Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto franchise, as awesome as that would be.

Author's Note: Hello incoming readers, I'm doing a what if Naruto had a brother, both of them knowing each other, and focusing on that. I'm also really trying to emphasize characters point of views, so I've decided to take up that challenge. This story takes place the about the same timeline as canon Naruto Shippuden. Review what you think of this story.

Things to remember

POV - Point of view

"Talking" - Person talking out loud

'Talking' - Person thinking

"Talking" - Bijuu talking

'Talking' - Bijuu thinking

Chapter 1: How it all began

Outskirts of Leaf Village

"…Because, I'm their father after all…"

Minato said to his wife Kushina as he was looking towards two sleeping babies.

Kushina looked at Minato in worry.

"And I'm their mother, you know."

Just when Kushina finished her sentence she started coughing up blood, resulting with the chakra chains holding the Kyuubi, to loosen up a little. Kushina knew she didn't have much time left.

The Kyuubi, known as Kurama now having a chance to move one of its claws, aimed it towards the two babies, resulting with Minato and Kushina jumping in front of the claw at the same time, resulting with the claw going through the middle of their bodies. The tip of the claw stopped mere inches away from the babies. Kurama was surprised at the motion but didn't say anything.

"…heh heh…See Minato…I'm already ready to give my life to them…"

Feeling the sharp pain throughout his body, Minato gave a hurt smile.

"…I guess you're right…you know I've never won against your arguments…"

Kushina could feel herself starting to tear up.

"…I'm going to be sealing half of the Kyuubi…inside our two sons…but I will put a little of each of our chakra…inside the seal so that we will be able…to each meet them at different times…if you want to say something…now is the best time…" Minato could feel himself getting weaker and weaker by the minute.

Kushina gathered all her strength and will power she had left.

"…Naruto, Haruto…even though you were just born, being able to see you two right now couldn't have made me any happier…remember you two, don't be picky…eats lots and grow strong…make sure you bath every day and stay warm…and make friends…you don't need a lot of friends…just a few ones you can really, really trust…also don't stay up late…you need lots of sleep…I wasn't very good at it, but keep up with your studies and practice your ninjutsu hard…remember that everyone has strengths and weaknesses…so don't get too depressed if you can't do something well...respect your teachers and upperclassmen at the academy…oh and this is important for a shinobi…be extra careful about lending and borrowing money…put your mission wages into your savings account…no alcohol until you're twenty…too much can ruin your health, so drink in moderation…another prohibition is women…I'm a woman, so I don't know too much about this but…all you need to remember is that this world is made up of men and women…so it's only natural to take an interest in girls…but just don't get hooked on bad women…find someone just like me…speaking of the Three Prohibitions, be wary of Jiraiya Sensei, you know…"

Kushina started crying hard.

"…Naruto and Haruto…from now on…you're going to face lots of pain and hardship...be true to yourself…have a dream and have the confidence to make that dream come true…

There's so much…oh so much more…that I want to say and pass on to you…I wish we could stay…and be with you two as a family together…I love you very much…"

Kushina started coughing again.

"…I'm sorry Minato…I spoke too much…"

"…No…you said it perfectly…Naruto, Haruto…I don't have as much…to say as…your chatty mother…but my advice is the same…also as your mothers…but the only difference…with you two being brothers…just be there and support each other…you two are the only family we have left…"

Minato then turned his attention to Kushina.

"…Alright, Kushina…I'm putting our chakra…in the seal now…

Kushina still crying, Minato put his hand on her back.

"…Let's have faith in our sons, they will be the future that will guide the next generation…"

Kushina gave a faint smile. Minato put his hands together.

"Seal!"

'…Minato…thank you…'

Kurama was split and sealed in Naruto and Haruto. Then the world around Minato and Kushina turned black as they breathed their last breath.

17 years later…

All they could feel was pain.

Utmost pain.

