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"Those who have done nothing in life are not qualified to judge of those that have done little." Samuel Johnson
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Chapter two: Naruto?
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"You brat slow down all ready!" An old man groaned. He had long spiky white hair with a nose ring. He had weird designed on his cloths and body.
"Its not MY fault YOUR FAT and SLOW!!!! Pervy-seinin!" A tall blonde boy laughed as he ran ahead wearing a similar outfit to the older man but more fitting and the designs were a bit more foreign looking.
"Naruto I swear if Tsunade doesn't kill you I will after our meeting." Jiraiya mumbled as they headed toward the village they had left a little more than a year ago.
"Hey it wasn't my fault that you decided to write another volume of your nasty book while you were supposed to be training me! And then we got stuck in that weird town after all of the women ran us out of that other village because of your little 'inspirational' trips!" Naruto shouted as he glared at the older man.
Well not glare, but furrowed his eyebrows with his eyes closed. He didn't like to open his eyes unless absolutely necessary to fool an opponent or villager. Trying to show that he could see.
"I am going to ignore the sarcasm in my 'inspirational' trips you put there." Jiraiya looked up and sighed. "Naruto watch out for that........."
*bam*
"Tree................" Jiraiya sighed as he walked over to the teen now rubbing his nose.
"Hey! You are supposed to warn me of any inanimate objects in my way!" Naruto moaned as he got up.
"You have been doing better, you should just focus a bit more and then you would be able to sense things a few feet ahead of you." Jiraiya looked Naruto over, "And do you even know what inanimate means?"
"Um..........." Naruto grinned, "No guess not, but it made sense right?"
"Yeah, yeah baka." Jiraiya rubbed his head.
"Hey someone is coming." Naruto grabbed a large katana hidden by his robes.
"Hey calm down now. It is probably just our welcoming crew." As Jiraiya spoke several ANBU appeared around them causing Naruto to stiffen up.
"Please don't move any further until you have stated you purpose for....................oh it is just Jiraiya-sama." The ANBU speaking sighed as he looked over to Naruto.
"Just Jiraiya? Some respect!" The spiky white-haired man moaned as he looked over to see Naruto had his eyes open and looking over at the ANBU that spoke.
"They probably just thought you would like to be treated the same as before." Naruto grinned.
"Hokage-sama will be in a meeting for a few more minutes but you should go straight there, we will escort you." The ANBU bowed and then vanished.
"I thought you didn't like to open your eyes." Jiraiya looked over at Naruto. "Though if your eyes didn't look so creepy and blank I bet any idiot would think you could see them."
"I don't like people seeing my eyes." Naruto sighed. "Well I think I can do this lets go."
The blonde vanished being followed by a mumbling Jiraiya.
"Stupid brat better not fall in a hole and blow your cover after all of that training."
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"Oh and by the way, Naruto............you may want to talk to the people in her office when the meeting is dismissed." The ANBU captain smiled.
"Darn I guess I am not that good." Naruto sighed.
"You're the only kid within a five small village radius with bright blonde hair and blue eyes other that the Yamakura clan. That just singles you out to the chunin that left last year." The captain bowed and left.
"Maybe you shouldn't open your eyes for your cover anyways." Jiraiya mumbled and then looked up. "Well I guess we cant hide those stupid marks on your face either can we?"
"I wonder who is in that office now?" Naruto closed his eyes again, never wanting to open them again.
"KAKASHI I SWEAR I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" They heard a feminine voice scream from behind the doors.
"Well there is one." Naruto smiled, he couldn't wait talk to his former sensei.
"Sakura calm down!" It was Tsunade's voice and she seemed a bit stressed.
"There is two." Naruto's grin grew.
"Sasuke help me!" Kakashi's desperate plea came out.
"Sasuke?" Naruto straightened up.
What was the Uchiha like now? It had been a year since the incident and he didn't even tell the raven-haired boy good bye.
"You are on your own. You shouldn't insult pregnant women like that." Sasuke's voice came out deep and smooth.
"Pregnant!?!" Naruto shouted in shock. Sakura was pregnant! Since when! She is only seventeen! It had only been a year! Did her and Lee move that fast? Was Lee even the father?
"Hey I heard someone outside!" Naruto froze as he heard the door slam open.
"Uh...........hi?" Naruto squeaked. He could feel the color of pink chakra floating in front of him. It seemed so warm and comforting.
"Na-na-na-na.................." Sakura stuttered as she stared at the sight before her. Naruto's skin was tanner and his hair brighter and longer. His outfit was orange and black fitted with several foreign designs. If it wasn't for the marks on his cheeks she would have never thought that it was Naruto.
"Naruto! Jiraiya! You both have a lot of explaining to do!" Tsunade growled.
Sasuke's eyes widened as he looked over to the door from the corner he was standing in. Did he hear someone say Naruto?
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"What do you mean he is gone!" Sasuke shouted over at the Hokage even though he knew it was rude.
"He will be training with Jiraiya....."
"That pervert! He is worse than Kakashi-sensei!" Sasuke gaped at her.
He had returned to the town to find out that his plan of telling Naruto everything was now impossible. The blonde would be back for a few weeks.
He had thought of Naruto everyday since then and even after he was supposed to come back. But he was back, after 14 months the blonde was back.
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"You are way past late and unless one of you died, 'which I see hasn't happened'" Tsunade glared at Jiraiya, "You better have a good excuse!"
"Ja, Baa-san you see we were chased out of town to this.........."
