Gravity
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XTakaX27 – LOL! Calm down there sparky XD; you don't have to wait long; I was going to be nice and update day after anyways.
Ivory Black aka Torri-Chiobie – There will be no parings between major characters, aside from Yondaime and the OC character Himeno. I might do something crazy with Kakashi and Anko. Lol, but that won't be a pairing….:p
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Thank you everyone for reviewing! And thank you so much Dragonxpanda for taking the time to go through the chapter! I wouldn't have caught those mistakes :p
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"What is Naruto's full name?" Kakashi asked, earning a glare from his sensei. Truth be told, having no clan name bugged the white haired ninja. Sasuke smirked and Sakura chuckled.
"Kazame Uzumaki Naruto." Arashi's breath caught in his throat. He was the only living Kazame...
"What?" Arashi was starting to hyperventilate. Kazame.. Uzumaki? Himeno had the name Uzumaki, but surely... no… what was going on?
"Naruto is 16… if that helps any…."
"Impossible! I would have known if he was wearing a genjutsu!" Rin cried out, glaring at them angrily. Sakura merely sighed.
"That's because-"
"Lets us tell you a story…" Sasuke spoke up, directing heated tension away from Sakura and onto himself. "It's about a kid named Uzumaki Nartuo." Yondaime was calm enough to nod at them to continue, but other than that didn't trust himself to speak. Sasuke began speaking in a low voice, causing everyone to lean in closely to listen.
"Uzumaki Naruto... the son of Kazame Arashi, Yondaime Hokage and a young woman named Uzumaki Himeno... Carrier of probably the biggest burden life can grant, he wasn't thought of a hero… rather… a monster…" he said softly, his hands shaking with repressed rage. Rage at whom Arashi and his team didn't know.
Sasuke didn't go too much into detail, only in parts that were of major significance. He skipped over Naruto's childhood with a few sentences and moved onto his Ninja career. From Zabuza to Gaara to Orochimaru to Takako and Akira. And of course, he briefly explained the time traveling jutsu, how only two people could do it, and their first experience with it.
For the better part of the night, they stayed up, listening to Sasuke and Sakura explain just who Naruto was. They explained Kyuubi, they explained what Kyuubi's intentions had been when it would first attack Konoha. They explained how Yondaime died sealing Kyuubi inside of Naruto, his mother dieing in childbirth. They told them of the unfairness Naruto had to face in life because of something he was unable to control.
When Sasuke couldn't speak anymore, Sakura took up the tale, spinning her words of the chuunin exam, and how Naruto fought, not for himself, but for the village that hated him. She told them of how hard he fought even afterwards to find a new Hokage, to gain Tsunade's trust.
Arashi sat there staring into space, unseeing, but seeing everything all the same. They way the explained things, it just… he just couldn't grasp it. His entire world was turned upside down. He couldn't help but thing many wrongs he had done to Naruto, suspecting him of being a spy, sealing Kyuubi into him… Yondaime shuddered.
Dawn was approaching now; the duo had been talking for hours, as there was a lot to cover. They had also explained the story behind their Sensei, Kakashi, and how Obito and Rin would also die. The air of the small camp was a dreary one as the sun touched the sky.
"Who is Naruto? Well… that's for your interpretation." Sasuke finished, standing up and stretching. No one had moved since they had begun their story. Sakura also stood.
"We have to leave now, as we were warned not to stay by our friend. We'll linger around; tell Naruto when he wakes up, not to leave without us." Arashi snapped out of his funk.
"What do you mean?"
"Naruto has some plan or another, I'm sure. Me and Sasuke are actually going to do some research on our enemies, it may take us awhile, since we have to avoid certain people from finding us, so tell Naruto that he's to wait for us before returning back to our time, okay?" Sakura explained lightly, putting her hood over her face again.
"Matte! Sasuke… how... how do you activate the Sharingan?" Obito asked desperately. Sasuke turned around and looked at him with a small smile on his face.
"Ask Naruto." Came his vague reply before they put their hands together and vanished in a puff of smoke. Obito blinked. Why ask Naruto? Obito sighed. He didn't want to die, Rin didn't either, and neither did Yondaime. Kakashi was in a daze, knowing his best friend… no.. his entire team, Sensei and all was going to die in 11 months…. They were going to leave him behind… like his mother… and his father.
"Well don't you look like a happy bunch." Someone groaned to their left. Rin turned to see the awakening Naruto, little Naruto that was. They stared at him, and if wanting him to laugh at them and tell them it was a joke. No such luck.
"I take it Sakura and Sasuke told you?" he sighed heavily. "I didn't want them too, but Akira, that asshole has been practically spelling it out for Yondaime…" he muttered, working out the kinks in his body. Amazingly, there was no sign of injury aside from his ripped and torn clothing.