A mission to strike down the enemy…

A fight that would change the world…

Uzumaki Naruto and his lost brother Uzumaki Haruto ended up meeting each other without knowing previously, where they fought the revived edo tensei of the previous jinchuurikis of the two tails through the eight tails. Sadly, things just weren't going great for Naruto and Haruto. Before Haruto came to meet his brother to confront the revived jinchuuriki and the man called 'Uchiha Madara', he was in the Ninja Alliance headquarters in a meeting with most of the Five Kage.

Haruto heard about where Naruto was and asked to fight alongside him. The kage eventually agreed and gave him the mission along with a ninja alliance headband for him and his brother. Haruto knew leaving the room knew going alone was a suicide mission, but there weren't any other choices left. Compared to most other ninja, he was their best option to go. Also, the alliance was already starting to lose a lot of their ninja already confronting the 'other' Madara. Where things were heading, he knew it had to be done in order to drastically change the tide of the war and put a stop to the war for good. Little after Haruto joined up with Naruto, they confronted the other 'Madara' and the jinchuuriki. It was an intense battle, resulting with Naruto and Haruto stopping the jinchuuriki from battling anymore.

The battle continued on, and 'Madara' started getting impatient with Naruto and Haruto. With the eight tailed beasts along with fragments of the nine tails, 'Madara' revived the Juubi. With the Juubi being revived, the masked man became the ten tails jinchuuriki, who was revealed to be none other than Uchiha Obito. If Obito's teammates were there, it would have been a shocking surprise to see him still alive, but Naruto and Haruto didn't know who Obito was, so they didn't have much of a say in the matter. It then became a big battle of Naruto and Haruto fighting the ten tails jinchuuriki. Obito was very powerful in his new form and Naruto and Haruto were having trouble keeping up with Obito's strength. But, eventually with the remaining strength they had and strong will power, they were able to temporarily paralyze Obito after cutting open his side, resulting with the tailed beast's chakra to react with Naruto and Haruto's chakra, since they were able to get fragments of the tailed beasts chakra from the edo tensei jinchuuriki themselves. This resulted in a chakra tug-of-war, which lead to Naruto and Haruto seeing Obito's memories of his past self. With them finally knowing who Obito was, to a certain extent, they felt pity for him. Naruto and Haruto then meet with Obito in his mindscape with Naruto doing a lot of the talking, had a long discussion with him, ending with Naruto and Haruto forcefully taking the tailed beast chakra out of Obito and the tailed beasts being set free.

At that moment, everything looked like victory, but that ended very quickly. It was at that time when the 'real' Madara showed up. That's when it got serious really fast. Naruto and Haruto were already exhausted and worn out from the battle with Obito, so they didn't have much strength left. In the past five minutes so much happened. Madara took advantage of Obito by using the rinne-rebirth technique. Being unable to stop Madara, he was fully revived. A white zetsu pulled up from the ground with a single rinnegan in its possession. Madara acquired the single rinnegan and used its power to summon the gedo statue from inside Obito. Madara used his rinnegan technique to knock the tailed beasts from moving and used chains to bind them on their neck. Madara ended up sucking in eight out of the nine bijuu's so far, leaving both Naruto and Haruto's kurama's left. Being with very little time left, Haruto thought of a plan.

"Naruto! I'm going to try something. I have one shot at this. If this works, we just might be able to get out of this..."

Naruto looked towards his brother with wide eyes, then nodded.

Haruto crossed his fingers and made a clone next to him. He then grabbed two three-pointed kunai out of his kunai pouch then sighed.

Naruto saw this.

"Are you going to do…?"

Haruto nodded, then left a kunai where he was at, and threw the other kunai towards Madara then vanished.

Haruto appeared directly on top of Madara only for him to be stopped mid-air by an invincible force.

"What the…?"

"You don't learn, do you...every last desperate act your doing now is pointless."

"I wouldn't say so, and besides…"

The Haruto was caught by an invisible force puffed while turning in a very bright light making Madara vulnerable for a second. It was in that second that the real Haruto appeared behind Madara.

