Chapter 11: Counseling the Council

Hari made it a point to test the result of Naruto's blood adoption after finding out from Kyuubi that there were changes in the boy's body. After assuring Sano and Haku that everything was alright, everyone adjourned to the Mahora training ground to conduct the test.

The reason for the test was to find out the extent of Naruto's change, as well as to make sure that none of the changes were harmful to the boy. Naruto was eager to be tested since he wanted to find out if he gained something cool from Hari's blood.

Sano and Haku decided to just stay in the background and observe, anticipation clearly written on their faces. Of course, they offered their services if there was a need to test Naruto in terms of finding out some new skills and abilities that the blonde might have gained through the inclusion of Hari's blood into the blonde's system.

Sano was particularly excited about that since he had been itching for a good fight ever since Wave Country and he knew for a fact that Naruto was a strong kid considering that the person who trained him was a powerful shinobi.

After a slew of diagnostic spells later, Hari was practically staring at Naruto in disbelief, unable to believe that the boy changes turned out to be...unexpected.

"Wow." Hari exclaimed in total disbelief. "I didn't expect that."

"Expect what, sensei?" asked Naruto eagerly, wanting to know what he gained from being blood adopted into his sensei's clan. That thought made him giddy since he now belonged to a family that contained member who didn't treat him differently just because he contained Kyuubi in his metaphorical gut.

"Something wrong with Naruto, Hari-sama?" Haku asked in a concerned voice. Sano just stayed silent since his clan head didn't say anything substantial as of yet.

Hari shook his head to regain his bearings before addressing the question.

"Uh no, nothing is wrong with Naruto. He is quite healthy though the changes I found in his body startled me a bit."

"So what did the blood adoption do to me, sensei? Did I gain cool powers? Can I do magic now?" Naruto fired off his salvo of questions.

Hari simply gave the blonde a smile before patting him on the head.

"Let me start with the cosmetic changes first." Hari began. "Your eyes changed color. It would seem that my green hue mixed with your blue, turning it into something that resembled yellow, not quite there since I can easily see the distinction. It is something more blue-green or yellow-green if you want to be technical about it."

"Huh? Really?" Naruto asked, dumbfounded.

Hari nodded and conjured a small hand-held mirror and had if float over to the blonde who immediately saw the color change in his eyes. Naruto was desensitized over the use of magic considering that he was training under someone who used it on a daily basis.

"Ano…not as bright as my usual blue but its cool, I guess." the blonde observed before nodding. He was a bit sad that he lost his unique blue but the new color was great too. Then he saw something that made his eyes widen comically "I see that my hair grew too! It's no longer as messy as before."

"Yep." Hari agreed, Haku gave a nod of approval as well. "Since it's longer, it doesn't stand up as it used to. Anyway, are you guys ready to hear more?"

Everyone nodded eagerly, though Naruto's nod was quite energetic making the Mahora Clan Head chuckle.

"According to the diagnostic spell I ran on you, there are no outer physical changes aside from your eyes and the length of your hair. However," Hari paused a bit for a more dramatic approach. "Inside your body tells another story. Did you know that your bones are denser and your muscles are more compact?"

Naruto and Haku just looked at him with a confused expression on their faces; the latter, despite having medical training to assist his former master better didn't go into the intricacies of human anatomy as of yet due to the lack of material.

Sano's eyes, however, brightened in realization. "You don't mean…?" Sano trailed off.

Hari nodded to that unasked question.

"Yes, that is exactly what I mean." Hari replied immediately, knowing what Sano was trying to say.

Naruto looked at the two of them in annoyance.

"Can you guys tell me what the both of you are talking about?" asked an annoyed blonde.

Hari chuckled over his apprentice's annoyance.

"You see, Naruto, our bones and muscles improve the more we train. This is why shinobis are physically stronger than civilians. I checked hundreds of shinobis in the hospital and all of them have the same characteristics - denser bones and more compact muscles. To put it simply, the denser the bone, the stronger and more durable it is. The more compact the muscles, the more power it could produce." Hari explained with a smile causing Naruto's eyes to widen in realization. "I see that you got it. You're physical stronger now than you were before. Your bones are more durable; and if I guessed right, you won't be suffering from broken bones anytime soon. Add your healing factor into the mix, you're practically an immortal in the battlefield."

