"Normal speech"

'Normal thoughts'

"Demon/Summon speech"

'Demon/Inner Sakura/Summon thoughts'

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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Chapter 37: Another Uchiha

Naruto and Jiraiya were right now walking down the road away from the gates of Konoha.

Jiraiya was feeling a bit of drain from his chakra reserves as he had kept the Rasengan, he made earlier, active. The reason for doing this was because Naruto was still gazing at it. "Are you done looking at it in aw?"

Naruto shook his head and looked up to Jiraiya "so what is it exactly?"

"The Rasengan is chakra given physical form. It is chakra rotating at high speeds and is extremely powerful."

Although Naruto was listening, his mind only caught the first part. He thought about what he heard and said "sooooo it's like me and Ra...the Kyuubi without a mind."

Jiraiya was extremely confused at what was said until he thought about what Naruto was now. He said that the Rasengan is chakra given physical form. Naruto and the Kyuubi are basically chakra given physical form and a mind. "Uuuuhhhh in a sort of way I guess." he then shook his head at the level of stupid he has to go through "forget that. I'm going to teach you how to do this. In a way, you could call this a legacy that will pass to you from your father and the Kyuubi. When Minato made this jutsu, he based it off the bijuu-dama."

"The what?"

Now Jiraiya was confused again 'does he not remember when he does it?' "it's a move that all the bijuu know."

Naruto tried to think of what it could be but he came up with nothing 'hey Rama-tou-chan, how come you never taught me this?'

"Because you are not ready for it. It is far too powerful and you wouldn't be able to handle the weight of the attack."

'Aw come on!'

"No!"

Jiraiya noticed the far off look Naruto had and he remembered the last time he saw it. "Um, are you ok in learning this?"

Naruto shook his head and looked at Jiraiya "oh um yeah. He didn't say anything about learning this jutsu."

"Hmm, at least he isn't giving you grief with what I'm teaching you this time."

Naruto winced when he thought about what happened when he was being taught by Jiraiya last time.

~Flashback~

Naruto was sitting in front of Jiraiya as the man held out a massive scroll.

Jiraiya opened it up in front of him and smiled. "this is the toad summoning contract. If you sign your name on it with your blood, you will be able to summon toads to help you in fights."

"Cool! And you said my dad was the previous summoner?"

"Well, his name is right there."

Naruto looked to the names and saw his father's name: Minato Namikaze. In excitement, he bit his thumb and brought his hand to sign but just before it touched he was frozen. He tried to move his hand but it just didn't move. After a few more futile tries he pulled back and grumbled: "hang on Ero-Senin, I need to talk to someone."

Jiraiya was confused when he saw Naruto freeze and now he was just plain dumbstruck when he saw Naruto sit there with his arms crossed and a far off look in his eyes. "Is he talking to the Kyuubi?"

~Naruto's mindscape~

"You are not allowed!"

"But tou-chan…...!"

"No, I will not allow you to sign that stupid contract."

"But why?"

"I HATE TOADS! Why don't you find another contract? One that isn't toads!"

"Like what? Is there a fox contract somewhere out there that I have to search for?"

Kurama just looked away and crossed his arms "maybe…."

Naruto slammed his tails into the ground "YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THERE IS ONE! Why can't I just sign this toad contract like my dad and find another one that you like!?"

Kurama grumbled a bit. He hated toads. There wasn't really anything specific about it he just hated them. Not to mention that the boss toad had fought him when he was released from Kushina "fine but I will choose what the second contract will be!"

Naruto grumbled at how ridiculous his father was acting but nodded his head "fine"

End of flashback

In the end, he was able to sign the contract but Rama-tou-san never let him hear the end of it. The entire month was spent training, sleeping and hearing the complaints of the nine-tailed whiner. He shook his head of the memory and looked to Jiraiya "so how do I learn it?"

Jiraiya smiled "well there are three steps on how to learn it….."

Before Jiraiya could continue, Naruto suddenly felt a sense of unease. He felt like he had forgotten something very important. Then it hit him. He quickly created a shadow clone and without telling it anything, it ran back to the village.

"What was that about?"

Naruto scratched the back of his head "I forgot to tell a couple of people that I wouldn't be in the village for a while."

