Hello friends, I have been working on my other works lately so it took longer than I intended to post this chapter. I hope you like this chapter.

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Angel Of The Sun

Chapter 2


"What now?" Minato asked Fugaku who was now staring at the door that Kurama had left through hours ago.

"Could you summon a toad and send a message to Konoha?" Fugaku asked.

"I think I might have enough chakra to summon Gamashiro." Minato carefully stood up.

It took some failed tries but he managed to summon Gamashiro in the end.

The small brown toad with yellow spots stared at Minato in surprise.

"You're not looking good there Minato."

Minato chuckled and sat back down on the bed tired. He had been healed of almost all his body wounds thanks to Naruto but chakra exhaustion was a bitch to recover from. The same was the case for Fugaku.

"Gamashiro, I need you to send a message to Konoha for me."

"Here" Fugaku tossed a scroll at Minato. Fugaku had written down the message while Minato was trying and failing to summon the toad.

Minato nodded at Fugaku and then gave the scroll to Gamashiro. The toad took and left quickly seeing as Minato didn't have much chakra to maintain the summoning for long.

"Take care, Minato. And you too Mister."


Minato didn't know he had dozed off until he woke up an hour later to the sight of sunshine and diamonds.

Minato blinked hard taking in the figure before him. He must have been really tired if he had slept unknown to the presence that entered when he slept.

He assumed that the boy before him was Naruto. And he understood why Fugaku called him an angel. Fugaku's description didn't really capture the boy's true beauty.

Short sunshine blond hair crowned his head like a halo. Wide cerulean blue eyes that beat Minato's royal blue eyes in their allure. His face was slightly rounded and had three curious looking whisker-like marks on each cheek.

"Oh, you're awake," Naruto said softly in that calm steady voice of his.

When Naruto turned to move towards him, Minato saw the lean muscles flex beneath the tight black tank top he wore. So Naruto at least worked out regularly or knew how to fight. Minato was inclined more to the second option seeing the fluid grace in Naruto's movements. It was the grace of a proficient fighter.

"Yes... Thank you for saving our lives..."

"You're welcome. My name is Naruto Uzumaki."

'Uzumaki! But he doesn't really look like an Uzumaki...'

Naruto smiled softly at Minato's dubious expression.

"I am only half Uzumaki... I take after my father in appearance apparently."

Minato nodded, "My name is Minato Namikaze."

Naruto nodded, "I know Kurama threatened you on leaving but you are welcome to stay until you are able to leave. Please do not be offended by Kurama, he does not take well to strangers especially when they are shinobi."

"It is understandable. You need not worry about it either, we will be leaving early tomorrow."

Naruto gave him a perplexed look, so Minato thought it better to explain.

"I have sent a message to my village, they would be sending someone soon."

Minato noticed Naruto's hands give a slight pause where he was unrolling some bandages and such. It might be because of the thought of having more ninjas in his home, Minato thought.

"We will be out of your hair soon enough and I promise there won't be any trouble on our part," Minato assured.

Naruto turned to look at him and there was an almost melancholy look in his eyes that vanished immediately. After giving one of his charming soft smiles Naruto nodded.

By then Fugaku had woke up. After exchanging some pleasantry with Fugaku, Naruto began checking both their body and healing them.

Minato didn't notice at first but he eventually did. Naruto was a master at diverting the conversation. As the conversation came to an end the both of them knew nothing more than what Naruto had already shared with them. It would've been suspicious if Naruto had tried to gain any information from them but he did not. He didn't pry and he didn't ask any questions at all.

After Naruto left Minato thought about his conversation with Naruto. In the end, Minato came to a conclusion, Naruto was not an enemy trying to glean information from them that was for sure, he was just someone who kept a tight lid on his own secrets.


"Minato said that someone from Konoha will be here to retrieve them."

Naruto sat down at the table.

"I heard," Kurama said, "Will that pervert come?"

"There is a chance that he will, but I am not sure... What if he doesn't remember Kurama?" Naruto asked softly.

"Then it will be just the two of us" Kurama placed a comforting hand on Naruto's shoulder.

Naruto didn't move and simply stared at the wall.


The next morning Minato opened his eyes to the sound of the door opening. He felt much better since sometime last night Naruto had returned to give them some medicine and it worked wonders. He was still nowhere at the level he wanted but he could safely say that he can reach Konoha with Sage mode now.

Fugaku was awake by the time the door opened.

The both of them were expecting Naruto, but it was the red-head that came through the door holding a tray filled with their breakfast.

Minato looked at the man a little disappointed and maybe a little concerned as well because last night Naruto had promised that he will meet them in the morning for breakfast.

Kurama set the tray down and helped Fugaku up, Minato sat up on his own.

He handed them both a bowl filled with a soup of some kind.

Minato spoke up when the red-head was about to leave the room.

"Where's Naruto?"

Kurama turned back to them with a raised eyebrow.

"He said that he'd meet us in the morning for breakfast," Fugaku explained when the man didn't look like he'd talk.

Kurama shrugged, "A woman in the village went into labor early morning and the village healer called for his help so he had to go."

"Oh" was all Minato said and Kurama noted that the both of them looked flustered.

Kurama chuckled lightly. The sound surprised both men.

