The Fallen Friend- Rise of the Blue Hokage
By darkwolf605
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Synopsis: During the final battle in wave Sasuke's and Naruto's positions were switched but our favorite blond, after closing his eyes opened them back up only to say goodbye. Naruto left Sasuke with two requests, one to defend Konoha and two to realize Naruto's dream of becoming Hokage for him. From the fall of the future orange Hokage comes the rise of the blue Hokage, rated M for violence
Chapter 1- Fall of a friend
Sasuke's POV
It all happened so fast, I was done for the enemy threw the senbon at me. I closed my eyes, 'I'm sorry mom, dad, everyone else, I never got to avenge you'. The pain never came and I opened my eyes and there was my loser teammate, the dobe, the dead-last, but as much as I hated to admit it he was the really the only one I considered a true friend. Then he spoke "damn it, teme do me a favor, don't lose to this guy." "Dobe I'll do it…..thank you" and then he fell down, he was gone I had lost another person close to me.
I felt a rage deep inside of me, a hatred more powerful than the night my family died. Suddenly I felt a pain in my eyes and I heard my enemy speak "is he the first time you've had a friend die" I opened my eyes, they were the same as his, as my traitorous brothers. "I'LL KILL YOU" I yelled as I charged. Rage filled my mind as I charged, I heard a voice in my head, I repeated its words, "Amaterasu" I said as a black flame went for my opponent. He dodge it but barely, but it destroyed the mirror he was in and slowly spread through and destroyed all the others. We stared at each other as we were about to charge at each other we heard as sound, the sound of a thousand chirping birds "Zabuza-sama!" he shouted, then he ran towards the sound with me a few seconds behind. We saw Kakashi sensei with pure visible lightning covering his hand about to go through Zabuza who was being held down by a bunch of dogs but right before he made contact my opponent stepped in the way and took the blow through his heart. "I'm sorry I wasn't a better tool Zabuza-sama….." he said as he died "Haku you were the best tool I could have asked for…." Zabuza said as tears fell from his eyes. Suddenly the fog started to clear up a bit as we saw Gato, the man responsible for all of this standing there with about a hundred mercenaries.
It was all his fault, I heard the bastard speak, he said he was never actually going to pay Zabuza and Haku and was going to use these mercenaries to kill us, Zabuza asked for a kunai, he was no longer our enemy so I tossed him one because he could no longer use his arms, he asked me to take care of his sword, I nodded, he nodded to me and Kakashi sensei as he charged, he killed many but took many hits before he took Gato down, as he stumbled back he landed next to Haku and said "I wish I could go where you're going Haku but I know I've done too much wrong in my life." As he finally took his last breath the villagers showed up prepared to fight for their village and so the remaining mercenaries fled, as Kakashi sensei walked over to were Sakura was removing the needles from Naruto as he slowly opened his eyes, he looked at me and asked "did we win?" "Yeah dobe we did." "Good" he said as he looked at our sensei and with saddened eyes looked at the three of us and Tazuna plus his family and said I'm not going to make it, I'm sorry." "What the Fuck are you talking about dobe you're going to be fine!" I exclaimed "No I'm not, the seal was hit, it hit the filter seal on it and unfortunately the seals always leaking a small amount of the Kyuubi's chakra." I was confused as I saw shock and sadness fill up in my sensei's eyes Naruto looked at us and spoke, his voice getting softer by the minute. "Twelve years ago when the Kyuubi no kitsune attacked the village the fourth Hokage couldn't kill the beast so instead he sealed it in the only newborn baby available, me. I've held onto this burden my whole life protecting the villagers so I'm sorry that I never told you guys." "so that's why so many people hated you" Sakura said fighting back tears "I'm sorry for how I treated you Naruto" then it was my turn to speak "Dobe…. You were, actually no you are my best friend. You were one of the only people who didn't treat me any differently because I was the last Uchiha, thank you." "No problem teme and its ok Sakura I forgive you, can I ask you a favour Sasuke?" "Anything" I say "I want you to defend the village and do what I couldn't, please become Hokage for me." His voice barely above a whisper. Inari along with Tsunami and Tazuna had tear rolling down their faces as Tazuna spoke "Thank you for everything" "No problem" he replied a small but sad grin on his face. Then he turned to Kakashi sensei and said "I don't blame you sensei so don't blame yourself, take care of the other two." Kakashi with tears rolling down his face went down on a knee and grabbed Naruto in a hug as he spoke. "I'm sorry baby brother, I should have been there for you when you were growing up." He saw the surprise in Naruto's eyes as he spoke. "I'm not biologically your brother but when I was a gennin my father committed seppuku after he failed a mission to save some friends, your father, my sensei found me and took me home and then later on your parents adopted me, your mother's name was Kushina Uzumaki of the Uzumaki clan and your father's name was Minato Namikaze, the fourth Hokage. They loved you and would have wanted a better life for you, I'm sorry Naruto I failed you." Naruto raised his hand which was a struggle and said "its ok big brother, can you tell the other's that I'll miss them?" "Ok Naruto." "I'm tired I think I'm going to go to sleep….." Naruto closed his eyes for the last time as his breathing slowed to a stop.
