(Hidden leaf village)
Tsunade was not having a good day Sasuke Uchiha had betrayed the leaf and ran away yesterday. She had thought that it would not be hard to bring him back and only sent a small team of Shikamaru, Naruto, Choji, Kiba, and Neji. With the new chunin Shikamaru in charge.
Not too long ago she had learned that the mission had gone to hell with most of the team heavily injured. The only exceptions were Shikamaru who only and a broken finger and Naruto but that was because he was still unaccounted for. To top it all off Lee had run off after them but somehow escaped any major injuries. This was most likely do to the fact that Gaara had shown up in time to save him.
She sighed and thought about her next move. The sand siblings and come just in time to rescue and save three of the retrieval team and had also picked up Choji on the way back to the leaf. She had gotten reports that Neji and Choji should be able to live but it would not be out of the hospital for at least a month.
Lee informed her that he had linked up with Naruto and that he had continued on after Sasuke in the direction of the land of rice patties. At that moment Kakashi barged into her office and demanded to know what was happening. After informing Kakashi of the situation Kakashi was about to leave when Tsunade stopped him.
"I want you to go and track Naruto and Sasuke down and bring them back."
Kakashi nodded and said "Don't worry I was going to do that weather you told me to or not." Kakashi walked out of her office with a determined look on his face.
Kakashi went to the northern gate and summoned his eight ninja hounds.
Pakkun who was standing on the tallest of the ninja hound said "What do you need Kakashi."
Kakashi replied "I need you guys to find Naruto and Sasuke as fast as possible before they kill each other. They were heading in the direction of the land of rice patties so concentrate in that area." With the scents of team seven already memorized the hounds set off to find them.
Kakashi started to evaluate the situation. It was late in the afternoon and it looked like it would start raining tomorrow mid-day. If he didn't find those two soon it would be very hard to find them. After coming to this conclusion he started to head off in the direction of the land of rice patties.
(Land of fire)
Pakkun had found the trail of Naruto and Sasuke and with a howl he informed Kakashi who was soon there. Kakashi without looking down at Pakkun asked. "What have you found?"
"I found the trail but I also smell that a battle is about to start most likely from the two we are tracking." Pakkun replied.
Kakashi's face got more determined than it ever had and said "Then we need to pick up the pace and maybe we can get to them in time."
(Valley of the end)
The evidence of there being a battle and was now finished was everywhere. The demonic chakra was dispersing, there were burn marks and craters, and there was only one person. That person was a young boy with sun blond hair in orange clothing. He was Naruto Uzumaki.
Kakashi ran up to the unconscious boy and looked around for any sign of his other student. He looked down and asked Pakkun. "Can you still track Sasuke's sent."
Pakkun replied "No it's been raining for more than an hour his sent is gone."
Kakashi sighed and picked up Naruto piggy back style and then told Pakkun he could go. With a pop of smoke Pakkun was gone and Kakashi was heading back to the leaf.
(Land of fire)
Kakashi was tree hopping when four medical ninja from the leaf appeared. The lead one said. "Good you found Naruto." While tree hopping but at a slower pace he did a medical evaluation on Naruto. He then said "He as some major injuries but he will be fine. The best course of action will be to get him back to the leaf hospital as fast as possible."
Another medical ninja asked "Is Sasuke dead or did he get away?"
Kakashi replied "He got away and I could no longer track him." With that all five ninja increased there pace back to the leaf.
(Hokage's office)
Tsunade just realized that things were going to go from bad to worse. She looked down at what was on her desk. It was a newspaper with the winning lottery numbers. For the 3rd straight day she had won the lottery and not just win but top prize. She knew this was bad Kakashi had not returned with Naruto she was about to go see if she could find any answers when Shizune burst in.
She said "Kakashi has returned with Naruto and is currently in the hospital. His injuries are major but he should be fine and make a full recovery soon."
Tsunade who was half standing when Shizune came in sat back down and let out a sigh of relief. Her pseudo grandson was fine knowing his healing powers he would be ok in a few days. She would never admit especially to Naruto it but she loved how he called her granny. He had turned her life around and was now in a better direction.
She got up and went to the hospital to see Naruto and talk to Kakashi to get a report of what happened.
(Leaf hospital)
After getting Naruto's room number she when straight to see him. When she got there she sat next to his bed he was still asleep from all that he had gone through. After a couple of minutes Kakashi walked in with non-other than the toad sage himself Jiraiya.
