I OWN NEITHER NARUTO NOR ARROW, I DO OWN THIS STORY AND ANY CHARACTERS I CREATE.
Well here is the second Chapter in my Arrow and Naruto Crossover, I hope you like it.
Even though I said it is a Naruto and Hinata pairing it will start out as Naruto and Shado for a bit so bare with it please
Chapter 2: Found among the Rubble
The Hooded Man's Identity
"Welcome back" The Hooded man said to Naruto as he saw a smirking Slade and Shado who had a sympathetic smile on her face, the last clue stated that the last person back would play a punishment game.
"Shit." Naruto says tossing down his pack, on his travels he needed to find resources for building his own weapons. "By how much?" he asks.
"Slade returned 9 hours ago, Shado...30 minutes" he says and Naruto sighs, "The game is a simple game of roulette" he says pulling out two Kendo sticks.
_3 Years later (5 years into their training)_
"Relax your arm more" Shado says helping Naruto aim, in the background Slade and The Hooded man practise with duel Katana. Shado leans in further pressing her front against Naruto's back just about resting her head on his shoulder "And...Release" she says and Naruto fires the Arrow which barely hits the target.
"I'm hopeless at this" He sighs and she smiles spinning him around "Why can't you just be my back up?" he asks and she laughs at his pouty face, recently the two had become very close to one another.
"Because if I was staring at your back all day...I wouldn't be able to concentrate myself" she smirks and he grins. "The bow is the strategist's weapon" she says going into detail on the importance of being a Marksman.
"Who taught you all this?" Naruto asks flopping down onto the grass, she sits across from him "I mean you are scary accurate" he adds and she smiles sadly.
"My father trained me...before he died" she says looking at her feet "He taught him too" she says indicating the Hooded man, "When father found him wandering a forest, he was hopeless at fighting period" she explains and Naruto nods but is slightly surprised.
"Man your dad sounds awesome, you clearly love him" Naruto says, hearing this made him wonder who his father was, and his mother, are they dead or was it a cover.
Shado smiles "Yes I loved him dearly" she says, "You never knew your parents right?" she asks and he nods "I wonder if your birth certificate would say" she says scratching her chin.
"Maybe, not like they'd be easy to get too" Naruto says "The ANBU patrolling for intruders, hundreds of Shinobi and a scary old bat would stand between the files and us" he says laying back.
"Sounds like fun" Shado smiles in a mischief way and Naruto sighs, "Count me in" Slade says joining the conversation. "This will make an excellent test" The Hooded man says "If you can get the documents without being detected then it will be solid proof you are ready" he says and the three nod.
The Leaf
Sasuke sat in his room, a long day of training by himself had left him feeling drained, though he'd rather train with someone that option was still off the table, though they moved on from grief for Naruto's death, they still held a grudge against him for causing it, only Kakashi trained with him...
Other than Kakashi, only Sakura had spoken to him during the past 5 years, mainly about missions Tsunade had assigned him, which where joke missions since he was a Genin, however today she was finally ready to talk about Naruto. She arrived at the Uchiha's apartment with the Uchiha symbol on the door; she knocks three times like a code so Sasuke will open it for her.
"What's up?" he asks going to his fridge, clearly he hasn't been shopping yet as the lack of food in his fridge. During his punishment he became more approachable, despite the lack of visitors.
"I have been wondering something...the day you left and Naruto and the guys went after you" Sakura begins and Sasuke sits down to listen closely for the question "What happened?" she asks and sighs.
"Ever since my brother killed our clan I haven't got what you'd call a good night's sleep" Sasuke states as he reaches for the sealed mark on his neck subconsciously "When Orochimaru gave me this curse mark I felt closer to my goal than all the time I spent in the Academy and on missions combined" he explains "That snake dangled Itachi in front of me and I jumped" he says with a Glare to the floor.
"And Naruto...what happened to him?" she asks with a bit of hesitation seeing the saddened expression on his face at the mention of his name.
