Well the next chapter is here my faithful readers, and before any of you start jumping down my throat on some of the things that I have put in here, or how long it's taken me to post this I had a lot to deal with this summer, let me just say a few words.
First, this is not going to be a harem it is just Naruto and Hana, since it is an uncommon paring and one of the ones I personally like. Or a double paring of Naruto/Hana/ and someone else not sure yet.
Number two, I have finally finished watching the arc where Naruto tames the Kyubbi. Now after watching that I have two things to say, first Kushina definitely gets major respect in my book for doing what she did; however, she loses some of that when she let that idiot Minato do the sealing instead of doing it herself, giving him the seal that was used on her incase this happened, and finally for not stopping Minato form being the one to throw his life away when he had, Jiraiya, Sarutobi, Danzo, or the other two old farts from Sarutobi's team he could have chosen. I understand the whole leader must sacrifice everything for his people mentality, but knowing your son is going to grow up with no parents, followed by making it an order that he can't be told until he is chunin (or jounin whichever it was), and then trusting him to Jiraiya to raise him is just plain retarded. Seriously, if you are the strongest ninja around and your home is being attacked by a demon and the only way to stop it is by having someone die, and you know there are enemies who very few can defeat that are gunning for the destruction of your village and your son. Use someone, like Sarutobi since he knows what the sacrifice is, or your wife who volunteered to take the thing with her since she is already dying, to save the village and raise your son so he can deal with the threats in the future.
Now that that is out of my system, I want to let you know that the major people who are going to get hit here are Minato, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Sasuke (cause he acts like a damn prick), Sakura (cause she is useless, besides being a medic with super strength she still is a fan girl in my opinion). Those who will just take a glancing blow are: Kushina (for reasons stated above), Kiba (nothing against the guy personally just need a good person who could be a minor antagonist), civilians of Konoha (for being idiots) and several members of the Konoha 12 (because of how they acted before the training trip). Now that that's over, enjoy the chapter. Also the second and story are up, so, read, review, and vote in December for what story you want. Also this is unbeta.
Demon/Summons speaking
Regular speech
"Jutsu"
'thought'
Demon/summons thought
Konoha General Hospital's operating waiting room
Minato Namikaze, regretted a lot of things in his life: the death of his students Rin and Obito, killing all of those Iwa nin in the war, failing to stop the mask man that night from summoning the Kyuubi, and the decision that he convinced his wife, of twenty years now, to agree to.
Thinking of that night Minato quickly sank into one of the cloth lined chairs and released a heavy sigh.
Flashback no jutsu
"Naruto remember I love you and to*cough* protect your s-s-sister." Minato said before closing his eyes on the mortal world for the last time before following his wife into death's embrace, or so he thought.
Opening his eyes, Minato saw that he was standing in a field of pure white. 'Okay were the hell am I, this is so not what I thought the Shinigami's stomach would look like?' he thought as he looked around, only to see his wife, Kushina, standing right beside him. Minato quickly tried to move towards her and call out to her, only to discover no sound coming from his mouth and his body refused to move. Soon the knife holding, creepy robe wearing figure of the death god appeared. "Who dares to keep me from taking what is rightfully mine and escorting on the departed?" The Shinigami demanded, his voice sounding like the rattling of bones.
"I dare you worthless ferrymen." A voice said as a large dark shadow loomed over the two ninja.
"You cannot interfere in this whelp; the man here has paid the ultimate price for our agreement now the deal must be finished." The death god said as he reached into the shadow, only for his hand to turn into that of an old man's in black robes. He quickly pulled it back as the figure chuckled "You are and always will be weaker than me ferrymen, ever since our old master's fading, and you gaining your new power's by these new god's. I have grown on par with the first level of the old god's. I may not be as strong as our old master, however I am strong enough to take down some of his lesser brethren, a feat that you still cannot do."
This caused the death god to growl in frustration. "Now usually I wouldn't encroach on your territory; however the three have asked me to offer you a deal?" the shadow said.
"What do those three want they have no power?"
"Before the fall they decided to weave a final yarn for the world's greatest hero. Currently they are nearly the end of the thread, though they can no longer view the future since the events in the immediate future will decide his fate. So they have asked me to offer you a deal."
"What type of deal and what is the color of the thread?" The Shinimgami aske.
"Simple you take whatever two souls, that are of equal worth to these two, that are in my domain in exchange you let these two return to the land of the living, and the thread is a red thread of fate. So do we have a deal?"
"Fine, but there is one stipulation I want to add."
"And what may that be?"
