N.Y.D.K Ch. 2
Naruto wasn't thinking; he was too mad. The entire incident with Sakura wasn't the cause of his anger though. He sat atop the First Hokage's head, pissed off that he couldn't sit on his favorite spot anymore. Mainly, because it didn't exist in this reality. He ran his hands through his own spiky hair, finding that it calmed him down quite a bit, when he noticed he was still wearing the white jacket with the flames he had taken from his "father."
Konoha's number one unpredictable knucklehead couldn't help but smirk; he only flinched a little when Minato appeared out of nowhere.
"Naruto…chan." Minato said rather weakly. Even he knew that the drop of the kun was quite an error.
"Minato-sama. Does Baa-ch, err, Tsunade-sama need me?" Naruto said impassively as he looked out at the village.
"No." Minato said, for once finding himself without words. He found himself rubbing the back of his sheepishly as he looked over to see Naruto looking over at a tree to avoid meeting Minato's gaze. Then he heard the sob.
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Sakura-kun has no idea. Damn, I already threw in Kun. Just… focus on balancing the nature Chakra Naruto. Focus on the life, the harmony, the…aw screw it. Throwing his hands up in the rather infamous cross, Naruto didn't even bother trying to portion his chakra and probably poured in enough for at least a dozen clones.
"So…it's come to this again boss?"
"I'm afraid it has. The kyuubi is asleep, or ignoring me again, and he was never much of a talker anyway."
"Yeah, and talking like this almost makes it feel like we're not weirdoes talking to ourselves."
"You don't have to mention it ass.
The clone rubbed the back of his head with a cheeky smile.
"The easy things first. We're forgiving Sakura-kun."
"Yes, obviously. But you know as well as me that this doesn't mean we'll be forgetting anytime soon."
"It goes without saying. What about Madara?"
"We'll have to wait for him to make his next move. I stole a mission report from Tsunade's tent. Apparently, at some point, Uchiha Itachi confronted and even ran off Madara. The Akatsuki are a mercenary team in this reality, so getting into contact with them won't be too difficult."
"I guess C-ranks will have to entertain us for now." The clone said, finding it funny that matters concerning Madara were easier to talk about than the subject that Naruto himself didn't want to bring up. The clone was an exact copy of Naruto, with not nearly enough time in existence to have any different experiences to even think differently. Yet, on some deeper level, he acknowledged his existence as a tool for Naruto, and even though this tool was almost exclusively used for combat in the ninja world, surveillance included, Naruto had gone off and made it a way to personally cope with his debilitating moments of loneliness and accidently ended up creating a self therapeutic process for himself. The clone's basic instinct to serve "the boss" kicked in despite his extreme reluctance.
"What are we going to do about… "them."
"Ignore their existence until a mission forces us to cooperate with them."
"That's rather harsh bo-…"
Naruto sat in silence as the ninja smoke disappeared. The clone's memories began to swarm him, ending with the final thought, "Bullshit and you know it."
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Minato heard the sob. He was shocked to see Naruto turn to face him, eye lids orange as tears ran down his cheeks.
"Pervy-sensei always told me I got that from you." Naruto said, wiping the snot from his nose as he seemed to stare directly in Minato's soul.
"That's right. You mastered Sage-Mode. You "saw" me do that eh? Besides your Mother's looks, I'm sorry to say I wasn't around to give you anything N-Naruto." Minato said, not quite certain if Naruto would let him touch him, so much as hug him.
"That's not true… The Yondaime, err, you, in the real world, he, his last wish was for "my sacrifice" to be acknowledged by all and that the village hailed me as their Hero. It didn't work. At all, but Jiji made sure I grew up to be a ninja, because of that promise. I also have the Rasengan from you. And the rasen-shuriken by extension."
Minato looked on in wonder as a sense of pride seemed to crawl into Naruto's eyes once more.
"That's…no substitute for a childhood. Naruto…-chan. I… you…"
Naruto looked on as Minato was suddenly the one unable to make eye contact, and he chose to look out over the village.
"You don't have to say it." Naruto said gruffly, also looking out at the village.
Minato managed a weak grin.
"Kushina-kun would kill me if I told her I didn't tell you she wants you back home."
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Well, there we go, CH. 2! Not much of an achievement, but since it's been a few months since this came out XD With the huge fandom of Naruto, I know that this won't be popping up anytime soon. So maybe around 60K words this thing will take off. So yeah, we all knew that Kushina would still want to see her son, Alternate reality or not.