"Naruto caught up to me...and we started fighting, I saw in Naruto, what everyone hated, he used it to try and stop me" Sasuke says confusing her "People hate me for killing Naruto, I accept that, but calling him a friend without understanding him...is an insult" he pauses "He and I were the same in many ways, but where it counted, he was the best of us" he sighs "When the fight ended and Kakashi showed up... I was barely conscious, so I don't know what happened after, only smoke and a bright burst of light" he finishes.
"Back then I never understood either of you, I thought of you as this genius Shinobi who was the Mysterious loner type who always needed to be somewhere important" she says "And Naruto was a loud cocky loser with no skill or intelligence...and to some extent he was a loud mouth idiot with more pride than sense" she smiles slightly "And I learned you didn't care about anything but revenge, you'd leave us all to die if it helped you succeed" she says glaring at him "Being in a team was an inconvenience for you, and you were a bitter jerk, and Naruto had his pride, but you were arrogant and egotistical, your superiority complex drove you to Orochimaru more than that Curse mark did, and Naruto stopped you" she says and he stands up and faces her, she stands back at the sight of his Sharingan, she was well aware that despite being stuck at Genin there wasn't many Shinobi who could beat Sasuke and sadly she wasn't one of them.
"You think I don't know that?" he asks as his Sharingan retract "I've lived with his death for 5 years and will continue too until I die" he continues "Now...if there is nothing else?" he asks and she exhales.
"Lady Tsunade wanted to see you" she says "Come on" she indicates for him to follow and he nods, they walk in silence through the busy street of the village, Sakura could tell the girls all admired Sasuke, and she couldn't help but notice how handsome he has become, at 18 years of age he outgrown all of the innocent baby features he had when they first became a team, he had matured into the man she walked beside today but it meant nothing compared to what he caused. They arrive at the Hokage's office where Kakashi and all of their year and Team Guy were in the room, as soon as all eyes were on the two the tension was clear.
"Good now that you are all here" Tsunade says "As you know I had Kakashi join ANBU to track and learn everything he could about the Akatsuki" she begins "Sadly Kakashi was unable to find much other than the number of Jinjuriki they have...which is 3" she looks down.
"Yeah...and we know whose fault it is they have three" Kiba says looking at Sasuke with distain, "I mean why he is even here?" he asks and Tsunade nods to the young Uchiha.
Sasuke walks up to the desk and pulls out a scroll and reveals the content to be a map of the five nations with red X's and black circles marked over them "The X's represent the Akatsuki Bases I've cleared, the circles are one's I've yet to investigate" he states suprising them all.
"Wait why would a Genin be assigned to such a mission?" Kiba growls at Sasuke smirk, in truth Sasuke understood their hate towards him but he has long out grown their belief in being stronger than him.
"I double promoted Sasuke to Jonin 4 years ago" Tsunade says "Kakashi was unable to get a lead since he couldn't find anything on Itachi" she says "So I had him secretly train Sasuke while his Chakra was sealed and when his sentence was carried out, I promoted him to Jonin and assigned him this mission" she explains.
"But how did he uncover a lead to follow?" Neji asks, unlike the others Neji wasn't angry at Sasuke, in fact he understood Sasuke's decision to defect. "Kakashi has much more experience when it comes to tracking" he points out.
"It's an embarrassing revelation actually" the Copy-Nin says scratching the back of his head "I went out and searched all over the nation looking for signs of the Akatsuki but with nothing to use as a baseline I never knew what to look out for" he adds and all eyes turn to Sasuke.
With a smirk "Not too long after the Sound and Sand attacked I learned from Kurenai and Asuma that Itachi and his partner Kisame infiltrated the Village with the goal of kidnapping Naruto, however he and Jiraiya were already out looking for Tsunade" he begins, none are surprised at his lack of respect for the Hokage and teachers, calling them their names and not titles. "Now the Village is protected by a special sensory barrier which can detect Dangerous Chakra and alert the watch towers stationed at the borders... Now, I discovered that Itachi was able to get himself and Kisame into the Village because he knew the password which allowed him to enter without detection" he pauses.
