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Chapter 2 – Mysteries revealed…
Sarutobi raised an eyebrow to the youngsters conduct. "So tell me Naruto-kun, how is it that you know about the Kyuubi?" he asked in an innocent voice.
Hinata immediately spoke up and said, "We're kind of tired right now, Hokage-sama and I'm not sure if we can answer you right now."
Sarutobi chuckled and replied kindly, "Very well, children. I will allow you, your rest." He moved to a chair and sat down.
The door suddenly opened violently and Hiashi stormed into the room. "Hinata! What are you doing in a room with this monster?" he asked angrily.
"I was put in the room with Naruto-kun, father. We were both injured," Hinata replied in a confused tone.
Hiashi walked over and slapped Hinata so hard that she flew from the bed. Naruto sensing her plight, jumped out the bed only to find two things. First the ground was a lot farther to reach than he had expected it to be and second, Hinata was much lighter than he expected her to be, even though she collided with him, pushing them into the side of his bed. Naruto growled and panned the room in anger only to figure out that Hiashi was headed in his direction. He figured this out by listening. He turned and carefully placed Hinata on the bed. He turned and took up a defensive stance.
"So the monster wants to fight me?" Hiashi said in a taunting tone.
"So you like to pick on those who are both injured and blind, some strong shinobi. What happened to you kind caring father I knew you were? Was it act, or are you still sore about your brother?" Naruto asked angrily, only to block a sudden strike. He felt himself flying through the air and into the wall. He knew from experience that his arm would be numb for a little bit now. He fell from the wall and onto the bed, which appeared to be larger than he remembered.
"So the little demon has some teeth and wants to defend my useless excuse of a daughter. So be it, you and your goblin kin can have her, but we will make sure that she is useless to you," Hiashi proclaimed. He activated his Byakugan and gasped in horror. He then asked, "What have you done to her? She is corrupted with your evil chakra, demon."
"Enough Hiashi! Hinata is now gifted to the Wolfrider's clan. Also you attacked a protected civilian and nearly revealed a village secret. I'm just surprised that they are not in the academy right now," Sarutobi yelled from his chair.
The door opened to reveal four people. A rather lithe female with very sharp features a little over a meter and a half tall, the green skinned female half a foot shorter, who were guiding two young children. The first was male, which had blonde hair and the other female and had blue-black hair. The lithe female spoke first. "Hiashi! What do you think you're doing?" she asked.
Hiashi turned suddenly and looked at the women and then at the children. "H… Hinata… but…" he stammered out while pointing at the groaning girl on the hospital bed.
"Hyuuga Hiashi, I as one of the elders for the elven clan, am ashamed at what we have witnessed. You would assault a couple of children that appear to be these two. What do you have to say for yourself?" she asked.
Naruto stood shakily and turned his head to the new voices. "Hey lady, I don't know what is going on, but that isn't the Hiashi I know," he said, as he wiped blood that was trailing down from his lip.
"Hey! You look like me! Just who the hell are you?" the Naruto standing next to the goblin female asked. He then squinted his eyes and asked, "And why are you eyes all a funny color?"
Naruto in the hospital gown pulled his head back and cocked it in confusion. "What do you mean all funny? I'm blind right now. How can I tell you what my eyes look like?" he asked in an annoyed tone.
He calmed when he felt a hand gently grab his arm. "It's alright Naruto-kun, we can make it through this together," Hinata said soothingly, but in actuality she was scared out of her mind. This was like her father when she was younger, but much worse. He would only state her uselessness, not attack her for it.
"Hey you look like her," the Naruto with the goblin pointed at the Hinata with the elf and then at the Hinata in the hospital gown.
She nodded, but then moved through several hand seal and quietly said, "Byakugan." She then gasped at what she saw. She voiced what she saw. "They are us, but it appears that they have two chakras running through their systems, and their coils are much larger than ours, Naruto-kun," she said, while pushing her fingers together in a bashful way.
The Naruto looked at the girl beside him and wore a confused look. "Why did you call me Naruto-kun?" he asked.
The girl quickly passed out from embarrassment.
"And that would be Hinata fainting, for some unknown reason," Naruto said with a chuckle.
He felt a squeeze on his arm and then Hinata said, "She likes him and is embarrassed. It will take a lot of time for her to figure out to approach him like I did you, Naruto-kun."
Naruto sighed and said, "Sorry, but without being able to see, there isn't much I can do and I don't trust anybody, but you. And your voice sounds like you're younger again."
"I know, Naruto-kun. You sound younger too. He sounds like you, but when you were younger in his mannerism," Hinata explained.
"Ahhhh!!! This is getting confusing! Who are you and why are you calling him my name?" the Naruto being embraced by the goblin asked.
