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For once, one of the very rarest of moments had occurred. Mito was not the type to get lost or not know the layout of the village between Konoha and Uzushio as if it were the back of her very hand. This time, however, she'd ended up on the outskirts of Michi no Sato with confusion apparent on her face, not sure how she'd taken a wrong turn. Or, even, what this village was.

Tapping the side of her chin with her forefinger she quietly investigated the area right outside of the little village, not sure what to make of it or even if it were friendly. Even with the foundation of the ninja villages, tensions were still high if one were not careful. Steps were light and quiet as she moved from cover to cover, even if her cover was rather easily blown by the fairly ornate kimono and crimson colored hair.

If anything, the woman may have appeared almost skittish to the casual onlooker, or as if a spy of some shape or form.

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"There is no excuse for someone to hate a child, not a single reason in the world." Even if she had no idea that this kid was the third host to the demon, though it weighed on the back of her mind between her own thoughts and Kurama's picking at her to figure it out. "Ah. What is this village in front of us, anyway? I had been heading to my old home before I ended up here."

"This is Michi!" He scrubbed at his face and sniffled again. "The weather's weird here."

"Michi..." Strange name and even stranger that the weather would be weird. But to what extent, she wasn't yet sure. "How is the weather weird?" While she collected her thoughts together to find a way to shut the fox up. "If you... do not mind my asking, are you familiar at all with the demon fox on a... personal level? It may sound strange, but the one I am holding seems to think so."

"I had a sunbeam last month. And. Uh? I dunno?" Was she trying to confuse him?

"This sounds crazy, but hear me out. Do you have a swirl on you somewhere?" It would certainly explain a lot, if not absolutely tick her off to ridiculous degrees.

"Um. Not always?" He was so very very confused now.

"... Not always?" Strange. Maybe he wasn't what the fox seemed to think he was.

"Uh huh! It never showed up at all unless I was sick or since I've been learning ckara!"

Certainly not the same type of seal she'd used, this was getting more interesting the longer they talked about it. "Can you make it show up now that you are learning?"

"If I focus super hard!" He nodded at once, pleased they'd found a topic that was better.

"Can you show me, then?" A light smile as she moved to try and set him down on the ground. Hopefully the seal wasn't what she thought it would be, but if anyone would know seals then it was certainly her.

He nodded, letting her put him down and putting his hands together, immediately concentrating with his eyes squinched mostly shut. He forgot to grab his shirt though.

... That really wasn't doing anything from that point. With a soft chuckle she moved to pull his shirt up just a bit, figuring that if it was the seal she thought it was that it'd appear in only one particular spot.

One eye peeked open but he didn't stop. Once he got the chakra stuff going he could usually keep it going for absolutely forever.

Once the seal showed up she immediately paused as her eyes locked onto it. That seal wasn't the one she was expecting, not entirely. Dropping his shirt she takes a few steps back, hand immediately covering her mouth as she does so. "No, that can't be right..."

The reaction immediately garnered his full attention, and he dropped his hands, back going straight as wariness, well trained wariness, instantly crossed his face. Should he go? He should probably go.

"That seal. It has been some time since I've seen it, it's akin to my own but is very clearly the Dead Demon Consuming Seal." Which meant that someone died for it to happen, maybe that would explain why he didn't know where his parents were, maybe they had died.

"Naruto, tell me, do you ever hear a voice in the back of your head?"

"Nope." Not even a little.

...

Was he supposed to?

He was just about on the verge of going silent and switching to hand seals for talking here.

"He must not be able to yet, then..." There was time to prepare for the inevitable, to teach how to deal with such a burden. Though she was having to do her best to hold back the anger boiling within her at subjecting a child to being the host of the beast.

"Listen to me. That seal means that someone has sealed the same demon I have within you. It means he will begin to speak soon, try to turn you towards hatred and anger. You cannot allow for him to do such a thing, no matter what he may tell you. No matter how true he might be, if you do then he will be able to take control of you and you will no longer be able to stop him."

He frowned at her, hands fluttering through a few words before he caught himself and lowered them, forcing himself to speak aloud. He was distressed, make no mistake about that. "I'm not gonna just give up because you think I might. M'not that weak."

"I never said to give up against him. If anything, you must fight him every step of the way and be careful about it." She didn't want to distress him, but for one so young it seemed she was to be the one to inform him of what was going on. Not that she was pleased at all that someone would think it a good idea to seal a powerful and conniving demon in a child.

He stomped his foot, practically radiating upset at this point. "You were talking about if I failed. I'm not gonna."

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