Chapter 2! Enjoy

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Chapter 2 – Eight

The village was beginning to quieten as the Shinobi's began to stop their late night gatherings. Team members were celebrating after a long successful mission, old friends meeting up after being separated by their duties for months on end. It was a peaceful night in Konoha.

However the peace was not destined to last.

Outside of the village walls, the clear night sky began to violently cloud over, the stale night air twisting, putting the Shinobi village on alert as they watched the quickly forming clouds.

A young Shinobi, only seventeen years of age stood outside of a small BBQ shop with his friends as they heard the commotion only moments earlier, now watching as the sky churned mere kilometres from the village. His blonde hair whipped violently around his face, obscuring his vision. He looked to the boy beside him; his own spiky hair had previously been tied atop his head, his calculating eyes undisturbed as he watched the phenomenon before them. Another boy appeared not long after, standing next to the two elder Shinobi's, his almost gravity defying silver hair forced down and slicked back against his head from the raging wind.

Lightning lit the newly formed clouds, the electric currents were laced with monstrous amounts of chakra that leaked towards the village, 'even a child that had not been trained to sense or even master their own chakra would be able to feel this', thought the blonde boy. He saw out of the corner of his eye as an ANBU operative quietly landed on the roof of the building next to the one that they were occupying, his cat-like movements unseen to many as he stalked across the rooves, his masked face turned towards the unknown occurrence.

ANBU, originally known in the old language as 'Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai', now more commonly known as the Special Assassination and Tactical Squad. The best, and sometimes the most feared Shinobi in their fields; genjutsu, ninjutsu, martial arts, and more, most specialising in numerous fields. They were Shinobi to be awed at, and to be feared.

A booming clash of thunder sounded, the clouds beginning to spin like a mini cyclone high in the sky, forcing the blonde's attention away from the ANBU. The glowing increased in the centre as something finally began to plummet from the storming mass, and it was something big! It fell to the ground like a meteor, the giant ball of fire, easily the size of the Hokage monument, plunged at an amazing speed. The yellow and red glow illuminating the village, and most likely neighbouring towns for kilometres, the giant mass would be easily visible throughout the Fire Country.

The impact was awe-inspiring, the dirt and rocks uplifted by the incredible force rained down on the village, several Shinobi covering civilians that had emerged from their beds, curious about the sudden ruckus, fearing an attack. A heavy layer of dirt thickened the air, the rampaging clouds and lightning withdrawing just as fast as they had emerged.

All was eerily still.

The silence was broken when the Sandaime Hokage appeared, barking orders to his fellow Shinobi. The blonde boy quickly joined the throng of people, ushering civilians into safer areas within the city, doing all he could to help calm the chaos. The Sandaime pointed out several ANBU's that he hadn't even noticed in the mass of people, indicating for them to follow the aging man.

"Minato!" the blonde boy, Minato, turned to see a beautiful girl his age with long red hair cascading down her back. He smiled as he grabbed her hand leading her through the crowds to help control the distressed civilians. "What the hell was that thing?" she shouted above the noise, watching as Minato turned to look at her, a wary smile on his face. He lashed out quickly to his side grabbing a small boy mid step, his silver hair in disarray, his forehead protector loose against his forehead, falling across his left eye. The boy struggled in the older boys grip as he tried to fix the cloth back into its rightful place across his forehead.

"Wouldn't have a clue!" she just sighed at her boyfriend's giant smile, feeling relieved by his calmness as he went back to helping the people around him.

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Naruto groaned, her entire body ached, her chakra system depleted. She attempted rolling over onto her stomach only to collapse into the soft ground below her, her limbs weaker than she could ever remember. Blood dripped from her mouth, her body shaking. She was terrified, what had happened? Where was she? She shouldn't be alive! These words were all she could think as she looked around her, taking in her surroundings.

Giant dirt walls were all around her as she lay at the bottom of a humongous crater. She felt Kurama inside her, weakened in a state similar to her own. She clutched her stomach as she pushed herself to move! Her free hand dug into the newly uprooted earth, her fingers easily sinking into the soft dirt. Breathing was difficult, it felt as if her lungs were torn to shreds, the air she breathed in just escaping through the holes, none of the oxygen making its way into her blood.

