[AN: Hello everyone this is chapter two of Naruto The New God of Chaos and I am glad you guys seemed to like the first and are generally happy with the concept I have come up with, now of course I still have some plot holes I will need to fill to make the story more flushed out but I am happy so far the way it is going. I would also like to address a review, don't worry not hating or anything]
[AN: Killerhot80: I get how you could think that, but in my story, naruto had a life harder than most, and what happened before he was having the nine tails extracted from him led to the way he acts now. A little self-centered and not so trusting of anyone, which is why he thought he could trust Kami and her sisters thinking they wouldn't do anything to betray him, so when he saw what they had planned for him basically having him be like a moderator at a debate every time the gods had a meeting he got annoyed at how dumb he thought that would be so he left to have some fun for once. Hope that clears some stuff up.]
[AN: OmniHein: It is up to you guys to decide what you want me to put in the story if you have a recommendation I will try and find a way to work it into the story, and if you have a way you would like Naruto to interact with the character I will try to make it work.]
"Hello" Human talking
'hello' Human thought
"Stupid Ningen" bijū/Gods/Demon speech
'Stupid Ningen' bijū/Gods/Demon thought
(hello) Used to add info that may not be clear
Italicized used to add emphasis to words
[AN: hello] Authors note
[AN: Ok on to the story be sure to leave a review of what you like and don't, I will also try to clear some things up if you have questions.]
"W-wait, wait, WAIT!" A man screamed as he had his head held in a single-handed grasp from his attacker while he grabbed the man's wrist in hopes of pulling the hand from his head but he still knew it was a futile effort. Still, at the man's pleas, his attacker stopped and looked him in the eyes while loosening his grip but still having it gripping his head hard enough to not lose his grip and have the man scurry off in hopes of getting away.
The man's attacker was a giant of a man with blond crazy spiked hair with deep ocean blue eyes. At this brief freeze in time, the man took it to look around at what this mysterious attacker had done to his friends and comrades. Looking around he could see their bloody and some dismembered corpses around their camp, with a few having a crushed skull from the pressure their attacker had put on it with a mere one-handed grip which at this moment was why he had pleaded with the man to stop when he had gotten him to his knees and was gripping his head.
This was finally when the attacker had spoken to him for the first time "And why should I spare you?" the man's voice came out deep and firm.
"Please I'll do anything just please let me live. I'm not ready to die yet!" The man pleaded in hope of living to see another day.
"I will spare you if you leave immediately and stop being a thug and actually become a decent person." Naruto said to the man in his grip.
"Yes! Of course, I'll leave right away." The man quickly said while sighing in relief that he had gotten out of dying for one more day.
As Naruto let go of the man's head he took a step back letting the man get to his feet who still had to look up to him while standing at full height which helped to intimidate the man further. The man quickly ran out of the clearing which had been home to him and his comrades camp but it was now laid to waste and had his comrades bodies all over the place.
Naruto looking around the area seemed to sink back into his bored state, no one in any world could give him much of a challenge even when he holds back so much, sure he got to test new powers every now and then and perfect them and that was always fun but when he got done with the intensity of 'battle' he just got bored again.
Naruto was brought out of his thoughts as he had detected movement coming closer to him from multiple sources which seemed to be moving at high shinobi speed which meant it wasn't more of the bandits that belonged to the camp he just wiped out. Deciding to see what they had wanted and also to see if he could have another 'battle' he waited in the middle of the clearing in the middle of the camp sitting on two bodies he had stacked up to make a nice seat while he waited.
After about another minute or two Naruto knew they were around him in the trees, they seemed to be trying to stalk their 'prey' all the while Naruto was getting more and more bored with each passing second until finally, he broke and just said "Ok can you just come out now I know there are four around me in the trees, and I presume you're a squad of shinobi but if your goal was to bore me to death it's working." Naruto's voice rang out in the clearing, shocking the shinobi in the trees who all thought they were suppressing their chakra to be undetectable.
The four shinobi all appeared in front of Naruto ten or so feet away looking completely unfazed with all the blood and bodies around them, though Nauro couldn't quite tell as they all had their normal ANBU masks on covering their faces all dressed in standard ANBU gear.
The ANBU in the Inu(dog) mask spoke up "Did you do this to these men?"
"I would hardly call them men for what they had done in their raids of small villages but yeah I did this to them." Naruto's deep voice rang out at the ANBU. "What village are you from I would assume Konohagakure no Sato due to the close proximity." Naruto asked the ANBU.
