born into this world as Naruto Namikaze with parental neglect all for a sibling suspected of a prophecy for 10 years. He runs away and falls into despair under a new name (ooc). When he is confronted with his past will he be able to face it? genderbend, Parents alive, pairing undecided, oc deck, m for lang

This is my first story so please, flamers, know that i am 10 inches up your mom before you say anything and this goes into a pissing match, other than that constructive criticism is okay

I own nothing of this content

Chapter 3: Recollections and Reunions

Sharks P.O.V.

After having the stolen things returned, Shark had taken Yuma and his gang to a local cafe to talk about the past he shares with Rentaro.

Yuma: "Shark what's with you and Rentaro?"

Everyone started to listen in intently on Shark's next few words.

I said in a distraught tone "His old name, was Naruto Namikaze. Me and my sister were friends with him once before he disappeared, running away from home. He must have changed his name and appearance somewhere along the line here." 'why didn't he trust us enough to tell us where he has been all these years?'

Tori widened her eyes "Wait, that name, isn't that the one on the missing posters?" 'They only bothered to look for him now with the posters after all these years. Must be some family he has.'

Bronk in realization asked "Isn't that also the surname of that old famous duelist, The Yellow Flash of Konoha?" 'How dare they compare him to that bastard who sold out his son for power. But ...'

Shark being an ex duel circuit duelist and being a personal friend of Naruto knew about his reputation "Yes and yes, but he has since been disgraced because of the allegations and confessions of child abuse of the village as a whole." '...they have already gotten what they deserve.'

Yuma widened his eyes in surprise as he was placing the ideas all together: he wears a full body outfit (to hide the evidence of abuse), the change name (to hide from the abusers), his reaction to the poster even (his discomfort when looking at the missing poster) "But then that means." .

I, in an sad tone, said "Yes Yuma, Rentaro is that child that they abused.". 'I only wish I could have been there more for him.'

Bronk spoke up "That's crazy, if Rentaro had a past like that he would told us a long time ago.".

I in turn replied "I wouldn't be too surprised, He had left his other friends behind as well.".

Yuma, who has been looking off into space for the last few minutes suddenly became alarmed, if the look on his face was anything to go by. "Wait, what!?". Everyone looked at him confused.

Tori responded "Ummm, Yuma are you okay there"

Yuma P.O.V.

Tori widened her eyes "Wait, that name, isn't that the one on the missing posters?" 'Wait, what, missing poster!'

Bronk in realization asked "Isn't that also the surname of that old famous duelist, nicknamed The Yellow Flash of Konoha?" 'So that explains his dueling skills.'

Shark being an ex National Duel Circuit duelist and being a personal friend of Naruto knew about his reputation "Yes and yes, but he has since been disgraced because of the allegations and confessions of child abuse of the village as a whole.". Yuma had felt his heart drop as soon as he heard child abuse 'Wait what!, child abuse!'.

I widened my eyes in surprise as he was placing the ideas all together: he wears a full body outfit, the change name, his reaction to the poster even "but then that means.".

Shark in an sad tone "Yes Yuma, Rentaro is that child that they abused.". 'Rentaro, why didn't you tell any of us?'

Bronk spoke up "That's crazy, if Rentaro had a past like that he would told us a long time ago.".

Shark in turn replied "I wouldn't be too surprised, He had left his other friends behind as well.". 'No, that can't be true, Rentaro isn't the type to abandon his friends like that.'

Before he could voice his thoughts another voice began to speak out. It was from the mysterious phantom named Astral

In an apathetic voice the blue phantom figure said, "Yuma, it appears that with Rentaro's past the next number card will have a high probability to be with Rentaro."

I suddenly gaze off to Astral's form alarmed at what he had just said and implied "Wait what!?". I forgot Astral was someone or something I could only see and looked around to see everyone looking at in confusion.

Tori responded "Ummm, Yuma are you okay there"

Yuma P.O.V. end

Before anyone could say anything else, suddenly an ear piercing shriek echoed throughout the distance followed by another one. Everyone started to look in the direction it came from, well everyone aside from Shark at least. That was the same direction Rentaro headed off into.

Shark just started to laugh. "Hahaha, Oh yeah, that reminds me, we never could get one over on Naruto no matter how hard we tried in prank wars." internally the reminiscing wasn't the reason Shark was laughing; He was laughing because he recognized that voice as Quattro's. He could never forget anything about him because of how he was disqualified and banned because of him or how he put Rio into a coma, but to hear his voice sounding out like that was like christmas coming in early. 'Thank you, Naruto'.