"This was the same expression he had the first time he had to help a pregnant woman in labor."

Minato chuckled at that. Fugaku too cracked a smile.

"He'd be back soon, I'll tell him you guys are waiting for him"

Minato nodded, he wanted to ask more but thought that it would be better to wait until Naruto came back. The red-head wasn't all that tolerant of shinobi. But Minato was not blind to the warrior's aura that shrouded Kurama.

Maybe he was a Samurai

Kurama sighed and suddenly sat down on the chair instead of leaving and that surprised them.

"Ask whatever you want to ask. I might not answer all of them, but I don't think that Naruto would be in the mood for questions after he comes back."

Minato blinked and took a slow sip of the soup carefully thinking. Fugaku looked at Minato and then turned to Kurama.

"I thought Naruto was the village healer," Fugaku said.

"Who told you that?" Kurama asked

"We assumed so"

Kurama shrugged, "That's your mistake. He isn't the village healer. We have been here for only two weeks. Naruto knows to heal and he sometimes helps out the healer and once they found out how good he was a lot of people began coming to him as well."

"So this isn't your village?" Minato asked.

Kurama answered with a small curt 'no' and Minato and Fugaku knew that this was forbidden area so they went on to ask some other things.

In the end, they find out that Naruto and Kurama had been traveling together for a long time.

Kurama whose full name was Kurama Kitsune had met Naruto at quite a young age and they had been together ever since. Both of their parents were dead and had no other family. The most important fact was that they were from the Moon Country.

Minato and Fugaku both knew that Moon country was destroyed during the First Shinobi World War ten years ago.

Moon Country was at that time a very small country and had only one shinobi village that was the Hidden Village of the Moon. They also had many minor non-shinobi villages as well. It was destroyed during the beginnings of the First Shinobi War by the combined forces of Iwa, Kumo, and Suna.

The country was rich in a special kind of chakra conducting metal and other minerals and during the war when they refused to give up their resources; the entire country was destroyed and plundered. A lot of the Moon Village shinobi were captured and tortured for information and experiments and the Moon country was one of the greatest tragedies in the Shinobi history.

It was the same as that had occurred with the Whirlpool village.

That explained why Kurama didn't want to get involved with shinobi. But then with how old they looked, Naruto must have been about seven or eight and Kurama must have been eleven or twelve during the destruction of their country, had they been wandering around for all these years?

Kurama left after breakfast was over.


Naruto came back from the village later and spend some time with them. But he seemed distracted and sad. Minato and Fugaku thought about Kurama's earlier comment on how Naruto might not be in the mood for questions after he comes back.

Ever since he came back Naruto's mind was caught in a loop of memories. Hinata... He kept remembering her face when he saw the woman; Misha holding her newborn baby with a soft tired smile. Would Hinata have looked like that? With that soft, tired but loving smile at their baby. Would Hinata have shown him their baby exclaiming proudly how they were parents now like Misha had done?

Naruto knew that he would never know that. Because at the end of every memory he saw her face, blood spewing from her mouth and hands cradling the slight bulge of her stomach that was still too young. He remembers her grim smile and unwilling tears as she said her last words. And most of all he remembers standing there at her bedside trying his best and more to save her yet still failing.

Failing her

Failing their unborn child

Failing his comrades when they lost the war

Failing

Failing

Failing

After her death, he liked to think that she was in heaven with their child and watching over him. Waiting for him to bring the world of peace he promised her. That thought only made it all the more painful when they lost. Oh, they had managed to defeat the jubi but was it really a victory when their reward was a dead world? In his eyes, he failed.

He would never get the chance to even get a glimpse of his and Hinata's baby. Because his Hinata had died, taking their five-month-old baby with her. His Hinata didn't exist in this world, there would be no one watching over him from heaven because they never existed and never will.

They never will because Naruto's comrades were ones tormented by a war that they couldn't win. A war that made them fight against their resurrected loved ones, a war that broke and reshaped them into something else. No, they wouldn't exist in this world and if Naruto had his way then the shinobi of this world would never become the ones that were Naruto's comrades. They would never face the war that shaped them into the broken grim versions of themselves.


Naruto was distracted throughout his conversation with Minato and Fugaku. All of them noticed his state but none of them commented on it and for that Naruto was thankful.

It was almost noon when there was a knock on the door.


Naruto stood at the door taking a deep breath. Five chakra signatures were behind the door.

Three of them were so frighteningly familiar and Naruto almost forgot to breathe. Kurama was by his side the next moment, an arm placed on his elbow to steady him.

Naruto wants to say that he's afraid, to say that he can't face them but he doesn't have to. It felt just like when he had first laid eyes on Minato's still form at the forest edge. Kurama understands, he always understands and Naruto has the choice to either face them now or Kurama will handle it on his own.

It won't be that much difficult for Kurama, not when he doesn't share the connection Naruto shares with the people outside.

It may be hard but Naruto can't back out now.

They traveled to the past to change the fate that had befallen their world and they can't do that if Naruto can't even face his past.

So with yet another sigh, Naruto opens the door plastering on a smile that only looked genuine.


In next chapter Naruto will be meeting some familiar people, I think you all can make pretty accurate guesses on who he will be meeting. I hope you all like this chapter.

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