Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to the creator and those who have the rights to the wonderful manga and anime. Also, the idea of the parallel universe council thing goes to Debra Goldsmith of her wonderful Ranma1/2 fanfics such as Genma's Daughter. This fanfic is sort of based on Debra's sequel to Genma's Daughter, Equal Hearts. Just to let you know, the only thing that is mine is…hmm…now that I think about it, I don't think anything is mine to claim. Oh well, just enjoy this fic and please read Debra's fanfics. Even if you're not into Ranma1/2, they're still very good.
Warning: This fic contains yaoi and yuri. If you don't like it, then don't read it. Although there are pairings that are m/f.
Rating: R for the sake of the bad language, violence, and sex. However there will be no lemon, unless someone wants to write it for me.
Pairings:SasuNaru, KakaIru, SakuLee, KibaShino, ShikaIno, NejiTenten, ItaHina
There will be more…I just need to know more about Naruto
Without anymore delays…let's began the fic!
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Title:My Shadow, Your Shadow, Our Shadow
Author:Mei Neko
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Chapter Two:Shadows
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Tsunade was not a happy woman. Today was the Uchiha brat's birthday and that had caused a lot of commotion. Many of the lower level teams have been disbanded for the day due to the females insistence of giving presents to the brat. Of course, this being the brat's sixteenth birthday, it turns out that over half of the female teenagers wanted to give him his sweet sixteen kiss. Or something likes that.
All in all, the blond Hokage was forced to dump several missions on different teams and even on ninjas that had been retired. She rubbed her temples and winced at the thought of dealing with several complaints by the retiring females. She was lucky that most of them understood her problem, but it still made her feel bad about taking them off their retirement.
At least she only had to deal with paperwork for the next couple of hours and that's all she needed to do.
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Who the hell was she kidding?
The fifth Hokage sighed and leaned back against her seat, ignoring the mounds of paperwork. It was a pity that a good looking kid was not interested anyone. She shook her head at that thought. No, it wasn't that the kid was not interested; it was more in the fact that the kid was only interested in powerful people. All for the sake a revenge. At least, the other brat had managed to make an impression on the Uchiha brat. It was a pity that the two were always fighting. It would have been nice for both of them if they had been friends.
However, things never turned out the way they were suppose to turn out. The Uchiha clan had a tight lease on both heirs and then there was the hatred that Naruto had to endure. It was funny how the opinions of others make such a difference along people. If only the two were free of such prejudices, could a powerful friendship have bloomed between the two? Time could never be turned back, that was something Tsunade knew from experience. Mistakes have been made and the only solution was to keep going through the paths of life.
"Is it too much to ask for life to be a little less painful for the two?" she muttered in the silence of her office.
"OLD HAG!"
The blond twitched at the name. That stupid brat had to interrupt her thoughts! Then she smirked, well, at least she could trick the idiot to a simple D-rank mission. Heh, let's see how he'll reacted to having to weed some fields! Now where was that scroll?
The door slammed opened and Tsunade blinked as an ANBU crashed into the wall. Her hands quickly reached out for a kunai and she quickly performed some seals. Naruto may be a brat, but he knew better then to attack an ANBU. In the back of her mind, a thought that Naruto shouldn't have been able to tackle one that fast had rushed through.
Just as she was about to finish off the last seal, a girl carrying Naruto appeared. Tsunade stopped and noticed that the aura surrounding the girl was not on the offensive, but that it was fear and panic. Wait a tick, a girl was carrying Naruto?
"Old hag!"
Tsunade blinked. So it wasn't Naruto who was yelling, in fact the brat was being unusually quiet, but it was the girl who was calling her. WTF!
"Don't call me that!" the Hokage screamed. The girl merely rolled her eyes as if she heard the argument for years.
"Whatever. Look, something terrible happened to Naru-chan!" the girl snapped as she put a dazed Naruto down and in from of her.
The Hokage blinked as she noticed that the girl was about half a head taller then Naruto and that she was extremely beautiful. In fact she looked a lot like that Uchiha brat. Plus there was the fact that she called Naruto 'Naru-chan".