Yuma could attest to that. "I know how you feel Shark, I tried to prank him once after hearing him saying no one could out prank him. It didn't end well.".

Everyone other than Shark could look on in remembrance that day. Yuma had walked into school that day in a pink-frilly ballerina costume with clown makeup all over his face in gloom. Rentaro had walked in a few seconds later, laughing his ass off. The pregnant silence of the shocked class soon turned into slight chuckling, then full blown laughter. Even the teacher couldn't help but laugh.

Bronk and Tori started to laugh "Oh yeah, Yuma, you looked good in that ballerina tutu that day" said Tori in a taunting matter. Bronk followed up "Not that your clown makeup helped." which lead to a roar of laughter from the other three at Yuma's expense.

Shark died down his laughing "Oh, that's nothing, I remember one night he placed fake spiders all over Rio's room and played soundtracks recordings of horror movies in my room when we were about 7 years old.". It was needless to say they wet their beds afterwards. Yuma asked "how is that worse?". Shark said "I wasn't finished yet. He then replaced all our shampoo with pink hair dye and laced our clothes with itching powder that day as well. He dubbed that day, the crazy pinkette twin day.".

Yuma, just now, had an idea of a way to get back at Naruto for that day, "Hey Shark, would you like Rentaro's home address.". Shark grabbed Yuma's hand and said "Thank you, Yuma.". "Okay it's ...", Little did they know, a shadow was eavesdropping around the corner of the building and the only defining trait the shadow had was a head band with a strange leaf symbol on it. After catching the information it needed, the shadow slowly faded out of sight around the corner. Soon after getting the residential address of Rentaro, Shark sped off on his bike hoping to catch him. The storm was brewing with the field set.

3 hours later with Rentaro

After finishing up his runs and clean up from Quattro's unfortunate accident, he returns home. Hopefully to fix his leaky roof from last night's storm.

"Blank District" a computerised voice said. Rentaro getting over his reminded trauma, stepped out of the crowded train 'Rentaro, take it easy, okay' 'We need to find another way to get to work and home again'

Walking down the streets until he came upon his apartment, What he didn't notice was a shadowy figure following him, but Akane did.

'Wait Rentaro, we are being followed.' 'By who.' 'by the guy in the back alleyway.' Rentaro carefully lifted up his D-pad to check out the approaching shadow reflection. His thoughts and ideas for counter reactions were halted.

*Vroom* *Vroom* a motorcycle sounded. It was Shark pulling up to him up on the side of the curb. "Naruto, we need to talk." Shark now sounded stern as he has gotten over the phase of complete and utter shock and now in anger that he left them all those years ago, though not as much as he could have been if not for Quattro's unfortunate accident.

Rentaro nodded as he mounted the motor cycle. "Hey what are you doing!?" Shark asked as he noticed the position they were in. In a whisper Rentaro had asked Shark "Can you take a scenic route around?", "Why and why are we whispering?" Rentaro only response was pointing to the back alleyway where a shadowy figure could be seen poking its head out as Shark gazed at the figure before recognizing the Leaf insignia on the arm band of the figure, alerting it causing it to run away. "Damn it Shark!, couldn't you be more subtle than that. I at least used my D-pad to see the guy's reflection, now they know your face and identity.". "Wait, what?", "*sigh* Just drive before more come." Shark nodded and drove off with Rentaro in tow.

At another street 30 minutes later

Night had fallen when they had finally gotten away from the street with the shadowy figure. Shark put his motorcycle to a stop. "Will you tell me what's going on now?" "Give me a second to think on how I'm going to phrase this.". A worried female voice echoed throughout his mind 'Rentaro are you sure you want to go through with this you could put him at risk' 'He was already at risk the moment they spotted me with him.'

"Okay start on why you left without saying anything else in the text message.", Rentaro now dawning his poker face said "To give you plausible deniability to find me." "What do you mean?"

"Think about it Shark!, you saw all my scars,..." pulling up his right sleeve to reveal the word "MURDERER" etched into his skin causing Shark to wince. "... If they could do this to a child, think about what could happen to you and Rio in their desperation to get me back. Especially when Rio is in such a vulnerable state such as of now.". Shark could only hang his head at this point.

