, which forced him back a few feet.

Recovering quickly, the young boy did some hand seals and thought "Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique)!" before spitting out a volley of fire balls at Yoshiko.

Acting fast, Yoshiko narrowly avoided the small balls of fire by using her high speed to dodge them, although received a few scorch marks on her clothes. But once she avoided all them, she began to do a set of her own hand seals, and then said "Hiden: Genjuu no Jutsu (Secret Art: Mystic Beast Technique)! (D)" and released a large amount of Chakra, which formed around her. After which the Chakra began to take of a large blue Hawk with red eyes and three large blue wolves with the same glowing red eyes.

"Get him!" said Yoshiko, as she pointed at her opponent, who was completely stunned by what Yoshiko did. Before he knew it, the large Chakra hawk began to attack him, taking out a Kunai; the young boy tried to fight the Chakra bird off, but kept missing it. The next thing the boy knew, he was he was on the ground with two Chakra wolves pinning his arms to the ground and the third on his stomach growling at him, telling him not to move.

Seeing that the boy could no longer fight the referee declared Yoshiko the winner. Once she had been declared the winner Yoshiko went over and touched her animals and reabsorbed them into her, after which she helped her opponent back onto his feet and congratulated him on fight so well.

-With the Observers-

"Incredible, so that the special power of her Chakra" muttered Tsunade, as like everyone else she was shocked after seeing Yoshiko's unique power.

"Trust me Tsunade, that just a taste of what she can do, since it's a lucky thing that kid didn't destroy her animals, because if he had, he would've been in for a rather nasty surprise" said Naruto with an amused smirk.

"But how exactly is she able to do this?" asked Gaara, "As releasing that much concentrated Chakra all at once, goes far beyond the capability any normal Genin, let alone do something like that."

"Well as I said earlier, Yoshiko's Chakra is very unique, like Nene's. You see Yoshiko was born with a very highly level of Chakra like myself, but it is much more dense than most people's. This means she can do Jutsu with less Chakra than is normally required for specific ones. Yet despite having such large amount of Chakra, she is able to control it perfectly, which I guess is because it's so dense" explained Naruto before continuing.

"During her training with me, she inadvertently created a small kitty made out of Chakra, after which with the help of Zhuge Liang-sensei as well the Ishida Clan headRyūken, we helped her develop her technique fully."

"I must admit, that a very impressive technique, especially for a child of her age, you should be commended Raikage-sama" commented the Mizukage, who was greatly impressed with Yoshiko's power.

"Thank you, but Yoshiko is the one who should be praised for mastering her technique not me, since it is a technique she and she alone can use."

After a few minutes the last match between for the graduating class began, which was between Naruto eldest daughter Yami and a tall dark skinned young man, who towered over Yami by at least a head and a half.

Yet despite his towering size over the blonde girl, the boy actually looked scared of Yami, who remained expressionless as always.

"Hey Naruto-nii, aren't you worried about that guy that going against Yami-chan" asked Konohamaru, when he saw that Naruto wasn't the least bit worried about his daughter's opponent.

"Nah, Yami is more than capable of handling herself, in fact I'm more worried about her opponent than I am of Yami" replied Naruto.

"Poor guy, I really feel sorry for him, of all the people he would face, it had to be Yami" commented Yuffie with a knowing smirk.

"I do hope, that Yami-chan shows somw restraint and doesn't go too hard on the boy" commented Tair, with some concern.

This of course made all the non-New Kumo-nins wonder what was it that Yami could do, to make Naruto and everyone else so confident of her victory.

-With Yami-

After the referee shouted "Begin!" Yami remained perfectly still and waited for her opponent to make the first move.

Her opponent however was trying to decide what he should do first, as he was hesitant to doing anything, since he knew what Yami was capable of from when she spared with the other students. Not to mention she was their class's top Kunoichi and was probably the strongest one in their class.

Eventually though, Yami's opponent made the first move and charged Yami with his fist raised. Yami although remained perfectly still and waited until her opponent was just about on top of her before disappearing right before her opponent's eyes. Before he even knew what had happen, Yami kicked her opponent in his forward leg, causing him to fall forward and using his own momentum to cause him to tumble forward several meters away.

Naturally at seeing this many of the observers were impressed, since it took a very calm mind and extremely high skill to pull off a move like that and use an opponent own momentum against them. Given how you have to hit a person at just right time and point to pull it off correctly.

After recovering from his fall, Yami's opponent quickly picked himself up and did some hand seals before thinking "Doton: Dorodan no Jutsu (Earth Style: Mudshot Technique)!" and spitting out several globs of mud from his mount.

When she saw the mud balls coming at her, Yami skilfully avoided most of them, although was unable to avoid them all, where one of them hit her left leg and harden, reducing her speed.

