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I would like to give a shout out to those who have reviewed, followed and favorite my story in the short time it has been out. I can't believe I have over two hundred followers, and favorites, I'm blown away really thank you all.
Rest assured this chapter will spread a little more light onto what exactly the relationship between the two Naruto's is while also adding more insert evil laugh here. Also thank you again to all who participated in the last contest I will be having another soon. Also I am sorry if the last chapters fight scene was a little convoluted, it was my first attempt at one, and I have gone back and corrected it slightly trying to make it more stream line. With luck my next one will be better, and so on.
Also small point but the chapters will be going back to their original size, the last one was a direct result of me trying to keep my promise to revile that other voice and still cover what I wanted to. So back to the story.
Chapter six
"Talking"
"Thinking/Mental conversation" (decided to change font so it is easier to tell let me know it helps)
"DEMON/God or the like"
"Jutsu"
-The secret is out-
Kushina found herself looking upon a glowing figure standing before her. He stood no taller than her own son had, and seemed to be wearing a golden glowing jacket with a great black tree patterned across the back of it, with ten branches stretching out from its base. As her eyes traveled up she saw a familiar set of eyes looking down at her from the mysterious figure.
"Oh kami Kaasan I'm sorry, if I had known I would have been here sooner." said the figure before her in a voice she had not dared to dream of hearing again.
"S-sochi?" asked Kushina in a broken voice looking between the figure before her and the boy still nestled in her arms.
"Naruto there isn't time to explain he can still be saved, but you need to get rid of Zabuza now!" cried the Juubi to the Naruto who now stood above Kushina; even as the redhead finally passed out due to exhaustion.
"Kay Juubi lets do this!" he shouted in his mind.
Zabuza could not tell what was happening before him, one moment he was bringing the remains of his sword to bear down on his victims, the next someone who was almost a complete copy of the boy he had just squired moments before appeared, and was blocking his blade with some kind of strange black bar that glowed with an odd purple energy.
As he looked at the figure before him his highly developed senses began taking in the new arrivals form as quickly as possible. The figure looked so much like the boy that still lay in the red heads arms he would have sworn on his sword that they were twins. The same purple and blue eyes, the same height, hell even the same hair color. The differences, however, were just as striking while the first boy had been dressed in what he could only describe as an orange jumpsuit this new figure seemed to be coated by a strange energy acting as clothing. His body was defined by a black body suit with several glowing markings along it in the shape of leaves. On top of this what appeared to be a golden jacket sat giving off flakes of golden energy even as it waved gently in the breeze. The man noticed too that the boys skin seemed to be giving off the same golden light as well, and that his hair now had two golden horns that seemed to be formed from his hair.
Before he could see more however, his senses screamed at him to dodge as the figure brought another one of those strange black and purple bars towards his head in a horizontal ark. Zabuza leapt back from the attack landing a few yards away in a crouching position beside the hole that he had only recently crawled out of.
"Who or what the fuck are you supposed to be kid?" Zabuza called across the battlefield as he landed, his eyes never leaving the new figure.
Naruto did not react to these words turning his head once again to look down at the bloodied and broken form of what appeared to be himself still cradled in his mother's arms before looking back at the swordsman.
"you'll pay." naruto spoke in a voice barely above a whisper, even as his hands tightened around the two rods he held in his hands, and he called for his seeds to approach him.
"What?" replied Zabuza not clearly hearing the boys words over the continued sounds of battle coming from where Haku and Kiba were still engaged.
"I SAID YOU'LL PAY YOU BASTARD!" screamed Naruto as he charged forward even as several objects seem to faze into being around him. To Zabuza it looked as though the boy was now being trailed by a six balls around the size of a grapefruit all made out of the same black and purple energy as the bars the boy held. His questions did not last, however, as whatever the things were two had detached themselves from the circle they seemed to form around the boys back and were now rushing towards him at insanely high speeds.
"Shit!" was all he managed to say as he flung himself to the left avoiding the projectiles by just a few inches as he did so. Turing his head he saw two small craters from where the balls had impacted moments before, each looking like an explosive tag had just gone off. His momentary distraction cost him however; as he turned to locate his opponent again his face was met with the impact of one of those bars wielded by his advisory's golden fist.
With a sickening crack Zabuza one again found himself skidding backwards across the battle field. As he came to a halt he was barely able to rise before collapsing to one knee looking across as the two black balls wrenched themselves out of the ground to return their fellows behind the boy.
Shit what they hell is he, he doesn't have a form but he hits like an anvil, and what the hell are those things with him? I've never heard of a jutsu like that before. Damn it I 'm running on empty as it is after dealing with that red haired bitch, I can't waist time trying to figure this kid out as well. Zabuza's mind raced as he looked towards his opponent who had started to turn to face him again.
Fuck this I'm not dying today! He thought before going through a set of hand signs quickly before the boy could reengage him. With a cry of Kirigakure no Jutsu the battlefield was soon covered by a thick cloud of mist enveloping his form as well as the rest of the groups. This caused the rest of those to halt their actions trying to get a sense of their location and that of their enemies.
