最後の作品 -i

"Schwanengesang"

By AmouIsrafel

Beta: TheLightsShadow (Yup, she's my beta for this as well!)

"people talking"

'people thinking'


Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Kishimoto does….T-T I do own several eps, several chapters (notice I said chapters and not volumes!). a kunai, several headbands, a pair of ninja shoes, a Haku costume, a wonderfully drawn SasuNaru picture I bought at the PMX Expo, a kunai pencil with Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke on it, a Naruto Halloween Keychain, a Gaara Gourd purse, a copy of Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution for the Wii, Ninja Council 3 for the DS, The Naruto OST for the Second Movie (I love you my B-day), several other songs, and several plushies. Hopefully my pitiful collection will grow! T-T


Warning: This will contain boy love (shounen-ai, yaoi, whatever you want to call it), in the shape of SasuNaru. It will, however, have straight pairings. Oh….and manga spoilers…major spoilers…as in…who Naruto's parent's are, their names, and etc. XD


Main Pairing: SasuNaru (And NaruSasu at some points.)

SidePairings: KakaIru, Naruto's Parents, KibaHina, etc.

Fan service can be added for pretty much any pairings. Yaoi/Yuri/Het, it doesn't matter, just PM me with your idea! Nothing horrible, please! XD

Rating: T (So far...)


Der Doppelgänger -ii

Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen,

In diesem Hause wohnte mein Schatz;

Sie hat schon längst die Stadt verlassen,

Doch steht noch das Haus auf demselben Platz.

Da steht auch ein Mensch und starrt in die Höhe

Und ringt die Hände vor Schmerzensgewalt;

Mir graust es, wenn ich sein Antlitz sehe -

Der Mond zeigt mir meine eigne Gestalt.

Du Doppelgänger, du bleicher Geselle!

Was äffst du nach mein Liebesleid,

Das mich gequält auf dieser Stelle

So manche Nacht, in alter Zeit?


Prologue

The night was warm and bright. The dark canvas that was the sky was blanketed with bright shimmers of light. Cherry blossoms were blooming all around, their scent filling the night air.

There was a certain surreal sense for the ground was covered in water from an earlier rain shower making it reflect whatever was directly above it. That fact alone made it hard to identify reality from mirage.

The cicadas chirped steadily and the night was picture perfect.

There was, however, a stifling feel in the air; an utter stillness that seemed to suffocate any creatures in its presence.

A huge manor loomed over the horizon, overlooking a vast lake. In one of its many rooms, a clock "ticked" and "tocked", a sound like that of a steady heart beat. That particular room looked quite large, but, in reality, it was much smaller than an average sized room.

There was a dresser on one side, and a chair with an oil lamp on it next to a futon which was comfortably situated below a window.

On that futon a boy around the age of sixteen slept peacefully. The air that passed through the open window didn't seem to bother him in the least. It only seemed to play with his golden locks and not even an eye cracked open.

The clock "ticked" and "tocked" some more on the windowsill. Hours passed when, suddenly, a strong gust blew outside scattering cherry blossom petals everywhere.

The moment the first one hit the water covered ground, a tiny ripple went throughout it. The image that had just mere moments before been reflected shattered like a mirror and loud cries and yells could start to be heard from all sides.

The ground was no longer still but covered in ripples from where people were stepping, constant splashes being heard as a result.

Back in the room, the futon was empty and had been for a while; the cherry blossoms covered most of the room, and lay there, undisturbed.

The clock lay silent; the small hand stuck pointing at 1 and the long one at 9. It was now approximately 2:10 A.M. As for the door leading out of the room, it was wide open.


Time Skip: Some Hundred Years


A young blond teen walked down the short path towards a special, private class he had. His hair stuck up from different angles and he had bright blue eyes. He was wearing blue sweatpants and a simple white t-shirt.

He normally wouldn't wear that type of thing, especially if he was going to see a professor of his.

However, he was not going to go meet with a school professor, and that made all the difference. He was going to meet up with his martial arts sensei.

He had been practicing martial arts for as long as he could remember and was probably one of the best in the country. His sensei told him that he had quite a knack for it which, when he was his age he reluctantly informed him, he hadn't had.

