Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor am I affiliated in any way with it, other than being a fan. Those rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto. I do own the OC's and any techniques and weapons I add to the story.

A/N: This chapter will deal with the aftermath of the Uchiha incident, and will cover the academy days of Naruto and Sasuke before their graduation, along with a history lesson on the Elder Dimension from Felix. Minato will also figure out an important detail. With all votes in on the sibling question, looks like Naruto's going to be a brother, starting this chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter 6: Aftermath and Plots

"You are sure of this?" Minato asked Itachi. It was the night after the incident, and Itachi had told the Yondaime about his father's final words.

"I am positive, Lord Hokage," replied Itachi. "The name my father gave me was that of one of the Leaf's co-founders, Madara Uchiha. I am not sure if this is the real Madara we are dealing with or not. He should be dead by now, but if there is someone who could extend his life like that, it would be him."

Minato sighed and rubbed his temples. It had come back to the masked man again. Felix told him that the masked man was not in fact Madara, but continued to refuse to tell him the man's true identity, and Naruto was keeping his mouth shut as well.

After digesting Itachi's words, Minato considered everything he knew about the man. He knew that, Madara or not, he was an extremely dangerous Uchiha. His mask only had one eye hole, the right one, which probably meant he was missing his left eye. He had seemed to know a thing or two about Minato's moves, though that could be written off as having a very good spy network. He had known Madara at some point, which probably put him at a decent age, though he would have to be a little past his prime for the most likely ages. Though there was still the possibility that Madara did extend his natural lifespan even if only a little…

Not only that, but Felix seemed to think that the knowledge was not something he would want to know about. As much as he trusted Naruto's and Felix's judgement, he felt he needed to figure this out. The man was an Uchiha who only used his right eye, seemed to know about Minato's abilities and there was thought that the knowledge would be something Minato would not take well… oh no. Minaot's eyes snapped open as the pieces fell into place. It couldn't be, but it fit much better than Minato would like.

Itachi noticed Minato deep in thought before seeming to have a sudden revelation. He was about to say something, but the door burst open and Asuma dashed into the room. "Lord Hokage! I am sorry to disturb you, but this is important! Someone somehow got into the morgue without leaving a trace of their presence, except for the fact that all the eyes of all the Uchiha that were killed during last night's incident have been taken by someone! Not only that, but Shisui Uchiha has been found dead in the forests outside of Konoha, and his eyes are missing as well!"

"What?!" Itachi shouted, shocked to hear about the demise of his closest friend.

….

"How are you feeling?" Naruto asked Sasuke as he entered the hospital room.

"I've been better physically, but I'll be fine in that area," Sasuke replied. "I just can't believe that my father would have done such things. Planning a coup on the village, and actually coming for you… I just don't understand…"

"Hey, look on the bright side, at least you awakened your Sharingan!"

Sasuke actually gave a small smile. "Yeah, there is that."

"Do you hate him?"

"No, I can't hate my own father. But I do know that he did need to be stopped, so I can't blame anyone for his death. Mom agrees with me on that."

"Good, at least Sasuke isn't going down the path to hatred this time…" Naruto thought with a sad smile. "We've got a good start to fixing things."

"Anyway, I'll be out of the hospital in a few days," Sasuke continued. "Then we can start training again. I don't want to have to take another kunai for you."

"Yeah, it's getting to be a habit with you…"

"What?"

"Oh! Er, nothing!" Naruto panicked, as he cursed his big fat mouth. He was saved from the possibility of Sasuke getting suspicious by the arrival of Itachi.

"Feeling all right Sasuke?" Itachi asked. "Hello Naruto," he then said with a small smile at his brother's friend.

"I'm fine, big brother," Sasuke replied. "What about you? You all right after being the one who had to kill Dad?"

"I'll get over it, but something else has occurred. Shisui is dead."

"What?!" Both Naruto and Sasuke demanded, having the same reaction as Itachi.

….

"You are quite generous, Obito," Raizen said as he removed his helmet and laid down on the operating table, his face still obscured by the shadows. "I knew that you would deliver the good faith payment, but to have a set of Mangekyo Sharingan? You certainly outdid yourself this time."

"It is no trouble at all," Obito replied, smirking under his mask as he prepared Shisui's eyes. "I can be quite generous with my power when I want to be…"

….

It was about two days after the incident had occurred and Naruto was being pulled towards his dad's office by Kushina. Apparently, after all that had happened, she was determined to give Minato some good news for a change. So now she was putting a scroll into Naruto's hands and pushing him into the office, telling him to open it towards Minato so he could read it when she gave him the go ahead.

Naruto felt he could use some good news as well. After learning of Shisui's death, he had been depressed. Even though he had never met the Uchiha, he had hoped that preventing the Uchiha clan massacre, he could save him as well. But it seemed as though he had failed again.

