Here is the next chapter to my story!!!
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A team of Genin could be seen walking on the roads towards Konoha. "Kakashi-sensei! Why can't we take to the trees to get there faster?!" A blonde one complained. He had shinning blue eyes and hair that rivaled the sun.
"You can take to the trees if you want Naruto, but you'd have to wait at the gates for us." Kakashi sighed.
"That's good enough for me!" He Naruto sighed and jumped into the trees.
Naruto jumped through the trees and, when he was almost to the village, he was sent tumbling with a blonde haired man. They landed on the forest floor with a thud. The man groaned turned his head away. Naruto was about to shout when he noticed something. Blood. Alot of blood. And it was coming from the man, who was supposedly unconscious.
"Hey buddy!" He said, pulling himself from under the man. "You okay?" He shook the man and he turned over with a wince in pain. Naruto gasped. He could see the wounds more clearly. "Hey buddy! Wake up!"
"I'm not your buddy." The man murmured with a groan.
"I'll take you to the hospital." Naruto put the man over his shoulder and ran like his life depended on it. The man had fallen unconscious again, before Naruto even out him over his shoulder. He sighed in relief as he stopped in front of the gate guards.
"Izumo, Kotetsu! We need to get this guy to the hospital! He's hurt!" He said urgently.
The two Chuunin guards did not hesitate to take the man and make Naruto follow, since he was the one who found the man.
They brought the man in and informed the Hokage. "Report back here as soon as this man is stable!" The old Hokage nodded.
"Right, Hokage-sama." Kotetsu bowed before disappearing.
Naruto sat in the lobby of the hospital and answered Rin's questions. When she went to see how the man was doing, he sighed waited. That man seemed so familiar!
He sighed. "Naruto, do you want to see him, he's asleep. You just seemed worried." Kailua said, walking in.
"Um... Yeah... I just felt that, since I'm the one who found him, I should wait for him to make sure he's alright. Because if he died after I found him, with out even getting to talk to him, I wouldn't even be able to live with my conscience." Naruto sighed.
"That was rather intelligent." Kailua nodded, impressed.
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The Hokage stared at the man. "Minato?" He whispered with narrowed eyes. 'Who is this?' He demanded in his mind and watched the blonde sleep.
"Koharu." The blonde murmered.
The old man sighed. "Anythings possible these days." He said. It proved that this was Minato, not many knew of Minato and Kushina's first son, for all they knew, they didn't have any children. This man saying Koharu's name, just proved that it was Mintao.
But, unknown to the old man, the man was Naruto when he was older. Naruto was having a dream, a horrible dream of all the worst things that happened in that damn war.
FLASHBACK
Naruto was in his office, doing paper work, fighting back tears when he got to a report that said that Konohamaru and his sister inlaw, Hanabi, were crushed by a cave collapsing as they tried to get out. He took a deep breath and continued his work, his eyes shining with tears. He gasped when he got to another and he felt his blood boil at the name of the last Uchiha. "Sasuke." He whispered bitterly. He'd brought Sasuke back, but then Sasuke left again after his probation was finished and he killed Chouji and Kin when they tried to stop him.
He groaned, Sasuke was spotted with Sound nin and had nearly killed Itachi. Itachi was a valuable ally these days, he even helped Naruto destroy Pein and nearly half the Akatsuki with the help of Kisame and Diadara. The only Akatsuki member left was Madara.
He sighed and continued. He nearly choked on his tea when he saw that Kakashi didn't make it on his mission, neither did Rin or Kailua. He choked the tears back once more and continued his work.
--- a week later ---
Naruto was in his office when there was an explosion near his house and the Inuzuka compound. He jumped to his feet and out the window at top speed, getting there in less than a second. He saw Hinata holding his blonde haired, blue eyed sun who was in tears. "Our house papa!" He cried.
Naruto groaned, that's the third on this month, and it was only half way through the month. People really wanted him gone and out of this war. He heard a groan of pain and a baby crying in the house across the street. Naruto whipped around, he knew that cry. He rushed into the house to see a nin jump out the window.
Naruto stared at the three forms on the ground. Ino and Kiba were both near dead, clutching their baby girl. He made several clones and one loosened the two's grips off the baby. He looked the baby over as the original and the other clones flashed through hand signs. He began the process of healing them.
Kiba looked up. "Naruto... Ta-take care of... Kona and... Ino... will ya?" He coughed.
"Of course." He whispered, a sad smile, as he fought the useless battle of healing two of his closest friends. "But you're going to help me." He said hopefully.
Kiba chuckled painfully. "I think I'm done for here Naruto." He winced and coughed up blood. Naruto felt his life slipping under his jutsu and pushed more chakra into it as Hinata rushed in and helped him the best she could as Koharu and the baby were taken away by Naruto's other clone.
In the end, Ino was fine, but Kiba was dead. The brought the sobbing Ino to the hospital and she got the right treatment.
