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The Brothers Uzumaki

Chapter 2

Brother of Mine

"Naruto, there's no easier way to do this, but this is Koshou, Uzumaki Koshou, your brother." Tsunade said. Naruto stared at Koshou for a couple of moments then casually turned to Hinata.

"I'm sorry about this Hinata, how about we do this again tomorrow?"

Hinata glanced at Koshou, Tsunade, then Naruto, "That would be great Naruto-kun." She respectfully bowed to Tsunade, then Koshou, but she didn't take her eyes off of him…to her, there was something amiss about this new person. She began walking home; she suddenly stopped and turned around, smiled at Naruto then continued on.

"Naruto, I didn't know you were dating Hinata. Soooo, you like the quiet ones" Tsunade smiled slyly while stroking her chin.

Naruto panicked, "Gah! It wasn't a date, we were just eating some ramen, she came by and asked and I was hungry."

"So in other words, she found you, asked you out to eat with her, you said yes, and you both came here together at the same time, and it wasn't a date?" Tsunade was still smiling.

"Exactly! Not a date, nope, no date, noooope." Naruto crossed his arms, grinning proudly.

"Whatever, I'll let the two of you sort your own business out, I have work to do." Tsunade walked up to Naruto and placed her hands on her shoulders. "I checked him out, so far it look like he's who he says he is." She turned to Koshou, "But I would still like to run some tests on you to make doubly sure, plus just so you know, there will be someone from ANBU keeping an eye on you at all times."

Koshou smiled, "No problem, I think I'm gonna be too busy catching up with Naruto to cause any trouble."

Tsunade waved to the both of them and walked off. Koshou already spotted the ANBU that was watching him, plus two. "Thought so, I'm not exactly surprised that there would be three to keep an eye on me. Standard AMBU practices in any village."

Koshou returned his attention back to Naruto, who as a matter of fact was already walking off himself. "Hey wait up! I know not to expect a big brotherly hug or anything, but at least hear me out."

Naruto stopped and turned around, the smile that was usually there, wasn't, "So, start talking."

"Okay, I guess I should start at the beginning. I was two years old, the day you were born. I don't remember much of that day, but I know that mom was sad, she was so sad. She didn't want to leave, but she had no choice…he didn't give her a choice."

Naruto waited for Koshou to catch up then they started walking again, "Who didn't give her a choice?" Naruto said.

"Father…" Koshou said through gritted teeth, more like a curse than a name. "My earliest memories after we left were of living somewhere in the Country of Lightning, she cried herself to sleep every night."

"Do you know who your father was?" Naruto said, looking ahead still no smile.

"No, but don't you mean our father, Naruto?" Koshou replied.

Naruto stopped again, and turned to Koshou, "Sorry, but I'm still not sure about you…I've been through a few things the past couple of years."

"Well, your not the only one…I guess I understand. Hey, it's still pretty early out, wanna spar a little? I just need to find where I'm staying and grab my gear."

Naruto gave Koshou a small smile, "That'll be ok I guess. Hey…got any cool jutsu's?"

Naruto guided Koshou to where visitors are put up for the night; it was a small two story inn. The bottom floor was a surprisingly quiet bar; the rooms occupied the second floor. Yuma was sitting in his bed thumbing through a book on philosophy, when they walked into the room.

"Naruto, this is Yuma, Yuma, this is Naruto."

"Ahhh, so how is the family reunion going?" Yuma said without even glancing up from his book.

"Could be better I guess, I'm just here to grab my gear. Naruto and I are gonna spar for awhile."

"Oh, really? Well you two have a good time, try not to kill each other."

"Oh don't worry, we're probably not even gonna break a sweat." Naruto said.

They left the room as Yuma continued to read his book, "If they are related then they're probably going to get carried away and end up killing each other…guess I better follow them."

Naruto escorted Koshou to the usual spot where Team 7 trains, Koshou dropped the bag that held his gear and stated to take some items out. Naruto noticed the usual arm and shin guards, boots, and black leather gloves, but what caught his attention was when Koshou pulled out a metal long bow and a very large quiver full of arrows.

"You're actually able to fight with that?"

"Yep, and every once in awhile I mange to hit something, give me a couple of seconds I need to take out the really nasty arrows out of my pack."

Naruto nodded and walked about twenty yards from Koshou; he kept an eye on him trying to figure out how someone can fight in a shinobi battle with a bow.

After Koshou tightened the last leather strap on his gloves he smiled at Naruto, "So, how do you want to do this? Keep it light and slow?"

