I OWN NOTHING BUT THE PLOT which is © by Hikaru Uchida (ME, penname).
Returning to him
What if after getting caught by Madara, Kyuubi sends Naruto back? But what if he makes everything change, yet it gives Naruto a chance to set everything straight?
AN: Ok, everyone, this will be the last chapter until I figure something out about this new problem. Truthfully, I can just come up with a new character (Though some people don't like them), but what I have to figure out is how everything will connect in the end. I will be focusing on this for now. Also, I'm in school again and well, working as well, so writing has become a gift in my day. So whenever I have time, I will be writing, and this means I will not post chapters as often, not that they have been right?
All I'm asking is, to not give up on me. Please. I love this story and well, it's so complicated that it will take time to write. There will be so much going on, a reason as to why I had Mistuko explain the way she did. Without mentioning names. Keeping everyone in the dark. This is why it will be a long process, and what I'm aiming here is to well, go more than 25 chapters. Hopefully less than 50 haha.
And to all of my readers out there, Thank You so much for sticking with me this far. I'm a bit complicated with Detail and the Characters Kishimoto has developed. But up until now I had this idea of who Madara was, just for it to break. That little detail was an atomic bomb to my plot. And it was all because of the connection they share with the Sharingan.
Please read and Review. And until next time.
Chapter 9: Boundaries or not, you are my friend! Pt. 1
Itachi sighed relieved after hearing that, he smiled at the sleeping girl in the man's arms and wondered.
She said that her Clan was more powerful then his, right? But how so? And she was related to the Senju Clan?
He looked at the woman carrying him and sighed. Life was looking up to him; he now had someone to see as a Mother and a very special friend. He knew that he should appreciate his Mom, but she just wasn't as warm as Kushina.
His attention turned back to the blonde and frowned, if she really came from the future and treated that badly, he would seek that she has respect. Minato moved over to them and was about to take her from the Sannin arms, but her little fist were holding on to the man stubbornly, "Ha-ha, she doesn't want to let go," he mused while Minato glared.
"Well, considering her confession a few minutes ago, I think it's reasonable," he sulked and started to walk over to one of the exits.
The Uchiha blinked and frowned, maybe he won't have to do much. Kushina started moving along with Kakashi, "Do you want me to take you home?" he turned to look at the redhead.
"I don't think Mitsuko will wake up soon," he told her and then nodded.
The woman smiled, "Alright," she said and they were out a few minutes later.
Minato turned to them, "I'll take Itachi-kun home, you guys take Mitsu' back," she told them and they nodded. The Bloody Habanero headed to the Uchiha Compound while the others looked at each other.
"We need to give the Hokage our report," Minato stated.
Both his teacher and student looked at him, the boy sighed and started to head that way, the blond turned to the white hair man and crooked a brow at the grin he had, "What?" he asked but the Sannin shook his head.
"Nothing, I'll go with you since I can't go into your house uninvited," he told the other.
"Like you haven't before," Minato stated. Jiraiya chuckled a bit.
"True," he said leading the way.
The Yellow Flash looked at him with narrowed eyes, but sighed and followed after him. Whatever it was, he would find out about it sooner or later.
Kushina walked closer to the Compound and she smiled, "Itachi-kun?" she asked, the boy looked at her.
"Yes, Kushina-san?" he asked, the redhead had told him to call her Kushina, but he refused.
"Would you like to get stronger?" she asked, the boy blinked surprised but nodded none the less. The Uzumaki smiled, "Do you know how you can do it?" she asked softly.
"By training?" he asked confused.
The redhead laughed a bit, "Yes, but do you know why you want to become strong?" she asked.
"To protect Mitsuko" he replied calmly.
Kushina's eyes widened and looked at his obsidian orbs with her violet ones, "And your family, your friends… all of your precious people," she added with a soft smile.
Itachi thought about it and then nodded to her, "Yes," he said and the woman sighed.
"How about I help Mitsu' and you on you're Water Jutsus and Minato or I help you with your Fire base chakra?" she asked, his eyes lit up and nodded.
