With Naruto
It's been a hour since the Summit had ended and now he was sitting on a one of the free seats in the subway, ignoring the glares and nervous looks of the fellow passengers.
Naruto noticed that Kemal was staring at the ceiling and was speaking silent prayers, and he wasn't the only one. It didn't raised any questions until Tomita and Kuribayashi arrived with the rest, as they started to shake out of fear.
Itami, who was being held by Rory asked Naruto out of curiosity "Hey Naruto, what is Kemal doing?"
"He's praying, hoping that he wouldn't be crushed by the earth above us." Naruto replied to his friend.
Kuribayashi narrowed her eyes "Why would he think that would happen?"
Naruto sighed "Because the underground in their world is ruled by Hardy. The Goddess of the underground."
Tomita was about to say "That doesn't sound bad-"
"And ruler of Hell." Naruto added as he made his fellow Japanese's their skin turn pale white.
He smirked and said "I had that same reaction when I heard her name for the first time."
Itami, feeling uncomfortable decided to change the subject "Hey Naruto, I saw that you were talking to a black lady in suite after you spoke in the Diet, care to explain who she was?" this caught the attention of several of the group, a stranger talked with Naruto and he didn't told them?
Naruto turns to his left and saw that the citizens weren't paying attention, so he said "It's nothing, just someone from the UN, nothing else."
"UN?" Itami wondered until he figured it out and asked "Oh you mean Rainbo-" Naruto shoved his hand on Itami's face before he could finish that word.
"Not in public." Naruto shushed him "Seriously how did you found out about that name?" he asked as it was supposed to be a secretive team.
Itami smiled "Well, you know that Echo-"
"Urgh! Of course it's him and his big mouth." Naruto groaned and waved it off, knowing already thanks to who it is.
"Who's Echo?"
"What's Rainbow?"
"And what is the UN?" some of the Falmart girls asked multiple girls to the two men.
"Way too complicated to explain." Naruto/Itami replied at the same time.
"Kasumigaseki. Kasumigaseki"
The subway stopped as the doors opened and there stood Jiraya, waiting for them with a smirk "
On the way Jiraya started talking about the plan "We're moving up the schedule and going to Hakone. We'll head to Tokyo and change trains there."
"How did the bus go?" Itami asked.
Jiraya smirked "They fell for it, the fact that they didn't know about the change of plans, narrows the leak down to two suspects. Right now I'm letting it go to find out where they're headed."
"Itami!" Rory started begging Itami to stop the train, saying that she couldn't take it anymore. Everybody payed attention to it until the announcements were made again.
This time Naruto felt a gut feeling that something was wrong and nodded to Itami.
The doors opened and Naruto said "We'll be getting off here. Let's go." Naruto exited first as his Anasazi entourage followed him and then the others.
"Naruto wait!" Jiraya stopped him before he could go any further "We need to stick to the plan-"
The ground suddenly began to shake wildly
"The Marunouchi line is currently not functioning due to a wiring accident between the Ginza and Tokyo stations. There is presently no set time for it to be back online." The announcements were said, it started repeating itself.
When Naruto heard this he turned to Itami and Kemal "Send everybody upstairs now." they nodded while Naruto walked up ahead with Jiraya following him.
When they finally reached the top and exited the underground, Rory extended her arms out of relief while Naruto and Itami were waiting on Jiraya who was talking through his phone, to end his conversation with his agents.
"Okay, keep this quiet and make sure nobody gets in our out that area. You got that?" Jiraya ordered through the phone and after a second he nodded and ended the call "Okay, good luck."
Jiraya ended the call and then Naruto began to ask the first of them "What happened?"
Jiraya shook his head "That was no accident, SAT bomb unit found a large crater in the tunnel, something went off."
"A bomb." Itami guessed.
Jiraya nodded on the Otaku's guess "That's right, we don't know who did it or why. So out of repercussion we're going to send teams to clear out all the routes for any more threats." Itami nodded and started explaining to Kuribayashi and Tomita the situation with Lelei translating it to the others and the Anasazi.
Naruto on the other hand had his arms crossed and didn't bother to listen to the same explanation to what happened. Seeing the reactions of Pina was predictable as the Anasazi were wary about the news and kept their eyes on their surroundings and their hands near their holsters.
Naruto started feeling like he was being watched, he didn't know from where but he felt he was being watched.
he kept scanning the area until he felt something and turned his head violently around and looked straight upwards, staring at a security camera that looked straight at it, like in the middle of the lens.
