A/N: I like well written stories in which Naruto gets banished or flees from Konoha and takes refuge in another village, or creates his own. This idea interested me so I decided to give it a shot. Enjoy!
I don't own Naruto or any of the characters; it all belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. I do own all the OC's that will appear.
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The cave was perfect, lots of hidden areas and only one hidden entrance. Naruto discovered it by luck when he was tree climbing. Grinning the Kage bunshin spoke aloud "This would be an ideal place for a hidden village" The Kage bunshin dispersed itself, its guarding rounds finished. On the other side of the island Sasuke and Naruto were tree climbing. After Naruto was running up he suddenly remembered seeing something he never saw. Putting it aside he worked on what he was doing. Dismissing the memory as something me did see years ago.
ONE YEAR LATER:
"CHIDORI!!" Sasuke finished clinging all the chakra he could onto his right hand, he ran towards Naruto, Naruto in retaliation began creating a Rasengan in his right hand. Pushing chakra into his feet he jumped towards Sasuke, "RASENGAN!!" the two A-rank jutsu's collided. Each battling for dominance, Eventually the Rasengan pushes through but in a final move of sympathy, Naruto diverted the cause of the Rasengan from Sasuke stomach to the forehead hoping to knock Sasuke unconscious. It was a failed attempt, Sasuke also diverted his cause he refused to follow his older brothers steps. He moved the Chidori from the heart to the left lung, indirectly saving Naruto's life. Unfortunately the damage was done, unless medical attention was given soon, Naruto would die. Sasuke had to get out of there. It wasn't his problem.
Kakashi and Pakkun felt the massive chakra spikes and they ran towards to location, unless he got there soon they might fight to the death. If he didn't hurry one would certainly die. He didn't want to bet which one. Kakashi wasn't stupid he saw how fast and well Naruto and Sasuke were improving. Sasuke started as the better of the two, but Naruto had determination. As Gai would say "Naruto's youthful energy flows through strongly with the awesome power of youth! He is an extremely youthful genius of hard work" or as Kakashi would say, "Naruto is a genius of hard work" while Sasuke is a "general genius". If he were to gather a guess they would be evenly matched, with Sasuke winning due to his lack of compassion and Naruto's greatness of it. Sasuke would do the killing blow, Naruto wouldn't. Running with renewed vigour Kakashi ran towards the ending fight.
Naruto was barely holding onto consciousness, fighting to avoid falling asleep. The last thing he managed to see was Kakashi landing near Naruto, and telling him it would be all right. He succumbed to the darkness.
Kakashi sighed, that just like Naruto, relaxed to soon. Sighing again he grabbed Naruto and ran towards Konoha, hoping to make it back on time. As he ran he met up with the medic team that was sent to find and stabilise the injured shinobi. He handed Naruto over. He watched with his sharingan hoping to learn some of the techniques should he come across a similar situation, once Naruto was stabilised they hurried to Konoha.
Tsunade was not happy; it was after she had dispatched the Gennin that she learnt Sakura had seen Sasuke go. She said he went by his own free will. Sakura had come and asked her to train her. "I am tired of being worthless. I want to be an asset to my team. Not a hindrance" Tsunade had agreed to train her, but at what cost? As she was pondering a happy assistance came in "There back!" Tsunade rushed outside hoping to hear from her surrogate brother.
As the rescue team came in, after learning the shocking extent of the injuries from the medics. Shikamaru couldn't help but decide it wasn't worth it. Sasuke had left willingly not by result of the curse seal. The cost was too high. Choji, Neji and Naruto were critical and had a low survival rate. Kiba, Lee and himself would have died if not for the sand sibs coming. Entering the gates, Shikamaru couldn't help but feel something ominous, something that would change the course of history.
Ino, Sakura, Shino, Hinata, Asuma, Kurenai, Iruka and every other parental figure and friends belonging to the Rescue crew. They couldn't help but smile. Tsunade arrived, took one look at the medic stretches and the professional medic in her took over, "Take them to the emergency room, Naruto will survive due to circumstances, I will personally treat Choji, Shizune please help Neji and I need information on what Choji's problem." The Akimichi's and Nara's strait away noticed the symptoms of eating the three pills and gave as much information as they could to the Hokage, he wou8ld survive.