"Since they summoned me to the mortal plane, I will take most of their chakra, leaving them with the amount they had as genin along with a seal that will slowly fade as their reserves replenish. Which for these two should take anywhere from 10 to 11 years since their bodies have been officially dead for two days, their chakra coils will need time to fully recover."
"That is agreeable these two probably won't screw up too badly." With that the god of death plunged his hands into their chest and ripped out two watermelon sized blue orbs before disappearing. Soon both Minato and Kushina felt a pull on their bodies as they vanished from the field of white. Unknown to the two godly beings Minato had heard their conversation.
Opening his eyes Minato saw that he was in the morgue. Looking to his left he saw Kushina was stirring. "Kushina I, it, were alive!" Minato exclaimed as he tackled his wife into a hug. "Yes, yes we are Minato-koi." Kushina whispered as tears cascaded down her face. "Come one, let's go get the kids."
"Minato, if we are alive then what happened in that place is true, everyone thinks were dead and we won't be at full strength for a while. If our enemies found out…" Kushina trailed off with fear in her eyes. "I get what you're saying, so Henge no jutsu" Minato said as he turned into a non-discrepant brown haired man, with Kushina doing the exact same thing a moment later. After they had left the morgue, they soon saw the whole devastation that the Kyubbi caused, even the house they were living in was destroyed.
They were also hearing the anger from the people and heard how they would be going after the fox boy. 'How do the civillans know about Naruto's status, the only people who are supposed to know are the Clan Heads?' Minato thought as they kept walking towards the orphanage, only to be forced aside as a mob of civilians and ninja that were racing towards the orphanage demanding blood, only to be stopped as a group of anbu arrived before ordering them to disband.
After entering the orphanage they saw two anbu escorting a man who was holding a bloody kunai in his hands and yelling how he was going to avenge his wife. Before they could run off and look for their kids a worker came up to them.
"Hello are you to looking to adopt?" the women asked with hope in her voice.
"Yes we are we are looking for a new born." Kushina answered before Minato could open his big mouth.
"Oh that is excellent please follow me." (Do not have any experience with adoption so please forgive me if this seems like they are adopting a dog, cause that's the closest experience I have had) The women said with jubilation as she led them to the next room where there were several cribs set up and several sleeping babies." If you want any info on the children please just ask" the women said before she signaled the hidden anbu to be on guard.
Arriving at the crib they see their sleeping children Naruto with his blonde hair, and Talia with her hair already taking a red quality to it. They also noticed that Talia was missing a small chunk of her ear lobe; it looks like it had been cut off. "Can you leave us to discuss this privately?" Minato asked the women who nodded before walking out. "Minato, if this is happening to our children we need to get them out of here." Kushina whispered.
"I agree with you Kushina-chan, but the thing is Naruto is much safer here than he is with us. So if we are going to leave we can only take Talia with us." Minato said with sadness seeping into his voice. Kushina looked at him in horror "Why, why would we have to leave our Sochi here?" Kushina questioned him tears coming to her eyes. "Because Kushina, I don't like this either, but it is what you said earlier. We don't have enough chakra to protect both of them, heck we barely have enough to protect one, if our enemies find out that we are alive and target us we would be putting them in danger, Naruto more so since he is a jinjuriki. Since that masked man is still out there and Konoha is the safest place for him at the moment. He will have Jiraiya to look after him, and I promise you honey when we are strong enough to defend both of them we will be a family again."
'That and hopefully by the time we return Naruto will be Konoha's shield and defend the village that he loves, and loves him in return. Though how the villagers are acting makes me slightly worried. Nay this is Konoha they'll get over their hatred in a year or to and then thy will see him as the hero he is.' Minato thought.
"Minato, we can't just leave him here, he's family and Uzumaki's never abandon family." Kushina said as her body was racked by silent sobs.
"Kushina, answer me this, what would happen if we were found by Iwa nins in our weakened state?"
"They would probably try to kill or capture you and torture you before executing you publicly, while turning me into a slave." Kushina answered
"But that still doesn't explain why we have to leave Naru-chan?" Kushina was trying to grasp anything that would keep her family together, she lost it once already and nearly lost it again she wasn't going to lose it a third time. "Kushina, we are not abandoning Naruto, we are hiding to keep him safe from our enemies. If they find us with both of them they would not hesitate to kill either of them while we are fighting, or worse. This way Naruto is being kept safe 24/7 by the nins patrolling the village. We can keep Talia safe by having one of use hold off the threat while the other takes her and runs. I promise you that we will return soon and be a whole family again." Minato said as he picked up baby Talia and made his way over to the women.
While Kushina leaned down and gave Naruto a kiss on his forehead before whispering a promise to him that they would be a family again soon, before following Minato out with tears streaming from her eyes. "Poor kid, ever since those idiot advisers leaked Naruto's status to the civilian council, the kid just can't catch a break." said a female Abu with purple hair.
