Naruto waited outside of the Uchiha clan main house while the sand ninja got dressed. The first to come out was Temari in her clothes from the invasion and they were fixed and clean. She had her hair in its usual four spiky ponytails and she had her battle fan strapped to her back.

Walking over she was a bit scared but she quickly reminded herself that he was far nicer than she had expected from him and he had already told them that he was not mad at them or their council. Looking to her fellow blonde she spoke up. "You don't look like the typical Uchiha that we are told about back in my village, how did you come to have this compound?"

Naruto looked down sadly. "I inherited it from a friend, he died protecting me in a moment of weakness and left me his clan compound along with everything in it as well as giving me his eyes. I owe my life to him and have sworn to avenge his clansman in his stead."

Temari could feel the hate radiating off of him but she could also feel the crushing sadness, he was handling his emotions as best he could and he had help from others but he was nowhere near at healthy levels. Going for her chance to help Temari placed a hand on his shoulder and looked him in his sharingan eyes with a small smile. "Listen, everyone starts off weak and many people die in battle, there was absolutely nothing you could have done to prevent it just grow stronger and protect your friends and village to the best of your ability."

Naruto looked to the sand kunoichi and smiled slightly. "You know, for a sand ninja you act a hell of a lot like a Konoha ninja."

At that moment the other sand ninja walked out and Naruto stepped back from Temari as he put on his blindfold. "Time to get going, we'll be traveling at civilian pace so it will be two weeks before we get to Suna."

For some reason that she didn't understand Temari felt sad about the sudden change in tone from the other blonde.

(Scene change)

For the next week it was the same monotonous thing, walk through the day and sleep during the night with Naruto's shadow clones watching over them, wash, rinse, and repeat. It was the night of their seventh day and Naruto was asleep in his tent when he had the weirdest dream ever.

(scene change:mind/dreamscape)

He stood in an area that was nothing but endless black as two men in white haori's stood before him. These men seemed to be twins with fair skin, raven black hair, and coal black eyes. Naruto looked to the two with a raised eyebrow. "Ok, I'm just going to ask this now, where are we and who the hell are you two?"

The first to speak was the one to the blondes left. "I am Asura and I'm your past life while this is my brother Indra, he's your friends past life. we are in your mind."

Naruto was about to speak when Indra interrupted him. "Due to the situation we're in I'm unable to pass my abilities down to my most recent reincarnation so my brother and I have come to an agreement, I will give these abilities to you along with the knowledge to use them but you will gain them over time through scrolls that I give you when I believe you to be ready for them. You will also be changed on the molecular scale meaning that you will biologically be an Uchiha."

Naruto tilted his head to the side in confusion. "How in the name of Kami do you plan to do such a thing?"

Indra just snapped his fingers and Narutos body began to change. His hair started to darken until it was raven black, his eyes changed to the same color, and he got a tad bit paler. "This will be what you look like in a week's time, I'd suggest saying that your previous looks was a genjutsu to hide your lineage and that your father was Fugaku Uchiha."

The former blonde was shocked at such a major change in appearance but his mind began to go into action. "I'm an Uchiha now, I can do more than just avenge them now and rebuild."

Indra nodded. "Yes, also I've given you the next evolution of the sharingan, you will no longer lose your sight from over use of your advanced abilities. I believe that my decendents have called it the eternal mangekyou sharingan over the years."

Naruto bowed in respect and gratitude. "I thank you for this boon, I will be able to keep my promise that much easier now."

Asura spoke up. "Yes, and now for my gift to you as my reincarnation." He snaps his fingers as well and wood starts to grow around them until it was a lush forest. "You now have wood style but no knowledge of how it works, my only bit of knowledge that I'll give you is that it takes a mix of water and earth chakra to use."

Again Naruto bowed before he notices that his body is starting to fade. "You're in danger child, your target along with an ally of his draws near, don't die so soon."

(Scene change)

Naruto sat up in his tent quickly and started crawling out. Speaking up he woke everyone. "Get up, we need to leave immediately!"

