AN: Only the other Narutos and original jutsus belong to me. Everything else belongs to Masashi Kishimoto
"That Zabuza-jiji just had to get his ass kicked. Oh well." Nagisa whispered back to his friend.
He then looked at our heroes and grinned,
"See you next time." Nagisa said.
He and his friend then disappeared out of sight, just before Kakashi ran up to his students
"So you guys are okay after all, that's good." Kakashi said relieved.
"You won't believe this Kakashi-sensei. Apparently one of those guys is named Momoichi Nagisa and yet he looks exactly like Naruto-kun." Sakura told her sensei.
"Are you guys sure it wasn't a genjutsu or henge or a shadow clone?" Kakashi asked, not buying the claim.
"Trust us Kakashi, we checked for everything. My Sharingan didn't detect anything at all." Sasuke answered.
"Not only that but I was able to know everything about him, as if I was reading his mind or something." Naruto said.
"He knew everything about you Nagisa-kun?" Haku asked as she was administering first aid to Zabuza
"Yeah he did and what's even funnier is that I knew everything about him even though I never met him. I'm telling you Haku-chan, it was weird." The blonde said.
"So, what are you going to do about it?" The girl asked.
"I'm going to kill him, that's what I'm gonna do." Nagisa said as he answered Haku's question."
'Momoichi Nagisa…the next time we meet, I will get some answers.' Naruto thought as he and his team continued on their way to Wave Country, with more trouble than they had ever expected.
Namikaze Brothers
Chapter 2: Revelations
Zabuza was resting in a bed in a huge hut-looking house with Haku looking after him and Nagisa slumped on a chair when suddenly, Gatou and two samurai bodyguards named Waraji and Zouri entered the place.
"Ke, it looks like even you have come back defeated, and I thought Mist ninja were supposed to be the best. You couldn't even defeat one men and you call yourself the devil of the hidden mist." Gatou gloated as he walked toward Zabuza.
"Come on, Zabuza. No need to stay silent." Gatou said as he reached his hand for Zabuza only for his hand to be gripped by Haku, who glared at him.
"Don't you dare touch him!" Haku growled at the businessman.
"Why you stupid bitch!" Both bodyguards growled and were about to attack her with their swords when suddenly, Nagisa was right in front of them with his oversized katana around both their necks before they could even register it.
"I suggest you never call Haku-chan that word again or I will cut you to a number of pieces humanely impossible, and why don't you guys just leave us anyway? It's not like Zabuza-san wants to talk to you anyway." Nagisa glared at Gatou and his men.
"Okay, you win this time but I'm giving only one more chance! If you fail me again, then you can kiss your paycheck good-bye!" Gatou said as he nursed his wrist and he and his bodyguards left the room.
"You two didn't have to do that." Zabuza said as he had a kunai hidden underneath his covers.
"Yeah but we wanted to scare the shit out of them, not kill him and besides, it's more fun that way." Nagisa grinned.
"Also, we can't kill him now or else we would be on the run, again." Haku said sadly.
"Yeah, you guys are right" Zabuza said and closed his eyes to rest some more
"A piece of paper?" Sasuke said skeptically.
Team 7 and their sensei were in the woods near Tazuna's house. Kakashi had decided to train his team after their encounter with Zabuza and his partners.
"It's not just a piece of paper Sasuke. By putting chakra into it, you can find out your elemental chakra depending on different effects your chakra causes on the paper." Naruto explained to the raven-haired boy
"Different effects?" Sasuke asked.
"If your chakra is fire then it will burn. If it is water then it will be wet, if it is wind then it will split, if it is earth then it will crumble and if it is lighting then it will crumple." The blonde further explained.
'Naruto-kun is so smart.' Sakura thought.
"That is correct Naruto, and this test is essential in helping you get stronger and you will need to be for this mission." Kakashi explained.
'Nagisa.' Naruto thought as he remembered the Mist shinobi who looked exactly like him.
"So who wants to go first?" Kakashi asked.
"I will." Sasuke said with a smirk.
He then walked up to Kakashi and put his hand on the paper. Then the paper crumpled and then burned up.
"I thought it was supposed to only have one effect?" Sakura asked.
"It's because Sasuke's chakra type is both fire and lightning meaning he has two." The silver-haired jounin answered.
"Cool." Sasuke said with a grin.
"I'll go next sensei." Sakura said in a chirpy voice.
She then repeated the same process as Sasuke and the paper turned into dust
"So that means you have earth type chakra, Sakura-chan." Naruto told her.
"You're last Naruto." Kakashi told the blonde.
Naruto sighed and then repeated the process that his teammates did. Unlike the other two, his paper split in two.
"Hmm wind chakra, just like my father." Naruto said with a shrug
"What I want you guys to do next is start learning how to manipulate your element in order new jutsus, okay?" Kakashi instructed them.