The darkness lifted, Naruto looked around and found that he was in a Sewer, recognising this place as his subconscious he looked around exploring every crevice and door. Each door he discovered was a memory. He could tell how that memory was by the colour. The darker the more terrifying and the lighter the more good and happy ones, He saw his memory lanes begin in neutral with a few darks then become almost completely light, darks few and in-between. Walking he found the Kyuubi's cage and looked inside. The fox was sleeping; he decided to wake it up. "HEY FOX!" the large fur ball moved, "what do you want brat?" the malice nonexistent, Naruto was curious, "what do you do in that cage anyway" The Kyuubi looked in amusement, he decided to see what would happen if he answered "I sleep, or when I can't be bothered to do that I watch your life" Naruto looked in deep thought, "how powerful are you anyway" Kyuubi laughed he wasn't expecting that question, "powerful enough that when I was attacking Konoha I wasn't using half my power" Naruto couldn't help but look in awe, he wasn't using even half his power and Konoha stood no chance. He knew what to do to get Sasuke back, "train me" Kyuubi suddenly turned to Naruto and spoke, "and why?" Naruto looked at the destruction incarnate and declared, "If I am to become the Hokage and protect my precious people I have to be strong. You are strong therefore you can train me" Kyuubi couldn't help but be amused, "remove the seal and I'll train you" Naruto snorted, "if I remove the seal I die, you cant train me then. How stupid do you think I am?" Kyuubi laughed, "so you are smarter here then on the outside. Maybe my chakra is blocking your thinking process" Naruto looked confused "huh?" Kyuubi growled, "nothing to worry about, the problem will be rectified." "And maybe I will make some gains, yes I will do that" Naruto decided to leave it at that, "so will you train me?" Kyuubi snorted, "I'll think about it" Naruto left his subconsciousness.
COUNCIL ROOM:
"The mission was a failure, the brat was the cause of it. He failed to bring the Uchiha home" Tsunade was twitching; these stupid geezers on the council never did understand ninja life. The lead Nara spoke up, "To blame Naruto for the failure of a mission is foolishness, it is as much the Uchiha's fault as Naruto's. I say we put a bounty of the Uchiha. He is a traitor" Another council member spoke up, "We need the sharingan, it is one of out greatest weapons. To lose it would be stupid" now Hiashi was twitching along with the head Nara and the Hokage, "I disagree, we had lasted well enough without it." An elder spoke up, "SILENCE!" the council room quieted, "we are here to talk about 2 things, 1: the Uchiha leaving, 2: the failed mission to bring him back. Lets keep it on track" the Hokage nodded, "The Uchiha must be brought to justice. Unfortunately we need the sharingan, so we will put him in the bingo book, under CAPTURE ALIVE!" the council agreed, then another brought up point two, "What about the failed mission, I say we kill the brat who caused the failure" A lot of the other civilian member of the council agreed. The shinobi didn't take there side, "No, he can't be killed, to do so would disrespect the fourths final wish" another civilian had the stupidity to say "so?" he was dispatched of by the Hokage, another council woman spoke, "we shouldn't just punish on person, the entire crew should be punished" now the head Nara was nervous. His son leaded that mission, he would probably get he brunt of it. "The Uchiha is more important than them, so we should banish them!" Instantly, the entire shinobi section of the council yelled "NO!!" the Hokage continued, "this generation that was sent had been the best year we have had in a long time. Each on is the protégée of there clan. To banish them would be foolishness" Unfortunately the civilian council was persistent. They really wanted to punish them (mostly Naruto) "Yes, banishment is the punishment" unfortunately the Shinobi were overruled. Tsunade in desperation declared, "what about revoking their shinobi licences and no longer allowing them to be Konoha Shinobi" The clan heads felt relieved, they were outnumbered; they seconded the Hokage's decision. The council had no hope to stop this. The punishment was declared; the rescue team lost their Konoha Shinobi licence. What the council never expected was that Tsunade had a plan, a plan that will better the well being of Konoha and the rescue team.