"That is correct, we were sent to gather intel on the camp and anyone here before performing a night raid and take anything useful but you seem to have done that for us." The Inu ANBU said no emotion present in his voice. At this Naruto looked over the squad one by one the first being the apparent squad leader and ANBU wearing the Inu mask, the man seemed to carry himself well and seemed to trust his comrades. The next was an ANBU wearing a Kuma(bear) mask, he was bigger than the squad leader and seemed pretty strong if Naruto referred to the size of his arms. The third member of the squad was an ANBU wearing a Neko(cat)-like mask and was about the same height as the squad leader. The last ANBU was wearing a Kaeru(frog)-like mask and was a woman and was shorter than her teammates.
As Naruto stood up they could now see that this would turn bad if he would decide to attack them as he was taller than their comrade Kuma and seem to have a well-defined form to him, if he was at all a skilled shinobi like the bodies around them said they might have some trouble. While Naruto was stretching while he stood up he said "Well I'm bored, wanna fight?" At this, the ANBU stiffened and looked to their squad leader for what to do, "I see no need for that, we will grab what we need and leave, there is no need to cause unnecessary bloodshed." The Inu ANBU stated.
"Eh you are right, but you see I'm kinda bored no one seems to give me a challenge so I thought some ANBU would at least give me a little adrenaline boost." Naruto told the ANBU. At this statement, the Kuma ANBU was getting annoyed, this was supposed to be a chill mission with no trouble but still, some fun and action, and suddenly when they get here their mission seems to be canceled as their objective is already wiped out and now the one who did it seems to want to fight them for no reason.
"C'mon why don't we just take him out and maybe when we get back we get a pay boost for his entry in the bingo book if there is one." Kuma said to his team.
"Kuma you are always looking for a fight and getting hurt, this mission was meant to let you recuperate from your last injury while still doing some work, but now you want to fight an unknown assailant who could hurt you worse than last time." The Kaeru ANBU said to her teammate.
"It won't be that bad what's one guy against a squad of ANBU like us." Kuma said arrogantly.
"Kuma, I think it would be best for us to listen to what Neko says and just grab what we need and go." the Neko ANBU said, adding to the conversation.
Deciding to provoke a fight out of them for some fun Naruto created a kunai out of thin air behind his right leg with no flashy movement to give him away, and then he threw it at the Kuma ANBU, not to kill of course but just to scratch him on his mask leaving a visible mark.
When the kunai went past them they all looked at Naruto to see him just standing there watching them. At this, it was it for Kuma and he spoke up to his squad leader "Are you kidding me he just attacked me and we're just going to go, we can totally take him. All he did was take care of some bandits which aren't really skilled shinobi."
"Fine but if I call it we are pulling out and heading back to the village." Inu said to his squad.
"Heck yeah!" Kuma said while running at Naruto with Neko pulling out three kunai at throwing them at Naruto. To which when the first kunai reached him he put his pointer finger through the hole at the end of the kunai, before letting it spin on his finger before stopping it and using it to deflect the other two kunai. He then threw the one in his had back at Neko, who had to pull out another kunai to block his own he just threw. When Kuma reached Naruto he threw a chakra enhanced punch at Naruto who just leaned to his left while grabbing Kumas wrist and pulling him past himself and then punching Kuma in his elbow with a sicking crack and a scream from Kuma, Naruto then yanked Kuma back to him dislocating Kumas right arm then elbowing him in the face knocking him on his back grabbing his now broken and dislocated arm.
Neko and Inu seeing their teammate go down threw kunai in between Naruto and Kuma to drive him back a bit, Naruto took three steps back and leaned back to dodge the kunai, as Naruto stood back up he saw Neko and Inu running at him with kunai in hand. The first to reach him was Inu and he quickly threw a kick to Naruto's chest, Naruto blocked the kick by making an 'X' over his chest with his arms, he then quickly grabbed Inus leg with his right hand and blocking the kunai swipe from Inus right hand with his left, Naruto then let go of Inus leg causing him to miss the kick with his left, Naruto then gave him a kick to his unguarded chest launching him back near Kuma, at this point while looking at Inus down form for the split second he had he could see the Kaeru mask ANBU near Kuma using some medical jutsu fixing him up.
Neko had now reached Naruto and did two quick swipes with his kunai before doing a quick thrust at Naruto's heart in an attempt to end the fight quickly clearly affected by his emotions Naruto noted, but he did not reach his target as Naruto grabbed his wrist to stop him and gave a squeeze making him drop the kunai and a fast punch to his stomach knocking the air out of his lungs then grabbing the kunai before it hit the floor then Naruto stuck it in Nekos right thigh.
