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AN-Total Story: Jiraiya taught Naruto about seals, and Naruto can make a Rasenshuriken in both hands. I will often use Japanese terms or grammar wherever I can, if I think it is too complicated for my readers to remember or want to bother with, I won't, like not always using "Kooho" instead of "Candidate" when regarding Danzo and Kakashi as temporary Kages.
This story starts at the beginning of Page 12, chapter 485: So close and yet so far
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AN- Chapter 1: There are two more clones then in the cannon Manga, so about 5 clones. Sakura's kunai was NOT poisoned.
(The conversation here is from page 13, 14 and 15 of Chapter 485 of the Copyrighted Naruto material, I'm just re-writing it with written description so that no one is confused how this story starts)
Sasuke and Naruto stood facing each other just out of reach as the power in the air faded.
Naruto looked down and put his hand on his stomach, "You know why everyone hated me when I was a kid…Because I have the Nine-Tails inside me." He looked up at Sasuke then, "I hated all of them, too. I wanted to get revenge on them. One misstep and I might've been thinking the same horrible things as you." Now Naruto had a sad smile on his face, "I thought I'd never have a real bond with anyone, not until I met people like you and Iruka-sensei." Naruto scratched the back of his neck before continuing, "I knew you were always alone. I felt happy knowing there was someone like me…I wanted to hang out with you. It just made me happy! But I couldn't…I was jealous of how skilled you were, so I turned you into a rival." His smile was less sad now, and honest, "I wanted to be just like you. I started with nothing…but I finally made a connection. We went on missions as team seven, and I kept chasing you, wanting to be just as strong, just as cool." Naruto smiled happily now, eyes scrunched up, "I'm really glad I met you."
(AN: This is where I change things to help my story along)
Sasuke looked at his one-time teammate, an almost scowl on his face, "Naruto… It's too late. Nothing you can say now can change me!" Now Sasuke really did scowl, "I'm going to kill you and destroy your beloved Konoha!"
Naruto scowled too at that, "You would destroy the village that Itachi protected? That he would destroy his own clan, his own family to protect? If what Tobi said was true then Danzo was the one to give Itachi his orders, and Danzo was the reason there was an Uchiha Massacre, not Konoha!"
Sasuke charged Naruto with a Chidori, the blonde's words still ringing in his head. Naruto countered with a Rasengan in his right hand as two of his clones rushed up to his left side. As the two attacks collide Naruto brought his left hand up into Sasuke's side with a Rasenshuriken, throwing him across the little pond into the wall and knocking him unconscious. Naruto walked over to his fallen friend, Sakura running up behind him, and placed a chakra suppression seal on Sasuke so when he woke he wouldn't try to get away.
After Naruto had finished the seal, Sakura checked Sasuke's injures and began healing him. Once he his wounds were closed, she looked up to Kakashi, "He should live; I've also stabilized him for transport. We'll have to go slow, and I should check him every hour or so, but he can make the journey back without adding to his injuries." She was taking deep breaths to keep from crying, whether in joy or sorrow she wasn't sure, probably both.
Kakashi walked over to Karin, as Naruto finished putting a chakra suppression Seal on her, and lifted her onto his back. Naruto did the same for Sasuke, and they began their slow trek back to where Kiba, Akamaru, Sai, and Lee slept.
Sakura administered the antidote to her sleeping gas and Sai sat up first before looking over to the rest of team seven and their prisoner. He blinked once, "You got him." He said simply to Naruto.
Looking at Sai, Naruto smiled, "Yeah!" Then he looked over his shoulder, and sighed, "I had to seal his chakra though, so he won't be able to do any jutsu, and he's too badly injured to fight back." Then he looked to Sai again, his brow furrowed slightly, "He killed Danzo. Is that going to cause problems when we get back to Konoha, do you think?" he asked his other teammate.
Sai paused before answering, "I'm not sure. Danzo-sama was not well liked by the Godaime and often worked behind or directly against the Sandaime. Root was disbanded by the Sandaime's order before I was acquired, so I know that he would be considered a traitor by the law, but he was the Rokudaime Kooho, temporary as it was."