"Haku we're pulling back for now!" called Zabuza threw the mist his voice appearing to come from every direction.
"Hai!" came a call back and a few seconds after that the leaf shinobi heard the sound of figures retreating over the lake their footsteps causing small disturbances as they rushed away.
As the figures retreated the mist began to recede from the field allowing those present to get a clear look at one another.
"Quick Seedling get back to him before it's too late!" called the Juubi urging Naruto back towards the downed form of his Kaasan who seemed to have fainted with his fellow still grasped in her arms.
"Right" called back Naruto as he rushed towards his Kaasan's downed form. As he reached her he almost allowed himself to pull back in horror at the scene before him. His fellow had been nearly torn in half by Zabuza's blow, even as he looked on he could see that the boy was not long for this world.
"Juubi oh kami what are we going to do! I can't fix this!" Naruto shouted slowly becoming hysterical at what he was looking at.
"Seedling just shut up and place your hand on him." said the Juubi fighting back tears as she said so. Her body shook as she spoke even as her arms wrapped around her form, as if trying to hold herself together long enough to do what had to be done.
"Ok Juubi-san please save him! Please." Replied Naruto as he bent down to place his hand upon the other Naruto's form.
"Damn it, the damage is too much, I'm sorry seedling there's only one thing we can do." replied Juubi after a moment of checking over the mutilated child.
"What! what is it, do it, whatever it is hurry." shouted Naruto in a voice thick with panic.
"Ok seedling just hang on to yourself this wasn't supposed to happen to either of you." replied the Juubi calling up the one ability that she still had access to, the only one that that man had not taken from her.
While all of this was taking place Kiba had been making his way back towards his team, when he spotted the figure approach the downed form of his Sensei. As he rushed forward in order to protect her, he found himself stopped cold as his eyes feel upon the mutilated boy in her arms, and the sour smell of blood entered into his nose.
"No, no no no no!" the boy started repeating as he fought to deny what his senses were telling him. Naruto couldn't be dead, he just couldn't. As he continued to fight the reality before him he turned his attention to the other figure as he approached the downed form of his teammate and sensei and nearly yelled out in shock. He looked just like Naruto, well if Naruto glowed, but still he looked just like him. As the poor boy tried to make sense of this his eyes continued to dart back and forth between the two Narutos even as his mind tried and failed to explain what he was seeing before him. As he watched the glowing Naruto knelt down and placed his hand upon the mangled Naruto.
The final member of the leaf team Hinata was in a state of shock. She had witnessed not only her Sensei horribly wounded in front of her, but had also just witnessed her first friend turned love fall limp after a blade had burst out of his chest. She had watched as his body fell limply into his mother's arms, and her mind recoiled in horror. As her mind raced she felt her heart break in her chest, and as Zabuza's sword had descended down towards the forms of her Sensei and her love to take their lives the girls mind had simply shut down, unable or unwilling to witness the loss of more than she already had.
So Kiba sat kneeling before the fallen forms of his team, his, the only eyes besides those of Tazuna that witnessed what came next.
Before him he saw the strange golden light from the glowing Naruto slowly spread out from his hand, and spread forth down the body of the mangled boy's form slowly creeping over the blood socked clothing, and to the tips of his hands, bringing forth a slightly reddish glow from the mangled body of the boy. As the red glow completely covered the form of the downed Naruto, dark black line began to appear all over the boys form spreading out to create an intricate spiral design that cascaded down the boys body striking a clear contrast between red glow that covered him. As the lines intensified Kiba suppressed a gasp as the mangled boys eyes fluttered open slight taking in the face looking down at him.
"Hey what took you so long?" Naruto choked out looking up into his own face with a pained little smile.
"Come on you know that we have a lousy sense of direction." chuckled the other breaking into a small sad smile of his own. As the downed Naruto looked down at his chest, his face too taking on a pained expression before looking back up at the other Naruto who was now standing above him. Seeing this the mangled boy forced his mother's arms away from him, and worked to stand even as he felt his feet become unsteady under his own weight. As he stood he could feel a creeping cold slowly spreading forth from his chest. As he looked down at his glowing form he saw a dark spot originating from his chest that seemed to be slowly spreading across the rest of his form.
"So does this mean what I think it does?" he asked looking back at the other Narutos face, with a bit of fear in his voice.
"I'm afraid so Seedling, I'm so sorry but we have to act fast or there won't be enough left to save what little of you is left." replied the Juubi as tears cascaded down her face. The two Naruto's felt a pang of sadness at this, both at what was to come, and the pain it was causing Juubi.
"Well then I guess we better get started, this knucklehead will need all of the help I can give him." spoke the Naruto who was slowly becoming less and less bright as time passed. Fighting to keep a note of light heartedness in his voice as he did so.
"I'm so sorry seedling this isn't how I wanted it to be for either of you." said the Juubi through her tears, falling to her knees at the base of her tree. Even as she spoke she saw the dark spot slowly working its way around the boy's body, slowly creeping up his neck as he turned to face the form of his mother and Hinata that sat behind him unconscious. As his eyes fell across the two a small genuine smile graced his lips as he turned to face the other Naruto.