"Wow!" Naruto breathed before a happy grin made its way to his face and danced a jig. "Yatta! I'm stronger! Woot!"

Hari sighed before hitting Naruto's rump with a mild pain hex causing the blonde to yelp in pain.

"I'm not done yet, gaki." Hari said, annoyed though he was inwardly smirking when Naruto rubbed the pain on his butt cheek. "Now, where was I? Oh yes, now, these changes in your muscle and bone structure increased your weight. So if I was to hazard a guess, you're speed would be somewhat affected though I'm not sure about that since you can physically offset it with your newfound strength or by channeling chakra through your body to counter the weight. We need to test this though to find out."

"What test, sensei?" asked Naruto.

Hari gestured the training dummies that littered the Mahora training ground.

"I want to test your strength and how much it changed after the blood adoption. There are three tests I want you to try. First, I want you to punch that dummy with all of your strength without using chakra." Hari instructed.

Naruto nodded and walked over to the nearest training dummy. He took in a deep breath to relax and gathered his strength. He punched the training dummy with all of his might and stared at the result. The training dummy broke into pieces easily under his punch. The sound from the impact echoed across the training ground.

"Wow!" Haku and Sano breathed out, staring disbelievingly at the ruined dummy in front of them.

"Wow indeed." Hari said with a nod before conjuring a notebook and wrote down the result of the first test. "With your previous strength, you would have just given the dummy a hole or a crack here and there with a full-power punch. This time, your punch practically broke the dummy into pieces. Now, choose another dummy and punch it again, this time, use chakra with your full strength behind it."

Naruto nodded dumbly and walked over to the next dummy. He frowned a bit when he found his chakra to be unresponsive; meaning that his control was shot. He needed to ask his sensei later about that. Using whatever control he had at the moment over his chakra, he channeled the energy into his hand making it glow a bright blue. He got into a ready stance and punched the training dummy with all of his strength.

It was safe to say that the result was devastating.

The dummy exploded from the impact, turning the wooden dummy into sawdust that floated lazily to the ground. Everyone started at the result in pure disbelief.

"Whoah! What in the world was that?" exclaimed Naruto as he stared at his fist then at the saw dust on the ground.

"I don't know but I have a theory." Hari said, using his Occlumency to get rid of the shock. "This is still the second test since I want to find out more. I want you to do the same but instead of punching a training dummy, punch the ground instead."

"What?" Naruto exclaimed in confusion.

"Just do it, boya!" shouted Hari in annoyance since he wanted to see what he was working with. He gestured for Sano and Haku to move back a few meters with him doing the same. "Alright, Naruto, do it!"

Naruto sighed and repeated the feat. Pulling in a deep breath, he punched the ground with all of his might, causing a loud explosion, scattering dust and rocks all over the place.

Hari couldn't see Naruto due to the large amount of dust in the air so he used a vanishing charm to get rid of the hindrance. He stared in pure shock and disbelief since Naruto was no longer there, and so was the ground the blonde was standing on.

In its place was a deep crater, easily 20 feet in diameter and easily 10 feet deep. Naruto was sitting on his butt in the middle of the crater, disbelief also on his whiskered face.

"Holy shit!" Sano exclaimed. "What a punch!"

"Wow!" was all Haku said, staring at the hole with wide-eyed astonishment.

A sadistic grin made its way to Hari's face before jotting down a few notes on his notebook. He walked over to the edge of the crater and looked down at the shocked blonde.

"Oi, gaki. You still alive?" Hari hollered down to his apprentice.

"What just happened, sensei?" asked Naruto when he looked up from where he was sitting in the middle of the crater he made from a single punch.

"Come back up here." commanded Hari which Naruto immediately followed by jumping out of the hole. He must have underestimated his strength since he overshot his mark and landed a few meters behind the trio. Amused, Hari commented. "I guess he doesn't know his own strength."

Bewildered, Naruto turned around to look at his sensei, his face clearly asking for help. Hari saw this and gave the boy a reassuring smile.

"Don't worry, gaki. As I said before, you will have a whole new experience with your new physical prowess. We will work on control since we don't want you to kill somebody by accident." Hari joked though everyone in the training ground knew that it wasn't one.