"I would like that," he told her and she smiled.
"Good! I'll talk to your Mom once she gets back, okay?" she asked and the boy's eyes hardened.
"Alright," he said quietly. The young Uchiha look at the entrance of his compound and sighed, "I can go from here, Mitsuko needs you more," he told her.
Kushina stopped at the small gates and sighed, "Alright," she said putting him down. "Just know, that if you need something, anything, come to us," she told him patting her head. "Mitsu' cares about you, she wants to help," she whispered to him.
His eyes widened and then they soften, "Hn, thank you," he said and turned around.
Kushina watched him go, she sighed and scratched her head, "I really need to talk with Mikoto," she told herself and left to prepare dinner.
Sarutobi looked at him for a long time. Jiraiya was trying to hide his snicker while Kakashi just waited for the Hokage to speak. Minato shifted a bit, he had been standing in front of the desk for about five minutes in silence and he was starting to feel uncomfortable.
The leader of the village looked at the sleeping body of the little girl and then back at her father, "Minato," he finally said. The blonde stood straightened and looked at him seriously, "I would like to congratulate you," he said smiling.
Kakashi and Minato blinked, "Congratulate me? For what?" he asked and looked at his teacher.
"Starting tomorrow, you'll be known not only as 'Konaha's Yellow Flash,' but also as Yondaime Hokage," he said smiling.
Minato gasped, "Huh?" he asked and looked at the sleeping figure of his daughter.
"Now Minato, that's not a proper answer," Sarutobi said and smiled. "The counseling and I had been debating for a while when I should give you my position. And last mission made them decide that now, was that time," he told him and got up from his seat. "I already knew that you would be Yondaime, and I wanted to give you this position for a while now, but they wouldn't let me," he told him and turned around to face his beloved city.
"They said something about needing you out there, but with this mission you just completed, there is no more reason why you shouldn't be Hokage. The war will soon be over thanks to this, and there is no problem at not having you in the front line," he said turning around to face the still shocked blond. The old man smiled kindly, "It's been your dream since you were young to become Hokage, and now, here is your chance… do you accept?" he asked taking off his hat and offering it to him.
Minato's eyes widened and looked at the hat for a long moment, then he looked up at the man, "It'll be an honor," he replied taking the hat from him.
The third smiled, "That's what I thought!" he said and sat down, "Most of my stuff are already at my house, so you don't have to worry about not being able to work tomorrow," he said and then smirked. "You're in for it now, Minato," he told him and chuckled.
Jiraiya was looking proudly at him while Kakashi looked at his sensei with satisfaction. "Paperwork?" he asked and the Sandaime nodded.
"You'll love it," he said and the blond sighed. The Third then looked at Kakashi and smiled, "Obito should be out by next week. You'll have a break until he wakes up and is checked off," he told him and the teen nodded. The Hokage turned back to the blond, "And don't worry, I'll be assisting you until things settle down in a few months," he told him and he nodded.
Mitsuko flinched in her sleep, "No," she mumbled and held on to the Sannin tighter. Minato and the others turned to look at her, "Yuu" she mumbled again and frown.
Minato and Jiraiya looked at each other, "Yuu?" he asked and she started to whine.
Sarutobi looked at her, "Take her home," he told them and they nodded.
"Kakashi, do you want to eat with us?" the blond asked and he sighed.
"Sure," he said.
After their final good-bye, the three males headed to the big house to have dinner.
When they got home, the delicious smell of the redhead's cooking had invaded the whole house. The little girl seemed to be waking up, but she sighed and nuzzled her face on the Sage's chest. Minato sighed and smiled gently, "Let me take her to her room," he told his sensei lowly.
"If you can," the other replied trying to make her let go of his vest.
Kushina poked her head out and smiled, "Hey, what took you so long?" she asked now coming out fully to the hall.
Kakashi looked between them and then at Mitsuko, he walked over to Jiraiya once he had his vest free from the little fist, "I'll take her, sensei, you tell her," he told them raising his arms to take the blonde. Minato sighed and the white hair ninja took it as his way of telling him could do it.