Jiraiya got a perverted grin on his face "oh are they perhaps your lady friends?" he soon found himself with Naruto's foot in his face

~Konoha a few days later, Hokage office~

Hiruzen was at the moment doing his least favorite past time: paperwork (I'm starting to hate that word from reading it so many times). He was reading a report about some of the ROOT agents that were captured and some of the ones that had escaped. He did not worry about the so-called escapees since he had sent out some of his Anbu to capture or kill them and each one was successful. He knew that after this came the civilian reports, then he had to look over the treaty that he and the Mizukage had agreed on as well as make an appointment with her so they could possibly finalize the alliance. Not only that, he had to set a meeting with the Suna council to finish their surrender agreement. After finishing the report on the ROOT agents, he went on to the civilian reports. He was grumbling to himself since now that the civilian council was gone, the paperwork seemed to increase but he didn't regret sending them off. After a few more minutes he felt something that was thankfully only felt by him. He made a hand gesture for all the Anbu that were in the office to leave. Once he was sure he was alone he moved to the window and opened it

The second the window was fully open, a crow came flying in.

Hiruzen quickly closed the window and pulled down the rarely used blinds. (I know there aren't really any blinds but I'm adding them for this). He then did a few hand seals and slammed his hand on the wall creating a privacy barrier. "Well, I wasn't expecting you Itachi-Kun."

The crow began to burst into a flock in the room before they converged and revealed Itachi Uchiha in Akatsuki robes "it has been a while since I have been near Konoha Hokage-sama."

Hiruzen sat in his chair as he continued to speak "so to what do I owe the pleasure of you being here then?"

"I was sent to retrieve the nine tails Jinchuriki."

"Mm, I thought as much based on your last report. I assume that you are not here alone."

Itachi nodded "yes. My partner and I are here for this mission. We are also being followed by Kakashi-san, Asuma-san, and Kurenai-san"

"I am hoping that you will not do anything too damaging to them."

"I must not give any indication that I am going easy on them. I am still undercover and I will fulfill my duty."

Hiruzen nodded "well at least try not to cause too much damage to the area. We have just gotten out of an attack and I am now more swamped than ever thanks to the disbanding of the Civilian council."

Itachi was surprised by this "so you finally removed the 'nuisances' as you once called them."

Hiruzen smiled "Yes, and although I have more work to do, I am happy I did it. Besides if all goes well, I won't be the one doing it anymore."

Itachi quirked an eyebrow "you are retiring. Who do you have as a replacement? Don't tell me it is Danzo."

Hiruzen then gave a grave look "I cannot recommend someone who is dead and this brings up something that I wanted to speak to you about." He began to pull out a scroll and unsealed its contents.

Itachi looked at the arm with a critical look. Although he looked stoic on the outside he was angry and disgusted on the inside.

"This was Danzo's. He had attached it to himself and hidden it from all of us with the bandages he wears."

Itachi narrowed his eyes and looked to the Hokage. "Were you able to remove his eye."

Hokage widened his eye before sighing "than you knew about this."

"Not this arm but I was aware of the eye that he implanted in his right eye socket."

Hiruzen nodded as he pulled out a vial and placed it on the desk

Itachi picked up the vail before storing it away "well what is it that you wish to speak to me about?"

Hiruzen straightened up "Danzo is no longer a threat in the village, his ROOT area all but wiped out and the last remaining danger in the village is your own brother."

Itachi felt a sense of dread from what was said

"I want your help on whether or not we tell Sasuke-Kun the truth about that night."

Silence permeated the room as both knew that this decision was something that could change much of Sasuke's perspective about his own family.

After a minute, Itachi spoke, "what has become of him?"

"He is consumed with revenge. He sees everyone around him to be nothing but a hindrance and I fear that if he continues down this path, he might turn against the village. He has also been marked by Orochimaru's curse mark and it is infecting his mind."

Itachi took in all this information and began to think of what he could do to fix this. He sighed after a bit of thought "I had hoped that he would focus on going against me and become a hero to the village. It seems that I had failed in this." he looked at the arm and reached to it.

