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Chapter 2: The Past is Now.
She woke up to people talking loudly. Her back was on what felt like rough ground, and she groaned as she looked to the side only to find lifeless blue eyes.
A pair of blue eyes she knew well staring back at her. She blinked, wondering what... and then it came back to her.
Naruto felt as if she'd been ripped apart and than put back together, molecule by molecule. She didn't feel right though, she felt... different.
"What...Kushina..."
She only heard a few of the words before she felt something sharp dig into her back, and she yelped as a warn, yet cooling, hand gripped her arm and pulled her to the side as if swinging her around.
She didn't stop the movement, though she could have. Instead felt the smaller hand release her as a larger hand grabbed her other arm to pull her out of the way of what she realized now was a large claw which had skewered two familiar people.
A second claw had tried to do the same with her. Kyūbi (who she was just now noticing) had wiggled a second claw into some freedom, and tried to skewer her with it. he would have succeeded had the man not yanked her away just in time.
"Wh-who are you, how did you get...here?"
The words the man spoke were slow, not hesitant, but she wouldn't expect less from someone who'd been injured so badly. Blood leaked from his mouth, and the beautiful redhead in front of him was in the same predicament.
She knew who they were instantly, and her head pounded as she tried to find the words to tell them. While she did she realized the seal had worked, and she was alive.
Though she hadn't expected to arrive the same day the Kyūbi was sealed inside her infant self. Looking over she saw her self on the alter-like platform, crying almost silently.
Before her was Namikaze Minato and Namikaze-Uzumaki Kushina. Her parents, and she felt tears fill her eyes.
"I...I'm Naruto," she said in such a soft voice she thought they wouldn't hear it, but their widened eyes told her they did.
"That's..not possible. Naru-chan is just a baby, and her eyes aren't black," Kushina gasped out, and Naruto looked down sadly.
She knew they were suspicious, it wasn't something easy to believe and they didn't have much time left. Looking down she realized she didn't look the same as before. Instead of an average height adult woman she was a shorter, around 5'0, and a teenager.
At first glance she looked the same as she had when she was fourteen.
She only knew of one way to prove who she was, so she lifted her shirt to around her ribcage, and revealed the Shiki Fūjin on her stomach. Both of her parents gasped, and their eyes softened.
They both knew there was no faking that seal, and only they knew how to do it, though it was possible the Sandaime was learning, if he had not already learned how to do it.
"Naruto...but how?" Minato asked, coughing up blood.
"I don't think there is time to explain it all, but to put it simply I used a space-time seal which sent me back in time. I don't know if the Sandaime has shown you his and Jiraiya's project. The future...it's not what..it's not peaceful."
Those were the only words she could find to describe it, especially with her body aching, the blood she felt dribbling down her back from where the Kyūbi's claw had dug in, and her head pounding.
Apparently being sent back in time hurt, a lot, and it had also taken years off from her age – why she had no idea, she chalked it up to consequences of the seal.
"I see," Minato said, sadly. "I wish we had the time to talk, Naruto, but... we don't."
"I'm happy that we got to see you grown up before we.." Kushina couldn't finished her words because of the blood she was forced to cough up.
Naruto watched, tears falling down her cheeks as her parents turned to her baby self and began talking. She suspected it was the words they'd said to her in the original timeline.
She was watching her parents final moments and was unable to change anything. It hit her hard.
Falling onto her knees, the strength she had to keep her standing giving out, she felt her tears subside. Her parents looked at her in concern and pride. and she realized with a heavy heart they were proud of her.
She'd only felt this kind of emotion, the kind of happiness that came from having someone be proud of them, someone such as family, a few times.
"Nar..Naruto," Kushina got out, more trying to hold onto every bit of life force she had left. "Take care of yourself, and your younger self as well. We know you'll make sure she has a happy childhood, something we feared she might not have being a jinchūriki."
Minato smiled, nodding.
"Listen to your mother, Naru," he said, and turning back he narrowed his eyes.