Yamato looked up, and thought a moment, "True, but the Kage Summit rejected Danzo-san and elected Kakashi as the new Rokudaime Kooho, and that happened before Sasuke killed Danzo-san, so it is possible that most of the trouble can be managed."
Kiba looked at the six members of team 7, shocked and slightly confused, "What do you mean the Kage summit rejected the Rokudamie-sama? And how can they vote a new one in? Wouldn't he be the Nanadaime-sama? Candidate, what do you mean candidate? And why would they do that? And weren't we supposed to kill Sasuke? He's a member of Akatsuki and they attacked Konoha!" He was standing and agitated now, trying to make sense of all the new information.
Kakashi decided to fill the young man in on all the new goings on, "Danzo-san tried to control the other Kages, which is against the rules of the summit, and then he tried to get them to put him in charge, effectively asking them to let him take over the world and when the leader of Akatsuki attacked he ran instead of staying and helping like he should have and all the other Kages actually did."
Lee having listened to everything going on since he began to awaken jumped to his feet now, "How UNYOUTHFUL!" he shouted, upset at the lack of honor their Rokudaime had shown.
Kakashi's visible eye twitched, "Yes, well that is why he was rejected by the Summit, and since he was only a Candidate—his election to Hokage was incomplete, he was not officially the Hokage yet—The Summit was able to reject his position and elect a new Candidate, but again the title is not official yet, and if the Godaime wakes by the time we get back it will mean that there is in fact not a Rokudaime Hokage yet, unless the Godaime decides to agree to the election."
"Oh." Kiba said, looking shocked. "So, what now?"
Yamato stood up and dusted off his uniform, "Now we all head back to Konoha and see what happens." Just as he was about to take the lead in formation, since Kakashi had a prisoner, he heard Naruto sigh.
"I don't want to see what happens, I want to have some say in what happens. Can we think this through a little more, I don't want this to blow up, everything with the Teme has been so complicated, we probably need to seriously plan this to pull it off." He had set Sasuke down, and leaned against a tree. Yamato looked at Kakashi who just set his own prisoner down and leaned against a tree facing Naruto, so Yamato shrugged and turned back to the with a resigned "Fine."
"How YOUTHFUL that you seek to help your friend!" Lee exclaimed, jumping up and pumping his fist, with fire in his eyes. Kiba flinched away form him, still not used to Lee's exuberance up close like this. Kakashi ignored him with ease born of practice. Sakura sighed at his yelling, and Yamato cringed, why Gia's student had to act so much like him, Yamato was never sure.
Yamato squinted at Naruto, "It's unlike you to plan ahead." He statement had an almost questioning tone to it, filled with doubt at this development.
Naruto started at the creepy look on Yamato's face, "Hey, hey I totally plan ahead! Sometimes. That's not the point." He responded defensively, as the awake ninja, and Akumaru too, gave him highly skeptical looks.
Leaning on a tree, Kakashi had his Icha Icah novel out, "Oh, and what is the point?" Not even looking up from the pages of his book as he calmly asked his agitated student.
"The point is, this is Sasuke, right!" Naruto raised his voice, still annoyed. "And after the last 3 years I've spent chasing him, I'm not going to let him get away now! We are team 7, all five of us, and no one, not even the old geezers on the council are going to take that way from us now!" He slammed his fist into the palm of his hand at the end, to highlight his point.
Sakura sighed leaning on her own tree, "Well, there are four issues I can see us not getting around easily. He joined Orochimaru, and Akatsuki, he attacked the Raikage 's brother, and he killed Danzo." She had both hands up, using one to tick off four fingers on the other.
Groaning, Naruto ran his hands through his hair, "He also killed Orochimaru, and Itachi, two notorious missing-nin, which can be counted in his favor for loyalty to Konoho, and Sai said that Danzo counts as a traitor because of Root, right, so that's three traitors to Konoha he has dealt with. It's the Akatsuki and Raikage's brother I don't know if we could deal with." He smacked his forehead against the tree his pacing had lead him in front of.