She looked up to find several cloaked figures standing at the edge of the crater staring down her, though it was too dark to see their faces. Akatsuki! Her mind screamed, looking at the faint black cloaks as they swayed in the steady wind. The seal on her stomach lengthened across her body as she covered herself in the protective shield of the Kyūbi's chakra. The figures suddenly jumped down into the hole, weaving hand signs faster than she could see. She reacted purely on instinct. She had to protect herself, to kill the enemy.

The chakra from her arm suddenly formed into a giant claw aiming towards the group closest to her, intending to knock them away, or even slash them in half, anything to protect her in such a weakened state. However the claw never made contact as a booming voice at the opening of the crater shouted.

"Doton: Doryūheki!" the giant wall of earth appeared in front of the cloaked figures, the makeshift wall being crushed under the strength of the offending claw of chakra. Naruto suddenly screamed in immense pain, the sound that escaped her throat was strangled and raspy, though incredibly high, piercing the cold night air. The shroud of chakra around her suddenly depleted as she writhed on the ground, the strain of using that technique in such a state backfiring on her. Naruto's body began to convulse, roughly flipping her onto her back on the blood covered ground.

The last thing she saw before slipping into unconsciousness was the face of a man she thought she would never again see in her life. Tears escaped her eyes as she reached a weakened arm out towards the man above her.

"Oji-san," she smiled the biggest smile she could manage at the man she considered to be like her grandfather. She must be dead; she was finally able to meet everyone, her mother and father, Ero-sennin, all her comrades that died during the war. She no longer had to live in the world with all its hate and violence. She could finally rest.

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The Sandaime Hokage watched as the tears escaped the young girl's eyes, her smile wide as she reached out to him, calling him her grandfather. He sighed with sad eyes as he looked to a woman, hidden beneath a black coat, her face hidden behind a porcelain mask. He motioned to her, nodding his head to the girl at his feet.

"Heal her enough to move her without killing her, we need to take her to the T&I hospital division, prepare the chakra suppression seals as well as the transportation container, we need to transfer her without anyone seeing what she really looks like," he watched as the ANBU's got to work, healing the young girl before placing her gently into a large black container, decorated in red flames that had been summoned from a storage seal. Her limbs were tied with chakra suppression wire; they could not risk an episode like the one they just witnessed happening within the village walls amongst the defenceless civilians.

"Just what are you child?" he whispered to himself as the door of the container was closed, sealed shut with several chakra seals, ready to transport to the village.

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She awoke in a white room, it looked like a hospital, but she knew better. She'd seen inside Konoha's Torture and Interrogation Hospital, it was cruel, it was where the tortured were healed in order to be re-tortured. Naruto chuckled darkly without humour, she obviously hadn't died then. She looked at her arms to find black markings along their length, she'd seen the seals before, she wouldn't be able to leave the bed she was currently resting in, the seals forcing her back to the mattress, repelling her back if they moved outside of the frame of the bed.

But something was off, her arms were smaller and more childlike than she remembered, the seals were abnormally large compared to what they looked like on her body when they'd been place on her previously. She looked at the rest of her body; Naruto instantly began to hyperventilate as she inspected her body. It was all different; she was in the body of a child! What the hell was happening to her?

Naruto barely registered what was happening as she hyperventilated, her emotions getting the better of her as she reverted to a full blown panic attack. A blonde man, who looked to be in his early forties entered the room, looking to the girl lying in bed, her eyes wild with panic as she clawed at her small body.

The man calmly walked over to her placing his fingertips to her temple, not even flinching when she shied away from him in terror. Naruto suddenly began to calm, her body becoming relaxed at the soothing chakra being pumped into her chakra networks. Once she had calmed down enough to think straight, another blonde boy walked into the room, he was only seventeen or sixteen years old, obviously an apprentice or a newly promoted member of the T&I. Naruto looked at him in shock; she would recognise the man anywhere, even if he did seem to be about two decades younger than she was used to.

"Inoichi-san?" the words escaped her mouth before she could think. The two men stopped suddenly, looking at her in shock, the younger of the two's eyed were wide with surprise. The older man recovered first, looking to the boy next to him, Naruto only then realised how much they looked alike. 'This must be his father,´ she thought, looking between them

"State your name," the older man demanded, all emotion leaving his face. Naruto replied almost immediately, it felt against her will.