"Seal," he said.
Naruto watched as the Kyūbi disappeared, and the seal seemed to glow on her younger self's stomach for a split second.
The next thing she knew was her body hitting the ground.
'Tousan, Kaasan,' she thought, as she realized she'd somehow wound up laying not far from her father and mother, who both gazed at her with lifeless eyes.
It would be creepy, but right now it was just sad. She'd come back to save people, to change things yet she was unable to do anything.
"Who is she sir?"
A familiar voice answered, "I do not know, but I do not think she was a threat. Otherwise, Minato and Kushina wouldn't have allowed her to remain."
"She bares a striking resemblance to them, and those marks... there like the girls."
"Hm, I honestly do not know, but that headband... it is familiar. "
Naruto tried to keep her eyes open as she listened, and thought about what the Sandaime (the only voice she recognized) meant. She knew leaving the future she couldn't arrive with a Konoha forehead protector, so the one she owned was sealed in one of the scrolls in her hip pouches.
The one she'd wore for her trip (she felt a bit naked without a hitai-ate after so many years of wearing one) was one she found in her mother's belongings after her heritage was revealed to her when she became a genin.
A Whirlpool hitai-ate which had been given to her mother before she left Whirlpool, despite not becoming a Uzushio Kunoichi.
"Take her to the hospital, I'll speak to her once she is able," the Sandaime said.
"And the jinchūriki?"
Naruto felt her annoyance rise at how the unknown voice spoke of her younger self – she would have to start thinking of herself by another name if this was to work. Having two Naruto's running around would just confuse everyone. It was a good thing she'd been prepared for it.
"I will take her with me, and look after her for a few days until arrangements can be made."
That was the last thing Naruto heard before she once again lost consciousness.
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It was the next day before she woke up.
She realized an ANBU had been standing guard, so when she woke it only took a few minutes before the Sandaime was walking into the room.
The shock of seeing the Sandaime Hokage, years younger than when she'd last seen him, shook Naruto for a few seconds. It was the Hokage speaking which drew her attention back to reality.
"I see you're awake," he began. "It's sooner than we expected, you seemed quite injured, though mostly a severe case of chakra exhaustion."
Naruto wasn't sure how to respond to that, she'd never had chakra exhaustion in it's true form before. She'd been severely low on chakra before, but not to the point her body gave out and fell into chakra exhaustion. Which could cause death or in the alternative, comas.
She was no medic-nin, but she had been taught a bit on basic medical ninjutsu by Tsunade years ago...and she could heal wounds the old fashion way – that is to say the civilian way – rather well. She also had quite a bit of knowledge in anatomy and pressure points since her taijutsu styles involved the two.
"If you are up to it I'd like to discus exactly how you got to the scene of the sealing, and what your connection is to Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Kushina and Uzumaki Naruto. Along with who you are, of course," Hiruzen said, seeing the young girl wasn't going to say anything.
Either from shock or wanting to keep her silence at that point through lack of trust, he did not know.
"I understand, Hokage-sama," Naruto said, nodding.
"Good, I will step outside and allow you to get dressed. Your belonging are in the small cupboard beside your bed," he said, and turned to leave the girl to her business.
As he stood outside the doors, he couldn't help but think of the onyx eyes the blonde girl stared back at him with. They were eyes far too old for someone so young.
They were eyes he'd seen on war veterans, on people with harsh childhoods and pasts. They didn't belong on young teenagers, who of which couldn't be more than fifteen – if that.
Unfortunately there were eyes commonly seen on shinobi who'd seen too much far too soon.
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Looking at herself in the mirror once more, and straightening her mesh armor shirt which she wore under a dark orange crop top which reached her ribcage, not far below her sizable bust (a large B-cup).
This all led her to the realization she was once again fourteen instead of the taller, nineteen year old Hokage she'd once been.