"Damn. The kid has quite a punch. The amount of power in that single punch alone must rival those that Tsunade could dish out." exclaimed Sano in both surprise and disbelief. He made a note not to mess with the blonde since it would be detrimental to his health if he did so.

"Tsunade of the Sannin?" asked Haku.

Sano nodded before answering. "Tsunade of the Densetsu no Sannin is said to have legendary strength that could shatter large boulders with a single punch. From the few missing-nins who saw her in action, what the gaki did was similar to her strength."

Hari nodded in agreement to Sano's comparison before turning to Haku. "Haku, since you're a sensor, how much chakra was Naruto channeling in that punch?"

Haku thought for a bit before answering. "He channeled as much chakra as I do when I use my Demonic Ice Mirror technique, which takes about half of my reserves. From what I can sense from Naruto, he used barely a drop on his overall reserves," explained Haku before pausing. "If I sense it right, Naruto's chakra amount grew twice its original amount." He looked at Naruto who was staring at him in shock. "I'm sorry to say this, Naruto, but your chakra control is going to suck judging from how your chakra sluggishly moved to your fist."

Naruto didn't say anything but turned to a tree and started running towards it. When he got a step on the trunk and channeled chakra to stick, he flew back like a rocket with the large chunk of the trunk gouged off.

"See?" Haku said, amused over the whole thing. Before the blood adoption, Naruto chakra was moving around his body like a calm river. Now, it was like a raging torrent making his control over it nonexistent.

"Aw man! Now I have to do chakra control exercises again." Naruto whined as he picked himself off the ground and patting the dirt off his pants.

"Stop whining, boya." Hari barked to the blonde. "No need to worry about that. Just make a few hundreds, or in this case, thousands of clones and work on your chakra control. You can do that tomorrow. I want to finish the tests to make sure I got everything down when I report your adoption to the Hokage."

Naruto looked at him weirdly. "Why do you need to report it to jiji?" he asked with a confused tilt of his head.

"Baka! He's the Hokage and any clan adopting a member into the fold must be reported to him." replied Hari with a frown on his face. "Don't tell me you forgot about that law? That was in one of the books you read during your first month of training."

"Oh. Sorry, sensei." Naruto said sheepishly causing Hari to sigh.

"Let's move on to the next test." said Hari before conjuring a kunai with a long blade, making it look like a miniature sword.

"What is it going to be this time?" Naruto asked before he nervously looked at the…weapon in his sensei's grip. "What are you going to do with that, sensei?"

Hari didn't say anything but advanced on the blonde with a sadistic gleam in his eyes.

"Is this for real?" exclaimed the Hokage as he read the content of the notebook he was holding.

"Yes, everything in that notebook is real, old man." said Hari with little to no surprise. He was there after all when Naruto demonstrated the…explosive changes his blood wrought on the blonde. "From the looks of it, Naruto didn't change much physically but his body went into a total overhaul. Chakra-wise, Sano compared him to Kisame, his swordsman colleague who was dubbed as the Bijuu-without-a-tail. Magically, Naruto is just above that of a squib and below an ordinary wizard; he can't cast spells but he had enough in his system to assist in the creation of his own Mahora Elemental Dance, though we'll have to see how his Absolute Defense works to determine the extent of his magical core. His healing factor got boosted and the various wounds I inflicted on him healed almost immediately. He is going to be a terror in the field, I just know it."

The Hokage nodded before a thought occurred to him.

"Which reminds me; you sent me a note detailing your…mahoujutsu. You didn't specify the details so can you give me an idea what it can do?" asked Sarutobi as he put down the notebook he was reading. Everything in it was unbelievable. He knew that Naruto was going to be a strong shinobi, stronger than his peers; but this takes the cake.

"Mahoujutsu is the name of the Mahora Clan's bloodline." Hari said with a grin. "From what Haku discovered and what I have been doing for years, it is quite possible to combine both the manipulation aspect of chakra with the creation part of magic to create new techniques. Thanks to Haku, we were able to determine that the magic in our system reacts to our main elemental affinity, giving us the ability to create an absolute defense of sorts."

"Absolute defense?" the aged leader asked skeptically. "Sorry for saying this but in the shinobi world, there is no such thing as an absolute defense."