Naruto had a sly grin on his face, "What do you think"?

"Heh, yeah…" Koshou glanced at the sky. Within a fraction of a second he was sprinting to his right coming back to Naruto and drawing back and arrow, Naruto at the same time was moving to his right and also coming back around to Koshou with a kunai in hand.

(Thwip) The arrow rocketed toward Naruto, Naruto performed a no handed cartwheel dodging the arrow, and before he finished his revolution he launched a kunai at Koshou. Koshou flipped forward and already had another arrow ready to fire. When he tried to get an aim, he noticed Naruto was no where to be seen. "Alright slick, where are you?"

Koshou was barley able to hear at least a dozen throwing stars ripping toward him. He started spinning his metal long bow, deflecting the throwing stars. "Hiding in the trees are you? Well let's take away some of you cover." Koshou placed the arrow he had back in his quiver and took out a different one; it had a flat long half-moon arrow head. He fired it at the tree where he knew Naruto was hiding, the arrow sliced through the top of the tree in the blink of an eye completely cutting it off.

Naruto stuck his head up where the top of the tree used to be, "Hey, hey, hey! What happened to getting rid of all your nasty arrows!"

Koshou shrugged his shoulders, "Ohhh I just use that to trim hedges and circumcisions, completely harmless…heh."

Naruto leaped out of the tree and formed his favorite hand seal, "Kage Bushin No- jutsu!" Ten Naruto's landed on the ground and charged at Koshou.

"What in the world is he planning on doing with these illusions!" When the bushins were just a couple of feet from his position, Koshou realized his mistake, "CRAP! These aren't illusions; these guys are kicking up dirt!" The clones took their turns at punching or kicking Koshou, to his credit he was able to block or dodge most of the attacks, but some strikes still got through.

Naruto was among the group that was attacking him, "His taijutsu is pretty good! He may not be in the same class as Rock Lee, but he can probably give him a good workout."

Koshou tossed a smoke bomb on the ground and leaped out of the chaos. When he turned around, Naruto was already leaping out after him. Koshou pulled out two arrows that had a line attaching them together at the tip. He fired the arrows at Naruto, instead of the arrow tips hitting him the line struck Naruto across his chest snapping the arrows around and around, tangling Naruto.

Koshou leaped up and drove his right knee into Naruto's face, (POOF!) it was a clone. "OH! You have just got to be kidding me!" Koshou landed and started back flipping to gain some space between him and the bushins that were making their way out of the smoke screen. "Ok then, let's crank this up!" Koshou pulled another arrow from his quiver.

"How in the world is he gonna be able to hit my clones with just one arrow?" Naruto thought as he started to charge Koshou. (Thwip… thwip, thwip, thwip, thwip, thwip, thwip, thwip, thwip!) Koshou's hand and arm was a blur as he fired off each arrow, not even a fraction of a second separating them. "Ok! I guess that's one way of doing it! Naruto was trying to dodge the barrage of arrows by twisting and flipping. All of his bushins popped away, up in smoke.

"OOoooh, but Naruto, I haven't even showed you my best trick!" Koshou yelled as he pulled out another arrow. He fired it right at Naruto, who had just finished dodging the last set of arrows.

"Just one arrow this time, what's he up to?" Naruto thought to himself as he held his kunai at the ready, to deflect the incoming arrow.

Koshou held up his right hand close to his mouth; his index and middle fingers extended with the others folded in, thumb over the remaining fingers. "KAI!" The arrow sparked and then suddenly was engulfed in flames! The arrow stuck in the ground just inches in front of Naruto.

"What the hell?" Naruto leaped backwards, (BOOOOM!) The arrow exploded into flames!

Yuma was almost at the training ground, when he glanced at the small cloud that was forming over the tree tops. "Looks like I'm going to have to go over the things you don't do when visiting family obviously." He said dryly.

"You're a phycho! That's a cool jutsu and all but, geez!" Naruto said. Naruto then pulled out a scroll and unraveled it. He bit deep into his thumb and smeared some blood across some of the symbols. Four very large shuriken's popped in mid air in front of Naruto. In a blur he spun left and right, grabbing a large shuriken and launching them at Koshou. Koshou pulled out four arrows at once and fired them off, slicing each shuriken in two. The sliced shuriken's then exploded into some kind of yellow goo, drenching Koshou.

"Ok, this is just…ick. Uh-oh, why can't I move?" Koshou said trying to move.

Naruto grinned broad and bright, "That would quick drying plastic cement, a lot of quick drying plastic cement. That stuff is special, almost as strong as steel."

