All the credit for this chapter idea goes to academysscholar314 - thank you so much! Great thanks to my readers, and thank you for waiting so long! Without waiting any longer, here's the -
Changes!Naruto: angelslaugh-san does not own Naruto. Sadly. If she did, three versions of me would exist. And I would crush them.
angelslaugh: Naw, I think this Naruto would crush you. Since you don't have the Rinnegan.
Changes!Naruto: Neither does this one.
angelslaugh: Not yet.
Changes!Naruto: But -
angelslaugh: You get a reverse harem. This one doesn't. Now be quiet and go back to your own story.
Changes!Naruto: It's not over ye - *vanishes*
angelslaugh: Onto the story!
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Tsunade sighed. If Naruto left the village... She had an idea, all of a sudden. Why not, when she's Kage, have a joint exchange program? Or... They could also live in Konoha while Uzushio was rebuilt.
Ah, she missed the Uzumakis. She'd known of their insanity a LONG time before Jiraiya and Orochimaru had known of that. It was easy to say that she'd been included in their festivities, but she had only been invited to one, and that was a night she'd rather forget.
Huh, maybe all her drinking issues came from that night...
She shuddered violently at the thought of such a dark night. Her grandmother had said it hadn't even been that bad, but she was still traumatized by it!
She got ready for the day.
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Naruto was still in a coma on the day of her inauguration, and Tsunade powered up the ancient Senju seals that littered her property.
"This will keep out unwanted intruders," explained Tsunade to Jiraiya. "If someone manages to slip past and into the room, I'll know. I have to keep her safe."
"I know," Jiraiya said gently. "I know, hime. Right now, let's get you in office, and then you can think up ways to keep her safe. Okay?"
Tsunade turned and enfolded Jiraiya in a hug.
"Thank you," Tsunade whispered. "But why... Why have you been helping me so much?"
Jiraiya sighed deeply. "I am loyal to the Leaf," he said after a moment. "I came when sensei called. You know that even I can't stand up to him when he makes his mind up about something - I didn't even realize what he was going to do to her. He wasn't acting for the Leaf, he was acting like someone who had his own agenda like Danzou. That isn't what the Leaf needs. What the Leaf needs is someone who knows what it's like to sacrifice a lot."
Tsunade bit her lip.
"I don't want to sacrifice my granddaughter," she finally admitted to Jiraiya.
Jiraiya hugged her again. "And that's why I'm helping you, hime. I won't let her break again. I won't."
Tsunade relaxed in his arms.
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That night, while Tsunade took to the desk, the teenage clan leader woke up, her mind healed. Or as healed as it could get.
After all, she was an Uzumaki, and they did come with slight mental issues.
(Slight being an understatement.)
She chose to exit the room, and, upon seeing a pool outside, decided to get wet.
Yes, it was an idiotic thing to do. But she hadn't swam in a while. Plus, she felt that was what she needed.
She created two Kage Bunshins, and instantly the three started messing around. Inside the pool. At night. At a stranger's home. The night was strangely silent, especially for Konoha.
And then, she was swimming, her bunshin relaxing and watching her swim, when one popped while she was underwater. She gasped, then surged upward for air.
"Foolish demon, you think that you're going to get away that easily?"
Civilians? What were they - how did they get in without me noticing their -
One jumped in like a shinobi, and Naruto opened her mouth in fear.
"No - stop -"
She tried to haul her ass away.
But then one grabbed her and shoved her bodily underwater.
Perfect opportunity.
She refused to let Kurama out, even as her eyes stung and the civilian glared at her with blank eyes -
Genjutsu! Kurama crowed. Then, But that's not going to help you, kit. You're running out of air.
That, sadly, was true.
Wait...
Kurama, the glazed eyes, the silence of Konoha... We're in a genjutsu. I think, to get out of it, we need to die.
Kurama growled, but acquiesced. She fought anyway, panicking a lot, thrashing as she really felt like she was going to die -
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"There. I was able to put her under a very high-leveled genjutsu," a lavender-eyed male said. His eyes had no pupils, but he was far from a Hyuuga, though he had the eyes of one. His partner, the fishlike Hoshigaki Kisame, grunted.
"Rikku-san, maybe you should stop. You still haven't adjusted to the eyes, and you were technically dead until a few months ago, so really, you should rest," Kisame said.
The eyes snapped to him.
"I am not resting until Konoha burns. For destroying my entire clan."
"Which would be what?" Kisame snorted.
"The Uchiha," the formerly dead Uchiha snarled. "For the deaths of Itachi-kun, for Sasuke-kun."
"Sasuke and Itachi are alive, you dumbass. And what's your name - holy shit, you're Shunshin no Shisui!"
The two shinobi turned to the bed and saw nothing, but then looked to the open window and stared frantically everywhere.
"Yoo-hoo!"
They froze and turned.
"Seriously, though, how are you not dead?" a very much not genjutsu'd person said.
Shisui glared at her.
"I'll rectify my mistake," he said coldly.
"I'm serious," Naruto said, looking very serious. "You drowned. How are you still alive?"
Shisui stilled. "How the hell did you know that?"
Naruto shrugged and leaned against the doorway.
"The same way I got these." Her eyes closed, and when they opened, the Sharingan swirled in her eyes. "Huh. I never noticed this." She frowned, looked a little cross-eyed, and a Mangekyou spun into existence.
His Mangekyou.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let anyone know I have these eyes," she said, not looking at Shisui. Her Mangekyou eyes spun, and Kisame collapsed. "Huh, cool. Thanks, Kyuubi."
