Chapter 12: A Missing Mother Found.
"Liar!" Naruto shouted, tears now welling up in his eyes. "You can't be my mom!"
Kushina winced. "Naruto, I know this is hard to take in, but I am-"
"If you are my mom, then why was I put in an orphanage?" Naruto demanded. "Why did I start the Academy at 4? Why did I get beat up by a mob of drunken villagers on my fifth birthday? Why did I have to live in a run down apartment all by myself? Why didn't I ever go on a picnic, or get tucked into bed, or, or. . ." The sentence wasn't finished, as Naruto broke down crying.
"I'm sorry Naruto." Kushina said in a sad voice. "I wish was there for you, but after the Kyuubi's attack, Konoha was in chaos, and I was stuck in a hospital room, wondering what happened to you. . ."
FLASHBACK
She was angry, to say the least. She was worried about Naruto, and why nobody had brought him back to her. She was angry, because she was left in the dark about what's happening outside, and that she's stuck in the hospital, and no doctor has seen her yet.
Kushina hoped that Naruto would be returned to her soon, and that would be released. She would take him to the Namikaze Estate, to the room she and Minato had prepared for him. She imagined Naruto in his crib, asleep under his sheets, clutching a teddy bear. She imagined taking him to the park, where he would play with the other children. She imagined seeing him off to the Academy, then later see him with his hitai-ate once he graduated.
It was two hours after Minato had taken Naruto and bid his goodbyes did a doctor finally check up on her.
"Doctor, where's my baby?" Kushina demanded.
"Your baby?" He asked.
"Yes, where is Naruto, I want to see him!"
"I'm sorry, but your baby is dead." He stated.
Kushina felt her heart shatter. Her husband was dead, and so was Naruto. She could not stay in Konoha. The memories would haunt her until she died.
A few minutes later, she had her clothes on, and left Konohagure no Sato.
FLASHBACK END
". . .I was so heartbroken, I just could not stay." Kushina finished.
Yagura looked at Naruto. He read all about Minato Namikaze, The Yellow Flash and how much the village loved him. And yet, he was looking at the son of this hero, who was even the splitting image of him, and yet people hated him so much that they would lie to keep his mother out of his life. Hell, one of the initial reasons Yagura was made Yondaime Mizukage was to be a puppet and a scapegoat.
Kushina stood up.
"Naruto?" She asked, walking up to him and kneeling down.
Naruto was still crying.
"Do you want a hug?" She asked. Naruto nodded, and Kushina wrapped her arms around him.
"Shhh, it's okay Naruto." She whispered. "I'm here for you now."
"I'll inform the Hokage that this might take a while." Said Yagura, getting up from his seat.
"You should do that." Said Kushina.
The first thing Yagura noticed when he stepped into Tsunade's room, was the end table in pieces.
Near the door.
"I'm guessing Emperor Transbaal was here?"
Tsunade nodded, before asking, "Did Kushina tell Naruto-"
Yagura nodded.
"How is Naruto taking it?"
"Not well." Yagura answered.
"I thought so." Said Tsunade. "I was surprised when I saw her at the Kage Summit. The hospital records in Konoha said that she died in childbirth."
It was quiet for a few moments. Then, an idea popped into Yagura's head.
"So, what can you tell me about Naruto?"
When he had calmed down, Naruto was able to learn about his mother. Things like how she changed her name to Mei Terumii. And then, three years after she left Konoha, she was selected, along with many other Jonin and Hunter-nin, to seal the Sanbi no Kyodaigame into a newborn child. Though the mission was a success. . .
FLASHBACK
"And his parents?" The Sandaime Mizukage asked. Standing before him were the elders, and the remaining members of the team to seal the Sanbi.
"They didn't make it." Said one of the surviving Jonin. "His father was caught in the demon's jaws, and thrown into a rock. His mother got hit by its tail, and fell into the ocean. We did all we could to save her."
"I see."
"So what should we do with the child?" Another Jonin asked. She was holding a sleeping Yagura.
"Same thing we're doing with Utakata." The Mizukage answered.
Kushina looked at Yagura. What they were doing with Utakata was that, as soon as he reached the age to join the Academy, he would be put into 'Jinchuuriki Training' instead. And one of the things that she heard that they did with Utakata, the host of the Rokubi no Namekuji, was that they would throw him into areas where the civil war was strong, or into an area packed with civilians, who form a mob and attack the boy, just to see what he would do. Of course, that was something that Kushina wondered was actually training, or just something that the Sandaime did for amusement, like many other things. When Kushina talked to Utakata once, he was very. . . cold, and couldn't trust anyone. While that was normal for experienced Jonin, Utakata was just a young child. To think of Yagura like that, his pink eyes cold and serious, disturbed her. Especially how he reminded her of Naruto-
"I'll take Yagura." Said Kushina. All eyes focused on her.
"And why do you want him Mei?" The Sandaime asked.
"I've always wanted to have a child, but-" Kushina did not want to finish that sentence.
"Well too bad, because-"
A grunt came from one of the Elders. The Sandaime sighed and pulled out some forms.