Haruto thought of a binding fuinjutsu in his mind and placed it on Madara, holding him in place, being unable to move. Then Haruto teleported back to Kurama.

"…Naruto do it now!"

"Alright on it!"

Naruto already in Kurama Cloak Mode (KCM) sage mode formed two massive sage mode rasengans alongside Haruto in KCM who formed two big massive rasengans. Haruto and Naruto rushed towards Madara on top of the Gedo Statue, attempting to wipe out both at once. Madara seeing this coming, barely had time to react, with his susanno already starting to break in the process. The rasengans started hitting the Gedo Statue until cracks started happening, until Madara used perfect susanno and pushed the rasengans back.

"Dammit! We were so close to destroying it too!" Naruto said.

"I know…if it wasn't for that last minute susanno transformation, we would have had it…" Haruto said breathing hard.

"You really think I was just going to let you destroy the Gedo Statue? Besides…"

Madara's susanno took out two big swords in each hand.

"…It looks like you two are going to be harder to bring down than I thought." Madara said.

Haruto sighed.

"Looks like this is going to be another long battle…I can't keep up in this mode much longer, that flying reijin along with my massive rasengan took a lot of my recovering chakra away…"

Naruto looked at Haruto.

"I know, I feel the same effects also with my sage mode. There's got to be another way to defeat Madara…"

Just when Naruto finished his sentence, the Gedo Statue cracked and cracked to the point you could see chakra going madly inside. For a few seconds the Gedo Statue stopped shaking, with both Naruto, Haruto, and Madara both looking at the statue.

"…Isn't this usually being something big happens when it's this quiet?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah…" Haruto replied.

"…Well, we're screwed…"

Then it exploded, causing white to expand everywhere. Next thing everyone knew, there was nothing.

Haruto woke up.

That didn't feel right, yes, he understood he would wake up when he died, but that didn't explain the weird feeling he had in his body right now. He could still feel pain in his body, which made him confused because he wasn't supposed to feel pain at all, but he did.

Guess today was just another day to put down for weird unexpected turnouts again…

Haruto sat up and looked around noticing what looked like an endless area around him with it being a little dark in the room. Then he spotted Naruto laying on the floor behind him.

"Naruto!"

Haruto ran up and knelt beside Naruto and shook him. When he didn't answer, he shook him another time with a little concern in his eyes.

"Come on, answer me dammit!"

Naruto opened his eyes.

"Heh, so you do care…"

"Teh. In your dreams, idiot…" Haruto said smirking.

Unknown to Naruto and Haruto, a figure was watching them in interest.

Naruto got up from the ground and looked around, seeing the endless darker room, he had a confused look on his face.

"Wondering where you are?" The figure spoke.

Shocked and surprised by hearing someone's voice, Naruto and Haruto quickly turned around and noticed a figure that was in a sitting position, floating with nine truth seeking orbs in a circle underneath him. By the looks of him, they could tell he looked like he was a little older than a mid-aged man, but something tugging at him seemed to think he was older than that. He wore a white cloak with a rinnegan shape on the back with nine tomoe below it. He had two horns on his forehead, bordering his white hair.

Haruto asked the man the question that was lingering in their mind.

"Where are we?"

"We are in the deepest part of your minds."

"Are we dead?"

"From the big impact that happened before you came, it ended up 'killing you.'"

Haruto sighed.

"Well, I guess that was to be expected. We did the best we could." He said with a little sadness.

He wished it didn't have to be this way, but in the end, there wasn't much he could do about it anyway.

"But in your guy's case…" The man started, causing Naruto and Haruto's attention back at him.

"Things ended up differently than expected."

"How so?"

Naruto's eyes interestingly noticed the man's eyes. what caught his attention was the man having two Rinnegans in his eyes which made Naruto shocked to see.

"Rinnegan?"

"It seems this wouldn't be your first time seeing the Rinnegan" He said smiling.

"Yes, I've encountered the Rinnegan with the leader of akatsuki."