Seeing that one of his attacks hit, Yami opponent quickly took out some Kunai and threw them at the blonde girl. But in an impressive show of incredible skill and speed, Yami caught all six Kunai in mid-air before they could hit her and then threw them back at her opponent.

Surprised by this, Yami's opponent was barely able to block react in time, where he used Doton: Doroku Gaeshi to create a wall of earth to block the incoming Kunai. But before the young man could bring the wall down, Yami quickly crossed the distance between them and in a feat of astonishing strength. She smashed right through the wall with her bare hands, (which of course shocked the representatives from Kiri, Suna and Konoha).

Acting quickly the dark skinned boy raised is fisted and attempted to punch Yami in the face, before his fist could make contact. Yami caught the boy's fist with her right hand and threw him at least twenty meters away from her and outside the square.

Seeing this, the referee decided to end the match.

-With Naruto and the others-

As the match ended, Naruto couldn't help but chuckle slightly at the disbelieving and shocked look on Tsunade and most of the others faces, as they couldn't believe the level of strength Yami had.

"How on earth did she do that?" asked a stunned Sakura.

"Could she have somehow used the same kind of technique that you and the Hokage used?" Sai asked as he turned to look at Sakura.

"No she couldn't have" stated his wife Ino, "I didn't sense her using any Chakra."

"Then how did she do it?" asked Moegi.

"Simple, she used pure strength, nothing more" stated an amused Naruto.

"But how?" asked Tsunade as she turned to the young blonde. "To do something like that takes years of physical training and there no way a child like her could have strength like that naturally."

"I'm afraid that is a classified Hokage-san" replied Naruto who suddenly became stern as they closed in on a sensitive subject. After which he got up from his seat and began to walk away so to congratulate his daughters on doing so well. But before he, Yugito and the others could leave, Shikamaru, (who had been remained silent for most of the fight), suddenly spoke.

"She's been genetically altered hasn't Naruto?"

The moment Shikamaru said this, Naruto snapped his head around and gave Shikamaru a harden look, that made the young Nara flinch slightly.

At the same time Yugito and the rest of Naruto wives all tensed up, where they quickly turned to stare a Shikiamaru with surprise looks, as did Uki and the rest of the New Kumo Shinobi.

"Shikamaru what are you talking about?" asked Tsunade as she turned to the young Jonin Commander.

"That girl Yami has been genetically altered somehow so that she would have super human strength. It's the only explanation for her great strength without using any kind of technique, as Ino stated that she didn't sense her using any Chakra. My guess is that she was involved in the same kind of experiments that gave the Ishida and Yuki Clan members their bloodlines" stated Shikamaru, where he looked at Naruto and his wives for confirmation.

Naturally Naruto and the other did not comment of this and remained silent, but that was enough to confirm what Shikamaru had said, where he decided to continue.

"I'm also willing to beat that like your other adopted daughters, something happened to her that involved you. That's why you adopted her, since you somehow feel responsible for whatever was done to her, am I wrong?" asked Shikamaru as he stared at his former blonde comrade.

At this Naruto continued to remain silent, he of course thought about denying it and walking away. But knew Shikamaru or the other wouldn't let this go and the fact was Shikamaru had already guessed most of it, so there was no point in hiding it.

After let out a large sigh, Naruto stared at Shikamaru. "Huh, I should've known that you would've caught on Shikamaru. But to answer your question, yes you're correct, Yami has been genetically altered. During the Civil War, the Godaime Raikage began to gather up people to experiment on, to find ways of increasing Kumo's power and its quality of Shinobi. Both Yami and her parents were among the thousands of people that were taken away and experimented on. Both Yami's parents died during those experiments, while she and fifty others were placed in a special program called the Super Shinobi program."

"The Goal of the program…" continued Naruto "…was to create the perfect Shinobi, who was stronger and faster than any other Shinobi and felt no fear and obeyed orders without question. For several years they experimented on her and enhanced body making her faster and stronger and put her on a drug therapy that suppressed her emotion and made her more compliant to orders."

"So that's why she so strong and acts the way she does" stated Jiraiya.

"Yes, although, she held back a great deal of her strength, so not to hurt the boy she was fighting. In fact according to our estimates by the time she reaches full maturity she could be as strong as Tsunade and Haruno, and be as fast as Gai and Lee without their weights, although as I said, that is just an estimate. As for her emotional state, it has taken me this long juts to get her to open up to me and the girls to that point and I'm not entirely sure if she can ever truly recover from the trauma she suffered."

"How did you find her?" asked Hinata.

"In the final months of the war, we discovered the location of the research base and I led the attack on it and found Yami. Later I found out what was done to her and decided to adopt her, although as Shikamaru said there more to the reason than simply pity for what was done to her."

"What do you mean?" asked Lee.

"You see before we attacked the research lab, the Godaime Raikage's forces somehow gained a sample of my blood from one of my battles with them. In an attempt to gain the Ranbure-ka (Stormbreaker) limit for themselves, they injected my DNA into her."

