Brought Back Something from Wave...
By Andrew J. Talon
Disclaimer: I do not and probably never will own Naruto or any other copyrighted works mentioned in this story. I am not writing this for profit.
You know who inspired this. But I thought I'd give it my own spin.
Yes it is the fic "Win Some, Lose Some" by Obsidian Dreamer. But I thought this would be a fun take on the concept.
After all, why adopt Naruto... When it can be... An Adopting Naruto?
This next part is also set in the Boruto era, where Kasumi Uzumaki is Naruto's eldest child. It has a flashback to the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Kasumi had taken Boruto out to eat in an effort to reconnect with him. She watched him eat his burger across the booth table, unable to reconcile the bratty youth with the happy, baby boy she remembered holding with her parents in the hospital room over ten years ago.
What happened? Where did this moody teenager come from? Kasumi wondered.
Where had she gone wrong?
"So... How's the burger?" She managed. Boruto chewed slowly, and swallowed.
"It's fine," he grumbled. "How's yours?"
"Ah, it's pretty okay," she said with a shrug. "You know, Ichiraku's tried a ramen burger a few years ago."
Boruto looked at her in disbelief. "A ramen burger? How does that work?"
"Ya got me, but they keep trying it every so often," Kasumi laughed. "I kind of liked it. You have to dip the burger into the broth though."
"Oh," Boruto said, something flashing in his mind, "like hot wings!"
"Yeah! But it's really gross," Kasumi laughed, "it makes the bread all soggy! That's not a lot of fun to eat."
"Heh, yeah," Boruto managed. They fell into silence again, but it wasn't quite as bad as before. Kasumi allowed herself a smile.
Maybe it would take time to get back to where they were. When Boruto was happily screaming 'NEE-CHAN!' whenever he saw her come home. But it looked like they were making progress-
"Hey, it's her!" An older ninja said with a grin. He wore the headband of Kumogakure, and he gave Kasumi a big smile, "the Seventh's daughter, Kasumi Uzumaki, right?"
"Ah, yes, that's me," Kasumi said, as a few other older ninja and their kids gathered around the booth, "it's very nice to meet you. I'd be happy to talk to you later, but my brother and I-"
"Oh! Sorry," the ninja said, holding up his hands with a grin, "I just saw you and remembered you. You've really grown up!"
"Yeah," his companion said, "I'll still never forget what you did! That was amazing!"
"Errr," Kasumi tried, as Boruto's ire grew, "that's very nice! Thank you!"
The eldest ninja grinned.
"I mean, that was one of the darkest points in the whole damn war," he said, "but you and your dad gave us so much hope! It was amazing!"
"Eh?!" Boruto demanded, annoyed but curious, "the war? Kasumi-nee-chan wasn't old enough to be in the war! She was, like, four!"
Kasumi held back a groan as the ninja goggled at him in disbelief.
"Are you kidding, kid?!" One of the other ninja gasped, "nobody told you about the war?!"
"Told me what?" Boruto demanded. Kasumi sighed heavily.
"Well..."
Kasumi didn't like the idea that Daddy had to go to war. She didn't quite get what a war was, but it made everyone very scared and very depressed and she didn't like it at all! She'd cried so hard when he'd left, but he went on. He'd left her with Ayame-nee-chan, and while she liked Ayame very much, she didn't like having to stay while her Daddy and everyone else went off to this 'war'.
She really tried not to sulk though. Everyone was so serious and scared, and she didn't like that! She wanted everyone to be happy again! So she tried to be happy and play.
Like now, she was playing in Grandpa Teuchi's house. She was on his back porch, bashing wooden animals to together as she looked out over the backyard. She then stared up at the moon. It had turned red-What was that about? And why was it suddenly so dark? It was like someone had made the sun go away.
Her attention had wandered though. She had spied something shiny in a box Ayame-nee-chan had left from her cleaning. She'd gotten stuff from the Hokage from Daddy's parents. She wasn't around, so Kasumi snuck back in to rummage through the box.
She gasped in delight as she found a funny kunai. It was wrapped in a seal, and had three prongs. She held up the kunai and laughed, and tucked it into her shirt carefully just like Auntie Tenten had taught her. She ran back to the backyard.
She was gonna play ninja!
Then some creepy, bad looking white man had appeared. She looked up in shock. She tried to cry out for help, but the bad man grabbed her, and then they were... Somewhere else?!
Something huge and horrible was roaring between two huge rocky mountains. And two creepy, scary men were standing on it. One had very long hair and looked like he was made of clay or something, and the other... He was even scarier with all his scars. Both had strange eyes-Purple and red, like Uncle Sasuke or Uncle Kakashi's Sharingan.
The one with shorter hair took her into his arms, holding her roughly. She screamed and cried as he held her up. They were very high up! She could see all kinds of people down below... Including a figure in orange...
"DADDYYYYY!" She screamed, tears running down her cheeks. The weird scary man holding her shouted at her Daddy, over her cries. Somehow, his words buried themselves in her mind. Even though at the time she didn't fully understand them, they were terrifying.
"Do you see how hollow your words are, Naruto Uzumaki?" He boomed, "you can't protect your comrades. They are dying around you. You cannot even protect your helpless daughter. Reality turns your idealism and promises to nothing."
Kasumi kept screaming in fear, tears and snot running down her face. Why wasn't her daddy saving her?! Why was he down there and not here?! The creepy man wrapped his hand around her mouth, trying to gag her as her weak little body struggled. It didn't matter-He was just too strong, too big.
"Join us, Naruto Uzumaki," the man called out, "join us. Build a better world... Or you will next see your daughter in the Pure Lands!"
"Why toy with him, Obito?" The long haired man had said, sounding bored, "just off the brat and be done with it. Destroy Naruto Uzumaki."