Hari smirked and relayed Haku's Dance of the Floating Ice Mirrors and how it acted in defense of the caster, describing every detail during the testing. To prove his point, he also mentioned his own version of the technique, Dance of the Screaming Lightning, as well as Sano's Dance of Raging Tides. When he was done, the Sandaime Hokage was giving him a shocked look.

"You don't have to worry, old man." Hari assured him. "No one without magic in their system can replicate those techniques. Even if they could, the schematics of its creation are safely stored in our clan's version of the Forbidden Scroll - protected under wards, a blood lock, and a blood seal. No one outside the Mahora Clan can open it."

"Fine. I'll let you take care of it since it is a clan matter." Sarutobi said with a nod. He didn't need this headache and if word got out, it would surely place the Mahora Clan in the spotlight. Not that they needed it considering Hari's…reputation. "I hope you have a plan concerning your adoption of Naruto and his recent…changes."

Hari nodded. "According to the Konoha Charter, an adoption of a shinobi into a bloodline-using clan requires the information to be released to the council before being disseminated to the rest of the village, not that they could do anything about it since the approval for adoption is sorely under your domain and we have that in writing already." stated Hari as he gestured towards the folder on the Hokage's desk containing the documents regarding the adoption of Naruto into the Mahora Clan which made everything legal and iron-clad. "I know the shinobi council won't be a problem since they all like Naruto but I'll bet that the civilian council is going to raise a fuss over it."

"I know." Sarutobi said with a groan. He knew that this was going to give him a migraine. "However, they can't do anything about it. They can complain and demand for the adoption to be nullified, but without my consent, they can't do anything about it. Also, your adoption of the boy could not be reversed."

"True." Hari quipped before a mischievous grin crossed his face. "I have a plan in mind that would put them in their proper place. Professor Dumbledore told me once during my first year at Hogwarts that the Truth is a beautiful and terrible thing. I intend to make the civilian council see the truth about Naruto and the bijuu he holds."

Sarutobi nodded before he remembered something. "Speaking of the Kyuubi, are you sure that it's not influencing the boy?"

"Nope." said Hari with shake of his head. "If anything, the addition of magical blood into Naruto strengthened the seal somewhat, ensuring that the fox wouldn't be able to control or influence Naruto in any way. According to the bijuu, who I felt was being entirely honest about it, informed us that Naruto can now easily control most of his chakra. We haven't tested it yet but I'm planning to do so in a week when Naruto gets his chakra control back to the level before the adoption messed it up. Besides, I didn't detect a hint of lying from the fox when Naruto and I talked to it."

"I see. That's good. Make sure that you keep monitoring Naruto. I think you already know that this is the first time in the history of the Elemental Nations that a jinchuuriki was infused with magical blood. We don't know what it would do to Naruto in the future."

"Don't worry about it. I have everything under control." said Hari with a smile before frowning. "Any word from the pervert?"

"Jiraiya?" Sarutobi asked in an amused tone. "No not yet. My last communication with him came in the form of the letter. He will be coming back to Konoha after the second part of the Chuunin Exams. He will meet Naruto then and take up the next step to the boy's apprenticeship. Are you sure you're fine with that?"

Hari nodded his head in positive. "I have no problems with Jiraiya teaching Naruto as long as he doesn't turn the gaki into a pervert. If I hear a peep that Naruto is doing something…perverted then Jiraiya is going to get an up-close and personal experience with my lightning bolts." he said with a sadistic smirk that sent shivers down Sarutobi's spine.

"Fine. I'll make sure I warn him of your…condition in taking over the apprenticeship." said the Hokage, praying the Jiraiya wouldn't make the wrong move on Naruto or else he would be in a world of hurt. Sure, Jiraiya was way stronger than Hari in terms of skill and experience but the Mahora Clan Head wasn't a pushover. "Now, let's start planning on what we are going to do when the council is called into session."

Both shared a devious grin before getting started on their plan.

It was two days after Naruto's blood adoption into the Mahora Clan that the Konoha Council was called into a full meeting through the insistence of the civilian-side since they wanted to discuss something of importance to the 'benefit and welfare of Konoha' as they put it.