"Well I'm not." he spoke clearly with no hint of deception in his voice, "besides" he said as the shadow crept its way up towards his lips, "I'm not going to leave them along right." he said as he stretched out his hand towards the other Naruto.
"No we're not." smiled the golden glowing Naruto stretching out his hand to grasp the others hand, "besides I guess we both had a good run, but everything has to come to an end eventually I guess." He said mirroring his fellows smile as the twos forms began to glow, as the golden light mixed with that of the red bringing forth a blinding flash of orange light that momentarily blinded those watching. From the light spoke the voices once more before both faded.
"Come on Juubi don't cry we knew it couldn't last forever, besides it's not like were really leaving so send us off with a smile ok." echoed the two boys voices simultaneously.
"h-Hai seedlings, I guess your right but I wasn't ready for it to be this soon." Spoke the Juubi drawing one arm to wipe the tears from her face and fight to form a smile to see the two off.
"That's more like it Juubi, just think now we'll be twice as awesome!" shouted the twos voices as the light meet its apex, and their two forms were completely engulfed in it. With a blinding flash the light erupted into a brilliant blast of orange that could be seen reaching up into the sky for miles in every direction. On toad mountain the great toad sage cried out in fear as the prophecy that he had given so long ago began to shake and glow before him rattling back and forth as a strange orange light began to engulf it. Even as his aged eyes looked on the scroll rose before him before unrolling and showing as two simple words beginning to glow and slowly fade away from their fellows as if eaten away by time. As the light faded around the scroll and it clattered to the floor the doors to the toad sages hall burst open as several toads shot forward to answer the cries of their elder. The elder toad sage only looked down at the scroll that had fallen before him mouthing silently wondering what had just occurred before him. Even as the toads rushed forward the elders mind could only think what those two simple words could mean for their world, such simple words "either" and "or" how could they change things so.
Back in Wave the blast of light had finally subsided. As it faded it revealed that the two boys had been replaced by a single figure standing where the two's hands had meet. No wind blew and both animal and nature seemed to go silent for a moment. If one were to look around one could have sworn that the trees themselves were swaying of their own accord to bow forward towards the figures that stood in the clearing.
As Kiba watched this he could not bring himself to do more than stare open mouthed at what he was seeing. The new figure stood the same height of the previous two Narutos. His clothing had changed from either of the fellows as well. While he still seemed to be clothed in a full black suit, the color of the symbols and the jacket that adorned it had changed to a bright orange. As the figure turned to face Kiba he saw that his eyes were now completely purple with small spattering of black (1) throughout them all traces of blue (2) having seemingly faded from them. As he watched the small black balls that had before circled the golden Narutos' form descended to create a circle around the boy dancing about his form as if rejoicing in seeing an old friend once again after a long absence; before they moved too slowly faded into the figures back. If Kiba had been able to see the boys back he would have seen the Tree on the back of the jackets seem to shift slightly as upon six of its ten branches a single black ball appears as if hanging from it like a piece of fruit.
Tazuna was looking on in complete shock. A myriad of question raced through his mind as had watched the battle between the Shinobi, but now he was frozen in shock at what he was witnessing. He couldn't put into words what he was seeing the boy he had seen die had appeared in glowing golden and driven off the shinobi with the huge sword, then the first boy who had been hit had started to glow a kind of red and stand up only for the two to join hands before a third new boy showed up! Even as he continued to look on the light slowly faded from the boy leaving him wearing a black body suit with an orange jacked over his forth the symbols on both fading until his garb no longer glowed, his hair also falling to lay delicately across his brow as a pair of headbands could be seen grasped in both of the boys hands, one drawn back with a red cloth, while the other was adorned with a yellow one. As he watched the boy looked down at the two headbands for a moment before tying one to each of his arms just above the elbow of both his arms.
The new figure turned to face Kiba full in the face feral looking eyes into those purple ones, and for a moment silence fell between the two. Before the new Naruto raised a single hand behind his head scratching slightly before breaking out into a familiar grin before speaking.
"Um hi Kiba." Naruto said privately hoping that the Inuzuka wouldn't freak out. This, however, was wishful thinking as the Inuzuka only raised his hand to point at the boy before him.
"W-w-what, w-w-who, how?" Kiba managed before he just broke down in to hysterical gibbering.
Naruto seeing this could only rub his head a little more before letting his arms drop to the side and start striding towards the poor Inuzuka as he tried to understand what was happening. Once Naruto was standing before Kiba he cocked back his fist still holding one of the forehead protectors before slamming the fist onto the top of the boys head, causing him to fall onto his butt rubbing his head savagely.
"Ouch, what the hell Naruto why'd you do that." Shouted Kiba not thinking and instead just letting his voice speak what his mind had failed to grasp, that the boy before him was indeed Naruto.
"Well it was either that or letting you stand there and wet yourself again, like that one time in class." Naruto responded with a chuckle happy to see that his gamble had worked.