Yondaimne winced as Naruto called him by his title, a part of him had been wishing for a 'otousan.' He sighed; this did not go unnoticed by Naruto. The miniature blond frowned, wishing that he could take back what Sakura and Sasuke had said, for they just made it inevitably more difficult... or easier? He couldn't decide.
"Naruto-kun… ano… what... do you actually look like?" Rin asked calmly, pushing aside her own fears and worries and concentrating on the moment. Naruto blinked and smirked.
"Like chichi only sexier." He explained. Yondaime twitched.
"You are so NOT sexier than me!" Arashi glared, momentarily forgetting who he was talking to. Naruto grinned.
"You don't have handsome whiskers like I do, ergo, I am more handsome than you." He shot back with a sly smirk. Rin giggled. The easy banter between Yondaime and his new... old… soon to be son chased away the darkness that had momentarily clouded over them.
"Maaaa… I guess I'll prove it then." He snickered, forming a hand seal. "Oni kai!" he called out. At first, nothing happened, and then his clothing puffed up in smoke, ending up far larger than his small 6 year old body. They blinked and watched with wide eyes as his body started to grow as if they were watching the ageing process on high speed. In five minutes there sat a teenaged Naruto.
Arashi stared at Naruto, not quite believing his eyes. It was like looking into a mirror, except his eyes were a lighter shade of blue and the whiskers… and his skin was a bit more tanned than his. But there rest was the same. He was aware that Naruto was wearing Shodaime's necklace, and the dark turquoise just added to his image.
Black pants, black shirt and a brown chuunin vest, blond hair, startling sky blue eyes, twinkling green pendant, tanned skin, whiskers. Arashi grumbled to himself. He was sometimes... too good looking for his own good, just look at Naruto!
"Maaan…. How the hell am I supposed to be cool, and if my kid looks better than me?" Naruto merely laughed at him. Rin was blushing like crazy; Kakashi and Obito were also staring.
"Gee... I'm used to attention, but this is new to me." Naruto rubbed the back of his head. Even his actions were the same as Yondaimes. Arashi looked at him again, his face softening as he realized something. This was his son. His son, no one else's. true, technically he hadn't been born yet, but… he was proud. Realizing this sent a warm flare in Yondaime's heart and he smiled.
"You're taking this better than I thought you all would. Mind you, my plan wasn't to tell you at all…"
"What was your original plan then, musuko?" he asked, the last word said softly, and for Naruto's ears only. Naruto felt tears coming; did Yondaime just call him 'son'? he coughed to clear away how tight his throat felt.
"Ahh…. Well I was only going to give you an alternate means of sealing Kyuubi inside of me, so that you wouldn't lose your soul to the Shinigami… but... when I was using the time jutsu, Akira latched onto me and since I couldn't stop it, that's how he ended up coming back.
"I thought about just finding him and going back to the present. But 1) that puts me under his eye, and regrettably makes it easier for him to capture me. And 2) you guys wouldn't exactly let me leave, and I had already been spotted too. So I had to change my plans. I'll tell you know, I don't intent on letting any of you die, because… that just wouldn't be fair now would it?" Naruto smiled at them, they were staring up at him with wide eyes.
"What are you going to do then, Naruto-kun?" Rin asked hesitantly. The blond merely smiled.
"Simple, when you're supposed to die, I will prevent it. Although… it would be hard to image a Kakashi without a sharingan-"
"Naruto! How do you activate the sharingan?" Obito suddenly blurted, looking mad with the desperate need to activate his bloodline. Naruto smiled softly at him.
"Obito… has someone close to you ever died?" He asked calmly, standing up and putting his hands in his pockets, letting the sun cast a halo around his head, staring down at them.
"Close to me...? no…."
"Sasuke activate his Sharingan because we were going to die. It wasn't because he wanted to do it, or because he wanted to live… he fought his hardest because he didn't want me to die, and he didn't want to live without me, since I am his beloved friend and brother. There are different ways to fight, for greed, for glory. You can fight for what's right, or your village. But the sharingan is activated by raw need; the need to protect those who are precious to you, to stand up and refused to let those people get hurt or die.
"Only then can you fight with everything you have. Because when you're fighting with all that's in your heart, everything slows down and becomes clearer. Trust me on this. You can't force it to activate, all you can do is try you're hardest with everything you are to protect your precious people." Naruto smiled softly once more down at them.
His speech was deep and impacting, Yondaime whipped a tear from his eye, realizing that that wonderful trait of Himeno's, the ability to encourage and inspire definitely came from her, and a bit from him.
