It wasn't until the third time an inn had shooed them away did they realize that something was odd. Kushina had on a terrible scowl, Jiraiya was looking absolutely sour, and Naruto was stomping her feet in terrible impatience. What did the staff mean by 'no dogs allowed'? Did they look like a mutt?
Going almost to the other side of town they finally found another hotel, and, this time, Jiraiya followed the direction the receptionist was looking at. A black blur flashed behind Naruto and Kushina the moment he moved his head towards them, and the man squinted his eyes.
Was that a stubby, furry tail peeking out from behind Naruto's knees?
Slowly, he leaned over, and noticed black hind legs with white paws. He went over to Naruto's other side ignoring her questioning gaze, and stared back at the blue eyes of Chibi.
Jiraiya's mind went blank. His jaw fell slack.
"Why on earth did that thing follow us!"
Once they returned the sun had started to set. Jiraiya immediately trotted off to the Hokage, telling Naruto and Kushina to go inform Minato that they've returned, since surely the man could probably not survive even a few more minutes without them.
Naruto skeptically pondered his words, but Kushina merely nodded in complete agreement. "I wouldn't put it past him to overreact like last time," she said distantly, eye twitching at a certain memory. Shaking her head, she looked down at her daughter, "We'll have to buy some groceries; I'm sure he's gone off weeping to Sakumo-san's place, so the house will be deprived of food."
Naruto followed her, still disbelieving that her cool father could ever act... uncool. Definitely unthinkable.
When they were in front of the grocery store, the two were left gaping at the sight of it packed with housewives. Sale signs were pasted all over and littered on the floor as well, currently being stomped on by the fat ladies. "This will be rather troublesome." Kushina sighed in irritation, "You'll have to wait at the playground, alright? Only people with experience can go through this without a scratch, and it's been a while since I've entered this type of battlefield."
Naruto watched in shear horror while her mother flew herself into the crowd, and she was sure she saw a glint of a kunai before a few women's aprons dropped on the floor. She fled from the scene, trying to block off the banshee-like screeches and pig-like squeals.
Were Sakura and Ino involved in the mob? Them travelling back in time to buy some cheap food seems like a plausible idea.
The smile of nostalgia twisted into a face of longing before she shook her head violently. "Dammit," she muttered, kicking a small rock out of her path. Moping on about it wouldn't help, she knew that, but it was almost impossible to shove away the loneliness she felt.
She wondered what would have happened had she not gone back in time. Would they have won the war? Or would the Moon Eye Plan be activated after she falls? What were they doing now, when Naruto was stuck in the past? Was it still stretching on? Or was time completely stopped for that dimension?
The words in Naruto's mind were starting to not make any sense, and to a random person it would have been downright confusing. But it's not like a random person would peek into my thoughts, she said inwardly with a shrug.
Naruto glanced back, and her brow twitched in annoyance. The dog she glared at innocently cocked his head to the side, but she knew the little puppy was smirking in its little mind. Sighing, she walked to the playground as Kushina told her to, realizing that it's been a while since she's gone to the swings. Chibi was going to follow her, she knew even without looking back. What confused her was why it was doing that.
Didn't Chibi hate her? So why is he following her like a... cute little puppy? She had to admit, it reminded her so much of twelve year old Sasuke for some reason; him being so silently stubborn.
Swinging back and forth, she noticed a soft, barely noticeable sob. Curiosity and worry pulled her towards it. Pushing away the leaves and branches of various bushes, Naruto saw him.
A little boy, maybe a year or so younger than herself, hunched up against a tree alone. His arms wrapped tightly around his legs, head down making his face hidden from her, the boy's shoulder's shook violently as sobs escaped.
What was she supposed to do? How was she supposed to help? When she had been the one doing the crying when she was his age; never the comforter, which, like this boy right in front of her, she didn't have. "UmーAre you alright?"
The kid flinched, clearly not expecting someone to see him like this. The black haired boy raised his head to peek up at the blonde, his coal eyes rimmed red. "Who're you?" Naruto took note of how his voice cracked; he must have been trying to keep quiet for quite a long time.
