Grace
Side notes: I do need a beta for Japanese; I am Canadian, I know no Japanese only a few words. So if someone is willing to help me out with translations I would really appreciate it (and any reviewers that know the proper spellings of words please let me know), thank you. Also: if anyone wants to beta the my horrible grammar and punctuation that would also be welcomed
Also: I don't know the names of their parents. So, I shall make them up.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything to do with naruto other than this story which all ideas and plot twists have been of my own creation (unless specified, where as certain ideas will have credit given due)
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Mrs. Nozomu Sohma - actually, I'm going to (hopefully) explain that in this chapter so that my madness makes sense. ;
Spork or Foon - thank you very much for the compliment!
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For 5 days nurses ran too and fro in the hospital, caring for 3 strange individuals that had seemingly came out of nowhere. As of yet, none of them had woken. The nurses predicted that the pink haired shinobi would be the first to waken, the black haired one second, but every nurse had doubts on the blond. He had lived (much to the delight of the more giggly of girls) but how was the question. Naturally and by right he should have died with the wounds he had and blood loss. Even more surprising was the fact that villagers claimed he walked out of an alley way. When nurses got their hands on him, nearly every bone in his body had been broken or fractured somehow.
So frankly speaking, the blond shouldn't have been able to move, let along walk. Now he was a comatose mass on a clean white bed covered in bandages. Across from him, were the beds of the other two children. Sandaime had requested that they be held in the same room, so that the amount of eyes needed to check on them would be kept at a minimal. But that didn't stop him from assigning two ANBU squads to watch them night and day.
Sasuke's mother (Yue) and Sakura's mother (Hana) had banded together and refused to leave the strange children's rooms. Their excuse was that they wanted to know where their own children were. But secretly, they felt somehow attached to them. The Nurses and ANBU wouldn't allow more than 2 individuals along side the Sandaime inside the room, so Sakura's father (Saburo), Itachi and Sasuke's father (Yutaka) remained waiting constantly outside.
And Speaking of Sandaime, the old man was making his way down the hall flanked by the two elder nurses who were muttering to him.
"We've never seen anything like it-"
"No one should be able to heal that fast."
"Hmmmm…"
"Hokage-sama!" Sarutobi looked up into the eyes of the Uchiha family head, Yutaka, only to be glared at.
"Have you found anything, Hokage-sama?" Itachi asked politely, filling in his father's rather rude greeting.
"Hmmmm." Sarutobi sighed heavily. "I won't lie to you. It's as if you're brother, Miss Sakura and Uzamaki Naruto have completely vanished of the face of the earth. I am here to wake them up." At this news, Yutaka and Saburo seemed to swell with anger, Itatchi's fist curled and his eyes darkened but he remained silent.
Sarutobi ignored them for the meantime and proceeded into the large room with the 3 sleeping ninja's. He was well aware that the nurses and family members followed. Now, how to make them up?
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Sakura and Sasuke slowly opened their eyes to meet the angry faces of their families and the pensive, amused face of Sandaime. Sakura made a giant sweat-drop and Sasuke frowned. Glancing at each other, they sighed. Before Sandaime could ask any questions however, they answered in unison with equally scratchy voices.
"We don't know."
Yue's gaze seemed to increase as she looked at (what appeared to be) an older version of her younger son. Hana too, seemed to have calmed down when looking at the older version of her daughter. They were just too similar to be brushed aside.
"What do you remember before you came here, then?"
"Um….. well… see…..er…" What could they say without incriminating themselves and/or letting something slip that shouldn't?
"We have to wait for our friend to wake up" Sasuke filled in; jutting his chin out towards Naruto's sleeping form. Sakura frowned and both of them momentarily forgot who was in the room as they started to converse with eachother.
"Yeah but how? He sleeps like the dead most of the time."
"What about Ramen?"
"think they'll let us out to GET ramen? Think man think!"
Suddenly Sasuke smirked, a really evil smirk that threw Sakura on edge.
"AHHH! SAKURA PLEASE PUT SOME CLOTHING ON AND STOP THROWING YOURSELF ON ME!" Sasuke yelled. Everyone twitched; Sarutobi was desperately trying to hide his laughter, while the parents and family members stared in utter shock. Hana and Saburo especially.
"HOLD ON A MINUTE! WHATS GOING ON!" came an unusually high pitch voice from behind as Naruto got tangled in his sheets, and eventually thumped on the floor. Sakura groaned.
"Perverts." She muttered as Naruto realized how he had been duped.
"You guys…. Are the worst people I've had the misfortune of meeting. You know, eventually that's going to stop working on me…." He grumbled and proceeded to stand up without any difficulty from his wounds and walk over to his comrades. But before he could, 2 ANBU stepped in and glared at him.
