Jiraiya eventually made it back to the base after he had grabbed some more clothes for Naruto along with a pre-made black suit around his size. Jiraiya had gotten a call a little earlier for Jack that there would be a funeral for both Minato and Kushina which was being funded and set up privately by Overwatch. Jiraiya felt slightly glad that all the pressure for managing a funeral wouldn't be shoved on him.
Originally he was slightly weary of coming to a funeral with Naruto after the murders but now that he knew that the funeral would be completely private and in a secret location he felt safe that his teammates would be able to protect Naruto. It would be quite an unpleasant day but now that Jiraiya knew where the funeral's location would be, he had to make a few calls to some…people that he knew.
When Jiraiya entered the building, he saw Ophelia sitting at her desk eating a cup of instant noodles while typing on her computer. He walked up to the desk and looked at the woman. "Hello Ophelia my dear, it is so nice to see you radiating such beauty," As Jiraiya said this, he tried to lean a little over the desk in order to see down the red head's blouse. Ophelia reached under her desk and pulled out a spray bottle which she quickly squirted into Jiraiya's face.
"Bad pervert. Go back to the porno store from whence you came." She stated monotonously in a way that showed how disassociated she was with Jiraiya and his leching. Jiraiya wiped the water off his face before leaning back from the desk.
"So anything happen while I was gone?" Jiraiya asked.
"Naruto and Reinhardt returned from their trip out into the city and Torbjörn walked in an hour ago." Jiraiya began to walk away from the desk before a cough attracted his attention. He turned around to look at Ophelia. "Just so you know I have a second bottle under here filled with pepper spray. Next time, don't try to perve on me."
"You know you love the attention." Jiraiya shot back.
"I would like the attention from a man a few decades younger than you. Now get out of here before I use the pepper spray." Jiraiya held his hands in front of his face before backing away to the elevator. He managed to press the button on the elevator and backed into the elevator when he heard the ding.
"We would have a wonderful life together!" Jiraiya shouted as the doors began to close.
"In your dreams!" Ophelia replied while chuckling at the end. The doors closed and the elevator went up to the top floor before opening to reveal Torbjörn standing in the front of the elevator.
"Hello Torbjörn. How are you doing?" Jiraiya asked the short stout and bearded man. Torbjörn waved Jiraiya with his robotic red claw of a hand in a silent order for Jiraiya to follow which he did.
"Your son was a real piece of shit. Sorry for your loss." The short man replied. Jiraiya could already tell that this was the best he was going to get from the bearded man. There was no love lost between Minato and the man in front of him as both had issues with one another. Minato hated how Torbjörn was so willing to make weapons of mass destruction while Torbjörn hated how Minato was one of the creators behind the Omnics. The two had once tried to work with one another on a project but both had separated due to their clashing ideologies.
"Thank you, Torbjörn. Now is there a reason that you want me to follow you or do you just like me that much?" Jiraiya asked with a smile. The short man grumbled before he replied.
"I don't like you and I hate your son even more. What I want to know is why you didn't take care of that A.I. inside your brat when you had the chance?" Jiraiya's eyes widened at how the short man knew this. Wait- he already figured it out, it was Jack.
"So why did Jack tell you?" Jiraiya asked.
"He wanted me to check up on the brat since I'm the only one available who can even understand what Minato did. Now once again, why didn't you take care of the A.I. when you had the chance?"
"What do you mean, had the chance?" Jiraiya asked with confusion.
"That brat's brain is part mechanical. The only way that he could function now without his body shutting down on him is to have that A.I. in his head. It should have been exterminated when you first heard about it." Jiraiya sighed at the small man. His hatred of Omnics would at times take over his common sense which was quite annoying when your son was involved in the creation of Omnics.
"What would you have me do? Go through the hassle of removing the A.I. which would as you have said, kill Naruto." Torbjörn shook his head in annoyance.
"It would be much more humane than what that brat must live through now. I'm attending the funeral by the way." Torbjörn stated in a tone that was full of annoyance.