The young Uzumaki stood up straighter, looking him dead on.
"Now," she said, her voice full of authority, "you and I are going to have a little chat."
Shisui blinked.
"Look, gaki, I don't know what you've been smoking, but the Uchiha clan is dead."
"Itachi-san isn't," Naruto said flatly. "Sasuke isn't. Obito-san isn't."
Shisui frowned at her.
"Look, I know you're angry, okay? But you actually have more family than just Sasuke and just Itachi. You have another clan that is yours if you want it. We're crazy, insane, but I think you'll like it. You'll get to see Sasuke-nii-san and Itachi-san - well, I still haven't officially met the guy yet, but I bet since Sasuke's now my brother, he wouldn't mind if I called him nii-san, what do you think? Oh, wait, that's off topic. Most likely you'll get to see Obito-san, too, oh! And Kakashi's a clan member!"
Shisui could barely keep up with her rambling.
"-and then there's the ramen law, you'll have to eat ramen, and not pet purple unicorns, but that's another matter entirely -"
Shisui yawned a little. Does this kid ever shut up?
"-grandmother is married to another woman in the clan, but that's because Uzumakis are gender-twisted usually, that's al -"
"Grandmother? Whose grandmother?"
She gave him a look that indicated she thought he was an idiot.
"Yours, moron," she said as if it were obvious. "Jenny's been wanting to meet you."
"My father said his father gave him up," Shisui said, glaring at her with those eerie Hyuuga eyes.
"Uchiha Kagami was your grandfather, man. Uchiha Setsuna your dad. Uzushio was highly overpopulated, so most non-Uzumakis were sent off the island. Sadly, I think that Uchiha Kagami thought it best if he sent your father to Konoha because he would be accepted into the village as a random Uchiha kid," Naruto replied.
Shisui sneered at her. "You don't know me."
"Your favorite color is blue. You like grapes. You like-like Itachi-san." Naruto paused. "You called Sasuke 'bakemono-chan'. You adored your cousin Izumi, but was also really jealous of her because she was Itachi's little girlfriend, not yours."
With every word, Shisui grew paler.
"And when you died, it was with a last regret that you never told the oblivious teen how you felt."
Naruto kept talking.
"You watched over me as I grew up, forced not to interfere too much by the Sandaime's law. You gave me a stuffed teddy bear when I was three, only to have it taken away from me as the orphanage dictator was a really twisted woman, and you were there when I first used the seal that is the reason I have your Sharingan eyes and the knowledge of what you like, what you called Sasuke, how you're in love with Itachi, and I felt every emotion like I was you," she told him, not moving away. "I am the granddaughter of Uzumaki Kazama, and I have inherited his knowledge. Believe me, sometimes I wish I hadn't, but I did. Want me to prove it more, Uchiha Shisui?"
Shisui hesitated.
"No," he said at last. "No. You don't need to say more. Just let Kisame go, please."
Naruto nodded, then dropkicked the fish man out of the house.
"Let's go see the Hokage. I think you might want to take off your slashed headband and maybe put on a couple dozen henge layers."
"I only have the chakra for three layers," Shisui replied with a small pout.
"Oh," Naruto said, disappointed. "That's okay!" she said with a fake grin. "We could just -"
The front door opened.
"-Shizune, go check on the gaki, would you? I swear I felt the briefest fluctuation in the seals."
"Tsunade-san! I'm awake! And there's a guest! He used to be dead, but it's not really a worry any more since he's part Uzumaki!" Naruto called back.
There were three footsteps.
Naruto turned to Shisui with a small pout.
"By the way, that genjutsu wasn't nice. I've had to deal with drowning once, I really wouldn't like to experience it again."
Shisui frowned. "How, exactly, did you 'deal with drowning', and how did you get my Mangekyou Sharingan?"
"She got the Sharingan because she watched Karin nearly die."
Naruto whirled around to see Tayuya standing there.
"As for the Mangekyou... What's a Mangekyou?"
"I got the Mangekyou Sharingan?!" Naruto squeaked, her voice high-pitched.
"Probably because you watched... Kiana... die," Tayuya said with a sigh and slight pauses around Kiana's name, "if I know anything about the Sharingan and how you awoke it."
"How did you get in the house?" Tsunade asked, looking between Shisui and Tayuya.
"I followed Naruto here," Tayuya responded with a grunt. "So did Karin. She's at the apartment, by the way."
"Oh." Naruto looked like she felt really awkward as she turned to Shisui once again. "So, will you be Rikku or will you be Shisui? And do you want to meet your grandmother?"
"Shisui? As in Shunshin no Shisui? The guy you used the seal on?" Tayuya asked, amazement in her voice. Then her face changed and she nodded. "Oh, that must be how you accumulated his eyes."
"Oh," Naruto said, her voice quite small.
"But how is he even alive?"
"I don't think the seal accounts for 'he's dead for more than a few hours' type of thing. Hizashi-san was only dead for about an hour," explained the teenage heiress.
"What are you talking about?" Tsunade asked, raising an eyebrow. "Are you talking about the books in your mind?"
Naruto lit up. "Yeah! See, I used a seal that corresponds to Uzumaki blood -"
"My head hurts," Shisui suddenly said. His head did hurt. "Can we focus on the whole 'I have a family now' thing?"
Naruto gave him a serene smile and patted his arm.
"It's okay," she said. "I was kind of shocked, too."
