Right chapter two
It's painful; my head hurts, as if something wants out.
'Hello… is anybody there?' a small voice whispered out into the space, Sasuke dully noticed the lack of light.
'I'm here' he whispered, afraid of the space, it was immensely large and open.
'…Sasuke?" the little voice questioned, it felt somewhat familiar, then it clicked.
'Naruto' Sasuke said louder, his body felt weird, much larger than his own.
Finally he saw something, in the far corner of his eye, it was a light, it was orange, but it was still a light.
'NARUTO' he screamed and tried to run to the light, but it was clumsy and unrefined.
'Sasuke' said the voice, though quieter than Sasuke, soon he heard footsteps, most likely Naruto running towards him in this…place.
Finally they met, Sasuke launching himself onto his younger blood brother, they laughed, or tried to until the darkness began engulphing them, Sasuke felt Naruto in his arms, but saw no one.
'Naruto' he panicked, squeezing the body tighter, there was no answer.
Finally the darkness went into his eyes, and then he just felt like he fell, not just falling, but out of his body.
It was endless.
Waking was a very simple thing, for some people at least.
For Naruto it was a little bit slow, and his mind didn't kick in until he left his apartment door.
That was unless a voice was calling to you desperately, if said voice was then your awake, parental instincts kicking in.
"NARUTO" someone screamed next to him.
He didn't remember opening his eye's, all he remembered was looking at the tiny Sasuke, then proceeding to crawl over to said boy as fast as possible.
Sasuke's face was scrunched in an angry and sad way; he seemed to be in a cold sweat.
That dream must have been pretty bad.
"Sasuke, Sasuke!" he called to his best friend, his friend woke slowly, and screamed at Naruto, in the dark it just looked like a stranger.
"SHHH" Naruto said, it was night time and he noticed duly that they were for one, really small, and two he felt weak!
"Naruto" Sasuke whimpered as Naruto wrapped his arms around his brother, who he had just rediscovered.
Sasuke sniffled a little bit; his mind was boggled by the new information, as well as the voice screaming in his head.
"Naruto make it stop" he whimpered as he tried to wipe his ever flowing tears, the voice screamed for revenge, and killing.
"The voices" Naruto said gently, he too had such things, but it wasn't of him, but a younger him, he cried for his family, for Sasuke.
Naruto had to lock him in a safe place, to keep his younger self from Kyuubi's manipulative ways.
But Naruto wondered how Sasuke's younger self could make the ever stoic Uchiha cry so hard. He asked a question he idly dreaded "Sasuke, how old are you" he said quietly.
"9" Sasuke answered, his face was slightly confused so he said the only thing he could think of "How old are you" at first he thought he was humoring his brother, now he was seriously curious.
"19" he whispered, his voice was astonished on how Sasuke was not here.
"Don't lie" Sasuke said rebelliously, he knew Naruto lied…a lot. "Sorry squirt, but I ain't lying" Naruto replied.
"So…your that man" Sasuke said in awe "In my minds pictures" he said happily.
"Memories" Naruto corrected and Sasuke's little grin faded before tears welled in his eyes "Then… Itachi-nii is really going to kill them and… then he's…" Sasuke said fearfully before he glared "Konoha made him do it!" he screamed angrily, Naruto just watched his now mentally younger brother freak out.
"Why'd they do it!" he yelled, and now Naruto blanked.
"You don't know?" he asked timidly after getting a hold of himself "About what" Sasuke said and tried to glare, it didn't work with his large eyes, and still slightly chubby cheeks.
"I'll… well" Naruto started "They kind of were planning to take over Konoha" He said slowly, trying to word it so Sasuke could take it.
He didn't do it right at all.
"THEY WOULDN'T" Sasuke screamed, his voice slightly merged with his older self's voice, clearly stating that older Sasuke had heard as well.
"They will" Naruto murmured, then his eye's lit up in panic "Oh god what day is it today" he quickly asked Sasuke "Monday" Sasuke replied.
"NO, the date" Naruto all but screamed, forgetting his first intentions of being quiet.