"Ha, I used to have to be tied up to a tree trunk for my incompetence at times!" he had said.

Maybe it was true that sometimes certain skills were just inherited. His family's ancestors had been ninja and had been the special bodyguards for one of the biggest royal families that had been at the area at the time. As far as he knew, they were still around; just not in the vicinity.

As he was just a few minutes away from his final destination, he suddenly remembered something. Jiraiya-sensei had mentioned something about him picking up a new student.

He scolded himself under his breath for not paying closer attention but, then again, when your teacher was such a big pervert that he kept contemplating story lines for some erotic novel he wanted published some time in the future and he used you as his critic, even the best behaved student had to learn when to tune him out or be scarred for life.

The youth shuddered as he remembered some impressively wrong ideas his teacher had gotten to the week before.

He let out a sigh.

The man was a master at teaching it was true, but he would not understand that there were some things he just did not want to know about in massive detail.

The rather tall (he was around 6 ft 3 in) faired haired young man turned the corner to the clearing where he normally had his lessons and stopped to see a tom boyish, redheaded girl arguing with his sensei.

Even through her rather baggy red shirt, he could see she was well endowed and had quite a figure so he didn't have to try to guess what had happened.

His idiot of a teacher had made some remark that had, not surprisingly, outraged the girl.

"What the hell do you mean I should wear a tank top and a miniskirt to our next meeting you pervert!? I don't think I even owna miniskirt!"

"You're going to have to wear a skirt at school anyway so it would be good if you started getting used to that, at the least," stated Jiraiya in a sing song voice.

"I refuse, I refuse, I refuse, I refuse, I refuse!" exclaimed the girl whilst shaking her head causing her hair to go everywhere.

"Ok, kid, calm down. You're too young for me anyway. Just a joke to help pass the time until my other lovely, and thankfully quiter-"

A glare from a pair of green eyes was sent his way.

"-student arrived…"

This earned him another glare from said student.

"Jiraiya. Who are you calling a lovely student. That wouldn't, by any chance, be me now would it? I don't appreciate those sort of compliments. Especially from a pervert like you."

The other teen turned and stopped glaring at Jiraiya and turned to the new comer, apparently not having noticed his presence until he spoke.

Jiraiya of course, had sensed his arrival before he had even fully gotten there and had decided to take a jab at him to let him know he knew.

"Yeah, yeah. Sheesh, kids these days."

When all he got this time were two impatient glares, he proceeded with the formalities.

"Minato, this is Uzumaki Kushina, the new student I told you about yesterday. She just moved here from Whirlpool City situated in the Mist district of Water country. Kushina, this is Namikaze Minato the damn best student I've ever had so I hope you can keep up."

"I'm pretty good too so don't you go counting me out, old man!" she snapped back.

"For your information, I would hardly consider being 30, old."

"Anywhoo, nice to meet ya, Minato, was it?"

Minato Namikaze nodded making his hair bounce up and down.

"Pleased to meet you Uzumaki-san."

"Ah, cut the '-san' crap. It makes me feel old. Besides, the other students at Konohakagure University are gonna be calling me that too once I show up there tomorrow. What's the point of you calling me that too! Just call me Kushina."

"Wait, how old are you? I thought you were, at most, a senior in high school," remarked Minato.

"I turned 20 in July and I'm a sophomore. I might be short and act kinda childish but I'm by no means a kiddie! Do you think a kiddie could have these?!" By the end of her statement she waved towards her chest.

Minato was just slightly taken back.

Why did he always get the weirdos?

That reminded him…he had to make that teacher of his pay tomorrow for just sneaking off on him.

"No, I just didn't think you were older than me. I'm not turning 19 until this October."

"Wait, you're younger than me! Damn, then that pervy sage lied to me. Figures. He said we were in the same classes since he had apparently made sure of it! Guess he also lied about you wanting to become a teacher, huh" Kushina pouted out.

"No, that seems about right. Seems he can get other, non sex related topics right," Minato pointed out slightly smirking.

"Hey! Speaking of him, where'd he go!" the girl said grabbing her head.

"He wandered off in that direction about 5 minutes ago."

"What! Why didn't you tell me!?"

"I thought it was obvious."

"God damn it! My mother always tells me I'm too loud for my own good. Pff… I should've been able to sense that!" she pouted.

