And, its CHAPTER TWO!!!

Truthfully I have no damn clue how long this thing is gona go on for.

I am writing chap 2 of A Different way, and working on another fic, that will shock the fuck out of all of you.

But this… I just have sooo many ideas!! XD

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What most people didn't realize about Zabuza is that he was crying on the bridge, not for Haku, but because Naruto reminded himself of a kid he knew a few decades ago…

Himself.

That's why he redeemed himself. He saw himself in Naruto, he saw that this kid had potential pouring out of him. He knew that if that brat died here and now that he wouldn't change the world…

And he, more than most, knew how badly the world needed a change.

So when he charged that group of mercenaries with nothing but a kunai in his mouth, he did it to put fear in them.

He also did it to prove there is such a thing as redemption.

So years later, when Naruto became hokage and crushed the rock and cloud in open war, slaughtering, not killing, slaughtering over 500 shinobi all by himself, but shedding a tear for each one, Zabuza looked down from heaven (or up from hell, we'll never know) and smiled. Haku… he beamed with joy, knowing that Naruto had kept his humanity, even while being a true shinobi and protecting everyone that he cared about.

He did what both of them failed at. And he did it with ease.

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The true reason Kakashi comes up with his excuses.

Well it's to get his students to act like kids.

And only Sasuke gets that.

After all he is a jounin, if he wanted to he could trick them all into believing he was the hokage in disguise. To use those lame ass excuses?

It was to get them to act like kids, not like hired assassins.

He never wanted them to go the same way his gennin team did.

In hindsight… he wishes they had gone the same way his team had. He wishes Sasuke had sacrificed his life for Naruto on that bridge…

He wishes Sakura had turned into a hermit, running away from grief…

Because… because then he wouldn't have taught a traitor. He wouldn't have had to watch Naruto kill his brother years later…

He wouldn't have had to stop Sakura's attempted suicide…

Every time he stands at the memorial stone, he wishes that team seven had turned out like his gennin team.

It would have been easier.

It would have been better.

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Sarutobi Sasuke, that was the third's name.

He was the first hokage to keep any portion of their name.

The first two went by their titles.

The forth did the same.

Tsunade followed his footsteps, but she only kept her first name.

Naruto? He was proud he was Naruto Uzimaki. He will be the Sixth, he will be the hokage, but he always was, and always will be Naruto Uzimaki.

Until he learns he is the Fourth's son.

Then he'll be Naruto Kazuma.

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Years later on Naruto's wedding day, Sakura will look back on how they acted all those years back.

How every time Sasuke turned her down, damn near breaking her heart and Naruto would ask her out. She realized something, every time he did that, it helped her get her confidence back.

Then she'll realize something else.

She did the same thing to him that Sasuke did to her.

A tear will slip down her face after that.

Then she'll realize something else.

She threw away her chance with the boy, no, the MAN, that stood in front of his friends, a priest going through the ceremony, binding Naruto and his beloved in marriage.

For a second she'll wish she was that woman… then she'll realize something Tsunade had tried to teach her all along.

That she doesn't need a man.

Then she'll smile as widely as she can. Happy not just for her friend… truthfully her best friend, but for herself.

The day Naruto comes back from his honey-moon Sakura will hug him tightly, and thank him for dealing with her for all those years out loud, and inside… for teaching her that she would be fine all on her own.

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Later that year the war between the cloud, stone, and the leaf would erupt.

Sakura would be leading a medic squad into the field when they would be ambushed. Sakura would stay behind to give the rest a chance to get away.

150 would fall before her that day, and by the end of it she would be covered head to toe in blood.

She would earn the name "Konohana's Bloody Cherry Blossom".

And a place on the stone of heroes.

Sakura would give her life that day. Naruto would arrive in time to drive off the remainder of the attacking ninja, and hear Sakura thank him for everything… everything.

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That would be the day Naruto would order all leaf shinobi to retreat from the battlefield.

That would be the day Naruto would face over 500 shinobi all on his own.

That would be the day Naruto would slaughter 500 shinobi all on his own.

That would be the day Tsunade stepped down and let Naruto take over.

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It would also be the day Iwa finally realized something. That they will never beat the leaf, or Arashi Kazuma's line.

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After that battle Kumo would cease to exist as a shinobi village, too drained of resources and shinobi they would send an envoy to Konohana, offering total surrender and annexation into Konohana's military forces.

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Neji Hyuuga would take pride in the fact that Naruto's first act as hokage was to make the branch family's seal outlawed.

A few of the elder Hyuuga would revolt, only for Naruto's anbu ops commandant, Hyuuga Neji to ambush them with the entirety of the anbu ops squad.

Naruto would jokingly say a few days later that he would make Neji his successor, if only he hadn't promised that position to Konohamaru.

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Decades later after Naruto sacrificed his life to end the sound, using a seal he invented that drained the Kyuubi of all his power and gave it to Naruto. The seal would kill him though, simply because humans couldn't handle that much chakra.

But the sound would be left as nothing but ashes.

Naruto would be remembered as a hero on par with the Forth.

Naruto's last wish would be that the village know everything. Including the Kyuubi.

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The next year instead of a festival to celebrate the Kyuubi's death, there would be a festival to celebrate Naruto's life, all of it. From the Kyuubi being sealed into him, to him using the Kyuubi to save Konohana at the cost of his own life.

Even those that had most staunchly opposed his reign as hokage would enjoy the celebrations.

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And a certain blonde hared brat that every just had to refer to as "honored son" would walk up to Naruto's successor Konohamaru and kick him in the shin hard. Then demand that he declare that he had to be called by his name not some stupid fucking title.

The seventh would laugh, and pat the brat on the head saying, "You're your father's son. In every damn way."

He would also privately wonder if he was this much of a brat to his grandfather.

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It would turn out that Tsunade would be the only hokage to die in her bed of old age.

She could remember the first two Hokage's.

Her sensei was the third.

She helped train the forth.

She was the fifth.

She gave Naruto the position of the sixth.

And watched him give the title to Konohamaru on his deathbed while she tried her damnedest to keep him alive.

She died before she could watch Konohamaru go out in a blaze of glory, blood literally raining around him as he slaughtered those who dared to attack his home.

The first and second had died in battle. The third had given his life to seal Orochimaru's arms. The forth had given his life to seal the Kyuubi. The sixth had given his life to destroy the only force that could destroy Konohana. The seventh died slaughtering 400 shinobi in order to give Konohana's army a chance to regroup and launch a counter assault.

She was the only one to die of old age.

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Konohamaru's last words were lamenting how he had only gotten within a hundred of his bro's 500, and he had to sacrifice his life to do it.

Hanabi would be begging him to save his energy, to live.

He would tell her how much he loved her, his wife.

Then he would pass away, smiling broadly.

His first words to Naruto in heaven?

"Damn it, even in death I couldn't match you could I bro?"

Naruto would just laugh and pat him on the shoulder.

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AN- MAN even as kinda sad as this one is, I still loved writing it.

XD

All in all I love writing this. Keep tuned for MANY more to come.

T.B.C.