Horizon

A Naruto & KKMaou fanfic by Jetede.

Standard disclaimers apply… We all know I don't own Naruto or Kyou Kara Maou.


Sora wo mi agereba
Hoshitachi ga hora matataiteru
Konohoshi no hitotachi mitai ni
Samazamana hikari wo hanatte

Sononaka de boku mo
Hitokiwa kagayaitetainda
Me wo tojite kokoro ni chikau
Nagareboshi ni yume wo takushite


Chapter 5: Revealed Identities
After a few minutes of staring into each other, Itachi gave up and sat down on the grass next to the blond-haired boy and started telling the young jinchuuriki what actually happened at the night of the Uchiha Massacre. To say that Naruto was surprised was an understatement.

That night on the grassy hill, their relationship changed forever.


"Aha haha ha… Ne, ne, Icchan, did you see Kakashi-sensei's face? That was hilarious!"

Itachi could only shake his head in disbelief on what Naruto had done just a few minutes earlier. The two of them had teleported away using shunshin no jutsu from the Hokage Monument and ended up in a small, dark alley on the outskirts of the town's marketplace.

"You do realize that they're going to be even more suspicious of us now, right Naru?" 'And Kakashi-senpai is most likely frantically trying to hunt our asses down with his Doton: Tsuiga no jutsu right at this very moment. His nin-dog summons are the best trackers in Fire country.'

Naruto shrugged with the big grin still pasted on his expression. "Mahh, daijoubu, daijoubu… We're going to Tsunade-no-baachan's office soon anyway." His mischievous grin grew wider. "But you know, that's not going to be fun if we just revealed ourselves like that. Too easy! We should let them sweat a bit more, don't you think so?"

Itachi suddenly felt a chill on back of his neck. Whatever Naruto's planning, it could not be good for Konoha. 'How the hell did I ever fall with this lil prankster of a fox, anyway?' He almost groaned as he saw Naruto's grin turned even more sinister and mischievous.

"So…what do you say we give Konoha a big surprise, eh?" Naruto proceeded out of the dark alley as he continued to cackle maniacally. Itachi shook his head again and sighed audibly. Konoha won't know what hits them.

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The Godaime Hokage was sitting behind her desk in her office that morning. She was slumped tiredly on the padded seat, her shoulders hunched and her arms were on the table, supporting her body. Her mind was worrying over a certain blond-haired, blue-eyed missing-nin who she had unofficially adopted as her younger brother years ago.

"Naruto…it's been almost 3 years. Where the hell are you, brat?" Tsunade sighed. "I hope you're alright out there."

For the past two and a half years Tsunade had been sending out the Konoha Elite Twelve and their jounin instructors after her otouto. Jiraiya the Gama-sennin (Toad Hermit) was also utilizing his spy network all over the Elemental Continent to the max in order to find his missing second apprentice. They had almost lost all hope in finding the Yondaime Hokage's legacy when they had not been able to find Naruto after the first six months he went missing, thinking that the young blond was already d—

Tsunade sighed again. When Jiraiya's spy network had confirmed that the Akatsuki was still searching high and low for the last jinchuuriki, both of the remaining Sannins were relieved since that meant that the Kyuubi had not been extracted from within Naruto, and that Naruto was still alive somewhere. They were disturbed, though, when they found out that Uchiha Itachi had also gone missing around the same time as Naruto. Somehow their disappearance was related to each other. The question is, how? Was Itachi responsible for Naruto's disappearance? What reason would the elder Uchiha has for kidnapping him even if he did, though? Jiraiya had confirmed that the Akatsuki was pissed off—did Itachi leave Akatsuki and somehow brought Naruto with him?

The Godaime Hokage leaned back to her reclining chair and turned it around so it faced the windows behind her. Outside, the warm morning sun was shining down on Konohagakure no Sato, casting long shadows between buildings on the ground. Far in the background, the Hokage Monument was covered in mist and fog. Wait a sec—

"That's weird. Usually the fog lifts up with the first rays of the sun during Autumn. The weather must've been cooler than usual this morning," Tsunade whispered to herself. She frowned a minute later. Somehow, something about that mist did not feel right to her. 'Could it be a jutsu? Nah, I'm just too paranoid this morning.'

