Chapter 11 We Have a Problem
The sound of someone poking the fire outside her tent caused Sakura to walk out of her tent and into the small tent city which was set up just outside of the half destroyed Akatsuki base. When she walked out she found Naruto sitting there all by himself poking the fire with a stick, to make it even better he had a sleeveless white shirt and it looked as if he hadn't drayed much after coming out of the shower.
"Naruto what are you doing out here?" asked Sakura as she moved and sat down beside her old teammate.
"Just couldn't sleep." answered Naruto "Tomorrow I will be taking Cena and then Altair home."
"Not counting maybe running into Sasuke and Madara." added Sakura
"Ya, however." started Naruto only to stop mid sentence.
"What is it Naruto?" asked Sakura
"Nothing don't worry about it." added Naruto as he looked into the fire.
"Naruto you can tell me anything." said Sakura as she placed her hand on top of Naruto's who looked into her sea green eyes which sparkled in the firelight, little did he know her heart rate had shot up two fold when she looked into Naruto's deep sky blue eyes, the eyes that haunted her dreams the dreams that would be too mature for one of Jiraiya's books.
"It's just….going to all these places seeing how things could have been I can't help but wonder." said Naruto
"Who you will end up with?" asked Sakura
"Ya….I mean take a look every universe is slightly different but yet some things are the same." said Naruto
"Your love of Ramón noodles for one." said Sakura as Naruto laughed a bit.
"Ya, however whenever I go to another universe and look at the other versions of me I can see why they have become that." Said Naruto
"You understand why you ended up with Sasuke?" asked Sakura
"I am not gay or anything like that but if you liked him then he must have had been good looking at least." Said Naruto "However I could see why the Naruto who married Ino would do it, however I don't think I could."
"You don't like Ino?" asked Sakura as her heart soured a bit
"I like her but as a friend." said Naruto as he breathed in the cold night air. "But don't you wonder what is in your future….I mean the kids aren't just from another universe they are from the future aren't they?"
"I asked that to Shikamaru and he said they could just be from a universe where events happened earlier then here." said Sakura "Our generation could just have been born earlier."
"Still wouldn't that be the future?" asked Naruto
"Shikamaru said it was different how I have no idea." said Sakura
"Whatever it is I can't help but wonder who I am going to end up with." said Naruto as he looked at Sakura "Who is my soul mate."
"Naruto-k…." started Sakura as suddenly Tsunade appeared from her own tent
"You two get to bed." ordered Tsunade as Sakura cursed her own master under her breath.
"We aren't little kids old lady." said Naruto
"I am the Hokage and I am ordering you to go to bed." ordered Tsunade as Naruto and Sakura followed their orders and went to bed.
Shortly after sunrise Naruto, Hinata and Cena appeared in the middle of a road.
"That felt so weird." said Hinata as she looked around to see the Hokage mountain in the background maybe a ¼ of a mile away from them.
"Stop!" yelled a ninja as a tall man as he landed in front of the three of them. The man had a white jacket that covered everything from the neck down. He looked a lot like Neji cross with Hinata.
"Uncle Lluc." said Cena with a smile.
"Lluc?" asked Naruto
"My older brother in this world." answered Hinata as Naruto nodded his head.
"Come on let's head into the village…..your parents will be so happy to see you." said Lluc with a smile.
Cena and Lluc lead the way as Naruto and Hinata walked behind them, the gate looked the same as it did in their own universe. It was strangely the same, Naruto and Hinata couldn't help but recognize so many different people as older versions of people he knew. He spotted an unmasked Kakashi walking down the road with a young woman maybe in his mid twenties; she looked a lot like Shizune only with silver hair.
"Is that?" asked Naruto
"Ya, that is Kakashi's and Shizune's daughter." said Lluc
"I thought that if Kakashi ended up with anyone it would be Anko." said Naruto
"Anko?" asked Lluc "are you talking about Anko Mitarashi?"
"Ya." said Naruto
"She died during the sound invasion when I was 17." said Lluc
"I see." said Naruto "Is the Akatsuki gone in this world?"
"Yes and no." said Lluc
"What does that mean?" asked Hinata
"Zetsu is still out there on the run but the rest of the Akatsuki is gone." answered Lluc as he lowered his head a bit.
