Hi! I have spent many many years reading fanfiction and thought I'd try my hand at one. I know this probably sucks, but hey what the hell I'm having fun writing and that's all that matters. I was originally going to make this one long oneshot but got impatient and wanted to post it asap. There should only be another chapter or two and those chapters should be out within the next few days. This is totally unbetad so forgive me for spelling and grammar mistakes. I went over it a few times to try to make sure I got everything. I tried to make it as close to canon as possible, but there is always a chance I got something out of sequence, and if you find something I appologize. Plus this takes place before they find out who Tobi really is. Anyway on with the story… Enjoy!
P.S. Just updated this chapter to add in the newly learned line break haha
Chapter 1: Homecoming
The air in the small lighted hallway was thick with heavy emotions. Dread, anticipation, sorrow, and hope were the foremost prevalent ones. The chill from the air conditioning was stifling. The smell of antiseptics nauseating.
A set of double doors stood menacingly at the end of the white hallway. A single lighted sign hung above them; Operation in Progress.
The multiple chairs along the walls were filled with worried occupants. Some with their heads cradled in their arms, others wringing their hands. A few nervous men paced the tiled floors. Glancing at the doors every few minutes hoping for good news to come. While others were just leaning against walls.
Hours passed before the light on the sign faded, and a tall blonde woman walked through the double doors. Heaving a heavy sigh she swiped her trembling fingers through her bangs, and awaited the bombardment of questions she new she was about to receive.
Umino Iruka, a handsome man in his early thirties, was the first to get to her. His shaking voice was hard to make out, as he stumbled out a quick, "How is he?"
"Stable. He lost a lot of blood by the time Shima-san got here to summon him. We're lucky he's even alive. Had it not been for the Kyuubi Naruto wouldn't have made it. It'll be a while before things are back to normal." Came Tsunade's tired reply.
"But? I know there's a but Shishou. What's wrong with Naruto?" A young pink haired woman pleaded with her mentor and teacher.
Tsunade stared at the people standing before her. The young members of the Rookie 11, Team Gai, and their sensei's. Sai, Yamato, Iruka and the Konohamaru Corps, including their sensei. Random jounins that Naruto had befriended over the years stood nearby as well.
Tsunade had no clue where to start, but had them follow her out of the halls and into a rather large waiting area for family members. Once everyone had filed in the door shut with a resounding click, and she turned to face her subordinates.
"Everyone, please find a place to sit or spread out. I'll tell you everything I know so far." People started shuffling around finding places to be. Sakura and Ino both took chairs next to each other. Hinata sat on the left end next to Kiba, with Shino standing beside her. Tenten and Kurenai took up seats between Kiba and Sakura. Neji, Lee, Shikamaru, and Choji sat to the right of them. Iruka took the right most chair closest to where Tsunade was standing. Sai, Yamato, Kakashi, and Gai found wall space to lean on, along with some other jounin. Konohamaru and the rest sat on the floor or filled out the remaining chairs.
A knock on the door echoed loudly through the room. Tsunade opened the door to allow Shizune to pass by and enter the room. After whispering something to Tsunade she moved to stand to the right of Iruka.
Looking at the awaiting faces Tsunade cleared her throat and began, "As all of you know Naruto was captured during the war nearly two years ago. Kakashi, from what you and Gai have told me, you two, Naruto, and Bee were engaged in a battle with Tobi. During the battle he was able to capture Naruto and disappear. Not a trace was left anywhere.
"With Naruto captured we, the Five Kage, expected the worse. We didn't know how long it would take for Tobi to extract the Kyuubi. We figured once they had him it would be easier for them to get the Hachibi from Bee. So, we sent Bee into hiding and planned for the destruction of what Tobi could do with the Kyuubi's power added to the other seven Bijuus.
"But months went on and nothing major happened. The war continued without Tobi's presence. The white Zetsu army kept up their attack and we defeated them enough that we no longer needed to be out on the battlefield. All shinobi and samurai returned to their villages. We have spent the last two years co-operating with the Shinobi Alliance in preparation of Tobi's resurfacing, and even though we are still on alert for him, the war has been halted.
"Once Kakashi and Gai reported Naruto's capture we immediately sent out search parties to infiltrate known Akatsuki hideouts, while simultaneously trying to find unknown ones. While all proved to be failures, one search lead to Yamato being found, and brought back.
"Still after months there were no signs of Naruto, or of Tobi either. We were going with the assumption that for some reason Naruto was still alive. But why we had no idea."
"Tsunade-sama, I mean no disrespect, but what does this have to do with what's wrong with Naruto?" Iruka interrupted. This had been common knowledge to everyone from shinobi to civilians for over a year now.
"I'm getting to that. Now, as I said it's been nearly two years since Naruto was abducted. No one has seen or heard from him since the battle with Tobi. Our searching had turned up nothing at all.
"At approximately eleven last night Shima-sama burst into my office. She was frantic and didn't even take the time to look at me as she quickly moved to an open space and did a reverse summon.
