Naruto the 4th Reborn
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Chapter 28: The start of the farewells
Student and sensei face each other in battle stances ready at the drop of a leaf to fight.
"Sasuke, I have one question for you, why do you want to fight Itachi so bad you have friends you're the prince of the village?" Kakashi asked calmly but it had a demanding undertone
"You just cant understand, he needs to be put down. He killed an entire clan! Why does no one care?" Sasuke shouted menacingly his sharingan spinning
"You are right he does need to die but why don't you not making him your life goal. Theres dozens of people in the village who would help you kill Itachi." Sasuke didn't say anything he just glared at his sensei sharingan spinning chuckling slightly until he stopped abruptly
The Uchiha dashed with lightning chakra building up in his arm making sounds of birds chirping. Kakashi grabbed Naruto who was next to him and jumped to Lee dropping his loyal student towards the taijutsu apprentice.
Sasuke meanwhile was jumping to Naruto and Lee but Kakashi easily countered by grabbing the Uchiha's wrist that didn't have the Chidori(One thousand birds) and flipped the Uchiha who was about to hit the ground until he used his wings to hit the jonin but the jonin backed off and it was the same for Sasuke.
Kakashi started to do handsigns and ended by bringing up his hand to his mouth and holding his hand in an 'O' shape and blew out a large fireball at Sasuke who countered with his own but Kakashi used a quick Wind Style:Great Breakthrough to enhance his flame which overpowered the surprised Uchiha's fireball and Sasuke had to use his wings to cover himself
The wings ended up getting seared and they slowly burnt. Kakashi however did not relent and came in with a Raikiri(Lightning blade) which was the advanced version of chidori and cleanly cut off Sasuke's right wing making the boy scream in pain.
Kakashi then undid the jutsu and punched Sasuke in the stomach and jabbed him multiple times in the face before he ended the combo with a quick kick sending the Uchiha crashing into the statue of Madara Uchiha.
Sasuke now was tired, no infact he was exhausted and wanted to flop down and just rest but he couldn't. Slowly his cursemark receded and Sasuke tried to call upon its power but he was at his limit, his sharingan turned into his normal onyx coloured eyes and he panted glaring at his sensei.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH" Sasuke screamed before he got a chop to the neck by Kakashi who had shunshined behind the boy who had accepted defeat.
"Im sorry Obito, if only I guided him better." Kakashi muttered before slinging Sasuke behind him and jumping to Lee and helping the boy up and they soon went to the village.
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Naruto eyes slowly opened and he saw that he was on Lee's back and could see his 'teammate' slung over his sensei's back and smiled slightly.
"Sensei, wheres everyone?" He asked
"My ninja hounds told me their fine so don't worry." Kakashi replied
"That's nice." Naruto slowly succumbed to unconciousness
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A day later
Naruto was now walking with Temari. Gaara still in the hospital for chakra exhaustion and Kankuro was at Naruto's house lazing around. Neji and Choji were in the hospital since they suffered serious injuries and also Lee since he suffered exhaustion but he probably was out by now since Gai had arrived in the hospital earlier when he and Temari visited Gaara.
Shikamaru was in the hospital for since he just wanted to laze around and he probably couldn't do that at home since his mom was there. Everyone else was just resting at their homes. Naruto himself had gotten out of the hospital late last night.
So here he was going to the council room in the Hokage's tower as the representative of the Leaf village for the mission and Temari was the representative of the sand and they were going to be reporting all that had happened to decide the fate of one Sasuke Uchiha.
Naruto held Temari's hand as he walked in the Hokage's tower heading for the council room and they released their hands and the blond opened the doors for and they entered to a room full of highly respected people bickering to eachother like children.
Tsunade was the first to see him and slowly everyone else saw him and became silent.
"Jonin, Naruto Uzumaki and Chunin, Temari Sabaku. Do you know why you have been summoned here?" Tsunade asked seriously
"We have been summoned here to report all details that we know of on our mission to retrieve Sasuke Uchiha." Naruto replied just as serious straightening his posture
"Yes now but could you just tell us all the points you know that involve Sasuke Uchiha in a quick synopsis?" Naruto and Temari nodded
"Hokage-sama, Jonin Naruto knows all the details of the Uchiha that I do and more so he should be one who reports." Temari stated
"That is fine. Now Jonin, report."