"And what has happened here?"
"Damn it, old hag! I woke up this morning with Naru-chan and it turns out that she thinks she's a guy and she doesn't remember a single thing about me! I mean, I know that it's her, because of the seal, but it's like she has no memory of us! I swear to kami that it was that evil asshole that did this! I bet he did this just because I kicked his sorry ass! I'll kill him! No one does this to my Naru-chan and on my birthday!" The girl ranted angrily. Tsunade blinked as she thought that the girl acted too much like Naruto. Then she shook her head and frowned.
"No offense, but just what are you talking about? Uzumaki Naruto has and always will be a male. And I doubt he would remember anything about you since I have never seen you before myself. You called me old hag, but I would remember anyone who ever utter those words to me and trust me, I do remember. And while we're at it, just who the hell are you?" Tsunade snapped as she quickly pulled Naruto behind her. The boy had blinked and looked over her form to stare at the girl.
The girl was stunned at the words and it looked like she was about to faint. Then her face turned positively furious as she began to scream bloody murder.
"Damn it old hag! How could you possibly forget the one person who has been the proud pain in you fat ass! It's me, Uchiha Sasuki! Duh! The one brat who always pulls off the worse pranks on you! Like the time I bought over a hundred dozen black lacy panties and gave them out to all the males in Konoha, with your name sewn on them! Or that time when I tricked the ero-sennin into peeping in on your bath! Damn it! I swear to kami your mind must be losing it if you don't remember me! And it would take something extremely powerful for my Naru-chan to forget me! Naru-chan is my girlfriend and no one is ever going to come between us!"
Tsunade and Naruto blinked at the explosion. The girl, Sasuki, looked like she was going into round two of her ranting when Tsunade sat on the floor with a thud. Naruto followed her a second after. Instantly, Sasuki was by Naruto's side with concern on her face.
"Naru-chan, are you okay? Is it that curse or whatever that made you forget me taking toil on you? Maybe I shouldn't have taken you to the old hag."
Tsunade instantly recovered by smacking the girl on the head.
"Itai! Damn it! No need to hit me!"
The Hokage said nothing as she watched the girl nurse the bump on her head. The girl claimed to be an Uchiha, but she sure did not act like one. But, to knock out an ANBU so quickly, she was still a threat in a way.
"Uchiha? That means you're related to that bastard!" Naruto finally muttered. Sasuki blinked at that.
"You mean, Itachi? He's not that bad. Plus you shouldn't call him a bastard. He's good for my income."
The two blonds blinked at that. How could someone from the Uchiha clan say that Itachi was not that bad!
"He means Sasuke." Tsunade corrected while waiting for the girl's reply. Sasuki frowned.
"Sasuke? Who the hell is that? I don't remember anyone name Sasuke in my family. Trust me, I know everyone." Sasuki said with a snort. Of course she was pretty damn sure. It was always good to keep tabs on everyone, especially her family.
"What the hell do you mean! Sasuke bastard is Itachi's little brother!" Naruto shrieked. Sasuki rolled her eyes at that.
"Okay, now I know your mind has been screwed. You should know that Itachi is my aniki. And I don't have any other brothers. Goodness you had a huge crush on Itachi before we were in a real relationship. I had pulled a ton of pranks on him because I was so pissed at him." Sasuki grumbled as she sourly remembered the past.
It was then that Tsunade came across an idea that seemed impossible, but highly likely. However, she had to be sure. This could be just a plot from Itachi to sneak into Konoha's defenses.
"If you're really are an Uchiha, then you should be able to use the Sharingan." Tsunade said coolly as she stood up. Naruto quickly followed and put on his most definite pose. This caused Sasuki to giggle at the sight and caused Naruto to blush. The Hokage raised an eyebrow at that before she turned to the girl.
"Well, duh! Itachi and I are the few who can wield the bloody thing properly." Sasuki muttered as she activated the power that was inherited by her ancient clan. The two blonds gasped at the sudden change in eyes. However, Tsunade gasped as she felt the girl's charka jumped up to an even higher level. There was no doubt in her mind that this girl was even more powerful then Sasuke. Hell she was even more powerful then Itachi for sure!