No one could really blame her for being paranoid, though—especially after the chakra wave incident several nights before. The village was still on full alert and the guards were doubled in order to protect the village from any kinds of possible attack. Whoever was causing the chakra surge was definitely inside the walls of Konoha and had succeeded in infiltrating the village without even a hint of a trace other than that few seconds.

"Damn it. I'm too old for this shit. I can't even begin to comprehend how Sarutobi-sensei managed to survive his second seating as Hokage for twelve years," complained the Slug Sannin.

Tsunade was still in the middle of her silent rant when there was a knock on her door. She straightened herself and fixed her robes before she said, "Enter."

"Hokage-sama."

"Tsunade-shisou."

"How's the research mission, Shikamaru, Sakura?"

"Mendokusei. I asked the help of Sakura, Hinata, and Tenten to gather the information on the texts. We've discovered that the books and scrolls contain information on the history of the Elemental Continents and the different Hidden Villages, including the five major nations and the other minor villages. We've also found books that record myths and legends of the world, including those of the bijuus," explained Shikamaru.

"Tsunade-shisou, there are also texts written in one of the old civilization language, English. Apparently these four travelers are proficient in our basic language, which is based on what the old civilization called Japanese, I believe—and also in English. The nins who have been spying on them have also reported them speaking in a weird language." Sakura added.

"Weird language?" Tsunade frowned.

"Hai, Hokage-sama," Shikamaru answered. "I heard them speaking in what seemed to be gibberish. It's nothing like I've ever heard before. The fact that they know these three different suggests that they may be traveling scholars—"

"Yet you don't believe they are," interrupted Tsunade.

"They're simply too suspicious to be mere traveling scholars, especially since there's no record of them entering or exiting the gates. We've checked the records up to the past thirty days. None of the chuunin guards who had patrol and guard shifts for the last month remember ever seeing these four." Shikamaru said. "Kiba, Shino and Sai, however, told me that so far they haven't made any other suspicious movement during their stay in Konoha, other than the tour around the village, some shopping, and the frequent visits to the library. Basically, they seem to be only having fun and enjoying themselves in Konoha."

"That does sound suspicious." Tsunade furrowed her brows further and leaned back on her chair. "Kakashi is the one spying on them right now?"

"Hai, shishou. Kakashi-sensei was last reported following two of them. Kiba hasn't reported anything yet—he's following the other two with Akamaru as we speak. We were hoping that Both Pakkun and Akamaru could help us identify these people—if they were Akatsuki or not."

At that moment, Kakashi suddenly appeared inside the room from within a plume of smoke—the telltale of him using the shunsin no jutsu (body flicker technique).

"Hokage-sama."

"Kakashi-sensei, weren't you supposed to be following the tourists?"

"That's what I'm here for, Sakura." The ANBU captain turned his one visible eye toward Tsunade. "Hokage-sama, I lost the travelers."

"You WHAT?" Tsunade shouted as she stood up abruptly from her seat and slammed her hands on the table. Some of the organized stacks of papers and scrolls were disturbed out of their position and fell around the floor.

"Pakkun and I were watching them on top of the Hokage Monument this morning. Somehow they knew I was there and actually managed to pinpoint my hiding spot. One of them actually waved at me before they both disappeared."

"What do you mean disappeared?"

"I mean it literally, Tsunade-sama. They just poof-ed out of the area without a single trace. I tried tracking them with my nin-dogs for a few hours all around the village to no avail. Kiba and Akamaru haven't seen anything out of the ordinary with the other two. Apparently my subjects have not met with their partners ever since."

Tsunade sighed for the n-th time that morning and returned to her seat.

"There's something else, Hokage-sama," Kakashi continued. "Pakkun said something rather disturbing to me before they disappeared. The language these foreigners were speaking in—Pakkun said that it's some sort of an ancient language that apparently no humans are supposed to know—or at least, not anymore since a long time."

Tsunade, Shikamaru and Sakura were all shocked with this new information. An ancient language that no one knows about? These people seem to be more dangerous than they initially thought.

"Kakashi-san, are you saying that these foreigners aren't human?"

"I honestly don't know, Hokage-sama. Pakkun didn't understand the language, only that he recognized it as a lost ancient language." Shikamaru furrowed his brows and crouched down as he put his thumbs and forefingers together in his usual thinking pose. Recognizing the genius strategist at work, Tsunade gave him several minutes to process the information.