Biting her lip, she tried to give off a relaxed smile as she crouched down in front of him. "Uzumaki Naruto. And? You are?"
He furiously wiped his tears away, muttering his name. She tried to lean forward when she couldn't hear him, but her attention was then caught by the paper clutched tightly in small, pale hands. Naruto saw the underlined red '32' and immediately knew what it was; she had seen it enough times a longtime ago. "Are you crying 'cause of your test scores?" She asked softly.
He flinched and shoved his face in his arms, not giving an answer.
Naruto watched the pitiful boy, before shaking away memories the sight brought. No point in thinking back to fragments of the past. "Well, what are you sulking down here for? You should be fixing your mistakes so you wouldn't fail next time, right?"
She took the paper gently so she wouldn't rip it, but luckily his grip had slackened.
"You're a ninja?" He asked hesitantlyーno, weakly. Naruto frowned, wondering what made him sound so. Fingering the Konoha emblem on her forehead with a vague smile, she nodded.
"Only for a while. After today I would be a normal academy studentーnot for long though! I'm going to take the exams." Realizing she was starting to ramble, Naruto laughed sheepishly. "How old are you? I'm five."
"Same."
Blinking, Naruto grinned, "Cool!" She looked down at the questions. Her eyes widened, and she whipped her head up to see him, "You're also in the academy? Why didn't you tell me?"
He finally lifted his head, and for some reason stubbornly looked at another direction. "You didn't ask."
To his surprise, she merely said, "Oh. I guess you're right about that."
"You're not gonna blow up?"
"...Huh?"
"You know... girls blow up all the time."
"What kind of stereotype is that?" Naruto asked in annoyance, huffing.
"Stero-type?"
"Never mind." She sighed, annoyed at the boy's limited vocabulary (of course, it wasn't his fault, but she didn't bother to register that). "So I'm guessing that you're in the other class?"
"Yeah."
Naruto hummed thoughtfully. That meant he was with the younger bunch, the ones close to her and Kakashi's age. She and Kakashi, as well as Mika, Shizuka, and Genma, were separate because the five could catch up with the older generations and the advanced classes. Thus, the five were put into the "big kids group."
Truthfully, Naruto had only learnt of this right before going on the mission to Rain, seeing as she said she didn't require a school tour and that this academy was quite different from her time's academy. The younger grade, class A, would start and end an hour after them and the schedules were different, which is why she seldom saw any students around her age. Not to mention that the advanced grade, class E, were on the second floor while class A were on the first.
She was called out of her thoughts by the young raven's voice, "So you're smart? 'Cause you're in the big kids class." He continued, eyes now curious. "I heard about you. There were rumors that you were a spy in disguise, and just came to the academy for Hokage-sama to know how it is around the place."
"Oh really?" Naruto simply replied, rummaging her small pouch to find a writing tool. What she got out was a short, blunt pencil, but it will have to do. She tossed it to him. "Here. Correct your mistakes." She then passed the test after she quickly skimmed through it, laughing lightly at his pout. "I'll come by your class to give you some of my old notes so you can check if the answers tomorrow. Just try your best, okay?"
The boy's eyes widened, tears forming. She laughed, "Don't be a crybaby! And you should really pay attention in classーI know you don'tーsince that helps you prepare for a test. You won't have to study too much that way." He nodded, vigorously at the last part. After he started working on his test, Naruto blinked, realizing she didn't get his name.
She was about to ask, until a sharp pain pierced her head.
Naruto bit back a cry, and clutched her head, trying to keep silent as to not worry the boy. Trying to return her harsh breathing back to normal, she forced a smile, "I'll be going back now. I'll see you tomorrow, 'kay?"
"Yup, thanks, Naruto-chan!" He grinned, oblivious to her pain.
"Mm." She got up carefully, but nausea still made her sway a little. She smiled it off, and waved him goodbye.
When she walked away, she realized the puppy, Chibi, wasn't there. Probably got sick of following me. Sighing, she tried to nurse her now giant headache by rubbing her temples, but the constant pounding in her ears was making it hard.