"The 2nd" Sasuke murmured, slightly afraid of Naruto, who just yelped in an odd way, like a person who just got bit by a dog on their butt.
Before he could say anything Naruto grabbed his head, after slicing his finger with his tooth and quickly began scrawling on his cheek, then forehead, then chin before he began mumbling and his forehead, cheek and chin glowed softly before it faded.
"There" Naruto said before he looked at Sasuke apologetically "I'm sorry for having to do this to you" He hit Sasuke on the area where his shoulder met his neck swiftly.
Sasuke let out a small squeak, and the last thing he saw was Naruto hengeing into Sasuke, and proceeding to scrawl onto his own forehead, but not his cheek or chin.
The light faded and Sasuke fell into the realm of unconsciousness.
"Oh god I am so late!" Naruto said and he moved quickly, hoping to make for the time.
Right now Itachi was quickly assassinating his clan's men. Naruto had finally made it out of the woods, assessing where he was before he puffed away in a cloud of smoke.
He appeared in his apartment, laying Sasuke down onto the bed and covering him before he once again puffed away in another cloud of smoke, this time appearing in an alley.
He walked out casually, saying hello to the many people who smiled politely at him as he walked home.
He asked one person for the time before he started running, claiming he was late.
Naruto kept running, passing the people, before he finally made it to the Uchiha compound. The place was dead, much like the people inside, he walked in.
He looked around, awaiting for hello as Sasuke might have. With a pout he kept walking, watching and searching for Itachi's signature. He began to pretend to be nervous by the silence.
He felt about six other slowly fading out, and two that were still flaming. One of them died out abruptly and he walked faster. Finally he came across his first victims, Sasuke aunt and uncle, and then the streets were littered with body's he hadn't 'seen' before.
Now he was running to the area where the last signature was still burning, knowing that Sasuke's parents were the last one's to die, by the report Kakashi had made him read.
After he ran to the house he slammed open the door and screamed to his mother and father, allowing Sasuke personality and memories to take over from there on out, nestling himself into Kyuubi's cage, much to the monsters displeasure as they watched the scene fold out.
Minds copy was a great sealing technique, for one it made a complete copy of the person's memories, as well as their personality and such.
He was even more proud onto the fact that he had made such a technique.
Naruto winced as Itachi started the torture of making 'Sasuke' watch his entire family be murdered on replay.
Kyuubi laughed as he sat in chains, in edition to Naruto taking complete control over his mindscape.
They waited for the waited and waited, even going as far as talking, well Naruto had tried.
"So… Kyuubi" he winced at how awkward that sounded, the beast just ignored him "What are your hobbies?" he winced yet again.
"Killing, maiming, torturing" the Kyuubi said as he grinned full force.
'Ah…so that's where I get that grin from' Naruto thought as he stared up at the gigantic thing.
Sincerely he had hoped it was maybe from his mother, or father even.
"Nope, it's from me" Kyuubi snickered having heard his thoughts.
Naruto just glared and all conversation ended there.
Finally at least one day had ended from the torture, yet they had what… two more?
Naruto took a few naps, constantly waking up to find the huge monster trying to break free and eat him. He rolled his eyes every time and turned over.
"YOU WILL BE MINE" the Kyuubi usually screamed as he tried to get a tiny bit closer.
"Ew" Naruto said as his eye twitched at the things struggles, he only aided in making it angrier.
Naruto once again looked up at the screen thing for a few seconds before looking down yet again, he didn't like death enough as it is, but watching it made things even more disturbing than sitting beside a huge fox, with nine fluffy tails squirming in their own separate restraints.
In all honesty it was so wrong to find this funny as they tried to slap around angrily.
He decided to watch the screen since it could only get so worse, enjoying watching a monster fox struggle against its own restraints, meh.
Naruto lay watching the ground where Sasuke's parents were laying dead not even ten feet away from him; he wiped the drool from his mouth trying to control his rigid breaths. He had seen worse.
He decided to let the tears fall freely, so they would dry, him not crying at the deaths of his many family members was hardly possible.