Hearing his squad member scream in pain Inu looked up and shook off his dizziness to see his squad member get a strong right uppercut to the jaw and fall back unconscious, looking at Kuma and then Kaeru and back to Naruto stealing his reserve and standing up in a rush and running at Naruto to finish the fight and mission and get back to Konohagakure no Sato after what was supposed to be a simple relaxed mission. Inu threw a kunai at Naruto of which he just dodged, then Inu threw two shurikens on either side of Naruto which Naruto didn't dodge thinking he was still dizzy from their previous encounter, but with a quick pull of ninja wire that was on the shuriken making them wrap around Naruto, Inu ran at Naruto at high speeds while doing hand signs and lightning started to crackle around his right hand while he had his left hand around his right wrist. As he was getting closer Naruto was now intrigued and slightly angry because he has only known one person to be able to do a lightning jutsu like the one he was seeing fast approaching him, Inu now had his right hand stretched out and right as Inus hand was about the reach Naruto's heart Naruto could see a slight red glint in Inus left eye.
Inu with his right hand now going through Naruto looked up to meet his gaze to see his now lifeless eyes and feel his body going limp before he pulled his hand free and let his team's attacker fall to the floor with a hole through his chest where his heart should be.
Walking over to his teammate's Kaeru and Kuma limping with slight exhaustion and pain, "Is he down for good Inu?" asked Kaeru while still fixing up Kuma and looking over at Inu then the body of Naruto.
"Yes, he is down for good. I got him with a Chidori." Inu said to his teammate.
"Well drag Neko over here I'll patch you all up before we head back." Kaeru said to Inu.
"I'll go wake him up, man this was supposed to be an easy mission too." Inu said looking over at Nekos downed form and then Naruto's downed form and saw a small blood puddle around him.
As Inu looked back at his teammate he heard a small crunch like what you would hear when walking on a gravel road and then he felt two lit taps on his right shoulder, as he looked over he saw a brief image of yellow before he was hit in the face with such force it put a small crack in his mask and he was falling over before he was stopped by his attacker grabbing the collar of his shirt. He then looked up still trying to catch his bearings while raising his hands in defense but was too slow as he got another hard hit to the face cracking his mask further and making his body limper, again he tried to bring his hands up in defense but they wouldn't move before he looked up again only to be met with another punch fully cracking his mask down the center and having the two halves fall either side of his now limp body.
Inus now exposed, slightly bloody face with barely open eyes was looking up at Naruto as he slowly drew back his fist again and slammed down his fist into Inus face breaking his nose and knocking him out for good, again he drew his fist back quicker than his last punch and launched another hard hitter of a punch at his face breaking his nose further, again he pulled his fist back throwing a faster punch and then drew his fist back again launching another punch then another, then another, then another, in the process fully breaking Inu's nose and shattering the left side of his jaw.
Inus body now lay on the floor at Naruto's feet with Naruto looking down with a blank look on his face tilting his head from right to the left and saying in a whisper so only he could hear, "Who knows in this world you might have been a nice guy."
Naruto then slowly walked over to Kaeru who had just watched in shock at the supposed dead man beating the shit one of the ANBUs best. As she looked over at where Naruto's body should be she saw that it was still there and then she looked back at the Naruto standing above her teammate and saw that he was now looking at her, she then looked back to the supposed 'body' before back to the one watching her. Naruto followed her gaze to his 'body' and then back to her and he spoke "You must be wondering how I can be alive yet have my body, not 20ft away at the same time."
"Y-yes I am quite confused." Stated Kaeru still trying to catch her bearings.
"Well I guess I could show you, it is one of my tricks I'm more proud of." Naruto said to Kaeru.
When the mysterious man said this she was a bit confused and intrigued at what he meant by tricks. As the man motioned over to his 'body' she hesitantly looked away from him to his 'body' and she looked at it examining it before suddenly moved by having its right hand go out to the right of its body and pushing up and raising its head to look Kaeru right in the eyes like it was staring into the depths of her very soul with the blankest look on its face, it then moved its other hand and its left leg till it was kneeling and slowly stood up all the while staring at her. When fully standing Kaeru could see the hole in Naruto's chest and the second Naruto started walking over to Kaeru and where the other Naruto were.
As the Naruto with the hole in his chest reached Naruto and Kaeru he just stared at Kaeru she got more and more freaked out at how he was still alive with the gaping hole in his chest, and finally, the one with a hole in his chest walked over to the one without and held out its hand, the Naruto without a hole in his chest looked over to the other him and gripped his forearm and the other him doing the same. The Naruto with the hole in his chest slowly turned into a sand/ dust-like material still holding the colors of his clothes and hair and started flowing into the original till the second was completely gone.
The now 'whole' Naruto looked over to Kaeru and said "It isn't a jutsu in case that is what you were thinking." While Naruto was saying this Kaeru was just gaping at what she had just seen, a supposed 'dead body' getting up and walking over to a copy of itself and getting absorbed.
"T-then w-what was th-that?" Kaeru asked.
"Well I can't tell you, mainly 'cause I don't want to but also cause if I did you would have realized you all never stood a chance of winning this short 'battle' but don't worry I'm not going to kill you all, no I want you to heal them up and drag them back to Konoha and tell whoever is Hokage of what happened here and how easily I took you all down." Naruto said to Kaeru who was relieved that her friends and squadmates weren't going to die today.