"Well from what I have gathered from Chunin, Shikamaru Nara, he has told me that four sound shinobi most likely convinced Uchiha to betray the village and join Orochimaru, midway through the mission we found Sasuke in a container for some reason that Genin, Hyuuga Neji informed had some kind of ominous chakra." Many council members started shouting in disbelief that their 'Uchiha-sama' would betray them
"Silence" Naruto said using Kurama's chakra to make his voice more ominous and everyone piped down and Tsunade smiled seeing Naruto control most of the civillian council that interrupted him
"As I was saying, midway through the mission there was one more sound ninja who took the container from one of the other sound ninja whom another member of our team chased and that member was Genin, Rock Lee, who informed me that midway in his fight with the new ninja there was an explosion and from the container that Sasuke was in and there was some smoke and once the smoke was gone there was the Uchiha there and Rock Lee tried to call to him to come back but Uchiha ran towards the borders of the Land of Sound." He paused to let the information sink in and some where still doubtful but most were accepting but didn't like it
"All that happened next was me and Gaara Sabaku, my teammate, fighting the member that Lee was fighting against and we barely defeated him and Gaara was to exhausted so I went on to help Lee who ran after Sasuke and I found Lee exhausted so I subbed in for him but I was too exhausted to fight so I ended up losing but just in time for Jonin, Kakashi Hatake, too arrive and defeat Sasuke and that was that." Now the council members were whispering in too eachother while Tsunade observed them
"Well I assume its safe to say Sasuke is guilty." Many nodded while a few civillian members just huffed like children so she continued "We shall put him in prison and use him to reproduce the Uchiha clan." Naruto flinched hearing what Sasuke was going to be used for but Tsunade got up and turned to leave until Danzo spoke up
"While I do not disagree on your facts Tsunade but your choice is not wise." He said and she turned to sit in her seat at the head of the table and sighed
"Well then what is the best choice elder Danzo?" she asked
"If we lock him up, most of the civillians are going to go in uproar. They treated him as a prince, if their prince is imprisoned they will go into outrage. Even if we give them the facts they just wont listen to reason. Look at the civillian council, even some of them are in outrage and they are supposed to be the most knowledgeable of all civillians." He gestured to all the civillian members in the room that were arguing but they piped down at blatantly being embarassed
"I guess you are right but if we just let a shinobi who broke the laws run free it would set a bad example." Tsunade pointed out
"Well keep it under the rugs." He said as if it was common sense
"Danzo-san, how could we possibly keep this under the rugs. Sasuke himself could try tell people himself?" Choza asked
"Well how many people know of the mission?"
"Excluding all the members of the leaf team and sand team aswell as Kakashi then there would be the two anbu keeping guard of him and the Kazekage and maybe some other anbu who might've seen him." Tsunade replied giving all her knowledge
"Then it is even more simple, all members of the council will keep this a secret and it will be an A-rank secret since it involves village reputation, security and shinobi morale so we just tell the Uchiha to keep quiet or die if we get wind of him doing anything. Keep the two anbu who were guarding him or some other trustworthy to keep an eye on him and just keep him under their watch." Tsunade and most of the clan heads understood but just didn't feel right keeping things 'under the rug'.
"I guess this is a fine option but does anyone have any other suggestions?" The Hokage asked
"Well if I have all my facts right, we could just say he was under influence of the curse mark which he very likely could have?" A chubby looking civillian member stated smugly and many other civillian members did join in aswell
"From the report we have received by our two representatives, it is highly unlikely that Sasuke was under influence and if you still don't believe it I can have Inoichi interrogate him." Inoichi nodded his head accepting his job and this hushed everyone from any more suggestions
"Well I will give you all a week before I will finalize this so if anyone has any more suggestions just come to the Hokage's office. Dismissed." She then walked away motioning for Naruto and Temari too follow along which they did
As soon as they were out the two blonds instantly held each others hands as it just felt right to them.
"That was very nice you two." She said calmly and they smiled "Now do you know why I chose you two to be the representatives? Well actually I chose Naruto but Temari was obvious since she is the most reliable out of all the sand shinobi." Naruto thought about it for a while and just shrugged not understanding why he was chosen
"Well you were chosen since you are going to be the new representative…" she paused for dramatic effect
"For what?" Naruto asked impatiently while Temari giggled slightly
"You are going to be the sand and leaf representative." Temari eyes widdened before smiling at Tsunade but Naruto was confused
"Uh what does that mean?" he asked
"Basically anything that the sand wants to ask the leaf you will be the one who goes there so basically more time in the sand." Now he jumped up happily
"There is one more thing." She said as she opened the door to her room and sat on the chair and to her left was Jiraiya
"Uh hi sensei." Naruto said wary since the atmosphere was intense if he could say the least
"Naruto, its not easy to say this but.." Tsunade didn't want to say whatever she was going to say next that was clear
"You're going to train with me for two years outside the village to get ready for Akatsuki." Jiraiya said completely unhesitant
"What?" the blond jinchuuriki asked in slight shock
"Naruto as is your strong for a jonin but not strong enough for S-rank shinobi like Itachi and Kisame. Data shows theirs atleast eight others just as if not stronger than those two. You need to get stronger. We have two years since more data shows for some reason they are going low and not doing anything abrupt." Naruto could only nod
"Why cant I be in the village?" he asked
"I cant always be in the village due to my status as a spy. Im gonna be bringing you along for some of my spy missions once I see your ready to get you experience and Tsunade will give you some hard jonin rank missions aswell." Naruto nodded and looked at Temari and she nodded to
"Uh I guess that works but what about my representative thing?" he asked
"Well I will inform Jiraiya if I need you at the sand for anything so don't worry about it."