Tsunade looked up and asked Kakashi to report on what happened.
Kakashi said "I tracked Naruto and Sasuke to the valley of the end where they had a heavy battle. I was unable to get there in time to stop it or intervene. I found Naruto unconscious on the ground. Because of the rain I could not track Sasuke any further and so I returned."
Tsunade sighed she knew this would be trouble the council would not like that there precious Uchiha was gone. But at least her grandson figure was here and safe.
After that Kakashi left and headed home. Jiraiya stayed to talk to Tsunade. He asked "So how do you think the council will take the full loss of the Uchiha clan?"
Tsunade responded "They won't be happy but there is not much that can be done about it now."
Jiraiya replied "Well you are probably right any way I was thinking it would be a good idea to take Naruto on a training trip. My information indicates that the Akatsuki will start to make their move in three years and we need to make a real shinobi out of him by the time they start."
Tsunade nodded in agreement and said "I'll miss the brat while he is gone but that sounds like a good idea." They both sat there is silence while Tsunade brushed Naruto's hair with her hand and Jiraiya watch his precious student sleep while he planned out there training trip the one thing he knew he had to do was tell Naruto about his parents the only thing was when and how.
While he was thinking on this Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado two of the three elder advisers to the Hokage came in and Koharu said. "The council has been called and would like a report of the Sasuke retrieval mission."
Tsunade sighed knowing this would happen sooner or later and said "I'll be there shortly." She got up and quickly went and got some sake for later because she knew this would cause a head ache to deal with the council.
(Leaf council chambers)
All the heads of the major clans were present as well as the three elder advisors Koharu Utatane, Homura Mitokado, and Donzo Shimura when Tsunade walked in.
Tsunade sat in her chair and said "I already know why this meeting has been called I'll just start by giving the combined reports on the Sasuke retrieval mission." After saying that she when in and told the councilors everything including how Naruto use some of the nine tails chakra in his fight with Sasuke.
After that she asked if there any questions. One of the clan heads she didn't like because he was greedy and arrogant asked "What are we going to do with the nine tails Brat he is obvious a danger to us all. He should be banished or killed before he hurts anyone else."
Tsunade was stunned that someone would say something like that. And responded very angrily "We and not going to banish or kill any one he did not hurt any leaf ninja on that mission. Sasuke is a traitor and a missing ninja now and while Naruto fought him so we have no grounds to banish him on. He will be going on a training trip with Jiraiya soon."
Koharu said "He is right Tsunade-sama his could pose a danger to us we have to consider banishment and there is no way he could go on a training trip with Jiraiya with the full loss of the Uchiha clan our enemies might think we are weak and we need Jiraiya to stay in the village in case someone attacks and he cannot maintain his spy network and train the nine tails brat at the same time."
Faster than Tsunade ever thought the council was capable of working they voted and decided that Naruto had to be banished. After this happened she said "Has Hokage I veto the measure to banish Naruto Uzumaki."
After she said that Homura then responded by saying "That is true you may be able to veto this but the daimyo can overrule you so we shall present this to him and see what he says."
After this Tsunade dismissed the council meeting in a rage and went to her office.
(Hokage's office)
Tsunade stormed in and immediately ordered one of the hidden ANBU to go get Jiraiya.
10 minutes later Jiraiya came in through a window and asked "What is this about Tsunade did something happen at the council meeting?" after he saw how mad she was.
She was about to respond when we started crying her latched on to Jiraiya and said through her tears "They are trying to banish Naruto." Jiraiya was shocked and asked for more details. Tsunade then explained what the situation was and what happened at the meeting.
Jiraiya wrapped his arms around her then said "Well shit the daimyo never like Naruto and given the chance will most likely banish him."
Tsunade still crying but a bit less asked "What are we going to do?"
Jiraiya then responded "I will leave before they can trap me here and I will wait not far from here when he is banished I will find him and take him on that trip it just might be a bit longer then I was planning."
Tsunade now not crying knowing that her grandson figure would have a plan and not a bad one at that. She nodded and got out of the hug and sat back at her desk. Jiraiya then said "Well if there is nothing more we need to do then I will be leaving its best if you don't try and contact me to make sure that someone doesn't though a wrench in this plan" Tsunade agreed and Jiraiya left.
Tsunade then thought 'Naruto is friends with five clan heirs and the son of the head of a clan. I think they will fight to have his banishment removed.' After that she pulled out a bottle of sake and started drinking.
