For those of you who have been reading my stories for a while, I know I have already posted and deleted this story, but that was because I wasn't going anywhere with it and now I am.
Also, I do not own Naruto.
It all began with screams of "Ghost!" following a man around the streets. This man was of little importance. He was a man of tall build and dark hair who held a cigarette to his mouth. But if you were to ask Kurenai, Shikamaru, or Konohamaru they would tell you that he was a miracle. He was Asuma and he was dead. He had died earlier that year fighting off the Akatsuki, but there he stood as real as life.
He was only the first to come back to life. Each day another person would awaken from the slumber that is death and walk home. Nobody knew how these people came back. Not even those who had come back knew. If asked they would just say that they awoke in front of the memorial stone that held their names with a cloaked figure sitting before them.
After many days of this miraculous occurrence, all the ninjas who died in battle during the attack of the Kyuubi and after were resurrected. When all the ninjas were alive another group of people began to revive. To be specific a clan that had the ability to use the Sharingan. The Uchiha clan. Everyone but the leader and his wife returned.
Then everything stopped. For seven whole days no one came from the memorial tablet where the names printed were not all dead. People began to wait at the memorial and at the graveyard for the mysterious person who brought dead back to the world of the living, and after seven days he appeared in the graveyard.
Many of the people who saw him on that night had to hold back a gasp of surprise. The all-powerful man that they had envisioned was just a teenager. Though he wore a cloak that covered his body it was obvious by his height that he could be no older than 16. His cloak was dark and it did a good job of hiding him until he stepped into the bright moonlight of the full moon that covered the whole graveyard.
He walked straight to the five coffins that lay on the ground where they had not been the night before. He opened them to reveal five perfect corpses that the hiding people could not see. The cloaked figure went to the coffin to the far right, and the people watched as he reached out and a white chakra began to spread over the body in the coffin. This continued until there was a gasp for air from the body.
The body sat up and threw himself at the cloaked figure that caught him and pushed him away. "What do you want enemy?" asked the now alive body.
"I am no enemy," answered the cloaked figure as he reached up to his forehead and brought out a black leaf headband, "and I want nothing more than to make people happy."
The other person inspected the leaf headband closely trying to prove that it was not a fake. When he was satisfied he narrowed his eyes at the cloaked figure. "Who are you and where am I?" he asked.
"I am not important and you are in the Konoha graveyard 11 years after your death," answered the person. The man's eyes widened. "Listen to me," the cloaked figure's voice took on a hint of urgency. "The day you died on that mission someone took your place and assumed your life. All of the Uchiha clan was killed soon after by this man."
"What?" yelled Itachi.
"I and the council know it wasn't you, but the council decided to blame it on you instead of creating mass panic from the villagers."
"If it would create mass panic then why did you bring me back?" asked Itachi.
The cloaked figure shrugged, "I don't believe that anyone should be accused wrongly of a crime they did not commit. Especially if that crime was the murder of his own family."
By now all the audience had their jaws on the floor. "If you'll excuse me I have others to attend to." The hidden person moved to another coffin and again white chakra flowed to the corpse.
"What happened?" asked a woman as she sat up within her coffin.
"Mikoto-san," said the person as he bowed and then he moved onto the next one as Itachi went to her and helped her up.
The next person to be revived was Fugaku-san, but he reacted differently than Mikoto. Just like Itachi he launched himself forward and tried to attack the cloaked figure, but he missed. When he turned to attack again he saw his wife and Itachi. "Otou-san," said Itachi, "This kid brought us back to life. We've been dead for 11 years."
"What?" yelled Fugaku and Mikoto gasped, "That's not even possible!"
"I'm sure that you'll find, when you return to the village that 11 years has passed without you," answered the hidden person as he walked over to the next two coffins. He reached out both of his hands and white chakra flowed to the two remaining bodies.
The people hidden behind the bushes could barely hold back a gasp when they saw the fourth Hokage and his wife step out of their coffin. The cloaked figure bowed deeply to them and said, "It is an honor to meet you Hokage-sama," then he turned to speak to all five of them, "If you'll follow me I'll take you to see the third and fifth Hokages," then he turned around and said, "and all you people hiding in the bushes should go home to sleep since now you've seen me with your own eyes."