However, Hari knew that this was a farce since he and Hokage already expected this to happen since the aged leader informed everyone of the adoption during yesterday's session. Despite this…underhanded maneuver, Hari wasn't worried because among the Konoha Council, only the civilian side had it in for the blonde jinchuuriki.

It was a suckers bet that they would be demanding that the adoption be nullified and the boy to be 'killed' for the safety of the villagers. If that didn't work then the civilian council would push through the motion of having Naruto's shinobi license revoked so he would revert back to a civilian and totally under their control.

Hari would go through hell if he let that happen.

Of course, the shinobi council would be against their request since the Naruto was a talented shinobi that was already a great addition to the ranks thanks to the many missions he had amassed over the months since he graduated from the Academy. Besides, it would all come to naught because Naruto was under the Hokage's jurisdiction due to his shinobi status and the civilian council, despite their bullheadedness knew that they couldn't touch the blonde because of that.

No, Hari wanted to make sure that the animosity would end after this meeting. He already had a plan to make sure that everything would go smoothly and mentally grinned when he eyed a particularly fat civilian councilman that would become the target of his…demonstration.

All he needed to do was to stick to the plan the Hokage made up for this event.

Hari was inwardly laughing as the civilian council was doing it's very best to have the adoption of Naruto revoked and the shinobi council expending the same effort in thwarting their plans. Deciding to get this show on the road, he discretely gave the Hokage a small wink to signal the start of the plan.

"SILENCE!" shouted the Hokage with a bit of his killing intent thrown into the mix, effectively shutting everyone up. "Thank you. Before you people shout yourself hoarse, need I remind the civilian council that adoption of shinobis into any clans falls under the jurisdiction of the shinobi council and the Hokage. Meaning, you don't have any say in the matter, making this meeting a farce of an event with no agenda. Besides, even if it is possible to revoke the adoption, there are certain things involved in this adoption that made it ironclad."

"What do you mean, Hokage-sama?" asked the Haruno Sakaki, the head of the merchant's guild in Konoha, practically the leader of the civilian council thanks to his wealth. He was also a stout supporter of the anti-Naruto campaign.

"Naruto is not only legally adopted into the Mahora Clan, he is now a part of it in blood as well." Sarutobi informed him before nodding to Hari who smirked. "I think it would be best to let Hari explain everything to set the facts straight. Hari?"

Hari nodded before standing up, the smirk in his face was now evident to everyone in the room. The shinobis who knew Hari shivered a bit as to what that smirk entailed.

"Thank you for giving me the floor, Hokage-sama." said Hari with a bow to the Hokage before turning his attention to the council. "Hokage-sama is correct on all counts. Not only is Naruto adopted into the clan legally as mandated by the Konoha Charter concerning the adoption of a shinobi into a bloodline-using clan, I have enacted a certain ritual to turn Naruto into a full-blooded Mahora." This was a lie of course since Naruto was technically a half-blood Mahora after the adoption but the council didn't need to know that teensy weensy fact.

"What do you mean, Mahora-san?" asked Shikaku who was miraculously awake since the Nara clan head tend to use the session as nap time. He's been doing that for years ever since he ascended to being the head of his clan so his nap-time session during council meetings was mostly ignored, except when things were important enough to garner his attention.

"As you all know, the Mahora Clan is not only unique in terms of abilities, but of how these abilities are used as well. The way I adopted Naruto into my clan requires a rare ritual called the Blood Adoption Ritual and those who would be joining my clan in the future would be following the same protocol. In fact, before I did this ritual with Naruto, I had Haku and Sano go through the same. To put it simply, the result of the ritual would ensure that anyone blood adopted by me will have my blood running in their veins."

This little information shocked everyone, especially Danzo who was frowning .

"So you mean to tell us that Naruto is no longer an Uzumaki?" asked Danzo with a mild glare directed at Hari who just ignored it. There were only a few people in Konoha who knew about the Uzumakis body-based bloodline and he was one of them. He was concerned of having this useful bloodline disappear because someone happens to have a method to blood adopt someone into his clan. He fought tooth and nail with Sarutobi to have the boy inducted into his training program but all attempts failed because of the old monkey's cunning and use of the loopholes in the Konoha Charter. It was maddening.

"You misunderstand me, Danzo-sama." corrected Hari, his eyes twinkling merrily. "Even if Naruto's blood is now similar to my own, he will still retain all of the abilities that he had as an Uzumaki. Nothing is ever lost, only added upon."