He felt many signatures scouring the area, searching for survivors.
He got up and walked, or more like staggered down the hallway. He opened the door and fell outside, he felt the many medics surround him and then he decided to sleep.
Naruto opened his eyes blearily as he got up, looking at the white hospital ceiling. He stretched before getting up.
"Sasuke-kun" a nurse said getting up form her chair, Naruto looked up at her "Where's my family" he felt as if he needed to confirm the fact, Sasuke would have.
The nurse hesitated and that's all it took for Sasuke to glare at the bed sheets "Itachi did it, he killed them all" he screamed and got up "I'm…I'm going to kill him!" Naruto screamed as he tried to run, the nurse grabbed him, and quickly, albeit shakily, injected a sleeping agent into his arm.
The place was supposed to go black, but Naruto's mind had certain things it did to keep him awake before the Kyuubi burnt the crap out of his body.
He stilled as the nurse ran out of the room screaming at the top of her lungs for the hokage.
Naruto looked at the ceiling again.
Sasuke woke up, feeling someone tap him on the head in multiple places. He stared at his surroundings, noticing that Naruto was there beside him.
"Hello" Naruto said happily "Bastard"
"Dobe" Sasuke said, he didn't bother trying to get away from the smug 9 year old.
He sat up, feeling at his forehead for the blood he knew the blond had smeared "Mind copying seal" Naruto replied "And a few more, like a control seal, as well as a switch seal"
Sasuke growled at his brother "Is that really necessary"
"Yes" Naruto said simply, watching his brother from the corner of his eye "You know how to act" Naruto stood and walked away "And you know the consequence's if you don't"
Sasuke grudgingly nodded, he knew what would happen if he didn't, a mess, a god damn normal and unpredictable life, only regretting and such.
He got up and walked, already formulating in his head what Naruto had done, guessing.
When he got out of the forest, he noticed that it was near the Academy, he smiled at it despite himself at the memories.
It was nice to be in the past, no messed up people like Madara and Orochimaru, life was simple and quiet…
Until he saw a freaking HUGE mob of people screaming his name in worry.
He did what he thought was best, run like a flipping rabbit in fear.
Naruto sat in the tree choking back his laughter; he got a small glare of anger and betrayal from Sasuke as he ran. Naruto lost it as he saw someone tackle the poor brunette.
The mob carried the slightly hurt nine year old away.
Naruto's laughter died away and he leapt out of his tree, he seriously guessed that the mob would search this general area, so he had brought Sasuke back to the woods, allowing him to get caught by the mob of people.
He walked leisurely to his home, crossing people who seemed to blame him for the Uchiha's death.
He ignored them; they had been a small part as to why he had hated Sasuke so eagerly.
But that was in the past.
Since he was in the past, Naruto snickered at his terrible humor.
He opened the door to his apartment and locked behind himself, taking off his sandals before moving to his bed finally.
He sat down and began to slowly move back into his mind. Then he waited.
Naruto walked in his mind in relative comfort, ignoring Kyuubi's annoying attempt to manipulate his mind.
This was why he had locked up his poor younger self.
He opened the door, went in quickly and closed it. He turned to see, his younger self pouting and at the same time Naruto saw deep down that his younger self was seriously worried.
"Who are you" his younger self asked rebelliously, even now Naruto could easily pick out the smallest hint of fear in it.
"I am" he paused dramatically, Gai and ero-sennin had influenced him far to much "You"
The expression oh so obviously showed exactly how much his younger self believed him.
"No your not" little Naruto said and glared him "Let me out, I didn't do nothing to you"
"I know" Naruto said evenly, already getting bored.
Little Naruto almost grinned at how easily Naruto gave in.
Naruto sighed at his younger companion; this was going to take a while.
Kakashi glare's at nothing, he reads his porn prop and thinks of the many possibilities of murdering the blond brat.
Why, well for one the blond made him regret, he hated doing something like this and two because when ever he was around the brat for long points of time his other self pops out of no where.
He was on the verge of disappearing and turning into that thing inside his head.