"Yes, I've seen."

"Not trying to come across being rude, but who are you?" Haruto asked.

"I'm afraid I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Otsutsuki Hagoromo. In the shinobi world I am known as the 'Sage of the Six Paths' or also known as the 'Father of all shinobi'."

"The Sage of the Six Paths?!" Haruto said.

"Please rest yourself, I'm not here to harm you."

"So, what did you come and see us for?"

"I need to discuss some things with you two."

"Like what?"

"The fate of this world. This world has gone down the path I hoped would not happen, but with unexpected turnouts such as the revival of Uchiha Madara and the tailed beasts being captured, reviving the Juubi, and the Divine Tree already in place, it was a step before the Infinite Tsukuyomi would take place."

"How much can you see that's happening in the world?"

"I can see all of it. I have seen what's been happening in the world, observing how the world has changed throughout the years, seeing the countless wars, hatred, and distrust among people. There have been multiple people in the past who have tried to stop this cycle of hatred but have sadly failed. For a long time, I have been wondering if there would be someone that would be the guide to help defeat this cycle of hatred, until I came across two interesting fates that happened. You and your brother, Uzumaki Naruto. Naruto's unique charisma in understanding other people's pain was an interesting sight to watch. He was able to turn enemies that hurt his friends into a person who realized their mistakes and started working for redemption."

Hagoromo continued on.

"Another was your case, which was in particular was a very interesting outtake also. Even though you had a dark past from when you were born, until you 'died', you figured out a way to not let that hatred and bitterness control you and your future. You learned to understand others just like Naruto did, and you also learned to become the voice of reason. Even after losing everyone, you still continued to hold firm to your promises and beliefs, in which case, making you two an interesting couple to know where the future holds."

"I was able to continue protecting because I had the support of others."

"I see."

"Another topic I wanted to bring up is the origin of chakra, chakra first started with my mother Otsutsuki Kaguya. She was the first person to have chakra, after she ate from the Shinju fruit, something happened to her, I don't know what, but after she did, she became feared amongst people where as she was known as the 'Rabit Demon'. With her power, she put an end to all wars, and ended up having everyone in a controlled manner."

The two brothers looked surprised.

"Shortly afterwards she would bear two sons, myself along with my eldest brother Otsutsuki Hamura. Fast forwarding, we became aware of mother's intentions with the Divine Tree, and later the two of us confronted mother about it. Mother did not take our confrontation well, and we ended up fighting her in a hard-fought battle, which we finally managed to do. We ended up sealing her away up in the sky along with the juubi's husk, which is now the moon today. I ended up splitting the Juubi into nine separate chakra's who are known as the tailed beasts."

"So that's how they came to be..."

"I intended on keeping them with me, raising them, until I passed away teaching them to live with the humans. But it didn't go as planned, as after my death the tailed beasts would be treated as 'demons' and since people were afraid of them, they fought them, and used them as military weapons in the villages. They would soon seal them into humans, as I'm sure your pretty familiar with the term since the shinobi call them 'Jinchuuriki'. Later, I ended up having two sons of my own: Ashura and Indra. Ashura was a not so talented guy, he wasn't good at much, and had trouble with just about everything. His practice at using Ninshu was not good, which-"

"Ninshu? What's that?" Naruto asked.

"Ninshu is chakra skills being used for the bonding of others. Don't mistake Ninshu with Ninjutsu, that's for war purposes only! People took the teachings of Ninshu and used it to create it for war purposes, which ended up causing more turmoil, causing the cycle of hatred to spread."

"Oh, go on."