The girl then deactivated her power and looked at the two with amusement. Tsunade sighed as she realized that this girl was no threat. Although she had thought it was possible that this girl could be a clone, it was obvious that the power level was much too strong to be one. She went and sat back at her desk again. The blond looked over at the ANBU who was still down. Damn, the girl had strength.
"Sit down, both of you."
The two teens looked at each other before they sat down as well.
"Now, I want both of you to shut up and listen to me. I have an idea of what might be going on and I'm having a hard time believing, but just listen."
The two looked at each other again, this time they were both nervous.
"Uchiha Sasuki. You have a girlfriend called Naru-chan. Now from what you told me, you know about the seal and what it contained in it. You have an older brother name Itachi, and it seems like the two of you have a good relationship. You also seem like a trouble maker and you have done many pranks upon the village."
Sasuki gave a nod at that while Naruto stared at her in admiration.
"Now, the person next to you is Uzumaki Naruto. He is a boy and has been born a boy. I know, I had helped with the birth. He is the vessel of the kyuubi and has been the scorn of the village for the past sixteen years. He does not have a girlfriend and has a small group of friends which extend to a few in other countries."
The girl grumbled something that sounded like "Garra-teme" but the two ignored that.
"The Uchiha clan has only two people. One is Uchiha Itachi, the eldest son and the other is Uchiha Sasuke, the second son."
Sasuki blinked in confusion before her eyes narrowed as she watched the woman for any signs of lies. She found none.
"The Uchiha clan was murdered a few years ago by Itachi, leaving only his brother as the sole survivor." Tsunade paused, expecting the girl to rise out of her seat to deny that Itachi would ever think about killing the clan. But much to her surprise, the girl just looked thoughtful and nodded for the woman to continue.
"Sasuke is one of the most promising ninjas in the village and very popular with the ladies." Here Naruto grumbled something insulting, but the two ladies ignored it.
"I see, you're saying that I'm in another world. A parallel world of my own. In a way, it makes sense." Sasuki grumbled. Tsunade gave a nod while Naruto looked at the two in confusion.
"What do you mean?" he asked frowning. Tsunade was about to yell at the idiot when Sasuki turned and gave sigh.
"It means that someone took me from my world and placed me into yours. I don't belong in this universe but in a different one. It's like this. This is your Konoha and I have mine. Someone took me from my Konoha and put me into yours." She explained patiently. Tsunade stared in shock at someone bothering to explain something to Naruto without beating the living crap out of him.
"Demo, how come I don't see another you?" Naruto asked with confusion. Sasuki mulled a bit before she stood up and forced Naruto to do the same.
"See that?" she asked while pointing her finger at their shadows. "You know that with shadows, the light hits us and makes them. Now, if we place the light in a different place, our shadows change. Sometimes they look tall, and other times they look short. However, they still come from us."
"So? What does that have to do with anything?" Naruto asked, a bit annoyed at the explanation of the origin of shadows.
"I'm getting to that." Sasuki said while giving his head a light swap. "What I'm trying to explain is that there is another Konoha that exists in a different place. That Konoha is like a shadow version of this one or vice versa."
"What's vice versa?"
"It means the same thing only switch the two subjects."
"Huh?"
"Forget it. Anyway, I come from that shadow Konoha. I am a shadow of someone who lives in this village. In my Konoha, your shadow is my Naru-chan. Uzumaki Naru." Sasuki said as she tapped Naruto's nose with her finger. Naruto slowly thought this over and then gave a nod to indicate that he understood.
"But if you're from this other Konoha, that's far away, how come you're here?" the blond asked. Tsunade gave a nod at that.
"Beats me. I thought it was a dream before, but last night, some onna captured me and mentioned about me going on a trip for a month or so. I guess this is what she meant." Sasuki grumbled as she went back to her chair to sulk.
"And how did this woman capture you?" Tsunade drawled. It must have been someone extremely powerful to catch someone like this girl. Much to the surprise of Tsunade and Naruto, the girl blushed and looked away.