"Uzumaki Naruto and who are you?" Naruto replied, full of pride.
"Uzumaki Naruto of the Wolfrider's clan," responded the other Naruto.
"How old are you?" Naruto asked on a whim.
"I turned seven a month ago. Why?" he answered with a confused look on his face.
Naruto turned to where he believed Sarutobi to be and asked, "He doesn't know does he?"
Sarutobi raised an eyebrow and turned to the others in the room. "Eledrin, will you please take Hinata-chan with you to the goblin compound with Naruto-kun? I will explain later. Hiashi, you will take yourself to the military police headquarters and turn yourself in. I will be along shortly to administer your punishment," he said in an authoritative tone.
"Hai, Hokage-sama," the others answered with a bow and took the children from the room leaving the older Naruto and Hinata to wonder what was going to happen.
"Could you two children please tell me something?" Sarutobi asked in a calm and disarming tone.
"Sure old man, what do you want to know?" Naruto replied happily.
"I noticed that you both wore looks of confusion when the terms goblin, elven and Wolfrider clans were brought up. Do you not know about them?" he asked.
Naruto wore a look of confusion, but Hinata finally said, "Goblins are creatures of legend and have never been encountered, Hokage-sama."
Sarutobi chuckled at the response, but then asked, "If that is so, where are you from? And why do you wear Naruto-kun's and Hinata-chan's faces?"
Naruto growled and replied, "We're from Konoha. What do you mean, by wear our faces? I've had this face for sixteen years and so has Hinata-chan."
Sarutobi raised an eyebrow, but kept his voice level and asked, "So if you're sixteen years old then why are you in a seven year olds body?"
Naruto and Hinata both wore looks of confusion on their faces. Naruto was the first to recover and asked angrily, "What do you mean old man? I'm not seven!"
"Take it easy Naruto-kun. We will figure this out if we can," Sarutobi said in a reassuring tone.
"I'm told that your blindness should be gone in a couple days and you should be able to see for yourself. So you say that you're from Konoha?" he asked innocently.
"Yeah, I was born on October tenth sixteen years ago. The night of the Kyuubi attack, the night that the Kyuubi was sealed within me by my father," Naruto said, while Hinata gasped, but Sarutobi dropped his pipe.
"How did you know?" Sarutobi asked quietly, more to himself than to anyone else.
"I was losing myself and met him in my dreamscape when he tried to fix the seal after a hard fight with a guy named Pain," Naruto explained. He then looked down and said sorrowfully, "It didn't quite work… and then some guy attacked me while I was recovering and Hinata-chan tried to help protect me, yet again…" Sarutobi noticed the blush on both children, but waited for the boy to continue, "The next thing I know, we're here and then all hell breaks loose."
Sarutobi nodded, but then asked, "Do you have any proof that you are who you say you are?"
Naruto nodded and pulled up his gown to reveal a naked adolescent boy, but the feature that caught Sarutobi's attention was the seal. It was similar to the one on his Naruto, but there appeared to be a hole in the center of the seal. He walked up asked, "May I touch it?"
Naruto nodded, but also said, "Sure, but could you be quick about it. It's kind of drafty and I don't think I'm wearing any clothes." Naruto attempted to look back when he heard a thump on the bed. He shook his head and asked, "She passed out, didn't she?"
Sarutobi chucked and replied, "Yes."
Naruto shrugged and said, "I guess she really does like me."
"Yes a most unusual reaction for a prepubescent girl," Sarutobi said, as he examined the seal.
"Pre… what?" Naruto asked.
"She hasn't hit puberty yet," Sarutobi explained.
"What? Oh, yeah, we are in seven year old bodies. Man that is going to be a pain again. And even more so for her," Naruto said in a dejected tone.
"Well other than some differences, the seal appears to be the same as the one on little Naruto-kun. I also noticed some differences in your features. Your eyes don't have normal iris, they are more like the Inuzuka, in that they are like a cat's eye with a vertical pupil, similar to a slit instead of being round. But right now they have a blue iris, but the pupil is an off white similar to a blind person or a Hyuuga. Your ears are similar to elves, in that they are pointed, but only slightly, yours too Hinata-chan," Sarutobi said, as he noticed that Hinata had woken up.
"So it is evident that we're blind?" Naruto asked in a dejected tone.
Sarutobi chuckled, and then replied, "Only on you Naruto-kun. Hinata's eyes hide this from the casual observer. I know you have quite a story to tell, but I will allow the medics to come in and heal your wounds, while I take care of the Hiashi issue. Naruto, Hinata I will be by tomorrow to check on you and discuss what we are going to do with you. Until then try and enjoy your stay here in the hospital, because if you're anything like our Naruto-kun, you might try to escape. Please don't do that."
