Ch.1 Prologue

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Obviously

Warning: Contains curses and words that should not be read by children, some OOC-ness, and some tiny amount of angst.

A/N: This story is still under construction and some details may change! The start of this could be confusing, but if you read long enough you will understand (I Hope…)

"blah" = speaking

'blah'= thinking

"blah" = Kyuubi speaking

"blah"= when reading or in a flashback

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It was late, and the sun was setting over the leaf village. Minato, the yondaime Hokage, sat in his office thinking. A few days ago two ANBU, in a group of five assigned to watch the boarder of a village that was currently in a civil war, had been on their way home because they had found… someone. This someone having a striking resemblance to his eldest son Naruto, except he had whiskers on his face and was slightly more built than him.

To say he was unnerved was an understatement.

He had personally seen the boy, of course he had! When an ANBU had come barging inn to his office and said that they had found his son out cold several miles away from the village and had brought him to the hospital, he had immediately flashed there to see if he was ok.

It was then that he'd seen the marks on his face, and saw that, no this was not Naruto. It was then that he felt the urge to see if his son was ok, so he had told the medics to look over the mysterious boy till he got back. He went home to find his wife Kushina and his children, Kozu, Nanami, Ren and Naruto, all eating dinner and had sighed in relief.

But that still left some questions: Who was the kid in the hospital? And why did he look so much like Naruto?

This was what he'd been thinking about for the last five days and now with the DNA test they had taken of the Kid lying on the desk in front of him, he was even more shocked. It had matched Naruto's DNA completely. There was only two explanations, one they were the same person, but that was entirely impossible, so that option was out of the question, also his son did not have those marks on his face. The second possibility he really didn't want to think about, but with the matching DNA, he had to… Twins had the same DNA... Naruto had been born with a twin brother, but he had died shortly after birth….. What if they had been wrong…

God, he really didn't want to think of and definitely not remember that day. The day after Naruto and his twin's birth… The day Kushina was kidnapped during an attack on the outer border. Kushina had still been weak after child birth, and with the all the commotion the attack was making, no one had noticed anything. But that was not all, one of his sons had been taken with her, Naruto's twin brother had been kidnapped as well.

They had spent hours looking for her and his son, but when they found them, Kushina had passed out from stress and the building, that she had been taken out of, had exploded before they had found his son… They had been looking for survivors but found no remains, it had been a powerful explosion that was powered from chakra, and all types of organic material was gone. The explosion had been an accident so they knew everyone were still inn the building…. That was how he'd lost his son. Before he even got to see him. That was 12 years ago.

He remembered Kushina's face when he had told her. It had been so broken and full of sorrow. He knew she blamed herself. After that, she had been so focused over not loosing Naruto as well. It was her way of dealing with it. Later they had gotten an other son, Ren, he was 10, they also got a daughter, Nanami, she had just turned 9 and then Kozu, he was 5.

He closed his eyes to stop thinking… It didn't work. What if this boy was his 'dead' son… no he couldn't be, could he. . 'I can't ignore the DNA test' he thought with some amount of hope in it. His feelings of all this was confusing, he both hoped the boy was and wasn't his son. Of course he and Kushina would be overjoyed find him alive and well, but the boy, he would be confused and probably very sad that he grew up without them. 'Maybe he'd even be angry… No! no such thoughts'. He straightened himself in his chair, looking out of the window behind the desk, towards the hospital.

The medics at the hospital had said he suffered from chakra exhaustion and had a severe concussion. He had no identification on him, which was odd if he'd been traveling. He had been wearing orange pants and a black turtleneck sweater with no sleeves and had kunai and shuriken pouch with him, so they figured that he was a ninja and since he didn't have a headband they assumed he was traveling. It was rare for a ninja to stay in one place if they didn't belong to a ninja village.

Minato was a bit amused that the boy wore orange. 'Heh, just like Kushina and Naruto' his expression turned grim. 'I need to find out, this is driving me crazy, this not knowing, this possibility… Not to forget I have yet to tell Kushina, wonder how she'll react' he thought grimly before he went home for the day.

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Kushina was fuming. A few days ago her husband had come home early seemingly in a rush and had looked so relived to see them. When she asked about it he had just brushed it off and said he had to get back to work. Ever since then he'd been acting so weird and no one wanted to tell her what was going on, DAMN IT.

'I know something's bothering him, why cant he just tell me, it cant be that bad, arrg, when he gets home he's so dead' She thought. She'd just laid Kozu to sleep and was waiting for Minato to get home. She heard the door open and smirked evilly, he was going to tell her, even if she had to beat it out of him.

Minato walked into the kitchen to find his wife looking right at him with an evil look on her face. He paled. There were only one true scary thing in the world and that was Kushina when she was angry. 'Oh shit, maybe I shouldn't have kept it from her so long' he thought before walking forward slowly taking his wife's hand and taking her outside on the balcony.

Kushina looked at her husband "So, you finally going to tell me what's been bothering you the past few days?" she asked, well more demanded.

Minato looked back at her thinking of how to tell her, when he decided he said "Well, you remember the day I came home early right?" he asked, she nodded and he continued "Well there was a reason for it, just an hour before I came, an ANBU from the border came into my office saying that Naruto was in the hospital out cold and that they had found him outside the village" Kushina looked at him with both a worried and confused face "Naturally I went to the hospital to see him, but when I got there I didn't think it was Naruto, sure the kid looks like him, and not just a little. Anyway that's why I went home to see if he was here, he was so I was greatly relived" Kushina was about to say something but he cut her off "But that left the question, who was the kid at the hospital. We took a DNA test and… well… it…" he stopped, the look of shock entering his wife's face "It matches Naruto's completely" he didn't need to say any more, he saw that she knew what he was telling her.

