Family
AngolMoaChan
I honestly swear I don't have an obsession with Yondaime. (huggles homemade plushie) XD This is a NaruHina fic, obviously. There is an OC in this fic ((GASP! SINCE WHEN DOES AMC WRITE OC'S?!)) but she was a necessity. I needed a character for Naruto's mother, and after reading the WONDERFUL fic Two Halves, I used the name "Nanashi" and started developing her into my own character.
I've created a monster. Oo
Naruto doesn't belong to me. If it did, Yondaime would still be alive, and Naruto would have a family. :3 Thus, the fanfiction! XDDDD
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There was a soft thump near the grounds of the obelisk of a memorial set in Konoha, as a slim figure landed on the grass nearby. Slowly, the person walked towards the memorial and stood in front of it, running slim fingers over two names, tracing the kanji with their hands. The person, who was quite obviously a female, sighed softly, a bare breath on the cool morning air. Then she disappeared, leaping off into the morning's first light.
She didn't notice the man that had been standing behind her the entire time. Slowly, he stepped forward, the charms on his straw hat jingling in the breeze. He looked to where her hand had rested and gave a wistful smile, "I'm glad you still remember me...but they think you're dead too..."
'Arashi and Nanashi Uzumaki.' read the obelisk, still warm where their fingers had brushed the black stone.
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"Tsunade-baachan!" Naruto banged into the Fifth's office, his rather loud and obnoxious attitude waking the Godaime from her "well deserved" nap, "Mission! I want a mission!"
Tsunade growled, "How many times have I told you not to call me that?!"
"Sorry..."
She sighed and shook her head, "Blah...I was supposed to give you a mission today...Oh!" A small smile appeared on her face as she pulled out a plain white scroll and read the contents, "Here we are. You're to meet someone at the gates and escort them here. Do you understand?"
"Escorting?! Oh come on! " he groaned, "That's so boring!"
"You said you wanted a mission! And besides, you can take your partner with you." Tsunade studied the blonde jonin's face. He brightened up considerably at the mention of the word "partner", "Okay?"
"Yatta! Alright Tsunade-baachan!" he grinned and headed out of the door, nearly bouncing. Tsunade sighed and rifled the papers in her hands, flipping through to Naruto's ninja profile. Listed in small, neat letters underneath his picture was "Give him the mission at the age of 17."
"I hope you're happy with me, you pain-in-the-ass." She tossed down the papers and muttered, "I want a drink."
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Naruto raced to a large estate near the corner of town. He ran backwards a few steps as he reached the tall gate to the house, before gathering chakra in his legs and springing over the top. Naruto grinned with delight as he soared over the elegantly designed gates only to squeak in horror as he realized what was underneath him.
He landed on his behind with a painful thud and Neji Hyuga sighed, "Naruto, do you have to leap the gate every time you come here?"
"Yes." he jumped back up and saluted, attempting to look serious and failing spectacularly, "I'm supposed to go with my partner for my mission, Neji Hyuga sir!"
Suddenly, Naruto heard a quiet giggle from the other side of the house. Perking up immediately, he ran towards the sound and shouted, "Aha! Found you!"
Hinata Hyuga squeaked faintly and tried to conceal her laughter, "Naruto-kun!"
"Hey, Hinata-chan! We got a mission! Come on, come on, let's go!"
Hinata smiled. Hinata chan. I'll never get tired of him calling me that..., "O-okay, Naruto-kun."
Neji watched wistfully as Naruto led his cousin out of the door, babbling incessantly all the way, 'He's really done a lot for Hinata-sama...ever since Tsunade-sama assigned us all partners..."
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Naruto walked towards the gate with a big grin on his face, "Ne, Hinata-chan, that chakra control stuff you were helping me work on is so much easier now! Thank you!"
Hinata blushed faintly, "I-it was nothing Naruto-kun...S-so, who are we e-escorting?"
"I dunno. Tsunade-baachan just said the person would be waiting for us."
"O-oh, alright..."
A quiet silence fell over the two, each lost in their own thoughts. Soon, the two of them reached the gates and Naruto waved to the guard, "Oi! We're supposed to be escorting someone?"
The guard nodded: he stepped aside, "Over here."
The two approached and noticed a woman standing beside the man. She looked at him in utter shock, "An escort?! Why the hell would I need an escort?!"
"Sorry, ma'am, it's regulation...Tsunade-sama requested it."
"That old grandma? Bah!" The woman crossed her arms as Naruto and Hinata moved closer to get a better look, "Well, they better be good escor...eh?"
"Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga, at your service!" Naruto flashed his usual grin when his eyes met the girls.
She had the same bright blonde hair as him, only it fell down to her waist in long strips. She wore the rest of her hair in buns, a lot like Tenten, and had the brightest blue eyes he had ever seen, outside of his own.