Not a few minutes after that though, the door to the Hokage office burst open; a frantic chuunin came in breathless.

"Hokage…sama." pants "There are trouble all around the village." Another pause as he took a breath to calm himself down. "Traps that range from simple paint bombs all the way to sticky honey and rotten eggs were set off all around the village. Someone's been doing a major prank all over the village. It's a chaos out there. Even the ANBU headquarters did not go unscathed. Investigations stated that this seemed to be the work of the same person."

The Godaime groaned audibly as she heard the news. "Have you checked Konohamaru?"

"Hai, Hokage-sama. When we first found out about the traps, we all thought that it might have been the work of Konohamaru-san, but he has a solid alibi—he's not even within Konoha walls at this time." The chuunin paused in his report. "Also, the Hokage Monument was desecrated." He pointed outside the window where they know could see the painted heads of the Hokages. They were immediately reminded of Naruto when they saw the monument. Everything about the 'artwork' shouted "NARUTO" all over it—especially since there was one word written on the Godaime's forehead: 'Tsunade-baba' and that the there were wrinkles drawn on the face.

Tsunade twitched and broke a pen she found on her desk. She sent the chuunin to get some nins to investigate around the Hokage Monument itself. The chuunin was more than happy to comply—anything is better than facing the wrath of the Godaime Hokage straight up.

"First it was the chakra wave, then the mysterious foreigners, and now, THIS?!" Tsunade exclaimed. "What the fuck is going on?!" Kakashi, Sakura and Shikamaru were speechless to hear the Hokage swearing. Suddenly they heard laughter from outside the window.

'What the…'

Kakashi went to the window and opened it, a kunai readied in hand while his other raised in front of his masked face in the universal gesture of silence. Sakura and Shikamaru nodded and prepared their own weapons. Tsunade started to mold some chakra on her fist as she slowly backed away from her seat by the window, yet still close by.

The laughter had not subsided and became louder as the window was opened. Kakashi threw his kunai out of the window. The kunai hit, making a 'thwack' sound.

'Wait a sec—that's not the sound of a kunai hitting on flesh.' All of a sudden there were smoke outside the window and the sound of wood falling on roof.

'Kawarimi!' Sakura thought.

"Moou…Hatake-san no hidoi. You almost hit me there," a voice suddenly stated from behind Kakashi.

'He's fast! I didn't even sense him coming into the room!' were the collective thoughts of all three Konoha nins as they abruptly turned around to face the unknown intruder.

"Who the hell are you?" Tsunade asked. There, standing in the middle of her office, right in front of Kakashi was a cloaked figure. They could see the brown color of his eyes reflected from within the hood he was wearing. '—and where the hell are my ANBU guards?'

"If you're wondering where your ANBU guards are, Hokage-sama, you don't have to worry. They've only been temporarily disabled—no harm done." Another cloaked figure stated from the far left side of the room. "The four hidden in the ceiling are currently asleep, while the other two outside the door are unconscious. I've also put up a silencing barrier around the room, so don't bother with trying to call your other ANBU guards. We're not here to hurt anybody."

'What the…' Kakashi was shocked. He didn't even sense the other one inside the room until he spoke. Tsunade had similar thoughts on her mind. All of them had come to the same conclusion: these two must've been their missing foreigners that Kakashi had been spying on earlier.

"Tch. You're really mendokusei, you know that, Nacchan and Icchan, isn't it?" Shikamaru said sarcastically while the figure grinned. He had his hands inside his pocket and his shoulders hunched in what seemed to be a relaxed lazy pose, however quietly the shadow user was preparing to strike the two intruders with his kagemane no jutsu if they were deemed as threats.

'Heh, figures. Shikamaru probably has already guessed who I am—or at least is having his suspicions on my real identity. I wonder if he knew it's Itachi with me, though.' Naruto thought as he looked at the still henged Itachi from the corner of his eyes. 'Leave it to the genius strategist to find out my identity so fast.'

"I'll ask this once more, who the hell are you guys, and what do you want?" Tsunade asked. She was pissed off. These two strangers managed to infiltrate her office without breaking a sweat, and even managed to disable six ANBU guards without anyone noticing.

