Grace
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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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Sasuke supposed that he really was hanging around Naruto too much; he already desired more ramen and less vegetables. He wouldn't tell his mother that however. Side glancing over to Sakura, he noticed her rather bemused smile towards his mothers cooking.
Yep, definitely. They had spent way too much time around Naruto. Simultaneously they sighed. Taking this a sign that their children were board, Hana and Yue exchanged their own glances, and tried to start some conversation in the thick silence.
"So... um.. Sasuke-kun, why don't you tell me a bit about yourself?" The glare that met Hana petrified her. Yutaka frowned, Itachi blinked and Yue bit her lip.
"Well, um…. I'm curious as to how my son will turn out." Yue chipped in, sitting down and smiling at Sasuke.
"Your son-" he stressed as if he wanted nothing to do with them at all "will be consumed within hate and rage, and devoured by darkness. He will become a murder without care of pleasantries and will delight in causing other people harm" Sakura had a sweat-drop and hanged her head in mock misery. Thinking to herself: 'that wasn't overboard at all'.
"Oh, and he will become an A-rank missing Nin." Sasuke added purely to amusing himself over their faces. Even Itachi looked horrified.
'Serves you right, brother' he thought with a sneer. His father, Sasuke noted, looked ready to kill him on sight. After all, he was 'the police force of Konoha!' Sasuke snorted in amusement. His mother however, seemed to swiftly get over her shock of this revelation.
"I meant you're likes and dislikes, Sasuke." She smiled, though, a bit forced. They were all on edge. Saburo surprisingly impassive, he was hiding his emotions very well.
"You know my name. The one to save me from the darkness was Naruto. I have no dreams, I have no likes or dislikes. I only have the ambition to kill 5 people" 'as well as the resurrection of my clan.' But Sasuke wasn't ready to divulge them that information.
Silence greeted his words and his mother struggled to say something. Miss Haruno came to the rescue.
"Sakura, what about you?"
"Hmmm? Your daughter will not find herself for years, she will be consumed within false images and will be the bane of her team-mates existence. She will run away with her team-mates and become an A-rank missing nin.
You already know my name. The one to save me from myself was Naruto. My only dreams are to surpass Tsunade-sama in the medical field and to always be able to protect my friends. I like plenty of things, and have learned that my dislikes are frivolous. I have to ambition to kill 3 out of 5 people and am a Taijutsu and Genjutsu specialist." She recited calmly, sipping her tea and observing their faces.
Her parents, this time, were the ones shocked beyond belief. They sat there, for several minutes staring at the missing nins that were their older… newer children. More minutes passed, and the tea got cold, the lunch was cold before finally Saburo spoke up.
"And what about him" he sneered, as if finding it extremely distasteful to even think about Naruto.
"Him who?" Sakura asked.
"You'll have to be more specific."
"IT!" he ground out.
"It? I don't know any It's, do you Sasuke-kun?"
"No. Give us a name. Haruno Saburo." He said menacingly, his eyes narrowed to near killing intent.
"U-Zu-Ma-Ki." Saburo snarled. Sasuke was about to say something biting towards him before Sakura beat him to it.
"Uzumaki eh? I know plenty of those, father of mine, if you are trying to refer to our other team-mate, I would demand that you show the same respect to him as you do us. Now who was it wanted us to talk about?" She spoke with a false pleasantry, sugar coated far too sweet with underlying threat of decapitation. Needless to say, it made one helluva impression. Saburo paled, Hana pale, Yue pale, Yutaka was already pale (had been for quite some time) but Itachi suddenly smiled.
"Please tell us about Naruto-san." Itachi. He had a generally interested look on his face. His little brother (not so little right now) and this girl were fiercely protective of the Kitsune, and he was very curious as to why. What could be so special about a demon?
"Naruto is my brother." Sasuke started off by saying. They all looked at him like he was crazy. Sasuke sighed. Better tell them everything. Sakura put a comforting hand on his shoulder before nodding.
"He's our little brother." She said, directing it to the watching audience.
"My entire clan was murdered and killed when I was 7." He plunged on ignoring the horrified, shocked, gasps made and the demands to know who. "I was lost, to say the least. I didn't exactly have anything to live for, I went to school, come home to an empty house everyday. Naruto… heh.. well we weren't friends. No matter how similar we were back then, neither one of us could bring ourselves to that step. So we became rivals. That kept me going. We ended up on the same Genin team together with Sakura." Sasuke was in remembrance mode, staring up at the ceiling now. "It was……. The best fun I had ever had, to tell the truth. Being with Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi-sensei.
"The True Naruto started to come out when we took a C-rank mission only for it to turn A-Rank shortly thereafter. We didn't mind so much. We took many missions. A lot of them ended up being far more dangerous than originally thought. The Chunin exam was interrupted and war broke out between Sound (a village yet to be created in this time era) and Sand towards Konoha. I went out to fight the One tailed Demon Vessel, Sabaku no Gaara." Here Sasuke shuddered. "I stood no chance, especially when he started to change into his demon form.
"And enter Naruto. He fought. He fought regardless of the fact that he could be killed. He fought to save us, and Konoha. The one Tail, Shukaku completely transformed and the only person to fight him was Naruto. And Naruto won. To see Naruto fight… it's frightening. You can't help but be awed at him. " Sasuke drifted off, Letting Sakura tell some of their tale.
"Before Tsunade-sama met Naruto, she was cold hearted and bitter. But Naruto is Naruto. His power to influence people to become better is not something to joke at. He made a bet with Tsunade-sama, and he won, naturally. After that, Tsunade-sama was changed completely. Everywhere he goes, people have a stigma against Naruto because of Kyuubi. But… Naruto is able to change that opinion. Some of the toughest Ninja's in Konoha have had their opinions changed. Ibiki-san, Tsunade-sama, Hyuuga-sama, Neji-kun." Sakura giggled. "Ibiki-san even took Naruto out to dinner once. So of course he ended up footing the bill for 15 bowls of Ramen. 14 of which Naruto ate." Even Yutaka chuckled at that.