"I... guess he used his Sharingan on a guard to get the password" Hinata speaks up but Sasuke shakes his head.
"The records show that the Password hadn't been changed since Itachi's days in ANBU...and all ANBU know the password, because of their covert missions sending them out and bring dangerous elements back" Sasuke says "Anyway...once I looked around the village I uncovered an Akatsuki spy posing as a shop keeper" he continues "once I got the information and handed the man to Tsunade I began tracing around the Land of Fire and uncovered their bases, most had been abandoned...since there are no Tailed beasts in this Nation" he looks down for a moment but only Sakura catches the slight faltering in Sasuke arrogant stance. "I did as much as I could in the other lands but I only learned their next move recently" he states "Their aim is for the One Tail...Gaara" he finishes.
"You're sure?" Tsunade asks and Sasuke nods "Well done" she says and Sasuke turns to leave "Hold on" she says and he looks over his shoulder "Team Gai, Asuma and Kurenai...I want you each to take a portion of this map and search the nearest Akatsuki base" she says "Maybe we can find information solid enough to bring the other Kage in on this with hunt" she says and they nod tearing the map into three pieces. "Team Kakashi" she says getting Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi's attention "I will be sending the three of you to Suna with a message warning The Kazekage of the danger" she says and they nod.
_Outside_
"Hold on Uchiha" Kiba says grabbing Sasukes shoulder and halting him, the elder Jonin had gone a different way, and Sakura returned home to prepare, leaving the rest alone, "I don't like the fact that despite all you did, the death you caused...you're still getting special treatment" he states and Sasuke forcibly moves Kiba's hand.
"You are under the false preconception that I owe you all something, me and Naruto had something in common...bitter loneliness" Sasuke begins "Mine was caused by the deaths of my parents and the mass genocide of my clan" he says "Naruto's, was caused by your clans, the other Shinobi and the Villagers" he glares "Not one of you considered him anything more than a nuisance until he became a Shinobi like you" he states "And because I was so...broken I never tried to understand him until we were forcibly teamed together, he and I...are similar, yet different in many ways" he smirks "He wanted to be accepted by you guys as a friend a comrade, I couldn't care less what most of you think" he says
"Most...not all" Tenten says and Sasuke glances
"I owe it the Naruto, Kakashi and Sakura to see the Akatsuki brought down" Sasuke says and they glance at each other "If you valued Naruto's life then Help me bring them down...or stay out of my way" he finishes turning around, the last part was a clear threat.
Two days later 4 hours before dawn
ANBU patrolled the Hokage Tower, despite their presence the Building was still silent, three figures appear on the roof, two dressed in Goodies coloured Orange and Green, the other a heavily armoured body suit with his swords drawn and face covered with a Black and Yellow mask.
"Why can't we knock these guys out?" Slade asks as Naruto draws his bow, "If anything one or two will just assume to have dosed off while on patrol" he explains.
"That's not how ANBU operate, anything suspicions and the whole village will be on lock down" Naruto says pulling out a thick shafted Arrow from his quiver "But...there is no way we will get into the Office without a distraction" he says firing the arrow and hitting the balcony of his old apartment, he pulls out a trigger "Time for the final exclamation point on putting on my old life" he says "It will buys us three minutes at most before the pan out in search of the culprit" Naruto says pressing the button and watching an explosion engulf his old home...it felt oddly satisfying.
As soon as the explosion happened many of the ANBU in the tower dispersed to investigate and the three quickly scaled down the tower to the window before picking the cover open "I'll keep guard" Slade says and Shado and Naruto enter and begin to search through the file cabinet.
"Why would your birth certificate be here, and not at the Hospital?" Shado asks as she digs through a lot of files which could destroy the Leaf if they were seen by true enemies.