"But of course I am going to ask you some questions of my own and maybe answer a few of your I deem I can answer, ok?" Naruto stated to Kaeru while walking closer and sitting on a body while Kaeru was now wondering what type of questions this man would ask, does he want information on the village, its defenses, and shinobi positions, information on the new genin coming out of the academy, was he maybe an assassin and had used their squad to get the information needed to succeed in his mission?
"What type of questions?" Kaeru asked.
"Well like what is your name?" Was the first thing that Naruto asked.
"You do realize I'm an ANBU and it is against regulations to give out our names while on duty, it is also against regulations to take off our masks." Kaeru stated to Naruto while looking at the spiky grey-haired man now with a face covered in blood and a broken mask near his body.
"Yes I do, and I'm sorry for going a little overboard on your friend I guess, he looked like someone I used to know and trusted before….. before… *ahem* nothing sorry." Naruto said with semi-glazed eyes before looking away from the bloody man on the ground out cold to the ANBU with the Kaeru mask.
Kaeru, still looking at the man on the ground sighed and said "When in the heat of a fight your emotions can take over I don't blame you….. His name is Kakashi Hatake, he is one of the leaf ANBUs best."
"Who was his sensei if you don't mind me asking." Naruto said while looking at the clear blue sky while taking some deep breaths to calm himself.
"He was taught by our yondaime Hokage along with his teammates Rin, and Obito, Obito sadly died in the third great ninja war and Rin would later die on a mission with Kakashi." Kaeru told Naruto.
"Who is the yondaime?" Naruto asked checking if there were any differences between his world and this one.
"Hm what do you mean, everyone knows who our yondaime is." Kaeru said, confused.
"I must have forgotten, do you mind reminding me." Naruto said while coming up with a quick lie.
Kaeru being a little skeptical said "Our yondaime Hokage is Minato Namikaze who is married to Kushina Uzumaki and they both have three beautiful children." At this Naruto was a little shocked at the fact both of his 'parents' were alive and 'he' had two siblings.
"What are their names?" Naruto wanted to know.
"Um well the youngest is named Mito after the Sandaime Hokage's late wife Mito Uzumaki, Mito looks just like her mother while acting like her father, the second oldest is Menma who is a bit of an energetic boy like his mother while looking like his father, then their oldest and firstborn is Naruto." Kaeru said, giving a little description of the kids.
"What about little Naruto?" Naruto asked Kaeru.
"What do you mean?" Kaeru said, shifting her gaze from the sky to Naruto where she was sitting near her teammate.
"Well I mean you gave a short description about the other two kids, why not little Naruto." Naruto said while looking at Kaeru with narrowed eyes.
"Hmm, I just don't know that much about him personally, but I'm sure when I heal Kakashi and he is awake and coherent he could tell you about him as he is the uncle of the three of sorts, that is if he doesn't try to kill you first." Kaeru explained while adding a little joke at the end.
"No, that is not necessary, he doesn't have to be awake to tell me." Naruto said while getting up with a little grunt of exertion.
"What are you going to do to him?" Kaeru asked, getting a little concerned for Kakashi.
"I'm going to do what the Yamanaka's from your village do." Naruto stated bluntly.
"How can you read someone's mind, are you from the Yamanaka clan?" Kaeru asked, shocked, and a little worried.
"No, I am no Yamanaka, and as to how I can do it is my little secret." Naruto said.
As Naruto walked over and knelt down to Kakashi he held out his right hand and put it on top of his head and started going through his memories. After about 30 seconds he took his hand off his head and walked back to the body he was sitting on, and let out a deep sigh and said under his breath "I thought this world would have been different."
"Well, what did you see? You weren't in there for a while." Kaeru asked Naruto.
"Hmm, nothing too important." Naruto said, still looking at Kakashi's bloody form.
~Scene change - Kakashi's mind when Naruto was in it~
As Naruto walked down the library like mindscape he would take down some scrolls that represented memories every now and then to look through the memories. Naruto stopped on a section of scrolls labeled Menma's and Mito's 8th birthday, which had confused Naruto 'cause the kids from this world were triplets born on the same day but only Menma and Mito were mentioned. Naruto grabbed a scroll labeled 'start of party'.
~Flash back to 8th birthday~
Naruto could see through Kakashi's eyes a nice party in a beautiful house with all the clan heads and their kids at the party, everyone was having a good time, well almost everyone. Naruto was looking and couldn't see 'naruto' anywhere in the party, not playing with the other kids, not sitting at the table eating, not near the gifts trying to sneak one to open it before it was time, not trying to get pieces of cake in secret only to get scolded by his mother. Things kids at this age would be doing, but he was nowhere to be seen.