(Daimyo's palace)
Later that Night Donzo, Koharu, and Homura came to the arrived at the daimyo's palace and to have a meeting about the banishment of Naruto. Donzo said to the daimyo "I am sorry to inform you that Sasuke Uchiha has left the leaf village."
The Daimyo responded "That is a shame to have lost such a powerful clan."
Donzo continued "The person responsible for his defection was Naruto Uzumaki"
"That trouble maker has really done it is time what is Tsunade going to do about this." The Daimyo asked.
Donzo answered "She plans on doing nothing. The council has voted to have him banished but she vetoed it. However you as daimyo have the authority to overturn her veto if it pertains to a banishment."
"Ok Then I will sign the necessary papers to have him banished. By the day after tomorrow he will no longer be allowed in the leaf and one week from then he will no longer be allowed in the land of fire. In accordance with the land of fire and the leaf village's policy on banishment." The daimyo stated.
(Hokage's office)
Tsunade got to her office at the usual time 10 am and when she sat down at her desk and the first thing she saw was that the daimyo had authorized the banishment of Naruto. However expected this made her sad in accordance with the laws of the land of fire and the leaf he would have to leave the day after he was discharged from the hospital at noon. Tsunade sighed and pulled her sake out and thought to herself 'I am going to need a lot of this if I am going to get through this ordeal.'
(Leaf hospital)
Naruto was starting to stir. A normal person would have been out for several days after doing what Naruto had done but because of the healing power of the nine tails he was already starting to get better.
One of the nurses noticed that he was starting to wake up and called Shizune over. Shizune came and went into the room just as Naruto was waking. She then asked "How are you feeling?"
He then said "My body feels fine, but I failed to bring Sasuke back."
Shizune patted him on the head and said "Its ok I am glad that you are here and safe you will likely be discharged from the hospital tomorrow and after that I know Tsunade will want to see you."
Naruto said "Ok then I'll go and see granny tomorrow."
It almost killed Shizune because she knew what Tsunade had to talk to him about but it was better if they told him after he was out of the hospital.
Shizune the said "You should get some rest it will make you feel better.
Shizune walked out to go tell Tsunade the situation with Naruto. She then though about what had happened and what will soon happen. News that Naruto was to be banished was not common knowledge yet as it could not be announced until Naruto was out of the Hospital.
(Hokage's Office)
It May have only been noon but Tsunade was drunk and sad that her favorite brat was being banished and there was nothing she could do about it.
Shizune walked in normally she would scold Tsunade for drinking but this time Shizune what nothing more than to join Tsunade and have a few drinks.
She then said "Tsunade-sama Naruto woke up about an hour ago and he should be ready to be discharged from the hospital later today or tomorrow."
Tsunade then said "No matter what don't discharge him till tomorrow so he can have as much time as possible to leave."
Shizune nodded and walked out.
(Leaf Hospital)
Naruto was feeling a bit better but not much when the sand siblings and Shikamaru came to say hi and see how he was doing. The best part of their visit for them was that they brought ramen.
Garra was happy to see his first and best friend and actually smiled a little bit as he watched how Naruto ate his ramen. But they could not stay and had to leave later that day as they were needed in the sand.
Not long after they left Sakura came in and this made Naruto feel horrible. Has he had not been able to keep his promise to Sakura.
She came in and shouted "How could you! How could you break your promise to me!"
He then try to say that he had not given up on bringing Sasuke back but after the first word she interrupted him and said "I don't care what you have to say you broke your promise and now Sasuke is gone. I don't ever want to see or talk to you again."
Before Naruto could say anything Sakura stormed out.
Naruto curled up in a ball similar to the many times he had as a child when he was mistreated by villagers and cried himself to sleep.
The next day Shizune came in and did a check up on Naruto. Naruto didn't say much as she did the check up and after told him that he was free to go. She then said "Tsunade-sama would like to see you in her office now that you are discharged, so how about I take you there now." Naruto simply nodded and was feeling sad ever since his interaction with Sakura.
(Hokage's office)
Unlike yesterday Tsunade was not drunk as she did not what to be drunk for what she had to do.
Shizune walked in with a sad looking Naruto. Tsunade was now rethinking the whole not being drunk thing. She took a deep breath and said "The council of the Leaf village has come to the decision that you are to be banished from the leaf. You will have to leave at noon tomorrow and you will not be allowed to return to the leaf village then after one week you will have to leave the land of fire and will not be allowed to return."
