I'm sorry bout the slow start guys, but I gotta establish my plot now, or its just gonna be a bunch of random talking and fighting. I refuse to let my fic be like Dragonball Z (joking, that was my first anime ever. I love it). Yes and no to Kasuchi's comment. It's a pretty big twist, but that's what I'm famous for in my other writings. Oh, and Gaara will be a main character in this. Mainly cause he's freaking badass. My favorite character, hands down. Aight, enough ranting. Here's chapter 2!
CHAPTER 2
"Tsunade-sama, you have another visitor." Shizune called to her sensei. She knew that it was NOT a good time to be bothering the hokage. Especially when she's in a meeting with the head of interrogation and a missing nin.
"I'm busy Shizune! Shut the damn door!" Tsunade began rubbing her temples. 'I better apologize to her later. But manners aren't on my mind right now.' Turning her attention back to Ibiki and the missing nin, Jammer, she cleared her throat.
"Are you positive, that what you're saying is all true?" Even as she was staring into the genin's eyes she could tell he was one hundred percent serious. No one would come straight up to a hostile territories leader, and lie to their face. Not even for espionage.
"Hokage-sama, I swear to you that this is all true." Jammer confirmed. He was fighting the urge to rub his hitai-ate that was strapped to his right thigh. It was a nervous habit he always did when he was nervous; but, if he was caught molesting it, they may believe he was lying. "The coup in Kumogakure is growing stronger every day. In a few years, they will overthrow the Raikage. Then, they're coming to destroy Konoha.
"Aw dammit. I've been doing this job for not even a month and I already have to prepare for a war." Looking over to Ibiki, she starts making demands, "I want more info. Not that I don't believe you, boy. It's just that this is much too serious of a subject to be taken lightly. I'm gonna need the old perv to investigate this for me."
"Tsunade-sama?" Shizune whispered through a crack in the door. Peaking inside, she saw her mentor was about to erupt at her. "It's just that Gaara-san doesn't seem to like waiting that much." She pulled the door open so the other three ninja could see the Suna jinchuriki.
"If it's information you want," Gaara started, "then wouldn't it be wise to have someone from Suna investigate? If Kumo sees any Konoha nin, especially Jiraiya, they will only speed up their invasion plans" Tsunade stared at Gaara as if he grew a second head.
'Great, I just got shown up by a homicidal teenager.'
"We'll talk to your village council about this then Gaara, thank you." Thinking to herself for a few moments, she called out, "Ibiki, take the prisoner to his cell. I'll send Inoichi to find any other information, then keep him locked up until I say otherwise." Jammer's eyes grew wide at this announcement. Staying in a cell wasn't on his to-do list at the time. He didn't expect to be some sort of hero, but he thought he should at least be able to walk free. He had to think of something and fast.
"I don't handle the cramped spaces of a cell very well. My tenant hates the one he's in right now anyway." Tsunade shot her eyes to the boy. Gaara merely stood at the door with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face. "That's right, I'm the Jinchuuriki of Kumogakure. I house the spirit of the Nibi inside of me." The killing intent that was literally pouring out of Gaara seemed to consume the room in seconds. Jammer could tell that the Suna nin already saw through his ruse, but now was no time to be a pessimist.
"Is he telling the truth?" Tsunade asked Gaara, who was seemed to be staring a hole through Jammer's head.
"With all due respect, Hokage-sama. I'm not a demon detector. I didn't know Naruto housed the Kyuubi until the invasion."
"All right then, we'll need a specialist." Tsunade snapped her fingers, and two ANBU popped into existence. "One of you accompany the missing nin and Ibiki to the cells. The other search for Jiraiya to check for a demon within this boy. That will be all." With that, everyone cleared out except for Gaara and Shizune. Tsunade could already see that she was going to have another headache.
"Okay Gaara, what was it that you wanted to speak with me about?"
Before talking, Gaara had sand from his gourd close and seal the door. Tsunade noticed this started preparing her mind for the worst.
'Maybe he killed some jounin and wanted to apologize before I heard from someone else?'
"Does Uzumaki Naruto have any living relatives?" Gaara asked flatly. "Please don't bother lying to me. I'll catch it before it even leaves your mouth."
Tsunade glared at Gaara for his last statement. But, Gaara wasn't the type to question a Kage's ninja skills. The fact that he knew if she would be lying or not meant he already had strong evidence that Naruto did have living relatives. Normally, she would think of a way out telling the boy information that could hurt her Naruto. But her brain was so fried from the revelation of war she learned just minutes ago left her dazed.
"Yes, Naruto Uzumaki does still have living relatives." She finally got out.
"I WHAT!!?"
Tsunade and Shizune jumped at the sudden scream. Looking frantically for the body the voice belonged to, Gaara's gourd poofed into smoke to reveal a star struck Naruto. He was about to scream again when sand was slapped over his face.
"If you scream in my ear like that again, I will not hesitate to hurt you." Gaara threatened his friend. Seeing the surprised look on the other two Kunoichi's faces, he explained, "Everyone knows my gourd has chakra of its own. So, I left the majority of it at the hospital. Naruto henged into the gourd and stayed on my back the whole time. You did notice his chakra, but you just wrote it off as the normal chakra from my gourd." The experienced Kunoichi felt as though they were slapped in the face.
'That's TWICE he showed me up. And in just five minutes!' Tsunade fumed. Gaara paid them no mind as he looked at Naruto.
"Now are you ready to speak like you posses two x-chromosomes?" The look on Naruto's face when Gaara uttered these words was beyond confused, but he simply did what any other person would say when an ex-serial killer had you gagged and asked you a question. He smiled and nodded. "Good." Gaara said as the sand dropped and melded back into his sand armor.
