Naruto's Family?
"How do you know about us Sasuke?" Kiochi asked.
"Well, the only thing I know about you is that you were both in the care of our clan. When I was little, I saw this picture in our attic. It was you, Shintu, and Itachi all in front of the academy laughing and playing together. I remember my mom telling me that that was the day Itachi and you (Shintu) graduated." Sasuke finished.
"I see, I see. My, how you've grown so much since the last time I saw you." Shintu began.
"Who are you, and how do you know Sasuke?" Kakashi asked again eyeing the three 'family'.
"We know you to, copy-cat ninja Kakashi. I am Uzumaki Shintu and this is my little sister, Uzumaki Koichi." Shintu answered confidently. As they introduced themselves, all of the ninjas in Team 7's (including Kakashi) eyes widened in astonishment.
"WHAT?!" They all practically yelled simultaneously.
"Yo...you me...mean to say that your re...related to me?!" Naruto exclaimed in disbelief.
"Yep, Naruto. Even though you've grown I you still remind me of that small baby with the blond spiky hair, who was always crying, my cousin back then. The one that I wanted to take with me to the Village of the Grass, but the 4th Hokage said that he need you." Shintu said smiling and patting Naruto on the head.
"Wait, wait. You are related to that...baka?!" Sasuke asked pointing at the shocked Naruto and with a disgusted face.
As soon as he heard that Naruto lunged toward Sasuke, "You're a dead boy, Sasuke!" he shouted. Then all of a sudden, out of no where, Shintu popped up between the two and stopped Naruto's attack. After that, everyone there is motionless and with eyes so wide that it looks like their eyeballs would pop out.
"Don't fight with Sasuke, Naruto," Shintu pleaded. 'What speed!' Sasuke was thinking 'I never even saw him move!'
Finally, after everybody seemed to regain consciousness, Kakashi asked Shintu why he was here. "Well, we were chased here by the Grass ANBU." Koichi replied. "The Grass leader thought that we had killed his son, when we really hadn't. So we ran away. We ran for days, thinking of a place to go to. Then we remembered Naruto, and the Uchiha clan. We thought about coming back to Konoha and agreed. We wanted to see the place where we used to live, so we came back."
"Why did you leave in the first place?" Naruto asked.
"We couldn't stay, our father was the 4th Hokage. Because it was so dangerous when Kyubii came, the adults of the Uchiha clan as well as our father wanted us to leave and be safe. We were stubborn and didn't want to, but in the end, we gave in and left. We went to the Village of Grass to train some more from elite trainers and gained the Uzumaki bloodline, Arronkogan." Shintu explained. Sasuke was shocked upon hearing this as well as Kakashi.
"The Uzumaki family has a bloodline?" Naruto asked.
"Yes. Because you had no Uzumaki guardian, I'm not surprised you didn't know. In fact, there are many family jutsus and other traditions that you probably don't know about. You probably don't have the bloodline yet, but it's just like the Sharingan and Byakagan, except instead of copying, like Sharingan, and the ability to see the chakra holes, like the Byakagan, the Arronkogan can see Where things are the weakest." Shintu explained.
"Shintu-sama and Koichi-sama, if you don't mind, we'd like to continue our mission. You're glad to join us if you want to talk to Naruto so much, but as of now, we must hurry and get to the Hidden Village of Mist before sundown," replied Kakashi while keeping his worried eyes on Shintu. 'He's strong. He stopped Naruto's punch like it was nothing.' Kakashi said to himself.
"You're right Kakashi –sama. We'll go ahead. We don't want to distract our cousin on one of his mission's. We'll meet you at the Hidden Village of Mist and when you get there, we'll talk more." Koichi replied. "Let's go Shintu!"
On the way to the village, Naruto thought about the chances of them being his cousins. After all, he had been misled before by Kabuto. During the chuunin exam, Kabuto had said he was Naruto's friend and even acted like it.
/ FLASHBACK /
"Naruto-kun, get out of the way," Kabuto warned as he talked Naruto down to get him away from the coming kunei and ending up getting scraped himself.
/ END OF FLASHBACK /
But then, when him and Jiraiya (spelling again) went to go get Tsunade, he figured out that Kabuto was just setting them up and was lying.
/ FLASHBACK /
"Naruto-kun you're so thick-headed. I was lying back then. I was just taking advantage of you and spying on you." Kabuto confessed with no regrets.
/ END OF FLASHBACK /
'Should I trust these two? Naruto wondered over and over again. He couldn't decide. Finally he decided to not completely trust them, but be friendly with them until it is more clear whether they are truly his cousins or they are just lying.
When they (Team 7) got to the Hidden Valley of Mist, the two shinobi's were there waiting for them. "Finally made it I see," Shintu said leaning on the gateway. The four ninjas said there good-byes to Raijouta-sama and Raijouta thanked them then left for his home.