URGH! Naruto heard someone groan as he turned back around and saw that a street hoodlum tried to steal Rory's weapon but only got crushed by its weight in front of them.
'Stupid.'
Jiraya did not buy it "It can't be that heavy…" Jiraya kneeled down and grabbed it by the side and was ready to pull it up.
Naruto tried to warn him "Don't-"
CRUNCH! Jiraya eyes widened and he began to scream.
"YEAAOOCH!"
Minutes later he laid on his stomach, on bran card, loaded into an ambulance. Telling Itami what to do.
Naruto patted Jiraya on the back and wished him well "Hold on tight old man, I'll visit you in the hospital when we get them to safety." Naruto said as he was leaving.
"Naruto." Jiraya grabbed Naruto by the arm, earning Naruto's attention as he gestured him to come closer. Naruto bowed his head to Jiraya and listened to what he had to say. The whispering gained the attention of the bystanders and the eyes of several cameras that were eavesdropping on them.
Naruto nodded, he turns to the first responders and said "Alright, you can go."
They loaded Jiraya into the ambulance, it left in a matter of seconds and Itami approached his friend.
"Hey Naruto, what did Jiraya told you?"
Naruto turns to him and said "Nothing important to the mission, now let's get us to somewhere safe."
Itami got an idea "We should go-"
"Not to an nerd convention please?" Kuribayashi interrupted with caution.
"No," Itami denied "I mean our place, it's safe and big enough for everybody to fit in."
Naruto thought about it and found it actually a good idea "Okay, is the basement clean?"
Itami smirked "Cleaner then the insides of a-"
"Excuse me." Both turned to Rory who looked suspicious "What are you guys talking about?"
Naruto nodded to Itami and he said "We're going to our place, it's perhaps better to hide out there for the moment, but first we need to pick up something." Itami noted as he began walking up the sidelines.
"Wait? Your place? Don't tell me you guys lived in the same apartment, you're not-?" Kuribayashi asked with content in her voice as she asked it to Naruto.
"It's nothing like that. We just decided to share the same house, finding it easy as we both had different times in the service, I'll explain the rest later when we arrive there." Naruto waved it off as they all followed Itami to where he was going. All the while a camera was filming them all the time.
But also, they were being monitored by a team in a major black van. Inside of it, Dokkaebi, Ash, Mute and Jackal were inside the van where they were looking through the screens which were focused on their target: the Saderans, the girls, the Anasazi and Naruto.
"Woaw, Dokkaebi did you see that?" Jackal said.
"What, the part of that guy trying to pick that axe or the fact that Naruto looked straight into the camera like he knows we are here?" Dokkaebi said while typing into her laptop without looking up to her.
"That thing with the Axe. Hey Sledge-"
"I've seen it, that must be weight a hell of a lot." Sledge said through the radio "Oi Mute, can you send me all that footage?"
Mute just gave a thumbs up as he started sending the feed to his hammer friend.
"Cut that talk," Ash said, staring at the screen and the camera feed that was focusing on Naruto.
"On it." replied the rest of the team, they noticed Ash was not in the same mood, usually she was very hardheaded and focused to when it comes to tasks like these, but since Naruto was involved in this she was very strict, more stricter then usually. Like she was trying to finish this quickly and meet him.
it was no secret that Naruto and Eliza knew each other, but to the extend to what that history was is like how Naruto was alive, a mystery yet to be unraveled.
Then through the radio spoke Thatcher "Alright lads, I want a status report."
Ash kept staring at the screen and began briefing in "They exited the underground and a mugger tried to steal-"
"Drop the protocol Eliza," Thatcher interrupted for a moment by saying her name "How is Naruto?"
Eliza closed her eyes and released a big sigh and said "We managed to eavesdrop on their conversation, and they're planning to go towards his house."
"And?"
Ash smiled slightly "He's looking alright."
"Good, nice work people." Thatcher thanked the team "Keep a track on them and make sure nobody else is following them, also don't try to get caught, Six didn't had the chance to talk with poor sod about our operation."
Jackal then asked "Uhm hey Thatcher, when do we get the chance to reunite with the blondie, you know me, Tachanka, Blitz, Bandit and the others are dying to meet our fun blond again? We even got the drinks to celebrate." He joked, Rainbow indeed after dealing with the news of Naruto being alive had their own small celebration, especially the Russians who saw this opportunity to get themselves drunk again.