Ironically, she thought to herself, it was her breast size that gave her the biggest clue on her age. Before she was fourteen they had been a smaller B-cup, and by the time she'd returned to Konoha at sixteen, after training with Ero-sennin for three years, they had been a rather large C-cup. She had also been 5'5, not 5'0.
At Nineteen they had remained a large C-cup, and she'd grown to 5'6, which was impressive since she had once been such a short child.
Too much ramen growing up and not enough nutritious foods, but that was because she was never sold quality food for who she was. What they did grudgingly give her was so outrageously priced she'd grown a disgust for vegetables and most fruits.
Other than the years taken off her age when she'd arrived in the timeline she was now apart of, everything was alright. Thankfully it seemed her theory on paradoxes and the ability to have more than one copy of ones self in the same timeline was correct.
The timeline hadn't imploded when she was feet away from her baby self, and neither of them had gone insane.
If any other theories were correct she would probably never know. The seal was a one way trip, and she'd have to live without the knowledge of if she was changing her future or simply creating a hopeful future for another timeline.
Naruto shook her head clear of thoughts, and surveyed herself once more.
Her clothes were a bit lose on her, since she'd lost height, but it wasn't anything she couldn't fix. The shirt was simply lose on her, and the mesh armor under it was probably what fit the best since they were one-size fits all. There was something in the way they were made that allowed them to stretch and adjust to any weight and height or gender.
Her ANBU style pants were too long but she fixed that by sticking them into her shinobi boots, and taping them down with bandages at her ankles and shins. The usually calf length white haori was now ankle length, but at least it wasn't terribly over sized. Her shoes fit fine, and she had her hip pouches and weapon holsters in place as well.
The forehead protector was in its usual place, though the dark violet fabric and Whirlpool spiral were odd to see instead of the Konoha leaf symbol.
Her hair was a little shorter, at waist length, which sort of annoyed her. She was used to much longer hair, something she did to make her hair a bit more manageable, and keep a reminder of her mother. Not that looking in the mirror didn't do that, but she'd always loved her long hair. it made her smile.
The resemblance was made more obvious when it was long since she really had no choice but to pull back one side of her bangs, otherwise she'd not be able to function as a Kunoichi, or see properly.
So it wasn't simply her desire to resemble her mother, or her copying a style. As it was a lot of girls wore hair-clips to keep their bangs from their eyes, especially Kunoichi.
Taking a deep breath, Naruto pulled her long hair into a low ponytail, leaving her bangs to frame her face (one side of course pulled back by her two hair-clips), and exited the room to find the Hokage waiting for her.
"I'm ready," she said. "I have a lot to explain."
Hiruzen nodded, taking notice of how much she really did resemble Kushina, Minato and baby Naruto. If she wasn't so old he would swear she was either their daughter, or the mother of Uzumaki Naruto.
Rumors had spreed since she arrived, and some speculated that the girl might be related to the jinchūriki in some way. Some of the more strange being that she was the babies mother, even though she couldn't be older than fifteen herself.
To the civilians it meant something a bit more scandalous than it did to the Shinobi. In their field some never made it past their mid twenties, and that was if they were lucky. So they tended to start having families younger than the average civilian.
It was more common back when he was in his youth, but nonetheless still common enough presently.
"Follow me," he replied and the two walked towards the Hokage's office.
Along the way Naruto noticed how some stopped to stare at her, and many whispered. She noticed a lot of it was concerning who she was; if she was a spy, if she was related to the Yondaime, the Red Chained Death, or the jinchūriki. She couldn't hear all the whispers but from what she picked up she made quite the impact with her arrival.
"I think we should start with introductions, don't you?" Hiruzen inquired as he sat behind his desk once they arrived at his office.
"I'm not sure how well you're going to take this, Hokage-sama, but I think I should just be blunt," Naruto began, taking a deep breath. "Does the fūinjutsu, Jikan Rippuru Fūin (Time Ripple Seal), mean anything to you?"