Naruto chuckled and found the bed to sit back down on. "Where would I go, I might not know the layout of this village and I might not, but doing it without eyesight would be doubly hard, and then add that I'm not as tall as I was before, we're talking a recipe for disaster. Now if they could get us some ramen, I would be a happy camper."
Hinata giggled at this. Naruto frowned at the girl behind him, but was surprised when he was embraced in a hug. "You can have all the ramen you want Naruto-kun," she said happily.
"We shall see, we shall see," Sarutobi said in a cheerful voice. He then continued, "I will bid you two farewell until next time."
Naruto climbed up into the bed and waited to hear a groggy sigh from his favorite physician. They heard the woman stand up and brush herself off. "Now Naruto-kun and Hinata-chan, we need to do a full examination of you both. Now Naruto-kun, don't look when I ask Hinata-chan to take off her gown," Kikiyo said authoritatively.
Naruto turned his face towards the speaker and wore a look of confusion. "How am I supposed to look at anything when I can't see a thing?" he asked, dumbfounded by the order.
Hinata blushed, but said nothing. 'I will be naked near Naruto-kun, but in actuality I'm nearly naked now,' she thought to herself and blushed even harder.
Hinata was guided to the other bed by the doctor and was given an examination, soon after Naruto was given a similar examination. Naruto felt somewhat embarrassed at being sixteen and stuck back in a seven year old body. Now he had too many years to go through to regain the respect he had before. The doctor found that both had flash blindness, occurring from over exposure to a chakra burst. The doctor covered their eyes and left them to their own devices for the rest of the day after healing their injuries inflicted by Hiashi. Amazingly Hinata seemed to have some regenerative ability, but both seemed to also be suffering from chakra poisoning.
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The two youths ate their dinner quietly and waited until the nurses to take the trays from the room before speaking.
"Um… Hinata?" Naruto asked in a sheepish voice.
"Yes, Naruto-kun." Hinata replied in a meek tone.
"Did you mean what you said when you tried to defend me from Pain?" Naruto asked in an even more submissive tone.
Hinata swallowed loudly and nodded. She then almost hit herself when she for forgetting that they were both blind, if for only a little while. "Yes… yes, Naruto-kun, I meant it when I said I loved you and would risk my life for you," she said with all the willpower she could muster.
Naruto was shocked into silence. No one had ever expressed that emotion for him, ever. Sure the old man had cared for him and the old coots, Tsunade and Jiraiya had cared for him, along with Iruka and the Ichiraku family. His team had expressed compassion and sometimes understanding, but never had they said that they loved him. Sasuke, his friend, had shown he would sacrifice for him, but otherwise he showed indifference most of the time. Sakura, his crush, had begun to show caring for him, but not in the way that Hinata had shown, for he knew that she still loved him. He began to sob gently, but happily that someone finally cared for him.
Hinata heard his quiet whimpers and got out of bed and moved to his side. She felt around and wrapped him in a gentle hug. She felt him go rigid at her ministrations, but then he relaxed and she felt him wrap his arms around her and begin to sob heavily. "Are you okay, Naruto-kun," she whispered into his ear, or at least where she thought it would be.
He gulped hard, but she could still hear the sadness and happiness wrapped in his voice. "No one has ever told me that they felt that way about me," he explained.
"It's alright Naruto-kun. I'm here for you and I will always try to be, even if you don't feel the same about me, as I do about you," she said in a soothing voice.
She let out an 'EEP!' when his embrace became tighter. "Sorry," he said apologetically.
"That's alright Naruto-kun, you just surprised me," she explained.
"Thank you," he said quietly.
"For what?" she asked.
"For everything, for being there, for caring, for loving me," he said, but again started to sob heavily.
They remained wrapped together and fell asleep that way. The nurses later that night found them in the same bed and with Hinata laying on Naruto's chest with his arms wrapped around the girl protectively. This elicited several 'Ah's' from the nurses at the cute scene.
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Sarutobi knew this was going to be a headache. The Hyuuga were in an uproar with their heir currently being housed with the elven clan and demanding both her back and Naruto's head on a platter, but the elven, goblin, Nara, and the Kazuma clans all saying that Naruto was to be protected at all costs. The Uchiha were being strangely quiet about the incident. The Hyuuga clan also wanted Hiashi released from ANBU custody. The worst part was that word had gotten to the Daimyo and he was going to make a visit to find out why the village was in an uproar over an incident about an orphan who was adopted by a clan after it was decided that he couldn't be adopted by any clan, even though no family apparently would adopt him.