"Careful," he said before handing the small body to the teen.
The silver head blinked, she was so light. He had never really taken any special attention to her, but now that he did, he could tell how much she looked like Kushina and Minato. It was like she was the perfect mixture of them, only much cuter. He sighed and headed to the second floor; "Tell me what?" he heard Kushina asked before he was on the second level of the house.
The teen headed to the door closest to the stairs, a red spiral with 'Mitsu!' hanged from the door and he opened it. He crooked a brow when he did; scrolls of different jutsus and weapons were lying on the floor. He shook his head but stopped as a special Kunai was on top of a small desk but he frown, the seal didn't look like Minato's, it was just a bit different, but not by much. The boy looked at it for a while longer and set the blonde on the messy bed and took off her sandals and then covered her, "Na…ga" she mumbled and tossed to her side with a deep frown. The boy blinked confused and looked back at the Kunai, he quickly grabbed it and headed down.
When the boy came into the kitchen, a very excited redhead was humming and cooking, his lips twitched and then looked at Minato, "Sensei?" he asked.
"Hmm?" the man asked turning away from his conversation with Jiraiya.
"Have you made a new seal for your Hiraishin?" he asked.
"No, why?" he asked and then the three seal masters looked at him.
"Found this on Mitsu's room," he told them holding a special Kunai.
The handle of the Kunai was the same as Minato's, except that the seal had something new. At the very last part of the ink, there was a small coma with a very nice curve pointing north. The second coma was at the very top pointing south and in the middle of the writing, there were super-small comas pointing west and east. They all narrowed their eyes, "What is that?" Minato asked grabbing the weapon and inspecting it carefully.
The man now had his ninja face. His narrowed eyes were sharp and serious; the way he gazed at the seal was stunningly calculative. Kushina looked at it and then gasped, "How in the world did she do that?" she asked.
The males turned their eyes to her, "What is it?" Minato asked her.
"A sensing seal added to your Hiraishin, but that's not all. Those curvy tails from the comas are very sensitive to the slightest chakra signature, or feeling from the one it's closest. Those comas are also able to remember the chakra signature of an individual and pass it directly to the sealer," she explained placing her hand over her chin and rubbing her fingers on the front.
"It's a tracking, sensing, and time-space seal," she stated and groaned. "That's one of the highest seals I've seen since my Great-Grandfather… and that was ages ago!" she told them. "I never really got to meet him, but he was the leader of Uzushiogakure. My grandmother always told me stories about him, but that was before she died in the second Great War," she sighed. And then shook her head, "And she's only been reading," she mused. Minato looked up at her, "I wonder what she will accomplish when we teach her," she wondered and left them to finish dinner.
The three males looked at each other and then at the seal, "Damn," Jiraiya said after a long silence, "Just damn," he repeated. The other two agreed with him and nodded, "She'll surpass all of us," he stated.
A few minutes later, Kushina came in with the food. He frowned, "When do you think she'll wake up?" he asked.
"I don't know, she had so many emotions going on," the redhead said.
"She'll wake up tomorrow morning," Jiraiya stated as he ate.
"You sure are confident," Minato stated.
"Well, of course! Just who are we talking about?" he grinned goofily.
Kakashi snorted, "She's too stubborn to stay down for long," he commented while eating the wonderful food the Uzumaki cooked.
The girls' parents laughed, "She is," Minato agreed.
"I'll be surprised if she doesn't wake up by noon," Kushina said and they began to talk lightly.
Itachi walked in into the house, he heard someone asking for him, or demanding. He frowned, "Where is he?" he recognized the voice.
"I told you, with his friend," his godmother said calmly.
"Mom," he greeted her from the archway to the sitting room.
"Itachi-kun!" she rushed to him and checked if he was okay, "How are you? Are you hurt? Did anything happen?" and so on.
He gave a faint sigh and nodded, "I'm fine," he told her.
Mikoto nodded, "Where were you?" she asked –demanded- holding his face in her hands.
"With my friend," he replied calmly.
"Who is your friend?" she asked.
"A girl-" he was cut off by his mother.