Hiruzen would have stopped Itachi from taking the arm but the Sharingan that are implanted in it belong to the last two remaining loyal Uchiha in the village. He was surprised to see that he had not taken the arm but a single Sharingan eye before taking out a sealing tag and sealed it away.

"I will tell Sasuke myself the whole truth about that night. He will most likely believe it more if I tell him"

"I hope so, for I fear what he will do if he still rebels."

With that, Itachi moved to the window and lifted the blinds a tad and opened the window before bursting into a flock of crows and leaving the office.

Hiruzen sighed as he moved to lift the blinds more "he could have at least allow me to remove the privacy seals first."

~meanwhile~

Ino and Hinata were sitting across from each at the training ground that team 10 usually uses. Neither of them knew how to start the conversation that they need to have.

Hinata knew what this was about but she kept fidgeting and fiddling with her fingers while looking anywhere other than at Ino.

Ino watch as Hinata did this and she could honestly say that she was just as nervous. She didn't know how else to start so she decided to be blunt "so we both love Naruto." she said with a small tint of pink on her face

Hinata was startled by the sudden statement and she "eep"ed at it. She looked to Ino and with a blush on her face she nodded.

Ino shook her head with a smile on her face 'damn it Naruto, why did you have to make another girl fall for you?' "so what are we going to do about this?"

Hinata looked to the ground as she began to play with a blade of grass in her hand "I…..I-I think that you should be the one that stays with him."

Ino was surprised at this. She would have thought that Hinata would have fought a bit to stay with Naruto, despite her shy nature. Before she could ask anything Hinata continued.

"I ...I hurt Naruto badly a long time ago. It was an order from my father but I know that it hurt him a lot and even though he said he forgave me, I still think that I don't deserve to be with him."

"I hurt him too."

Hinata looked up at Ino and saw that she had a sad expression on her face

"After we graduated from the academy, we had an argument because of what he said to Sakura-san. Now that I think about it, he probably said it to help her get out of being an admirer of Sasuke. Anyway, I got mad at him when he was telling me why he said what he said but I was so angry with him that I slapped him. He decided to just walk away but before he left I made him promise to never talk to me again…..and he did. It was later that day when I realized what I had done but it was too late. He made the promise and we haven't talked at all until that day in the forest." Ino took a deep breath as she looked down "we both hurt Naruto in a way that it would hurt him the most. I want to be with him no matter what. I don't want to create another gap between him and me but I can tell that he cares about you just as much as he does me ...maybe more."

Hinata blushed as she remembered her moment with him in the nurse's office

"I can't tell him to choose one of us...because he wouldn't be able to. He would most likely choose not to be with one of us to avoid hurting the other. I love him Hinata and no matter what I will try and be with him. I want to know if you think the same thing."

Hinata didn't need to hesitate as she nodded her head "I love him Ino. he is my strength, my life…..the missing piece in my heart. I want to spend my life with him, even if he has turned into a fox, he is still the same Naruto that I fell in love with."

Ino smiled 'I want to hate you Naruto for making another girl love you as much as I do but I can't.' "Hinata-chan I want to ask you if you are willing to be with him if he is with me too."

Hinata was startled at this but she gained a determined look "we both hurt him. I don't want to hurt him anymore so yes. I may want him to myself but I don't think he would be able to do that"

"Even if he only chooses one of us, the other won't just let that be."

Both girls had come to an agreement. They would no longer hurt Naruto by forcing him to choose. They would share him and spend their lives with him no matter what the circumstances

~a few days later with Naruto~

In was a peaceful day on the road. The sky was clear, the birds were chirping and everyone was happy

"NARUTO YOU IDIOT!" *POP BOOM*

Well mostly

Naruto and Jiraiya were right now laying on their backs, away from each other and soaked. Naruto had been working on the first step of learning the Rasengan but as it turns out that since he had a water element, it caused the water in the balloon to explode with great force, causing much damage to anything and anyone nearby.

Jiraiya sat up with a tick mark on his forehead "damn it gaki! How many times do I have to tell you not to add your element to it!"

Naruto groaned as he slowly got up "I'm trying but it's harder for me to do that."

Jiraiya could only shake his head 'how the hell is it harder to NOT add an element to your chakra?! He has the opposite problem of normal people. And he only learned how to control his elements not that long ago!' Jiraiya got back to his feet and saw that they were close to their next destination "ok, how about we take a break. We are close to our next stop so we can enter the town and I can begin looking for any clue on our target."