"Naruto?" Sasuke stared wide-eyed at the sight before him. It was Naruto but he was taller, tanner, he was wearing a strange outfit, he had grown, his voice was much more deeper.
"Sasuke?" Naruto's eyebrows rose up as he grinned. "I-I missed you guys!"
Naruto smiled he could immediately identify everyone's chakra. The only way he could see people.
Sakura's was pink and warm probably because of the pregnancy. Kakashi's was a jagged silver almost like his hair. Tsunade's was a soft yellow with a dangerous presence, and Sasuke's his was a deep crimson. It matched his sharingan.
"I will leave you four alone, as for you Jiraiya..........get in my office now." Tsunade growled as she left the door.
Sasuke couldn't help but stare at the sight before him. This was Naruto! He was back! He was healthy! He was smiling!
"So are you going to explain the cloths or is that just a fashion statement." Kakashi broke the silence as he sat down on the couch across from Naruto .
"Uh yeah." Naruto blushed and smiled.
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"You were attacked?" Tsunade rose an eyebrow as Jiraiya spoke.
"Not us but the village we were in. A gang of hungry rogue nins but we were out training at the time so when we got back the village was destroyed. All the women and children were killed except for a few of the ones in school who had hid in the closet." Jiraiya sighed as he remembered the destruction.
"What else?" Tsunade placed a cup of coffee in front of Jiraiya as she sat down.
"Well we found all of the ones we could and took them to a nearby village. After that the village was attacked but the nins were killed." Jiraiya turned serious.
"By who?"
"The Kyuubi, Naruto had lost it when he heard one of the small girls he had cared for scream." Tsunade's face dropped. "But we found a cure for his sight after that."
Tsunade looked up confused. "What?"
"The Kyuubi's chakra. Naruto can see fine when he uses the demonic chakra." The older man sipped his coffee and looked over to the shocked expression on Tsunade's face.
"But he wont use that chakra anymore, he believes if he gives in again he might not be able to come back.............but afterwards he discovered another way to see."
"Wait so he can see?"
"No, he can see chakra, and colors of chakra. It probably isn't as much of seeing as it is feeling but he says the colors too. Also if he lets his chakra flow around him he can sense objects within a twenty meter radius it was quite amazing actually." Jiraiya laughed, "You should have seen our first actual spar."
"But that's not it is it?" Tsunade frowned, she didn't like this mood of Jiraiya............it didn't fit him.
"No."
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"So Lee is the father?" Naruto stuck out his tongue, "Poor kid might look like him."
"Hey! Lee is cute!" Sakura stammered as she sat beside Naruto. "Besides I love him more than anything, this new addition is so great!"
"How far along are you?" Naruto felt like it was old times again. It was so nice, he missed it.
"I just found out a few weeks ago." Sakura giggled. "But enough about us! Naruto where have you been! How'd you get so cute?"
"You mean I wasn't before?" Naruto mopped but then grinned, "Well not a lot happened actually but I am going to take that stupid course since I am back. You know the one after a shinobi is injured or what not to see if they can still be a nin." Naruto grinned as Sakura and Sasuke stared at him in shock.
"Naruto you know that, that class is supposed to be harder that any regular class for ninja's without disabilities." Sakura sighed.
"I believe he can do it if he feels like it." Kakashi grinned under his mask. Naruto needs to get back into the ninja world.
"Oh crap I am meeting Lee in five minutes! I got to go!" Sakura jumped up and looked over at Naruto, "I have missed you a lot Naruto, I will come by your house later so we can chat okay?"
"Actually................I don't know where I am staying right now. Jiraiya told me my apartment had been sold." Naruto laughed scratching the back of his head.
"You can stay with Lee and I then!" Sakura beamed.
"I don't want to be too much trouble I will stay in a hotel until I find an apartment." Naruto stated.
"No Naruto....."
"He can stay with me, I have plenty of room!" Sasuke shouted startling everyone, even himself.
"But!" Naruto stopped short and sighed raising his hands in defeat. If he could stay at Sasuke's house then that would mean that they would have to talk, and that is what he wanted.
"Good it is settled I will bring Lee by around eight! Love you guys!" Naruto could feel the warmth of her chakra vanish in a small breeze.
"Well I guess I better go catch up with her unless I want to hear it from Gai." Kakashi sighed and vanished but not before bopping Naruto on the head with his favorite book.
"So.........." Naruto smiled in the uncomfortable silence.
"Um sorry I guess we can go." Sasuke stood up and watched Naruto do the same. It was weird. Naruto was blind, but he didn't act blind or even seem blind. He kept his eyes closed the whole time though.
Sasuke felt a rush of guilt run through his body, it was all his fault. He handicapped his rival and friend.
"Sasuke?" Naruto stopped; another blessing with his blindness is feeling drastic changes in moods or personality changes. Which didn't work too well around girls.
"I-I.............never mind lets go." Sasuke sighed; he couldn't bring himself to do it. He should wait until they are at his house. He watched as Naruto walked beside him. He was so different.
"You seem well? Anything new? You didn't talk too much back there." Naruto grinned feeling his surrounds.
"I don't interrupt pregnant women. I am fine. Nothing new." Sasuke watched Naruto walk closely. If anything happened to the blonde he would hate himself forever.
"So who else knows?" Naruto stopped when he noticed he surprised Sasuke, "You know, about the whole 'blind thing'."
Sasuke gaped, Naruto talked about it as if it was temporary or no big deal! How could he do that so calmly?