"Uzumaki Naruto, U-Z-U-M-A-K-I N-A-R-U-T-O" her brows furrowed together in thought, until she remembered the chakra the man had pumped into her skull. She recognised that technique, she had seen Ino do it once before, it was like a truth serum, but so much more effective. The chakra manipulates the brain waves, targeting specific nerves, not only could she not lie for an amount of time—depending on the strength of the user—she answered all questions 'willingly'. It was a very effective technique, however, what people believe to be the truth, isn't always the truth.

"Shinobi Registration Number"

"012607," she 'humhped' in annoyance as she answered their questions so easily, crossing her arms over her chest, watching as Inoichi scribbled down all her answers on a clipboard.

"City of birth"

"Konohagakure"

"Age"

"17," the men stopped suddenly at this answer, Inoichi's pen stopped momentarily, looking to his father sceptically before returning to writing. 'It's true' he thought, 'this technique really can be unreliable at times.'

"Name of parents"

"Father; Namikaze Minato, mother; Uzumaki Kushina," Inoichi dropped his pen, catching it only centimetres from the ground. He looked to his father in shock, the man was still scarily calm, and Inoichi straightened his back clearing his throat and regained his composure. 'That's just not possible, this girl is nuts,' he thought as he scribbled down the information. The older man stared down at the girl, she seriously thought what she was saying was the truth. He knew the two Shinobi's she had just named, and both of them were considerably too young to have birthed a child of her age.

"Okay then—" he let out a breath, feeling that this interrogation was failing, "—state your team and registration numbers"

"Team seven, consisting of Uchiha Sasuke: 012606 and Haruno Sakura: 012601, under Hatake Kakashi: 009720," the man sighed, looking over to his son as he wrote down the information with a look saying, 'yeah right princess,' on his face. He felt the same, there was no way any of this information could be true. He checked through the database of ninja's and found Hatake Kakashi's profile, the registration number matching to the one she gave, the boy was only eight years old at the time, a very promising Shinobi, but still too young to captain a genin team. Sighing, he turned back to the girl, her blue orbs staring calming and questioningly back at them, she seemed almost as confused as they were.

"Will you willingly undergo the Yamanaka clan's mind reading jutsu to verify this information? It doesn't matter if you say no, we'll forcefully go through with it, but it is always nice to know that one's willing to cooperate," the girl instantly smiled, answering quickly without hesitation.

"I, Uzumaki Naruto, give consent and therefore my complete cooperation. However you should also know that 'a sagacious fox is not in attendance within my passion, I will present to you Agatha's lynx with the lion's pendant'," the two men looked at the girl, one as if she was crazy, not understanding the old code, the other's eyes narrowed, recognising the old code as one from the time of the Shodai Hokage.

'A sagacious fox is not in attendance within my passion' meaning she had no intention of hiding anything or tricking anyone as a fox would, and therefore would not harm the village. 'I will present to you Agatha's lynx with the lion', the lynx symbolising honesty, openhearted, non-judgmental counsel, meaning she would tell all she knew with nothing to hide, and the lion symbolising calmness, courage and relaxation, showing her willingness to cooperate.

"Very well—" the older man nodded to his son, "—prepare the box," Naruto cringed at the word, knowing what it meant. The boy left the room quickly, leaving his father and the child alone. "I look forward to seeing inside that head of yours Uzumaki Naruto," the words caused her cringe to deepen as she looked at the man's smile broaden sadistically. She hated when the Yamanaka's tried to infiltrate her mind, she'd had to tell Kurama that it was voluntary, and he shouldn't try and reject them from her mind, no matter how much she would want them out of there.

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Three days later, Naruto was placed inside a large cube, her head propped outside through a small hole on top. Her body completely submerged in chakra saturated water, keeping her body immobile and her mind open for inspection. Yamanaka Inoshi walked over to the unconscious girl, his son by his side carting a large machine behind him. Once they had reached the tank Naruto was held in, he placed his left hand on the machine his son had brought.