"FOR THE LAST TIME THAT WASN'T WHAT HAPPENED I JUST SPILLED SOME OF AKUMARUS WATER ON ME DURING LUNCH!" shouted the embarrassed Kiba even as he began to focus back on his surroundings once again. As he looked up at the smiling blond he found his voice dying away as the events that had just occurred came crashing back down on him.
"N-naruto is that really you?" he asked in a half scared voice.
"The one and only buddy!" replied Naruto stretching his hand down to help the Inuzuka to his feet.
Oh and Juubi you can stop crying they're both fine, or I'm fine, or whatever the point is stop crying everything is ok. Thought Naruto trying to comfort his companion.
"I know my little seedling, it's just hard seeing them go." said Juubi softly leaning back against her tree as she gazed up through its white and purple branches as the light that shown between them.
Well they didn't really go, but I understand, just try and smile for all of us ok. Replied Naruto softly.
"I'll try my little seedling, I'll try, just take care of you team for now, something tells me we will have to answer a lot of questions soon." finished the Juubi closing her eyes as she finished speaking.
I just hope Kaasan and Hinata will be ok. Naruto thought back as he finished helping Kiba to his feet.
"So what happened just now, and why were their two of you, and didn't you get stabbed?" asked Kiba as he looked Naruto up and down, as if hoping the answer would jump out at him. Naruto only raised his hands at this trying to calm his friend down before beginning.
"Ok Kiba I know you have a lot of questions but for now let's get the rest of our team out of her, Kaasan and Hinata need some treatment, and I can't do more than basic first aid." He said turning to the still stiff form of Tazuna as he finished.
"Hey Tazuna is you house near here we need to get these two inside as soon as possible." called Naruto knocking the man out of his daze as he did so.
"Wah, I ya it's just down the road." Said Tazuna still in a compete daze at what had just happened before him.
"Good could you show us the way." Asked Naruto turning before Tazuna could answer back to Kiba.
"Hey Kiba if you can grab Akamaru I'll get Kaasan and Hinata-chan kay." said Naruto looking over at the girls unconscious figures.
"Sure but how are you going to carry both of them?" asked Kiba as he bent down to scoop up Akamaru, as the puppy offered a quiet yip in thanks.
"Well I can carry Hinata-chan pretty easy, so I guess my seeds will just have to carry Kaasan." Naruto said looking down at the redhead, even as he bent down to lift Hinata from the ground.
Before Kiba could ask what the hell Naruto meant by seeds the black balls that he had seen floating behind the one Naruto during the fight emerged from Naruto's back, and slowly floated down until they lay three on each side around the downed form of Kushina. As the boy watched small black lines that looked like tree roots began to spring from each of the balls, intertwining themselves with each other to form a link of bedding underneath kushina. As he saw the six balls rise they now supported Kushina between them on the small webbing of black lines that entangled below her; all pulsing with the same purple energy as the black balls that seemed to be Naruto's labeled seeds.
"Cool Huh." said Naruto smiling at the two figures that were looking at the event with slacked jaws.
Who would have thought ninja were capable of things like this thought Tazuna, as he proceeded to motion the boys forward towards his home.
Ok I give up, Naruto said he'll explain it later I'll wait, if I try and figure it out on my own I'll just go crazy thought Kiba as he fell into step behind the floating form of his Sensei, as Naruto brought up the rear of the procession with Hinata slung across his back.
As they set off Naruto heard as small voice coming out of Hinata.
"No please no Naruto-kun, please." The pour girl murmured as she rustled slightly in her unconscious state.
"It's ok Hinata-chan, I 'm here, I'm not going anywhere." whispered back Naruto causing the girl to tighten herself closer to him as he held her, comforted by the voice she heard.
Meanwhile back in Konoha a certain blond hokage was sitting in the mission hall listening to his daughter complaining about having to continue doing D rank missions.
"Come on Tousan you have to let us go on a C rank these D rank missions are driving use crazy!" called Naruko while waving her hand around for emphasize.
"Naruko, as I've said before your Sensei is the one who has to approve the mission, you yelling isn't going to get you one any faster." replied the hokage in a half scolding half pleading voice.
"Come on Kakashi-sensei tell him that we are ready." said Naruko turning her attention towards her sensei who even now had his face buried into his little orange book. While both Naruko and Sasuke seemed annoyed at this Minami could only shake her head slightly at the entire endeavor wondering what the two expected at this point.
Over the past few weeks Minami had come to understand that however great a ninja Kakashi was, his teaching skills were lax at best. That wasn't to say that they were horrible, but it was clear to Minami that this was not where his strengths lied. He was a solider, a solo worker, and asking anything else of him resulted in a minimal amount of effort from the man. As a result Minami could not help feeling the only thing that kept the man from resigning was his own personal pride, not allowing him to admit to his own flaws.
As a result instead of handling the trouble with her sister he seemed completely content to simply take the path of least resistance whenever something like this happened. So as she turned towards her Sensei she knew the answer before it had even occurred to Kakashi.
"Hmm, well I think they are ready, it would be good experience for the team." stated Kakashi simply barely looking over the brim of his orange book as he said so. As he spoke both Naruko and Sasuke adopted confident smiles on their faces as they looked back at Minato who only sighed slightly at the whole exchange.