EXIT COUNCIL ROOMWhen Naruto finally awoke, it was to view a hospital room with the entire rescue team in it including their entire team and teachers. Tsunade had a grave face, Naruto new this couldn't be good. Tsunade spoke, "Due to the selfishness of the civilian council, they desired to banish the entire rescue team involved with the mission" Gasps were heard around the room. Every shinobi couldn't believe what they were hearing. To no longer be allowed to see family and friends, it couldn't get any worse. Naruto spoke up, "THEY CANT DO THAT!" the rest of them agreed, Tsunade smiled; Naruto always had hope. "I and the shinobi part of the council were able to make a compromise, Instead of banishment from Konoha. It was a revoke and non ability to ever become a Konoha shinobi" Lee broke. His dream destroyed, Naruto couldn't help but have his dreams entirely crushed. Every person in that room couldn't believe their ears. "Why, why, what did we ever do to them?" Kakashi couldn't move, that was pure selfishness, "and you couldn't stop this?" Tsunade began to cry, although it was only small, "it was between, this, banishment or they even tried execution on Naruto for 'deliberately failing the mission'" Naruto looked up and yelled, "WHAT!!! They thought I would do something like that?" Sakura agreed, "why? Why would they do this?" it was Hiashi who answered, "They would do anything for the Uchiha. They are convinced he was being convinced and corrupted by the cursed seal. They are convinced he alone could do nothing wrong. Thus it is Naruto's fault for 1:allowing the Uchiha to get he cursed seal, 2:failing to help Sasuke heal his ego. I.e. losing on purpose, 3:failing to rectify your mistake by bring the Uchiha home. Thus it had become Naruto's entire fault." They were all sickened, Gai spoke what they all felt, "stupid un-youthful accusations" Lee spoke up, "yes, Gai sensei's youthful answer is correct, Sasuke left on his own accord."
Within Naruto's subconscious Kyuubi just had to laugh "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho he he he he, what foolish humans." Somehow it was amused by the human's actions,Naruto would never understand. Luckily Tsunade decided to make an announcement. "There's more" That sentence made all the shinobi stop complaining and look at he Hokage to continue "I have a plan, the only reason I allowed you to be revoked your Konoha shinobi licence is that I still wanted the option to be available. Being a shinobi I mean" Lee had a look of hope. The spirits lifted up and everyone who was affected by the punishment looked towards Tsunade and couldn't hope but be encouraged, "Make a new village, one to help the weak, to become everything you want it to be. Mould it in your own image. MAKE IT HOW YOU WANT KONOHA TO BE!" Naruto began to get exited, "a place of refuge from discrimination" Lee stood up and declared, "a place anyone can make his or her dreams come true!" Every person in the room smiled, Hiashi spoke next, "show the civilian council how wrong they were to discriminate against you!" Tsunade spoke again, "take advantage of this I gave you. To become everything you want to be in a village you helped create!" the plan was set; Konoha wouldn't know what hit them.
Kakashi, Asuma, Gai and Kurenai stood around the Hokage's desk, waiting for the Hokage to speak, "although I have given them an aim and hope. They are inexperienced. Unfortunately they have no hope in successfully creating a village as of yet. That's why you're here" Gai looked at he Hokage shocked, "you don't mean?" The Hokage nodded, "As of now, I am going you one final mission as Konoha shinobi. Help them create a village, mentor them and make sure they don't turn against Konoha without reason. Make sure they ally with us" The Jounin all saluted, "Yes Hokage-sama" They left to pack their things.
Ino was depressed, she wanted to join Shikamaru and Choji in making there own village, unfortunately the only way to do so, is to become a missing Nin. She knew Hinata had the same problem, Hinata wanting to be with Neji and Naruto. She wasn't sure about Shino, but then again Aburame were known as fiercely loyal so she shouldn't be surprised. Maybe she should see the Hokage? Deciding on a corse of action, Ino left to se the Hokage.
