Chapter Two (This chapter will be shorter as it is the last part before the time skip and training. I'm trying to ease Naruto into the God-like phase, but it may still seem fast at times. Also the Uchiha massacre happened almost the same as it did in canon, but Shisui Uchiha survived. He's now an Anbu and only the Hokage and his fellow Anbu know about him.)
He enters a room much smaller than the fox's cage, but still very large. In the center of the room is a pedestal. Naruto walks up to it, and sees a bluish purple faceted orb. He touches it in curiosity, and the instant he does he feels several fields of energy around him, which shocks him into letting go.
"It took you long enough to come here."Someone says from behind Naruto. He whips around, and sees a man standing there. He has longish black hair and dark blue eyes. He wears a strange white form fitting, high collared tunic.
"Who are you?"Naruto asks, more curious than afraid since he could summon his Zanpakuto spirits for help in an instant when he was within his mind.
"You still don't know, and yet you've spent two weeks learning from them, disappointing. I am the mental embodiment of your mother's Kekkei Genkai, I am a Quincy."He says, his voice dripping with disapproval.
(A/N: He's wearing the traditional Quincy outfit, according to the wiki.)
"What do you know about my mom?"Naruto asks, now openly staring at the man before him, not quite registering the disapproving tone.
"I know quite a bit, as would you if you had come sooner. Now she'll have to tell her story all over again."The Quincy says irritably.
"What?"Naruto says, confused completely and utterly.
"Maybe it would be better if we told this story."A feminine voice says behind the young boy.
Naruto whips around and sees…
There are two people there; both are tall with smiling faces. The man has longish messy blond hair and blue eyes, and the woman has long red hair and violet eyes. The man he recognized instantly from before he lost his vision.
"You're the fourth Hokage."Naruto whispers in shock.
"Not only that. More importantly, I'm your father Naruto. It looks like my wish came true."Minato says his eyes full of emotion.
For a moment Naruto doesn't move or speak. Then he punches his father in the gut, though only managing to wind him slightly.
"Why?"Naruto whispers, tears now streaming down his face, "Why did it have to be me?"
Kushina kneels beside her son and hugs him tightly.
"I'm sorry Naruto, I never wanted you to have to go through being a Jinchuriki, but I didn't get to make the final decision."Kushina says, shooting a glare at Minato that promised pain and suffering like nothing he had ever felt before, and Minato paled white as a ghost, even his hair blanching at the thought of the pain coming in the future.
"Naruto, this is your mother, Kushina Uzumaki, my unofficial wife according to the village."Minato chokes out.
"Mommy?"Naruto whispers, finally sounding completely his age, and then clings to his mother. She picks the small boy up.
"So Naruto, how would you like it if we trained you?"Kushina asks her son.
Naruto instantly perks up at the word training, all his calm composure he'd had since unlocking his Kekkei Genkai leaving him. His parents notice and laugh a little.
"Okay Naruto, first we need you to get better control of your Spiritual energy and the Spiritual energy in the world around you. It's a bit difficult to actually teach you since we're only in your mind. We would need some of your father's old inventions, and they're all in our old compound."Kushina says biting the nail on her left thumb while holding Naruto up with her right arm.
"He'll just have to tell the Hokage, and get the sealing key from him."Minato says from a small distance away, wanting to be able to run when his wife tried to kill him.
"I guess that's the best plan we've got. Naruto just go to the Hokage and tell him you need the seal key to the Namikaze/Uzumaki compound. He should try to tell you a story, but tell him that he doesn't need to."Kushina says and kisses Naruto's forehead.
"Also when you see him, tell him to check behind the painting for the key to defeating his greatest enemy."Minato says, his voice filled with pity for the elderly Kage.
Naruto reluctantly leaves his mind, following his mother's orders, though he did hear her rounding on his father just before everything went black.
Naruto rose from his place on the floor, and picked up his Zanpakuto.
"Anbu person, can you take me to see the old man?"He asks, knowing they would hear him from wherever they were watching him from.
"One moment."One of them says appearing next to Naruto, and then disappearing in a swirl of leaves.
They reappear outside the Hokage's office.
"Wait here."The Anbu says, and then knock on the door. When given permission to enter he opens the door.
"Lord Third, Naruto wished to see you; I have him here with me."They report.