"I know what you mean Tora." the other anbu said as, with the moonlight reflecting off of his swallow mask as he watched the two henged Namikaze walk away. 'Were those two in a Henge, nah that can't be right I'm probably sleep deprived from protecting the kid for the past two days.' He thought as he shook his head.
Flashback Kai
'Yea I screwed up big time.' Minato thought as he looked over at Kushina, who rarely talked to him since their return five years ago. Hell the only reason she didn't divorce him was because of Kiko.
Minato sighed again as he looked at the doors to the operating room. 'Kami if you are listening, please help bring my family back together.' Kushina prayed.
A couple minutes later the door to the operating room burst open as Tsunada and Shizune walked out. Minato quickly leapt and began asking if Kiko would be okay, only to get a chakra enhanced punch to the face, which sent him through three walls, and a bathroom stall.
"What the hell were you thinking teaching a genin an A-rank assassination technique?!" Tsunada yelled at him.
"Lady Tsunada, please calm down, and we all know what he was thinking. Absolutely nothing." Shizune said.
"Tsunada-san how is my daughter?" Kushina asked. Tsunada looked at her with an expression that made Kushina's blood run cold, before sighing. "The surgery was successful, and your daughter will be able to walk and continue her ninja career;" This caused Kushina to let out a sigh of relief, since she had seen several pieces of would pierce her daughter's legs and hips, one actually severed her femoral artery. "however," Tsunada said causing Kushina to grow fearful. "since we had to stop her from bleeding out. We had to choose what to save, her leg or her…"
"Or her what?" Kushina asked fearfully.
"Her ovaries, I'm sorry Kushina she will not be able to ever have a child because of the concussive damage from the rasengan crushed them and her womb beyond my skills, if she had been brought in a couple minutes earlier I might have been able to do something. I am sorry."
Kushina could only stand there in shock hearing her little girl would never be able to have the joy of brining a child into this world. She was quickly brought back to reality when she heard a snort of laughter.
"Well this is actually a pretty entertaining scene." Whipping around, Kushina saw A just standing there as a he took a puff from the blunt in his hand, before exhaling the smoke into the face of a hidden anbu.
"You think it's funny that my daughter will never be able to have children?!" Kushina all but screamed at him.
"Yes, yes I do, and in my most professional opinion Naruto would say that Karma is a bitch."
"Naruto would never."
"Kushina, you don't know Naruto you only saw him twice when he was a baby. Knowing him he probably would be laughing in your face before punching it. If the changes that A has told us about are true." Tsunada said causing Kushina to back down.
"Who are you; why are you, and can you please put that thing out?" Tsunada asked.
"Well for starts no I will not put this out.*puff* To answer your first question, I was told to deliver this to you" he hands her and Shizune a letter "and several other people since I have to stay in this back ass, hellhole, that does not serve good sake place until the trial is over. To answer your second question I have been called many things: murderer, monster, demon, devil, evil incarnate. Though the name I am mostly known for is the Hound or my really name" takes another hit from the blunt as everyone leans in.
"which I will not tell you. You know where I can find a place that sells good sake?" He says with a smirk as everyone face faults.
"Yea, the Silver Leaf on the south side." Tsunada said. He soon quickly turns to leave
"Nice shot by the way." He says as he walked into the shadowy hall way before disappearing.
Meanwhile
In the local bar, The Silver Leaf, we find the place on the verge of civil war. On one side we have the Neji, Lee, Tenten, Hana, Tsume, Anko, and Kurenai glaring at Sakura, Hinata, Ino, Kiba, Karin, and Sasuke who has a blade pressed to his throat.
"Now you will tell me why you hit the young lady there, and if I don't like your answer well." The man says as he shrugs while standing between Sasuke and Hana who had a hand print on her face.
"The bitch called me a traitor and said that I should be the one to be banished."
"Well yea you should be ya one eyed eunuch." Said a voice from the door.
"HOW DARE YOU CALL SASUKE-KUN A EUNUCH!" Sakura screeched, with Karin nodding in agreement, at A as he made his way to the bar.
"Well I kind of have a right to call Sasuke-chan that, since I made him one this afternoon when he tried to hit me with a chidori." A said as he order some hot Sake as everyone either glared at him in anger or stared at him in shock, except Anko who was laughing since she had seen the whole incident.
"Daemon, you are always getting into trouble aren't you."
"Not my fault Silver, by the way it's good to see you again how has Sora been?" the now identified Daemon asked as he looked at the sword. "She's been good and Ra?"