"Why, Naruto ..." "Hmm?" "Why did you reveal your identity today if that was the case?" "I saw it in your eyes." "My what?" The melancholy in Rentaro's voice shot up "The eyes of loneliness, pain and despair. As I said before I couldn't let you be degrading yourself like that, for Rio's sake at least.". "I see, thank you Naruto.".

Calming his tone, he followed "*sigh* And before you say anything else, I want to say I was always there for you guys, you just didn't notice." pulling his hand out of his work bag producing a small baggie of a series of tickets all with assorted times and places but one common denominator linked them all. It was all for the National Duel Circuit and more specifically the ones for shark's old duels. The one that really caught his eye was the most recent one as that was the duel that got him banned from the tournament completely. "I went to every single one you had. I wanted to see you live on after, well everything."

"I also was that anonymous donor at the hospital that paid all of Rio's bills." Pulling out receipts of medical bills for the hospital labeled for Rio Kastle. Rentaro though he makes just enough to get by every month, however he would often go into illegal gambling and his luck has never run out as of yet as he is said to have the luck of the devil. He never spent a dime of that money on himself and for two reasons only: one, he never wanted to make a name for himself and two it went to the friends he left behind. "I'm banned from 10 casinos already for this, you know *chuckle*.".

Shark at this point was on his knees, tears streaming from his face. "Why?, Why would you do all this for us?" "Because you guys were my friends, no my precious people, who was always there for me. I can't stand to see you suffer like that not after all you did for me." "That day in the park I sent you that text message I honestly thought you would be just fine seeing how you were smiling.". He pulled shark into a hug and said "Come here you big lug." as shark cried.

As soon as Rentaro released him, Rentaro's face now cleared of its emotion now went on to what his plans were now, "I need to leave town soon." "What, why?" "As I said before Shark they're chasing me not you." "Wait, please Naruto you don't have to go, we won't let them get to you." "Shark, they will chase me to the ends of the earth to save themselves with their current situation and they don't have that sense of morality like we do. Shark, you have also read my medical history. They even sexually molested me, god damn it, if Rio got hurt like that because of me I would never forgive myself.".

A voice inside his head alerted Rentaro 'Rentaro we've got company' 'Damn it, I didn't expect them to find us so quickly.' Rentaro's eyes narrowed as two presences entered their area of perception, "Damn it, Shark they're here, Konoha!" this snapped Shark out of his trance, his expression hardened and he got in position for a fight, back to back with Rentaro.

A figure with a leaf symbol inscribed on his headband slowly entered the vision of shark as another figure with a leaf symbol inscribed on his headband entered Rentaro's vision. Rentaro on full alert asked "who are you and what do you want!?".

"We've found you Naruto Namikaze." "I go by another name now-a-days and my surname isn't that man's anymore, when he made my sister his heir instead of his natural first born I was disowned by them by clan law." "Besides that you are still a registered citizen of konoha and you must go back it's your fate to do so.".

The figures quickly came closer into view. One of them was a male with long brown hair with white clothing while the other was a female that looked younger than the male with the same color hair but the most defining feature was their eyes.

Upon closer examination of the Konoha envoys Rentaro said "Your eyes, I see, you're one of them aren't you." "One of what, Naruto?" Shark asked with great tension in his voice.

"I see you still know of us, Hyuga clansmen then.", "You know, my struggle is very similar to yours, Naruto, The Caged Bird Seal.". "The Caged Bird Seal, a seal that turns the wearer into a slave basically, correct" Shark eyes just widened at the mention of slave 'Jesus, enslaving children, What the hell kind of village is Konoha' "That is the partial truth, The seal only makes the wear a slave of his own free will, the real function of the seal is to kill the bearer on the whim of the seal master.". "I still have to be bound to my fate just like everyone else, just as you have to be, Naruto Namikaze!"

The eyes of Rentaro and Shark widened in horror of what he implied. "Did you know about this, Naruto?", "I knew about the sick acts that Konoha clans would perform every now and then but never of child slavery involvement.", another thought crossed his head "Wait, is Hinata inscribed with one?"

He simply smirked in response, "It seems we are at an impasse at our demands, so I offer a challenge" He holds up a deck, "We win we bring you back and if you win, we say our scouting had no results and I will answer your question.". "However fate today dictates that you will lose today, Naruto Namikaze!".

