What its like to be on both sides

By:

Uzumaki-taichou

Disclaimer: I don't any of the things that might be from Naruto, Bleach, or

Samurai7 or … I wish I owned them though 'cuz that'll be sick.

Author's notes: thanks for all the people who reviewed my story so far. Much

appreciated. And now, on with the show!

Chapter 2

What happened to you?

Previously

"Ah…hehehe…haha…I guess…hehehe…you wouldn't have recognized me after all this years and what I went through…hehe…completely understandable. I'll give you a clue," he leaned towards the old man's face ad whispered. "I died six years ago…" At first Sarutobi thought this man was crazy. A lot of shinobis died over the course of six years but thought about it anyway. He tried to remember anyone who had his physical features but could only think of one person except he was…and then it hit him. For the first time today, his heart began to lurch as though he was having a heart attack. He began to piece things together; blonde hair, face splitting grin…it had to be!

"Na…na..ru….to?"

"Na…ru…to? Is it really you?"

A face-splitting grin appeared on the man's face, glad that the Hokage finally seemed to recognize him albeit only barely.

"How?"

Naruto looked away for a moment as if trying to think of the best way to tell him what happened in the past six years in the shortest way possible.

"Let's just say that the damned fox, even in death, continued to be a hassle."

A few feet away, the onlookers of the fight couldn't believe what they just saw. This guy just single-handedly took on all of them plus their highest ranking shinobi and do it with ease or not even look remotely tired for that matter. In fact, he was grinning like nothing even happened. No one was more shocked than Kakashi though and left the genius of the war generation speechless; he was looking at his deceased at his sensei or at least someone that looked almost identical to him so he decided to investigate.

As the rest of the onlookers finally began to snap out of their comatose-states, Kakashi and the others quickly sped towards their injured Hokage. When they arrived, Kakashi lunged forward to the blonde shinobi. He grabbed his cloak and lifted Naruto up, trying to look as intimidating as he can albeit doing very poorly and spoke, "Who are you?"

Naruto, although amused by the fact that this guy not only had the gonads to question him, he also tried to look intimidating. But what really got his anger going was Kakashi holding him up by his cloak and act as though he was his superior resulting in him beginning to feel his anger flare up to unparalleled heights.

"I suggest you take your hands off me if you are fond of them, otherwise I'll take them off for you," replied a now pissed off blonde as chakra seemed to be coming off him in waves and gathering in his hands. Kakashi slowly looked down and froze. In Naruto's hands were a pair of blades that were crossed to imitate an open-mouthed scissor, ready to cut off his hands if he did not comply with his suggestion. Knowing what was at stake, he gently lowered down the blonde and slowly stepped away from him fearing the lose of his jutsus.

Naruto, for the most part felt a little wierded out from the scrutiny they were giving him. He noticed the looks on their faces; it ranged from confusion, to shock, and even suspicious. Naruto felt someone's eyes trying to bore through his head so he turned around and found Yuhhi Kurenai staring at him intently with a slight blush recognizable on her cheeks. He then had a wicked idea and quickly walked up to her and smiled a wicked smile, their faces merely a few centimeters apart.

Kurenai, for her part, was wondering who the hell this guy was? Naru? Toru? Naruko? She was also asking herself why the heck she was blushing for God's sake. She continued to ponder about these very ridiculous things until she felt a presence in front of her. Blonde hair, very unique eyes and a smile that forces you to melt and also grin back. She blushed from under the scrutiny and blushed even harder due to the close proximity and very inappropriate thoughts going through her head.

Naruto was loving every minute of this. He could tell from the way her blush kept getting deeper and the way she was staring at him meant she was definitely think very naughty or even dirty thoughts involving him and her. Accomplishing stage one of his three-part plan, he then put in to motion stage two. He leaned in a little closer to make it look like he was about to plant his lips to hers when he moved his head to her right ear and whispered, "Hey, I'm sorry about me doing those things to you earlier." He moved back a little to get a good look at her and was glad that her blushing hasn't stopped— she even blushed harder. He moved to her left ear and whispered, "Tell you what, how 'bout I take you out on a full-day date one of these days. Nod for a "yes" and shake for a "no." Kurenai slowly nodded her head while thinking what the hell is going on. "Great I'll see you when I see you I guess. I'm Naruto by the way, Kazama Naruto." He quickly nibbled softly at her earlobe in a very pleasurable way that left Kurenai groaning and moaning from the contact. He got up, leaving a very flustered looking Kurenai with a bit of saliva running down her lips and began walking towards the village gates.

"Hokage-sama, we have things to talk about. Let's go!"

It was a pretty sunny day today in Konoha. It hasn't rained or showed any signs or rain for the past two days Currently, Naruto was lying on his back, his head laying on a pillow and thinking about the meeting with Hokage a week before.

Flashback

"So this Akatsuki is a group of 9 S-rank nins and their goal is to obtain the bijuus. So why is this Akatsuki Organization called after Tsunade?" asked Sarutobi. "She does not possess any of the Shodai or even sign of latent ability so why go after her?"