"Lets get a room in a hotel. We can talk there." Kakashi said and directed everyone to the closest one. As they walked, Naruto kept eyeing the two, trying to see the resemblence. 'Well, Shintu has spikey hair like mine, that's one thing.' He then pondered reasons why Shintu and Koichi might be lying to him. 'They could be with Itachi and be trying to abduct me' he thought still constantly eyeing Shintu. 'I need to be sure whether they are friend or foe.' He thought over and over again, trying to figure it out with the limited information. 'But Sasuke seems to know them as friends, even though he's never met them before.' He thought over and over again until he thought his head would explode. "Too much thinking." He whispered ever so quietly as his head started hurting some what.
"What was that Naruto?" Shintu asked, obviously hearing Naruto whisper.
"Nothing, my head just kinda hurts, but it's okay now." Naruto replied.
"Good!" Shintu smiled as they walked into the nearest hotel.
When the six ninjas entered their room, Kakashi ordered everyone to sit and got Shintu and Koichi to begin. "Well, when our father became Hokage, he was to busy to take care of us so he let the Uchiha clan, your clan," Shintu began looking at Sasuke, "so they did. They helped take care of us while my dad provided our money."
Koichi then continued, "Then, as you all know, Kyubii came and destroyed cities and millions of people including your parents." She said glancing over at Naruto before continuing again. "At that point we left, as you all know. We actually wanted to stay with you or at least take you with us, but they said we were too young to take care of you and also that the needed you for something. We still have yet to find out why they needed you."
"Well maybe because of this," Naruto sai lifting up his shirt to reveal the seal.
"A SEAL?! What's it for?" Shintu asked as Koichi sat there thinking the worst.
"The...they didn't se...seal that vicious beast i...in you did they?" Koichi she asked, bewildered.
"Yep...Unfortunately they did." Naruto answered. Remembering the two mention his parent he started looking depressed. 'Stupid fox...you just had to kill my mom and dad.' Naruto said to the fox subconsciously.
"Shut-up kid! They tried to kill me. That's why I did it." Kyubii lied. Naruto knew he was lying too, but he didn't say anything about it.
"Naruto, why do you look so down?" Koichi asked.
"Oh, nothing."
"What do you love doing, Naruto?" Shintu asked.
At this Naruto all of a sudden got fired up, "EAT RAMEN!" he shouted.
"Then let's, you and me go find a ramen shop and you'll be able to eat as much as possible. My treat."
"Really?" Naruto asked as if he was in a dream.
"Absolutely!" Shintu exclaimed.
As they left Kakashi smiled saying, "Have fun!"
Koichi then giggled a bit and said, "That Shintu, he can never live without ramen."
"Same with Naruto." Kakashi stated while chuckling "If there's something Naruto wants to do, it's either train or eat ramen."
"How do you know about us Sasuke?" Kiochi asked.
"Well, the only thing I know about you is that you were both in the care of our clan. When I was little, I saw this picture in our attic. It was you, Shintu, and Itachi all in front of the academy laughing and playing together. I remember my mom telling me that that was the day Itachi and you (Shintu) graduated." Sasuke finished.
"I see, I see. My, how you've grown so much since the last time I saw you." Shintu began.
"Who are you, and how do you know Sasuke?" Kakashi asked again eyeing the three 'family'.
"We know you to, copy-cat ninja Kakashi. I am Uzumaki Shintu and this is my little sister, Uzumaki Koichi." Shintu answered confidently. As they introduced themselves, all of the ninjas in Team 7's (including Kakashi) eyes widened in astonishment.
"WHAT?!" They all practically yelled simultaneously.
"Yo...you me...mean to say that your re...related to me?!" Naruto exclaimed in disbelief.
"Yep, Naruto. Even though you've grown I you still remind me of that small baby with the blond spiky hair, who was always crying, my cousin back then. The one that I wanted to take with me to the Village of the Grass, but the 4th Hokage said that he need you." Shintu said smiling and patting Naruto on the head.
"Wait, wait. You are related to that...baka?!" Sasuke asked pointing at the shocked Naruto and with a disgusted face.
As soon as he heard that Naruto lunged toward Sasuke, "You're a dead boy, Sasuke!" he shouted. Then all of a sudden, out of no where, Shintu popped up between the two and stopped Naruto's attack. After that, everyone there is motionless and with eyes so wide that it looks like their eyeballs would pop out.
"Don't fight with Sasuke, Naruto," Shintu pleaded. 'What speed!' Sasuke was thinking 'I never even saw him move!'
Finally, after everybody seemed to regain consciousness, Kakashi asked Shintu why he was here. "Well, we were chased here by the Grass ANBU." Koichi replied. "The Grass leader thought that we had killed his son, when we really hadn't. So we ran away. We ran for days, thinking of a place to go to. Then we remembered Naruto, and the Uchiha clan. We thought about coming back to Konoha and agreed. We wanted to see the place where we used to live, so we came back."
"Why did you leave in the first place?" Naruto asked.
"We couldn't stay, our father was the 4th Hokage. Because it was so dangerous when Kyubii came, the adults of the Uchiha clan as well as our father wanted us to leave and be safe. We were stubborn and didn't want to, but in the end, we gave in and left. We went to the Village of Grass to train some more from elite trainers and gained the Uzumaki bloodline, Arronkogan." Shintu explained. Sasuke was shocked upon hearing this as well as Kakashi.