"Same as always, anyway seeing as you are here I am assuming the Daimyo sent you here to precede over the trial." Daemon said as he took a sip of the sake, only to shudder from the taste. 'This taste like hot piss, ah well I paid for it might as well suffer through it.'
"Yes he did." Silver answered.
"Quick question, where are you staying?" Daemon asked as he finished the sake in one go.
"The Old Oak, why do you ask?" Silver responded sheathing his sword as he walked and helped Hana up from the floor.
"Cause I had to cancel my reservation seeing as I'm about to be surround by Anbu." Daemon said much to the surprise of everyone in the bar as the Anbu appeared.
"Hound-san you are here by placed under arrest for assault on Namikaze Uzumaki Kiko," One of the Anbu said as most of the people in the bar gasped in shock as Silver face palmed.
"First off, I did not attack her she tried to hit me with a rasengan, which I dodged. Second I have both the records of the chakra sensor and my summons as witnesses to said event." Daemon said as he handed Silver the log from the Hokage's tower, looking it over quickly Silver saw that he was telling the truth.
"Gentlemen I do not know who gave you these orders but I can assure you those reports are false. Now I suggest you leave or I will be forced to use the imperium that the daimyo gave me to place you all under arrest for slander." Silver said as the whole room broke up into hushed whispers as the anbu walked towards the exit.
Before they left however they heard Daemon call out "Tell your boss if he is going to try to intimidate me to do a better job." With that Daemon quickly turned his attention to the group that was behind him.
"So can I stay with you?" Daemon asked as Silver just nodded as he ordered a drink, watching Sasuke and his group walk out the door. Feeling someone's gaze on him Silver quickly turned around to see Hana staring at him.
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"Um, I wanted to thank you for helping me out in that situation." She said.
"It was my pleasure Ms.?"
"Inuzuka Hana."
"Ms. Hana." Silver said as Daemons head shot up at this.
"You're Hana Inuzuka?" he asked as she nodded in confirmation.
"Great I have a letter for you and Anko-san" he handed them the letter "now if you would be so kind to point me in the direction of Kurenai Yuei, Tsume Inuzuka, Rock Lee, Tenten Hiagashi, Neji Hyuga, and Yugao Uzuki I would be most grateful since I still have letters to deliver to them." He said.
"Well everyone but Yugao is here. She is on patrol duty today I can give her the letter for you if you wish?" Hana said as Daemon took out the letters and passed them out before thanking Hana for helping him, before grabbing Silver and rushing out of the bar towards the hotel saying something about it serving flamen young.
Soon the group dispersed as each headed home to open their letters in private. As Hana escorted her mother towards Naruto's old apartment, after delivering the letter to Yugao. Tsume was still pissed at Kiba for banishing her after he defeated her for title of Clan Head when she returned from the mission. It was only through an old clan law was she able to keep her partner, along with Hana retaining her title as clan heir until Kiba had kids. With him nearly at throats with the Uchiha who was constantly trying to get her, and Hinata pretty much following him around like a lost puppy pun intended, she knew that chances of her keeping the title were slim to none.
Arriving at the apartment, Tsume quickly unsealed the door and let them both in before reapplying the seal to the door and room.
"So should we open the letter now Kaa-san?" Hana asked
"Yes Imoto lets." Tsume answered as she applied blood and chakra to the seal unsealing the envelope. They quickly pulling out their letters they along with everyone who received one let out a sharp gasp as they finished reading it letting them fall to the floor as they jumped for joy at the news.
Picking the letter that she dropped Hana read it over again
Dear Inu-hime
I know it has been awhile since I last saw you, and I know you are probably pissed at me for not writing sooner. Let's just say that things have been a little hectic lately especially after I found out that those bastards abandoned me. Enough about that, I am more interested in how you are doing, good I hope. However if the rumors I hear are true that is not the case. If that duck ass teme Sasuke, or Kiba tries anything I will personally come and kick their asses before getting you and everyone I care about out of Konoha. Any way if you aren't happy in Konoha I have been able to convince Gaara to allow you and everyone else transfer to Suna, like I did with Kon and his friends. If you want to leave look for the man Daemon, who delivered these letters and he will get you out of there, if he isn't still in Konoha send a message to the Daimyo palace addressed to a man named Silver he will help. I miss you hime hopefully I will see you soon.
Love Your Malestorm
P.S. If you ever encounter them together and want to see me again tell them the two should become one again, and they will set up the time and the place.
(A.N. Not going to right the other letters, most of them say the same thing except he uses their normal names, except for Anko, Kurenai, Shizune, and Yugao who he calls Nee-san, Tsunada who he calls Baa-chan, also all of the slight romantic stuff along with the P.S. is not included in the letters to them.)