Hiruzen sat ramrod straight in his chair, eyes widening a bit at the girls declaration and question. How could she possibly know that name? It was impossible, no one, no one, but he and Jiraiya knew of that project.
It had come to an impasse not long before the Third Shinobi War came to an end, and it hadn't been brought up since.
He had thought momentarily about it in the past, but neither he nor Jiraiya were sure how to finish the seal – or if it was even a good idea. If it fell into the wrong hands it could be catastrophic.
"Who are you?" he asked, eyes narrowed and the blonde bowed her head out of respect.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto, I'm from the future," she answered.
Hiruzen sighed, shoulders slumping as he thought of what she said. It would explain why she looked so much like baby Naruto, Minato and Kushina. Though it didn't explain her eyes, he was positive Naruto's eyes where the same bright blue as Minato's.
There were also no Namikaze or Uzumaki's that had eyes that dark – that he knew of at least. He supposed he could be wrong, he only knew of a few Uzumaki's. Mito and Kushina.
"I see, so the seal was completed?" he muttered in question. "I will need convincing. I am curious though, about your hitai-ate? The reason you wear the symbol of Uzushiogakure instead of Konoha? Also... your eyes do not look like your younger self."
Naruto nodded.
"The seal was completed by myself and two others. I am a fūinjutsu mistress, along with a ninjutsu, and taijutsu specialist. I am also advanced in kenjutsu."
"So many unique skills?" he said inquired, raising an eyebrow.
"It took me years and a lot of training, but before I arrived I wasn't this young. I'm really nineteen, and the Rokudaime of Konohagakure. The reason for the hitai-ate is because I couldn't show up wearing a Konoha headband, I have no records here nor am I familiar to anyone. I compromised, it was my mothers forehead protector, a keepsake from her days in Whirlpool."
Hiruzen nodded, and watched as the blonde pulled out a folded up photo before she slid it over to him.
"As for proof... I have a few things. That picture is of my teammates; Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke, along with our sensei, Hatake Kakashi."
Naruto said these names with sadness that led Hiruzen to believe they were no longer alive in her timeline.
Naruto looked at the photo with sadness. She'd begun carrying it with her not long after she returned to Konoha after her three year training trip. She was happy she had, not only did it give some semblance of proof, but it reminded her of why she had gone through with the seal. Of better times in her life.
Unfolding the wrinkled photo, old in years, Hiruzen was surprised but at the same time he rather expected what he saw.
A team photo of a girl with pink hair, smiling happily from the center. Beside her was a boy with raven colored hair, black eyes, fair skin (obviously an Uchiha). There was a girl on her other side who looked like a younger version of the Naruto in front of him. Behind them was Hatake Kakashi a little over a decade older.
The only difference besides age was that the girl in the photo had bright blue eyes unlike the girl sitting in front of him.
"There is also this." Naruto lifted the mesh armor shirt to revealed her stomach, and after a second of channeling her chakra the seal which contained the Kyūbi appeared.
Hiruzen stared at it for a moment before nodding. He knew beyond a doubt now that Naruto was being honest. There was no way to fake a seal like the Shiki Fūjin.
Naruto lowered her shirt, canceling the chakra flow to the seal and it disappeared from view. Sighing, Naruto tucked a strand of her hair that remained loose of her ponytail behind her ear.
"My eyes are this color because of something that happened recently in my timeline. First I think I should explain why I came back," she began, and Hiruzen sat forward, eager to listen but dreading her words. "When I was nearly thirteen things began to go down hill. During the chūnin exams that my team and I participated in Orochimaru showed up. He placed the cursed seal on my teammate, Sasuke, wanting to gain the Sharingan..."
"Sorry to interrupt, Naruto, but may I ask why Orochimaru chose to target Sasuke? There are many Uchiha in the village," the Hokage asked.
It may seem strange that he'd ask that instead of why Orochimaru would target Sasuke, but he was not all that surprised. Hiruzen had suspected his former student of no good for months now. He just wished he'd been wrong.