"Um..........Sakura, Kakashi, and I.............I think Shikamaru may know.........." Sasuke looked over at Naruto who was just nodding.
"Hey is he still whipped by Ino?" He asked bluntly with a grin on his face. "'Cuz I mean dude it was horrible a year ago, I bet couldn't get any worse, right?"
"Shikamaru is a jonin now, he was asked so he didn't take the exams." Sasuke watched as Naruto walked up to a large rock. "Hey watch out for............."
Sasuke watched Naruto jumped over the rock gracefully and turn around snickering.
"The rock?" Naruto yawned and waited for Sasuke to join him.
"Yeah, but........"
"How? It was a new technique or something rather..........*yawn* I don't really feel like explaining it all but it mainly involves using my chakra as a type of vision."
"You can see chakra?" Sasuke looked at Naruto interested even though he began to reconsider moving a little closer to the Hokage's tower.
"In a way.............its more like a sense or a feeling but I see colors." Naruto nodded as if matching information in his mind.
"What do you mean?" Sasuke began to think that maybe there was a little more wrong with Naruto than his vision.
"Like for example, Sakura has pink and warm chakra, Kakashi has silver spiky chakra that changes to red at the top, I think that shows his sharingan and you................" Naruto stopped and turned his face toward Sasuke with his eyes still closed, "You have deep red chakra but it is surrounded by something dark that I cant see but feel................its evil." Naruto nodded again and then began to walk.
Sasuke reached his hand back and traced the mark on his back. The cursed seal, given to him by Orochimaru, a life long present. Too bad no one really knows whether the snake is alive or dead.
"Naruto when you feel this chakra.............how can you tell its color? Do you see it?" Sasuke was now side by side with Naruto waiting for an answer.
"I see it. I do remember colors you know." Sasuke flinched. "I see outline of the person's body it flows in but just barely I can only see all of them if they have of release a ton of chakra and even then its not really seeing.................its more like surface area."
"Sorry I shouldn't be asking you all of these questions." Sasuke caught himself and did a small bow. Why was he keeping this subject up? They could easily change subjects.
He looked up to see Naruto smirking like as if he had just won a war.
"What?" Sasuke stood up and looked around.
"I am taller that you aren't I?" Naruto held back a laugh as Sasuke looked at him again.
"No you aren't." Sasuke stood up straight next to the blonde. "Your hair doesn't count."
"No, no, I am taller." Naruto laughed as he stood up straight too as Sasuke walked up right next to him.
"I am telling you that I have always been taller." Sasuke smirked.
"You always HAD been taller, I at least got an inch on you. Though you are BIGGER I mean you need to lose weight or something." Naruto laughed before he fell forward onto Sasuke. "Ack!"
"Hey are you okay? You tripped over a rock! I thought you could see things or something." Sasuke pulled Naruto up not realizing that he was now holding the blonde in an embrace.
"Um.............Sasuke, you can let go now." Naruto blushed as Sasuke quickly let go and blushed too.
"Gomen." Sasuke tried to recover himself as he began to walk again. It was just too weird with this Naruto around. But he destroyed the last one.
"See you are apologizing! Something is wrong! What is the matter Sasuke?" Naruto furrowed his eyebrows as if to glare at the Uchiha.
"Nothing is wrong." Sasuke stated calmly as he turned around to see the blonde. Naruto really looked different in the robes he was wearing.
"Yes there is something! Tell me! OR.......or I wont stay with you tonight!" Naruto pouted.
"What is your problem I said nothing was wrong!" Sasuke spat out turning back around.
"What is it Sasuke!" Naruto appeared right in front of the startled dark- haired boy. No wonder Naruto was going to take that class, he could pass it easily.
"I-I...." Sasuke stared at Naruto's face and his heart broke. "Open your eyes Naruto."
Naruto stopped. Sasuke wanted to see his eyes? Why his eyes? "Only if you promise to explain to me what you said at the hospital a year ago." Naruto prepared himself.
"Fine." Sasuke knew he didn't really want to do this but he had to.
Naruto opened his eyes which glanced directly at Sasuke. He just stood there surprised. The once bright ocean blue orbs were now............something about his blue eyes.........something was wrong. His eyes may have been open but as a ninja Sasuke could tell immediately they weren't taking in any information. They weren't seeing anything.
"Happy now?" Naruto closed his eyes and turned around. Why was it so hard to do that for Sasuke? He had easily done it for the guard before but with Sasuke it was different...........he cared what the Uchiha thought.
"Naruto its my fault! Everything! Why you are blind! This whole mess!" Sasuke clenched his fists and glared at the ground expecting the worse.
"Is that what you really think?" Naruto stood there in awe. Sasuke had blamed himself this whole time? Was that why he was crying at the hospital?
"Is that what I think? Yeah! Because it is true you dobe!" Sasuke repeated himself to see if Naruto was hearing right.
"Sasuke it isn't your fault it never was your fault." Naruto furrowed his eyebrows again. "If this is what has your stupid pink panties up in a bunch then get over it because you are wrong! This is what happens when you decide something. Decisions always have consequences Sasuke, good and bad!"
Sasuke couldn't help but stare at Naruto. When did he get so mature? When did he get all of the answers? What did he know? Did he say pink panties?
"When we were in the forest and I saw that the guy was about to perform the jutsu all I could think about was how unfair it would be if you weren't the one to kill Itachi, if you never got to restore your clan, if you had died as a prodigy and never fully proved yourself. That is what I thought about Sasuke." Naruto smiled gently.