That was when Naruto had seen 'him' in the background when Kakashi was speaking to Minato sitting on the stairs looking sad and depressed, and when the time came for the birthday kids to open their presents there weren't any for Naruto, everyone had forgotten to get him a gift, but at this, he didn't seem shocked at all and it seemed like he was expecting something like this.
What had made Naruto the angriest was that after the gifts were opened and everyone was eating cake Naruto could see Minato and Kushina look over at each other and nod. Minato then placed his cake down and said "everyone Kushina and I have an announcement to make…" he then looked around the room making sure everyone was paying attention, then looking from Menma and Mito back to the crowd and saying "... we are making Menma the head of the Namikaze clan when he comes of age." Kushina then continued "We are also making Mito the head of the Uzumaki clan when she too comes of age to run the clan."
Since 'Naruto' was the oldest he should have been the heir to both clans but his parents had just 'abandoned' him in a sense and stripped him of his clan heir status. The other kids were glad their friends got such a cool 'gift' for their birthday and the adults were glad that their kids still had more friends that were other clan heirs.
This world's Naruto just watched everyone go about their socializing with a look of shock mixed with sadness before he had eventually got up and walked upstairs to his room which nobody caught and just went about their business like Naruto had never been there.
~Scene change back to the library~
After watching the memory he had a general idea of how this world's Naruto was treated by his family and others. He continued to walk deeper into the mindscape in hopes of finding out why this world's Naruto was treated as an outcast until he was a decent way in and he came across a memory labeled 'after Kyuubi attack' and he was sure he would find his answers in here, he pulled it out and unravel it before he started watching.
~Scene change - Hokage's office~
In the Hokage's office, we see Minato joined by Kushina, Jiraiya, Kakashi, and three little babies that happened to be born today.
"So which one did you use Minato?" Jiraiya asked of his student.
"I made Menma and Mito the holders of the chakra in hopes they will be able to harness it in the future." Minato explained to everyone in the room.
"And what of the soul sensei, the beast will just reform and come back again once it gathers enough chakra." The young ANBU Kakashi asked.
"I used Naruto to hold the soul, we need to start Menma's and Mito's training as soon as they're old enough." Minato said.
"That's a good idea cause the toads recently told me a prophecy about a group of two who will lead the world to great destruction or to a time of great peace." Jiraiya said, telling about the toads' prophecy.
"That must be about Menma and Mito right Minato!" Kushina said excited her babies would lead the world to great peace.
"Of course it is, they're the two that hold the Kyuubi and can learn to use its power to lead the world to peace, this is even more reason we should start their training as soon as we can." Minato said even more excited than his wife.
"What about Naruto?" Kakashi asked his sensei and the Gama Sennin.
"Well we still love him but Menma and Mito are more important." Minato said to his student.
"Yes it's not like we are going to ignore him but the world depends on Menma and Mito." Kushina further explained.
"Hmm, I guess you are right, I'll leave you to your business sensei." Kakashi said as he walked to the door of the office.
~Scene change back in the mind scape~
To Naruto, this information meant one thing and one thing only, no it wasn't that Menma and Mito were heroes of the leaf, but the fact that the villagers thought that, and that they thought the opposite of 'Naruto' they thought that he was the Kyuubi trapped in a human body by the yondaime. He also now knew a little more information about why Naruto was treated the way he was at the party.
Naruto decides it would be best for him to leave now that he had the information he needed.
~Scene change outside mindscape~
Naruto was back to sitting on the body he was using as a chair thinking of the best way to have the most fun in this world before he finally said "Can I come back to Konoha with you and your team?" Naruto asked of Kaeru.
"Why?" Was all she asked.
"Seems like fun and I learned some information from Kakashi's mind that I would like to clear up with the Hokage, I can heal them up and help you carry them back." Naruto told Kaeru while trying to sweeten up the deal.
"*Sigh* As long as you don't hurt anyone else while you're there" Kaeru said just wanting her comrades to be ok.
"I'll heal them up and then I'll carry Kuma there and Kakashi while you take Neko, ok?" Naruto told Kaeru.
"Sure, you can take the heavier ones, there was no way I was going to be carrying Kuma all the way there." Kaeru said, joking a little about her friend.
Naruto then lifted his hand with his palm facing the sky pointed at Nekos downed form and lifted his hand a little while bending his fingers in a little, the result was Neko starting to float with the tips of his fingers and tips of his boots touching the ground before Naruto pulled his hand towards himself then placing it back on his lap. Nekos body slowly dangled in the air while floating over to where Kakashi's and Kuma were laying on the ground.
When Neko reached where Naruto was with Kakashi and Kuma he slowly floated down till he was flat on the ground, Naruto then walked over to them and placed his hand on Neko's chest and without any sudden movement of flashy light he was healed, back to the way he was before their encounter. Naruto then went over to Kuma and did the same, his arm was unbroken and dislocated. Naruto then regretfully went over to Kakashi and did the same healing him up, but not lessening the pain like he did with Neko and Kuma.