"Uh so when is this?" The blond asked
"A week for you to prepare then we depart." His sensei stated
"Could I come back to visit sometimes?"
"Well if you do good in training sure and like I said before if I feel like you can be alone I'll let you do things on your own."
"Well I guess that's fine."
"What kind of missions will Naruto-kun do?" Temari asked as she was silent in this whole conversation
"Well mostly b-ranks and maybe some A-ranks at best. It really depends on how strong he is. Like if he gets really strong fast he might be able to return earlier."
"So is that all the bombs your dropping?" Naruto asked sarcastically
"Yes you're dismissed." Tsunade stated going back to her paperwork
"Cya." Naruto said taking Temari's hand and leading her out of the office before he came back "Uh one more thing." He chuckled nervously
"What brat?" Tsunade asked tiredly
"Could I have a stamp to see Sasuke?" she wrote something on a paper and stamped it and just chucked on the floor
"Jeez you don't have to be so grumpy about it." He said as he picked it up and left
"Jiraiya, do you think he can get strong enough?" Tsunade asked in a worried tone as soon as he left
"If anyone can, then its him. Do you think we should tell him about his parents?"
"Sarutobi-sensei did say to tell him once he is a chunin or 16."
"I'll tell him when we leave so could you just get the documents ready." Jiraiya moaned in displeasure "He is gonna be so mad or something. Why do I have to deal with it?" Jiraiya rhetorically asked while Tsunade laughed whole heartedly
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With Naruto and Temari
"So I guess we wont see eachother much since your going to be training." Temari said as they walked
"Yeah but Jiraiya-sensei did say we could spend time together if I do well in training and you better believe I will!"
"Of course I believe you Naruto-kun but we're just gonna be apart for so long."
"Well uh maybe we should…" He blushed "we should kinda address this." He said gesturing to them holding hands
"Uh yea I guess." She chuckled nervously blushing a shade of pink
"Temari-chan, I like you, I like you like you. Get what im sayin?" He asked
"Uh yeah but you know im kind of the princess of my village so it wont be easy to get my dad to agree."
"Dont worry about that, we'll get him to accept us." She smiled at him "So are we like boyfriend and girlfriend?"
"Yes you idiot." She smacked him playfully
"Do we tell your brothers?"
"I guess? I doubt either of them would be mad at you. Gaara pretty much treats you as a brother and Kankuro likes you enough."
"Uh well wanna go tell my everyone im leaving?"
"Not in your dreams." She said as if it was fact
"Pleaseeeee?" he asked like a child
"No." she added
"When are you gonna go back?"
"Probably in three days."
"Well just go back to my house. I need to go see someone."
"Uchiha?" He nodded "Ok, get back soon. God I sound a like a old house wife." He chuckled before he walked away waving in her direction
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Konoha Prison
Naruto nodded at the guards showing his stamp of approval from the Hokage. As he walked in he came face to face with the smirking face of an Uchiha.
"Uh hi." Naruto spat out having no other words to say
"Why hello there. What would bring the great Naruto?" Sasuke said sarcastically
"Sasuke, I want to help you." Sasuke stopped smirking and instead chose to glare
"Help me by throwing me in a cell?" Naruto shook his head
"Itachi, he's after me." Sasuke's eyes widened for a brief moment showing his surprise
"I highly doubt that."
"I have no reason to lie." Sasuke contemplated why the blond would lie and what kind of lie would that be
"Fine I concede but what does that have to do with me besides Itachi?"
"Use your brain, God you say im the deadlast yet you cant even use your brain. If you stick with me you'll eventually find Itachi and at that point both of us can fight him with higher odds of defeating him. Sasuke I don't deny that you have right to be mad at Itachi but leaving the village and going to Orochimaru doesn't help. Orochimaru would just take your body and killing Itachi would be one of the last things he does in his plans for world domination. To be honest I don't even know what he wants."
"So you're saying you want me to basically just team up with you and we will eventually fight Itachi." Naruto nodded "That's not half a bad idea."
"So you agree with that it sounds like the best plan." Sasuke nodded
"However, if we do come across Itachi I would highly hope that we do it in a one on one match."
"We can talk all the details later." 'Here goes nothing' Naruto thought hopefully "Now on to the next thing I want to tell you since you agreed to my plan. I want you to train with me." Sasuke raised an eyebrow but nodded
"Sure don't know why that's such a big deal."
"Uh I mean we're going to be going out of the village for two years training under Jiraiya of the Sannin."