"The Uzumaki family has a bloodline?" Naruto asked.
"Yes. Because you had no Uzumaki guardian, I'm not surprised you didn't know. In fact, there are many family jutsus and other traditions that you probably don't know about. You probably don't have the bloodline yet, but it's just like the Sharingan and Byakagan, except instead of copying, like Sharingan, and the ability to see the chakra holes, like the Byakagan, the Arronkogan can see Where things are the weakest." Shintu explained.
"Shintu-sama and Koichi-sama, if you don't mind, we'd like to continue our mission. You're glad to join us if you want to talk to Naruto so much, but as of now, we must hurry and get to the Hidden Village of Mist before sundown," replied Kakashi while keeping his worried eyes on Shintu. 'He's strong. He stopped Naruto's punch like it was nothing.' Kakashi said to himself.
"You're right Kakashi –sama. We'll go ahead. We don't want to distract our cousin on one of his mission's. We'll meet you at the Hidden Village of Mist and when you get there, we'll talk more." Koichi replied. "Let's go Shintu!"
On the way to the village, Naruto thought about the chances of them being his cousins. After all, he had been misled before by Kabuto. During the chuunin exam, Kabuto had said he was Naruto's friend and even acted like it.
/ FLASHBACK /
"Naruto-kun, get out of the way," Kabuto warned as he talked Naruto down to get him away from the coming kunei and ending up getting scraped himself.
/ END OF FLASHBACK /
But then, when him and Jiraiya (spelling again) went to go get Tsunade, he figured out that Kabuto was just setting them up and was lying.
/ FLASHBACK /
"Naruto-kun you're so thick-headed. I was lying back then. I was just taking advantage of you and spying on you." Kabuto confessed with no regrets.
/ END OF FLASHBACK /
'Should I trust these two? Naruto wondered over and over again. He couldn't decide. Finally he decided to not completely trust them, but be friendly with them until it is more clear whether they are truly his cousins or they are just lying.
When they (Team 7) got to the Hidden Valley of Mist, the two shinobi's were there waiting for them. "Finally made it I see," Shintu said leaning on the gateway. The four ninjas said there good-byes to Raijouta-sama and Raijouta thanked them then left for his home.
"Lets get a room in a hotel. We can talk there." Kakashi said and directed everyone to the closest one. As they walked, Naruto kept eyeing the two, trying to see the resemblence. 'Well, Shintu has spikey hair like mine, that's one thing.' He then pondered reasons why Shintu and Koichi might be lying to him. 'They could be with Itachi and be trying to abduct me' he thought still constantly eyeing Shintu. 'I need to be sure whether they are friend or foe.' He thought over and over again, trying to figure it out with the limited information. 'But Sasuke seems to know them as friends, even though he's never met them before.' He thought over and over again until he thought his head would explode. "Too much thinking." He whispered ever so quietly as his head started hurting some what.
"What was that Naruto?" Shintu asked, obviously hearing Naruto whisper.
"Nothing, my head just kinda hurts, but it's okay now." Naruto replied.
"Good!" Shintu smiled as they walked into the nearest hotel.
When the six ninjas entered their room, Kakashi ordered everyone to sit and got Shintu and Koichi to begin. "Well, when our father became Hokage, he was to busy to take care of us so he let the Uchiha clan, your clan," Shintu began looking at Sasuke, "so they did. They helped take care of us while my dad provided our money."
Koichi then continued, "Then, as you all know, Kyubii came and destroyed cities and millions of people including your parents." She said glancing over at Naruto before continuing again. "At that point we left, as you all know. We actually wanted to stay with you or at least take you with us, but they said we were too young to take care of you and also that the needed you for something. We still have yet to find out why they needed you."
"Well maybe because of this," Naruto sai lifting up his shirt to reveal the seal.
"A SEAL?! What's it for?" Shintu asked as Koichi sat there thinking the worst.
"The...they didn't se...seal that vicious beast i...in you did they?" Koichi she asked, bewildered.
"Yep...Unfortunately they did." Naruto answered. Remembering the two mention his parent he started looking depressed. 'Stupid fox...you just had to kill my mom and dad.' Naruto said to the fox subconsciously.
"Shut-up kid! They tried to kill me. That's why I did it." Kyubii lied. Naruto knew he was lying too, but he didn't say anything about it.
"Naruto, why do you look so down?" Koichi asked.
"Oh, nothing."
"What do you love doing, Naruto?" Shintu asked.
At this Naruto all of a sudden got fired up, "EAT RAMEN!" he shouted.
"Then let's, you and me go find a ramen shop and you'll be able to eat as much as possible. My treat."
"Really?" Naruto asked as if he was in a dream.
"Absolutely!" Shintu exclaimed.
As they left Kakashi smiled saying, "Have fun!"
Koichi then giggled a bit and said, "That Shintu, he can never live without ramen."
"Same with Naruto." Kakashi stated while chuckling "If there's something Naruto wants to do, it's either train or eat ramen."