Kiba was sitting on the snow, leaning his back on Akamaru, and sighed, "I don't know why you want to help the guy, but if you're so set on it, he didn't actually kill the Raikage's brother, so we can argue for leniency, maybe."
Naruto took a deep relieved breath and Kiba's words. "Which just means we only have to worry about the Akatsuki really." A smile began to form, with the thought that this could be easier than he feared.
Lee looked at the smile on his blonde friends face, and the unhappy look on Kiba's. He thought of all the trouble Sasuke had caused over the last nearly four years. "Naruto, it is quite youthful that you worry for your friend, but what he did, it was unyouthful. Surely we cannot forgive his unyouthfulness fully or we will show ourselves to be without our own youth." It was somewhere between a statement and a question, Lee was sure total instant forgiveness was not an option, but yet forgiveness was very youthful in itself, so he was unsure of the course of action at this time.
"I can't just let them kill him, Gejimayu!" Naruto yelled, hands in the air, defensive of his friend's safety imminently, habitually.
"That's not what he's saying Naruto, and he's right!" Sakura immediately berated her teammate, used to his idiotic notions, and disputing them. "Sasuke's crimes can't go unpunished! It will set a bad president, it will make it look like anyone from an important clan can do whatever they please, and as long as they have an important Kekkei Genkai Konoha will forgive it!" She stopped wagging her finger at him and finished her lecture in an annoyed tone.
"But Sakura, you hear those Kumo nin! They want to execute him! We can't let them do that! Not to Sasuke!" Naruto whinnied, wanting to save his friend, knowing she'd agree with him.
Kakashi put his book away, "You're right, and we won't. We can lessen his crimes, and we can do as Kiba said, we can ask for leniency, some, anyway." Kakashi walked away from the tree he had been leaning on, toward the red-haired girl. He hair reminded him of Kushina's. "But he does have to be punished for defecting, for nearly killing you, for joining Akatsuki and for attacking the Raikage's brother." Kakashi looked Naruto in the eye, knowing he needed him to understand, and to concede this point to stop Naruto from fighting all types of punishment. "We can use your points that Orochimaru, Itachi, and Danzo were all traitors, even if Itachi was a sanctioned one, and Danzo was a disgraced Hokage Candidate. We can also get the charges from Kumo reduced because he didn't kill the Raikage's brother, but that will only work if he gets some from of punishment. No punishment and Kumo will likely demand his execution or declare war." Kakshi looked down at the girl, ready to move on soon, to get home.
Naruto threw his hands up. Startled. "But we're already at War! Akatsuki declared was on all of the Elemental Nations!"
Yamato finally decided he should contribute to controlling Naruto's action, after all, Kakashi-sempia had, and Yamato was a captain of Team 7 as well. "Exactly! And if we do this right then we won't have to fight a two front war, Kumo will be with us against Akatsuki instead of against us. So it's best if we get this settled as quickly as possible, with the least amount of arguments."
Kakashi nodded at Yamato's words, bending down to pick up the girl prisoner. "As the new Hokage Candidate, I can deal with this when we get back to Konoha, if Tsunade-sama hasn't woken yet, if she has, we need to talk to her. I have some thoughts, but as the Hokage-Koho, I cannot share them with you. We'll head back to Konoha now, and deal with what we find there.' His mind made up, he nodded at Tenzo to lead the group home.
Naruto sighed and picked up a still unconscious Sasuke, and moved to follow Tenzo, Sakura fell in step behind him, but off to his right, with Lee keeping up with her on his left. Kakashi moved to follow a bit behind and between the two, and Kiba and Akamaru took up similar position to Sakaura and Lee behind Kakashi. Sai, who had been silent for some time now, still thinking on Naruto's coment about 5 members of Team seven, took up the rear. The group started the long trek home.