"I was beyond shocked at the bloody body laying on the floor. I was expecting it to be Naruto, since he is the only one left that has the frog summoning contract. But it wasn't Naruto, or well it didn't look like him."
"What do you mean it didn't look like him? What is wrong with him?" Hinata's quiet voice drifted in.
"The person that Shima-sama summoned was a woman."
"WHAT?" came the loud exclamation from several people in the room. A mass jumble of questions were hurdled at her all at once. Tsunade raised her hand to try to calm them down so she could finish, but was promptly ignored.
A vein ticked above her left eye, and a headache was forming. "SILENCE!" She yelled. It was nearing ten in the morning and she had been working on Naruto for nearly twelve hours. She was exhausted and irritated, and the idiots weren't helping.
"Let me finish, and no more interrupting. As I was saying, Shima-sama came in did a reverse summon, and summoned a woman into my office. I was just as confused as all of you. I asked her who the woman was and she told me it was Naruto.
"I ran to him... her... and..." closing her eyes Tsunade licked her dry lips and tried to clear the lump in her throat. Taking a deep breath she continued on. "She wasn't alone. She was completely naked, covered in blood, holding two newborns."
The looks on the faces in the room were horrified. Several paled so fast she thought they might pass out.
"What we assumed as the first born, a boy, had been born naturally the umbilical cord still attached and coming from the birth canal. The second, a girl, must have been a difficult birth. It seems Naruto had to cut the second one out. Like her twin, she was still attached as well.
"I don't know exactly how long it had been since Naruto had given birth before she arrived in my office, but I estimated it to be between an hour and two. Most of the blood on her came from the slice across her lower stomach. It seems she had also started to hemorrhage out from her... from between her legs.
"Both babies at first glance seemed okay. One was wailing while the other made hiccuping noises. I took the boy and Shizune grabbed the girl and we detached them from their mother. I called in the ANBU from the door told one to grab Naruto and we ran here.
"Once here, I informed the ANBU to go inform a few of you that Naruto was hospitalized, while Shizune began to check on the infants. Cleaned them, checked their vitals, and made sure they were warm. They are both very healthy. All vitals are strong although a tad bit small.
"Naruto was a different story. For some reason Kyuubi's chakra, while still in there, was not helping to heal her. I removed the placenta, but the result of it being removed earlier caused her to hemorrhage badly. It took a while to stop the bleeding, but eventually I was able to. I sealed the cut on her stomach, and worked on the tearing in the birth canal.
"After that it was just many hours trying to get her vitals back up, and to recover from the blood loss. She was very undernourished for a pregnant woman, let alone one carrying twins. About an hour or so ago the Kyuubi's power seemed to kick in and she's recovering much faster. She needs her rest, but she should be awake and ready for a few visitors in a few days." Tsunade finished.
Sakura and Ino were holding onto each other crying by the end of her tale. Iruka was staring at the ground, his forehead resting against his hands. Kakashi was still leaning against the wall arms crossed over his chest, staring at nothing. Hinata, who had been silently crying throughout most of the speech, now sat trembling with Kiba's arm around her.
"So, umm..." Shikamaru cleared his throat before continuing, "What do we do? How do we help him... her."
"There's not much we can do at the moment. Naruto needs to rest to get better. Hopefully she'll wake up soon and we can get more answers to what happened to her. The twins are in the room with her now. We will be moving them into the maternity ward soon."
Kakashi was the first to breach the topic no one wanted to ask. "Tobi claimed he was Uchiha Madara more than once, do the babies look like Uchiha? Did he rape her?"
Tsunade shook her head, "There were no signs that I could see that she was raped. But without a confirmation from her I can't say for sure. As for the twins, the little girl has red hair same color as Kushina's with Naruto's blue eyes. The little boy on the other hand has hair so pale it almost seems white with a dark blue grey tone to his eyes. The iris' will likely change and darken over the next few years. Although, probably not much. The little boys hair is the mystery. I would bet my life that they aren't Uchiha. Neither Naruto or an Uchiha would be able to produce that pale white color. So as to who the father actually is I couldn't say."
Nodding Kakashi and the others took her words in. So far all they could do is wait. Wait for Naruto to wake up and explain what happened.
"Can we see the babies?" Ino's quiet voice broke through everyone's musings.
"After we get Naruto transferred up to the maternity ward we will be placing the twins in the nursery. If you want to wait to see them through the glass that's fine. No offense to any of you, I know you are all her friends, but until she is wake no one but the nurses I assign are to touch them. Are there any other questions? I'd like to get Naruto transferred as soon as possible."
When no more seemed forthcoming she left with Shizune to start getting the transfer started. Those that wished to see the newborns waited in the nursery. The others left with heavy hearts wondering just when their favorite little blonde would wake.
It was nearly three days before Naruto woke up, and while Tsunade let people visit two at a time, she did not allow her speak about what happened. Tsunade wanted to give her the time to recuperate before putting her through the stress of the past two years.
After nearly a week of being in the hospital Naruto was finally allowed out. For the a few hours at least. Naruto, with still unnamed baby boy and baby girl, were escorted to the Hokage's office.