After seven years it would have been thought that life around Naruto would have settled down, at least a little bit, but it hadn't. Now he had a second Naruto, who possessed a second Kyuubi, and from the reports from the doctor, Naruto was suffering from chakra poisoning and only his regenerative ability was keeping him alive. The same was to be said about the second Hinata. The odd thing was that 'his' Naruto and Hinata were safely in the academy when the chakra spike was detected and the two blind children were found. From the report from Grakna, she said the area was filled with chakra from the Kyuubi and that she saw the faint remnants of a seal below the children when she found them.
'So either they were copies of the original or they were from somewhere else, but where? That was the real question,' he thought to himself. 'Minato why did you saddle me with this burden, I'm too old for this.'
He snapped his fingers and two ANBU appeared before him. "I need one of you to accompany me to the hospital tomorrow, Tora, you're the one. The other is to track down both of my students who are still loyal to this village, Tori, that is your job. I want you to find Jiraiya first and tell him to make haste about it. Tell him that it's about the seal and I need his help and to hurry," he said, as both ANBU nodded and then disappeared in puffs of smoke.
"Well, I need to find out more about this new Naruto-kun, he seems more experienced and a little more focused than our lovable bundle of energy. Let's hope the Inuzuka don't get wind of this or we might have more problems on our hands," he said out loud to an empty room.
A knock at the door brought his attention away from his work and he called out, "Enter!"
Three older people entered the room. Hiruzen smiled warmly at his old teammates and said, "What can I do for my old teammates and you Danzo, at this late hour?"
Koharu glared at Hiruzen and said, "Is it true that there is a second container in the village?"
Hiruzen raised an eyebrow and then asked, "What do mean by that?"
"Exactly what it sounds like. Do we have a second container in the village?" Homura asked.
Hiruzen sighed and replied, "Yes, there is a second jinchuuriki in the village."
Danzo smiled and said, "Then we can begin his training."
Hiruzen shook his head and said, "No, we can't, the jinchuuriki is currently blind and disoriented. I also believe that he will be a little too headstrong for your training methods, Danzo."
"Why don't you let me decide if he is?" Danzo asked with a wry smile.
"I don't think that our little Naruto-kun will want to part with his new friend so easily," Sarutobi explained.
"What do you mean?" Koharu asked with scowl written all over her face.
"First the elves have asked that the new jinchuuriki be housed in their clan estate. Second, Naruto-kun has become attached to this jinchuuriki. So I'm allowing the elves to adopt this second vessel and work with him and his friend," Sarutobi replied happily.
"We all see how well it is going with the goblins and Naruto," Danzo said in a derogatory tone.
"The goblins have been censured from having jounin for quite a while now and are getting agitated at the Inuzuka for attempting to provoke then and either kill or hurt Naruto-kun," Sarutobi exclaimed.
"The Inuzuka took the brunt of the casualties during the Kyuubi attack," Homura explained.
Hiruzen shook his head and said, "The general shinobi corps took the heaviest casualties, while the Uchiha clan took the lightest casualties."
"The Inuzuka lost over fifty human members during that event," Homura said angrily.
"The Wolfriders lost over seventy and around a hundred wolves," Sarutobi replied.
"I'm not worried about those worthless green monsters. The Inuzuka are humans and thus more worthy of our concern," Homura said in a near yell.
"The elves lost about twenty members and that is more devastating than fifty Inuzuka being lost. The elves do not reproduce at the rate as we humans do or at the rate that the goblins do and they seem to get along better with the goblins than they do with the Inuzuka. I'm not saying that the Inuzuka are not vital to the village, but you're putting too much emphasis on one clan and not the village. Heck, why aren't you worried about the Senju clan, there are only about a dozen or so left, including my student, Tsunade," Hiruzen explained. He knew this was going to be a headache.
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Selene shooed out the nurses who were quietly watching the children snuggled up to each other. She watched with a patient smile. 'This Naruto-chan, seems to posses more patience than our Naruto-chan. I wonder how his training has been. If what I saw from my scrying was truthful, then they are much older than expected and they will posses much potential,' she thought to herself.
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A/N: I hope you liked this chapter, there is more to come, and I am still working on my other stories. The only one that is giving me a problem is Naruto's Happyness.
Sorry for any confusion with the story. This is a crossover to an Alternate Universe where both D&D and Naruto's world rules apply… Well sort of. I'm ironing out some of the inconsistencies, at least in my opinion. I also put some of my crazy ideas in this story and hope I don't go off the deep end too far. I will not be having a lot of the cannon arcs, but the characters will make an appearance.
Deathmvp – No the Inuzuka will not have drakes, they will still have dogs, but they do not get along with the goblins. Kiba and Naruto will not be friends initially.