"Very well if Kakashi believes that you are ready then I suppose you should be ready for one, at the moment I don't have any that should work, but come by tomorrow and I'll have something for you." Minato said, inwardly smiling at the idea of his girls headed out towards their first C rank mission.
"Ok Kakashi your team is dismissed for now, how about you go and get some training in before dinner girls; tonight Mito will be home from the Hyuugas around eight so we can all go out together." He continued looking between the smiling Naruko, and the more subdued Minami.
Hm Minami seems a little out of it, I'll have to ask her about it later thought Minato looking down at the scrolls before him as another team stepped forward.
"Team Eight reporting for duty Hokage-sama." spoke Kurenai stepping forward before her students.
Behind her Sakura, Shino, and Yakumo all stood at attention. Over the past month team eight had been excelling in their performance. Sakura had caught the eye of Tsunade, and had been attending private lessons along with Hinata, before they were able to become official apprentices at chunnin level. At the moment her skills were increasing by leaps and bounds, and Tsunade had even hinted at teacher Sakura her own private strengthening technique if her progress continued at the high rate it had been.
Sakura had taken to wearing a set of pink arm bracers with her battle kimono and matching leg warmers that concealed armored plates for added protection. Tsunade had insisted that if she was going to be a battle medic her first duty was to be protected enough so that when her team needed her she would be available. (3)
To Sakura's right stood Shino Aburame. The boy had changed very little in appearance during her training. However, to assume he had not progressed at all would be a mistake. During his training he had been able to increase his hive capacity to twice that of just a month previously. Besides this his teammates had noticed him speaking up more and more as time when on. He seemed to want to be noticed more and more by those around him, but to this point he had not managed to find out how to.
The final member of the team stood directly to Sakura's left and stood just about the same height as Sakura. She was of a thinner build than her teammates, and her skin had a clear porcelain look. She was dressed in a simple white kimono top that ended around her waist. There her outfit continued into a small red skirt that traveled half the distance to her knees. Underneath her kimono she wore a mesh shirt as well as a set of white bandages after the same fashion as her master. Her brown hair still fell strait down her back, but her forehead now was adorned with a leaf headband tied with a read band. Her brown eyes never left the form of her sensei Kurenai. From the time that she had been a little girl Kurenai had been her instructor there to help guide her ability's, and support her, and for that the women had become her idol, and Yakumo had strived hard to make herself the greatest practitioner of Genjutsu in the same manner of her master.
The team had worked well together towards their own goals, and had bonded well over their month in active duty. Kurenai approached the Hokage's seat and placing down their completed mission report before reassuming her position before her team. As the hokage looked over the report his attention was drawn up toward Kurenai as the sensei cleared her throat.
"Hokage-sama, my team has proven themselves ready for our first C-rank mission, I ask that we be granted the next available one that would fit a Genie team." She stated with no small amount of pride in her voice. Minato was slightly caught off guard by this; he didn't think that the other rookie teams would be advancing as fast as his daughter's team had been.
"Unfortunately Kurenai the next available C-rank has already been spoken for by team seven. Your team will simply have to wait until another mission becomes available, that will fit with you teams skill level." replied Minato not seeing the small look of irritation crossing the women's face.
"With all due respect Hokage-san team eight has completed twice the amount of missions as team 7 in the past month, I would like a reason that my team is being denied the opportunity for more missions over team 7." stated Kurenai with a firm voice that made it clear she was prepared to fight for what she felt her team had earned.
Minato was once again unprepared for this kind of remark from the women.
"Kurenai while I do appreciate you efforts towards your students, but belittling other teams, is not the way to help your teams own advancements." Said Minato, looking at getting the women to back down, this, however, was not going to happen.
"Hokage, I am not belittling anyone by stating clear facts about my team's performance as compared to another. My team has completed a superior number of missions for Konoha, and have done so in the manner expected of Konoha shinobi, we stand by our record, and ask you if team seven can say the same." stated Kurenai losing patience more and more as the conversation progressed.
"Kurenai, I will say this very simply, team seven will be receiving the next C-rank mission, and if you peruse the issue further then you team will be stuck with D-rank missions for the forcible future do I make myself clear." Stated Minato adopting a toneless voice that despite herself Kurenai was unable to reply to.
"Hai Hokage we will be departing then, team eight was heading to training field fifteen." Kurenai said falling back into her solider persona turning to march out of the building, with a scowl marring her face. Iruka who was working in the mission office could only glance from the retreating form of team eight to Minato wondering why the man was so obviously favoring his daughter's team. Sure it was one thing to care for his children, but to start shaping his decisions on the village around them, something was different. What was the Hokage thinking in doing this, but before he could spend more time considering this the front doors of the office burst open, and the familiar form of the toad sage stood before the Hokage.
"MINATO WE NEED TO TALK NOW! ITS ABOUT THE GIRLS!" shouted Jiraiya in a clear panic etched upon his face as he turned his eyes to face Minato. Minato for his part felt his blood freeze at these words.
The girls, what's going on oh Kami what's this about? He thought before disappearing in a yellow flash appearing before his sensei, where he once again flashed away towards his office.