"No, we're not going to meet Naruto right now beca-"
"But sir-"
"Let him finish first." Mute cut him off as Thatcher spoke.
"We're not gonna speak with him tonight because somebody else will go first and only, and you know who it will be." Everybody knew which person Thatcher meant by "That's all, good luck. Thatcher out."
Ash went to the front where a small window was and punched it "Hey Jäger, get this thing moving."
"I'm going." The truck began to move as Ash sat down her chair and kept eye on the monitors and more precisely on Naruto and began to slightly blush on her cheek. This caught the attention of a shit grinning Jackal.
"Ooooh, somebody is happy that someone is alive and well." Jackal turns to Dokkaebi "hey Dokkaebi, how many women did Na-"
Caught off guard, an embarrassed Ash now had her hands around Jackal's and was slowly strangling him.
"Egh! Help me out!" Jackal struggled to speak.
Jäger shook his head "You're on own on this one."
Dokkaebi sighed "How many times did we have to tell you Jackal? Don't talk about that, this is what the 4th time?" Dokkaebi was about to name up some of them.
Mute muttered "Wanker."
Later
itami stepped forwards on the porch and used his keys to open the door, they've been met with nothing but darkness.
Tuka looked around and wondered "Why are all the lights out?"
Naruto flipped the light switch on and off multiple times, groaning out of annoyance "Risa…"
Rory asked "Who?"
Itami scratched his head nervously at Naruto who glared at him but then walked past him. They opened the door and saw that the room was a mess. The lights were off, the only thing that was on was the screen of the computer, on the table lied unopened urgent letters and beneath the table lied a tired Risa who looked like crap.
"I'm hungry….Need to turn in one more page for tomorrow…" she could be heard saying weakly.
Naruto shook his head "Goddamn at least she could've turn up the heater, it's fricking cold here." He whispered as Risa didn't seem to hear that.
Itami sighed and brought the bag full of food in front of here.
She smelled something and turned to Itami "Food!" Risa being Risa, she dug her head straight into the bag in front of everybody without her knowledge of them standing there.
"So warm…"
Naruto shook his head while chuckling "You haven't changed at all, haven't you Risa?"
Risa's eyes shut wide open after hearing that voice, she sharply turned her head upwards and was shocked to who was standing there "N-Naruto?"
Naruto smiled "Hey Risa-" naruto didn't got the finish his sentence as he got embraced by Risa who kept squealing like a little girl.
"Ahhh! I knew you would come back! I'm so happy you're alive. I want to know everything what is beyond there! please tell me your story! How did you survive?"
Itami snickered at Naruto's demise of being asked so many question and turned to the others "Hey come in guys."
Tomita was the first to ask "Uhm Lieutenant…who is she?"
Itami smiled nervously as he said "She's my ex-wife."
This bombshell of a revelation got everybody silent until they all collectively responded "EEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHH!"
Risa didn't know what the fuze was about while Naruto shook his head and sighed out "Really Itami? Risa?"
"Someone is crazy enough to marry this guy?!" Kuribayashi yelled out of disbelief "Who would've thought of that?"
"Who are you calling crazy!?" Risa yelled at her.
"You, that's who!" Kuribayashi yelled as she calmed down "But then again, you guys do look like you belong together." Kuribayashi added, making Itami and Risa looked at each other, confused.
"Huh, that's what I was saying all along." Naruto backed her up "Now what did you mean by 'Ex-wife' if I may ask?"
Itami and Risa started chocking on their words and then laughed nervously "Well…."
Outside the house
A black SUV pulled up and parked on the other side of the street, the passenger door opened and Narumi stepped out of the vehicle and closed the door behind her.
She saw that the lights were on and that people were moving inside the house. it gave away that possible a dozen shadows of the folks inside were seen. Some of them were obviously recognizable by their appearance.
Narumi took to the front door and noticed it was left unlocked, she stopped in front of it and was about to push it open, but then she flinched for a moment, her anxiety started to build up, she became extremely nervous and it started boiling up to her head. Even for a Special forces operator it was something hard to reunite with a family member who have resurrected from the dead.
She started having second doubts "I can't do it…"
"You can do it." Narumi heard, she turned around and saw that Zofia and Thatcher were standing out the SUV, Thatcher had his mask around his arm while Zofia lowered her sunglasses.