Sasuke couldn't believe what he was hearing. Naruto was wrong. He didn't know anything.
"What about becoming Hokage? Fulfilling your dreams in life? Huh? Did you just forget those? Throw them out of the window because you freaking care for one person so much! One person and you destroy your future!" Sasuke hit the tree beside him causing Naruto to flinch at the surprise.
"I will be Hokage Sasuke, blind or not. I will always keep my way and I will earn the respect of this whole freaking village whether or not they realize until I am dead." Naruto turned around and stopped.
"Naru........"
"Shhh Someone is coming." Naruto whispered as he lowered down reaching for his hidden katana.
Sasuke waited and after a moment he could feel something closing in on them and fast. He waited until he saw a figure running in their direction.
"Sasuke! I have been looking for you!" Iruka panted noticing a strangely dressed person.
"Iruka-sensei................." Naruto smiled goofily as he recognized the voice.
"Hey Naruto how are.................NARUTO!!!" Iruka almost fell over in shock as he was quickly tackled by a bundle of cloth.
"Oh my gawd! You are so big! How do you walk in that thing? Is it a dress? Did Jiraiya-sama take good care of you? You didn't get hurt did you? Why didn't you ever write me! Why didn't you come to me first when you got to town! Baka I have been so preoccupied thinking about you I think I might get fired at the academy!" Iruka hugged the taller but skinnier form tightly as a tear fell out of his eyes.
"Sorry Iruka-sensei." Naruto mumbled into the chunin jacket which he was being held tightly against.
"Um............" Sasuke looked around, this was a little uncomfortable for him. "You were looking for me?"
"Hai yes! There are a whole bunch of people at your house and they wanted me to get you." Iruka nodded as he stood up and began to help Naruto. He stopped when he noticed the blonde's eyes were closed the whole time. "Naruto?"
"Hai?" Naruto smiled grabbing onto his former sensei's arm. Iruka looked over at Sasuke and smiled.
"Nothing never mind. I am glad that you are back."
"So did these people mention what they wanted from my house?" Sasuke didn't really want to interrupt the bonding moment but he wanted to know if his house needed protecting or not. He really didn't want three specific people to be there.................
"Oh! It was Sakura and Lee, Shikamaru-san, Kiba, Hinata, Choji, Ino, and...............I think I may have seen Kakashi around there following Sakura." Iruka chuckled softly as he tightened his grip with Naruto's arm.
He had missed the boy so much. Naruto had grown into a fine man and he even looked more mature. Iruka began to wonder if Naruto still thought of him as an 'older brother' type anymore.
"It is only six, she isn't supposed to be there until eight." Sasuke said to himself making a mental note to take away Sakura's spare key she had made for herself when she was younger when he got there.
"Well it is turning into a major party there so be prepared Sasuke, I know how you hate parties let alone in your house but Sakura has seemed to gain a little more power over everyone in her condition." Iruka chuckled, "There may be a lot of people there."
"Hmph." Sasuke snorted making another note to change all of the locks on all of his doors anyway, just in case some of the girls had created spares. He looked to the side to see a worried expression across Naruto's face as if he was thinking of something.
"Naruto you okay?"
"Huh? Yeah! It's a party!" Naruto quickly smiled as he let go of Iruka's arm and did a dance but then stopped. "So is Sakura married to Lee?"
"Ummmm" Iruka blushed and turned to Sasuke who just sighed.
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"Wow Sakura I think being pregnant made your forehead bigger." Ino scoffed as Sakura glared over at her.
"Shut up and don't say stuff out loud! Not everyone knows okay!" The pink haired girl whispered harshly as Lee came running up with a large bowl.
"Hey they are almost here but there is this strange looking guy with them! Oh and this is for the punch!" Lee quickly turned to Kiba, "No spiking it okay! I don't want anything bad to happen!"
"Ma." Kiba snickered as he turned to face Shikamaru. "So jonin, what made you want to come to a simple chunin party?"
"Ino made me." Shikamaru sighed earning a grunt from the dog boy.
"You mean she had to force you to come to a party at Uchiha's house? A once in a lifetime event! Dude, where is the love? I swear she would have to force you to your own funeral." Kiba snorted before walking over to Gai and Kakashi.
"You better be keeping an eye over Lee's future child!" Gai threatened as he did a pose; shaking a fist into the air.
"I am watching over MY former student that YOUR former student knocked up, yes." Kakashi stated as he flipped a page of his book aggravated.
"Kakashi my rival if anything happens to that child I will........."
"You will what? I am taking care of the host of the spawn of your freaky look-alike!" Kakashi snapped.
"Crap they are at it again." Kiba moaned as everyone ignored the bickering old men.
"Geez what happened to make them so snappy anyways?" Shikamaru sighed looking over at Choji.
"Dunno, I think it may have something to do with Sakura and Lee though." Choji smiled happily.
"Really now?" Shikamaru rolled his eyes as he watched the door open.
"Here they are!" Sakura got really enthused as Iruka walked in followed by the strangely dressed man and Sasuke.
"Hey guys look who I found!" Iruka was beaming with joy as everyone looked in front of them in shock.
"Hey long time no see everyone!" Naruto grinned broadly opening his eyes causing all of the girls to blush.
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"Those who have done nothing in life are not qualified to judge of those that have done little." Samuel Johnson
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Chapter two: Naruto?