"Please bring him in."Hiruzen says, wondering what Naruto could want at this late an hour. It had to be around Nine O'clock and even Naruto had to get tired at some point, right?
After Naruto had been situated in a seat the conversation began.
"So why did you want to see me Naruto? Did something happen at the academy?"Hiruzen asks
"No, but there is something I need to ask you. I need the seal key to the Namikaze/Uzumaki compound and before you start, you don't need to tell me any story."Naruto says, quoting his mother almost word for word.
Hiruzen is stunned into silence, both at the fact that Naruto knew of his heritage, and that he had countered his story that he had been preparing ever since that day.
"Also I am told to tell you to look behind the painting for the key to defeating your greatest enemy."Naruto says, now quoting his father.
Hiruzen perks up a bit from his daze, knowing what that had to be.
He jumps up and flies over to the portrait of Minato and practically ripped it off the wall. Behind it was a seal, which Hiruzen recognized. He unlocked it quickly, which resulted in a scroll popping out. He rips it open and reads it quickly.
"So that's how he did it. To think he hid his greatest secret behind his portrait."Hiruzen says, chuckling to himself.
"What is it?"Naruto asks excitedly, bouncing a little in his seat.
"It's your father's key to defeating the greatest enemy of all Kage… Paperwork."Hiruzen says and then forms some hand seals.
"Work clone Jutsu."He says, and next to him a clone appears.
"Mission directive, complete paperwork, effective immediately."He states, and his clone sits down at the desk and begins doing the paperwork, not a hint of complaint on its face, and at a pace much quicker than Hiruzen could ever go.
"So can I have that key now? I have training to do."Naruto asks impatiently. He wasn't very good at waiting, preferring to force his way through things or confuse others into doing things.
"Yes, yes, just a minute."Hiruzen says, and then hangs Minato's portrait back up. He then takes his off the wall, revealing another seal, which he wipes some blood on. Out pops a single piece of paper with a seal formula on it.
Hiruzen places his hand on the boys shoulder, and then vanishes in a swirl of leaves, taking his 'grandson' with him.
They reappear at a gate that seemed to be outside the village.
"Naruto, this compound is outside the village, so I will have some of my trusted Anbu here to take care of you. It was placed out here at your fathers request since he was always experimenting with seals and such. If one of them went wrong he didn't want half the village to end up burning to the ground underwater while lightning enhanced kunai rained from the sky, or so he said."Hiruzen tells the boy, and then places the seal formula paper on the gate. A blue glow appears around it, and then spreads. When it dies down Hiruzen pushes he gate open and leads Naruto inside.
He stops in the courtyard, admiring the statues that were there, and Naruto uses that as an excuse to concentrate on the field of spiritual energy around them. The picture he gets is just the slightest bit clearer than it had been that morning.
The courtyard was vast, at least a hundred yards square, and it contained four fountains and eight strategically placed statues. There was a hedge growing around the edge of the courtyard that dearly needed trimming, and the weeds that grew up between the cobblestones needed pulling up.
"I haven't been here for years."Hiruzen says, breaking Naruto's concentration.
"Well, I can't stay long with you Naruto; I have more things to do besides paperwork. I'll have to file the Anbu I have I mind to a mission, but if you ever need to speak to me, about anything, just come and tell me."Hiruzen says kneeling in front of the blind five year old.
"Okay, but before you go, can you help me inside?"Naruto asks, his head tilted to the side, smiling.
"Of course."Hiruzen says, and then brings Naruto to the front door, pushes it open, coughs a bit on the dust, and brings Naruto to the library. He then leaves Naruto, telling him the Anbu would be there within the next ten to twenty minutes.
Naruto enters his mind again, getting more used to doing it. He reappears in the room with the bluish purple orb.
"Naruto, you're back. How did it go?"Kushina asks, picking her son up again.
"It went great, he didn't even spend a long time remi-ni-sc-sc…"Naruto loses it at the end.
"Reminiscing?"Kushina asks
"Yeah that. He said he would be sending some Anbu to stay with me in the compound."Naruto responds happily, being a little kid for once in his traumatic life.
He then looks around trying to find his father, but only sees the Quincy person.