"She caught me off guard while I was trying to get my prank ready. Bloody woman laughed her head off and I grabbed her before anyone could see I was out. She caught me off guard when we were out of the village." She grumbled. Tsunade raised an eyebrow at that while Naruto laughed. Sasuki then sulked even more.
Naruto was delighted to find someone who pulled as much pranks as he did. It was nice to know this beautiful girl had something in common with him. As he slowly stopped his laughter, he began to notice that the way this girl was sulking was a lot like the bastard. Sasuki turned and scowled at him and it all clicked on him. Just exactly who this girl was a shadow of.
"Uso! There's no way that this girl can be Sasuke-teme's shadow!"
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It had taken a few minutes to calm Naruto down after his discovery of which this girl was a counterpart to in his world. Tsuande had to whap his head a few times before Sasuki calmed Naruto down by saying that while she maybe this Sasuke-teme's shadow, it does not mean that she was him. After staring at the beautiful smile that Sasuke would never give, Naruto finally stopped panicking.
"Now, that the drama is all done, let's talk about what we're suppose to do." Tsunade grumbled. The two teens blinked at her.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
"Look brat, this girl is not from our world. We only got a few clues in how long she's staying here. She's staying here for a month. Where do you think she should stay at? You may not notice this, brat, but she's pretty powerful and a lot of your friends are going to find her a threat."
For once, Naruto gave a nod at that. It was true; he had tried to struggle out of her grip. Then he groaned as he thought about his friends.
"Demo, ba-chan, I think they saw me with her."
"No way, I went to fast for them to see me. Besides it was Ino, Sakura, and Lee, I doubt those three would bother checking things out. Sakura and Lee are so into each other and Ino is always trying to get them to stop doing PDA." Sasuki answered carelessly.
Naruto stared at her in horror at the thought that Rock Lee would be the one who would take Sakura-chan away.
"Uso! They are not together!" Naruto yelled. Sasuki blinked and then nodded at that.
"Gomen, I was thinking about those three from my world."
The two blonds stared in shock at an apologizing Uchiha.
"Enough. If you're sure about it, then keeping her presence as a secret would be useless. Rock Lee has good motion vision and chances are he'll tell that blasted teacher of his. And then Gai would tell it to Kakashi who will be asking you, Naruto, about it. I can make a passport for her now, but where the hell is she going to stay?" Tsunade snapped as she realized her problems were about to get bigger.
"I'll stay with Naru-chan."
Naruto blushed and jumped up at the girl's statement.
"No way!"
"Why not? It's not like I'm going to molest you or anything."
Tsunade, wanting to refuse the idea do to the fact that it would be improper, now decided that having the girl could be like a mini Jiraiya and it would not be a good thing for Naruto. However, before she could, Sasuki began her reasoning.
"Look, chances are that this Sasuke-teme is going to freak out that I'm another version of him."
Naruto gave a snort at that while Tsunade nodded for the girl to continue.
"You guys barely believe that I'm from another world, what do you think is going to happen if you stick me with someone else? Chances are the people here are going to think that I'm some freak and they'd want to get rid of me. Especially about the part that I have a girlfriend who is the counterpart of this Naru-chan."
Tsunade rolled her eyes at that. She herself was having a hard time that an Uchiha and an Uzumaki were lovers.
"However, if I stay with Naru-chan, chances are that the friends and senseis are going to be more accepting towards me if you order me to stay with him. We don't really need to tell them about this. You can just say that I am Naru-chan's fiancée from a different village coming to visit for a month as tradition. Of course, we don't need to mention where I came from since due to Naru-chan's seal, my safety needs to be first and blah blah blah." Sasuki answered without any concern. It was obvious that the girl was not too worried about her cover story, just as long as she could stay with Naruto.