Meanwhile back in wave Naruto and Kiba had finally arrived at Tazuna's home. As they approached the modest two storied building the door swung forward to greet them. Out of the home stepped a blue haired woman with a welcoming face and simple pink dress. Her face held a combined look of happiness and concern as she turned her black eyes upon the precession in front of her. Her eyes scanned across the group before settling on Tazuna, and with a cry of happiness, she rushed forward to embrace the old bridge builder.
"Tousan your back!" she cried happily wrapping the old bridge builder in a tight hug.
"Tsunami." replied the man returning the hug for a moment before, holding the women a little away so as to get a clear look at her smiling to see her alright.
"Tsunami, you seem ok, how are things, is Inari alright?" asked Tazuna looking from her towards the house and back as he spoke. Tsunami nodded quickly in response to his questions before her eyes turned to see the rest of those present.
Tazuna noticed her shifted gaze and turned to see her looking at his escort, mentally berating himself for not concentrating on their wellbeing first before spending time with simple pleasantries.
"Tsunami hurry these people need to get inside now, I'll explain everything later, for now just hurry and prepare a room for the women on the top floor." Tazuna quickly instructed his daughter, before turning to face Naruto, "can you get her up there with," here he gestured towards the black webbing holding up the women, "those things?"
"Not a problem." replied Naruto before the seeds began to move forward carrying the relaxed form of Kushina forward into the home, and towards the room following Tsunami. As this was occurring the continued talking had been enough to start to rouse Hinata to waking. As she blurrily opened her eyes she was greeted with a sea of blond and orange directly in front of her, along with a voice she had feared never to hear again. As she continued to awaken Naruto spoke again.
"Ok Kiba lets head up and make sure Kaasan will be ok, my seeds can keep her stable for now but we really need to get Hinata awake to look her over." Naruto stated directing both of them to follow Kushina's form inside.
"Na-Naruto." Hinata said softly as if not daring to believe her own ears. Her voice prompted Naruto to turn his head slightly so that he could see the girl draped across his back, greeting her with a large smile as he did so.
"Hinata-chan, your awake, are you ok?" Naruto asked as he looked into her eyes those pale pupiles lavender eyes into the new black and purple ones of Naruto. Hinata however, was not comforted as their eyes meet. As lavender gazed upon purple and black a horrible feeling fell upon Hinata, and she began to struggle against the gentle hold of Naruto.
"Hinata-chan what's wrong?" asked Naruto trying to keep the girl from simply falling off of his back, concern evident in his voice.
"NO, NO you're not him let me go, who are you!" Hinata shouted as she landed a jyucken strike upon Narutos back causing him to drop the girl. Hinata rose to her feet, taking a few steps back from Naruto still not quite sure as to what was happening.
"Ouch, Hinata-chan why'd you hit me like that?" asked Naruto rubbing his back where the blow had hit, even as he turned to look at Hinata with a worried expression on his face.
"Seedling the last thing she saw was you getting stabbed and dying, she has every reason to be suspicious of you." Spoke Juubi for the first time in an hour, trying to help the boy understand what was happing.
Right, crap how am I going to convince her that I'm me, wait Juubi do I look different, am I still blond, oh Kami did I shrink, please tell me I didn't I'm already the same height as Hinata-chan and she'd never go out with someone shorter than her. Babbled the boy in a panic letting his imagined fears get the better of him for a moment.
"And here I was thinking that you might become more intelligent after what happened, well I guess that's out the window, look just calm her down for now before she hits you again." Juubi said interrupting the boys babbling.
Hai replied Naruto focusing back on a battle ready Hinata before him.
Meanwhile Hinata was having her own mental debate as she took in Naruto's, or in her view the imposter Narutos figure.
Ok Hinata, think the last thing you remember is Naruto-kun…Naruto-kun being…being... but the memory of what had happened to the blond was still too painful to experience, so she simply continued. Ok but now I'm here, and someone is impersonating Naruto-kun, wait is that Kiba, no wait if that's not Naruto that's probably not Kiba either, but why would they be in disguises, what is going on, oh Kami please let everyone be ok. Hinata continued to try and understand her situation becoming more and more panicked as she did so, as the panic set in she lowered herself into a classic battle stance as she instinctively activated her Byakugan even as beads of sweat began to appear on her brow.
"Wow Hinata what's wrong Naruto compliment Sakura again?" asked Kiba stepping forward towards his female teammate not understanding the situation he was walking into. As he got within range Hinata lashed out instinctively missing Kiba only by the virtue of the Inuzuka jumping back with a small cry of shock.
"Hinata what the hell!" Kiba called looking at his teammate in confusion.
"I know you're not Kiba or Naruto so drop the act and tell me what you've done with them? Or I'll force it out of you!" she said sinking into a battle stance between her two male teammate, taking a stance that made her appear like an animal ready to pounce.
"Kiba, she doesn't know what happened she's just confused, just back off for now." said Naruto raising both of his hand up in front of him before slowly making his way towards the distressed girl. Hinata turned to focus on his approach glaring at the one who would dare mock her teammate like this.