"Maa…don't be so angry, Tsunade-sama. We really mean you no harm. We're here just here to talk." Naruto said as he waved his hands in front of him dismissively.

"You wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the chakra wave several nights ago, now, would you?" Shikamaru asked in his usual bored tone.

"Ah…that? That wasn't me but my other partner's doing, hehe…" Naruto said sheepishly. "But we're not here for that—"

"And what about the traps all around town? You said you're not here to hurt anyone, yet the villagers could be hurt from the traps you set off outside," Sakura cut in.

"They're just merely harmless joke, I assure you, Haruno-san," Replied Naruto. "But anyway, we need to have a talk with your Hokage privately here. So, Icchan, could you please?"

Before anyone could react, Kakashi, Sakura and Shikamaru were suddenly rendered unconscious by Itachi's hidden sharingan. The three Elites fell down on the floor almost immediately.

"What the—what did you do to my subordinates?" Tsunade was livid.

"Don't worry, Tsunade-no-baachan. They're merely unconscious. Icchan didn't hurt them or anything, I promise."

Tsunade reacted immediately to the 'baachan' comment. She reached her paper weight on the table and flung it across the room towards the still cloaked Naruto. "Who the hell are you calling old hag!?" Naruto eep-ed and ducked away from the onslaught.

"Cheh, Tsunade-baba! What the hell was that for? You're still as violent as ever!" complained Naruto.

"…Naruto?"

Naruto grinned and took off the hood of his cape. He removed his special henge with a wave of his hand after that, revealing his original spiky, bright blond hair and striking blue eyes.

"In the flesh, baachan! Tadaima!"


TBC
A/N: Teehee…I just had to do that "I'm back!prank" thingie with Naruto. I couldn't resist. What do you think about Naruto's reunion with Tsunade so far? I'm evil for stopping this chapter at that cliffhanger, aren't I:P Sorry, but I also had to do that. The explanations as to what actually happened 2.5 years ago will be revealed in the next chapter! If you want me to publish the chapter soon, REVIEW!


Sannin and Sennin…now that's 2 words that has confused people in the hundreds of different Naruto fics I've read until now. Let me make it clear for you guys.

Sannin is an unofficial title given to Sandaime Hokage's 3 students: Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru. The title granted them (unofficially) unlimited free travel rights across the continent without being branded as a missing-nin, even if they don't make it back to Konoha. The word sannin basically means 3 ninjas, and they're strength and power are believed to be Kage level—thus the longer title of Densetsu no Sannin, or the Legendary Three Ninjas.

We know that Tsunade left Konoha and did not want to have anything to do with Konoha after the death of her biological younger brother and fiancée, and resorted to drinking and gambling afterwards—before our favorite lil blond fox-boy convinced her to take the Hokage title. She's the master summoner for the slugs and the best medic nin in the world.

Jiraiya, on the other hand, was traveling all over the continent on a long-term reconnaissance mission—spying on all the different hidden villages with the help of his spy network, and also on potential rogue organizations that could be potential threat to Konoha (like the Akatsuki). When he said he was on a mission, gathering information, it could be taken into 2 different meanings: first, he was actually doing real info gathering for Konoha, and the second (and our favorite) was peeking on girls in bath houses, gathering a different kind of info for his perverted porn Icha Icha series. Jiraiya is quite a complex character. I myself don't think that he's as shallow as he showed himself to be—remember…underneath the underneath :D. Oh, and Naruto calls him Ero-sennin (perverted hermit) for his peeking hobby.

Finally, Orochimaru, our favorite villain…well, I don't think I need to explain who or what he is to you guys. Basically he's a pedophilic snake-loving bastard of a traitor, who literally was also a snake himself after his 'successful' pursue of immortality. He's also the master summoner for the snakes. We know he was jealous of Yondaime Hokage for getting the Hokage title instead of him. A lot of fans theorized that the reason that Kyuubi went on a rampage in Konoha was because Orochimaru summoned the bijuu as revenge. Who knows if it's true or not…

The word Sennin, on the other hand, means hermit. Jiraiya proclaimed himself as a Gama-Sennin, or a Toad Hermit, for being the official master holder of the Toad summon contract. I've never heard Tsunade and Orochimaru, though.

Hopefully this clears out the confusion!