"DEAL!" almost immediately after he finished saying 'Sannin' had Sasuke replied
"Yeah I don't know why I thought that was going to be hard, you are power hungry after all." He chuckled when Sasuke sent him the stink eye.
"Now this offer isnt official since I havent asked Hokage-sama and Jiraiya-sensei yet but I think we could work something out." Sasuke snorted
"If you ask for anything they'll give it to you on a silver platter." Naruto gave a confused look
"What does that mean? I don't get anything handed to me." Naruto replied
"Now I heard why Jiraiya has agreed to teach you. Its because Kakashi-sensei got him to teach you. Now why would one of Sannin agree to teach a orphan or why did the third Hokage always hang out with an orphan of the Kyuubi's attack. I don't know why the Hokage likes you, probably something that happened on your mission but a lot of things are handed to you on a silver platter by important individuals. Sure I know I get handed things by civillians but their civillians, everything they give me I already have since im the last Uchiha."
Naruto thought about it, why did so many influential people like him. He shrugged a story for another time but did make sure to ask Jiraiya why he wanted to train him.
"Well anyway, I'll be back soon hopefully with good news." They parted ways and Naruto donned his foxy grin
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Elsewhere in the Land of Water
Utakata was running, he was running for dear life. His master betrayed him. He was crying tears while running. The pain he could still feel the lingering feeling and couldn't believe it all. All he knew was that there were ninja chasing him and he could only run.
He blew bubbles with explosive properties and set a few traps up until he heard the sound of a explosion signalling one of his traps had gone off.
However, as he jumped he got intercepted by a troop of four anbu surrounding him. He threw a shuriken that one hunter nin dodged before he blew a explosive bubble on the ground making an explosion which created a smokescreen for him to get away.
He managed to escape all except one who drew a katana which Utakata swiftly blew a bubble that encased the sword in it that nulled the sharpness of the blade that would have cut Utakata and he merely kicked the anbu in the chest before running tired and he blew him self a bubble that would hopefully evade the anbu and he then succumbed to unconciousness.
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Back in Konoha
Naruto was heading towards Sakura's house to tell her he was going to leave and he wasn't going to divulge anything serious but he would say Sasuke might leave too.
He knocked on the door and the person who answered it was a blond woman who he guessed was Sakura's mother.
"Uh hi, is Sakura here?" He asked
"Sakura, your teammate is here too see you." Near instantly Sakura came barreling out the door and stood next to her mother
"Thanks mom." She said before gazing at the other blond "Lets take a walk." Naruto didn't say anthing and just waved goodbye too the elder Haruno
"So uh I have some things to tell you." The jinchuuriki stated
"Yeah um, did you fail?" He widened his eyes since he wasn't aware Sakura knew Sasuke left
"Sakura who else did you tell that he left?" She didn't understand why he was asking this but replied none the less
"No one really except two chunin and they said they would report to Hokage-sama." Naruto thanked the lords gratefully
"Okay don't tell anyone since its an A-rank secret." Sakura widened her eyes
"Uh s-sure." She stuttered "So you did fail?" She asked but it sounded more like a statement
"No we got him, that's why im here." He waited for her response but what he got was sniffles and he turned to look at her and saw her crying
"Thank you Naruto-kun." She said and hugged him tightly
"Uh yeah its okay." He comforted her awkardly as he patted her back and after a while she let go of him but still sniffled slightly
"Sorry I got a bit carried away." She chuckled
"So yeah anyway theres another thing, im gonna be going on a two year training trip and Sasuke might leave the village." Sakura was shocked again "I know it feels like im leaving you but I just need to get stronger, theres more secrets I cant tell you but I need to get strong. Please understand." Sakura nodded
"Where is Sasuke going?" Naruto contemplated telling her the truth
"He is going training in a secret place, even I don't know where." Sakura nodded and Naruto felt a pang of guilt at lying to Sakura since she deserved the truth
"Well that's all I wanted to tell you so I guess cya." Naruto disappeared in a shunshin and she smiled
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Alright so basically what happened in this chapter. Firstly, Utakata left the mist village. Secondly, Naruto and Temari got together. Third, Sasuke is going to go on the training trip with Naruto. Lastly, Naruto and Sasuke are going to team up to get Itachi. So yeah the reason why im doing it so Sasuke is going on the training trip is because when you really think about it, Sasuke is really not at fault in canon. He just had a messed up childhood.
Now most people who have messed up childhoods will become serial murderes but I think Sasuke is redeemable and I do like this character before we found out about Itachi's mission.
For Naruto and Temari getting together, some might say its rushed but cmon, I've been basically doing Naruto and Temari moments since the moment I introduced her. So I think its basically time.
I hope I did the council seen service. Anyways I hope you enjoy and please review and that is that for this chapter.