Where as he was hateful, on time, strict, uptight, and one ruthless shinobi, his counterpart was mysterious, late, lazy, actually enjoyed the crap that is porn, of course for the stupid uchiha of course.
He even adored the 'new' Jiraiya, as much to Kakashi's horror, he hated everything that his counter part was.
As for the last reason, well he hated anything odd, obscene, out of the normal. Exactly what Naruto was, unpredictable only scratched the surface of Naruto.
He hated that, not being able to predict what was to happen.
And once again he glared at the porn; he allowed the smallest amount of killing intent flow into his apartment.
A knock on his door alerted him back into his person; he walked to the door and unlocked it before opening.
He stared at the small blond boy who stood there, and he felt the need to glare.
But he didn't, he was a good ninja now.
"Oh hey" Naruto said "Well I was wondering if I could stay here for a day or two" he murmured quietly, and Kakashi understood, personally thinking the boy mocked him.
"Yeah" he said with a sigh and the boy walked in, Kakashi noticed a few cuts on the boy's arms and the small tear on his back, showing slowly healing gashes.
Kakashi sneered, already having heard of the Uchiha's unfortunate demise, and already knowing what had happened, he felt the normal annoying tug at the back of his mind, nice Kakashi had been more persistent recently.
He sneered at him full force, but then the boy turned around and grinned at him, before moving to the couch.
"Thanks" he said happily before curling up in a small ball and trying to sleep, Kakashi sneered at him yet again.
"Good night" he said, trying to keep his mask thing up.
The boy murmured something but was already falling asleep; Kakashi just went to his room and sat down reading his porn yet again.
Gods he hated that kid, it wasn't even because the kid was his teachers kid, no it was because of the god damned personality of the kid.
Naruto curled up as he laid there waiting for his teacher to move to his room, when he was younger and the mobs wrecked his apartment he went here, Iruka not being an options anymore at the moment, just a little bit longer he might be however.
He knew of his teachers problem, the constant fighting between his pure self, and his hateful self, it was unusual for normal people, but for Kakashi wasn't normal, excelling at a rapid rate, his hateful self took over, but his pure self wasn't a push over, and fought constantly.
He knew this because of an incident a long time ago when Kakashi had snapped after Gai's death, leaving to hide in his mindscape, allowing hateful Kakashi to pop out.
Naruto was almost murdered that day by said persona, near the end normal Kakashi had come out, finally realizing what had happened and saving Naruto from his hateful self. Ever since Obito's death it was like this, as his teacher had explained.
Turns out Naruto and Kakashi had something's in common, like a monster who resided inside their minds.
Something shuffled and he continued to pretend to be asleep, he didn't jump as a hand patted him the head, he didn't jump when a soothing feeling erupted his back, healing the remaining bits of the gash he had allowed to happen.
He knew that this point had pushed it, allowing pure Kakashi to come out, taking over for the most of it.
As for the gash, it had happened when the window had been hit by a rock while he was asleep; he almost jumped away from the incoming glass, but knew the importance of the wound.
He shifted yet again, and uncurled himself with a stretch and a yawn.
Naruto blinked as he was embraced by his teacher, he stilled carefully.
"I'm sorry" Kakashi murmured and squeezed Naruto as he let go of the brief contact.
"For what" Naruto said in serious puzzlement, Kakashi just continued to heal him.
They sat in silence, Kakashi had finished healing Naruto gashes, and they sat side by side.
Naruto yawned and decided to curl back into himself, trying to sleep finally. Kakashi got up and allowed Naruto more space, but didn't move far.
Naruto, before falling asleep heard his teacher whisper into the dark "I will protect you" It was far better than being told to rot in hell.
He in all honesty adored his teacher like a student should, his teacher was ruff around the edge's, but had a very pure heart, despite his past, which all of the hate and such was of course pulled onto hateful Kakashi's side, Naruto knew the other Kakashi was very jealous of normal Kakashi, and tried to hide him away, keeping him form the person he had wanted to protect.
He fell asleep, for a while at least, seeing as it was somewhere around 3 in the morning.