When they reached the Hokages' office the cloaked figure held the door open for the five people to enter before he entered. Immediately ANBU members attacked Itachi, but before they could hit him they fell to the ground unconscious. The cloaked figure had stepped forward and had delivered one swift attack to the pressure point that he knew would knock them out on each one.
"Hokage-sama," said the cloaked figure while addressing both the Hokages, "Itachi is innocent of the crimes that he was accused of committing, and if you don't believe me these documents are his death documents that state that his date of death is the same day as the Uchiha massacre." He handed the fifth Hokage the paper, but she barely noticed because she was too busy gaping at the fourth.
"You're alive," she gasped.
"I'm as surprised as you are," answered Minato who was holding Kushina close to him.
"But that's not possible!" gasped the third.
"Why not?" asked the cloaked person, "I've revived everyone else. Why wouldn't I be able to revive them?"
"It's not a matter of if you can revive them, but it is a matter of the fact that his revival also breaks the seal of the Kyuubi."
At the mention of the Kyuubi both the Namikaze's tensed. "No!" gasped Kushina.
The cloaked figure shrugged. "There is no need to worry about that since the Kyuubi is dead."
"What?" was everybody's, except for Itachi's, answer.
Surprisingly it was Itachi who answered, "He's been dead for a long time,"
"Good," smirked Fugaku, "Nobody liked that brat anyway."
"How dare you say that!" yelled Kushina, "Naruto took on that demon to save the village. He's a hero and yet you disrespect him!"
Minato turned to the third Hokage, "Do you know how he died?" he asked.
The third shook his head and looked at the fifth who looked down and said, "Akatsuki captured him."
"Akatsuki?" asked the fourth.
"People who caught all the Jinchurikis to extract the demon from their bodies, and killing them," answered the cloaked figure.
"What?" yelled Kushina, "We have to save him! Why haven't you sent anyone to save him?"
"We did," answered the fifth, "About a year ago when we first learned that he was captured, but we couldn't find him and after a month we had to assume he was dead and that the Akatsuki was getting ready to attack us. They could come at any moment."
Kushina sagged to the floor and began to cry while Minato comforted her with a shocked expression that was mixed with sadness on his face.
"Why do you care?" asked the cloaked figure, "You didn't even know him."
"Of course I care," said Minato becoming defensive, "I'm his father and I love him more than anything!"
"You're my…" gasped the cloaked figure making everyone look at him just as the light was finally able to hit his face showing spiky blonde hair, tanned skin with scarred cheeks and beautiful blue eyes that put the sky to shame.
"Naruto!" gasped the fifth Hokage as she ran forward and hugged him.
At first he made no move to either hug back or push her away since he was too shocked that his father was the person he respected the most, but after a moment he shoved Lady Tsunade away from him. "Naruto?" she asked.
"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked the third and fifth Hokages.
"What?" asked Lady Tsunade.
"Why didn't you tell me that the fourth Hokage and his wife were my parents? Why did you let me believe that my parents just abandoned me?" he had tears coming to his eyes now, "Why did you let me feel like nobody loved me?"
"Naruto," said the third, "We couldn't let you go around telling people that your father was the fourth. It was top secret."
"And yet you told me every other top secret information that you could think of I won't take fake excuses." Both the Hokages looked at each other for the information and they realized that neither of them really had a reason for what they hadn't told Naruto. "You know what? I don't want to hear anymore fake excuses, so," he turned to Minato and Kushina, "could we maybe spend the day together?" They both smiled happily and nodded.
They turned to leave, but Tsunade grabbed Naruto's shoulder. "Naruto please," she said but when he pulled away she looked desperately at the fourth and his wife. They ignored her as well and walked out with their son.
Just before they left Naruto turned and said, "Bye Ita-nii," then he left without so much as a wave at the other occupants in the room.
The third sighed and said, "I guess we deserved that. We didn't even have a reason for keeping that from him."
"Don't worry," said Itachi, "He'll come around. He used to do that to me when he was really angry with me."
Thank you for reading.
I have a lot of stories that I feel have been neglected, so I've decided to post them. I hope you guys like this one.
I do have the next chapter for this one written, but I don't want to put everything up at once, so I will update the next chapter in a week of after I have five comments.