WHEN THE PAST FINALLY CATCHES UP
Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto, or characters from any other franchise that might end up on here.
Hey, I know I said I won't write any Naruto neglect fics, so this is going to be a post neglect fic, meaning that I'm not going to start all the way in the beginning, instead, it's going to start in a different place. Where the war is over, the prophecy is fulfilled, yet everything before it would just be used for a backstory, nothing more. Not even a flashback.
As for the story itself, well I don't want to give out too much, mainly because I'm just throwing stuff out onto this story. To give a brief overview, there is a prophecy involved, with Jiraiya being the catalyst for the family falling apart. He, along with Minato and Kushina invests so much into it, even believing everything they are doing is right, only for it all to blow up in their faces when it becomes time for the prophecy to reveal itself. Everything else well reveal itself in the story.
One last thing is that Naruto well have a harem, up to about seven, maybe. Don't really know, I'll figure it out along the way. This go around, I'll give Naruto a bit of a worldly themed harem, with only two from Konoha, one of them being Hanabi, another being an OC, none of my usual. One other girl I chose is Kin, open to suggestions on others.
With Hanabi, she well be 16, but nothing really serious happens between her and Naruto until she reaches 17 or 18. I plan to have her go through her own growth, try to refine herself in a new place, while the only things she exchanges with Naruto are just the basic stuff like hugs and kisses.
Naruto is 20 in this fic, so add or subtract from there for everybody else.
Now on with the story.
It has been over a year since the Fourth Great Shinobi War has come to an end, and for the first ever, the Shinobi World is experiencing its first moment of peace, despite some old tensions from former enemies due to wars of long ago. Now after seeing what could be done once everybody puts their differences aside, former foes are now still in the process of making the alliance more permanent, especially when the people of the now fully reestablished Uzu taking the lead of it all.
Well, not quite everybody, since the only ones suffering are the people of Konoha. A village that used to be #1 of the Major Hidden Villages for so long, to where they started to toot their own horn for far too long. Being at the top for so long, they started to let all of their success go to their heads. Yet everything started to change thanks to one bad decision after another.
Which is why Konoha's Yondaime, Minato Namikaze is in Uzushio right now, along with his group consisting of his wife, Kushina Namikaze, formerly Uzumaki, their twins Kuja and Dawn, and a small group of shinobi as their guards. Among them being the two sannin Jiraiya and Tsunade acting a bit as advisors on the road.
They are in the lobby of the Kage Tower there, waiting as the secretary announced them to the Uzukage. While they came under the guise of trying to reestablish the old alliance that was nullified after they let the world know that they are back, that wasn't entirely too far from the truth. Like a lot of negotiations, there's an ulterior motive, although the look on only four of their faces say they are out for blood.
Once the secretary gave them the all clear, they stood up and walked into the office. When they stepped inside, they were greeted by Adora Uzumaki, Kushina's older cousin, the current Uzukage who is sitting behind her desk. She was also talking to two more people, a spiked-headed boy who was paler than a ghost, with three eyes, and a girl with long black hair. Three of the people in the group glared at the boy since he had a big hand in their downfall.
She and Kushina used to be close, like they were siblings, until one day he showed up to the Chunin Exams to announce that Uzushio has returned. While the reunion started off as pleasant as can be, everything went downhill when Adora declared that Uzushio and Konoha are no longer allies, because she found evidence that somebody within Konoha betrayed the clan.
That day also ended with a lot of friction between the clan and the family because Adora declared some things that most of the family disagreed with. One of them being that now the Uzumaki Clan has just rebuilt Uzushio and have rebuilt their losses, there is no need for Konoha to have their own Uzumaki Clan within their walls. This meaning that Kushina could no longer be the clan head, while Kuja lost his right to be the Uzumaki clan heir, who was originally Dawn, but he used his parents favoritism against her. It also meant a loss of power for Minato since Kushina is loyal to him, but now he can't get any more freebie votes from her.
Another thing that caused uproar was the demand to immediately return of all scrolls that belonged to the Uzumaki Clan, but also the ones they were tasked to protect until the heir of the goddess has revealed themselves. This caused a response, not just to Minato and the family, but also the council, because so many powerful techniques well be leaving the village, and right to their rightful owners. For those like Minato and Jiraiya, the scrolls that weren't Uzumaki, they felt were supposed to serve a purpose.
Finally, what really felt like a slap to the face was that when she was renounced as the Uzumaki Clan Head, Kushina thought she was going to be representing the clan like Mito did when she married Hashirama Senju, but she wasn't. Instead, she, along with Kuja, were disowned by clan, due to the fact that both have been violating key clan laws and mottos, among them being how one treats family, blood or not. This is why she was giving the boy the evil eye, since he had a hand in it.
"Congratulations Kin, you are the first of Naruto's wives to have a hand in expanding the newly rebuilt Otsutsuki Clan." Adora said, causing the girl, Kin to blush, while placing a hand on her belly.
Kin Otsutsuki, formerly Kin Tsuchi of Sound, was smiling brightly, "Thank you Lady Uzukage." She said, while rubbing her belly, "After everything that has been going on over the years, it would be nice to see some light coming into the world."
The man next to her, Naruto Otsutsuki, gave a big smile of his own, while placing his hand onto Kin's belly, "I know how you feel." He said, before the smile dropped, "Although I'm the one who is going to have to pay for that little stunt of yours?" This caused Kin to give Naruto an apologetic look.
"What stunt are you talking about?" Dawn asked, getting the three occupants' attention.
Looking towards their guests, "Oh hey Dawn, Tsunade, nice to see you." Naruto said, greeting three of the few people that were kind to Naruto during his upbringing.
"Hey brat." Tsunade gave her usual greeting.
Dawn decided to give a different greeting, by walking up to Naruto, who had a good idea on what she was up to. When she was right in front of him, Dawn placed her arms around his neck and gave him a kiss hello.
While Kin, along with Adora, and Tsunade, were smiling at this, the four other main guests were feeling appalled at this. "Dawn, don't kiss your brother like that!" Minato yelled out.
When they separated, the two looked at the family, "But I'm not father, Kuja is over there." Dawn said, "Even though you gave Naruto a home, he was never part of the family."
"Which is something you reminded me of constantly, how you let me into your home under 'the goodness of your hearts,'" Naruto said, giving the two an really annoyed look, "Yet it was really bullshit because in reality, I was just a decoy for your twins so that the villagers won't even both attacking them, while you used me as a scapegoat for your own failures."
"And I can't begin to tell you how sick I feel after every time I have to heal him almost day after day." Tsunade said, "All the beatings, the broken bones, the number of times he came to actually dying, what you have done is just as low as the things Danzo pulled off."
"I am nothing like that traitor!" Minato yelled out, "I always place my village and my family first."
"Correction, like your sensei, your order of priorities are the prophecy and the village, your devotion to your family is rather questionable." Naruto said, "In fact, there are a lot of things that are considered questionable."
Before things could get out of hand, "Okay, before things get out of hand, I believe we have some business to get to." Adora said, not wanting things to get out of hand that would include property damage and people being sent to the hospital. Turning towards her guests, "So what is it you wish to talk about?"
Well, here is the first chapter of my latest fic, and this might be a tough fic to write, at least during the first few chapters. Right now, I'm just trying to avoid any clichés that have been done to death, while trying to be a bit more original. Yes, a prophecy is involved, but I'm trying to for a different approach on that. Read and Review.