"Why would you wish to come to the funeral of a person you hated?" Jiraiya asked full of confusion.
"I may have hated the annoying shit but he didn't deserve to die. See you later." With that, the stout man walked away leaving Jiraiya to his own thoughts. Torbjörn had always been…distant from him due to his relation to Minato. Whenever they had to work together, they would only really speak when they needed to discuss something really important…or when they were really, really drunk. The only person here who Torbjorn wasn't crass to was Angela. He really didn't know how that friendship started.
Jiraiya walked into the kitchen and saw that Naruto and Reinhardt were sitting together. Naruto was rubbing his head though which Jiraiya guessed was due to Torbjörn's probing earlier. "Hey Naruto, did you and Reinhardt have fun?" Jiraiya asked. Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, it was cool y'know. Reiny took me to the park and the zoo! He promised to show me the Hoff later, whatever that is. Then I got to meet Torbjörn! He was so cool and used some type of thingy on me!" Naruto finished excitedly. Jiraiya smiled at this and walked over to the table where he set the bag of clothes onto the table. The clothes that Naruto wore were just a pair that of clothes that Jiraiya picked out early in the morning at a random drug store that he spotted. He grabbed the first thing he saw off the rack that he thought would fit Naruto and bought it immediately.
"What's that, grampa?" Naruto asked.
"It's some clothes that I picked up for you." Jiraiya then walked over to Naruto and put his hand onto the boy's shoulder, "Naruto, we have to go to a funeral in two days. Do you know what that is?" Jiraiya asked.
"You say goodbye to dead people." Naruto replied. Jiraiya nodded at the answer. Not the most elegant answer but it summed up everything.
"That's very good. Now do you know who it would be for?"
"Mom…and dad." Naruto said softly.
"That's correct. Now I want to ask you, do you want to go to it?" Naruto took his time to think on this before gaining a look of certainty of his face. He looked directly in Jiraiya's eyes.
"I wanna go." Jiraiya tousled Naruto's hair and felt pride well up within him. He could understand that this was a difficult period for him and he felt proud that Naruto was being strong during this.
"Good boy." Jiraiya looked up at Reinhardt who showed that same looked of pride that he did. Eventually Reinhardt spoke up.
"Little one," Naruto turned to look at the large man, "you are strong for what you are doing and we will stand with you during this trying time." Reinhardt then clapped his hands together and lost the serious look on his face as it was replaced with one full of mirth. "Now would you like me to tell you the time when your vater managed to fill his lab with cheese?"
"Yeah! But what does vater mean?" Naruto asked. Reinhardt thought about this for a second before he became aware of what happened.
"Oh sorry little one, sometimes my German slips into my wording." Reinhardt chuckled at this, "Vater means father, little one. So would you still like to know?" Naruto nodded furiously. "Well then, let me tell you a story," Jiraiya remembered this event quite clearly. It was during the end of the Omnic crisis and the team decided to celebrate with Kushina and himself included. Earlier that day, Minato and Torbjörn worked together in order to try and make a tub that could make cheese for nachos. Somehow the design got messed up and when the two turned the machine on, well, it was very ugly, tasty, but ugly as everyone at the party got covered in the stuff.
It wasn't all that bad since some of the ladies removed their clothes which Jiraiya made sure to write down in his notebook. Thank God Kushina never found out that she was the inspiration for one of the main characters of his books.
Anyway, Jiraiya walked away from the kitchen and pulled out his cellphone. He dialed a number and the call was picked up immediately.
"Hello grandfather, it is quite the surprise to hear from you today." A calm voice said.
"Yeah it is. I have to tell you something though so I hope that you're sitting down for this because it is very serious."
"You mean about father, correct?" The voice asked. A said tone filled the voice.
"Uhh, how did you figure out already? I would think that you wouldn't get any news from where you are living."
"We have some telecommunications that a few of us use here. It is quite sad. Many of my brothers are mourning at this moment. A few of us have decided to meditate on this."