Eventually, without realizing it, she had wondered off to an alleyway. Slumping and sliding down against the dusty wooden wall, Naruto groaned, eyelids growing heavy.
'Don't you dare sleep.' The Nine Tails growled, but he was barely heard in her mind. She was too exhausted. 'Damn you, brat! Always so problematic...'
When Naruto's consciousness was slipped away, Kurama took over.
Kushina let out a breath of relief at the sound of the doorbell and ran off to get it.
Practically throwing the door open, she was close to yelling. "Naruto, where on earth have you been?" She frowned at the girl and her lack of response. "Naruto? What's wrong?"
Belatedly, the fiery woman noticed the defined whisker marks on the child's face. Kushina's eyes widened, and immediately she held Naruto's face to see blue eyesーor what should have been blue eyes.
In the place of sapphire orbs, there were bloody crimson, demonic eyes piercing their annoyed gaze back at her. "What are you standing here for? Go fetch me some water, Uzumaki."
As if owning the place, the Kyuubi-possessed Naruto plopped down on the couch, one leg crossed over the other, arms folded in front of herーhis, in this caseーchest.
Kushina was absolutely confused.
Nonetheless, she went off to get a cup of water from the kitchen with a scowl. She loathed being ordered around, and that fox should know it too. Damn that fox! All but slamming the cup on the coffee table, she rested her hands on her hips and glared. "Hurry up and go back inside your cage, Kyuubi."
Said demon raised a blonde brow. "Me taking over this body is saving Naruto from any more pain at the moment. Do you honestly believe it would be so wise to, as you say, 'go back inside my cage'?" He scoffed. "This is why Uzumaki women are all foolー" He growled when she shoved the cup of ice water into his face.
Thank god Minato was still in Sakumo's house. "Shut up, Fox." She glared at him, retorting back heatedly, "We foolish Uzumaki women have kept you as an unwanted pet in our guts, locked up tight."
Kyuubi rose a blonde brow, before huffing. "I'm here, talking to you know, am I not? Your definition of 'tight' is clearly out of date." Yawning loudly, he slowly blinked in boredom. "As much as I love being free again, your presence here is highly unpleasant. The Sandaime should have some free time for Naruto so I'll be going back inside that filthy cage as you wish, Habanero."
He missed the way her hair became spiky, much like a cat's fur when angered, or how her nose flared as he slipped back inside Naruto's mindscape. Kurama silently observed the metal bars, already in where he's supposed to be.
They were beginning to rot away; where it touched the lukewarm water was rusted, and some parts of the ugly-brown metal were flaking off. "So it starts now, does it?"He scowls. This was why he warned Naruto beforehand; so the memory seal won't cause so much trouble. Grumbling about old geezers who don't know what they were doing, Kurama used his long, sharp claws to scrape more of the rotting metal off.
One good thing that came out of the, as Naruto likes to call it, Age Sucker and memory seal was that they were breaking down the fuuin keeping him squeezed inside the stupid cageーHe wasn't going to take over the girl's body. He wanted out merely because then he would be able to effectively stop Naruto from doing anything stupid. One of the multiple bad things that came out of them, though, was that the distorted chakra they use would contaminate the water he is currently sitting on.
Or at least, that was what he vaguely thought would occur, which it did for the memory seal. The fox didn't know whether or not he was right about the Age Sucker, seeing as it was gotten rid of rather quickly. The other seal probably showed faster effects because it was closest to his captor's brain.
Other than those he pointed out in his head, the Nine Tails didn't know anything else.
And, because he didn't know anything else, Kurama laid back on his stomach ignoring the contaminated water around him. He touched it and nothing has happened so it should be fine, the fox demon decided.
Minato's eyes shone with tears when they saw them. "KUSHINA-CHWAAAN!" He flashed towards her, oblivious to her pale face. "I'm home!"
"Isn't that my line?" Kushina said, trying to let out a small laugh to no avail. the fox's appearance earlier was too heavy on her. "How were you?"