"Minato, how is it going?" Kushina asked sweetly as he and four clones were going through the large piles of paperwork that the incident had resulted in.

"Kushina, glad you and Naruto could stop by," Minato replied. "It's going alright, though it's going to take some time for the waters to calm between the village and the Uchiha clan."

"Well, Naruto and I have something to tell you," Kushina said with a nod to Naruto, who opened the scroll with the writing in it facing Minato, who stared dumbly at it for a few seconds before he fainted, his clones going poof as well. Confused as to why good news would make Minato pass out, Naruto checked the writing on the scroll before doing as his father had done, fainting.

Kushina laughed hysterically at the two as the scroll fell, the words, "I'm going to be a big brother!" displayed to the air.

…..

"Obito-sama, do you really think it was wise to give him a Sharingan that powerful?" Zetsu asked Obito.

"It is true, for now he will be a greater threat because of it," Obito replied. "But the Sharingan he is now using is Mangekyo, which will mean his vision will start to deteriorate to the point of blindness. That will give me an advantage when the time comes for us to struggle for power in this organization."

"But won't his Sharingan allow him to manipulate you? That will render your plans useless."

"I have already thought of that, which is why I am going to take a few of your clone spores. Every two minutes when I am around Raizen, you are to have them send a bit of chakra into my system. That should dispel any genjutsu he puts on me when I am not paying attention."

"I see. That is cunning, Obito-sama."

….

"FAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNGGGIIIIIRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" both Naruto and Sasuke screamed in mortal terror as they fled the academy with a hoard of love struck girls right on their heels, Sakura and Ino in the lead. It had been five months since the incident with the Uchiha clan, and Naruto finding out that his mother was pregnant. Things had settled down for the time being. Mikoto had taken leadership of the clan as planned, though Itachi had some support. He had refused, preferring to remain an active shinobi. Sasuke had eventually moved on from the death of his father, though he was still seen mourning at times.

They had finally gotten Iruka as their teacher in the academy, and things had been looking up since then. Unfortunately, at some point, most of the girls had finally passed the "cooties phase" and were now after Naruto and Sasuke on a regular basis. This group had ambushed them as they had tried to leave the classroom unnoticed once the lesson was over.

Moving quickly, they rounded a corner and Naruto made 20 clones, had 10 of them turn into Sasuke, and the clones scattered in pairs, while the originals used the Transformation technique to appear as stones on the road. Once the fan girls were gone, they returned to their normal forms with a sigh of relief. "How the hell do they keep finding us?" Naruto asked exasperatedly. He remembered Sasuke having these problems the last time, but it was new for him. It was likely due to the fact that he was known as Minato's son this time around, and wasn't exactly bad looking.

"I don't know, but let's get out of here before they catch on that we are not among the decoys and come back," Sasuke replied, shuddering at the thought of being caught by them.

"Agreed."

They immediately set off, eventually finding themselves at Ichiraku's where they saw Itachi and Felix each enjoying a bowl. "Oh Sasuke, Naruto, how was your day at the academy?"Itachi asked. "You look a little like you've seen better days."

"Horrible… evil monsters…" Naruto replied with a shudder.

"It never ends," Sasuke continued. "Make it stop…"

Itachi sweat dropped as he watched both boys go into the fetal position. "Fan girls again?" he asked while Felix snorted. Itachi remembered his days in the academy, running for his life and dignity from the said plague. He recalled a particularly nasty incident when he had resorted to hiding in a dumpster to escape his fan club. He almost wished they had caught him upon being chewed out by both of his parents for coming home smelling like garbage as a result.

Part of the reason he became an ANBU was so he could get away with wearing a mask all the time so he could ditch them more easily. So far he was able to keep them from catching on to which ANBU was him, but he feared that it was only a matter of time before he would be requesting another mask be issued to him from Minato.

After Naruto and Sasuke recovered from their horrible experience, Itachi bought Sasuke a bowl of ramen (though he was smart enough to refrain from paying for Naruto's: his wallet could not be labeled as a masochist anytime soon). After that, he and Sasuke headed home.

"Hey, Naruto," Felix said while Teuchi was gleefully counting the money he had made off of Naruto. The only other customer who brought in this much was Kushina, and she was eating for two now, so Teuchi was making a killing lately. "Your father wants to have a word with the two of us."

"What about?" Naruto asked, slurping up his last bowl of ramen.

"He did not say, but it probably has something to do with the ED…"

"All right, let's go." With that, Felix paid his bill and they headed off towards the Hokage's tower. "You know, I remember my days when I was being chased by fan girls as well…"

"What? You had fan girls too?"

"Of course. I was a prodigy back in the Elder Dimension growing up and I am from one of the more prestigious clans there. Not only that, but my looks were considered devilishly good to a lot of them."

Naruto snorted. "So, how do you deal with it?"

