Well, here's chap 5! Enjoy!

Double Trouble

Chapter 05: Memories for a secret?

Naruto woke up after meeting Kyu-chan, where 10 hours appeared to have past. He looked at his little clock, which was barely working. "Oh shit! I'm gonna be late! I got 10 minutes 'till Kakashi-sensei gets there!" Naruto rushed into his bright orange jumpsuit, took out an instant-ramen cup and went out of the door. 'Let's see if I can chakra to heat up the ramen.' he thought. 'Lemme think. Heat basically is rapid moving air. So I should focus chakra into the air around the cup and move it around really fast. ... The chakra for the weights is quite steady too... Cool! Kyu-chan was right!' Naruto got a grin on his face. While running to the training-field, he focused a bit of chakra around the cup and began moving the air. The air heated up. "OUCH! Shit!" Naruto exclaimed while he almost dropped the cup. 'I guess that was too much chakra, gotta try a bit less now.' he thought. The tried again, this time with only about half of the first try. He continued until the cup was as hot as it normally is when coming out of the microwave. 'This is about right.' He arrived at the field with about 2 minutes to spare. "Sorry I'm late! I slept in!" He yelled while running towards Sasuke and Sakura and opening his cup ramen. "Damnit Naruto! You're almost as bad as Kakashi-sensei! At least Kakashi-sensei has strength! You're useless!" Sakura yelled. Sasuke looked at Naruto and saw a sad look in his eyes that disappeared behind his mask quickly again. "Aww, don't say that, Sakura-chan! I'll be Hokage someday! I'm not a weakling like Sasuke!" Naruto gave a short wink to Sasuke. Sasuke 'hmpf'ed, but smirked a bit at Naruto's wink. He knew perfectly well he played that ignorance. Kakashi popped up and said "Why, thank you for your compliment, Sakura." "I agree with you about Naruto" he whispered so silently that he thought only Sakura could hear it. After all, he was only 1 foot away from Sakura and Naruto was about 8 feet away, as was Sasuke. But Naruto heard, due to his enhanced senses. His eyes darkened while he absentmindedly tried a bite of the ramen cup. Sasuke looked at Naruto when he distinguished the words 'agree' and 'Naruto' in the whisper of Kakashi. The darkening eyes confirmed his suspicions. 'What the hell? I didn't expect our sensei to say that.' Sasuke thought. He got a wave of disgust over him when he saw Sakura's smile at that whisper. 'What is going on here? What did Naruto do? He isn't THAT bad! Sakura's way worse than he is in taijutsu and ninjutsu. And he has that crazy stamina!' He remembered Naruto's offer on sharing his memories about his happy moments with his family and got even more curious about Naruto's secret.

That mission was searching for a little lost dog. "Naruto, you stay and watch the fountain square from the Hokage tower roof. Sasuke and Sakura, you sweep through the market." Three times a 'Hai, Kakashi-sensei' was heard and the three went off. 'There's no way Naruto can see the market from the Hokage tower. Even the coms are out of range from there! Well, at least I'm alone with Sasuke-kun!' Sakura thought. After 10 minutes of sweeping, the puppy dog was found and returned to its owner. Naruto was still watching out for the dog from atop the Hokage tower. "Ok! Mission complete. I'll see you tomorrow at the training field." Kakashi popped away after he said that and left the two alone. "Ne, Sasuke-kun, let's go on a date now!" Sakura said. "Naruto doesn't know." Sasuke replied. Sakura threw her arms in the air while saying: "Who cares about that idiot! Let him sit there! He'll figure it out!" "We're a team. You're annoying." Sasuke said and he walked off, leaving a slightly discouraged Sakura behind. After 15 minutes, Sasuke reached the Hokage tower roof. Naruto noticed Sasuke arrive. "Yo. You could've said what you wanted over the coms, you know." Naruto said. "Mission's completed, Kakashi-sensei ran off already. I wanted to talk to you." Sasuke looked down after saying that. " ... I... I'll take you up on that offer... about the secret.." he continued. Naruto looked up and began to smile. "First, I want you to promise you will not try kill me like the rest of the village." he said. Sasuke looked up. "Why is that? What the hell? Why-" "JUST PROMISE ME! You will know later on why..." Naruto interrupted Sasuke's question barrage. Sasuke looked confused for a moment but looked determined right after that. "Fine. You have my word." Sasuke said. "Ok. Let's go to a place a bit more private. Follow me." Naruto said and moved to a part of the forest.