"Ok they are healed up and the pain should be gone for Neko and Kuma when they wake up." Naruto told Kaeru.
"What about Kakashi?" Kaeru asked
"Hmm, what about him." Naruto tried to play it off.
"You said the pain would be gone for Neko and Kuma but not Kakashi." Kaeru explained.
"Yes I did say that." Naruto said more or less trying to avoid the question.
"What about Kakashi's pain?" Kaeru asked, now growing more concerned.
"Ok, fine, I healed him up he's fine, but I left the pain there so it will still feel like he has a broken nose and jaw." Naruto said finally.
"Why didn't you just take away the pain for him too?" Kaeru wanted to know.
"Call it personal feelings on the matter." Naruto said to Kaeru while going back to looking at the sky.
"But why though?" Kaeru asked Naruto again.
"Oh by the other Gods." Naruto said under his breath. "I could have just not healed him and left him the way he was, all broken and in pain and then when we got to the Hokages office just dropped him at the Hokages feet just to see his face when his prized student is all broken at his feet." Naruto said, a little annoyed.
"I guess you are right…. Fine let's go." Kaeru said standing up.
"Finally!" Naruto exclaimed to the sky while stretching.
Naruto then went over and picked up Kuma while putting him over his left shoulder like he was a light feathery pillow which had shocked Kaeru, as she watched one of the biggest and heaviest people she knew get picked up like it was nothing. Naruto then picked up Kakashi with a little toss putting him under his right arm with his arm around Kakashi's stomach.
Naruto then started the hour walk back to Konoha with Kaeru right next to him with Neko over her right shoulder.
~Time skip one hour(sorry I'm lazy I'm not righting an hour of them walking and talking)~
Naruto and Kaeru had now reached the gates of Konoha to see the two eternal chūnin gate guards Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane looking as ever extremely bored, that was until they noticed two figures walking towards the gates with what looks like three other bodys with them.
See that they now had to do their job both chūnin straightened to attention as the figures got closer when they finally were able to see who was approaching they saw it was an ANBU with another ANBU over their shoulder with a taller man next to them with two other ANBU in their grip.
"Halt, name and business with Konoha." Izumo said trying to be professional.
"ANBU squad 22 reporting back after a mission." Kaeru said to Izumo.
"Ok, head to Hokage tower and give your report on what happened to the Hokage." Izumo said to Kaeru.
Kaeru then started walking forward and then Naruto started to follow before he was stopped by Izumo "Where are you going?" Izumo asked.
"I'm going to the Hokage tower, I'm with Kaeru." Naruto said to the two chūnin.
Izumo then looked to Kaeru for confirmation, who nodded her head in acknowledgment. "Sorry for being all serious you're free to pass-through." Izumo said to Naruto who nodded his head and said "It's all good, you're just trying to keep up appearances and all."
"Tell me about it." Kotetsu said while rolling his eyes and looking to the sky.
"C'mon let's go." Kaeru said being exhausted, having carried her teammate for an hour.
"Yeah yeah I'm coming." Naruto said while adjusting his hold on Kuma and Kakashi who now had an unbroken mask replaced on his face.
After walking for a couple of seconds Naruto looked over his shoulder and said "later Izumo, Kotetsu see you around sometime." who both looked at the retreating form of Naruto and gave a little wave.
After a little bit of time, Kotetsu looked over at Izumo and said "Hey did you give our names to that guy?" Izumo who was looking at the sky said "No, why?" and Kotetsu said, "Then how did he know our names?" Izumo who had now looked over at his friend and partner just shrugged and said "Maybe we're famous or something." while going back to looking at the sky. Kotetsu didn't believe him but oh well what could he do "Yeah right." he said with a little snort-like laugh.
~Scene change back with Naruto and Kaeru Hokage tower~
Naruto and Kaeru were now outside the Hokage tower and were making their way inside, and made their way up the stairs to the Hokages office and Kaeru stopped in front of the door to the office and gave two light knocks before they heard a soft come in.
~scene change -in the office before Naruto and Kaeru came in~
In the office of the Hokage, we see Minato currently in an intense battle, a life or death situation, his enemy… paperwork, yes being a powerful Kage wasn't all fun and games it involved lots and lots of paperwork, you could ask any kage of any world what their worst enemy is and almost every single one would say paperwork.
As Minato signed a piece of paperwork and placed it in the done basket he put another piece of paperwork in front of him and began reading before he heard two light knocks on the door, he first checked the time to see if it was a meeting and was relieved when he saw it was still 12:48 and not 1:30 when his meeting was.
After placing the paperwork back in the pile and clearing his desk he said "come in."