"Good, good, I was totally fine with both of you and Jiraiya-sensei ditching me." Minato said with a wave of his hand, when she clearly knew that he was lying. He skipped around with a idiotic smile on his face, "Anyways, where's Naruto? Where's my little sunshine? Naruto? Narutoooo?"
"Quiet down, Minato." Kushina finally laughed, amused at how he was acting. "She was... exhausted from the trip, so she's in her room sleeping."
"Whaaat. That's not fair." He pouted, eyes wide like a puppy's, before he finally took notice of Kushina's appearance. His face grew serious then, his previous playful mood was gone and replaced with worry. "Are you tired? You don't have to stay up awake for me, you know that, right?"
"Oh, no, I'm fine, just..." She trailed off, before smiling again. "It's nothing, just an unpleasant meeting with someone."
He eyed her skeptically, but didn't say anything. Going to the kitchen, he asked, "How about a cup of hot tea? I think I bought a box that relieves you of stress or something."
She nodded gratefully, "That would be nice."
"Let's see... where is he?" She scanned the classroom, ignoring the curious stares and eyes of recognition. "Um... Black hair and eyes... there's a whole bunch of guys with the same features..."
"AH! Naruto-chan! You really came!" The boy she remembered from yesterday came bounding to her with excitement, and she couldn't help but giggle.
"Of course, a promise is a promise." She passed him the notebook, "Here it is. It should have everything in there, so you better study it!"
She left the room saying goodbye, and immediately the whole class jumped on the black-haired boy.
"Woah, woah! Isn't she the prodigy that got into the big kids group with Kakashi-kun on the first day of school?" A random girl squealed, and a boy this time pushed him.
"No way! So you got all of her notes? Show me!"
"Hey, me too!"
"I call dibs!"
The teacher entered the classroom, irritated with all the noise, "Get back to your seats!"
"Hai, Haai..." The class scowled at him, but complied with the order grudgingly. Clutching the notebook in his small hands, the little black haired boy grinned.
A brunette on his right nudged him, "Hey, how did you get to know her? The girl from before. 'Naruto' right?" Her eyes sparkled with excitement and she looked at the book curiously.
"Oh, I met her by accident yesterday, and she kinda saw my test score... so..."
"You're so lucky, Obito! I would do anything to get my hands on the advanced class's notes!"
Obito grinned, and looked through the pages. "Woah, this is stuffed with tons of writing! And they're so easy to read..."
Rin nodded with awe, "Her handwriting's so pretty," she giggled when she spotted the drawings at the corners of every page. "What is that?"
"Stones with sticks glued on it? I don't get it at all..." He scratched his head and turned to the girl, "It looks like my luck's finally turned around, Rin! I'll be the best student here with this!"
When Naruto arrived and opened the classroom's door, she didn't expect to be glomped by a wailing orange-haired Mika or pale blond Kippei. "Um, I'm back?"
"Where were you?! We were worrying where our little brat has gone!" Kippei ruffled the jinchuuriki's hair roughly with a grin, not realizing that he was more of a brat than her.
"We really, really, really, really missed you, you know? We've been waiting for weeks and weeks and weeks!" Mika bawled, "It was never the same without you!"
Naruto grinned and laughed, loving the warmth of the class. "Sorry about that." She stopped craning her neck to see the two's faces and instead looked around. "Where's the others?"
"Right here," Genma's drawling voice called, and Naruto noticed Shizuka trailing after him while packing away her pencil case. "Where were you?"
"Hm, oh, I was travelling with my mom..." She replied distractedly, still trying to find someone. "Say, where's, Kakashi?"
Shizuka cringed at the mere mention of the name. "About that kid, we should tell you first thatー"
"Out of the way!" Naruto widened her eyes when somethingーsomeoneーcrashed painfully against her side.
Groaning, she pushed off the ground using her hands. She felt sticky, and noticed the bright pink paint on her new orange khaki pants. She whirled around, fully intent on growling at the bull. "Watch where you're goー" Her eyes grew round again at the sight of silver, gravity-defying hair. "Kakashi?!"