"Wait a minute, what abilities are we talking about?" asked one of the councilman in the room. "the brat is an orphan so he doesn't have any."

Hari gave the man a condescending look.

"Please, councilman. You forget that I'm a professional medic-nin. Naruto is a true blue Uzumaki…and no, I'm not going to tell you how I know. Only the Hokage can give that permission since he is the only one who has access to Uzumaki blood and the clan's relevant information about it. To answer your question, Uzumaki Naruto holds the famous body-based bloodline of the Uzumaki Clan."

"What bloodline does Naruto have, Mahora-san?" asked Inoichi, curious.

"All Uzumakis are blessed with a body-based bloodline giving them three advantages. One, an Uzumaki's chakra is more potent than your average chakra. Meaning, if an Uzumaki and an Uchiha would fire off a fireball with the same amount of chakra, the Uzumaki would win because their chakra is more condensed, thus giving it more power." Hari paused for a bit, noticing that everyone attention was on him. He continued. "Anyway, the second advantage is their healing factor. An Uzumaki has an improved regenerative factor that allows them to heal wounds on the fly. Again, the speed of the healing would depend on how potent the Uzumaki's chakra is. Thanks to the…ummm…thing inside Naruto, his chakra is more potent, granting him a powerful healing factor."

"And the third?" asked another councilman who was leaning forward with greed quite evident in his eyes. Hari made a mental note to keep an eye on this one.

"Potent chakra equals a potent life force. Because of this, an Uzumaki has a longer life span than normal humans. He would live up to sixty and wouldn't look a day older than forty." Hari informed the man with a cold look.

"Still, that doesn't answer the question, does Uzumaki still have access to his bloodline?" asked Danzo, irritated that the boy was taking so long to answer a simple question.

Hari gave the man a smirk before nodding.

"The answer is…yes. In fact, thanks to the blood adoption ritual and the addition of my blood to his system, he now holds a minor ability common in all Mahoras, as well as enhancing his bloodline tenfold." answered Hari with a cheeky grin on his face making some of the shinobi clan heads stifle a grin.

"You gave the demon more power! How could you!" shouted Haruno Sakaki which made everyone wince. His volume wasn't as potent as a female Haruno but it was very close for comparison.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Haruno-san, but Naruto is not a demon. I can testify to that fact." Hari said with a grin, inwardly patting himself on the back for manipulating the questions arrive at this point.

"And how pray tell can you determine that Naruto is not a demon? He holds the….K-" he was interrupted by Hari who was giving him a glare that could have killed if him looks had that capability.

"I suggest that you stop right there, Haruno-san. You know the consequence of voicing out that knowledge even if everyone in this room knows about it." The Hokage interrupted coldly, making Sakaki flinch.

"I apologize, Hokage-sama." Sakaki said with a bow though every shinobi in the room knew the man didn't mean it. "But the fact remains, making the boy stronger would kill us all!"

"Let me ask you this, Haruno-san," Hari started coldly, the temperature in the room dropped and a sudden pressure seemed to press down on everyone's shoulders. "If Naruto is a demon, as you so eloquently put it, why are the civilians in Konoha who attacked the boy still alive?"

The silence was deafening so Hari chose to continue.

"If Naruto is really the demon that he contained then all of those who attacked him should be dead already. The demon laid waste to half of Konoha's shinobi when it came knocking on our doorstep so you all know what it is capable of. HJowever, no civilians were harmed when they attacked Naruto, why is that?" Hari asked rhetorically, mostly directing this simple question towards the civilians. He could see that a few of them realized this fact though most of them were still oblivious.

"H-he is just biding his time, waiting to catch us off-guard." a civilian councilwoman stuttered out unconvincingly.

"Is that so? Then why are you still here then?" Hari asked a matter of factly. "If Naruto is the demon that you all fear then shouldn't you leave Konoha to somewhere safe and out of his reach? No, I don't think you get my point. You see, like everyone in the village, except for a chosen few of course, you're using the boy as a scapegoat to punish the demon, the demon who is quite separate from the boy."