When the door opened Minato saw an ANBU with a Kaeru mask enter the room with another ANBU over her shoulder with a Neko mask, then a taller man entered behind her and had to duck to get in the doorway much like his sensei Jiraiya had to do so he just started to use the window, with an ANBU with a Kuma mask over his shoulder which was impressive due to the size of the ANBU he was carrying, but what caught his attention the most was the ANBU that was under the man's right arm wearing an Inu mask.
Looking at the Inu ANBU to the man and then to Kaeru he said "report Kaeru." Who then said, "Hai Hokage-sama, the mission was a success we just ran into a little trouble." Under her mask, Kaeru cast a look over at Naruto.
"And what was that little trouble?" Minato asked.
"Umm, just a little someone, but it was no problem." Kaeru said to the Hokage.
Catching her emphasis on 'little' he looked over at Naruto who looked bored out of his mind.
"Are you the trouble she was talking about?" Minato asked Naruto.
"Why yes, I am actually." Naruto's deep voice said to the Hokage.
"Please tell me why there is a man that was hostile with a squad of my shinobi in my office Kaeru?" Minato said a little cautious and annoyed.
"Well Hokage-sama, he was just and I quote 'bored' and he wanted to fight, when the fight was over we sat and talked before he healed them and carried them with me all the way here." Kaeru said to Minato.
"Hmm, so you're not an enemy of the leaf?" Minato asked Naruto.
"Not one bit, was just trying to test myself and have a little fun in the process." Naruto said to the Hokage.
"Well how did the mission go Kaeru?" Minato asked Kaeru.
"We were on our way to the location of the camp of bandits and thugs, and when we arrived we saw him…" Kaeru said mostioning to Naruto, "sitting on 2 bodys like a stool, while being surrounded by the bodys of every other bandit in the camp." Kaeru finished.
"So you wiped them out by yourself?" Minato asked Naruto.
"Yes I did, wasn't much of a challenge though." Naruto said to the Hokage.
"And I assume that is why you attacked my ANBU." Minato stated.
"Actually I provoked your ANBU to attack me." Naruto said to Minato.
Minato then looked over to Kaeru for confirmation, "It is true sir, he provoked Kuma to attack him." Kaeru said.
"Why am I not surprised." Minato said while shaking his head from side to side while holding the bridge of his nose.
"Would you be interested in becoming a leaf shinobi?" Minato asked while looking at Naruto and leaning on his desk.
"I'm sorry I have to decline, I don't have the training to be a full fledged shinobi, only enough to protect against bandits." Naruto lied.
"Well who was your sensei 'cause with your 'little' training you took out a squad of ANBU and one of my students and my best student at that." Minato asked.
"I never had a sensei." Naruto lied again.
"Would you like to become a sensei then, if you taught yourself enough to take out ANBU I'm sure you would be a great teacher." Minato asked hoping he would say yes.
"I'm sorry I have to decline that offer as well." Naruto said bluntly.
"A true shame oh well enjoy your stay in Konoha while you are here." Minato said, sounding a little down at losing the possibility of having such a strong shinobi in the leaf's forces.
"I think I will." Naruto said while putting Kakashi and Kuma down on the ground.
As Naruto walked out the door he again ducked his head to fit under the doorway before making his way out the Hokage tower.
"Do you think we can trust him Kaeru." Minato asked when Naruto asked.
"Hai Hokage-sama if he wanted he could have killed our squad before coming here looking like a merchant or something." Kaeru said to the Hokage.
"I see, hopefully your right." Minato said to Kaeru. "Also take them to the hospital to get checked out just in case." Minato said mostioning to Neko, Inu, and Kuma. "Hai Hokage-sama" Kaeru said before shunshining away with the three.
~Scene change back with Naruto~
Naruto was walking through the village that had once cause him so much pain in his early life, seeing so many familiar sights like familiar stores he was kicked out of, parks where parents grabbed their kids and left when he showed up, alleyways he was tortured in, restaurants that refused to serve him, you know all the normale things one would think about while walking the streets, then he came to a familiar street and that's when he smelt it, the foods of the gods, ramen, but not just any ramen, Ichiraku Ramen.
Naruto got closer to the familiar stand and walked through the flaps to his 'usual' seat on the far left of the stand before he noticed someone was already in it, so he sat down next to them on their right, as he did this the person next to him tensed up. He looked at them out the corner of his eye and saw a boy no older than twelve sitting there with spiky blonde hair and dark blue eyes.
Naruto then looked to the kitchen and could see a tense Teuchi looking over while stirring some ramen for other customers on the other side of the stand, he could also see Ayame grab a free unused pan and slid the handle down her hand till she was only gripping the end like she was ready to throw it if anything happened while looking at him out the corner of her eye while making her own batch of ramen.