"Heh, cool…ok, now let me out…come on Naruto get me out of here." Koshou said still trying to struggle.

Just then Yuma made it to the field surveying the situation, "I would pay millions for a camera." Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed someone else arriving at the scene. A young girl with black hair and strange white and lavender eyes just made her way out of the tree line, "Are you here for the show also?" He said.

Hinata walked over to Yuma, "I heard some noise and came to check, why is Naruto-kun fighting with his brother?"

Yuma shrugged his shoulders, "They said they were just going to take it easy and spar, but Koshou never goes easy. I came out here to make sure he didn't do anything too stupid."

Hinata slightly blushed and glanced at Naruto, "I'm afraid Naruto-Kun is the exact same way. He tends to be a little…"

"Hot headed, Nuts, or hyper-active?" Yuma said.

"All of the above" Hinata said with a slight giggle.

"HEY! I'm right over here ya know!" Naruto said.

"Excuse me, but when are you gonna let me out of here!" Koshou said still trying to struggle.

"Ohhh, I can get you out right now, Kage Bushin no jutsu!" Naruto yelled. Four clones surrounded Koshou and charged him, sliding low then kicking straight up.

"Oh, Christmas… (WHAM!)" Koshou was kicked straight up into the air.

Each kick sent Koshou higher into the air "Uz-(Kick) Zu-(kick) Ma-(Kick) Ki-(Kick) Naruto came from above spinning head over heels then drove his foot right into Koshou's head, RENDAN! (CRACK!). Koshou rocketed towards the earth, slamming into the earth, creating a small crater.

"Oh my, Naruto-kun, don't you think you might have over done it?" Hinata said.

"He probably deserved it, plus he's got a rock hard head, he'll be ok." Yuma said, grinning. "But, we do have a problem though."

Naruto dusted himself off, "Problem? What problem?"

"I really hope you knocked him out, because if you didn't, you may want to get yourself ready. He tends to lose his cool after getting hit like that."

Chakra started to rise from the crater like smoke, "Naruto…" Koshou said as he pulled himself out of the crater.

Yuma stepped in front of Hinata, "You may want to stay behind me; this is going get messy."

Hinata watched Koshou as he stood up and tilted his head left and right, she could hear the bones pop and crack. He then pulled out two arrows and aimed them at Naruto.

"I really do think we're done with the warm up, how about we get things going. What do ya say runt?" Koshou said with a grin.

"Don't call me a runt!" Naruto said pulling out two kunai and then held them in each hand.

"Come and make me runt." Koshou pulled the bowstring back and aimed his arrows at Naruto.

Naruto charged at Koshou, tossing one of the kunai he had at him, he then zigzagged to avoid being an easy target. Koshou fired his arrows at Naruto he then quickly formed his one handed seal again, "Kai!" This time the first arrow didn't catch on fire, instead it turned into a geyser of water that was speeding towards Naruto.

"COOL!" Naruto yelled as he leaped upwards from the blast of water, even though it didn't hit him directly he was still getting splashed.

"It's not over yet, there's the second one." The second one sparked to life, releasing a huge amount of electricity, arcing along the path of the geyser.

"Aaarrrrrggggg!" Naruto yelled out as the electricity followed along the splash that drenched Naruto in water. Naruto twitched and jerked on the ground, he was not only wet, but he was also smoldering from the electrical shock.

"My arrows also let me use two jutsu's at once, that way I can have all sorts of combinations, and I barely even use any chakra." Koshou said while watching Naruto twitch.

"Ok, now you're overdoing it Koshou, let's just calm down and head back to the hotel." Yuma said. Hinata watched on with a worried look on her face.

"No, we're not done yet!" Naruto stood up with a grin. "I've been hit with electricity before, this was nothing." Naruto charged at Koshou at blurring speed.

"Holy! He's still going!" Koshou started back flipping hopping to gain some space between him and Naruto. As soon as Koshou finished Naruto was already attacking again. Naruto attacked with a leaping side kick, Koshou grabbed Naruto's leg by the ankle and tried to twist it. Naruto went with the twist and ended up-side down, he threw a straight right punch to Koshou's stomach; the punch struck knocking some of the wind out of Koshou.