"Fine, sign these."
FLASHBACK END
The Sandaime, at the time, had some of his powers suspended by the Daimyo to investigate the claims of him having ties to Orochimaru and that he was sending ninja to him for his experiments (A statement that would become true when years later a package was sent to the Daimyo containing the Sandaime's letters to Orochimaru). As a joke possibly, he had Yagura as his successor, and continued his work in the shadows. While he was too young to rule, the elders took this chance to remove many of the Sandaime's cruel punishments and orders, although they could not quell the civil war. This lasted until after the Kaguya clan attack, when Yagura had hunted down the former Sandaime and defeated him in battle, telling him to never return to Kiri, proving he would be right for the Mizukage. For many years, things looked better, and then a hooded man in a mask came along, and Yagura began acting differently. But by the time the figured out that he was being mind controlled and broke it, the hooded man escaped, and Yagura was unsure of leading, and left Kushina in charge. To make matters worse, Utakata, now more humanized by Kushina and Yagura's efforts, went to search for him, only to get captured by Akatsuki.
Naruto told her about his life, starting from the orphanage, where he was shunned by the other kids, to joining the Academy and getting picked on by the other kids for being younger than they were, not being taught reading, or being sent away for story time. And then, he moved onto his fifth birthday. . .
FLASHBACK
Five-year old Naruto was walking down the streets of Konoha, trying to remember where he lived. The orphanage kicked him out today, saying that he was old enough to look out for himself, and gave him keys to his own apartment and wrote down his address. Of course, they never bothered to show him where it was, and, as said above, 'was not taught how to read'. As he walked, he noticed people glaring at him and whispering things to one another. He tried asking one of the villagers to help him, they just shooed him away.
Even later, into the night, he still did not know where his home was. He was still wandering around when he heard-
"You."
Naruto turned to the voice. It was a man, he was slightly swaying, with a bottle in his hand. Behind were a four more drunks.
"You took mah bestest friend." The man slurred, staggering towards Naruto. Confused, Naruto replied, "But I didn't-"
SMASH!
"Shut up!" Shouted the man, throwing his bottle at Naruto, though, being drunk, he missed. Not caring the man staggered towards the blonde, his friends following.
"You hurt mah friends, n' village, n' other people."
Naruto turned around to run away-
SMASH!
Unlike the first bottle, this one hit him in the back, causing him to collapse to the ground. The first drunk got to him, and started punching him, followed by his friends.
For two minutes, Naruto was beaten up when he heard-
"Get away from him!"
The drunks stopped, moving away from Naruto. Naruto looked up to see some men in black and white clothes, wearing masks with different animals on it, and the Hokage.
Naruto knew who he was because he saw him visit the orphanage a few times. He walked up to Naruto, knelt down and picked him up.
"Don't worry Naruto, it's alright." He said.
And at that moment, Naruto decided that he would become Hokage.
A year later, the five men who attacked Naruto got hit by stink bombs, smelling like something died.
The stench lasted for a week.
FLASHBACK OVER
Kushina was relieved to know that Sarutobi helped Naruto, and that the incident never happened again. Naruto explained how the next year, he met Kiba and got into pranking. But as he started talking about how he became a Genin, there was a knock on the door.
Kushina opened the door see Yagura.
"The Emperor has a mission for us."
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
Canon Naruto was ignored when he was younger. Fanon Naruto is sold low quality equipment and expired food at high prices, is the target of a witch-hunt every birthday, gets beaten everyday, gets sabotaged in the Academy, so on and so forth. I've decided to do a fusion of the two pasts for this fic, where he was, on top of it all, just ignored by the villagers, but a few would try to do whatever they could to him without it getting noticed by the Hokage, or something that would seem suspicious to the younger generations (Hey even though mommy and daddy told them to stay away from Naruto, they would eventually find it fishy that the grown-ups are picking on him constantly.) I want to do this for two reasons:
1. In most Fics, Fanon Naruto's past makes Sarutobi look rather neglectful. I mean, your successor, Minato Namikaze, the hero of the Third Great Shinobi War, student of your student, Jiraiya the Toad Sage, is dead, and so is his wife, and the only thing he asks is that Naruto be seen as a hero for holding back the Kyuubi. Sure, you can't force the village to do that, but how can you sleep, knowing that the villagers are attacking and abusing Naruto in various cruel ways that are making Minato roll around in his grave.
2. I want the Civilian Council to be the biggest source of Naruto's suffering. How they did it will be answered when they finally return to Konoha.
I want to thank Inumiru for giving me the idea that the Mizukage is Kushina.
And now, a little rant. . .
I am not too happy about what's happening in the official manga. First off, what happened with Sakura. When she went up to Naruto at the end of 469, telling him "We need to talk." I hoped that 470 would have her try to convince Naruto to give up his promise to Sasuke, and his crush on her. Instead, we get Sakura telling Naruto that she loves him back, and I can't help but think that off panel, she shouted out 'I love you!' before giving her reasons on screen. And Naruto. . . FAINTING?
There, I'm done.