"A girl? If your Father finds out about this, you'll be in trouble!" she told him.
"But she's not like the oth-" he wanted to scream.
"Not like the others? At least not now, but just wait longer," she told him and got up. "Get your stuff, we're going home," she ordered.
Itachi looked at her for a long moment, Mikoto felt uneasy by the cold eyes he had, but let out her breath as he turned around and went to his room. The woman turned around to see Uruchi frowning at her, "Why did you do that?" she asked calmly.
"He needs to learn that a civilian girl will do anything to just be his 'friend'," she told her and nodded. "Thanks for taking care of him," and headed to the front door.
The woman sighed and followed after her; she would wait for her godson and say good-bye. Little Itachi came down with an emotionless face and she frowned deeply, she hadn't seen that face for a week, but now, it seemed like it will stick for a while. The boy looked up and then and nodded, Uruchi knelt down and hugged him, "Take care, and stick with Mitsu-chan," she whispered.
The heir relaxed a bit and nodded, "Thank you for letting me stay here," he told her and then walked up to his mother.
"Let's go, Itachi-kun" she told him opening the door. Mikoto walked slowly, she felt a bit bad for telling him how his 'friend' would turn, "Itachi-kun, I don't want you to get hurt, so please stay away from that girl," she told him, looking at him from the corner of her eye; the boy frowned.
"…I understand" he sighed.
The mother smiled, "You can have friends in the clan, just don't get too distracted. You're the heir of this clan after all," she told him and moved her eyes back to the road.
The Uchiha boy glared, 'They are not what I can call 'friends', they are not like Mitsuko,' he thought dryly. He was starting to get tired of being told who he could talk to and who he couldn't; there weren't many he could play with. He sighed, tomorrow he would try to go over to train with his blonde friend, a small smile tried to come over his lips at the thought of disobeying his mother and running off to see Mitsuko.
When they got home, he wondered for a second what he should do for the rest of the day, but dismissed the thought and headed to his room to think over what happened today. He was about climb the stairs when his mother stopped him, "Itachi-kun?" she asked softly, the boy turned to her with a calm face, "Do you want to something to eat?" she asked a bit uneasy.
"No, thanks," he replied before hurrying up the stairs.
The jonin sighed tiredly, she was sad by the relationship between them, but she couldn't afford to spoil him. With that depressing thought, she went to her room and prepared a bath for herself.
Itachi closed the door behind him; he looked around with a frown. The boy sighed and went to his bed, he climbed it and took off his Kunai holder and placed it on the bed stand, and then he flopped back and looked at his ceiling. Stay away from that girl, his mothers' voice repeated but he tried to ignore it. The thought of not being able to see his friend bother him a lot, he had never really thought of wanting to be selfish, but just this once he wanted.
The boy got up and pulled the special Kunai from the holder and looked at it. Mitsuko had asked for it the day after their attack, and she had given it to him after drawing something in the handle. He noticed the added comas and frowned, what are those? He shook his head and got up, leaving the Kunai on his bed, and looking through the scrolls he had.
Mitsuko had three affinities, Earth, Water and Wind, while he only had a bit Fire and mostly nothing of Water. He's not happy about it, but guessed that it was more than enough for the moment; after all, he was only 4 years old. He smiled at the scroll the blonde had given him, "Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique," he read calmly, he smiled softly; he would need to thank her tomorrow for this. He sat down on his chair and read through the scroll.
It seemed fairly easy, but he knew that it would take practice to fully master it and use it completely to his advantage. He had to muse; Mitsuko and he completed each other. They could use some combination, the needed ones if they ever fought together, and they would most likely win.
When he was ready to take a break, the boy went down to the kitchen to see his mother cooking, "Oh, Itachi-kun! I was going to call you soon, have a sit," she smiled at him, the boy sighed at the forced smile his mother had, but did as told. When Mikoto came with his food, he noticed that it was a light meal, "So, what did you do while I was gone?" the woman asked sitting down.
"Training, and playing with my friend," he told her truthfully.