Naruto glared at Jiraiya "you still haven't told me who we are looking for. If you just told me, I could use my clones to look through town faster!."

"But then you wouldn't be training as hard."

Naruto had the urge to punch Jiraiya right now as he felt like this was just an excuse to perv out on something.

~later~

They had spent a few hours going around asking people if they had seen the person in the photo that Jiraiya held

Naruto had tried to look at the photo but Jiraiya always put it away before he could get a look at who it was. All he saw was blonde, so he assumed that they were looking for a blonde person but with nothing else to work with he just followed Jiraiya. After a bit of time, they made their way to an inn.

As they were getting a room a woman walked passed them and for a brief moment, she winked at Jiraiya. The man soon got a goofy perverted smile and spoke to Naruto "well gaki, I've got something that I have to take care of so I'm going to let you check into our room."

Before Naruto could say anything he heard Jiraiya call out to the woman

"Mind if I buy you a drink, my fair lady."

Naruto had an eye twitch at what he watched the old pervert leave. Sighing he left to get some rest in their room "damn pervert."

Once Naruto entered his room he flopped down on the bed and just looked at the ceiling "I am going to make that pervert suffer the second we find the nextHokage. I know he helped me out with that frog fighting style but still, he pervs out way too mu…!" Naruto suddenly bolted to his feet as he felt massive amounts of negativity "what the hell!" he could feel massive amounts of KI and an equal amount of regret. He didn't know who it was coming from but he could tell that whoever it was, was getting closer. He made a clone and left it in the room as he decided to jump out of the window and made it the room next door. He looked through the window and saw that it was vacant. Looking at the bed he focused his chakra and switched places with a pillow. Once inside he pressed himself against the door and suppressed his chakra as much as he could. He was really glad that he practiced his stealth when he pranked the village and tried to stay away from the Anbu. he could feel the negativity coming closer and closer to where he was and he began to sweat as they got closer. He could now tell that the feeling of KI and regret were coming from two different people.

~with the clone~

The clone sat on the bed as it stared at the door. He pulled out a kunai, ready to jump out of the way the second the door is busted down. After a few agonizing seconds….there was a knock at the door. He was extremely dumbfounded at the fact that someone with this kind of feeling would feel the need to knock on the door. After hearing another set of knocks he chose to answer. As he was getting close he thought to himself 'now that I think about it, this Ki is nowhere near as dense as Rama-tou-san.' with that thought in his head, he opened the door.

"Naruto Uzumaki?"

The first thing the clone noticed was that the two people in front of him were wearing black robes with red clouds on them. Another thing he noticed were the headbands they had. Both were from different villages and each had a cut going through the symbol. One of them was the symbol for Kiri but the one that fully caught his attention was the one with HIS village.

"You are Naruto Uzumaki are you not?"

The clone shook his head to get out of his thoughts before getting serious, whoever these people were they were not friendly. "Depends. Who's asking?"

The one with his symbol merely looked impassively at him and he was shocked when he saw his eyes turn into the Sharingan. 'Oh boy'

"Itachi he doesn't need to be in one piece. Why don't you let me cut off his legs and we can just take drag what's left, back with us?"

Itachi looked to his left at his partner Kisame for a second before shifting his eyes to the door next door. Turning back to Naruto he shook his head. "It would be better that he remains intact as he might die from blood loss. We shall take him with us, willingly or not." he was about to activate a genjutsu to convince Naruto to go with them but they were interrupted.

"ITACHI!"

They all looked to who yelled

The clone saw it was Sasuke 'what is he doing here!"

Kisame looked on with a smile at the newcomer "well, this sure is interesting." he noticed the eyes of the boy "The Sharingan? And he looks a lot like you do Itachi. A relative of yours?"

Itachi turned to face Naruto "he's my little brother."

~with Naruto~

Naruto was surprised at this 'so one of them is the teme's brother.' He wished he could see what was going on but he was being cautious about this, especially since they were apparently after him. 'Better wait and see what happens.'