In the most un-Naruto emotionless voice possible Naruto said "Is that everything Tsunade-sama if so then I would like to go get packed."
Tsunade and Shizune could have died after hearing that. Shizune because that was not the way her little brother figure should sound like and Tsunade for the same reason and how he didn't call her granny. Tsunade didn't respond she didn't know how.
After a little bit Naruto figured that there was nothing more and turned around and left. After the door closed Tsunade pulled out a bottle of sake and drained it in no time at all. She started to cry and pulled out another one but this time poured a glass. Shizune reached for the bottle. Tsunade thinking she was going to take it away was about to try and stop her but then Sizune also grabbed a cup and poured herself a glass and started to drink.
They were like that for over an hour neither caring what people would think about them drinking in the middle of the day. The sunshine of their life's seemed extinguished and gone forever.
(Naruto's apartment)
Naruto walked in and pulled out some of the sealing scrolls the Ero-sennin had gotten for him on their trip to go get Tsunade. He was about to start to pack up his stuff when a tear formed. He dropped the scrolls on the ground and they rolled away. He fell to the ground and started to cry he cried for what felt like hour maybe days. He eventually fell asleep on the floor of his apartment. Here he would stay till someone came and woke him up.
Naruto looked up to a cloaked figure and all he could see were his eyes which were a light shade of green. The rest of his face was completely black. Naruto was scared at first thinking that the cloaked figure was going to hurt him. So he quickly backed up.
The figure then pulled his hood back to reveal a man in his early thirties late twenties with goatee that connected with the rest of his hair with short black hair tied in a short pony tail behind his head. He said "Don't worry I am not hear to hurt you Naruto"
Naruto then asked "How do you know my name and who are you?"
The cloaked man then answered "Who I am is not important at the moment. There is only about 12 hours till you have to leave and there is still much that needs to happen before that. As how I know your name I will tell you this there are very few secrets that I do not know. Like who your parents were."
Naruto was stunned and then asked "You know who my parents were? Can you tell me maybe there is some family out there that I could meet? Or I don't know just something for me to do since I am no longer a leaf shinobi."
The cloaked man nodded "I'll start with your mother. She was a beautiful red head by the name of Kushina Uzumaki. Her nickname she got when she was young in the leaf was 'the Red-Hot Habanero' she got this for her very red hair a common thing in the Uzumaki clan and her fiery temper."
Naruto then asked "So I have a clan?" The man with the goatee nodded and continued. "The Uzumaki clan was known for two things one the mastery of sealing jutsu and second the incredibly powerful chakra that gave them unusually long lives. You mother had very powerful chakra even compared to the rest of the Uzumaki clan and so she was chosen to be second Jinchuuriki of the nine tailed fox."
Naruto then blurted out "Wait second Jinchuuriki so there was one before me."
The Man nodded and said "Yes and you are the third. The first being Mito Uzumaki the wife of the first Hokage. Meaning that you are a third generation Jinchuuriki of the Uzumaki clan. Descendants of the Uzumaki clan are some of the few people who can keep the nine tails at bay."
Naruto then gave a confused face and asked "If the nine tails was inside my mom then how did it attack the leaf village?"
The man then said "Your birth and the nine tails attack was not a coincidence a Jinchuuriki's seal is its weakest while giving birth so if not properly monitored it will burst and the tailed beast will get out. Which leads to an interesting question as your father was there monitoring the seal. I believe that someone interrupted him from repairing the seal so that the nine tails would be released and had it attack the hidden leaf."
After a short pause the man gave incase Naruto had any questions he continued. "Before we continue I will tell you who your father was. He was a man by the name of Minato Namikaze the fourth Hokage."
Naruto looked like he was about to say something but he was interrupted. "Before you say anything like 'why' or 'how could he make his own son a Jinchuuriki' don't worry I will answer those question so just listen." Naruto nodded.
The Man continued "There were several reasons he chose you as you know the nine tails has to be sealed it cannot be destroyed. Also as I said early Uzumaki clan members are the only choice anyone else and they would have been killed by the chakra by the time they turned five. As well since you were in your mother for ten months you had gained some immunity to the fox's chakra making you without a doubt the perfect next vessel of the nine tails." Naruto looked sad but nodded understandingly.