"I said sorry afterwards, didn't I?" The five year old boy snapped, annoyed at how she kept badgering him about the event this morning. Naruto still huffed, glaring down at him. They, along with Genma, Shizuka and Mika who were watching, were hanging around at the academy, even though the classes for the day had already ended.
Mika grinned, "I'm sure you had been really surprised, huh, Naruto?"
"Of course I have! Of all people, why did Kakashi turn into a pranking freak?"
The Hatake grew red in mortification. "I did not! It's... it's training!"
"Uh huh, sure, I believe youーnot!" Naruto stuck her tongue out at him. "How can splashing paint all over the teacher's room be training?"
"That orange baboon was the one who told me it was a good idea!"
Mika's face turned into a tomato with rage at what she was called. "Excuse me? I didn't say you had to do it! You were the one who still continued to do it because you liked it!"
"It's fine as long as you join the dark side, Kakashi-kun." Naruto said with unhidden joy. And, not realizing the irony in her words, she said, "You finally see the light of things!"
Naruto couldn't stop grinning. Recently a lot of great things happened. Ame had immediately gotten on great terms with Konoha now that the issue of Hanzo was settled, and Kakashi's cold, stoic interior seems to have toned down somewhat. Not to mention that she met a new friend. Plus the warm welcome she received from everyone. It was almost scary, as if something bad would happen, and this was just the calm before the storm.
Naruto shook her head. Her thoughts alone could become a jinx, and she didn't want that.
"I've been wondering, but," Shizuka began, and she drew everyone's attention to what she was staring at by pointing her finger. "Naruto, do you know that dog?"
"Huh?" Naruto searched for a moment before her eyes landed on Chibi. "WhatーWhat is he doing here?!"
"I was thinking of telling you earlier, but it's been staring at you for the past fifteen minutes."
"Hello there, Naruto." Hiruzen then spotted the lingering dog behind her. "Hm? Did you get a new pet?"
"Oh, him?" The blonde scowled. "Chibi's been following me ever since he got to know me better in Ame. He was originally a stray puppy the Akatsuki found, but I think Chibi got attached to me."
The Hokage seemed amused. "Really?"
"Yeah!" Naruto huffed, before pausing. "It's weird though. He wasn't around for a whole day after I talked to a boy, but he suddenly came up to the Academy, waiting for me. I don't even know how he got there."
His eyes grew sharp, but he didn't say anything. "Well, how's that seal coming along?"
"About that..." She explained the headaches and what Kyuubi told her, previous irritation gone. She cringed as the Hokage's eyes became saddened and guilty with every word she said; it wasn't his fault. He had only done it for her so she could keep all of her sacred memories.
"I see..." Much like during her original childhood in the future, when the Hokage looked at her with such a solemn, regretful gaze, Naruto hated it. Now, though, was for a different reason. Before, she didn't know why he gave her such a face whenever she cried from the villager's hateful words. "I'm sorry; I should have checked that seal before using it... I'm very sorry, Naruto."
"I-It's fine! Really! The old fox wants me to get it off as soon as possible, that's all!" Naruto grinned, ignoring the small, gradually increasing headache. What lousy timing... "So can it be done anytime soon? Removing it?"
"Oh yes, I'll get it off right now." Hiruzen immediately got out of his seat, guiding the girl out of the door and through the corridors. "What's more of a concern now is how we should deal with your memories. It will be a problem if this seal and the one before still has aftereffects."
"So I'll have to get a new one...?" Naruto asked hesitantly, dreading the idea.
"Not necessarily; there's a much safer option I thought we could do, but you might not like it."
She blinked, "If it's safe, why will I not like it?" The blonde paused for a moment, thinking. "Is it painful?"
The village leader finally stopped at one old door that Naruto remembered as the one she used before to put on the seal on her forehead. "No, not at all; in fact, you'll be sleeping through it."
Sleeping through it? Why did she get the feeling he wasn't just talking about the preparation and placing of the seal?
"Alright, then, shall we get started?" He cut in, pulling out a scroll from a dusty drawer. "I believe this should be it."