Sasuke glared at Itachi, not caring about the other people here. As he channeled his chakra he growled out "I've done as you've said Itachi. I've fostered my hatred for you and I am ready to kill you!" he did the hand signs for the Chidori. He brought it to his side while using his other hand to bring down his high collar, revealing the curse mark spreading "PREPARE TO DIE ITACHI!" he made a charge while dragging the Chidori on the wall. Leaving a large trench in it.

Naruto heard the destruction coming and at the last second moved away from the door and saw a ball of lighting cut the door in half. "Shit he's outnumbered!"

Sasuke leapt forward, thrusting his Chidori at Itachi

Kisame smiled at the whole thing

The Naruto clone stood there watching the whole thing, thinking of a way to get Sasuke out of this, as he had a gut feeling that Sasuke was no match for these two.

Itachi turned to face Sasuke, instantly grabbed the wrist and threw it to the side, causing the wall to explode.

Sasuke gritted his teeth as he saw that his jutsu was just flung to the side. He tried to pull his wrist free but Itachi had an iron grip

The Naruto clone decided that now was the time to do something. He channeled chakra into his throat and launched his demon free at the two

Kisame grabbed his sword and swung it down at the fire causing it to split and dissipate

The clone was wide-eyed as he saw his attack fade away "what the hell?!"

Kisame smiled wider "my sword Samehada, can eat and disperse chakra. In other words, your little fire trick will do nothing but feed it" after he finished saying this, the very sword shivered and gave a low purring growl. "Oh seems he likes your chakra, like a spicy dish apparently."

Sasuke grew tired of trying to get his wrist out so he jumped and attempted to kick Itachi.

Itachi released Sasuke's wrist, which caused Sasuke to lose balance in the air, and kicked Sasuke in the stomach.

Sasuke coughed up some blood, flew down the hall, impacted the wall, and slumped down to the ground. He gritted his teeth as he tried to get back up "I'll…..f-fucking….kill you…"

Itachi made his way to his fallen little brother, ready to finish this. But as he made his way he heard four heavy thumps to his right, in one of the rooms. He turned his head and instantly brought up a hand to grab a kick aimed for his head. The impact of the kick on his hand created a gust of wind to blow down the hall. "Impressive strength you have. However, you are not strong enough to be any sort of match against me, Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto glared at the one he kicked and figured this to be Sasuke's brother since he could see the Sharingan in his eyes. Swinging his other leg in the air he tried to continue his attack but his second kick missed as Itachi ducked under it.

Itachi used the fact that the boy was in the air to palm strike him in the back, which sent him towards Kisame. Itachi turned back to Sasuke who was now on his knees "time to end this little brother." He picked up Sasuke by the neck and pressed him against the wall "you don't have enough hate in you. You are weak and you always will be." he activated his Mangekyou Sharingan and looked into Sasuke's eyes "Tsukuyomi!"

Kisame turned to see another blonde flying towards him

Naruto was gritting his teeth from the hit that Itachi gave him but he quickly regained his bearings to see he was heading towards Kisame. Using the momentum from the hit, he flipped in the air and channeled chakra into his now extended claws. He put all his strength into the swipe in order to cut the man's face but only hit the sword.

The clone took this chance and went to strike the man while his back was turned with his wind claws. Unfortunately, Kisame kicked him in the stomach, which caused him to dispel

Kisame looked a bit more interested "so that was a shadow clone. Now when did you have a chance in doing that?" Kisame grabbed Naruto by the throat and squeezed hard

Naruto felt his throat closing and was really glad that he didn't really need to breathe but the pain was not helping his predicament. 'Damn it!' he tired kicking at Kisame but due to his hight, he couldn't reach. He tried thinking of what to switch with but he couldn't focus on anything. And Itachi had too much chakra so he wouldn't be able to switch without using a lot of his chakra. He saw that Kisame was bringing his sword up to his legs

Before anything else could be done a large puff of smoke enveloped them and Kisame had to move his sword in order to block a weapon he could not see due to the smoke. He dropped the boy as he had to jump away from another strike from the unknown assailant, which after the smoke cleared was revealed to be a human-sized toad with a sword in it's grasp.

Naruto was caught before he could hit the ground. He looked up to see who it was that caught him and much to his relief it was the perverted sage "what took you so long?"