"Itachi-kun" she whispered warningly, but he ignored her. Mikoto looked at him for a second, but then started to eat, "I completed my mission, now it will be the last one I do," she told him.
"Why?" he asked not looking at her.
"It takes too much time, I want to spend that time with you," she told him softly.
The boy looked up and nodded, "Hn," he said and went back to eating. 'I miss Kushina-san's cooking,' he thought absently. For a reason, he felt there was something missing other than the usual thing.
The boy sighed softly, but kept eating, "How's your tainting?" she asked trying to see how her son is.
"Good," he answered passively.
"I-I see, that's good to hear. Your father will be proud," she replied looking down at her food. Itachi gazed at his mother from the corner of his eyes and wished she hadn't said that. He knew what that really meant, but ignored it as much as he could.
Mikoto didn't say anything more after that, she knew her son well enough to know when he needed to be left alone, and right now, that was it. She watched him eat, if he wasn't so small, she would say that he was 8… twice his age. It was just the way he acted around her and Fugaku; it was guarded, almost like they would hurt him. She frowned and noticed as Itachi got up and took his dish to the sink, "Good night," he said before leaving.
The jonin sighed, she got up and took her own dishes to the sink and started to wash them, maybe… yeah, that might work. She would talk to Fugaku once he gets back. With a smile, she hummed as she moved around the kitchen.
The young Uchiha brushed his teeth and went back to studying the scroll. He had memorized most of the scrolls given to him by his father, too bad they were only information on math, and history on the Uchiha, and just a tiny bit of genjutsu and taijutsu. Maybe his father wasn't sure if he should give the boy some ninjutsu to practice; after all, he had taken the scroll for his Great Fireball, and learned it as much as he could without help.
He kept reading until he was tired enough to go to bed. He changed and picked the Kunai up; he smiled and put it back on its holder then went to bed.
-.-
When Mitsuko woke up, it was already morning. She groaned and looked around; with a sigh, she got up and noticed that she was still in her clothes from the day before. With a frown, she went to get some new clothes and headed to the bathroom.
When she came out, she was squeaky clean. The clothes she had were long black socks, orange short-shorts and a white t-shirt with a red spiral on the front. Her jacket was in her room, but she wouldn't need it unless she went outside, which she would have to after breakfast. She skipped down the stairs and stopped at the entrance of the kitchen/dining room, Kakashi, Jiraiya, Kushina and Minato were sitting calmly at the table.
She blinked twice and memories of the day before rushed back to her, she cursed under her breath and looked to the side before walking in, "Morning," she greeted and waited for someone to say something as she sat.
"Mitsuko," Minato greeted cheerfully.
The girl was now fully seated and smiled at her father, "Daddy," she greeted back. "So, what are we eating?" she asked looking around.
Jiraiya was looking at her frowning and then, she blinked surprised, "I win! Hand over the money," Kushina cheered.
Minato sighed and Kakashi crooked a brow, Mitsuko blinked once more and looked between the two, "Che, why did you have to open your big mouth?" the sannin asked looking at his student while looking for his wallet.
"You were the one that was wondering, I only asked and you guys made the bet," he replied passively.
"Too bad you had your timing wrong Jiraiya," Kushina grinned. Kakashi was laughing softly, and the blonde blinked, yet again.
She looked at her mother and then at her godfather, "Um, what?" she asked.
"We made a bet to see at what time you would wake up, I said 8 and Jiraiya said 9… it's 8:20." She told her getting up after getting her money, "Breakfast will be ready soon," she said, before going to the kitchen.
"So you guys bet on your family's wellbeing?" she asked passively.
All of them looked at her surprised, "Huh?" Jiraiya was the first to ask.
Mitsuko did the only thing she could, she laughed, "Oh, your faces are so funny!" she looked at her father's stunned face and cracked up.
"That wasn't funny," the man told her.
"Yup, and that bet wasn't either," she sighed and looked around. "So," she said and smiled at them, "Even though I have memories from the future, don't treat me differently. Remember, I had grown up without a family back then," she told them and rested her arms over the table, she lean her cheeks on her arms and saw them blinked.