Koshou let go of Naruto's ankle, trying to recover from getting his stomach almost caved in. As soon as he was back up to a vertical base, Naruto threw another straight punch to Koshou's face, but Koshou ducked it and bent forward, leaning past Naruto, at the same time Koshou performed a back kick with his right leg, raising it up over his head, striking Naruto square in the face. Naruto took a couple of steps back from the impact, Koshou then brought his right leg back down and then performed a back flip; keeping his toes pointed out he was able to strike Naruto under the chin lifting him up off the ground and crashing onto his back.

Naruto quickly kick flipped himself up to a vertical base and dashed at Koshou again. This time he tried to drive forearm into Koshou's face, but when Koshou side stepped it Naruto threw several smoke bombs onto the ground. When the smoke cleared Naruto was nowhere to be seen.

"Ahhh runt, you don't have to run from me. I know I'm intimidating and all but its ok, I promise to easier on ya." Koshou said with a grin.

Suddenly Koshou started to feel a slight rumble underneath his feet, "Wha?"

"1000 YEARS OF PAIN!" Naruto exploded from the ground below driving his kunai straight in Koshou's…posterior, "AND DON'T CALL ME A RUNT!"

"Screeeaaaammmm!" Koshou's eyes went wide as he was launched into the air.

"Na-Na Naruto-Kun! How could you do that?" Hinata face blushing and eyes wide in shock.

Yuma was standing speechless, biting his bottom lip, trying to keep from laughing. All of a sudden a waterfall of tears came from his eyes and he collapsed to the ground in a fit of laughter. "BWAHAHAHAHA! snort HAHAHAHA! WWWOOOOOO! That is forever going to be burned into my memory!"

Koshou landed in heap on the ground still grabbing his butt. He stood up with a horrified look on his face, "What kind of a jutsu is that!"

"Apparently a very good one because I've never heard you scream like that…snort screamed like a girl…Hahahaha!" Yuma said still rolling around

"He stuck a kunai in my butt!" Koshou yelled pointing to where the new hole in his pants was located.

"And he will hold a special place in my heart for that…BWHAHAHAHAH!" waterfall tears fell from Yuma's eyes once again.

"Ok, that's it! You're a smear!" Koshou tightened his right fist. What looked like a dark tornado of wind and clouds started to spin around it, lightning arcing and spinning with the clouds.

"All right! Let's do it!" A swirling ball of blue energy formed in Naruto's right hand. A grin formed on his face and he charged Koshou.

Koshou charged at Naruto drawing the swirling storm around his fist back, with a grin of his own.

"Oh, great, they're actually enjoying the fact that they might actually kill each other, they are related." Yuma performed a series of hand seals then slammed his hands on the ground, "Earth-wall No-Jutsu!" A streak of chakra shot out from his hands along the ground.

"Rasengan!" Naruto shouted, driving the spiral spinning ball of energy forward.

"Tempest Hammer!" Koshou aimed for the ball of energy.

With mere inches between Naruto and Koshou a wall of earth shot up between the two. (BOOOM!) The wall exploded with a thunderous explosion.

"Naruto-Kun!" Hinata yelled. She ran toward the cloud of dirt and smoke that formed. "Naruto-Kun, are you alright?" She stopped when she started to hear laughter. "Well I hear Naruto-Kun, where's Koshou-san?"

"Koshou are you ok or did he manage to stab you in the butt again!" Yuma said stopping beside Hinata. A rock flew out of the cloud almost hitting Yuma in the head and a hand popped up out from the cloud, flipping him off. "Yeah, he's ok." He said smiling at Hinata.

"Hahaha, that was pretty good." Naruto said lying on the ground. He glanced over a Koshou who was lying maybe a foot from him.

"Yeah, that has to have been the best scrap I've had ever!" Koshou said grinning at Naruto.

"Naruto-Kun, are you sure your ok?" Hinata said.

Koshou looked at Naruto, "You two were so having a date..."

"Shut-UP!" Naruto yelled

Back a Naruto's apartment

Koshou sat in a chair and glanced around the small room that Naruto called home. "Wow, a guy could develop a bad case of claustrophobia in here. It's ok, but man…small."

"Ah, it's ok, I just sleep here really; day and night I'm usually out and about doing a mission or training." Naruto said. He was at the stove boiling some water for a cup of instant ramen. "Koshou, could you tell me more about yourself? You mentioned you were raised in Lightning Country, I'd like to know more."

"Well, might want to boil some more water, cause this may take awhile." Koshou said, he glanced out the window starring into the night. His first memory was of his mother sitting in a chair in an empty room.

He was always amazed at how beautiful she was, but that day, she was so sad, sitting there in a room that had only candle light. "Mommy, what happened to your eyes?"

Next Chapter

A Mother's Love

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