Having a sense of wit and wanting to tell of the annoy guy from Konoha Rentaro quipped "You know for someone who prides himself on being part of a clan you sure do lack the etiquette of one.". His eyes narrow at Rentaro "Why how silly of me I forgot, I am Neji Hyuga" and the female spoke up "and I am Hanabi Hyuga". "It's proper etiquette to tell your opponents your name before they are defeated after all.".

Rentaro turned to Shark and warned him "Shark, careful their Lineage allows them some freaky special ability that allows them to see your hand and their deck!" "What!?" Shark yelled in surprise.

Neji spoke up before anyone else could, "Indeed our eyes allow us to see everything except one blind spot behind our hearts.", "Now enough of this" The Hyuga clansmen activated their D-pads respectively

"Now, Let's duel"

End

Chapter 3: Recollections and Reunions

Omake: Quattro's unfortunate accident

Rentaro saw Quattro passing down the street after the Shark's incident. He decided to get a little revenge for Shark and Rio.

This neighborhood was well known for its butcher businesses and stray dog population. Rentaro who frequently made runs always carried a dog whistle to distract dogs while he had made deliveries to certain places. Quattro was also passing by the loud house with the chihuahuas piranhas 'those small guys eat like a pack of piranhas'. 'This is too good to be true, Rentaro.' 'I know, you thinking what I'm thinking.'.

A devious grin appeared on Rentaro's face and a matching one appeared on the mental fox inside his head. Rentaro quickly grabbed a full trash can behind one of the butcher stores and hid behind an alleyway.

As Quattro passed by *splash* Quattro was wet with guts as he turned to face Rentaro with his vision still blurry with all the guts and blood on his face, "What the...!?". He was suddenly cut off by a familiar voice, "What's the matter Thomas, not up for another prank war. HAHAHA!" (with the laughter being maniacal). His expression turned to sheer horror because someone knew his real name and someone had used the word prank war; he had always been afraid of the words prank war since his friend naruto had won everyone by a landslide every friggin time. He was now especially afraid because they had been used in the same sentence.

Realizing who it was he was very nervous at this point, "*Glup* Na-Naruto, can't we talk about this." "Okay, I go under for a while and find out that you sent a sweet little girl to the hospital in a coma, I think this calls for divine punishment! HAHAHA!". *Whistle* He flinched to the sound of the whistle as he yelled, "AHHHHHH!, wait what?" he touched himself to check if everything was okay before rubbing the guts off his face and looking around after a few second when nothing happened after the whistle.

Rentaro who hid on top of a roof out of sight just said, "Thomas, you should know this neighborhood is very famous for its dog population, especially chihuahuas, rottweilers and pitbulls, and that my friend was a dog whistle." *Bark* *Bark* *Bark* a sound of a hoard of dogs came about, in a sudden realization of horror that the dogs would chase the guts and blood he's coated in, Quattro just went running away from the barking "AHHHHH!". Rentaro's maniacal laughter could be heard all throughout the day and in his head a fox could be heard laughing as well.

3 hours later at the current Arclight dwellings

Quinton asked Quattro "What happened to you?" as he came home covered in torn clothing, bite marks and scratch marks as well as a chihuahua still clinging to Quattro's rear end. Trey just laughed in realization, only one thing or person could do this sort of damage.

"*groan* Quinton, just never mention prank war to me ever again.". Trey just laughed even more at this point at the mention of prank war. Quinton was just confused until he realized 'Yeah, this is something Naruto would definitely do.'. He would definitely need to keep his wits about him for the next few days because when Naruto starts a prank war, it means total war!

Quattro annoyed with Trey's laughter yelled "You shut up!, you realize now that he has declared prank war you two are next, right!" This thought made Trey pale while Quinton was just apathetic. Some things never change.

End

Omake: Quattro's unfortunate accident

Author's note: To the guest flamer in World Contract, you don't like my story fine don't read it, everyone is entitled to their own what-ifs on the fanfic website so if don't shut the fuck up about wanting me to "fuck off", my biggest what-if then is what if I take my fist and "fuck" up your face, and don't worry about me, I'm also fucking up your mom really good. To everyone else sorry you had to listen to this, but I don't take punches lying down. The next chapter is the fight against the Hyuga clan and the deepening of the bond between Shark and Rentaro. The Hyuga clan already had their deck taken already so their decks are going to be simplistic than regular archetypes. The next time is chapter 4: Shark's new hope, A new number is born!