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"You brat slow down all ready!" An old man groaned. He had long spiky white hair with a nose ring. He had weird designed on his cloths and body.
"Its not MY fault YOUR FAT and SLOW!!!! Pervy-seinin!" A tall blonde boy laughed as he ran ahead wearing a similar outfit to the older man but more fitting and the designs were a bit more foreign looking.
"Naruto I swear if Tsunade doesn't kill you I will after our meeting." Jiraiya mumbled as they headed toward the village they had left a little more than a year ago.
"Hey it wasn't my fault that you decided to write another volume of your nasty book while you were supposed to be training me! And then we got stuck in that weird town after all of the women ran us out of that other village because of your little 'inspirational' trips!" Naruto shouted as he glared at the older man.
Well not glare, but furrowed his eyebrows with his eyes closed. He didn't like to open his eyes unless absolutely necessary to fool an opponent or villager. Trying to show that he could see.
"I am going to ignore the sarcasm in my 'inspirational' trips you put there." Jiraiya looked up and sighed. "Naruto watch out for that........."
*bam*
"Tree................" Jiraiya sighed as he walked over to the teen now rubbing his nose.
"Hey! You are supposed to warn me of any inanimate objects in my way!" Naruto moaned as he got up.
"You have been doing better, you should just focus a bit more and then you would be able to sense things a few feet ahead of you." Jiraiya looked Naruto over, "And do you even know what inanimate means?"
"Um..........." Naruto grinned, "No guess not, but it made sense right?"
"Yeah, yeah baka." Jiraiya rubbed his head.
"Hey someone is coming." Naruto grabbed a large katana hidden by his robes.
"Hey calm down now. It is probably just our welcoming crew." As Jiraiya spoke several ANBU appeared around them causing Naruto to stiffen up.
"Please don't move any further until you have stated you purpose for....................oh it is just Jiraiya-sama." The ANBU speaking sighed as he looked over to Naruto.
"Just Jiraiya? Some respect!" The spiky white-haired man moaned as he looked over to see Naruto had his eyes open and looking over at the ANBU that spoke.
"They probably just thought you would like to be treated the same as before." Naruto grinned.
"Hokage-sama will be in a meeting for a few more minutes but you should go straight there, we will escort you." The ANBU bowed and then vanished.
"I thought you didn't like to open your eyes." Jiraiya looked over at Naruto. "Though if your eyes didn't look so creepy and blank I bet any idiot would think you could see them."
"I don't like people seeing my eyes." Naruto sighed. "Well I think I can do this lets go."
The blonde vanished being followed by a mumbling Jiraiya.
"Stupid brat better not fall in a hole and blow your cover after all of that training."
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"Oh and by the way, Naruto............you may want to talk to the people in her office when the meeting is dismissed." The ANBU captain smiled.
"Darn I guess I am not that good." Naruto sighed.
"You're the only kid within a five small village radius with bright blonde hair and blue eyes other that the Yamakura clan. That just singles you out to the chunin that left last year." The captain bowed and left.
"Maybe you shouldn't open your eyes for your cover anyways." Jiraiya mumbled and then looked up. "Well I guess we cant hide those stupid marks on your face either can we?"
"I wonder who is in that office now?" Naruto closed his eyes again, never wanting to open them again.
"KAKASHI I SWEAR I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" They heard a feminine voice scream from behind the doors.
"Well there is one." Naruto smiled, he couldn't wait talk to his former sensei.
"Sakura calm down!" It was Tsunade's voice and she seemed a bit stressed.
"There is two." Naruto's grin grew.
"Sasuke help me!" Kakashi's desperate plea came out.
"Sasuke?" Naruto straightened up.
What was the Uchiha like now? It had been a year since the incident and he didn't even tell the raven-haired boy good bye.
"You are on your own. You shouldn't insult pregnant women like that." Sasuke's voice came out deep and smooth.
"Pregnant!?!" Naruto shouted in shock. Sakura was pregnant! Since when! She is only seventeen! It had only been a year! Did her and Lee move that fast? Was Lee even the father?
"Hey I heard someone outside!" Naruto froze as he heard the door slam open.
"Uh...........hi?" Naruto squeaked. He could feel the color of pink chakra floating in front of him. It seemed so warm and comforting.
"Na-na-na-na.................." Sakura stuttered as she stared at the sight before her. Naruto's skin was tanner and his hair brighter and longer. His outfit was orange and black fitted with several foreign designs. If it wasn't for the marks on his cheeks she would have never thought that it was Naruto.
"Naruto! Jiraiya! You both have a lot of explaining to do!" Tsunade growled.
Sasuke's eyes widened as he looked over to the door from the corner he was standing in. Did he hear someone say Naruto?
^-_-^ Flashback
"What do you mean he is gone!" Sasuke shouted over at the Hokage even though he knew it was rude.
"He will be training with Jiraiya....."
"That pervert! He is worse than Kakashi-sensei!" Sasuke gaped at her.
He had returned to the town to find out that his plan of telling Naruto everything was now impossible. The blonde would be back for a few weeks.
He had thought of Naruto everyday since then and even after he was supposed to come back. But he was back, after 14 months the blonde was back.
^-_-^
"You are way past late and unless one of you died, 'which I see hasn't happened'" Tsunade glared at Jiraiya, "You better have a good excuse!"
"Ja, Baa-san you see we were chased out of town to this.........."