"Where's daddy?"Naruto asks
"Oh he's over there."Kushina says nonchalantly, pointing somewhere behind her where Naruto couldn't see. He cranes his neck as far as it would go, and catches a glimpse of a large puddle of red, and what could have been a hand before Kushina blocks his view.
"You don't need to see that Naruto, he'll be fine eventually, but there's something I need to explain to you before we can begin your training. When the fox was sealed into you, your father had also sealed something else into you. It was one of his inventions that he had made out of another one, but I won't go into that part. That invention was called the Hogyoku, and it's right over there on that pedestal. That orb has some very special abilities, or so your father had told me. According to him it had the ability to make a person's greatest desire come true, but only once. Your father and I both made a wish before we died. His wish was that you would grow up to be the strongest shinobi there is, stronger than any Kage, and that you would have help when you most needed it."Kushina tells her son and then pauses to let that sink in.
"What was your wish?"Naruto asks
"I wished for you to be safe. I couldn't pass on without having some way of protecting my son, and that was the best I could do. I think that it's happened once or twice already."Kushina says, pushing her son to remember.
Naruto thinks really hard about it, and remembers the two times he hadn't been able to control his body. Both times had lead to him being more capable of defending himself, or having the chance to get more capable of defending himself.
Then he remembers the times he had heard that pinging sound, and how it had changed what was happening.
"That was all because of that little orb?"Naruto asks
"Yes, and now you should go; the Anbu should be here soon. We'll start your training after academy tomorrow, but tonight I just want to talk to my son."Kushina says smiling.
Speak of the devil and he shall appear, the Anbu walked into the room only moments after he exited his mind.
"Hello Naruto. We were sent by Lord Hokage to watch over you while you stay here."One of them says, their voice sounding female.
"Can you guys take off your masks? They scare me."Naruto asks, getting a sweat drop from the Anbu. Naruto remembered all the times he had seen an Anbu rescue him, and each time the mask had scared him, and even though he couldn't see anymore, it still scared him.
There is the scuff of ceramic of fabric, and then three clinks as the Anbu put their masks on a table.
Their faces are revealed. One is female with straight, purple hair reaching down to her waist, and brown eyes, and a shade of red lipstick. The second is male with short brown hair and black, almond-shaped eyes. The third is also male he had short, unkempt, dark-colored hair and a relatively broad nose and well-defined eyelashes, that were turned upwards at each end.
"Well since we're going to be living together from now on, I guess we should learn each other's names. I'll start, I'm Yugao Uzuki."The female Anbu says.
"I'm Shisui Uchiha, but I must ask that you don't tell anyone about me. Not even Sasuke can know."The third man says, though he hesitates ever so slightly on the name Sasuke. Naruto decided he would look into to it later.
"You can call me Tenzou for now, Naruto."The last man says lazily.
"Are you all really strong? Can you train me to be a shinobi?"Naruto asks. He may have training to do when his mother or father tell him something, but there are still other Shinobi arts to learn, and this would be a great way to get a head start.
"Sure, there's plenty we can teach you, though we'll have to work on your chakra control if we're going to teach you anything besides theory and taijutsu."Shisui says.
The group spends hours talking about things that are important and trivial. Eventually Naruto falls asleep in his chair, and Yugao carries him to the master bedroom, where his parents had once stayed, and then made Tenzou and Shisui change the sheets and things when she saw the state of the bedroom.
They do so at a breakneck pace, knowing Yugao's reputation for hurting people who didn't do what she told them to do, especially when it came to children and cats.
They kept watch through the night, each taking a shift watching Naruto's room. Naruto spent the rest of the night learning all about the history of his mother's clan and his two Kekkei Genkai.
It was the best night of his life.
I know that was short, but I didn't want to start the part after the time skip this chapter, and I couldn't think of what else to write. Also as a note, the nine tails will become like Naruto's inner hollow, gaining hollow powers and things when he puts on the mask from his summoning, and still getting the tailed beast cloaks to use. He won't have this until after he masters Bankai with each of his blades.
I will make this a harem story, but as for who's in it, please vote on the poll on my profile. Kaede will be the first girl in it, but you have until 7O'clock on Tuesday the 26th of November to vote on the harem.
I will also be writing another story where Naruto has twin OC Zanpakuto and stuff, but i won't be publishing that until I'm a decent way into this story.
-Divine Justice