"I got married to a very scary woman," Felix deadpanned. "It's amazing what having a wife that terrifies the living daylights out of people making it clear that you're taken can do to that otherwise unstoppable force."

"Well, that certainly explains why Dad doesn't seem to have many problems. But doesn't that mean you're whipped?"

Felix sweat dropped. "There is no such thing as a perfect solution you know."

Naruto sniggered. "I bet you're wishing that that vixen of yours wasn't so shy right about now, eh Naruto?" Kurama sniggered.

"Shut up Fuzzbutt, we haven't even started to really talk to one another yet," Naruto thought at Kurama before he asked Felix,"You know, you just reminded me when you mentioned your clan, is it the most powerful one in the Elder Dimension?"

"No, though it is up there. Of course, the most powerful clan that the Elder Dimension saw, the Genshukuayatsuri, died out long ago."

"The Genshukuayatsuri? Who were they?"

"These days, we only have legends of them, but their Kekkei Genkai allowed them to manipulate gravity at will."

"Isn't that the force that pulls us down to the ground?"

"I see that your mother has been hard at work pounding information into your head. That is correct, though that is not all there is to it. You see, all objects have a gravitational attraction to them and other objects. The more mass an object has, the greater the attraction. Since the ground has the most mass in the world, it has the strongest pull on all objects near it.

"But a Genshukuayatsuri could easily increase or decrease these attractions with a thought, and reverse them, allowing them to attract one object to another, or repel them. It's kind of like what Pain could do, only with more power behind it. It was also a simple matter for them to either make objects either lighter or heavier at will, even to the point where flight was child's play for them. Supposedly, this actually allowed them to wear armor as heavy as they desired while making it light enough to easily move in without even being slowed. In fact, I believe that a few used their abilities to condense whatever metal they chose to a point where it was virtually impenetrable, and used their power to make the extra weight nonexistent."

"But that kind of power would eat up a large amount of chakra," Naruto said. "To use it like that in battle, constantly maintaining it, they would not have lasted that long."

"Under most circumstances, that would be correct. However, the Genshukuayatsuri had massive chakra reserves, comparable to a Bijuu," Felix paused to let this sink in. "Not only that, but they somehow had very good chakra control despite this, enough to make those regular clones that you had so much trouble with if they wanted to, not that they ever had a use for such a technique. With those factors working for them, they were able to meet the heavy demands of their jutsu. And if the legends are anything to go on, their greatest application of their power was to create a microscopically small point where the gravity was so strong, that even light would be sucked into it, from an area about the same size as a normal Rasengan. They could use this for either defense by absorbing attacks into it, or offense by using it as a projectile on enemies. And if that point of gravity absorbs enough matter, they could "detonate" it by releasing the gravity from that point, causing it all to violently explode, likely with enough power to rival a Bijuu Bomb if it was going for more than a minute."

Naruto shuddered. He did not relish the idea of going up against someone who had that much power. "If they were that powerful, what happened to them?"

"They were not a virtuous clan to say the least. It is believed that their Kekkai Genkai twisted their minds at birth, resulting in them becoming power hungry. If there ever was a clan that was born evil, it would be them. At one point, they became the tyrannical rulers of the Elder Dimension until all other clans united and rose up against them. Even then, the only real reason they were defeated was because the clans outnumbered them by over a hundred to one, and even then, about 90 percent of the allied clans' forces were slain in the struggle. But in the end, the Genshukuayatsuri clan was driven to extinction."

"Wow," Naruto said as they approached the Hokage's tower.

….

"Good, you're both here," Minato said when Naruto and Felix entered the office.

"Look, Minato, I already told you," Felix started. "I am not going to tell you every little detail of the future until we get to points where we need your assistance to change something so…"

"It is not that I want to ask Felix, this is about the masked man."

Felix sighed and said, "I already said that you are better off not-"

"He's Obito, isn't he?"

Felix and Naruto both stiffened. "So you know then," Felix said. "I guess it wasn't that hard to figure out, now that I think about it."

Minato sighed and buried his face in his hands, clearly having hoped that Felix or Naruto would deny what he had deduced.

"Minato, I know what you are thinking," Felix said. "You can't hold back if it comes to another fight between you two. As much as I hate to say it, he has become too dangerous to do so. Saving him is out of the question now. Kakashi tried, but Obito likely killed him in the future, though neither Naruto or I saw it. I did not want you know, because I thought you would hesitate to do what needs to be done. He is already most likely past the point of no return, and what's worse, he actually believes that his goals, which I still won't say yet, are ultimately for the greater good."

"I know that, though it won't be easy to stop thinking of him as my student."

"You are going to have to put those feelings aside when the time comes. Remember, Naruto and I have seen what the future he brought about is like, and we need to prevent it, even if it does mean killing Obito."