One week later
The bridge was finally complete after a week of hard work from the villagers who were back to work after Gato's death. Team seven was leaving wave and the whole village was gathered to say goodbye. Kakashi had sent his nin-dog Pakkun to deliver the news to the third Hokage the day after Naruto's death and the third would be waiting for them when they returned. Kakashi had placed a preservation seal on Naruto's body to make sure he didn't start decomposing, it was standard that any mission above D-rank that you have at least one stretcher, preservation seal, and a white sheet to cover the body in case of death, though it was very uncommon for death to occur on a C-rank it did occasionally happen though. As they were leaving Tazuna announced that the bridge would be named The Great Naruto Bridge in memory of Naruto and all the others who died due to Gato's greed. As they were preparing to leave Kakashi summoned Pakkun to run ahead and inform the Hokage that they were on their way back. So with their bags packed up and Zabuza's sword sealed the remains of the shattered team grabbed onto the stretcher, Sasuke at the front left, Sakura at the front right, and Kakashi along with a Shadow-Clone at the back prepared for the longest journey home that they ever had to face.
Asuma along with team ten where passing by the front gates to the village when they ran into Kurenai and her Gennin team, team eight. "Hello Asuma, team ten." Kurenai said "hello to you Kurenai, as well as to you guys too, team eight." Asuma replied then he saw something that rubbed him the wrong way, call it a hunch but it wasn't very often you saw Asuma's father, the third Hokage walking towards the front gates with a squad of four ANBU. He had been a ninja long enough to know what was going on, a Shinobi or Kunochi had died in battle and he was going to meet the team but the weird thing was normally it was just the ANBU that showed up because of the Hokage's mountain of paperwork, Normally the Hokage would greet the team at the Hokage tower unless someone important has died, it was multiple losses (in which case there would be four ANBU for each stretcher), or it was a young team of Gennin.
He shuddered a little at the last thought but then he saw something, Pakkun was walking with the group meaning someone on Kakashi's squad had been killed, he knew right then he had to get the young teams out of there, as he looked to Kurenai he saw her nod and that she agreed with him. "Alright, teams ten and eight please report to training ground seven." He said "What, why, and how come you get to boss us around, you're not our sensei!" exclaimed Kiba Kurenai just looked at him and said sternly "Do as he says Kiba, we'll both be by shortly." Nodding begrudgingly Kiba along with all the other rookie Gennin left but not before Asuma saw a knowing look in Shikamaru's eyes, the young genius just nodded and headed off. Both Jounin turned to face there approaching leader as he looked at them they followed without a word knowing that they would need to confront their one-eyed friend before he did anything stupid like try to turn in his headband.
As the group of seven approached the gates they saw what was left of team seven coming up. Asuma and Kurenai now knew which member had fallen because when they looked they saw two heads of silver, one of pink, and one of black hair, but no sun kissed blond. The orange jumpsuit wearing, prank pulling, always smiling Jinchuriki of Konoha had died. As team seven appeared no smiles where had to see their home, only sorrow for their lost brethren. They stopped in front of the Hokage who had tears rolling down his face, four ANBU (which Kakashi had explained was customary to bring the fallen ninja to the morgue), and two Jounin who the two Gennin recognized from graduation day and who Kakashi recognized as old friends. The Hokage stared for a few minutes at the sheet that covered his grandson in everything but blood, he signaled for the ANBU to take the sides so the team could take a rest, then he picked up the sheet to look at the still face of Naruto, tears started rolling down his face even more as he planted a kiss on the dead boys forehead. Unfortunately it was at that time that Konohamaru was walking past the gates with Iruka after getting caught ditching class again, when he saw his Grandfather and figured he'd run over and say hi, with Iruka following him behind especially once he realized that there was a KIA ninja and he caught up just in time to see who it was along with Konohamaru. Both had frozen tears streaming down his face. For Konohamaru he was seeing his rival, the first one not to treat him differently just because he was the third Hokage's grandson, the closest thing he had to and older brother. For Iruka he was seeing one of his students, not to mention probably his favorite student, the one he saw as a little brother or maybe even as a bit of a son.
Suddenly it had felt like hours but in fact had only maybe been one second and Konohamaru bolted as Iruka followed him to make sure he was alright though how could he be his big brother was dead, he would never be able to learn cool ninja tricks from him, never again could they have ramen together like they had a few times before, never would he be able to fight him for the title their grandfather had, Hokage. As much as Hiruzen and Asuma both wanted to follow him, they both knew they couldn't. He looked at the shattered team as he motioned the ANBU to take their fallen teammate away and then said "Sakura, Sasuke please go home and get some rest, I will have a grief counsellor come by later to talk to each of you, Kakashi please come with me to my office." All three nodded but you could see their team had lost its heart and it would take a miracle to get them to function again. He then turned to Asuma and Kurenai and spoke after the gennin left "please go tell your teams of this, I will inform you guys later of when the funeral will be held." Both nodded before walking away needing time to process what had occurred. He then turned to the gate guards "please do not speak of this for now." Both nodded having liked the blond troublemaker, they looked on as Kakashi and the Hokage walked towards the tower in silence.
Training ground seven
All six of the remaining rookie Gennin where sitting there wondering what had occurred to get them sent off like that, only Shikamaru had any idea about what had happened. They saw their sensei's show up and before anyone had a chance to say anything Kurenai spoke "please don't speak we have something to tell you" "you should probably take a seat" Asuma continued…
A/N
That was my first chapter of my first fanfiction, please read and review. Please only constructive criticism don't just say it sucks, if you don't like it please tell me why.
Also I'm wondering what you guys think about Naruto fanfictions where OC's are one of the main characters. Because I'm working on one and I wonder what you guys think.