"Huh?"
"Erm.. Naruto. What kind of jutsu did you use?" Sasuke asked, now that Naruto was fully healed and awake. Naruto paused, scratched the back of his head before replying. He never did the get the chance as the Families made themselves known.
"W-What are you talking about! How come she has my daughter's name! What's going on! Tell me now damnit!" Sarutobi intervened however.
"Miss Haruno, let him explain."
"Well, Akira was going to kill us, so I activated a time jutsu that sent us here. Why?" Naruto scratched the back of his head and frowned. Continuing on before anyone had anymore chance to interrupt again.
"The jutsu is specific to anyone with a demon sealed inside of them, as it required a combination of chakra. To prevent time from being altered it creates a time capsule where the younger versions of ourselves are held because it said something about two of the same person being unable to co-exist in the same time. Erm… what else…. Oh! It also said something about time continuing on from where it left off once we leave. Make any sense?" he asked, scratching the back of his head. There was a tense and almost dead silence in the room when this discovery was made.
"There's something you're not telling us." Broken by the suspicious voice of Sasuke.
"Eh? Hrm.. lemma think on that for awhile." While Naruto pondered, Sakura and Sasuke sighed and flopped backwards on their beds, both thinking the same thing. Now they're stuck!
"You know, Sakura, Sasuke, I kind of envy you guys. You have people who are alive now that won't be in a few years. And you can reconcile with them, whereas I will never have any family." Mused Naruto out loud, sitting on the edge of his bed with a small sad smile that made even the hardened ANBU members lingering in the room feel a twinge of guilt.
"Naruto… you didn't do this jutsu just to save our skins, did you?" Sasuke asked observably. All that Naruto answered with was a knowing smile.
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It was a final 3 more days before Sasuke and Sakura were let out, Naruto got out early because, after hearing who he was, the nurses wanted nothing to do with him. This caused a very bad reaction from Sakura and Sasuke, who foul mouthed the nurses behind their backs about being hypocrites and the likes. Luckily, their respected families did not hear what their new son and daughter had said.
Itachi, Yue, Hana, Yutaka, and Saburo walked behind their older children with somewhat disbelieving eyes. Sasuke and Sakura however, walked calmly down the baren street, secretly waiting for Naruto to make his appearance. And he did just that.
Rounding the corner, there was Naruto, in new clothing, holding out a package of clothing for his comrades as well as two very used leaf Hitai-ate. Sakura looked bemused and Sasuke smirked. Trust Naruto to think of the simple things first.
"You had them this entire time, didn't you?" Sakura asked, walking calmly up to him while their families stayed back a few feet. She was referring to the forehead protectors that Naruto had, he was wearing his, while Sakura's and Sasuke's were folded neatly onto of the pile of clothing held in each of his hands.
"I figured you'd want to get rid of the hospital loans." Naruto grinned, ignoring the hesitant families of Sakura and Sasuke. Naruto was wearing, once again, a dark navy pullover with a dark orange shirt underneath. Sasuke also noticed that Shodaime's necklace was visible and he had gotten earrings (must be trying to look cool) the earrings were, of course, two foxes. Sakura noticed that along with their clothing and Leaf Hitai-ate, there was a fox ring for Sasuke, and a fox bracelet for Sakura.
They smiled at the sentiment. Naruto really was a sensitive guy. They each took the packages and smiled expectantly at Naruto, as if waiting for him to say something. However Naruto merely shrugged.
Hana and Yue were eyeing the spiky blond before them, their opinions of the Fox boy slightly changing by the looks of their kid's faces. But Yutaka, Itachi, and Saburo were still very iffy around him.
"Oi, how about we have lunch together?" Sasuke asked, ignoring the eyebrow twitch his father gave and wince Itachi made. His mother was surprisingly impassive to the suggestion. But before anymore awkwardness could be contained, Naruto shook his head.
"I already went fishing, you guys go on ahead with you're families. I'll meet you at our usual spot for training?" Naruto asked in a hopeful suggestion. Sakura intervened before Sasuke could make a promise.
"Light training, ONLY! I'll be watching you two." Sakura glared, daring them to put her off. So of Course, Yutaka and Saburo had to intervene; there were just way to many interruptions!
"We'll come as well." But the 3 shinobi knew the real reason; they didn't want Naruto to hurtthem. Sasuke narrowed his eyes and Sakura bit her lip.
"Fine. But on the conditionthat you watch only." Naruto said happily before disappearing into a puff of smoke.
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Erm, this wasn't a very good chapter, and for that I apologise. Eh… scratches back of head I don't think that I explained my theory very well… but it'll come up later, I'm sure.