"Umm seedling I think she's actually going to kill you." Spoke Juubi with a bit of concern in her voice.
It's ok Juubi, I think I know how to help her, it's my fault that she is so scared I have to help calm her down before she ends up hurting herself. Replied Naruto even as he continued to approach Hinata.
"Ok seedling just be careful it's been a bad enough day already." spoke Juubi with a touch of sorrow still in her voice.
"Don't take another step you imposter!" shouted Hinata focusing on the approaching blond her voice a mix of fear, anger, along with a small twinge of hope. Deep down away from her rational mind her heart was begging for the boy before her to be real.
"Hinata-chan it's me, it really is I promise you, please." Naruto said even as he closed in towards the girl with his arms still raised before him, only a few feet from the girl. He could see the emotions flying through Hinatas face as he stepped within a foot of her.
Oh Kami she's terrified, oh Hinata-chan I'm so sorry, but it's going to be ok I promise. Thought Naruto as he stepped towards the girl. Hinata was still a torrent of emotions, the battle, her sensei's injury, the boy she loved, apparent death, the soon to be death of her sensei, now the boy before her that was so much like her Naruto-kun…maybe. But before she could calm down she looked again into those eyes, they were just as kind as her Naruto-kuns but they weren't his, they weren't, THEY WEREN'T! the girl shouted inside her head, as she thrust her left hand forward towards the boys chest.
To her surprise however, there was no resistance from the blond in front of her, instead her blow connected solidly with the boy's chest. She felt her chakra enter into the boy cracking his ribs and bruising his organs even as it did so. But that is not where her concentration was focused. As the blow had landed Naruto had taken his final step forward, and wrapped both of his outstretched arms around her. As she felt the arms encircle her she looked up into the boy's face and saw a small smile that reached all the way up to his eyes looking down at her. As she looked Naruto spoke.
"Hinata-chan it's me I'm so sorry for scaring you, but I promise I'll never leave you again, I promise." He repeated softly as he bent his head down to capture her lips in a soft kiss. Hinata felt the lips upon her own, and slowly felt the fear and anger begin to fade from her, as she leaned into the comforting grip of the boy.
Naruto-kun…Oh Kami Naruto-kun it is you.. thank you, thank you for being real. She thought even as tears of happiness fell from her eyes as she totally relaxed into the embrace.
When the kiss had ended Hinata simply sank into Naruto's embrace holding tight to the boy as if afraid that if she let go he would disappear her body shaking with suppressed sobs. Naruto only held the girl whispering soft comforting words into her ear as he did so.
"So seedling when are you going to start crying, I know that blow hurt you quite a bit, and that hug isn't doing you any favors." spoke Juubi with a smile upon her face, as she looked at the tender moment before her.
Later Juubi, don't spoil the moment. He fired back even as he winced slightly at the pain in his chest.
"Hinata-chan I'll explain everything soon, but Kaasan needs your help right now, ok." Naruto spoke as he gently detached the girl from his chest, and moved one hand to wipe away the tears on her face.
"Ha-Hai." replied Hinata softly as the two turned to enter the house following beside Naruto with Kiba shaking his head bringing up the rear. As they entered Tazuna directed them up towards the room that they had placed Kushina in. As they arrived on the second floor, they spied a door to their left open, and proceeded along towards it. As they entered, Hinata looked shocked at the strange bed of what appeared to be black roots that pulsed with an odd purple light that made up Kushinas resting place. With a reassuring squeeze of her hand Naruto lead her over to Kushinas side. As Hinata knelt down to observe Kushina the bedding as if sensing her intent moved to turn Kushinas injured back towards her while moving to support her body in other areas leaving the damaged area accessible.
Hinata moved to begin her treatment pushing back her questions until after she was sure that Kushina would be alright. As she placed her glowing green hands upon Kushinas back, Naruto and Kiba took seats leaning against the wall, Kiba having Akamaru in his lap while softly stroking the pups head as the two looked on at Hinata's work.
Back in Konoha Minato and Jiraiya were in a heated debate in the Hokage office of the Hokage. The two sat alone having dismissed the guards and sealed the room only moments after arriving, and the two where now attempting to figure out what could be happening.
"Jiraiya I don't understand I didn't think a prophecy could be changed, I thought they were simply a reading into a fated event, what could cause something to change that?" asked Minato trying to understand the situation they found themselves in.
"I don't know kid, nothing like this has ever happened before; prophecy's don't just change, it doesn't work like that. A prophecy can fail if something goes wrong, but in that case the scroll holding it just turns black. No, this is something else." spoke Jiraiya looking back at Minato.
"But what, the new prophecy seems to say that one of the girls is going to fall now, but it also says that two will rise, what does that mean, it's not making any since anymore." Minato stated.
"I know kid, it just doesn't add up, unless." said Jiraiya pausing slightly at the end.
"Unless what?" questioned Minato looking up at Jiraiya.
"Well kid we know both girls hold a part of the Kyuubi right." began Jiraiya.
"Right, but what does that matter?" asked Minato.