Naruto was about to yell when he noticed that Tsunade had a pensive look on her face a sat back in his seat again while muttering under his breath. Tsunade had to admit that so far, Sasuki had a good plan going on. While the villagers may admire and worship the Uchiha brat, they might not take a bastardized version of him too well. Especially if they learned this version has a girlfriend with the Kyuubi. Not only that, but once the brat finds out just how strong Sasuki really is, the two might end up fighting each other to the death. She had no doubts in who would win the fight and it would be an outrage from the villagers if it comes to it. However, the two problems did not compare to the one that worried her most. Uchiha Itachi would be hearing rumors and since the girl would be staying at least a month, there was enough time for the news to reach him and for him to respond. Konoha would be in ruins once again and that was something she must prevent.
If they stuck with this phony engagement thing, chances are that the problems might be less. The villagers might either hate the girl or pity her, but none of them will cause too much trouble. That leaves most of Naruto friends to accept her and for the other shinobis to back off. The Hokage looked over at the still fallen ANBU and decided once she got these brats out of the way, she'll tell him that he had fallen asleep or something.
"Okay, you got yourself a deal here." The blond finally said. Sasuki jumped up and cheered while Naruto jumped up and yelled. Tsunade rubbed her temples at the noise before both her fists attacked.
A few seconds later, both teens were sitting in their seats and rubbing their heads.
"OLD HAG!"
Tsunade blinked at the synchronized insult and chuckled.
"Kawaii, you two are definitely a couple here."
Naruto blushed while Sasuki scowled.
"Of course we are! There's no one else in the world that I want to be with!" the girl snarled.
Tsunade stared at the honest emotion in the girl's eyes before looking at Naruto who was staring at the girl in disbelief. She honestly could not blame the boy for being shocked at the statement. It was obvious that this girl would do anything and everything to be with Naruto, or her Naru-chan. Tsunade felt a tad bit sad for Naruto. Here was someone that obviously loves Naruto, but she belonged to a girl name Naru-chan who was a counterpart. For one month, Naruto will gain a fake fiancée who loved him before she would be taken from him.
Suddenly, the blond woman could not stand the idea of Naruto falling in love with this girl and was about to change her mind.
"Come on, Naru-chan! Let's go over to your place. The old hag can forge up a fake contract. Just use a fake surname like Umichi. Oh, and could you get me some money or something? I only got enough cash to buy at the most a dozen ramen bowls and since this Naru-chan is a boy, he'll be eating more then that." Sasuki begged while pulling out a sad puppy looked that had always worked on her Naru-chan.
Naruto blinked at the mentioned of ramen and concluded that Sasuki was going to treat him to ramen. It pleased him to no end that this Sasuki was being so nice to him. He looked over to the Hokage with a pleading look.
Tsunade felt her resolve crumble at the look on Naruto's face. There was no way she could deny him a chance to be with someone who cared for him terribly. She sighed and begged to kami that what she was about to do would not be the wrong choice.
"Fine. I'll write up a contract stating an engagement between the Uzumaki and the Umichi for the two of you. Just try to remain unseen for now. I'll have it done by morning. Also, here is a bank card. This goes into my private account. Use it to buy clothes that suit you as the fiancée and any other necessities. Don't buy too much or else I'll kill you. However, I have a few conditions for you to follow."
Sasuki blinked before she nodded her head for the Hokage to continue.
"The first thing is that you must never use the Sharingan unless you are threatened by death. I don't want people to know that we have another Uchiha. Second, you must stay with Naruto at all times."
Sasuki gave a hentai grinned which shocked the two blonds. Then Tsunade snarled and hit the girl in the head.
"Not like that! With the exceptions of bathing and other human necessities!"
Naruto blushed while Sasuki scowled in disappointment.
"Gods! How the hell can you be an Uchiha? Anyway the next one is that you must not cause any grief here in this village. That means no pranks!"
At this, both teenagers sulked. Tsunade shook her head at the two. They were really alike in many ways.
"Is that it? Can we go now?" Sasuki whined, already disappointed that most of her fun was cut out. Tsunade rubbed her temples and gave a nod.
"Go you brats! And make sure you come here in the morning before you start your training!" she snapped and shooed them away.
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I'm in the process of typing out the third part of this fic. So what to do you guys think of it?
I'm planning on putting in opening and ending songs like how I did with Gravitational Go. However, I need to figure out what songs and what to write. As I said before. Please read Debra's fics and review, will ya!