They gave their thumbs up to her and gave her a fist in the air "We're right behind you."
Narumi smiled at her before she felt her phone buzzing like crazy, she took a look and saw that she received a lot of messages and all were different.
Hey girl, just to say don't worry and make sure he gives you a big hug. – Dokkaebi.
Hey N, I know I'm not the best in these kind of things, but I just want to say give it everything you got. Everything will be fine. – Thermite.
Stay positive and don't hold it back, let him see you missed the block – Sledge.
Enjoy the moment – Blitz.
Give Naruto a big hug and make sure he remembers that not only you but We all missed him. With love. – Ela.
he began tearing up from the emotions by the messages of support her teammates/family gave her. She wiped her tears away and to take in a lot of air in her lunges.
"Here goes nothing." She said as she entered the house.
In the basement
Naruto and the others walked in the basement which was Naruto's room, it was not just some basement, it was rebuild into a living home.
There was a bed which was big enough for two and a pair of sofas lined up in front of a big screen tv, in the corner was a computer set up with a lot of electronic equipment next to it. then there was the small mini-bar which consisted drinks of soft drinks from Coca Cola to Sprite, of beers from Budweiser to Belgium Jupiler and foreign strong drinks like Vodka to Scottish brew whiskey and Irish Moonshine. Also did he had a pooling table for the occasion of visits. There was also a bookshelves filled with books, unlike Risa's bookshelves which was filled with manga's, Naruto's was filled with books of knowledge, history, culture, warfare and science. There was a table with chairs and some furniture to make it look good.
On the brown painted walls hanged pictures of Naruto and his friends, fellow service men and people he had met around the world. The walls did contained momentums like clothing of fallen terrorists like gun holsters of the ones he killed to keep it as a price and above the bed hang his military honors he earned on his time in the JSDF.
"Amazing, all these books." Lelei said in surprise as she held on one of the books she began to read with Hussein picking a book of his own.
"Woaaw…" Tuka and Rory said as they saw how many honors Naruto had on his wall.
Kemal and Emir picked up two pairs of glasses and tried to drink a coca cola with Tomita.
Naruto looked around and saw that the place looked clean and was relieved "Well, thanks Risa."
Risa smiled "Oh it was nothing."
Kuribayashi then asked "Why did you keep it this stuff in here after he was dead?"
"After I heard you were killed, Itami and I decided to keep his stuff here, we couldn't bare it if we had to clean it up, leaving an empty room." She said while nodding to Itami, who nodded back to her.
Naruto went to one of his drawers and pulled on the handle and took out a big brown book, he blew the dust off it and cleaned it with his hand. He then walked towards the sofa and sat in the middle of it as he opened the book which was an photo album.
He smiled at the pictures of him as he suddenly felt someone look over his shoulder and saw it was Lelei "What is this?"
Naruto smiled "This is photo album, a book where I kept all of my dearest memories on camera."
This attracted the attention of the others as they surrounded Naruto from all sides and began going through the pictures.
They saw one of his first, where he was very young with him and his father and pregnant mother in front of their house, it was interesting to know the history of Naruto's past for the Falmart natives.
Rory smiled at the sight of the family photo but then turned her attention to another picture and asked "Hey, where is that taken?"
Rory referred to a different photo, here Naruto stood next to a woman that looked like a nun with glasses and a teenager with the same pair of glasses with silver hair. There was also a small bundle in the nun's arms which showed to be a baby with her arms stretched out.
Naruto smiled sadly "That picture was taken where we grew up, an orphanage that was run by the Kabuto's, a religious family who took care of us and dozens of others of children."
Pina asked out of curiosity what kind of religion he meant "What religion did they follow master Naruto?"
"They were somehow a mix between Shintoism and Christianity. They are a very open people and good people who raised me and Naruto when we were young." Itami cut in as he slapped the back of Naruto in agreement.
"Wait! You grew up in an orphanage Lieutenant?" Kuribayashi asked with shouting it out.
This however brought up a bad topic that Naruto knew he wasn't comfortable talking about so he said "Let's move on."
He turned a few pages, letting him see pictures of him when he was in school with one of them his graduation. Then he showed the time when he and Itami joined the JSDF and were sent to Samawah Iraq for the effort of rebuilding the country.