"I…I have family?" Naruto stuttered out. "Where? Where are they?" The look on Naruto's face nearly brought Tsunade to tears. "Please Baa-chan..Who is it?"
Tsunade refused to look into the boy's eyes. Eyes that searched for someone to look after him. Eyes that looked for someone that could fill the void he'd been missing all his thirteen years of personal Hell. Seeing how Tsunade wasn't going to answer on her own, Gaara decided to intervene.
"I've been doing research the last few days I've been in Konoha, Naruto. I wanted you to feel…happy." Naruto stared at his friend with bewilderment. "I've seen the way you look at me and my siblings. I could see the want in your eye. The lust for kin." At this point Shizune couldn't take it anymore and let tears stream down her eyes openly.
'This is just waaaaaaaay too much drama for me.' She thought to herself as Gaara continued his speech.
"I've come to the conclusion that you're related to Ino Yamanaka. In what way, I'm not sure. But I'm sure that there is no good reason to not let it be known that you had a relative." Gaara looked at Tsunade, who finally calmed herself down. Naruto looked at her as well, expecting to hear some sort of confirmation.
"You are Namikaze Naruto. The son of the Yondaime. Your twin sister is Namikaze Ino, who was born one hour after you. You were both purposely separated at birth, in fear that the demon would kill Ino as well. Yamanaka Inoichi adopted her a day after the sealing, under extreme secrecy. Your mother, Kushina, never stopped bleeding after Ino was born and ended up dying from blood loss." Tsunade had to catch herself before she started crying. She refused to look at Naruto's face as he was receiving the news. Shizune was shocked that Naruto was the son of the fourth Hokage. Gaara expressed his views verbally.
"This village is disgusting." Was all he said before walking out the door. "Don't worry about the doors, I'll leave my sand to block the noise still. It will come back to me when you open the door again." No one said anything while Gaara was leaving. Tsunade was going to say something when Naruto interrupts her.
"I thought the Yamanaka's had a kekkei genkai? How did she fake that?"
"Shintenshin no Jutsu is a family technique. Not the same as a kekkei genkai." Shizune decided to speak on behalf of her sensei. Tsunade was thankful for this, because her voice still didn't come back to her yet. "A baby's brain is like a sponge. If it's told something over and over again, it just becomes natural. I'm guessing the council brainwashed your sister until she was convinced she was a Yamanaka." The following silence was deafening. Naruto's hands formed into fists. Tsunade looked over to Shizune and then back to Naruto.
"Shizune, go get Namikaze Ino and Yamanaka Inoichi please. Tell him…its over." Once Shizune was leaving the room, Tsunade noticed Naruto was shaking. "Naruto?"
". Pay." Tsunade saw Naruto's eyes slit. "They will pay for taking my sister from me." Tsunade stared at him for what seemed like an eternity. She finally rose from her seat, and walked over to Naruto. Looking at his shaking form for a few more seconds she grabbed him into a hug.
"Your right. They will. And I'm going to make sure they do."
Konoha prison
"I'm going to need complete silence for this. You all better just let me handle this. I'll get you when it's over." Jiraiya told the ANBU. They nodded and vanished away, leaving Jammer to think how he was going to get out of his current situation.
"So how much longer until this invasion?" Jiraiya questioned nonchalantly.
"The army will be mobilized in two years time. They were guessing that the complete take over of Kumogakure would take at least a year's time. Meaning, the invasion would come to Konoha in three years time." Jammer replied robotically. He was honestly getting tired of repeating himself all day.
"And you're getting your information from where?"
"My mother is currently fucking the leader of the coup d'état. Once I became a genin, she found if fit to tell me of their plans. This rebellion is going to tear Kumo apart, and I can't just sit back while my birth village is dying."
"And the real reason you killed your teammates is…"
"They were all involved. The jounin was a recent member, as well as my two genin peers. We were going on a mission to Iwa, when I decided it was my best time to strike. I figured, the faster I alert Konoha, the less people would be hurt in Kumo."
"And your logic behind that?"
Jammer laughed to himself.
"Everyone knows that Konoha can't keep their noses out of other people's business. Especially when they're an inevitable target."
"So the only thing you were lying about is…"
"I don't have the Nibi sealed within me. That's Yugito-san. She's not part of the rebellion, so don't worry about her."
"Well this has been a fun talk. So, where do you wanna go kid?"
Jammer looked at the white haired ninja in amazement. He was going to just let him go? Just like that? Jiraiya seemed to read his mind.
"You obviously don't wanna stay in a prison until the invasion. Unless…you like it like-" The sannin began to poke his right finger through his left fist.
"HELL NO!" Jammer spat out. "Look, if you could get me to Ame, then I'll be just fine."
"Sounds good to me. I'm taking my newest apprentice on a three year training trip. We'll simply drop you off at Ame in the beginning, then pick you up on our way back. I'm sure an angry guy like you would want to fight in a war with your hometown."
"Did you freakin plan this out in advance or something?"
"Hahaha. You would think so. I mean, everything is gonna go down in three years time."
Damn. I know, I know. They're brother and sister? In my story, yes they are. I'm sorry bout the drama and crap. Its just that, I hate waiting. Which is why I'm making a time skip. The first two chapters should make a good foundation. If you think I should add more in between now and the skip to Shippuuden the voice your idea in a review. I'm probably gonna make follow up chapter to this one here, then its time to go to Shippuuden. How am I ever going to get Akatsuki involved with this plot? Either way, here's a spoiler. Gaara will NOT be losing his demon in this fic. I got 60+ that visited my story. Lets triple that! Or not.