(Temari's POV)

Temari groaned as she crawled out of her own tent. She was about to speak when she saw her fellow blonde in a pair of black anbu style pants without anything covering his upper body. Looking at his chest she saw scars, everything from cuts to burns, what's more was that when he turned around he had a flawless back, not a single scratch on it.

Before she could ask about them he spoke to her while putting on a fishnet undershirt. "Gather your stuff, we leave immediately."

The tone in his voice left no room for argument and she did as told. Within minutes the whole group was packed and ready to leave. The blonde went to speak when he was distracted by a murder of crows appearing in front of him and forming none other than Itachi Uchiha.

Unsealing a tantō the blonde got in between his opponent and the sand ninja. "Leave now, I'll handle this!"

As they stood there Naruto glared at them, sharingan spinning. "I said LEAVE!" This got them and they left quickly.

Turning back to Itachi he spoke calmly. "Tell your friend to step out now, I don't have the patience to deal with this right now and would rather just kill you both and continue with my mission."

Before Itachi could say or do anything a tall shark-like man walked out of the shadows holding a bandaged up sword. Looking this man over Naruto spoke. "Kisame Hoshigaki, rogue mist ninja and former member of the seven ninja swordsman, wielder of the sentient blade named Samehada. You are a water style ninjutsu user, a kenjutsu master, and a bit of a brute in battle, your blade absorbs chakra and can fuse with you into your sharkman for which is what got you the title of tailless tailed beast plus it has shark scales to allow for shredding the opponent. You are listed as S-rank in the bingo book with a kill on sight order."

The now named Kisame grinned at this. "It seems that you've done your homework child, very good."

Naruto grunted as he shifted his stance in preparation for battle. "I researched every missing ninja alive or dead to better prepare for my life as a shinobi, another fun fact I discovered is that your weapon actually has no true loyalty to anyone as long as it can get chakra so I will be taking Samehada as my own."

In a flash of speed that Kisame wasn't expecting the blonde got in front of him and kicked him in the chest as he snatched Samehada from the S-rank ninja.

Sealing the large blade away he smirked. "I'll learn how to use that on a later date."

Going in for the kill Naruto aimed for Itachi's heart.

Having seen Naruto's speed and having his own sharingan active Itachi sidestepped the attack and hit the blonde in the back, knocking him onto the ground where he groaned in pain. Looking down at this boy he felt nothing but disappointment. "This is it? Is this the result of your training to kill me? You're weak and my brother was a fool to entrust everything to you."

Naruto hopped back up with his sharingan spinning angrily as he sliced at the older Uchiha wildly. Said Uchiha dodged each strike easily before getting in Naruto's guard and punching him in the gut.

Hunching over Naruto was forced to regurgitate his dinner from the night before. "No form once you've lost yourself to your rage, no comprehension of your situation when you see your target. You are a disgrace to shinobi everywhere."

Grabbing the blonde by his shirt to drag him off Itachi was hit with compressed sand. The strike sent the Uchiha rolling until he hit a tree.

Standing up Naruto was forced to dodge a water bullet from Kisame and grabbed his tantō off of the ground. Taking a quick glance he saw Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari standing side by side. "I told you to run."

Gaara's nodded. "Yes you did but you are also the one to teach us that we should never back down when an ally is in danger, we will help while the others run ahead."

Naruto nodded with a smirk. "Fine then, let's do this."

Itachi stood and looked them over before he began to walk away. "Let's go Kisame, we are not sufficiently prepared to face off against two jinchuuriki at once."

Growling a little the shark-like man followed his partner. Naruto went to attack Itachi but was held back by Gaara's sand. "Not today Uzumaki-san, we must leave and grow in strength for the next time we face these men or worse."

Seeing the wisdom in this course of action Naruto reluctantly agreed. Tying his blindfold back on he followed the siblings towards the rest of the sand ninja and towards Suna.

As they moved forward Naruto thought about his quick defeat. 'I lost… I was taken down so soundly that he had only used one taijutsu move from the academy. Has all of my training been for nothing? Am I really that weak?'