Destroy Daddy?!
The younger creepy man turned her around, staring at her. She cried and screamed against his hand, as he stared intensely at her. The old man scoffed.
"We have left countless dead in our wake since the beginning. Man, woman, and child. Don't tell me you're growing weak... Again," the old man said.
The younger man with the big wrinkles hesitated.
"I..."
Kasumi wasn't really sure what happened next. She had been seized by... Something. Her fear, her anger, her panic... She could still remember watching herself reach into her shirt, pull out the kunai-
And stab the man in the corner of his eye.
He tossed her away as he bellowed in agony, and she was falling. She was screaming, screaming for her daddy to save her, like he always did...
Like he always had.
Two big golden arms grabbed her, just as a big Octopus monster slammed into the horrible thing from above. She felt... Warm, and safe, as she was brought into the arms of a glowing figure. She looked up at him. He was glowing like the sun, his eyes were weirdly shaped, like a cat... But there was no doubt anywhere that this was her daddy.
"Daddy," she whimpered, "Daddy...!"
"Shhhh," her father had said, hugging her. She could see and feel Mommy Hinata stroking her back, murmuring gentle things into her ear. Despite everything, she couldn't feel scared. Not in the least.
"It's going to be okay," Naruto said with a smile, "good girl... Daddy's very proud."
"B-Bad man, he took me, and I-I stabbed him, and he dropped me-!" She babbled. Naruto grinned at her.
"I saw," he said, "good work."
He summoned a toad, and he reluctantly handed her to him.
"Take her to the back, and keep her safe," he told the toad. Kasumi looked up, tears threatening to fall again.
"D-Daddy-!"
"Don't worry," Daddy said, giving her a kiss on the top of her head, "Daddy's not going anywhere."
But he had gone... That bad man had taken away Daddy's power. She still remembered floating with Auntie Sakura on Uncle Gaara's sand, screaming and shaking her too cold Daddy... She remembered meeting Grandpa, and he was missing his arms. She remembered the horrible black monster trying to grab her, and that creepy younger bad man saving her... She remembered the moon turning into a Sharingan, everyone, including Mommy Hinata, being eaten by that tree... She remembered Uncle Kakashi standing back with her as Daddy, Uncle Sasuke, and Aunt Sakura fought the bad man doing it, and then some even scarier lady...
She remembered impossible things. She remembered hiding and cowering and peeing her pants because she was so scared... So helpless... She didn't remember all of it. Auntie Sakura and Auntie Ino had later suppressed a lot of her memories because she was so young, but she still remembered enough...
"But yeah... The look on that bastard's face when a four year old stabbed him right in his eye!"
"Ah?!" Kasumi shook herself free from her memories, and looked at the foreign ninja. "I... W-Well, I don't remember it very well-"
"Hell," the ninja's companion said with a grin, "that gave me hope. It gave us all hope. This bastard had been shrugging off everything we'd thrown at him, and then... Naruto Uzuamki's own little daughter stabs him in the eye! Right before her daddy shared his power with all of us..." He wiped some tears from his aged eyes, "well... It's something I'll never forget. Thank you."
"I... You're welcome," Kasumi said. The ninja asked to take photos with her on their phones, and she'd agreed. She'd met their children and smiled and eventually, the family had gone off. Kasumi looked over at Boruto, who looked like he was about to burst in impatience.
"I'm... I'm really sorry about that," she said.
"It's fine," Boruto grumbled, "Kasumi the Amazing, four year old who saved the world."
"I didn't save the world!" Kasumi growled. "I got kidnapped! I'm lucky I'm still alive-!"
"Sure you are," Boruto snorted. "Next time you want to show off, do it when I'm not around!"
"That's not what-Boruto!" She cried, as he vanished in a puff of smoke. She sighed and sat back in her booth, gritting her teeth.
She didn't blame those ninjas. They thought she was something she wasn't. Something she didn't believe she was. Not really.
A hero.
She sighed and stared down at her half eaten burger.
She wasn't a hero. Her father and mother were the heroes. She wouldn't be a hero until she proved herself.
But getting confused with one... She held a hand to her face and groaned.
Did everything have to be so hard?
Now some fun with omakes...
Boruto: "HA! I know one way I'm better than Kasumi-nee-chan! At least I'm not SINGLE! I've got lots of girls hot for me and you're turning into an old maid! I've got Sumire, Sarada-"
Kasumi: deadpan "Mitsuki."
Boruto: "I-MITSUKI ISN'T-!"
Kasumi: "Kukuku! Now now little brother, I will love you no matter who you bone! Or get boned by-"
Boruto: Charges her "DIIIIIIE!"
Kasumi beats him with one move.
Kawaki: "Sarada doesn't count anyway. I haven't been here for long and even I can tell she's only after you because she can't have Lord Seventh."
Boruto: "OI! I thought we were cool now?!"
Kawaki: shrugs "We are. I'm just pointing out the obvious."
Himawari: giggles "He's got you there onii-chan!"
Sarada: "Hmmm... If I can't have Lord Seventh..."
Boruto: "Heh! Well well well, who's the second rate Naruto now-?"
Sarada takes Kasumi's hand.
Boruto: "WAIT WHAT?!"
Kasumi: "Eh?!"
Sarada: blushing "Pl-Please, Kasumi-sama! Be my girlfriend!"
Boruto and Kasumi: "WHAAAAAT?!"
Himawari: Gasp "Kasumi-nee-chan! I never knew-!"
Kasumi: "I DON'T SWING THAT WAY!"
Sarada: "I CAN ASK OROCHIMARU-SAMA TO CHANGE ME INTO A BOY!"
Kasumi: "THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE!"
Kawaki: In hindsight, I'm so glad I'm here.