"I know how you feel Dad," Naruto piped up. "I had a comrade in the future who went down a dark path despite my best efforts to prevent it, and I was fixated on bringing him back. Eventually he did come back, but it was only due to some special circumstances that I had little to do with. And he barely made the decision to honor the choices of the one he was trying to avenge, he had been so far gone. Obito is already beyond even that point. I won't say that he can't be saved but… he did so many things that I cannot forgive, even if many of them haven't happened yet and I prevented the first of them."

"You're talking about the death of Kushina and I, right?" Minato asked. Then he sighed. "You're both right. If he truly has fallen so far as to try to destroy the village and try to kill her, then he will see no mercy from me. I promise that."

….

At an Akatsuki hideout, Orochimaru was busy finishing one of his experiments before he stiffened and turned in time to see a masked man appear out of virtually nowhere. "Who are you?" he demanded before he pulled his sword out of his mouth and called several snakes.

"I am the true leader of the Akasuki," Obito said boldly.

Orochimaru frowned at this. "I thought our leader was Pain… oh I see, you're using him as a figurehead."

"You are correct. And there is something I would discuss with you."

"Very well, but who exactly are you? Your name this time please."

"Madara Uchiha."

Orochimaru's eyes widened. "I don't believe you. That man is supposed to be dead."

Obito laughed. "Oh, Orochimaru, did you really think that you were the one to develop a means of immortality?"

"So you know about that?"

"Indeed. I am also aware of the fact that you have your eyes set on one of the followers of one of our members, Raizen Genshukuayatsuri."

Orochimaru frowned. "If that is the case, then why haven't you already tried to kill me, since I am plotting against the organization?"

"Because I am worried that Raizen is planning on playing us all for fools. I promised him his current set of Sharingan as well as another powerful dojutsu, but I believe he is in reality after the prize that I myself desire. It is in my best interests therefore, for me to allow you to attempt to remove one of his pawns for me. However, whether you are successful or not, should you survive and flee the organization, I see no reason that we can't still privately help each other toward a mutual side goal: the destruction of the Hidden Leaf Village."

"Go on…"

…..

It was about four months since Minato had deduced Obito's identity, and things were quiet at the academy. Hinata was staring intently at Naruto, trying to figure him out. He was the Yondaime's son and was top of the class along with his best friend Sasuke, but he did not seem to think he was superior to everyone despite all this. He was always willing to go out of his way to help someone, just like he had helped her that day. That said, he did have a rather boisterous attitude and pulled a great deal of pranks, with Sasuke always willing to lend a hand to them, but they never did anything too cruel, with the possible exceptions of Tora being set loose into the Inuzuka compound and that memorable incident with the monument painting that let the village know that the Yondaime was whipped. And most people laughed about the jokes afterwards, even if they were the victims.

But what Hinata was really trying to figure out about him were his eyes. There seemed to be a deep sorrow in them, the kind that she recognized because of her mother dying when there were complications in Hanabi's birth. But why did his eyes have that look? Sure, there were plenty of villagers who seemed to hate the boy for some reason, but that was not enough to warrant such a sense of loss. What could have happened to make Naruto's eyes like that? And it only seemed to get more complicated when she noticed that he seemed to glance at her sometimes, with the sense of loss seeming to increase, as well as something else appearing in his eyes. It took Hinata some time to place just what emotion it was that appeared whenever this had occurred: longing. It was almost as if she had known him before, with them being at least somewhat close, but had forgotten. This conclusion only confused her more.

Naruto and Sasuke were in the midst of exchanging notes (or plotting their next joke under the guise of exchanging notes), when they and everyone else in Konoha heard the anguished scream, "GOOOOOOOOOOOOD IT HUUUUUUUUUUUUURTTTSSSSSS!" Naruto sweat dropped. He recognized that voice, and there was only one thing that could make its owner cry out that loud in pain that loudly. His mom was in labor. He guessed he would have to put the masterpiece he and sasuke were planning on hold.

About ten hours later, he was holding the newborn redheaded girl, Akari Namikaze. His parents had gotten back from the delivery room and Kushina was more than willing to let Naruto get acquainted with his new sister. Naruto was wondering if Akari would resemble their mother as much as he resembled their father.

He laughed when Minato told the story of how he had learned Kushina was in labor. Apparently he had dashed out of his office in a hurry with the secretary asking what about the paperwork, and he had answered that unless that was having babies as well, though he wouldn't exactly be surprised if that was where it all came from, then it could wait.

Naruto gazed at Akari fondly. He had never expected to have a sibling. But then, last time around he lacked what he had always wanted, and this time he was able to reclaim it. A family.

A/N: And that's chapter six. Graduation is next chapter, and Felix will have a gift for Naruto. Final results are in for the votes and it looks like Hinata is the winner. As for whom the Jonin instructor will be… just wait and see! It will be next chapter.

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