"Naruto?" Sasuke stared wide-eyed at the sight before him. It was Naruto but he was taller, tanner, he was wearing a strange outfit, he had grown, his voice was much more deeper.
"Sasuke?" Naruto's eyebrows rose up as he grinned. "I-I missed you guys!"
Naruto smiled he could immediately identify everyone's chakra. The only way he could see people.
Sakura's was pink and warm probably because of the pregnancy. Kakashi's was a jagged silver almost like his hair. Tsunade's was a soft yellow with a dangerous presence, and Sasuke's his was a deep crimson. It matched his sharingan.
"I will leave you four alone, as for you Jiraiya..........get in my office now." Tsunade growled as she left the door.
Sasuke couldn't help but stare at the sight before him. This was Naruto! He was back! He was healthy! He was smiling!
"So are you going to explain the cloths or is that just a fashion statement." Kakashi broke the silence as he sat down on the couch across from Naruto .
"Uh yeah." Naruto blushed and smiled.
^-_-^
"You were attacked?" Tsunade rose an eyebrow as Jiraiya spoke.
"Not us but the village we were in. A gang of hungry rogue nins but we were out training at the time so when we got back the village was destroyed. All the women and children were killed except for a few of the ones in school who had hid in the closet." Jiraiya sighed as he remembered the destruction.
"What else?" Tsunade placed a cup of coffee in front of Jiraiya as she sat down.
"Well we found all of the ones we could and took them to a nearby village. After that the village was attacked but the nins were killed." Jiraiya turned serious.
"By who?"
"The Kyuubi, Naruto had lost it when he heard one of the small girls he had cared for scream." Tsunade's face dropped. "But we found a cure for his sight after that."
Tsunade looked up confused. "What?"
"The Kyuubi's chakra. Naruto can see fine when he uses the demonic chakra." The older man sipped his coffee and looked over to the shocked expression on Tsunade's face.
"But he wont use that chakra anymore, he believes if he gives in again he might not be able to come back.............but afterwards he discovered another way to see."
"Wait so he can see?"
"No, he can see chakra, and colors of chakra. It probably isn't as much of seeing as it is feeling but he says the colors too. Also if he lets his chakra flow around him he can sense objects within a twenty meter radius it was quite amazing actually." Jiraiya laughed, "You should have seen our first actual spar."
"But that's not it is it?" Tsunade frowned, she didn't like this mood of Jiraiya............it didn't fit him.
"No."
^-_-^
"So Lee is the father?" Naruto stuck out his tongue, "Poor kid might look like him."
"Hey! Lee is cute!" Sakura stammered as she sat beside Naruto. "Besides I love him more than anything, this new addition is so great!"
"How far along are you?" Naruto felt like it was old times again. It was so nice, he missed it.
"I just found out a few weeks ago." Sakura giggled. "But enough about us! Naruto where have you been! How'd you get so cute?"
"You mean I wasn't before?" Naruto mopped but then grinned, "Well not a lot happened actually but I am going to take that stupid course since I am back. You know the one after a shinobi is injured or what not to see if they can still be a nin." Naruto grinned as Sakura and Sasuke stared at him in shock.
"Naruto you know that, that class is supposed to be harder that any regular class for ninja's without disabilities." Sakura sighed.
"I believe he can do it if he feels like it." Kakashi grinned under his mask. Naruto needs to get back into the ninja world.
"Oh crap I am meeting Lee in five minutes! I got to go!" Sakura jumped up and looked over at Naruto, "I have missed you a lot Naruto, I will come by your house later so we can chat okay?"
"Actually................I don't know where I am staying right now. Jiraiya told me my apartment had been sold." Naruto laughed scratching the back of his head.
"You can stay with Lee and I then!" Sakura beamed.
"I don't want to be too much trouble I will stay in a hotel until I find an apartment." Naruto stated.
"No Naruto....."
"He can stay with me, I have plenty of room!" Sasuke shouted startling everyone, even himself.
"But!" Naruto stopped short and sighed raising his hands in defeat. If he could stay at Sasuke's house then that would mean that they would have to talk, and that is what he wanted.
"Good it is settled I will bring Lee by around eight! Love you guys!" Naruto could feel the warmth of her chakra vanish in a small breeze.
"Well I guess I better go catch up with her unless I want to hear it from Gai." Kakashi sighed and vanished but not before bopping Naruto on the head with his favorite book.
"So.........." Naruto smiled in the uncomfortable silence.
"Um sorry I guess we can go." Sasuke stood up and watched Naruto do the same. It was weird. Naruto was blind, but he didn't act blind or even seem blind. He kept his eyes closed the whole time though.
Sasuke felt a rush of guilt run through his body, it was all his fault. He handicapped his rival and friend.
"Sasuke?" Naruto stopped; another blessing with his blindness is feeling drastic changes in moods or personality changes. Which didn't work too well around girls.
"I-I.............never mind lets go." Sasuke sighed; he couldn't bring himself to do it. He should wait until they are at his house. He watched as Naruto walked beside him. He was so different.
"You seem well? Anything new? You didn't talk too much back there." Naruto grinned feeling his surrounds.
"I don't interrupt pregnant women. I am fine. Nothing new." Sasuke watched Naruto walk closely. If anything happened to the blonde he would hate himself forever.
"So who else knows?" Naruto stopped when he noticed he surprised Sasuke, "You know, about the whole 'blind thing'."
Sasuke gaped, Naruto talked about it as if it was temporary or no big deal! How could he do that so calmly?