"You are thinking of Anske?" asked Hinata as Lluc looked at his niece
"Sorry, she doesn't have an older brother and I had to explain who you are and she came up." said Cena as Lluc shock his head.
"Who is Anske?" asked Naruto
"Female Itachi and his former girlfriend." said Hinata
"Do they know why?" asked Naruto as Lluc looked at him
"Know what?" asked Lluc
"Why the Itachi massacre happened?" asked Naruto
"Because the woman I loved was evil." said Lluc
"I can't speak for her but in our world Itachi Uchiha massacred his clan because they were setting up a coup against the Hokage which would cause at least a civil war if not a world war." said Naruto as Lluc looked at him "In our world Itachi massacred his family to save other families. I don't know if your Lluc had the same orders but it is possible."
"Thanks." said Lluc as they started walking down a middle class neighborhood. It didn't have the same ritzy feel as the neighborhood where Naruto and Ino Namikaze made their house however it had a charm all to itself. As they passed by a mail box he noticed a small sign on a door that read Nara family with Shikamaru and Ino's name before going down the line with two boy names.
"Shikamaru and Ino live in this neighborhood?" asked Naruto
"Along with Neji and Tenten and their daughter." said Cena "Choji and his wife…..Shino and pretty much every member of what used to be the rookie 12 apart from Sasuke live here."
"Wait…rookie 12 if you didn't have Sakura-chan who is the 12th?" asked Naruto
"You didn't have Sai in your class?" asked Cena
"No…he was a member of Root." stated Naruto
"Root?" asked Cena
"A very old program which died almost 40 years ago." said Lluc "The organizer Danzo Shimura was put to death after they caught him meeting with Orochimaru."
"Well we are here." said Cena as she ran toward one of the houses, she jumped the steps leading onto the woodened deck before opening the door. "MOM DAD I am home."
"Cena!" yelled Hinata's voice as a very pregnant Hinata appeared in the doorway. Her hair was just a long was it was now and apart from being 9 months she looked great.
"I am so glad I didn't miss it, I didn't want to miss the birth of my brother." Said Cena as she placed her hand on her mother's stomach "Where is Dad?"
"Out looking for you along with your sister, thanks to your message we knew that you would be in a certain area." said Hinata "I am just so glad you are back."
"I am fine mom." said Cena as she looked at Naruto and Hinata.
"Thank you." said Hinata
"No problem." said Naruto "However I kind of need to talks to your Naruto."
"Sure." said Hinata as she bit her thumb before running though hand signs, when she finished a puff of smoke appeared along with a red slug.
"Lady Hinata." asked the slug
"Will you please get my husband tell him Cena is back and the other Naruto wishes to talk with him?" asked Hinata
"At once." said the slug as it disappeared.
"You're a slug summoner?" asked Hinata as the other Hinata raised an eyebrow.
"Aren't you?" asked Hinata "You where trained by Lady Tsunade just like Naruto-kun was trained by the 5th Hokage."
"Wait isn't Tsunade the 5th Hokage?" asked Naruto
"No….Jiriaya was." Said Hinata "I mean don't get me wrong Tsunade is a great doctor and medical but Hokage no. She would get drunk and gambling on the job."
"She is our Hokage." said Hinata "And she trained Sakura and Ino not me."
"Sakura?" asked Hinata as Naruto pulled out his wallet and took out a photo of him and Sakura, one that Sai had taken of the two of them standing beside each other, they where rather close and it made them look like a couple instead of just a snap shot that was taken in the field.
"Sakura-chan would probably punch me if she knew I had this." Said Naruto little did he knew Sakura had the same photo of him in her purse.
"I don't know her." Said Hinata
"She is Kane Haruno's daughter." said Cena "The one that died in the Kyuubi attack."
"I see." said Hinata "Now why don't you come in."
Naruto, Hinata and Lluc followed Cena and Hinata into the house. They walked down a hallway full of family photos pass a formal dining room and into the living room which had one large couch with a coffee table and a chair.
"Sorry I would get you something to drink." Said Hinata as she sat down holding her pregnant stomach.