This train of thought continued until Temari spoke to him. "How did you get all of those scars on your body? Training accidents?"

The blonde kind of stiffened up but then relaxed a little. "Some of them yes but most are from my childhood. I've been beaten by the civilians many times as a kid, they tried to beat me into submission but I never once backed down, I always stood tall with my head up high to prove that I will never be beaten, that I will never surrender or submit to their will. I don't have a single scratch on my back for a reason and that's because I never turned and fled, never cowered away from it."

Temari was both in awe and sad at the same time. She was in awe of how strong a will one would need to do such a thing as what he did and she was sad that such horrible things happened to him, she wanted nothing more than to give him a hug and try to help him forget such awful things but knew that she couldn't.

The rest of the trip was mostly uneventful except for a bandit group attempted to attack them and Naruto killed them all to release some pent up aggression. over the next week he noticed that his eyes had changed to the black of an Uchiha but kept them covered and had to wear a hooded cloak to hide his darkening hair. As soon as they got to the Suna gateway they were met by a group of old men and women. All of the sand ninja bowed to them. "Honourable councilmen."

Naruto stepped forward and pulled out the scroll he'd been given and gave it to the closest councilmen. "I've been told to give this to you and await the response scroll."

The councilmen nodded and turned to Temari. "You, lead our guest to the best hotel we have and tell them that I will pay for his room personally."

Temari nodded and started to lead the way.

Showing Naruto around she had showed him where the market place was along with the park which consisted of a swing and a rocking horse before bringing him to the hotel. A lady behind the counter looked up. "Welcome to the… oh my kami!"

Turning to look behind her at a door she screamed. "TEMARI'S BACK!"

A group of children ran out of the door and surrounded her. All of the children tugged on her battle dress and tried to speak over each other.

Laughing lightly the girl spoke. "Easy children, one at a time, I'm only one girl after all."

Naruto watched as these children spoke with the girl, asking about her time in Konoha and she spun a tale that made it look like Orochimaru had attacked out of nowhere.

One of the children looked to Naruto and walked over to him. This child was a little girl with dark brown hair in twin pigtails wearing a dress and was carrying a teddy bear. "Who are you?"

The blonde crouched down to her level. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki but you can call me Naruto."

The girl scrunched up her features in concentration before she seemed to have come to some kind of conclusion. "Your name means fishcake right?"

Chuckling as he rubbed this girl's hair he nodded. "Yeah it does but how mine's written it actually means maelstrom which is a really big whirlpool."

The girl was awestruck and practically had stars in her eyes. "Woah! That's so cool! I can't wait to tell the others!"

The girl ran over to the other kids and told them what he had just said.

When the kids were satisfied they said bye and went back through the door. The girl behind the counter smiled towards him. "You're great with kids, you got any younger siblings?"

The young Uzumaki shook his head. "Not really, some kids that are like siblings to me yes but none related to me."

The girl shrugged "Either way you're amazing, so what can I help you with?"

This is when Temari speaks up. "The council has ordered me to bring him here and say that his room will be paid for by them."

The girl nods then grabs a key from under her desk. "Well here you go, your room is on the top floor, fourth door on the right."

Thanking her Naruto begins his trek up the stairs but stops to look to Temari. "Oh yeah, thanks for the help back at the border. I don't know what would have happened if you and your brothers wouldn't have helped me out." Without waiting for a response Naruto continues up the steps.

XXXAN: hello and welcome to the newest chapter of one difference changes all, how do you like it?I'm sorry if some of you don't like the way I had things go in the dream scene but it's the only way it was gonna work in my opinion. I also apologize for how short the fight scene was but again it made sense to me, while Naruto is crazy strong he has little to no experience with his power.Itachi may look like I've made him far more of an asshole but he's just discovered that his little brother that he tried so hard to protect was dead and now that he knows that Naruto is the one with his brothers eyes he's trying to test him and even push him in the right direction as subtly as possible.