Naruto and Hinata sat in the lobby with Koharu and Kona when the doors burst open and Jiatsu flew in and to the closest med, Hitomi and Hana on his shoulders. "Help! They're almost dead!" He cried and Naruto jumped to his feet.
"What happened!?" He demanded as he and Jiatsu followed behind the medic that was taking the two to emergency treatment. Naruto was going to help with the treatment since he's the second best med other then Sakura and she was working on Ino.
"We were guarding the gates, like you ordered us to, when we were attacked by Uchiha Sasuke, Orochimaru, and some weird guy with an orange mask and one eye hole!" Jiatsu told him.
He paled when he saw his sensei's expression. Naruto's anger was reaching its limits with the Uchiha. His eye flashed red and a scowl could be seen from space as he glared at the floor, which seemed to groan in agony from his stare.
"The masked one was Uchiha Madara, don't under estimate him Jiatsu. I can see by your appearance that you've been beaten badly, but someone's healed you already." Naruto said, trying to control his anger.
"That is correct Naruto-sensei. The person who healed me couldn't heal Hitomi or Hana, so I ran them hear, as fast as I could." He nodded in affirmative.
"You did well." Naruto commented and left Jiatsu to ponder as he entered the operating room.
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Naruto walked out with a sigh, a single tear streaming his face as he held most of them back. He couldn't let himself break, he had to keep going, and he knew, just knew, that if he let more fall, he wouldn't be able to stop them.
"Are they...?" Jiatsu stopped when he saw his sensei's expression.
"Hitomi wont be waking for at least a month's time, but Hana..." He bit his lip to get control over his emotions. "Hana's gone." He looked down, struggling to keep them down even more.
Jiatsu felt the tears before he even knew he was crying. He let out a few sobs and fell to his knees. "Why? Why did they have to suffer like this?!" He cried out. He felt sad that Hitomi was in a coma, but he and Hana were engaged, she was dead, their baby was dead before it even saw the light of day, to him, all was lost now.
Naruto watched the younger man mourn and walked forward, placing a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry." He choked out. "I'll make sure those three that did this, will never even live to see another day when I get my hands on them."
Jiatsu nodded and stood slowly. "I've got to go. I need to be alone." And Jiatsu left to go mourn in his house.
Naruto walked slowly to the lobby. Focused on keeping his emotions under way.
The rest of the last month of war was no different. He'd tried to save Tenten with the help of Sakura and Neji, but all three failed miserably while Lee died pretecting them as they worked on the field. In the end, the only ones left from the old gang, was Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, Ino, Shikamaru, Gaara, and Neji. All left with nothing but each other and the other survivors. Well, now Naruto was taken through a rift, and Hinata's only hope is her baby that is on the way.
ENDFLASHBACK
Older Naruto awoke with a start, sitting up but being held down by medical restraints and being pulled back down. He groaned and shook his head to clear it. "What happened?" He blinked to clear it and looked down with a frown. Why was he in medical restraints?
"Are you okay?" A childlike voice asked.
He turned his head and felt his heart stop, that even showed on the machines for three seconds, alerting everyone. He was staring into the face of a boy with bright blue eyes, hair that rivals the sun, and the Innocent nature most kids have. But the thing that through him off was the whisker marks. He hadn't seen those whisker marks since the last time he saw Kyuubi.
He knew, just knew, that this Koharu copycat was himself, not his son. But he still brought out a reaction. Right when the medics rushed in the machines started the steady beeping as he controlled himself and his heart started up right again.
That's when he saw him, old man Sarutobi. He felt himself choke, was this a dream?! Or did that rift send him back?! He coughed and a bit of blood fell from the corner of his mouth.
"Are you okay?" The old man asked.
Older Naruto nodded with a blink. "Yeah." He heard Rin, Kailua, and the old man gasp. "What?" He asked.
"Nothing." The old man said softly.
"Listen ojji-san, I have ways of finding things out." He threatened. "Now I suggest you tell me what or I'll have to cut these." He said, examining the restraints.
"Minato? Is that really you?" The old man gasped and the younger Naruto looked at him in shock.
'I should have known! I look exactly like my father would if he had lived to my age! I looked like him when I lost my whiskers.' He sighed before a mental smirk came, he came up with an idea. They would never believe if he was the future, but he had to try. "Would you believe me if I told you I'm not Minato and I'm from about..." He looked at his younger self. "sixteen years into the future?" He winced when the man's eyes narrowed.
The old man narrowed his eyes, he remembered that one, last time he found a mangled Minato after a mission in the hospital, he said this very thing. "No I would not Minato." He sighed. "Now stop making up jokes, I have doubts, but not many, that you are Namikaze Minato." Both Naruto's groaned.
They looked at each other in irritation. Naruto mentally smirked once more, might as well play along. He mentally laughed. 'This is going to be fun!' And at that, the master prankster strikes again. "Why are you wearing my clothes Oji-san?" He pouted playfully. "And who's the kid?" He demanded, pointing with his nose at his younger self.