The parents (and brother) were rooted on the spot by the emotions that Sakura and Sasuke were letting loose. It was inspiring, and each persons opinion of Naruto was changing. They knew about Kyuubi, and yet they were still friends with him. Perhaps they had judged him too harshly?
"Eventually, I went to join Orochimaru." Sasuke said with a sigh, everyone paled again. How many times could one person be shocked in a day? "Naruto came to stop me, and we fought all out. I remember the feeling of plunging my hand through his chest…. Or finishing him with a suplex… I thought I honestly killed him. That was until Naruto started siphoning a lot of demonic Chakra from Kyuubi. I nearly lost. I walked away and joined Orochimaru, but I made a promises to myself to return. And for 2 and a half years all I thought about was the who stupid I was. Naruto…. Told me that when he's with me… he wonders if that feeling is what it would be like if he had a brother."
"What! I didn't know that…." Sakura interrupted with a surprised look in her face. "that…..oh Naruto….." she sniffed, clearing away tears before they could fall. It suddenly made sense now, how he acted towards her after his crush had vanished. Looking around, everyone was deep in thought, thinking about what it would be like.
"I thought Naruto wouldn't be able to compare. I mean, he never had family, so how could he know what it feels like to lose it? It took me a long time to realize, that Naruto had practically told me that his team was his only family. And that he had lost it, when I walked away. How painful it must have been for him…. To know nothing but hatred all those years without knowing why everyone hated him…. To find someone that appreciated and acknowledged him… only for them to turn their backs to him. Ha… I thought he couldn't compare to me? I can't begin to compare to him." With that he stopped speaking.
"He never showed it though. I was so sad when Sasuke left, so depressed. But all Naruto would do was try and cheer me up. It didn't matter how many times I punched him in the face or turned him down. He never showed me his pain, and only cared about mine. Those 2 and a half years Naruto traveled around with Jiraiya-sama, but he would always come back to me, to ask me how I was feeling. To surprise me at my house with a bowl of fruit… though I think that time Kakashi-sensei made him do it. Naruto will never show anyone how much he's hurting, he can slip up and you can sometimes see it in his eyes. But Naruto… will give up his dreams just to see us alive and happy. He takes care of his friends."
Everyone lapsed into silence. Lunch had come and gone. It was now 2 in the afternoon and no one seemed ready to break the silence. Yutaka tried to say something, but found his words blocked. Itachi had a sombre look in his eyes, reflecting on what had been said and found he couldn't compare to even his brother. He found himself grossly under-prepared for the flood of emotions that he had experienced. Yue and Hana were both silently crying. Saburo's face couldn't be seen because his head was hanging low. Who would have imagined? Sasuke and Sakura looked at each other and sighed. This was going to be a long 'vacation'
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Around Noon time, every Head of every clan in Konoha was gathered (minus an Uchiha), as well as some various other Nins, in a large room, all crowded around and watching events unfold in Sandaimes crystal ball. The Clan heads stared in awe when the two children from the future started to explain their experiences with the Fox brat. And by the end of it, several we're revaluating their own opinions. Some were still sceptical.
"I took him out to dinner?" Ibiki asked, completely amused by this. Frankly, he was one of the still sceptical ones, but it did seem like a very good… fairy tale.
"… did they say Kakashi-sensei?" asked one particular person, several heads turned towards a mask-less ANBU which had, conveniently, actually turned up on time for the 2 hour 'show.' Kakashi blinked and looked at everyone.
"Huh?"
"I wonder how they even survived with him as a teacher." Mutter a heavy set man, who looked to be Choji's father. Several people snickered while Kakashi merely blinked in that bemused yet confused way. Sandaime chuckled.
"We'll wait for them to arrive, I have some things to go over with everyone present anyways."
"Hokage-sama, I have a question if I may." Asked one man in particular who gently brushed his sunglasses back into place.
"Yes, Ebisu?"
"They mentioned the Kyuubi and Naruto-kun being able to use its power. Are you sure we can trust them, Naruto especially, do we know that he can control it?"
Sarutobi smiled. "Yes."
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"We best go meet Naruto now." Sakura said standing and stretching out her numb appendages.
"Let's get changed first." Sasuke added and they both went deeper into the Uchiha main house complex to do just that, leaving their parents and sibling alone. 20 minutes later they returned to find their Parents (and sibling) waiting by the door. Not a word was spoken until they stopped at the main entrance to the Uchiha clan housing district.
Waiting for them looked to be one bored Naruto accompanied with an ANBU. Peeping one eye open he watched his team-mates approach him. He smiled. Who said he didn't have fashion sense? Sakura looked stunning in the deep red he had chosen as a new dress for her. She wore black spandex underneath with mesh sleeves and used the bandage supplied to wrap around her neck. Her black, red, and silver kitsune bracelet glinted in the sun. She looked stunning. Sasuke on the other hand was wearing black pants with various pockets, his shirt a dark purple which made him look eerily vampiric. He had a red ribbon tied to one arm and the ring glinted in the same way Sakura's bracelet did.
"Oi, Dobe." Naruto mock glared at him before smirking.
"Saru-butt called a meeting between all clan head members. We're invited of course." He explained. The ANBU member beside him looked like he wanted to Murder Naruto for being so disrespectful.
"Let's not keep him waiting then." Sakura chuckles and all 3 members of team 7 jumped and disappeared. Leaving Saburo, Yutaka, Hana, Yue, Itachi and the random ANBU thinking the same thing
Fast!
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