" I was born on the day when the Nine Tails attacked, many people died, including my parents...as a result many files where sealed away as classified" Naruto says, he never understood why a child's Birth cert would be considered dangerous but tonight he would find out..."Here!" Naruto says pulling out the folder labelled with his birth date...which happened to be today's date.
"I didn't know it was your birthday today" Shado says with a soft tone "Why didn't mention it?" she asks
"I've never really celebrated my birthday" Naruto shrugs "In any case time to find out" he pauses when Slade clears his throat.
"Guy's, The Hokage it on her way to the tower" Slade says and Naruto hops out of the window, followed by Shado, Naruto passes her the entire folder.
"Leave no trail to follow" Naruto says shooting another arrow into the roof of the office, "Time to go" he says waiting for the opportune moment, which came at the turn of the door knob, he presses the button and a smaller explosion brings down the roof and disperses a smokescreen.
"I knew it!" Naruto hears Tsunade yell as the three disappear back up to the top of the tower and out the way they came in.
_ 10 minutes later_
Kakashi, Kiba and Akamaru arrived per Tsunade's Orders "Everything has been accounted for...except one folder" she says "It belonged to the classified files on the events of the Nine Tails attack 18 years ago" she says.
"Why take that, when there are more important files in this office" Kiba wonders and Akamaru barks which must mean he shared his partner's opinion.
"There was an arrow in the roof of the office" Tsunade glances at Kakashi whose eyes widen, "I'm starting to think The Akatsuki weren't involved in Naruto's abduction...or at least not indirectly" she says, in truth she couldn't blame Kakashi for jumping to the conclusion they were involved considering the target of the abduction "This is connected to that day 5 years ago" she says
"So maybe if there is a trail, we can find Naruto, or who ever took him?" Kiba asks stepping forward and Tsunade nods "I don't smell any unique fresh scents" he says
"That must have been what the fog was for" Tsunade says biting her thumb "And the ANBU have been scouting the forest for abnormalities...whoever these guys are, they are pros" she says "Still there has to be a scent somewhere on their path" she says "So I'm pulling Team Kurenai off their current mission and giving you this one" she begins "You will hunt down these intruders and bring them back to the village alive by any means" she says "Kurenai already knows" she adds and Kiba nods "Kakashi, loan them your Ninja Hounds, their extra noses will come in handy" she adds and Kakashi nods
_The Cave_
Once they returned to the cave, after making sure to leave many false trails for Ninja Hounds to follow, Naruto and Shado being looking through the files while Slade trains by himself. "A lot happened that night" Shado says.
"No action worth bringing me along for" Slade mumbles as the Hooded man watches them from his work table, "I mean how are we supposed to test ourselves if stealth is the only option?" he asks and Naruto clears his throat.
"Many hidden Villages will be like the Leaf, anything out of the ordinary and no amount of training will get you out" Naruto says "Besides, the Leaf is my home, I never intended to force my way into the office" he adds as he finds a small folder with his name on it. The contents where allergy tests, blood tests and overall health tests from the Hospital and "This is it" he says with enthusiasm, is eyes scroll down to the signatures but there is only an X on the lines where is parents would have signed, their isn't even a printed version of their names on the form "What the hell" he growls "It doesn't say" he says scrunching the paper up "What the hell! Why won't the universe let me know who they were?" he asks and on a reflex Shado grabs him into a hug.
"Naruto, I'm sorry" she says and his eyes a bloodshot slightly from almost crying in frustration , the Hooded man walks over the small pile and read's TOP SECRET which causes him to smirk under his mask.
"The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze... is your father" The Hooded man says getting all three pupils attention, "And your mother is a spirited woman named Kushina Uzumaki" he adds facing them.
"H-How could you know this...who are you!?" Naruto demands and the hooded man lower's his hood showing his black hair in a pony tail
"You know me Naruto" he says removing his mask and Naruto's eyes widen with shock
"I-Itachi"
The End
Dun Duuun Duuuuuuuun
Anyway I hope you liked the chapter, I started writing it after re-watching the Arrow series
Stay tuned for more
Till Next Time
~DoTheBartMan