"What do you mean separate?" asked Tsume who was inwardly laughing at how the Haruno was getting his just-deserts. Also, she was quite interested in the conversation since only the Hokage knew of the extent of the Yondaime's seal that kept the Kyuubi at bay.

"That's what I said, IT and Naruto are quite separate thanks to the Yondaime Hokage's seals. And to those who realized that, I mentioned seals, as in plural, and not seal. IT is contained by no less than two seals with Naruto being the third living seal - his sheer willpower keeping IT at bay." said Hari before snapping his fingers, a folder appeared between his thumb and index finger. "This file contains all the information of the jinchuuriki of the Ichibi no Tanuki when I visited Suna a few years back. Thanks to some mahoujutsu techniques that will remain nameless, I was able to glean the true extent of the seal that held the sand demon at bay. What I found was quite…shocking."

Hari floated the folder and cast a Gemino charm on it, multiplying it so everyone had a copy. He floated the folders to everyone in the room, even to the three ANBU who hid in the shadows who were surprised at having a folder floating in front of them; they took it since it was for them after all.

Silence reigned in the council chamber as everyone read and digested the information Hari provided. Quite a lot of the civilian council winced at what they read while the shinobi council was subjected to an eye-opener concerning the truth about Suna's jinchuuriki.

"As you can see, the folder contains factual detail of the Ichibi jinchuuriki, ranging from his abilities, the status of his seal, his chakra reserves, even his overall health. I'm sure that this information needs updating since it's been almost seven years since first saw him. I clearly noted there that I ran a scan on his mind and heard another voice that was giving instructions to the boy, instructions to kill and spill everyone's blood" Hari pointed out, making everyone pale in fear while a few were green with disgust. "The seals that hold the demon inside Naruto are quite powerful, erecting a shield of sorts that separates the two consciousness apart. Also, the nature of Naruto's seals holding the demon at bay made sure that it cannot influence or coerce the gaki into opening its cagel which is also an impossibility since I was able to determine that the seal has a fail-safe on it, half the lock inside the boy's soul while the other lock is….somewhere else. Where? I don't know. The Yondaime was definitely a genius when it came to sealing and the two that contained the demon inside Naruto was superbly done. Not to mention that the seals are powered by Naruto's chakra, as well as his willpower."

"So what does this all mean, Hari?" asked the Hokage. It was a pre-arranged signal to reveal the next set of truth concerning the Kyuubi jinchuuriki.

"This means, Hokage-sama, that every traumatizing experience Naruto suffered under the civilians would have broken the boy's will, giving IT a surefire way to escape and wreak havoc on Konoha all over again." Hari said in a cheerful voice that unnerved everyone in the room. "This time, however; you guys don't have the Yondaime to seal the thing back again."

"So you mean to say that every time Naruto was beaten to an inch of his life, we were this close…" said Tsume before pausing when the implication of everything that happened to the boy dropped down on them.

"To releasing the demon inside him?" Hari asked with a tilt of his head. "Yes. Very close, Tsume-sama. If Naruto dies then the seals keeping the demon inside his body breaks and releasing the prisoner trapped behind it. If Naruto's willpower breaks after each attack then the demon can easily influence the boy to release the seal."

The Hokage, the shinobi council, and some of the civilian council were giving Haruno Sakaki a look of pure loathing. The Haruno clan head shrank into his chair as everyone's killing intent was directed at him. Hari was impressed that civilians could even produce one.

A civilian councilman that Hari recognized as the brother of the man he healed when he first came to Konoha stood up and addressed everyone in the room with a determined voice.

"I move to have the petition of terminating Uzumaki Naruto's adoption to the Mahora Clan dropped and never to be brought up again. The civilian council supports his adoption into your clan, Mahora-dono." He looked at his peers with a glare, daring for them to counter his declaration. No one spoke from his side of the room since they all knew what almost happened thanks to their actions towards Naruto.

"I think I speak for everyone in the shinobi council that we support your declaration." said the Hokage with the shinobi council nodding their heads in agreement. Even Danzo and the rest of the elders were in full agreement. They definitely didn't want the Kyuubi to come out and wreak havoc on them all. "The matter of Naruto's adoption will no longer be discussed and everything revealed in this room will be a S-class secret, punishable by death. Understood?"

Everyone nodded in agreement with Hari mentally patting himself on the back for a job well done.