The cloaked Man continued "Your father was also a noble man he could not in good conscience ask someone else to sacrifice their child so his could go unburdened. If he were alive he would be very sad about how your life has gone so far and would understand if you never forgave him for what he did to you."
Naruto then said "I don't like the decision he made but with if everything you said was true then I guess I understand. I would have likely done the same in his situation."
The cloaked man nodded and said "Well now that you know of your parents it's time for you to collect your inheritance."
Naruto looked confused and said in a questioning voice "Inheritance?"
The man nodded "Your father was the Hokage he had quiet an impressive library and weapons collection as well as a pretty fat bank account." He said in a sly way. He continued "Your father locked all of his stuff way with blood seals that at this point only you can activate. Their house still stands, so we should head over there and get everything." Naruto nodded and stood up.
(Namikaze estate)
Naruto and the cloaked man sneaked through the village to the Namikaze estate. The man said "What's here is ours so I will leave you to take what you want and just remember to close the door it would be best if people didn't find out you did this. Also I recommend leaving tonight while people are still in bed as to avoid questions. Well this is good bye for now I don't know when I will next see you but good luck on whatever you do."
Naruto then said "Thanks" and shook the man's hand. The cloaked man put his hood back on and disappeared into the night.
Naruto then looked back at the house it was not a big house but it was above average and a bit out of the way for privacy. He walked up and put some blood on the seal on the door and it opened. Naruto walked in and looked around for a bit it was a nice house a bit dated and dusty but that was expected. After a quick look around Naruto found the equipment room and library. Naruto made some shadow clones who all grabbed some sealing scrolls and started to get every think they could.
The weapons room the smaller of the two mostly had extra ninja supplies not lots as his parents could go into town and stock up whenever they wanted unlike he could. So he just got everything it wasn't much but since he didn't know when next he could resupply he got everything. The only special stuff was sealing supplies and a few nice swords.
The library was a large it could even rival some of the major clans libraries. Everything from E rank basic to even a few S rank jutsu. Naruto just grabbed everything there were lots of extra sealing scrolls that his parents kept that he took.
While his clones were hard at work storing everything he when to explore the upstairs part of the house he looked and found an office. He looked and found some official looking scrolls and took them. One was title 'in case of death' on it and Naruto decided to look at that later. He moved on to the bedrooms one looked like the master and another looked like it was set up for a baby. Seeing what it looked like Naruto realized what his parents did love him and that made him very happy. He shed some tears knowing that his parents were good people and they died before there time.
Naruto found some family pictures and took them. When suddenly he knew that the scrolls were all sealed and that were all then sealed a second time because there were so many and all put in his back pack. When Naruto thought about this it was interesting he now realized that he got all the memories when is clones dispelled. That was something he had to look into in the future. One memory stood out one of the clones noticed a blood seal at the back of the library.
Naruto gathered up the stuff he got from upstairs grabbed one of the last sealing scrolls and dumped all the stuff he got into it.
He grabbed is almost full back pack and went to investigate the blood seal he went to it and activated the seal. Then suddenly a door opened out of nowhere. Naruto looked in it was a short set of stares to a basement. Naruto went down and found two more scrolls one a storage scroll the other a jutsu scroll Naruto took both and put them in his back pack and left.
Naruto checked the time it was 4:00 am. Naruto noted that some of the early riser of the ninja population would be getting up soon and decided that it was time to split. As he left silently thanking that he could make shadow clone because without them it would have taken almost a day to get everything done. He made his way toward the walls. Most fortification only work one way and that's to stop people from getting in not getting out. So Naruto found it fairly easy to slip out of the village.
He quickly made his way out of the village. Now it was time for the all-important decision. Where to next?
(AN)
I'll call the end of the chapter here. I would like just to say something about this Fanfic. This is my first time writing so I hope it works out. I have most of the story I want already written out so that should make it easier to push these out. Some of this stuff was a bit out of character but that's just because I need to get the set up for this story done, so we can move to the fun part.
I didn't include the Sasuke vs Naruto fight because I hate it when authors just rehash word for word what happens in the anime I will do my best to do it as little as possible as I think it is bad writing and boring. I will also try to follow stuff to cannon as much as possible as in using characters abilities and jutsu as much as possible to make this as clear as possible. I will mostly be using the English Dubbed translations for things as I watch the dubbed mostly and it just makes my life easier to think in only one language. I may make some exceptions to this.