"Maybe that's the two will rise part, if one of the girls stopped being one of the containers for some reason, then the Kyuubi's chakra would go back towards the other meaning that one would hold both." said Jiraiya.
"Wait but if one of the girls lost their half that would mean." started Minato a look of horror upon his face.
"Ya, it would mean "one would fall"." said Jiraiya sadly, without meeting the blonds eyes.
"No Jiraiya I don't believe that, not after everything we have gone through for them, I am not going to simply sign one of them off on a hunch." replied minato rising form his chair as he did so.
"Minato this is the only thing that makes sense I'm not say to choose one, I'm just saying that one of them might be destined to fall." replied Jiraiya with clear sadness in his voice.
"destined, DESTINED, what the hell do you mean destined, you just told me that the prophecy has changed, something that has never happened before, who says we can even believe the stupid thing anymore." shouted Minato losing his calm demeanor.
"Kid this isn't just some prophecy this is talking about the whole world, we can't just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist." replied Jiraiya trying to reason with the Hokage.
"That doesn't mean that we can count on it either sensei, its changed once already, who's to say it won't do so again." fired back Minato.
"KID YOU DON'T GET IT NO PROFICY HAS EVER CHANGED LIKE THIS BEFORE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT ARE KAMI'S COURT OR THEIR AGENTS!" shouted back Jiraiya.
"W-what?" asked Minato halting slightly in his ranting.
"Look kid the toad sage doesn't just make these things up he is just shown flashes from Kami's court, the only ones who can change their words are other members of that court." continued Jiraiya to a shocked Minato.
"You see what I'm say now kid, this is something big, look I don't pretend to know exactly what this change might mean, but we have to try and figure it out because whatever it is its big." said Jiraiya with a serious expression upon his face.
"Yes but we don't know what it means yet Jiraiya, and I'm not going to just write off one of the girls on a guess." replied Minato firmly.
"I'm not saying to do that kid, but I am saying we have to start watching thing more closely, because something is going on, and whatever it is, it will decide the future of the shinobi world." stated the toad sage before continuing their debate on the matter further.
What neither could guess was that the agent of Kami that had acted had done so in the interest of Minato's only son Naruto, who at that moment was watching as Kushina was just beginning to stir from her sleep.
Hinata had managed to repair all of the damage to Kushina, but she was still suffering from chakra exhaustion after that last blast she had released in her grief. Hinata said she was likely to be bed ridden for no more than a couple of days however, thanks to her Uzumaki recovery ability. Uzumaki's were known for replenishing their chakra at an accelerated rate, as a result they tended to have longer lives leading to the idea that they possessed some type of healing ability. In truth most Uzumaki's had simply master a simple type of medical Jutsu that allowed their chakra to accelerate their healing. However, at the moment all that mattered to the three Genin was the stirring form of their sensei. Kushina had been placed on a futon on the floor of the room Narutos seeds having withdrawn the black net and receded back in to Naruto's jacket causing more than a few confused looks as they did so.
As the redheads eyes began to flutter open, her gaze was draw immediately towards the purple and black eyes of the Naruto that was one of three looking down at her with concern etched into his face. As she looked into his face her mind seemed to wave back and forth between the events she had witness and reality. Zabuza's blade plunging through her sochi's chest, a second Naruto appearing out of nowhere to protect her. Her holding the limp form of her Sochi in her arms even as the life drained out of him. As these and more thoughts rushed through her mind a voice interrupted her train of thoughts.
"Kaasan, you're ok we're in Tarzana's home in wave, everyone is ok." spoke Naruto slowly trying to give the women something to simple to understand before moving on to explaining what exactly she had experienced.
"H-how..y-you?" Kushina began.
"Well seedling I guess it's time for you to decide if you're going to tell them or not." spoke the Juubi looking at the scene before her.
Ya I guess your right Juubi, it's about time we let you meet them. Thought Naruto even as three of Naruto's seeds rose from his back before shooting forward to rest on the foreheads of the rest of team eleven.
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Ok I know there will be some responses to this chapter so I'll try and answer a few right here and now. Yes Minato did abandon his son for a prophecy, but things have changed. It is one thing to say I won't train my son in order to save the world and his life. It is another to be ready to sacrifice a daughter based on a prophecy that just up and changed on them, something that neither had even thought possible. Minato does have messed up priorities, but he is not heartless, everything he has done he sees and can reason is for the good of both his family and the village. After all it is better to have a son that hates you than have your home and entire family dead, or at least that is his view.
The second point I can see some question on is Naruto's powers, those will be flushed out more as time goes on but I will say that he will not be getting much if anything from the show. I'm taking him in a bit of a new direction, so no super eyes or sudden ability to bend all the elements like a god. Sorry gods are boring to write not going to happen.
Ok last point I'm entering a new little contest, during the Chunnin exam arc of this story Naruto will use a Summoning type of Jutsu. So guess away at what he will be summoning, I will give you a hint it will not be toads, slugs, or snakes. Everything else is fair game good luck. Winners will be given one of three prizes of their choice at the time of the contests end. Thanks for reading please comment. Also shout out to sugoi fyre, for getting me to write a better summory, here is hoping it helps draw in more readers.