"Eh! Oji-san, are you sure this man is the Yondaime Hokage?" He asked. Older Naruto jolted at a sudden memory, they looked at him. in concern. The older Naruto chuckled. His younger self was planning on pranking him!
"Maybe." The old man sighed. "But there's only one way to be sure. Naruto, lift up your shirt and mold chakra."
Both Narutos groaned, why is it that whenever someone wants proof of who Naruto was, they wanted to see the seal! They thought it as one. "Why'd you groan?" The younger one demanded.
"Sudden lash of pain." Naruto shrugged under the restraints.
Naruto lifted his shirt and molded chakra, and dun-dun-dun! The seal! They watched as Naruto made to act surprised. He had read reports on the injury the fourth had when he died, and he was pretty sure he had the same ones. So it could be after the fourth sealed the demon that he got brought 'to' the future.
Naruto made his eyes go wide and made himself gasp. He studied the seal. "So he-he's my... he's Naruto!" He exclaimed. He mentally chuckled. This was so much fun!!!
"Hmmm.... Seems you recognized the seal." The old man commented and older Naruto felt like slapping the old man after hugging him for not seeing him in sixteen years because he died.
"Well... Is he?!" Older Naruto demanded, falling into his roll.
"Yes, that's Naruto." The old man sighed once more.
"Look at you Naruto." He said, falling into the father hasn't seen his son in a while roll. "You're bigger." He commented.
"No duh Sherlock." His younger self said, rolling his eyes.
Older Naruto sighed. He totally forgot, he already knew who his parents were before the wave mission and he resented his father for about two months before he realized that the fourth couldn't make another villager do something that he wasn't willing to do himself.
"Listen Naruto, I'm sorry for giving you an unfair burden." He said softly, starting to feel as if 'he' had made his own son live a life like his. "I just couldn't bring myself to make another family do something that I wasn't willing to do myself. Besides, I don't think I'd trust someone else but my son to keep the fox at bay." He smiled sadly.
"It really is you Minato." The old man said, smiling sadly.
"In the flesh!" He grinned. Good thing he'd read his father and mother's journals, he knew exactly how they acted and what they did. There was not a secret they had before death, that Naruto didn't know. He even found that Kushina wasn't the only one who had a knack for pranks, his father also did one on the occasion by himself, not only with his mother.
"Are you alright, 'dad'?" Naruto asked, testing the words, frowning and shaking his head. "It's too wierd." He exclaimed.
"Yeah..." Minato said, lost in thought.(A/N; For most of this story, since everyone will refer to him as Minato, he's going to be called Minato. The only time he'll be referred to as Naruto will be on occasions when he's alone...)
"Can you guys let me go, now?" He asked.
"Yes, but you must keep the chakra seal in place. And, since you can't use your charka, you don't have a choice." The old man sighed, removing the medical restraints. "And, you have to stay here until we can interrogate you for the truth." He nodded after the look Minato gave him.
"Now that's smart." Minato grinned. "I was going to have to turn myself in for interrogation on your stupidity." He chuckled.
"Watch it Minato-san." The old man growled at him.
"Yeah, yeah..." Minato said dismissively, sitting up and stretching his arms above his head.
"Where are you supposed to be right now anyway, Naruto?" He asked his younger self.
"I'm supposed to be at the gate waiting for-" His eyes widened and made for the door. "My team!"And he ran out.
Minato chuckled and sighed. "I don't think we should tell anyone I'm here."
"They'd be happy to know you're back." The old Hokage retaliated.
"Oh Come one Oji-san!" He groaned. "Wouldn't it be better if no one knew, and Naruto would be safer." He said, he really didn't want to repeat the incident when he was getting stronger and people started to respect him. Everyone coming up to him and apologizing when ever they saw him. He had the strangest feeling that it would just happen again.
"Why don't you take the seat of Hokage back?!" He seemed to be begging. To Mintao it seemed the old man couldn't take the paperwork, or the pranks, or the Chunning exams! Minato stopped in his tracks. The Chunnin exams... the sand/sound invasion... the death of old man Sarutobi. He found his cuase for it all, he knew it the whole time, but just couldn't see it. He had to stop Orochimaru himself, then and there. Maybe even when he goes to attack his younger self and stop the sound from getting Sasuke.
"I'll do it!" He said, looking up with flaming azure eyes. He pulled the IV out with out a second glance and stripped the heart wires from his chest. He watched as the IV wound seemed to try and close from his new demonic energy, but he willed it to stay before using a simple healing jutsu to take care of it.
He stood and stretched more. He sighed. "Do you think you could get me some of my old clothes?" He asked, looking at the hospital gown in annoyance.
"Sure Minato-san." The old man said, still in shock. He wasn't expecting Minato to except the seat of Hokage back so quickly.
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There it is!!! I know it's not much, but it will get better!!!