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"This is where I usually go when I can't handle the villagers for a moment." Naruto said when they arrived at a deserted plane deep in the forest.

"Ok. Remember, you promised." Sasuke snorted. 'Get on with it, the suspense's killing me.' he thought. Naruto continued. "You remember, 13 years ago? The demon fox was on a rampage and the Yondaime Hokage fought him. The story you know is that the Yondaime killed Kyuubi." Naruto pulled up his shirt and molded a little chakra, revealing his double seal. "This seal dictates otherwise. This seal is the result of Yondaime's death. This seal makes me the container of Kyuubi." Sasuke gasped. "Because Kyuubi is the most powerful demon, no 'mere human' could beat him. The enormous amount of victims testifies to that. Knowing that, the Yondaime sacrificed his life to seal Kyuubi into a newborn baby, making me THE CONTAINER of Kyuubi." Naruto emphasized that after seeing the fear coming up in Sasuke's eyes. The fear made place for understanding. Naruto continued: "I'm quite jealous of you. You at least have memories of a family. I was an orphan from the start. Always alone, and always facing the villagers' look in their eyes that hate me for something I'm not. I'm not Kyuubi, I'm merely his container, but the villagers believe otherwise." Naruto looked down. Sasuke was hit with understanding: the looks, the hateful attitude, the reason for Naruto's mask. Naruto looked up at Sasuke and saw the look of understanding. "Well, I tossed away my little mask, now it's your turn to toss away your mask and tell me about your family." Naruto smiled. Not the foxy grin, but a warming, soothing one. Sasuke looked at Naruto and said after a few moments: "Well I did agree I'd tell you if you told me your secret. I honestly believe I got the better deal here..." Sasuke smiled as well. Sasuke began telling about his mother, how she read bedtime stories, about his father, where he got somewhat praised about his fire jutsu, about his uncle that was perverted and read those orange books Kakashi-sensei reads too. When he talked about his memories with his brother, the confusion was audible. Training with his brother was always fun. Even when he got picked on by him was fun from time to time. Tears began to run down his cheeks when he finished. "I miss them..." Sasuke said while sniffing almost inaudible. Naruto placed his hand on Sasuke's shoulder. After about 5 minutes of silence, the silence was rudely interrupted by an enormous growl of Naruto's stomach. "Eh.. He he... I guess I gotta go eat." Naruto said while smiling and blushing a bit. Sasuke grinned. "Wanna come? It's better than sitting around alone.." Sasuke nodded. They moved towards Ichiraku Ramen. When they finished, there were 2 bowls next to Sasuke and 22 next to Naruto. Sasuke's eyes almost popped out after Naruto had finished his 16th only to widen even more after the bowls that followed got bowelled away with as much ease as the other 16. "Where the HELL do you leave all that food?" Sasuke blurted out. Naruto tapped his stomach and said: "got a BIG hole to fill." Sasuke smirked. 'should've known.' he thought. "I'll seeya at the training field tomorrow." Naruto said. Naruto was about to walk away. "Naruto...' Sasuke said. Naruto turned around. "... Thanks." Naruto gave Sasuke a big foxy grin and said: "Seeya tomorrow." He walked home after that.

...Continue?

OK... I'll prolly switch from the Japanese naming to English wordings for the attacks, since I'm not knowledgable enough in the attack names in Japanese (much to my chagrin, but oh well)

Gotta go again. I'll prolly update in a week or 2. Chaps'll be getting longer