Naruto sighed, wincing before she answered, "Not in my time. Sasuke was the last after the clan was massacred on orders from you and the elders. From what I understand they were planning a coup. You wanted to solve the problem peacefully, but the elders pushed things along before you could find a peaceful solution."
Hiruzen froze, and than sighed.
"I see..."
Naruto continued.
"During the Chūnin Exam finals Orochimaru and his sound-nin, from the hidden village he'd formed over the years, invaded with the help of Suna. It was during the invasion you were killed by Orochimaru, and a little while later Ero-sennin – Jiraiya – and I went to find Tsunade-baachan so she could become Hokage."
Hiruzen raised a startled eyebrow.
"You actually convinced Tsunade to return as Hokage?"
Naruto grinned.
"Godaime Hokage, and she was a great Hokage. Though she still drank too much according to Shizune-neechan," Naruto said. "A lot happened after we returned with Tsunade, and after a failed mission to return Sasuke back to the leaf, after he left to join Orochimaru in order to gain power to avenge his clan, I went with Jiraiya on a three year training trip."
Hiruzen wanted to ask more details on Uchiha Sasuke's defection, but from the pain in her voice and eyes he decided it must be a very sensitive subject. The reason she simply glossed over it instead of going into any details.
"I was about sixteen when the Fourth Shinobi War really began," she said, and it was like a punch to the gut for Hiruzen.
Fourth Shinobi War... and barely over a decade after the Third War ended. From the fact she'd used the Jikan Rippuru Fūin (Time Ripple Seal) he was sure the future war hadn't ended well.
It was kind of ironic, he'd completely accepted the fact he would die in thirteen years, or at least he had in her timeline (he supposed he could prevent it in this one), but it was the possible war that caught his attention.
Most people would have focused on the fact someone had just told them they'd die in years to come.
"It isn't...wasn't going well. It started with Akatsuki, and then turned into the war. We were able to form an alliance with the other villages – Kiri, Suna, Kumo, and Iwa – but the war just went on. A year passed and then three. Suna was gone – what was left had moved to Konoha who held the least damage still yet, but had still lost many shinobi and civilians. Iwa was barely standing, as was Kumo, and Kiri had fallen not long after Suna when I was eighteen."
"This is troubling news," Hiruzen muttered, a deep frown etched into his aged face. "I take it this was your last resort?"
Naruto nodded.
"About five months ago, in my timeline, there was an invasion. I had been Hokage for about year, Tsunade having died when I was eighteen. I had hoped it would be the final battle, and everyone fought hard, but there was just too many, and not enough of the Alliance left. I stood against the leader of the enemy forces, which was not easy seeing as he was and is very powerful. While I was doing this, my teammates, Sasuke and Sakura, took care of his right hand guy, who had trained under Orochimaru and knew how to resurrect the dead to fight for them. They brought back many excellent shinobi, who couldn't help but fight for him."
Hiruzen's eyes narrowed at this news. A burning anger at someone who could desecrate someones body in such a way as to bring them back to life, and force them to fight in a war against people they'd known, and loved at one point in time. Against a village they'd died to protect.
"This leader..." he trailed off, and Naruto cut in.
"You might not believe me, but it's Uchiha Madara," she said.
"Madara... but he's dead," Hiruzen said, eyes wide.
"No, he isn't. There was never any body after all. He survived, and near impossible to kill. He's like a cockroach, he keeps coming back," she said, a deep anger in her voice as she spoke of the man.
"During the invasion I spoke of, I was caught off guard and Madara got a lucky shot in. I couldn't recover fast enough and... I would have died but Sasuke had broken off from Sakura. He had a feeling I would need some help, and Sakura encouraged him to go. Madara nearly killed me, but at the last second Sasuke was there in front of me, taking the blow for me. Before he died he used a forbidden jutsu, known only to a few Uchiha, that allowed them to transfer their eyes to another. It was usually used on another of their clan, but with me it was a bit more painful since I'm not a Uchiha biologically. My eyes for one were fine, and usually it's used when eyes have been damaged."