"As I stated, Ashura was not good at using Ninshu, but with the help from his friends, and the love he had for them, was great for Ashura. They helped him get strong together. Indra on the other hand was a very talented son, he was good at everything, he even created some technigues with Ninshu, but he preferred to do everything himself. He was cold toward others and people started to dislike him. I didn't know at the time, but one of the major influences of Indra's actions was Black Zetsu, a creation of Kaguya's will. Black Zetsu ended up influencing Indra so much under his control that Indra came to go against Ninshu and sought to seek more power. Then later came the decision to choose the successor to Ninshu. I ended up choosing Ashura, believing love was the necessary path to create for the future. However, Indra didn't take it so well, he became enraged and decided to fight against us. Ashura, now finally awakening his six paths chakra, along with the help of his friends, defeated Indra, causing him to retreat. Little did I know, that would be the start to the many battles taking place between Ashura and Indra, and it came to the point where the two of them reincarnated their chakras into others of their bloodline. The last known reincarnates were Sinju Harashima and Uchiha Madara. But with them now passed on, so has their reincarnates."

As Hagoromo was finishing his statement, Naruto could feel a presence beside him but couldn't make out what it was. To him it was a strange feeling, but it was there. Haruto also felt a presence beside him but couldn't make it out.

Hagoromo seeing this added on.

"As I'm sure right now from your two's reaction you've probably guessed who the new reincarnation of Ashura and Indra is."

Naruto and Haruto now finally understanding the connection, looked up at Hagoromo.

"I'm the reincarnation of Ashura? Naruto said.

"I'm the reincarnation of Indra? But why?" Haruto asked confused.

"Perhaps it was by fate the way things turned out the way they are…but it seems…" Hagoromo started to smile, looking at Indra's chakra presence.

"Maybe fate, may have different plans…" He finished.

"What do you mean by that?"

"A couple of things, but most importantly, I mean I'm giving you a chance to redo things over again."

Naruto and Haruto looked at Hagoromo in shock, a second chance? Really? They were not expecting that as an answer, they thought that was it, and they were moving on to the dead. But a second chance?

"That was so unexpected, we don't know what to say..." Haruto said.

"Let me ask you, what is it you want to do when you go back to the past?"

Naruto closed his eyes.

"I want to make sure I can protect people this time, I want to make sure I can be there when the time comes…I know I can't do it on my own, but with friends and allies I can truly protect others in the need of help." Naruto said opening his eyes with a determined look on his face.

"The same as well…" Haruto said.

Hagoromo was silent for a moment looking at Naruto and Haruto, then smiled.

"Now I can understand why Ashura chose you as his reincarnation, I can clearly see his presence firing in your body. Your determination to protect others with the strength of friends help and trusting others has made you stronger in mind and spirit."

"The same goes for Indra. originally, he reincarnated with the descendants of the Uchiha who were known for their hatred, but I believe he choose a different path with you because he wants to know what your path would be like and if his path was truly the right answer or not. I believe he has made the right decision in choosing you, as well as Ashura to Naruto…Now come here you two."

Naruto and Haruto walked up to him, Hagoromo put his hands out in front of Naruto and Haruto.

"Put your hand against mine."

They put their hands against his and immediately Naruto and Haruto could feel a big amount of energy go through them, and then the feeling was gone. Suddenly they felt something on the palm of their hand that was pressed against Hagoromo's hand. Naruto and Haruto took their hands away from his and looked at their palms. Naruto's had a little white filled circle on the palm of his right hand. Haruto's had a little dark blue moon shape on the palm of his right hand.

"Naruto, I gave you Ashura's chakra along with what you have on your palm of your hand. That is the 'Sun', it possesses the 'Body' of my chakra. Haruto, I give you Indra's chakra along with the 'moon' which is on your hand. It possesses the 'eyes' of my chakra."

"Also, if mother was ever to be revived again, the 'sun' and 'moon' that you two have, will help seal her again, not that it should happen. Now, the time has come for you to be off on your journey. I will be sending you back in the past, but to a different alternate world that is similar to your current world. I will tell you that the world is similar to the last one, but has some differences that you will notice when you arrive there." He said with a smile.

"What kind of differences are you talking about?" Naruto asked.

"You'll find out when you get there…I wish you two good luck on your journey and fix things for good."

"We will." They said before Hagoromo made Naruto and Haruto disappear from sight with a bright light around them.