"Um..........Sakura, Kakashi, and I.............I think Shikamaru may know.........." Sasuke looked over at Naruto who was just nodding.
"Hey is he still whipped by Ino?" He asked bluntly with a grin on his face. "'Cuz I mean dude it was horrible a year ago, I bet couldn't get any worse, right?"
"Shikamaru is a jonin now, he was asked so he didn't take the exams." Sasuke watched as Naruto walked up to a large rock. "Hey watch out for............."
Sasuke watched Naruto jumped over the rock gracefully and turn around snickering.
"The rock?" Naruto yawned and waited for Sasuke to join him.
"Yeah, but........"
"How? It was a new technique or something rather..........*yawn* I don't really feel like explaining it all but it mainly involves using my chakra as a type of vision."
"You can see chakra?" Sasuke looked at Naruto interested even though he began to reconsider moving a little closer to the Hokage's tower.
"In a way.............its more like a sense or a feeling but I see colors." Naruto nodded as if matching information in his mind.
"What do you mean?" Sasuke began to think that maybe there was a little more wrong with Naruto than his vision.
"Like for example, Sakura has pink and warm chakra, Kakashi has silver spiky chakra that changes to red at the top, I think that shows his sharingan and you................" Naruto stopped and turned his face toward Sasuke with his eyes still closed, "You have deep red chakra but it is surrounded by something dark that I cant see but feel................its evil." Naruto nodded again and then began to walk.
Sasuke reached his hand back and traced the mark on his back. The cursed seal, given to him by Orochimaru, a life long present. Too bad no one really knows whether the snake is alive or dead.
"Naruto when you feel this chakra.............how can you tell its color? Do you see it?" Sasuke was now side by side with Naruto waiting for an answer.
"I see it. I do remember colors you know." Sasuke flinched. "I see outline of the person's body it flows in but just barely I can only see all of them if they have of release a ton of chakra and even then its not really seeing.................its more like surface area."
"Sorry I shouldn't be asking you all of these questions." Sasuke caught himself and did a small bow. Why was he keeping this subject up? They could easily change subjects.
He looked up to see Naruto smirking like as if he had just won a war.
"What?" Sasuke stood up and looked around.
"I am taller that you aren't I?" Naruto held back a laugh as Sasuke looked at him again.
"No you aren't." Sasuke stood up straight next to the blonde. "Your hair doesn't count."
"No, no, I am taller." Naruto laughed as he stood up straight too as Sasuke walked up right next to him.
"I am telling you that I have always been taller." Sasuke smirked.
"You always HAD been taller, I at least got an inch on you. Though you are BIGGER I mean you need to lose weight or something." Naruto laughed before he fell forward onto Sasuke. "Ack!"
"Hey are you okay? You tripped over a rock! I thought you could see things or something." Sasuke pulled Naruto up not realizing that he was now holding the blonde in an embrace.
"Um.............Sasuke, you can let go now." Naruto blushed as Sasuke quickly let go and blushed too.
"Gomen." Sasuke tried to recover himself as he began to walk again. It was just too weird with this Naruto around. But he destroyed the last one.
"See you are apologizing! Something is wrong! What is the matter Sasuke?" Naruto furrowed his eyebrows as if to glare at the Uchiha.
"Nothing is wrong." Sasuke stated calmly as he turned around to see the blonde. Naruto really looked different in the robes he was wearing.
"Yes there is something! Tell me! OR.......or I wont stay with you tonight!" Naruto pouted.
"What is your problem I said nothing was wrong!" Sasuke spat out turning back around.
"What is it Sasuke!" Naruto appeared right in front of the startled dark- haired boy. No wonder Naruto was going to take that class, he could pass it easily.
"I-I...." Sasuke stared at Naruto's face and his heart broke. "Open your eyes Naruto."
Naruto stopped. Sasuke wanted to see his eyes? Why his eyes? "Only if you promise to explain to me what you said at the hospital a year ago." Naruto prepared himself.
"Fine." Sasuke knew he didn't really want to do this but he had to.
Naruto opened his eyes which glanced directly at Sasuke. He just stood there surprised. The once bright ocean blue orbs were now............something about his blue eyes.........something was wrong. His eyes may have been open but as a ninja Sasuke could tell immediately they weren't taking in any information. They weren't seeing anything.
"Happy now?" Naruto closed his eyes and turned around. Why was it so hard to do that for Sasuke? He had easily done it for the guard before but with Sasuke it was different...........he cared what the Uchiha thought.
"Naruto its my fault! Everything! Why you are blind! This whole mess!" Sasuke clenched his fists and glared at the ground expecting the worse.
"Is that what you really think?" Naruto stood there in awe. Sasuke had blamed himself this whole time? Was that why he was crying at the hospital?
"Is that what I think? Yeah! Because it is true you dobe!" Sasuke repeated himself to see if Naruto was hearing right.
"Sasuke it isn't your fault it never was your fault." Naruto furrowed his eyebrows again. "If this is what has your stupid pink panties up in a bunch then get over it because you are wrong! This is what happens when you decide something. Decisions always have consequences Sasuke, good and bad!"
Sasuke couldn't help but stare at Naruto. When did he get so mature? When did he get all of the answers? What did he know? Did he say pink panties?
"When we were in the forest and I saw that the guy was about to perform the jutsu all I could think about was how unfair it would be if you weren't the one to kill Itachi, if you never got to restore your clan, if you had died as a prodigy and never fully proved yourself. That is what I thought about Sasuke." Naruto smiled gently.