"Hold on, are you saying that she has the Ranbure-ka?" asked Homaru in surprise, while at the same time, thinking what this meant.

"No, the experiment only partially worked?"

"What do you mean by partially" asked Tenten.

"Yami did not gain my Ranbure-ka limit, but she did gain my Healing factor and is therefore immune to basically any kind of poison and can heal almost instantly from most injuries. Also it seems that when my DNA was inserted into her, her eye colour changed from blue to red, the reason for this I believe is because of a combination of the alteration that were done to her and because of my DNA, since whether I like it or not. The Kyubi is part of my DNA after it flooded my body with its Chakra."

After hearing this, the three groups were naturally surprised, since most of them had no idea how far the Godaime Raikage went to try and win the Civil War and to make Kumo stronger.

Danzo on the other hand found this news to be very interesting and found that the Godaime Raikage's Super Shinobi programme could be quite beneficial if he could somehow implement it himself.

"So you adopted Yami-san because you felt responsible for what happened to her" stated Neji.

"Yes I do, but I also adopted her because I am probably the closest thing that she has left to a blood relative. Therefore it's my responsibility to care for her and help her, as she has no-one else left and no child should have to grow up alone."

After hearing this, the Shinobi representatives fell silent, where many could not help but pity the young girl. As they could only imagine the suffering she must have went through, when she was being experimented on.

Yugito of course placed her hand on Naruto's shoulder as a sign of support, since she knew how much Naruto blamed himself for what they put Yami through, when they injected his DNA, even though it wasn't really his fault.

"May I ask, what happened to the fifty others that were involved in the Super Shinobi Programme?" asked Shino.

"They're all dead, most of they died during the experiments that were placed on them. Those like Yami who survived the experiments were killed during our attack on the research base. Yami was the only survivor and before you ask she was the only one who was injected with my DNA, since they had only enough for one attempt."

After hearing this, the three Kages and their individual parties all nodded their heads in understanding, after which they all followed Naruto and his party down to the arena to congratulate the students for fighting so well and graduating.

-Down in the arena-

"You did great Yami-nee" cheered Yoshiko as she ran up and greeted her older sister.

"Yeah, he never stood a chance against you!" said Nene, as she followed her twin and greeted her older sibling.

"I greatly appreciate, both your praise, thank you, both of you fought admirably as well"

"The three of you did great, as did everyone else here" stated a familiar voice to the three girls.

When they turned around, they saw their father walking towards them, along with their mothers and the representatives of Konoha, Kiri and Suna.

"Look, it's the Raikage!" cried one of the students when he saw the leader of their village walking towards them.

"Tou-san!" cried Nene and Yoshiko together, as they ran up and greeted their father, who congratulated the two girls as did the girls mothers. Naruto even congratulated the rest of the graduating class; telling them that he was very proud of them all.

"I am surprise you came Oto-sama, as I did not think you would be able to come, due to your meeting with the representative of Iwa" spoke Yami, with her usual emotionless tone and blank expression as she walked up to Naruto and the others.

"Of course I would, I wouldn't miss this for the world" Naruto said as she smiled down a Yami.

"But surely your meeting with the representative of Iwa takes a much higher precedence over our Graduating matches?" stated Yami with her usual blank look.

At this, Naruto knelt down to his adopted daughter and looked her directly in the eyes and said, "As far as I am concerned, you, your sisters and your mothers are the most important things to me. I would rather be here and watch the three of you becoming Genin, than be anywhere else."

"Although I do not fully understand your reasoning Oto-sama, I do understand your desire to be near us and appreciate your support" said Yami with the same expressionless look. Although as she said this, Naruto saw a small smile form on her face, indicating that she was indeed happy that he had come to watch them.

Pleased with seeing this, Naruto hugged Yami, since she rarely smiled.

Soon after he let go of her and watch as the three girls and the other students were given their headbands, officially making them Genin of New Kumo.

Once the girls had gotten their headbands, Naruto then stated that they would be heading to Ichiraku's Restaurant to celebrate.

As expected from any children of Naruto, both Nene and Yoshiko cheered loudly at having Raman. Even Yami seemed slightly pleased at this, stating that she found their Raman enjoyable. They even invited Iruka and his family, as well as Konohamaru and his team should join them, stating that they were family too and that the girls should get to known their "Aunts" and "Uncles" and their new "Cousin."

Naturally neither Iruka or Konohamaru or any of the others could refuse Naruto's offer and left with the family, leaving Darui, Guren and the others to escort the other representatives back to their hotel.

As the representatives watched Naruto and his family walk out of the arena, some of the Konoha members could not help but smile, as they saw Naruto laugh and talk away with his family. Since it reminded them of times back when Naruto was still with Konoha and when he was young. It also reminded them that no matter how much Naruto had change over the years, he still remained the same in what mattered most, he still had his kind and loving heart.