Naruto didn't say anything, but thought with a perplexed face. The moment he suggested vaguely what they could do about her memories, she noticed something was off. Why do I think that? She pursed her lips, furrowing her brows. Of course she could trust him. He was her grandfather in all but blood.
"Hokage-jiーsama, about the idea you gotー"
The last thing she saw before falling into her dreams was Hiruzen Sarutobi's sad eyes.
"You'll have to put up with me until this is all over. I'm sorry, Naruto."
Blue eyes slowly opened, before screwing shut again. Her throat was dry. She registered the steady beeping sounds and voices getting louder. It smells funny. Like the smells in hospitals, when you go see the doctors.
Again, cautiously, she opened her eyes, waiting for them to focus. The yellow, red, white, and silver blurs turned into the worried faces of five people.
"Naruto!" The red-haired woman frantic voice cried, as she held onto the girl. "Thank god! Are you okay? Does it hurt anywhere?"
The blond tried to calm the her down, "Kushina, Kushina, you're scaring her."
"Butーbut Minato! It's been four days! The Hokage hasn't told us anything as to how she ended up here, in the Konoha Hospital's bed!"
"Naruto, how do you feel? Do you want some water?" A tall man with silver hair asked, and Naruto noticed the much smaller figure beside him. Ka... Kakashi?
She tried to sit up and the man helped her. He placed a cup of water against her lips, and Naruto drank greedily.
Minato sighed in relief, before turning to her. "Do you remember who we are?"
Naruto scanned the faces for a moment, getting her scrambled thoughts together. Her voice croaked, "Tou-chan, Kaa-chan," She gulped, and continued. "Sakumo-sensei, Scarecrow..." Her eyes fell on the final one, a tall man with long, white, spiky hair. She stared at the red lines on either side of his cheeks, scratching to the deepest end of her mind to find his name.
He frowned, eyes holding panic now as he tried to stop the pounding in his ears. "Naruto...? Could it be that you don't..." When she stared blankly up at him, it was as if something cracked inside him. "My God... What's going on?"
Kushina's eyes rounded in horror.
A scene of the next chapter:
The fiery woman glared at the Hokage, someone she thought of as a young grandfather. Right now, however, she couldn't see an inkling of the man she was close to in him. "What is the meaning of this? Why can't she remember anything about Jiraiya-sama, or anything that has to do with her past?" She clenched her teeth, and tightened her fists. "Don't just sit there! Say something!"
Jiraiya rested a hand on her shoulder, silently telling her to hush down, before looking at his former teacher. "Naruto's heartbeat was going up and down when she was still unconscious. What's going on? What happened to her? Why is she actually believing her made up story of how she lived before coming to this village?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed heavily, closing his eyes. "I made it easier for her."
Kushina grew more and more impatient. "How?"
He opened his eyes again, preparing himself for the anger and rage that was sure to come at him.
"I erased the memories she had of anything related to the future."
Woah. It's been nearly a month since I've updated.
I have a logical reason for that though! Issues I had outside the computer world came up, clubs got hectic lately because it was nearly the end of the season (I AM FINALLY RID OF THEM! WHOOT) but now that's all over (I think)! Now there's a time of peace, where nothing would get in the way of my writing except for projects, studying and homework.
And speaking of studying, I'm pretty sure I'll have to do tons of that now, since the next holiday is going to be the Winter Break! So that means I'll have tons of studying to do.
But that only takes about two hours of my day, so I'll still probably have time to update quicker.
The next season's clubs only take one day per week if I heard correctly, so... yeah, I might take two weeks now to update rather than three or more.
Right now its the mid-term break. I'll be trying to type up the next chapter, which should be easier now that I have a clear idea of what would happen (I got hit with tons of ideas for this story, so I had to update my plot - scratch that, rewrite my plot).
And sorry for the hideously short chapter. I couldn't think of anything else to write (I felt that there were too much events occurring in this one chapter, so...) and I had to rewrite it so many times I got sick of it. I think my English got worse in this chapter, too.
Gah.
My head is a mess.
Anyways, onto my response to the reviews!
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