"Yes sir." His genins replied.
(2 hours later)
Naruto had fallen asleep after extensive training but when he woke up, he found himself in some sort of sewer location.
"Where the hell am I?" Naruto asked as he looked around.
"You are in my dwelling, young one." A booming voice said
Naruto turned around and saw a large fox inside of a cage with a seal on it.
"K…Kyuubi?" Naruto stammered.
When he was younger, his father had told him that he was the container of the Kyuubi bijuu but it was the first time that Naruto had met the demon.
"Well not exactly. It's more like I'm only a part of the Kyuubi." The fox said.
"I don't understand, what do you mean you're only a part of the Kyuubi?" Naruto asked.
"It is exactly what it means. When your Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, sealed the Kyuubi the original into you, something unexpected happened that caused the Kyuubi to split into nine tails and also caused your psyche to split into nine." The fox explained.
"And then each of my psyches and each of the tails fused into each other and flew into different locations. That must explain what's going on with Nagisa." Naruto analyzed.
Exactly. Thus there are nine of you in total and each have a tail of the Kyuubi, with I being the first tail of the Kyuubi. You on the other hand are the root." Ichi Kyuubi said.
"The root?" Naruto repeated in confusion.
"Yes, it means that you are the root psyche and if one of your other dies then they return to you. However if you were to die, then all of them would die as well." Ichi explained.
"I see. Thank you Ichi Kyuubi." Naruto said as he now understood what being the root meant.
"No problem. Oh before I let you go, can you do me a favor?" Ichi asked
"Sure." Naruto said nonchalantly.
"Can you transform my cage into a library? You may not know but I love to read and can you also give me a human form." Ichi said.
"I can do that? And since when would someone like you love to read?" Naruto asked confused.
"Yes, all you have to do is imagine it and it will come true." The one-tail of the Kyuubi said, answering the first question before blushing as he answered the second question, "I'm kind of the nerd of all the tails.
Naruto nodded and closed his eyes. He then imagine a library and a silver-haired version of his father and when he opened his eyes, those two exact images came to life as Ichi's cage turned into a library and he now looked exactly like his father except with silver-hair.
"Woah, cool." Naruto said.
"Thank you very much Naruto." Ichi Kyuubi said.
With that, Naruto was gone from the mindscape.
A girl with long black hair, black eyes and wearing a pink yukata was walking around with a brown basket in her left arm. She stumbled upon our blonde hero and bend down to look at him,
'It's as Nagisa-kun told me, they looked almost alike.' The girl thought.
She then moved her right hand toward the sleeping boy's neck when the said boy suddenly disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"What were you trying to do to my clone?" Naruto asked as he stepped out from behind a tree.
"I…I…" The girl said stammering as she tried to come up with good answer.
"You're that girl that helped Nagisa aren't you?" Naruto asked with a glare.
He then gasped as he felt a sword near his neck.
"Don't move another inch." A voice told him from behind.
"Nagisa…" Naruto whispered as he recognized the culprit's voice.
"Ni Kyuubi told me everything on how I' m really just a part of you and that if you die then we all die." Nagisa said
"Ichi Kyuubi told me the same thing but listen Nagisa…" Naruto said but then was interrupted by Nagisa
"NO YOU LISTEN NARUTO!" Nagisa roared in anger. He then calmed down and resumed, "I'm not just some damn psyche of yours I am my own person! Everything I've done is real so I don't care if I am part of you, my name is Momoichi Nagisa of the Mist, not Namikaze Naruto!" Nagisa said with a mixture of anger and sadness
"I understand that Nagisa. In fact I could care less if you are a part of my psyche. However you live is none of my concern and the fact that there exists others like myself is pretty cool to be honest." Naruto said, finishing off with a grin.
"So you're not going to try to kill me so you can have me back?" Nagisa asked, a bit shocked at the turn of events.
"Nope. However there is one thing I want you to do." Naruto said.
"What is it?" Nagisa asked.
"I want you and your friends to forget about killing Tazuna-san." Naruto told his other self.
"We can't do that Naruto-san!" Haku replied
"She's right, we can't." Nagisa said in agreement.
"Why not? You know that this won't end well." Naruto asked
"We won't because of Zabuza-sama. As long as he wants to continue this mission, then we will as well." Haku said with her head down.
"Besides he's the person that saved us from death and loneliness. You can't just betray someone like that." Nagisa added on.
"Then tell him to stop! I'll even ask my dad to give you guys amnesty in our village!" Naruto cried out, pleading with them.
The two were shocked that their opponent would be so kind to them but they knew where their hearts belonged
"Sorry Naruto but next time we meet, we will be enemies once more." Nagisa said with a smirk.
He and Haku then left using shushin no jutsu, leaving Naruto alone in the clearing.