The most noticeable marks on her, however, were the whisker marks, three on each side of her face.
"Kami-sama..." the woman stared at Naruto, her blue eyes wide. She stepped towards him cautiously and whispered, "You can't be...Naruto...?"
He blinked and tried to study her, even though his mind was racing with a million questions at once. Just as he was trying to answer those questions (or get some answers from that damn fox), she hugged him, "Oof! What the--?!"
'Kid...'
Naruto heard Kyuubi's nearly awestruck voice and asked , 'What?! What's going on?!"
...Kid, that's your mother.'
Naruto stared.
Then stared some more.
Then blinked and asked slowly, "...Kaa-san...?"
She looked up, tears streaming down her whiskered cheeks, "Nanashi Uzumaki." the woman laughed slightly, " I guess the Kyuubi probably remembers me..."
Naruto's eyebrow's furrowed and he yelled, "WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?!"
Nanashi held her arm, looking to the side, "…"
"MY WHOLE LIFE I WAS TREATED LIKE TRASH AND YOU JUST DECIDE TO WALK INTO MY LIFE NOW?! WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?!"
She stomped up to him and grabbed his collar, pulling him down to her level, "Now you listen to me Naruto Uzumaki and you listen to me good! You have no right to talk to your own mother like that, no right! You talk about hell. You wanna talk about hell?! I've spent the past seventeen years thinking you were dead! Imagine having everything you have ever loved taken away from you, like that!" she snapped her fingers in his face once, "One night and my life was ruined! My husband and my son were dead, my parents hated me and, oh yeah, I was still in the god damn hospital! I've spent—"
Nanashi began poking him in the chest and he stepped backwards. Poke, step, poke, step with every word of her sentence, "—se-ven-teen years looking for answers, I finally find you, and you get pissed off?! I will not be dealing with that. Do you understand me?"
This display seemed to have numbed Naruto a bit- he was getting lectured, and by a woman nearly a foot shorter than him. It was, in his experience as a shinobi, the scariest thing he had ever seen. He nodded and she growled, "Good! I realize you've probably been treated like crap your whole life. And…"
Nanashi's tone softened as she brushed a hand against his cheek, "We didn't want that for you, Naruto. It was not our choice to have you possessed by Kyuubi…we wanted you to be our son, to let you have the life you so deserved. None of us got what we wanted. Arashi's dead, I left, and you…Kami, I can't even describe it. Look. We're here now. It's just me and you, but…"
Naruto interrupted, "Kaa-san?"
"What is it?"
"Are you…crying?"
She gasped and hurriedly wiped her eyes, "I am not crying, god dammit!"
He laughed and scratched the back of his head, "…Uh…Kaa-san? I'm sorry…"
"Yeah, yeah, you better be." Nanashi hugged him and Naruto tentatively hugged her back, "…Just consider yourself lucky you got Arashi's looks."
Hinata laughed quietly as Naruto protested loudly. She had been briefed on this mission nearly a month ago…
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"Hinata-san, I want you to go with Naruto on this mission." Tsunade said seriously, watching the pretty indigo haired girl's reactions carefully, "Listen...About a month from now, I will send you both on an escort mission...You will be escorting Naruto's mother."
"His m-mother?" she looked mildly surprised, her white eyes wide in wonder, "But I th-thought Naruto-kun w-was an o-orphan."
"He was. But...well, we don't have time to tell their life story. Anyway, she was a former student of mine, a long time ago. She's going to visit Konoha just this one day to pay her respects to her husband's grave."
"I understand, Tsunade-sama."
"And Hinata? You're going to have to be the stone pillar in this operation."
"W-what? What d-do you mean?"
"I have a small surprise for her as well. Just...be ready for some very emotional moments, okay?"
"Ano, of c-course, Tsunade-sama." with that said, Hinata disappeared.
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Now, watching the mother and son embrace for the first time, Hinata was content to settle back and watch the event unfold. Suddenly, Naruto snapped away from his mother and growled lowly under his breath, "...Shit."
"Naru-chan? What's...?"
Naruto didn't even let Nanashi finish her sentence: he jumped protectively in front of the two women, "You!"
There was a soft jingling noise as a breeze blew across the gate. A figure stood before them, wearing a black capelike jacket covered in red clouds. His face was obscured by a large straw hat, "...Hello."
"Dammit." Naruto cursed softly under his breath, "Akatsuki."
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Next time on "Family"...
"I can't believe this! The leader of the Akatsuki dare show his face in Konoha!" Naruto growled, "You bastard!"
Nanashi muttered in a dead even tone, her voice seething with poison, "Naruto. Move. Now. He's mine."
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Are you getting a fight scene? Hmm...you'll just have to wait and see:3
Playlist: "Naruto Ondo" by Naruto and Sakura
"Collide" by Howie Day