Tsunade looked across the room, across her were 4 shinobi, and each wanted to join their friends in making a new village. Tsunade was proud; they knew the basic Konoha value. "So, you want to join the others in making a new village, but you don't want to become missing Nin? Is this correct?" the 4 nodded. "Why?" the Hokage asked, Ino went first, "all my friends are going, my teacher and my team mates. Why wouldn't I go? There's nothing more for me here." Hinata followed, "K K Kiba and n n n Neji are going, 'and so is Naruto-kun'" the last part only Tsunade heard, Shino next, "I will follow my team" honestly she did not expect the last one. Sakura, she was sure she wanted to be apprenticed o the Hokage. You can't do that if you belong to another village. "Why Sakura, if you are part of another village you cant be apprenticed to me?" Sakura looked at the Hokage full of determination, "what is the point in getting stronger if all the people I want to protect are in another village?" Tsunade was impressed. So she plotted a plan. "Ok, Ino, Hinata and Shino you are no longer Konoha shinobi, you retired at Genin because you suffer from 'depression due to your team mates revoke of licence' ok? And Sakura please stay behind." The three left relief on their faces. They were lucky. Sakura was confused, "Now Sakura, there is a way for you to be apprenticed to me but still visit your friend. That is to become a go-between. You will be the diplomat between the villages. Allied to both of them. Is this ok?" Sakura happy nodded, she could have both!
They stood at the gate, looking at the greatest shinobi village, Naruto held out him hand and lifted it to the fourths Hokage's head, "watch me" Kakashi smiled, Minato would be proud Naruto grew into a fine young man. After waving good-bye to the Hokage and farewells and those belonging to clans receiving their clan's techniques, they set of towards the unknown.
The walk itself wasn't interesting, what was interesting though was the conversation they were having, the topic? Location for the next hidden village "It should be in-between sand and fire, because be are bound to become allied to the two of them" Kakashi disagreed, "there may be a country there" Shikamaru spoke up, "river country" Kakashi ignoring the interruption continues "they have no need for a hidden village, mostly due to being near both fire and wind country" Asuma agreed, Kurenai then mentioned " what about bird country, I hear its nice there" Gai spoke up this time, "they don't need one, although its an interesting idea they already have shinobi like guards under the head strategist" Kurenai sighed dejected. Sakura pondered for a while, "we're hero's in wave country aren't we Kakashi sensei?" The others looked curious about what Sakura was going towards. Kakashi nodded "yes, we are" Naruto suddenly yelled in happiness, "I REMEMBER!" everyone turned to Naruto confusion apparent on his or her faces. "I remember during our mission I discovered a cove, a special cove that was a perfect hiding place for a hidden village." Shino then spoke up, "Wave is a small country, and they have no need for a shinobi village. They are allied with the fire nation" Naruto just wouldn't give up, "so? They're growing. Wave country is only small and poor due to Gato's reign." Shikamaru having enough of the troublesome arguing spoke, "not only are they growing, they are the only country between water and fire, wave is connect to a large amount of islands. There wont be a shortage of D and C rank missions for a while due to the damaged caused by Gato and his men. B-A ranks aren't needed until we have a decent village. If this cove is good all we have to see if we can find builders to build and not have to find a location. This will put Wave on the map, we can get missions from the islands I'm sure they would want to go some ware other than water, mist having a bloodthirsty nature" Asuma count fault the logic there. Kiba spoke, "but I wanted to go to fang country" Hinata chuckled, "that's because its called the same name as you" (its true, Fang country is called Kiba no Kuni in Japanese) Kurenai stated annoyed. Together they agreed to go to wave country to see if it was worth it.
As they neared the border between the two countries they saw the bridge, "the great Naruto bridge" Naruto grew excited, "THEY NAMED THE BRIDGE AFTER ME!" Kakashi chuckled, Sakura was annoyed naturally who wouldn't when you find out someone named a bridge after some idiot. Walking across they saw the amount of traffic entering and exiting the bridge. It was nearly packed. It wouldn't be long before they needed to add another one. "Naruto, Kakashi, Sakura what a surprise to see you here!" they turned it was Tsunami. Kakashi being who he is said, "yo" Sakura was a bit more forthcoming, "Hello, its nice to see you to" Naruto being a Naruto yelled, "HELLO! You named the bridge after me!" Tsunami just giggled and motioned them to follow her. That they did.