They looked at each other and nodded, "Alright… and…?" Minato asked; the blonde crooked a brow.
"Hmm?" she asked, her father's eyes were a bit nervous, but other than that, they had excitement meaning only one thing. "Well, can I call you Dad even after I become a ninja?" she asked with a grin, all of the males blinked surprised. "Cuz I never heard Azuma call the Third, 'Dad'," she clarified but the surprised was still there. "Oh, come on! It's not that surprising. The war is almost over, and if I remember correctly from those stupid books in the academy, you had become Hokage around this time," she told him.
Minato sighed and nodded, "I guess I couldn't have surprised you that much, huh?" he asked with a small smile.
"Nope, but I was wondering. Just when do you start?" she asked hoping it won't be any time soon.
"Today," he told her.
Well, that just messed thing us for her, "And when are you going to train me? Fuinjutsu training, remember?" she asked straightening up, the blond blinked.
"Oh yeah," he mumbled and grinned sheepishly.
The little girl groan, "I don't see how much more you actually need to learn. You upgraded my seal without too much trouble," he told her, showing her the Kunai from last night.
"It's because I already know how that seal works. I need to be able to create my own seal that I will need in the future," she sighed. "I guess Mom will have to do for now," she sighed disappointed.
"Sorry, Mitsu'," he replied with a sad smile.
The blonde looked at him for a second, "It's okay, you're the Yondaime after all," she mumbled looking away with a small blush, Jiraiya and her dad laughed while Kakashi observed.
"Mitsuko, would you like come visit Obito with me?" he asked.
The girl's eyes lit up, "Of course!" she cheered.
Minato's serious face came back, "By the way, do you know how Obito was saved?" he asked her.
She blinked and sighed, "I… might have had something to do with it?" she asked looking at her hands.
The room felt a bit colder and she dared picked from under her bangs, "You followed us?" he asked.
She shook her head, "No," she said.
The Yellow flash narrowed his eyes, "Then what did you do?" he asked.
"I… I placed that seal on Obi-nii's goggles," she sighed.
Minato and the others blinked, "When?" he asked.
"A week before you guys were assigned to the mission," she told him, her voice passive.
"How did you save him?" Minato asked; Kakashi was looking at her while Jiraiya observed this time around.
She sighed, "After you left, on the second night, I was playing around with the element cards. I was wondering if I had another nature chakra, but it would either split into two or get wet. But then it turned into dust…" she told them and they nodded. Jiraiya was stunned to hear this, but hid it well. She bit her lip and then continued, "The next day I sent my clones to learn the basic chakra control for Doton, and soon followed the Earth Release: Underground Projection Fish Technique and the Earth Release: Earth Shore Return," she told them.
Kakashi's mouth went dry and Minato nodded, "I learned them quite easily, the latte one helped me defend myself on the kidnapping attempted, but anyway. The day you split, I felt it. I knew what would happen next, and I just couldn't allow it. So, when Obito's chakra flared up as he awakened his Sharingan, I got ready and waited for something. When I felt both Kakashi's and Obito's chakra move, I decided to wait a bit more just to be safe, so they wouldn't see me," she replied.
She smiled, "Then, I used the Hiraishin no Jutsu and went to that cave. I stayed out for good measurements, and used the Underground Projection Fish Technique to push Obi-nii out of the way, I made sure that he wouldn't be crush to the point to be life threatening, so when the cave was about to collapse, I went up, covered him with my Doton Chakra and sunk to the ground and to safe land. All I had to do next was take him to the hospital, which is obvious I did," she finished just as Kushina placed the food down. "Well, time to eat!" she cheered giving her thanks, then she dug in.
All of them watched her silently, "Just remember, I don't want to be treated like a freaking genius… I want to be normal for once," she said, before grabbing another bite. Kushina and Minato looked at each other; they smiled and started to eat while the other two looked at her in approval. When they finished eating, Mitsuko went to her room to get her jacket, orange and black.
Just so you know, I'll try to explain as much of Kushina and Minato's family as possible (My guess). I have already developed a family tree for each!