Naruto had her eyes closed, and Hiruzen was sure it was from bad memories. He'd seen many war veterans do the same when forced to talk about certain events.
The blonde's eyes snapped opened, and whatever Hiruzen expected it wasn't to see a fully mature blazing Sharingan staring back at him.
"The Sharingan... you actually were able to activate it?" he muttered, surprise and awe in his voice. "But how? Bloodlines are tied to genetics, and just eyes being transferred...the only instance is Kakashi and the eye was activated when transplanted manually."
"A normal person, it might work like that, but I'm not ordinary. I'm a jinchūriki, not to mention the jutsu Sasuke used was more complicated than just transferring someone eyes. Along with the eyes the genetic strand containing the Sharingan is passed along to guarantee the bloodline follows the eyes. It was one reason it was forbidden, and only used on another of the clan if ever used, and why very few knew of its existence. Sasuke found it on accident. Kurama later told me that if it weren't for my Uzumaki blood, and him being sealed inside me the process of the genetic code for the Sharingan merging into my own genetics would have killed me. My other teammate, Sakura, died taking Kabuto out. Kabuto being the one who was resurrecting the shinobi to fight us."
Her eyes faded back to black, and Hiruzen shook his head at everything being dropped on him. He'd thought the shocks had ended with the identity of the girl before him but they kept coming.
"Kurama? You mentioned him being sealed inside you, so I assume that is the Kyūbi?" Hiruzen asked.
Naruto nodded.
"Yes, Kurama is his name. Kyūbi is simply his title. It took a while but we've worked together as partners since the war. It was Madara who caused him to attack last night, and Madara who pulled him from my mother's seal."
The Hokage sighed, rubbing his temples.
"I see." He looked at Naruto then, and nodded. "I can not blame you for wanting to change things. I take it after that things went even worse. Now, all I can think of is to welcome you into the village. I take it you're above jōnin level."
"I actually don't know. To be honest I'm younger here, and my body isn't up to the level it was in the future. I'll probably have to retrain my body to catch up with my knowledge. I'd say I'm high chūnin level, low jōnin level for sure, though."
"You'll need a back story, and a name to go by. We can't have two Uzumaki Naruto's running around. This will be difficult. We have to explain who you are, why you arrived now, and your connection the Minato, Kushina and Naruto, along with why you have the Sharingan."
Naruto smiled a fox-like smile.
"We'd thought of that. Originally Sasuke, Sakura and I were supposed to use the seal together, but things changed once they died. Before leaving the future I worked to change the original cover story some to incorporate my connection to the Uchiha's. I even took a look at Sasuke's family tree to make sure it would work," Naruto began, and took a deep breath.
"I will be Uzumaki Noriko, fourteen years old, born October 1st. I was born in Uzushiogakure, and became a genin of Uzushio when I was seven, and chūnin when I was nine, not long before Uzushio was destroyed. My mother was Uzumaki Shiori, daughter of Uzumaki Chizue and Uchiha Kota. My grandfather never knew my grandmother was pregnant, they met during a mission that had them crossing paths. He died early in the Third War, if I remember right. Uzumaki Chizue was Uzumaki Kushina's aunt, giving a good reason for my resemblance to her."
Hiruzen nodded, remembering a Uchiha Kota. He'd taken out a group of thirty Iwa-nin when he'd died during the war.
"My father was Namikaze Seiji, who had an affair with my mother when his son was six, and I was born a year later in Whirlpool. My father knew about me, but never told anyone, and of course he died on a mission not long after I was born and Minato was in the academy. This explains my resemblance to the Yondaime Hokage, his wife and my baby self as well as why I have the Sharingan. I inherited my grandfather's eyes. I have some papers I created, forged records and a birth certificate."
Hiruzen accepted the folder of papers which included just about everything possible to make Uzumaki Noriko a real identity and former Uzushio Kunoichi. Looking at it there was no way to tell it was forged, everything looked completely authentic.