Jiraiya smiled down at the boy "had some things to take care of."

Naruto noticed that the woman that they saw earlier was hanging on his opposite shoulder "should I call the authorities on you for what you did to her?"

Jiraiya really felt like facefaulting but he held it back and turned his gaze to the two enemy-nin "we have bigger problems right now."

Itachi had finished with Sasuke and dropped his little brother on the ground. He turned and walked to Kisame "Kisame, we should retreat."

Kisame looked to Itachi with a quirked eyebrow "you use that on your little brother eh. Even for me, that is cold." Kisame's smile dropped when he realized that because of it, they would need to retreat "couldn't you have just killed him instead of ruining my fun?"

Jiraiya glared at the two "you two aren't going anywhere!" quickly going through some hand signs he slammed his free hand to the ground, making sure that the woman didn't fall off his shoulder. Suddenly the hall turned into a pink squishy material.

Naruto was grossed out as he was reminded of the snake that almost ate him and the material looked too much like the inside of the snake's mouth. He also noticed that Sasuke was not inside this disgusting area with them.

Itachi and Kisame looked around the new area before Itachi looked to Jiraiya "I believe that our stay must be cut short, I'm afraid." he looked to the side of the wall and closed one of his eyes before shooting it open "Amaterasu!" Black flames suddenly appeared on the part of the wall he looked at.

Jiraiya was stunned to see the part of the toad stomach that Itachi shot at begin to burn away. He was so stunned at this that he was to slow in stopping them "wait!" he ran to the hole that was made and saw that they had disappeared. He made sure he kept his distance away from the black flames as he had never seen them before and he was not keen on finding out what they are the hard way. He sighed as he dispelled the toad stomach and gently out the woman down before dropping Naruto unceremoniously on the ground.

Naruto groaned as he hit his head on the ground 'he will suffer my pranks from hell. Damn, I can't wait till I get back to the village.' Naruto got back on his feet and noticed the slumped form of Sasuke. He gave a small whine as he made his way to him, ignoring what Jiraiya was doing. Kneeling down in front of the Uchiha he noticed the blank look in his eyes "damn what did he do to you?" he waved his hand in front of Sasuke's face in order to get a reaction but he suddenly a weird feeling went up his spine. The feeling was familiar and he was trying to think about when he felt it last. He heard Jiraiya walk closer to him and at that moment his instincts took over and he laid flat on the ground just in time to hear

"Dynamic Entry!"

Naruto heard a yelp of pain from Jiraiya and he remembered when he felt that feeling before. It was when he had first met Guy-sensei and his odd way of coming into a battle. "I'm so glad that I wasn't hit by that again"

End of Chapter

Beta Reader is under the weather so this one has not been beta read. once it has I will replace this one with the B-read version at a later time. no real change will happen just a better flow

Ok so I'm giving Naruto a different problem with the Rasengan than in canon and I have a solution he will come up with later on

Ok something that I want to clarify here since I have wanted to clarify it in a chapter awhile ago but it got away from me. For the Kawarimi, in this fic it is still a basic jutsu but I have read it being used to switch with people before and in my head, I felt it needed an explanation so what I came up with is that it is easy to switch with inanimate objects because they have no chakra so, in order to switch with someone, you must use more chakra. And the stronger the chakra the person has, the more you need for switching with them, which is why normal shinobi don't use it in such a manner because you could lose a lot of chakra because of it. Naruto doesn't have this problem because he has a massive amount of it

The bit with Hinata and Ino was difficult for me as I had no clue how to make that conversation work. I hope I did alright and you find it acceptable

Ok to clear something up before a guest asks me. the four thumps that were heard were Naruto removing his greaves and bracers. This is just cause I have had a quest reviewer ask something that I feel I answered within the chapter or should be insinuated.

Also, a lot of you readers have given me some ideas on what Naruot's second summon contract should be. Weasels, bears, foxes, eagles. Heck, I had one reviewer suggest some summons for Hinata and Ino. Hinata with either a panda summons or bunny and Ino with a cat summons. Interesting thought about those two and I might do it. But most are leaning towards the fox summoning contract for Naruto

Also was Pm'd about possibly doing the movies but I'm not sure about it