"Um... ano... Can I... Speak to my Otou… alone for a moment, guys and lady?" Naruto asked shyly. Dazed, but elated and pumped from Naruto speech, the other 3 left through the cave entrance and into the forest to look for breakfast while Naruto and Yondaime stayed behind.
Naruto didn't look at Arashi for what seemed like a long time, just gazing out at the sky. Arashi stood up and marvelled at how Naruto was almost his height. He too gazed out at the sky, not saying anything.
"Gomen nasai…" Naruto said softly. Yondaime jumped, turning in shock at Naruto.
"What? Why are you apologizing?" he asked in a stunned voice.
"I'm sorry… for coming here and being a burden, for throwing you out of your normal rule of life and into a chaotic line. And… I'm sorry for changing things, even though I know it's wrong, I can't help but try and change what happens. I-"
"After hearing what I've heard, you have ever right to be selfish, musuko…" Arashi said softly, wrapping his arms around his son's shoulders and hugging him. He noticed how Naruto stiffened, and understood the reasons why, eventually the younger blond relaxed. The Hokage noticed something wet on his shoulder, taking a moment to understand that the 16 year olds shaking body was not due to cold, but from suppressed sadness. The tears were only now starting to come.
He could only imagine what Naruto had been through, and he supposed that there was a lot of emotional trauma the kid had been through. Although the thought of being a father frightened him, he also was thrilled. In this world, anything was possible. Meeting your son from the future was one of them.
Arashi smiled, not letting go of his Naruto. It was hard to believe, and he was still wrapping his mind around it, but he didn't think ill of Naruto anymore, it was hard to, the sunny blond and that smile it was impossible to.
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"Are you sure we did the right thing, Sakura?" Sasuke asked looking in the direction of Rice country, and where Naruto was. Sakura smiled.
"We have our families, now it's time for Naruto to find his. Think of it like this, if everything works out, he'll annoy you less." Sasuke's eye twitched, and he smirked evilly.
"Then we shall do everything in our power to make it so!"
"Alright… That's enough sake for you." She scolded, giggling at Sasuke's drunken blush.
"I swear to drunk I'm not god!" she sighed at him.
"Hopeless…. Then again... I'm glad Naruto isn't here to get drunk with you…" she and Sasuke and Naruto had had their first taste at drinking alcohol a month into their leave from Konoha. Sasuke and Naruto had ended up trashing the place they were in, and were officially kicked out of that village.
Ever since then, any moment they could spare they were either a) drunk or b) training. She supposed they really were turning into mini Sannins… and with that thought in mind; she burst into cackles, which frightened the tipsy Uchiha into scuttling away from her in his seat.
"Ne.. Sasuke-kun... do you think it'll work?" she asked after awhile. Sasuke turned to her frowning.
"We can only hope so..." he muttered softly under his breath, staring into his sake cup and thinking about what they had planned.
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Rin was about to head back to the cave when she stopped. She saw, just ahead to blond's wrapped in an embrace. She couldn't help it as she giggled.
"What's so funny?" Came a voice to her left. Rin merely giggled again and pointed.
"Eeeewww.." Obito cried, but he was grinning. Kakashi came up to Rin's right and all three watched the emotional display. Suddenly Rin jumped, and began to frantically search for something on her person. Eventually she found it, a small camera. Obito and Kakashi were wearing identical evil grins.
"Shall we?" they giggled evilly and started to take pictures of the two hugging blonds.
Meanwhile, Naruto's head suddenly poked up and looked around. He seemed… pale in fear.
"Naruto? Naruto what's wrong?" Arashi asked, searching around with him. Naruto suddenly glared.
"Impending doom, that's what." But he said it in a pout like voice. Arashi blinked, completely confused.
"Eh?"
"DOOM! Impending doom!" Naruto's flapped his arms goofily to emphasize his point.
"Doom? What kind of doom?"
"Doom as in… I think we're being watched by a fan girl and two fan boys taking blackmailing pictures of us!" Yondaime stood there for a moment, absorbing this information, suddenly, he grew stiff.
"RIIIN! OOOBITO KAKASHI! GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!" he yelled, flying out of the cave entrance and into the bushes.
"Crap! Scatter, scatter!" Rin's voice could be heard, ordering her two accomplices away. But too little avail as Yondaime and Naruto caught up to them and began to tickle them mercilessly. Unfortunately, Kakashi being the coolest one of the group managed to get away with the pictures while Yondaime and Naruto were busy trying to pry information out of Rin and Obito.
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There, no cliff-hanger in this chapter…. At least not a biggie. Next Chapter: watch out for spandex, Kakashi and many more funnies! (oh gods, I'm trying to picture how it'll go and I keep laughing….)