"When are you due?" asked Hinata
"Next Friday and if our little boy is anything like his sister he will be a few days early." said Hinata
"Your family will be together when a new members join." Said Naruto
"Yes, they will." Said a new voice as another Naruto entered the room. He had a blue Jonnin vest and a white Jacket with blue families around the bottom. Behind him stood a girl maybe eight or nine with blonde hair.
"Cena." yelled the girl as she hugged her sister.
"I missed you." Said Cena
"Thank you for bring my daughter home." said Naruto as he took the other Naruto's hand.
"No problem and I hate to ask you this but I need to talk to right now…we need to get going, if Madara and Sasuke isn't here then they are causing problems in another world." Said Naruto
"Alright." said Naruto as the two of them walked into the kitchen. "What do you want to know?"
"How did you kill Sasuke?" asked Naruto "How could you kill him he was your best friend."
"That is something I don't like to think about." said Naruto "But for you I will tell you. I killed him because I realized that I couldn't save him."
"But how could I….sorry you kill him?" asked Naruto "I still see my best friend, my brother in him."
Meanwhile in the living room Hinata was busy looking at the other version of herself.
"You want to ask me so ask me." said Hinata
"Alright how did you end up with Naruto…how did you work up the nerve to ask him out?" asked Hinata
"You want me to tell you how to end up with your Naruto and the answer to that question is." said Hinata "you can't."
"What do you mean I can't?" asked Hinata "I love Naruto-kun."
"The thing is I don't think he loves you." said Hinata as she looked at the photo of Naruto and Sakura. Before looking at the fire place mantle. Hinata's eyes widened as she looked at one of the photo's there right beside their wedding photo was a photo of Naruto and Hinata in the same spot at the same age and looking at each other the same way. "He loves her and she loves him."
"But how can you be sure?" asked Hinata
"Ya…how?" asked Cena
"For the longest time my Naruto-kun and I refused to date each other, everyone knew we liked each other it was pretty much an open secret in the village however neither one of us wanted to risk our friendship." started Hinata "Then one day it broke like a dam, we kissed pouring all our emotions into it and then a little bit over a year later we were married and have been ever since."
"You think Naruto and Sakura love each other but don't want to admit it because they would risk their friendship?" asked Hinata
"Yes." said Hinata "I am sorry Hinata but I don't think you can win Naruto's heart it belongs to another."
At that moment Naruto walked back into the room with the other Naruto
"Time to get going Hinata." said Naruto
"Here you almost forgot this." said Hinata as she handed back the photo
Less than two hours later Naruto along with Sakura and Altair appeared in the middle of a grove of thorns.
"I wish this place was at least consistent." said Naruto
"Get down." ordered Altair as the three of them got down just as three ninjas landed outside of the thorns.
"I thought I heard something." said Shikamaru as he stood their beside another Sakura. Shikamaru had a long scar across his face while Sakura stood there something that matched her current uniform only pure black. Naruto couldn't help but look at her, she didn't have that warmth in the green eyes and she just seamed colder, distance and evil.
"You can be such a baka Shikamaru." said Sakura "Why I married you I don't understand."
"You can be a real Bitch you know that." said Shikamaru
"Shut up you two." said Kisame Hoshigaki as he stood there in his black with red cloud Akatsuki uniform only instead he had a Leaf headband over his eyes. The giant Samehada sword rested across his back "I swear you two are just as bad as that Madara from that other universe."
"A universe where the demon is a hero?" laughed Sakura "Makes me sick."
"Well from what the other Sasuke Uchiha said the version of you from that universe is in love with him and he with you." Said Shikamaru as Naruto and Sakura looked at each other.
"Please I would kill the Demon and that demon lover." said Sakura "Beside you are engaged to that universe version of the sand vixen."
"We need to get going the army will arrive in the sand in just over 24 hours and we need to be there." Said Kisame as the three of them headed off.
"Looks like we found you're Madara and Sasuke and they are marching on my village with likely the entire Leaf army." Said Altair "And they will be at the village within a day."
"All we have to do is defeat the entire ninja core of this leaf which includes the evil version of ourselves and our friends and family, the entire Akatsuki, their version of Madara and Sasuke plus our own Madara and Sasuke." said Sakura
"This might be a problem." said Naruto
Well I hope you liked this chapter, I would like to apologize for the long wait for this chapter I was caught up in writing another story which I now finished. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75