"Well, guess I might as well get going. My family still hasn't finished unpacking and I've gotta go help. Ugh, and I have classes first thing tomorrow morning! Why is that!? I specifically requested afternoon classes! Do I look like a morning person to you!?"

"Um, no but since you said perv-I mean, Jiraiya-sensei, asked that our classes be the same, then you have to take all morning classes considering I take morning classes and it would be rather tedious to change all of my classes to afternoon classes," he stated calmly.

"What! So this is your fault!"

She ran up to him and pointed a finger at his chest.

"How can you stand to wake up so early! Ugh! That's it! Tomorrow during practice, I am so not holding out you hear me!"

With that being said she quickly spun on her heel and began walking, her hair just barely missing smacking Minato straight in the face.

Just before she was out of earshot she turned around. She scratched the back of her head with her right hand and gave Minato a sheepish grin.

"Yo, Minato!"

"Yes, Uzumaki-kun?" The blond had raised an eyebrow at the familiarity in which the red head had addressed him.

"Shit, cut it out. If you can't call me anything else then try to at least refer to me by. My. First. Name!" She mumbled clearly exasperated, punctuating the last three words in her sentence by stomping on the ground.

"Well, as I was sayin', do you think you can help me settle in tomorrow at school. I don't want to make myself seem like a bigger idiot than I already am…and god damn it I did not just call myself that!"

"Fine with me. Wouldn't want to embarrass yourself in front of everyone like what you're doing right now," he shrugged.

"What did you just say you double faced jerk! Forget it! I don't need your help! Seriously, be prepared to be beaten to the ground tomorrow for that comment and don't even think about going easy on me because you'll end up on an emergency ambulance to the nearest hospital in critical condition!" With that Kushina left.

"Double faced jerk? Ok, seriously. Why do I always get the weirdos?" Minato mumbled while running his hand through his hair. He soon finished gathering his stuff and retreated as well.


Notes

i XD The title needs a foot note. This literally means "last work", from what I have gathered, in Japanese and is what comes up if you ask Swanengasong, to be translated into Japanese. Swanengesang literally means "swan singing" or "swan song". I'm not saying anything else about the meaning of this title. Yes, I'm giving you guys work! XD

ii Song is in German. (Nope, I do not speak/read german…I just have a fascination with other languages, especially songs in different languages) "Der Doppelgänger is one of the six songs from Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang that sets words by Heinrich Heine for piano and tenor voice. It was written in 1828, the year of Schubert's death." Wikipedia (XD I love you, wikipedia! You can at times be reliable and at times one can only trust you as far as they can throw you!)

iii-laughs head off- These are actually words on my vocab list! That's pathetic! XD (I am challenging myself to put as many possible vocab words from my English class into this fanfic! Don't worry. Most of them aren't hard. I learned a bunch of them in 6th grade, geesh!


A/N: Oh, in order to clear up confusion. The first part of this story takes place hundreds of years before the main story. (That was the first section of this chapter) Then there is the other side story which takes place some 25 years before the main story. (This is the rest of this chapter) The main story is set in the present and shall be the next chapter. God, can you say hard to write.All we know about Minato is his general appearance, that he was the Fourth Hokage, was taught under Jiraiya, taught Kakashi and his amazing team, married Kushina, and had a kid named Naruto. What do we know about his personality….that he was always really calm and in that way, very different from Naruto. Now Kushina….we just now that she was a redhead from the Mist, more specifically, the Whirlpool village or something, Naruto's mother….and for personality wise…that she and Naruto are extremely alike. As for the relationship between the title, song, and story. Well, the story was written and at first had no name. I ran across Swan Song and liked the ring of it and the definition. Then I found out its German meaning, which led me to the song, which I thought was PERFECT to the plot I had going on in my head! So no, this is not a song fic, really. I will have the translation of this song by the end of the fic, by the way. Now I feel like I have revealed too much of the plot. Sorry that this was so short and that we didn't see Naruto in this chapter…this was just the intro really….you'll meet him in the next chapter! XD Oh, anyone going to Anime LA this year. I might be going Saturday and Sunday…and possibly Friday but just for the AMV Panel that day. I want to go see! XD