"They believe that the ability skips generations much like in any other clan and lies dormant inside of the blood relatives of the Shodai. Since she is the last surviving member of her clan, it would only make sense to go after her. Also, they are after what is around her neck— the Shodai's necklace."

'Why would they be after the necklace,' Sarutobi thought. He delved into the bowels of his mind and into the scrolls of the First. He remembered him writing something about the necklace; something about value and demon.

It then dawned on him.

"Does it have to do anything with the containers," he asked.

"Hai, Hokage-sama. The necklace has the ability to supress and contain the powers of the Bijuu in tandem with the Mokuton or more specifically the Shodai's clan. Uchiha Itachi is a member of the nine as well as Orochimaru. They are two of the four who were assigned to retreave the medic but Orochimaru recently resigned from his position."

Sarutobi sighed, his old age finally catching up to him. He did not like this one bit. Akatsuki. Bijuu. Necklace. It all spelled trouble and the their lives did not need that type of trouble in a time such as now. Sarutobi decided to set this aside for now and ask the most important question he had wanted to ask.

"Naruto…can you tell me how is it you are alive? We couldn't find you during the chaos and what we did find couldn't get any leads as to where you were."

Naruto turned his head towards the window seal and stared monotonously at the falling rain as his face took on a very solemn look.

"I…don't know how I'm still alive actually. I don't even know why the fox did what he did nor do I want to understand. I was supposed to die. I was ready to die back then, just to get away from the glares and threats. To be honest I was glad the village did what it did because I was to do it myself. It hurts, you know, when I dream about those things and remember everything. I honestly don't know why I'm here telling you this; Akatsuki will come here and demolish place this place just to prove they can take anyone on. I guess I'm just doing it just to prove I'm not all that evil people make me out to be and probably the few people I respected are still here."

Naruto paused for a few minutes and looked into the eyes of the old man.

"I was about to die that rainy day in the forest but the fox denied me that pleasure. He thought that by keeping me alive meant that I will suffer even more and I commend him for that. I just hate myself right now. I vowed never to return to this place but here I am sitting in front of you. He thought it funny also to make my body assimilate all of his power because through me, he will be remembered but I knew better. I knew that I was finally rubbing off on the old fox; I just wish that he didn't have to do what he did. Before he disappeared, he spoke in the most honest tone I ever heard come off of him and told me to watch out for myself as he was not with me anymore and beware the light the red moon shines upon you."

Naruto, tired of reminiscing of his past, stood from his seat and started for the door. He reached for the door handle and was about to step out when he heard the old man call to him. He turned his head and saw a vest flying towards him so his natural instincts kicked in and grabbed the incoming object.

"Kazama Naruto. You are hereby instated as a Konoha Tokubetsou Jounin. There are many responsibilities coming with the rank and I trust you will fulfill them to the best of your ability. As to why you are being assigned as a Jounin, I need you as an unknown to other villages. The position will keep you on the mundane side of things and it will make you look like an ordinary rookie jounin thus keeping your cover and I assume that Akatsuki doesn't know your alive either." The old man grabbed a pair of keys from one of his drawers and threw it at Naruto. "I suggest to get settled in and get well adjusted here. Blend in with the village. Make friends and other things to keep them as question-free as possible and keep the name since very few people knows of the full name of the Yondaime. I expect that you're tired so I'll let you be to get some rest, God knows I need some."

Naruto laughed at this and exited the Hokage Tower, agreeing with the Hokage on the rest issue.

End of Flashback

Naruto was getting bored of lying around his apartment so he decided to take the old man's advice and get to know the people. By noon, he was well acquainted with everyone with in a 3-block radius. He felt that he became a bit full of himself when he constantly teased every female he met (excluding old women and litle girls), and as a result he found himself hiding and running away from a raging mob of women that was intent on raping his every being. So far, the only place he especially liked so far was the ramen stand a few minutes walk away from his apartment and was using it as a hiding spot. He was currently eating his second ramen bowl in the corner of the stand, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, when he felt a familiar chakra approach him.

"Kurenai-san, quick hide me! Cover me with genjutsu or something so they won't find me!"

Kurenai was confused by this and decided to ask him what happened.

"What are you talking about, Naru—"

"SSSHHH! Don't say my name out-loud! Fan-girls! Hundreds of them! They kept chasing me and I'm still wondering how they can keep up with me! They cornered me once behind the market and tried to tear my clothes off! They were actually trying to rape me! RAPE ME I tell you! I'm going now. DON"T. TELL. ANYONE. I WAS HERE. PLEASE."

Kurenai got a wicked idea and decided to get him back for the flirting session he did on her from before. As he was about halfway out of the stand, she suddenly yelled, "NARUTO-SAMA, THERE YOU ARE I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU." A split second later, hordes of raging women came bounding up to him holding what looked like rope, tape and he was pretty sure KY Jelly. As he ran away from the mob intent on seducing him, he screamed out, "DAMN YOU KURENAI-SAN! I'LL GET YOU BACK FOR THIS TEN -FOLD! I SWEAR IT!"