"What happened?" the livid Yondaime asked the chuunin as they walked down the hospital hallways.

"My friend and I were going to the training grounds when we saw a man standing over a boy. The man disappeared just as we saw him, but we remember that he was wearing a black cloak. We think that there was something red and white on the cloak but if there was the man disappeared too fast for us to be able to tell." The chuunin said quickly.

"Then what?" Minato urged the chuunin to continue, his anger subsiding to a calm curiosity.

The chuunin nodded. "We went over to the boy to see if he was alright. I recognized him as your son, Hokage-sama, so we immediately brought him to the hospital. He was wearing a bright orange jumpsuit, but it was battered and it looked like he had been in a big fight."

The chuunin paused. "But… Naruto isn't a ninja right, Hokage-sama? He never passed the academy exams…"

Minato nodded. "Which means that this boy- the one that you brought in- isn't Naruto." The two slowed as they came to a door which two ANBU were guarding. The ANBU saluted the Hokage.

"Yes, he isn't." The chuunin paused. "But Hokage-sama…"

Minato looked to the chuunin. "Yes Iruka-san?"

The brown-haired, scarred academy teacher looked at the Yondaime with a worried, yet serious, look on his face.

"He looks just like him."

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Naruto slowly woke up, but kept his eyes shut, unsure of what had happened. Last he remembered, Jiraiya had been telling him about another of his plot ideas (which Naruto never listened to, but that's beside the point) when the Akatsuki-

"The Akatsuki!" Naruto nearly fell out of the bed he was in. "Wait a minute… this doesn't look like some sort of prison…" He was in white room with a big window with blinds that were currently shut. Instead of the dripping cave he imagined he should've been waking up in, this reminded him more like Konoha's hospital rooms.

"Why would it be?"

Naruto jumped at the voice behind him and turned.

A medic was holding his charts and eyeing Naruto curiously, smiling. "I assure you, you're safe now. I'm not going to hurt you. I have no idea who these 'Akatsuki' people are."

"Oh…" Naruto kind of trusted the man. He was pretty sure this guy was telling the truth.

"Naruto-sama, I'm going to need to ask you to lie back down. You haven't healed from your injuries yet."

"But- uh..." Naruto looked at him blankly, having almost no idea what was happening. "Wait, please, no '-sama'!" he wasn't sure what he had done to deserve such an honorific.

The medic shook his head. "Thank you for the gesture, Naruto-sama, but please, it is not my place."

"Wait, what do you mean?" Naruto asked. He was getting scared.

"That's not Naruto, Shen."

Both of them turned to see Iruka enter the room. The medic gasped.

"What?" They both turned to the blond in the bed.

Naruto was in shock. "How can you say that, Iruka-sensei! I've known since I was 7 years old!"

Iruka looked sharply at Naruto. "Don't call me that. I've never taught you in my life."

"Wha-?" Naruto started to cry. "You- you can't say that! You take me out to ramen every week! You were the only person who could catch me after a prank! You gave me my headband after the thing with Mizuki and the scroll!"

"Namikaze Naruto is not a ninja." Iruka said firmly.

Naruto was confused. Sniffing back his tears, he asked, "Namikaze?"

"Whoever you are, you are not Namikaze Naruto."

The blond frowned. "Of course I'm not him. I'm Uzumaki Naruto."

"Uzumaki?" The three of them turned to the new voice that came from the door. Naruto gasped.

Minato looked at the boy who resembled his son so much. "Wow. You were right Iruka-kun, he does look like Naruto. Except for those marks on his face."

Naruto was shocked. Wildly, he pointed at the man who he had admired all his life. "But- but- But you're DEAD!"

"What?" They were all thoroughly confused. "But I'm right here. Obviously I'm not dead."

"But the seal and the kyuubi and GAAH!" Naruto clutched his head. "This is impossible! It's absolutely impossible that you're here! Wait! I've got it! It must be a genjutsu!"

Forming the handseal, he closed his eyes and yelled, "KAI!"

Naruto peeked through his eyelids to see all of them still there. "GAH! It didn't work! What was it that Sakura-chan said to use? Oh yeah!" He brought his arm up to his mouth.

Minato realized what he was about to do and reached out to stop him. "No- wait!"

But Naruto ignored the Yondaime and bit down on his arm. Hard. He cringed in pain and released himself. His teeth had pierced the skin, and his arm was bleeding.

The medic hurried to get it bandaged up, but the Yondaime stopped him. The wound was already healing. All three spectators stared.

Naruto looked up to see that they were all still there. "Why haven't you guys disappeared already! I'm not as bad with Genjutsu as I was before! Seriously, can this get any worse?"

It was just then that a boy around Naruto's age burst into the room.

"Is Mom giving birth, Dad?"

That was when Uzumaki Naruto saw Namikaze Naruto for the first time.

Chapter Word Count: 907

Total Word Count: 907

Author's Note:

This idea originated because I was reading Vis ά Vis, and I was thinking about all of the stories where Naruto goes to a universe where the Yondaime is alive, and ya di ya di ya. Well, all of the one's I've come across have one general thing in common- there's only one Naruto in each universe. And as you can tell, this one has two.

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