Naruto woke later at 8 o clock, rushing to get out the door, leaving a little note on Kakashi's fridge, saying thanks.
He wouldn't need to stay here anymore; his apartment was already fixed by the anbu, most likely sent by the third hokage.
He felt like he was being watched, but let it slide, he also knew who it was, Kakashi was watching him from the window.
He ran down the street, ignoring the angry gazes, the word had gotten out who the killer was, and they weren't happy about it, some had been very happy about the guess of him offing the uchiha, if only to see him die in some gruesome way.
He couldn't believe that he liked the one's who sneered more than the one's who ignored him. Now he much preferred the others, because while some ignored his very existence, others just walked by not really caring.
That was normal.
He saw a brunette walking advancing towards him angrily, he grinned a little.
"NARUTO" Sasuke screamed in a whisper, attempting not to get the attention of anyone else.
"Yes" the blond replied as he was roughly pushed towards the trees.
At first he couldn't help but laugh as the Uchiha attacked him blindly, attempting to get revenge fort he huge mob of touchy feely people who wanted to 'consol' him.
Naruto grinned at Sasuke knowingly, Sasuke glared as his tiny nostrils flared, Naruto lost it as he watched the not so intimidating Sasuke try to be intimidating.
"As if you can do better" Sasuke sneered and Naruto stopped laughing "Oh my dear Sasuke-kun, what has you so delusional" Naruto said and his eye's turned red, whiskers sharpening, and hair gaining a red tint, claws sharpening and teeth sharpening "I am the most feared child in Konoha after all" Naruto said and turned back "Right dearest brother" he questioned innocently.
He had also become influenced with Ibiki a lot during his stay there.
Sasuke blanked a little as he stared at his brother; he just twitched and walked away.
"Wait Sa-su-ke-kun!" Naruto drawled out.
Maybe he had hung out with Anko to much too…
Younger Naruto sat in his mind, carefully going through everything his older self had said.
The future wasn't a very pleasant place it seemed, being a ninja wasn't as great as it was in the books.
And yet he still yearned for such a life, the adventure and adrenaline rushes, he shivered at the thought of blood, that was part of the job though.
Naruto gulped as he once again tried to open the door.
"What monster could be so bad, and why is it IN my head" he wondered out loud.
He stopped and sat inside his little room, it held all of his good memories, much to his joy. In all honesty there were a lot, more than the bad one's. Most of them were simple things, like a person helping him, even threw their hate, or eating ramen. Talking to people, making friends, and even watching others do normal things like family outings.
He felt lonely, but he was happy no matter what, the bad memories would fade away in time, he was very grateful for that, as well as night time.
Nighttime his older self came to check up on him as usual, as well as sometimes during class time, he snickered at that.
Naruto decided to watch his good memories again, he hadn't even tried to look into his older self's memories yet, them being particularly hard to find.
He had found one, it shone like a small ash, but it glowed far brighter than the small very well hidden one's.
He ventures into it.
Naruto felt the probing in his mind, and then just decided to see what his younger self was going into, hoping it wasn't too bad.
He went into the room, and saw his younger self blushing, and saw Sakura confessing to him.
"Wow nii-san" Naruto felt the need to be shocked by the familiarity in that "I had no idea you had such a hottie" he seriously winced at the language, it had been so long since he had used such terms.
"Not mine" he replied bluntly and his younger self gaped "But how!" he yelled and Naruto heard an echo somehow.
"Yes she did confess to me, and her love was real" Naruto started and the younger's face flashed through confusion and then triumph "It wasn't the type you are thinking of" Naruto said.
"What" little Naruto said in confusion "There's other type's of love?" he asked his older counter part "Yes" Naruto said like a teacher "There's many types of love" Naruto looked at the memory fondly.
"The love she confessed is for a brother" Naruto said happily, his younger's face scrunched up "But… she thinks of you" Naruto began before his older interrupted "Us"
"Right, us" Naruto said "As a brother?"
"Yep" he felt his younger counter part grin happily "So… I got two people in my family, a brother AND a sister" he yelled.