After the ramen was done for the other customers Ayame came up to the two Narutos and asked "Are you okay Naruto do you want me to move him for you?" WHile she was looking at the smaller Naruto.
"I don't think that is necessary, I am no threat to him." Naruto said to Ayame.
"I don't care what you think it is up to him." Ayame said while motioning to the smaller Naruto.
"It's ok Ayame, I'm fine." The smaller Naruto said while looking at the counter.
"Ok, just call me over if he does anything." Ayame said while giving a little glare at the older Naruto. "What can I get you to eat?" She asked him.
"Just some miso ramen please." Naruto said, giving his order.
As Ayame went back to the kitchen to get Naruto's order ready Naruto was looking at the smaller version of him with a careful eye. "How are you Naruto, life treating you good, family's well I hope." Naruto said starting a conversation, and he saw the smaller Naruto tense when he said 'family' "Yeah I'm great and the familys great."
"Well that's great…. Now how do you really feel?" Naruto said knowing full well this Naruto wasn't as ok as he said.
"I don't know what you mean." Naruto lied to this giant of a stranger.
"I see, well let me take a crack at guessing how life is really treating you, ok?" Naruto said pausing while looking over to the smaller Naruto. "I bet you are ignored by your family, specifically your parents, and your sibling act all nice when your parents are around but in private they belittle you to bring up their own ego, and I bet you are so lonely, oh the real killer is the loneliness , just wanting to have that attention, and when you do get it its the wrong kind of attention, not love but hate and misunderstanding, and I bet when it's your birthday, a day when your supposed to celebrate your birth, you are the most lonely, 'cause Menma and Mito get all the attention you wish you got, the love, the gifts, the hugs from your parents…" Naruto paused for a second to let it all sink in.
"Well here you go, hey Naruto, why are you looking like that, I knew I should have mo-" Ayame started angry only to get interrupted.
"It's nothing Ayame he just said the truth." Little Naruto said while looking up to the older Naruto.
"Hmm, fine." Ayame said, walking to the other side of the stand to get a new customers order.
"So what is the occasion, I know you eat ramen to celebrate things." Naruto said to the smaller Naruto.
"I'm graduating from the academy in a week." Naruto said.
"Well that's great, how did you do in school." Naruto asked his smaller self.
"Fourth from last, why." Young Naruto asked.
"Hmm, now again tell me how you really did." Naruto said, shocking his younger self.
"If I wanted to I could have been the rookie of the year, but… someone told me to hide my true skills." Naruto explained.
"Yes, the first rule of shinobi, hide your true skills from your enemy so they underestimate you in battle." Naruto said, explaining the reason why you should hide your skills. "Although I hope you didn't hide them too much, and let loose a little sometimes."
"Well sure I beat the deadlast a couple times, I just wanted to pass to get my sensei and become a ninja already, grades don't matter on the battlefield." Naruto said to the larger Naruto.
"I can help you, you know." Naruto stated bluntly while looking at the bowl of ramen.
"Don't listen to him kit, I don't trust him." Naruto heard a female voice whisper.
"Hmm, I see you and your partner are friends." Naruto said as a whisper to not draw attention.
At this the smaller Naruto tensed as much as his muscles would allow, "Kit, we should leave, NOW!" Naruto heard the whisper again, "There is no need for that, I will go, here." Naruto said standing up and sliding his untouched ramen over to the smaller Naruto. "I know it's your favorite, if you wish to talk I will be attop the Hokage monument, I do hope to see you there though… bye Naruto." He said as he walked out the ramen stand.
~scene change - Hokage monument~
Naruto was now seated at the Hokage monument with his legs dangling off the cliff waiting to see if he and this world's Naruto could have a little chat, in the meantime he was thinking of his next moves while having two floating balls in his hand floating around in a circle perfectly at the same pace staying perfectly across each other, one seemed to be pure white and seemed to give off a soft glow of white, the second seemed to be pure black and seemed to draw in all the light around it.
Naruto was sitting there just waiting while looking out at the village when he heard some soft footsteps like sandals on dirt and stone. "I see you came, I assume to get some answers." Naruto said while standing up and absorbing the two balls into his hand, when he turned around he could see Naruto there looking curious and cautious.
"I was told by my partner to come get answers." Naruto said to the older Naruto "So talk."
"I will, all in due time Naruto, but first let's head to you mindscape for more privacy and I can tell both of you at the same time in person." Naruto said walking towards Naruto before they both sat down in a meditative state and went into younger Naruto's mindscape.
[AN: Wow a long one I know, sorry it took me so long to get out to you guys, just haven't found my groove till the last couple days. I'll not go into specifics on what has been going on IRL but I'll just say I have been the big sad.]
[AN2: Be sure to tell me if you like how the story is going so far, and what you would like to see happen, till next time.]