There was even blood test results which were dated for a few months prior, forged of course, to show her as Minato's half-sister and Kushina's second cousin. There was even a birth certificate, and records of missions and her days in service to Uzushiogakure before it was destroyed.
"It all looks to be in place," he said.
"I had help getting it ready," Naruto said, and than frowned. "I think that the truth should be known to only a few. I really don't trust the elders, no offense Hokage-jiji."
"You have people in mind that you would like to know," Hiruzen said, smiling.
"Yeah," Naruto – or maybe Noriko would be more appropriate – nodded. "The first person I'd like to know is Hatake Kakashi. He was my sensei in the future, my friend, I'd like him to be aware of what's going on. Not to mention he is one of the very few to know Naruto is Minato and Kushina's daughter. The rest I'll have to think on. Eventually I figure the truth might come to light, but then again it's probably best to keep it from the majority. Naruto will be told, eventually, when she's older."
"Ah, yes about Naruto," Hiruzen began. "I doubt I could convince you to allow Naruto to go anywhere but with you to live?"
Naruto's eyes narrowed.
"You'd be correct. My parents, I was able to talk to them before they finished the sealing. I have to take care of her, not just that, I want to give her a childhood I never got."
"Alright, and what will we currently tell the public? Naruto can't be revealed as the daughter of the Yondaime and Kushina yet. Iwa would jump at the chance to kill her, though they'd probably feel the same about you," Hiruzen mused, and Naruto shrugged.
"Just tell them the cover story, and I can take care of myself as far as Iwa is concerned. Tell them that I survived the destruction of Uzushiogakure and found out about my brother. It took me a few years, but I found him a few months ago. I was there for the sealing, and it's probably best to get it out in the open of my status as jinchūriki. We can say my father split the Kyūbi chakra, sealing half in me and half in baby Naruto. I was able to handle the sealing so late in life because it was only half of the Kyuubi's power, and my lineage. This way I don't have to worry about using Kurama's chakra on a mission, being found out, and raising questions. As for why I am caring for Naruto... we can tell them she's mine. I would say my cousin through Kushina, but that might make people connect Naruto as the Yondaime's daughter since people knew Kushina was seeing Minato. So we'll just pass her off as my daughter, one of the reasons Minato never allowed it to be known I existed."
Hiruzen thought it over and nodded. It was a good idea, none would question the relation.
Since the blonde was Naruto's future self they'd be near identical, if not identical. Though the fact Naruto (or Noriko he supposed he should begin thinking of her as) had onyx colored eyes, like nearly every Uchiha, and her being older would stop any suspicion on why the two were like clones of one another, as children looking that much like one parent was near impossible as far he knew.
There were already people who were assuming that baby Naruto was linked to the mysterious girls arrival. No one would think twice of the claim. She was rather young, but once again it wasn't all that uncommon. Usually not as young as fourteen, but her age couldn't be helped and she was mentally nineteen.
"That will work, I'm glad to know you'd thought of this before rushing into using the seal," he said. "I'm sure you know how to get into your parents house in the Namikaze compound, so you and Naruto can rest there. Tomorrow I will bring in Kakashi and we'll explain this all to him. Tonight I will deal with the council."
Naruto nodded, standing up after the Hokage, and followed him to one of the corners where she noticed a bassinet which held her younger self. Smiling down at the sleeping baby she looked at the Sandaime as if asking permission before gently picking the blonde baby up.
"I will see you tomorrow," Naru – no, Noriko said.
'I'll have to get used to the name more, from now on I'm not Uzumaki Naruto,' she thought as she made her way from the Hokage's office, and towards the Namikaze estate as quickly as she could, not wanting anyone to recognize baby Naruto and try anything.
'I'm Uzumaki Noriko, sister of the Yellow Flash and cousin of the Red-Chained Death.'
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EDITED 8/30/14.