"Are you saying…" Kushina looked like she was on the verge of breakdown. 'No it can't be, he died, we were sure of that. Naruto doesn't even know of him' thought were swirling in her head and she looked away from Minato. She was still touchy on that subject.

"Yea, I'm saying that we believe… he's Naruto's twin brother. There is no other explanation" he said and saw tears build up in his wife's eyes. He cupped her cheek with his hand and brushed away the tears before kissing her while holding her close.

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The next day was somewhat hectic. Kushina wanted to go to the hospital immediately when she woke up, but she had to get Nanami and Ren ready for the academy and deliver Kozu at the kindergarten first. Naruto had a team meeting this morning so he had already left, and of course her husband should already be at the hospital making sure everything was in order.

Minato was at the hospital, he was deep in thought while on his way to see the boy. 'Wonder what his name is, too bad we didn't get too name him though'. He hoped the boy would wake soon, it had been almost a week of wondering how he was. 'Wonder if he's anything like Naruto, they are twins… but still, I wonder'. his thoughts where swirling in his head and now that he'd told Kushina he couldn't wait to see her reaction.

He was broken from his thoughts when he was outside of the room. "Sensei, I knew you'd be here sooner or later" a warm voice said. He looked up and at his student Rin. "Hey Rin," he gave her a smile "And how'd you know that?" he asked. "Well, I am one of the medics that is in charge of the boy in there, as such I know everything we know of him so far. So I knew you'd be here, and is Kushina coming later?" she said am little smug.

Minato smiled "Yes she'll be over shortly. So you know then?" he asked his eyes shining in happiness. "Yes I know, I even found out before you" she smiled and went into the room, Minato following.

She walked over to the bed where the blond boy was resting "It's amazing how similar he and Naruto is. I get that they're twins, but twins that grow up away from each other are usually very different, both mentally and physically. The only physical difference I can see is this boys height and those cute whiskers on his face" She said while looking him over and checking his vitals.

Minato raised an eyebrow 'Cute?' he wanted to laugh at that, but he decided not to. "Oh, I didn't know that" he said instead. Rin turned to him and "Yea, they sure got some strong genes, after all Naruto's literally a mini-you. Now you'll probably have two mini-versions running around." She chuckled at Minato's expression at that and continued "He should wake up any time now, so I'll leave you with him" she smiled and left the room.

Minato looked at his long thought to be dead son with a sad smile. 'I can't believe he's alive… He's probably going to demand an explanation from us, maybe he'll even go as far as hate… No! don't think like that, it'll be ok'. Thoughts like this was going through his head 'Not to mention we haven't even told Naruto that he had… has a twin, wonder how he's going to take that. He's always said he felt like something was missing'. His train of thought brought him to how different things might become now.

He was so lost in thoughts that he didn't hear the door open and close before he heard a silent gasp. He turned to find Kushina wide eyed. "Wow, when you said they looked alike you weren't kidding, it's not weird that the ANBU mistook him for Naruto" Kushina said in a low voice as she silently went over to her son that she hadn't seen in 12 years.

Minato stayed silent, watching his wife look over their son. He watched her look at his peaceful face, stroke the back of her hand over his cheek and smile at the whisker like marks. She brushed a strand of hair away from his eyes. Tears were threatening to fall, but she didn't let them, just smiled.

Kushina looked back at her husband and smiled a truly stunning smile. She went over and hugged him. She didn't know how long they had been standing there just holding each other when the boy on the bed began to move. They let go of each other and observed the boy.

The boy stirred, his breathing sharper and he let out a groan. His hand went to his head as if in pain. They saw him open his eyes only to close them quickly, frowning. He opened them again, slowly this time, and looked around the room. His gaze landed on them and his face clearly showed confusion, his blue eyes shining. They looked at him for what felt like forever, but was probably just seconds, until he asked a question.

"Um" he coughed a little, his voice a little rasp "Who are you?, and where am I?" he tried to sit up and felt his muscles protest, however he was stopped by a hand on his chest pushing him down again. "Don't! you should rest, chakra exhaustion is nothing to scoff at" the blond haired man said "Now, I'm Minato and this is my wife Kushina, as for where you are, you are at the Konoha hospital" he said again while the two of them smiled. "Now, would you like to tell us your name" the red headed woman asked with a kind smile.

The blond frowned as if in thought and looked away before he said "That's a good question" in a low voice. "Do you know who I am?" he asked as he faced them again his face still confused.

Minato and Kushina looked at each other worried, did he have some sort of memory loss, or was this a trick of some sort. "What, you can't remember?" Minato asked. The blond boy just looked at him and shook his head in a no. The grown ups just looked at each other again before thinking 'This is going to be difficult'.

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TBC…

Naruto with amnesia in a completely different dimension, this can never end well.

Ok just so you know, in this fic since it's a different dimension I make the rules, meaning both Rin and Obito are alive, that includes the Uchiha Clan. Matters on that and the Kyuubi will be explained in later chapters.

The story about Kushina seems possible to have happened in the real Naruto world too.. Well at least it does for me, but there Minato, or anyone else, wouldn't have found out that she was gone until it was too late and that's how she and Naruto's twin died. Well, in this story at least…

But anyway tell me what you think and don't hesitate to ask question if you're confused. Even if you think it's bad, but then please explain why you feel so though XD. And please review. Thank you.