A new memory showed up in the room, Naruto smiled at his counter part "Much better than the other type you were thinking of" he asked.
Little Naruto frowned "A little, but not by much" he said.
Naruto laughed and faded "I'll see you later" he saw his counter part smile sadly.
"Come back quickly" little Naruto said hopefully, Naruto nodded.
He had never seen such a face before on himself, so happy to have someone come back.
Naruto wondered if he had ever made a face like that, he thought not.
He woke back into the real world and looked at Iruka who was about to hit him with a book "I'll wait outside" he said a little bit too happily.
'Masochist' He thought in his mind, he heard a muffled yell.
"There is no need" Iruka said with a lot of patience and walked back to the front, Naruto sighed and went to his reading.
Sasuke watched this scene thoughtfully before frowning and tried to get Naruto's attention in a discrete way.
Naruto ignored his brother, whose eye was now twitching.
"Naruto" Sasuke chanced a small whisper; Iruka who had his back faced to the front wouldn't hear the shuffling, or Sasuke sitting down beside the blond boy.
The wonders of sitting far enough that no one could hear you too well.
"Why's Iruka ignoring you" Sasuke whispered into Naruto's ear "Because he's at the rebellious stage" Naruto whispered back and Sasuke glared. The intensity in which the boy glared it made a very funny scene to be honest.
"Because of the thing in my belly" he said finally to Sasuke.
"Oh" Sasuke said and looked at Iruka, and glared, he would have never thought that a few memories and feelings could have changed things so drastically.
He shifted his glance towards his would be teammate, her hair was short as usual, but this time it was adorned with a red ribbon, he stared at the little bow on top of the little girls head.
He felt a warmth inside of his stomach, he also felt he need to be possessive and protective of his teammate, to nurture her talents, making them grow faster.
He blanked at those thoughts and looked at Naruto and glared as hard as he could.
Naruto looked away innocently "I wasn't controlling you" he said innocently.
Sasuke didn't let up "Okay I was only projected a couple of my feelings onto you" Naruto said and Sasuke blinked in surprise.
Since when had the blond ever felt the need to be possessive towards Sakura?
He felt the same feeling but it was over a different person, himself.
He blanked even further than before.
Then he felt it again, but this time got the feeling of Kakashi, he moved to glare at Naruto before memories were pushed into his head and it went black.
Naruto watched his brother pass out from the new information, he waited for his own blood to kick in and wake his brother.
Sasuke did not disappoint, not more than two minutes later he had processed the information and woken up.
Sasuke gazed at Naruto, who in return looked at him calmly; Sasuke patted Naruto on the back before Iruka cleared his throat "Sasuke get back to work"
Sasuke did that, and Iruka still ignored Naruto. He stared impassively at the front, glancing at Naruto occasionally, and sometimes at Sakura, he thought about Naruto's feelings and realized that they had begun to bud into his own.
He wasn't afraid, being able to teach his teammate seemed to sound like fun, but at the moment he had to focus on being the best rookie, like Naruto had to focus on being the worst in this class, and for now they would leave Sakura alone.
When the lunch bell sounded Naruto walked out leisurely, Sasuke made sure to walk out something like that, but still wanting to be alone. Yet again his family had been murdered.
He watched Naruto try to make friends with some kids who were doing a fear challenge or whatever; he continued to watch as they made fun of him.
He lost it when they started to walk away from him, Naruto projected a feeling onto him and Sasuke understood it, in all reality Naruto just didn't care about those kids and their challenge, it was just about getting to Iruka, making that bond that Naruto yearned for.
Sasuke hoped it went well as he walked away and went to a small shop that sold sweets.
He had always had a bit of a sweet tooth.
Personally I think its going along great, though confusing. I dropped a few hints about the future they had come from, but I don't really feel like going into detail. Even if it doesn't then yeah, sorry the idea's come out so much better in my head… ah well I am trying; I mean this already feels long, I seriously bow to the majorly long fic authors! I have just made it too 5000 words, damn man. I hope I haven't made too many mistakes.