Later that night, our heroes were eating at the dinner table. Naruto was still a bit down after what had happened with Nagisa in the clearing earlier and Sakura saw it on his face,
"What's wrong Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked.
Naruto snapped out of his reverie upon hearing the girl's voice and grinned at her,
"It's nothing Sakura-chan. I'm a bit exhausted from all of this training." Naruto lied to her.
Before Sakura could even say anything, a loud noise was heard as Inari, the son of Tsunami and grandson of Tazuna, slammed his hands on the table.
"Why? Why do you try so hard? It won't matter since you're going to die in the end!" Inari yelled at them.
"We're all human so we're all going to die eventually. However, using that as an excuse to run away is pathetic." Naruto said coldly, sending a chill down Inari's spine.
"Besides, all I see you do is sulk, cry and whine. Yeah, you dad died so what? My whole clan aside from my uncle was slaughtered by my older brother when I was your age and yet unlike you, I decided to do something instead of sulking and act like an angry brat." Sasuke growled at him.
Inari trembled and ended up crying so more before going upstairs.
"Naruto-kun, Sasuke. Even if you guys were right, you didn't have to act so mean to him. He's still a little boy." Sakura said.
"Sorry Sakura-chan but he needs to face reality, to understand that not doing anything is worse than doing something. And also by him yelling at us and acting like that, he's disrespecting his father's memories." Naruto explained.
Naruto then sighed and grinned,
"Then again, maybe I was a bit too excessive and need to apologize." Naruto said.
"You can go ahead and do that but I'm not." Sasuke said.
Later on, Naruto went upstairs and opened Inari and saw the young boy look at the picture of his father. He then entered the youth's room
"Hey Inari, do you mind if I come in for a sec?" Naruto asked
"What do you want? You're probably going to yell at me some more." Inari mumbled.
"Actually I wanted to apologize for what I said earlier. Even if I was right, I shouldn't have acted like that against you. I'm sorry." Naruto said.
"I'm the one who needs to apologize. My father was strong enough and sacrificed himself for the village that he loved and yet all I'm doing is being mad at everyone instead of trying to help. My father would be mad at me." Inari said solemnly as he stared at his father's picture.
"I see. It seems you are maturing faster than I thought." The Yondaime's son said with a smirk.
"I guess all I needed was a wake-up call." Inari smiled weakly.
"Well then I'll be heading out. Going to guard your grandfather while he goes to the bridge tomorrow." Naruto said and began to walk away,
"Hey Naruto." Inari called out.
"What is it Inari?" Naruto asked as he turned back to look at the boy.
"Good luck." The boy said with a wide grin.
"Thanks Inari." Naruto replied with a smile.
The next day, Kakashi and Team 7 arrived at the bridge, only to gasp in shock as Tazuna's workers were lying on the ground.
"What happened here?" Tazuna asked around.
"Those guys were monsters..." One of the workers who were laying on the ground said.
"'It can't be…' Kakashi thought, just before a thick mist appeared to cover the bridge.
"They're coming!" He yelled, and then an evil and familiar laugh echoed through the mist.
"I see you still have those brats with you Kakashi. It's too bad." Zabuza said through the mist.
Then suddenly, multiple clones of Zabuza surrounded the genins and Tazuna.
"Let's do it guys." Sasuke said with his kunai in his hand
His teammates smirked and then in a flash, they cut down all the Zabuzas, who all turn into water.
"So these brats were able to cut down my water clones easily huh? It looks like you might have rivals, Haku, Nagisa." Zabuza said as he and his comrades stepped out of the mist.
"So Zabuza, how about we leave the kids here and fight somewhere else?" Kakashi asked.
"Sure though it won't matter since all of you are going to die." Zabuza answered with.
He and Kakashi then disappeared deeper into the mist, leaving Haku and Nagisa to handle the rest of Team 7.
"I'll handle Nagisa while you and Sakura handle Haku." Naruto told his friends.
"Just be careful, that guy is strong. I can feel it." Sasuke warned his friend.
"I will." Naruto said.
The trio then split off to face their opponents.
"Haku, move as far away from here. I'm going all out." Nagisa said with a smirk.
"Understood and Nagisa-kun, be careful." Haku told the boy in worried tone
She then moved away, followed by Sasuke and Sakura. Naruto then creates a clone of himself
"Protect the old man while I fight okay?" The blonde told his clone
"No problem sir." The clone nodded as he then went to protect Tazuna from any attack.
"So Naruto, let's get started huh?" Nagisa suggested as he took out his sword
"Do we have to do this?" Naruto asked.
"Of course we do bro." Nagisa said with a smirk.
Naruto smirked back and went into his fighting stance,
"Then so be it but know this; I won't hold back!" Naruto said with a determined look on his face.
"And neither will I bro." Nagisa also said.
To be continued…
AN: As always, read and review