"Isn't your house that way?" Sakura asked pointing behind them, Tsunami laughed, "it used to be, but after the current Daimyou was passed away without leaving a heir, it turns out my father is the nearest relative to take the position, fancy that! So we moved to the palace. It's more like a large home though." Naruto was happy that Tazuna, Tsunami and Inari were happy. Attempting to make conversation Tsunami spoke "so, what are you doing this side of the bridge" everyone's face fell and an aura of depression and sadness caused rain and storm clouds to appear above their heads. Kakashi spoke "Some of us lost our shinobi licence because of a failed mission concerning Sasuke. So the Hokage asked us to make our own shinobi village" Tsunami felt there pain, "well, we are hoping to have our own military now, you see bandits, missing nin and rival countries have taken a notice at our growing economy. Most are hoping to steal a slice of the bread" Naruto winked at Shikamaru they began to plot. Walking they followed Tsunami to the Daimyou's palace.
The building itself wasn't all that impressive, what were though were the upgrades being built. Apparently it was thriving faster than they could ever predict. Entering the office they saw Tazuna signing paperwork. Looking up he brightened considerably motioning to the Shinobi to sit he began to talk. "Welcome, have you noticed the changes taking place? Wave is thriving, unfortunately that means that other countries are taking interest. We need an army, but that's non of your concern now is it?" Naruto snickered Kakashi smacked him over the head. Asuma whispering to Kakashi, "Look at that, they need an army, if we can create a shinobi village here we could help them a lot. Its perfect close enough for many missions, in fact we will even gain B-A rank. I doubt S rank for a while. But we don't need them!" Kakashi nodded, being the unofficial leader he spoke "we have come asking to create a shinobi village in wave" Tazuna stopped smiling and gave as serious face as he could, "are you serious?" They all nodded. Tazuna smiled "Super, although I was aware you were all part of a hidden village already?" they all stiffened when he said that, Tazuna stopped smiling and waited for an answer, seeing that he was going to take no for an answer Kakashi spoke, "due to a mission gone wrong, we lost our shinobi licences, The Hokage gave us one last unofficial mission. Create a shinobi village and make sure that it allies wit the leaf." Accepting that answer, Tazuna nodded, all the shinobi except Kakashi left the room and waited for it to become official.
After 30 mins of waiting, Kakashi left the room and said 2 words, "new village" together they cheered and began to plan ahead. "Naruto" Naruto turned to Shikamaru as he spoke, "were is this cove" Noting the serious atmosphere Naruto led the shinobi and Tazuna towards the cove. As they walked Tazuna recognised the area "hmmm, so its here is it? Interesting" Kakashi curiosity taking over asked why, "this is were the old hidden coves were" Naruto's interest peaked, "Coves?" Tazuna nodded, "there are some large coves and caves near the area, long ago pirates used to hide their treasure there. No one can find the hidden cove. It was well hidden" Naruto laughed, "maybe we wont need funding for a while if that's true. Because I found a well-hidden cove, Good for a hidden village" Tazuna looked shocked, "you found it?" Naruto nodded. Tazuna shook his head, "every child has search for it, and some ninja just walks around and finds it. Great" walking they approached a small cliff.
Naruto looked around and found it, so small and easily overlooked, a simple rock out of place, Naruto moved it showing a passage, large enough for them all to enter easily. Following Naruto they saw the cove. It was breath taking. Hidden so well you wouldn't know it existed. Easy access to the land and water, look outs showing if there was anyone out the sea. Behind towards the land was a cave; large enough to fit half of Konoha and it had caves behind that and there were all filled with well-hidden skylights. Running from the back end of the caves and going out to sea was a fresh water river of the purest kind. Because of this the water outside in the cove was all fresh water, letting lots of plants grow close to the waters edge concealing the seaside entrance it also made a lot of good training grounds. They all agreed this was going to be the location of the hidden village.
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A/N: I wanted to do wave but the location was a bit out of the way in the map. But I happened to see how it could work. I order for that to happen, I needed wave to have something another country or organisation would want, money and job opportunities, Thus the need for a hidden village.
Please Review and honesty is appreciated. Thanks, The great David