Sasuke couldn't believe what he was hearing. Naruto was wrong. He didn't know anything.
"What about becoming Hokage? Fulfilling your dreams in life? Huh? Did you just forget those? Throw them out of the window because you freaking care for one person so much! One person and you destroy your future!" Sasuke hit the tree beside him causing Naruto to flinch at the surprise.
"I will be Hokage Sasuke, blind or not. I will always keep my way and I will earn the respect of this whole freaking village whether or not they realize until I am dead." Naruto turned around and stopped.
"Naru........"
"Shhh Someone is coming." Naruto whispered as he lowered down reaching for his hidden katana.
Sasuke waited and after a moment he could feel something closing in on them and fast. He waited until he saw a figure running in their direction.
"Sasuke! I have been looking for you!" Iruka panted noticing a strangely dressed person.
"Iruka-sensei................." Naruto smiled goofily as he recognized the voice.
"Hey Naruto how are.................NARUTO!!!" Iruka almost fell over in shock as he was quickly tackled by a bundle of cloth.
"Oh my gawd! You are so big! How do you walk in that thing? Is it a dress? Did Jiraiya-sama take good care of you? You didn't get hurt did you? Why didn't you ever write me! Why didn't you come to me first when you got to town! Baka I have been so preoccupied thinking about you I think I might get fired at the academy!" Iruka hugged the taller but skinnier form tightly as a tear fell out of his eyes.
"Sorry Iruka-sensei." Naruto mumbled into the chunin jacket which he was being held tightly against.
"Um............" Sasuke looked around, this was a little uncomfortable for him. "You were looking for me?"
"Hai yes! There are a whole bunch of people at your house and they wanted me to get you." Iruka nodded as he stood up and began to help Naruto. He stopped when he noticed the blonde's eyes were closed the whole time. "Naruto?"
"Hai?" Naruto smiled grabbing onto his former sensei's arm. Iruka looked over at Sasuke and smiled.
"Nothing never mind. I am glad that you are back."
"So did these people mention what they wanted from my house?" Sasuke didn't really want to interrupt the bonding moment but he wanted to know if his house needed protecting or not. He really didn't want three specific people to be there.................
"Oh! It was Sakura and Lee, Shikamaru-san, Kiba, Hinata, Choji, Ino, and...............I think I may have seen Kakashi around there following Sakura." Iruka chuckled softly as he tightened his grip with Naruto's arm.
He had missed the boy so much. Naruto had grown into a fine man and he even looked more mature. Iruka began to wonder if Naruto still thought of him as an 'older brother' type anymore.
"It is only six, she isn't supposed to be there until eight." Sasuke said to himself making a mental note to take away Sakura's spare key she had made for herself when she was younger when he got there.
"Well it is turning into a major party there so be prepared Sasuke, I know how you hate parties let alone in your house but Sakura has seemed to gain a little more power over everyone in her condition." Iruka chuckled, "There may be a lot of people there."
"Hmph." Sasuke snorted making another note to change all of the locks on all of his doors anyway, just in case some of the girls had created spares. He looked to the side to see a worried expression across Naruto's face as if he was thinking of something.
"Naruto you okay?"
"Huh? Yeah! It's a party!" Naruto quickly smiled as he let go of Iruka's arm and did a dance but then stopped. "So is Sakura married to Lee?"
"Ummmm" Iruka blushed and turned to Sasuke who just sighed.
^-_-^
"Wow Sakura I think being pregnant made your forehead bigger." Ino scoffed as Sakura glared over at her.
"Shut up and don't say stuff out loud! Not everyone knows okay!" The pink haired girl whispered harshly as Lee came running up with a large bowl.
"Hey they are almost here but there is this strange looking guy with them! Oh and this is for the punch!" Lee quickly turned to Kiba, "No spiking it okay! I don't want anything bad to happen!"
"Ma." Kiba snickered as he turned to face Shikamaru. "So jonin, what made you want to come to a simple chunin party?"
"Ino made me." Shikamaru sighed earning a grunt from the dog boy.
"You mean she had to force you to come to a party at Uchiha's house? A once in a lifetime event! Dude, where is the love? I swear she would have to force you to your own funeral." Kiba snorted before walking over to Gai and Kakashi.
"You better be keeping an eye over Lee's future child!" Gai threatened as he did a pose; shaking a fist into the air.
"I am watching over MY former student that YOUR former student knocked up, yes." Kakashi stated as he flipped a page of his book aggravated.
"Kakashi my rival if anything happens to that child I will........."
"You will what? I am taking care of the host of the spawn of your freaky look-alike!" Kakashi snapped.
"Crap they are at it again." Kiba moaned as everyone ignored the bickering old men.
"Geez what happened to make them so snappy anyways?" Shikamaru sighed looking over at Choji.
"Dunno, I think it may have something to do with Sakura and Lee though." Choji smiled happily.
"Really now?" Shikamaru rolled his eyes as he watched the door open.
"Here they are!" Sakura got really enthused as Iruka walked in followed by the strangely dressed man and Sasuke.
"Hey guys look who I found!" Iruka was beaming with joy as everyone looked in front of them in shock.
"Hey long time no see everyone!" Naruto grinned broadly opening his eyes causing all of the girls to blush.
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Okay I hope that this chapter was better.........and a lot of things will be explained so don't worry!!! And..................Don't forget to review...or flame.......or ask questions!
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