Naruto smiled at some of these pictures, of him and some of the civilians, he specifically liked seeing the photo of him, Itami and some of the others from his team with building equipment, standing in front of a Shia mosque that they helped repair after a Sunni extremist damaged it in a car bomb. He still remembered how the folks of that neighborhood were happy that their mosque was rebuild and thanked them deeply.
There were also pictures of Naruto hanging around with the Kurds in Northern Iraq, some of the normal citizens but most of them in military gear.
"Amazing." Hussein stroked his beard at the style of clothing the people of Iraq their clothes "I can't believe your world has countries who dress just like us."
Tomita questioned what Hussein meant by being fascinated people from Earth wore similar clothing and traditions to that of the Anasazi. Hussein explained how in 'The Days of the Bloody Tears' the Saderans tried to force their culture, beliefs and way of life upon the Anasazi tribes. With banning various sets of clothing, enforcing Saderan laws and language and paying tribute to the Saderan Empire and swearing loyalty to the empire only. It was called simply called the forced restructure of 'Saderanization' upon the Anasazi 'savage' race.
While some were disgusted like Itami, Kuribayashi and Tomita, others were used to it. Rory and Tuka practically lived over a hundred years, seeing empires and kingdoms going down and new cultures being forced on the occupied territories of the victors and Lelei was young at the time. The two knights of Roses felt ashamed while the Anasazi still felt some anger to thinking about that.
For Naruto, he knew this was the norm for Empires to do that. Heck he forced an abnormal-by-their-standards system of democracy and freedom on the Anasazi and got a lot of hate for creating laws that defied the ruling and religious classes of society in the beginning.
"Oh and who is this?" Bozes pointed at a picture. Nobody noticed that somebody was slowly walking down the stairs.
It was a picture of Naruto and a redheaded girl who looked like she was in her early 20's, they both wore military outfits, Naruto in his Japanese standard ANBU while the girl wore black SAS light armor and equipment.
Bozes was astonished by the girl's her beauty "She looks beautiful. Who is she?"
"That's my sister, Narumi Uzumaki."
"Your sister?" The Falmart people except for the Anasazi asked out of surprise. Rory was amazed that this girl had a close resemblance to Princess Pina with the red flourish red hair and smirk that the princess always had when she was cocky.
Then when Narumi stepped on a cracking last step of the stairs caused everybody to think someone was coming from behind, Kemal and Emir pulled out their revolvers and pointed towards the staircase, directly at the intruder.
They all widened their eyes when they saw who it actually was and it made the two men put down their guard and cause some murmurs.
Narumi said dryly "Brother?"
Naruto was stunned to see she was there and hesitated before speaking "Hey Narumi…it's been a long time hasn't it?" he stood up.
He walked up to his sister and they both stood a few inches away from each other, creating a scene in front of the group.
Hussein decided it was the best for them to leave them alone "I believe it's better we leave them for now."
Rory, who usually would nag about leaving moments like these, wanted to spare this moment to give Naruto and his sister some room "Alright, let's go."
Everybody went up the stairs and left the two siblings alone, but Kuribayashi stormed in and took the photo album and said to them "It will take a while, so we're going to sniff inside your pictures."
She left with an snicker and the two were left alone. Naruto knew this wasn't going to be easy so he began to speak first "So…how long was it since I wa-"
"It's precisely a year now since you died." Narumi interrupted him "A year since we thought you died."
Naruto felt the tension and began to apologize "I'm sorr-" she slapped him across the face.
Then Naruto suddenly felt a whole lot of weight on him as he saw that Narumi grabbed him and buried her face into his chest and he heard sniffing, he looked down and saw she began to cry.
"Never *sniff* do that *sniff* again. I missed you." She said silently as her emotions began to spill and her legs began to give in.
Naruto smiled and embraced her sister while releasing a small tear from his eye "I won't Narumi…I promise."
Both brother and sister were having their emotional reunion while they were being watched by the others, some were happy and some began crying. Especially Rory who dealt with people crying out of mourning, but she always liked these kind of tears, tears of joy.
Itami smiled as he saw his best buddy meet his sister again "Good to see you happy bud, good to see that.
And that's done! Woaw! Sorry if it looks short but I'm now trying to get going with my others stories and I think of changing for next chapter a something different alternate scene for Naruto where the White Masks will get more involved. I am happy to announce that my GTA story is a success and I will work on it in the future.
Next story will be of One Piece crossover since I left you guys for a month. Please leave a review and some feedback is welcome and I hope you guys have a nice day.
Peace!