Tsunade sat behind her desk with Shizune standing beside her as always. Iruka and Kakashi sat in chairs in front of the desk. Naruto had made it clear when she told her story she would only tell a select few. After that Tsunade would give the rest a condensed version of the tale. Tsunade figured it would be easier to talk about what happened without so many people staring and possibly interrupting her. So, Shizune, Iruka, and Kakashi had been chosen to be the few there.
Naruto walked in carrying the twins in her arms. Shizune quickly walked over to relieve her of one of the little bundles. Naruto sat in between Kakashi and Iruka cradling her son to her chest.
With a kind smile Tsunade told her to take her time, and begin when she was ready.
'Where do I begin.' Naruto wondered. "I guess it all started when I was born." she shrugged.
"Kakashi-sensei, you, Yamato-taichou, and Sai were the only ones there when you asked me how I was able to subdue Kurama during the battle with Pein. And before anyone asks Kurama is the Kyuubi. He has helped me a lot. We are friends. Anyway Kakashi-sensei do you remember my answer to that?"
"You said you met the Fourth, and the he replaced the seal." The others looked at Naruto with wide eyes.
"That's right. He said he sealed some of his chakra inside me so that if the seal came undone up to the eighth tail he would be able to replace the seal. But it seems he wasn't the only one he sealed inside me.
"While I was hidden on the island I asked Killer Bee to teach me to control Kurama the way he could control the Hachibi. There was a key that Tou-chan left to Gamatora to give to Ero-sennin. After his death Gamatora was told to bring the key to me. With the use of the key and the help of Killer Bee I was able to go inside the seal and try to take Kurama's power as my own. It was difficult. I didn't understand the amount of hate and despair that someone could hold within themselves. Needless to say I almost failed.
"But in my darkest moment a light shone through and helped me to seal him. Tou-chan had sealed Kaa-chan in me as well." Naruto looked down with a fond smile on her face. It was easy to see at that moment that while Naruto the boy had been handsome, Naruto the girl was breathtaking.
"Kaa-chan explained a lot more things to me then Tou-chan could. She told me about how they had met and fallen in love. About how happy they had been when they found out Kaa-chan was pregnant with me. And about the night I was born.
"I don't know if you all were aware of it, but Kaa-chan was the previous jinchuriki for Kurama. Your grandmother, Baa-chan, was the one before that. As a safety precaution Kaa-chan had to give birth to me outside the village and behind a special barrier. It turns out that the seal on a female host has one weakness, and that is childbirth. That was why Kaa-chan was made to have me outside the village.
"Somehow and I don't yet know how, but Tobi knew of that weakness. He killed the ANBU that were stationed outside the building I was born in, killed the nurse and Sandaime-jiji's wife, before trying to kill me. Tou-chan saved me, but at the price of letting mother be captured.
"Tobi ripped Kurama from Kaa-chan, used the sharingan on it, and sent it to destroy Konoha. Tou-chan fought with Tobi, and eventually chose to seal Kurama within me. He sealed his and Kaa-chan's chakra into me so that I could meet them again when I needed them the most in the future. But he did one other things with the seal as well. With the threat of Tobi still being alive, Tou-chan didn't want what happened to Kaa-chan to happen to me. He didn't want Tobi or anyone to impregnate me for the sole purpose of weakening Kurama's seal. So he sealed my real gender away as well.
"From that moment on I was a boy, and I was to be a boy until I was old enough to protect myself. Gamatora also had the reversal seal for my gender as well."
The little girl in Shizune's arms started wailing, and Naruto handed the little boy to Iruka. Excusing herself to the corner of the room Naruto fixed the child and a blanket over herself while she breastfed her child. Walking back over to her seat she was happy to watching Iruka make cooing noises at her son.
After all that had happened Naruto was glad that the special people in her life have made the transition into motherhood so easy for her. Sakura, Ino, Tenten, and Hinata were all to happy to come watch and hold the babies so she could rest. The boys would come and sit with her to relieve her of her boredom of being in the hospital.
"So had you always known you were a girl?" Shizune quietly spoke up after Naruto had settled back into the chair.
"No, not until I was around twelve, and I first made my way into the seal. That was always something that bothered me. Every time I went into the seal I was a girl and I didn't understand why. It wasn't until Kaa-chan explained to me that I finally understood. I guess it was a good thing I always liked boys anyway."
"What? But I always thought you liked Sakura!" Tsunade exclaimed.
Naruto shook her head, "Nuh uh. I hate to make it sound like I was using her, but I've always know Sakura was in love with Sasuke. What better person to pretend to love than someone I knew I would never have to worry about loving me back. People hated me enough as it was I didn't want to seem like even more of an outcast by not having a crush on someone. I didn't want people to think I was gay. Hell, I thought I was gay until I found out I was really a girl." Naruto chuckled.
"Alright gaki tell us about what happened after you were taken." Tsunade pressed on.
"That is a long story." She sighed. "One I don't really want to tell."
That's all for now… The next chapter will deal with the captured and what happened while she was there. Until next time!