"Commencing, interrogator Yamanaka Inoshi, registration 006645, the subject is female, claims to be an Uzumaki, name Naruto. Claims to be aged 17, however, by appearances and DNA testing appears to only be approximately eight years of age. Claims to be born in Konohagakure on the 10th of October, six years from now—" the man stopped, clearing his throat, when they had done the maths of her supposed birth date, it showed she claimed to be born in a year that hadn't even occurred yet. Inoshi rubbed his face with his free hand and continued. "—claims her father is Namikaze Minato: 008713, and her mother is Uzumaki Kushina: 008710, both are currently Jounin of Konoha, both only seventeen years of age. She claims to be on a team consisting of Uchiha Sasuke: 012606 and Haruno Sakura: 012601, under Hatake Kakashi: 009720. The Uchiha and Haruno have both been shown to not exist in the Shinobi data books. Hatake Kakashi is currently eight years old, apprenticing under Namikaze Minato after graduating and being promoted to Chūnin last year. I will now commence the mind reading jutsu and determine the validity—" the man paused, a skeptical look on his face, "—of her claims."

The process was long, as the mind walker read through all of Naruto's memories, a detailed report was sent through his mind to the machine he was connected to, printing off a detailed report of all he saw, and what he saw amazed him. Everything she had said so far was correct. The Yamanaka couldn't believe what he was seeing. He watched the transitions of the Hokage, from Sandaime, to Minato becoming Yondaime and dying, Sandaime taking over again then later dying, then Tsunade-Hime taking over as Godaime. The Uchiha massacre, his granddaughter, Ino, being somewhat friends with the girl in front of him, he saw everything, and it slightly disturbed him. This girl had been through so much in her life, but managed to accomplish so much more, becoming the Kyūbi Jinchūriki at birth, growing up with the burden, the fourth Shinobi world war—the third was approaching but still far off—as well as becoming comrades with the Kyūbi. He did not think it were possible to tame the Kyūbi, it was just unfathomable. The world around him began to rumble when he thought the word 'tame', Inoshi's eyes widened, the Kyūbi was present, and it was allowing him to look into the girls mind. The mindscape suddenly changed, and before him stood the giant nine-tailed beast, it's imposing figure towering over him. The giant demon smiled sadistically down at the human beneath him.

"I allowed you to look through the entirety of her memories, now I think it is time that you leave," Inoshi felt winded as he was forcibly pushed from the girls mind and into his own. The Shinobi present in the room looked to Inoshi in amazement. It is the first time they had ever seen their senior forcibly removed from the subjects mind, it was unthinkable that anyone, especially an eight year old could accomplish. Inoshi stood up straight after catching his breath, the headache from being pushed out fading, he looked to the large pile of paper documenting the girl's memories.

"Collect them and send them with at least two ANBU's to the Hokage, this information is in a category of its own. Class-S, top secret. Yamanaka Inoshi discontinuing the interrogation—" he looked to the girl before him in amazement, turning back to the recording device, still slightly out of breath, "—all of Uzumaki Naruto's claims have now be investigated. All claims are the truth," the Shinobi in the room looked to their commander in amazement, they had heard the claims the girls had made at the beginning of the interrogation, there was no way they could possibly be real.

The man removed his hand from the girls head and looked to his son, frozen where he stood as he stared at his father.

"You can't be serious, it's not possible" he whispered as the two alerted ANBU's collected the large scroll and recording of the interrogation, carting it away towards the Hokage's tower. Inoshi smiled to his son and placed his hand on his shoulder.

"You seriously would have to see it to believe it," he said before beginning to remove the girl from the tank. Amazed at the things she had accomplished. 'You have a very interesting path ahead of you young Shinobi; let's hope this future will be brighter for you than the last,' he thought before returning the girl to her holding cell. Wondering how this will affect their futures.

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Well that is chapter two :) I never really liked how quickly the Hokage has always believed Naruto so quickly, saying he's from the future. So I tried to make it a little more believable.

I probably won't update this quickly often, because my school life is really busy, I don't even know how I found the time to write this. Thank you for reading, tell me what you think, if there is anything you are really happy with or really don't like just review and I'll take it into consideration.

Thank you!

Tiarni
And I would like to say sorry! because there were some technical dificulties, and a lot of my breaks which now look like xXxXx and were ***, and they weren't showing up. Sorry about that.