"He was a good kid. But I just want you to know that the funeral is in two days. I was hoping that you could come if it's possible."
"Where would the location of the funeral be?"
"Right now it's a secret but you can come to the base in New York City and we'll take you from there."
"Understood, I will be there as soon as possible."
"Certainly! When will you be arriving?"
"I will arrive in two days."
"Excellent. I'll see you tomorrow then." Jiraiya said. He was quite pleased that the guest could arrive.
"May the iris look ever upon you. Goodbye grandfather." The call ended and Jiraiya put his phone back into his pocket. Jiraiya could tell that Tekhartha was hiding much of his sadness under a mask of reserve. This was most likely because he had to be a pillar for the other monks that he led. The two of them spoke every once in a while due to Tekhartha being a leader during the end of the Omnic war that wished for peace between their two races.
Minato spoke often to Tekhartha as both shared a sense of optimism and peace that came to fruition most likely because said monk in question had his A.I. created by Minato. Minato really did excel at creating A.I.s during his lifetime.
A ping rang from the elevator and it opened to reveal a woman with olive skin and a smirk as she looked at Jiraiya. She wore a jacket with multiple medals and awards on it while a beret covered her head. To finish the look off, she wore a matching skirt. "Hey you old perve, how are you doing?" She asked as while walking over to Jiraiya with her arms open in a hug. Jiraiya walked over to her and she grabbed him in a hug. "Touch my ass and I will break your hand."
Jiraiya pulled his hand away quickly so that he wouldn't risk getting his hand broken by the sniper. "So how long did it take for you to get here Ana?"
"I came as soon as I heard. The others are coming up. They were parking at least when I last saw them." Ana Amari: the Egyptian sharpshooter responded.
"Oh boy, the whole gang is here." Jiraiya said as the two separated. "So how was your trip?"
"Long, hot, and filled with too many bugs."
"That's what-" Jiraiya was quickly shushed by Ana.
"Breaking your hand is still up for grabs." Jiraiya quickly stopped talking. "Much better."
"So how is Faareha?" Jiraiya asked. He had met Ana's daughter once and he had found the young girl to be quite reserved. She was probably a teenager by now or at least close to it.
"Fareeha is doing quite well. She already has a dream to one day join Overwatch. I'll be quite proud to see that happen in the future. So what about Minato's kid. Naruto, right?"
"Naruto is dealing with what happened in his own way. It's quite easy to see that he is suffering. I wish none of this happened."
"Agreed. So where is everyone else?" Ana asked while looking around the area.
"Naruto and Reinhardt are in the kitchen, Torbjörn is probably in his room, and I think that Jack is in the command center." Jiraiya replied. Ana grinned at Jiraiya.
"And let me guess, Torbjörn is acting like a stuck up…what was the word?"
"Dick."
"Yes that's it. Torbjörn is always acting like a dick. I really love that word. Probably the best English word in the world. So many meanings…" Ana trailed off. Jiraiya couldn't contain his laughter.
"So your mind is always thinking about dick, huh?"
"Hand Jiraiya!"
"Shutting up." Ana began to walk past Jiraiya and patted him on the cheek.
"Good boy." She said and walked to the kitchen. As she did this, the elevator binged open once again and to reveal a tall man in a gray jacket, black pants, gloves, and a ski hat with dark hair and a handlebar mustache. Strapped to his sides were two shot guns which the man was well known for dual wielding. Next to him was a woman with a pair of black glasses and dark hair in a bun. She wore a skirt and gray blouse while giving off an air of authority.
The two walked out of the elevator together. The man was named Gabriel Reyes while the woman was named Gabrielle Adawe. These were two of the six founders of Overwatch. Gabe was in Jiraiya's personal opinion, a bit of an ass. He didn't know how Jack was friends with the man but Jiraiya couldn't stand him. Gabrielle was the one of the few woman that he wouldn't lech on as that woman could quite easily make his life a living hell.
"Gabe, Gabby! How are you two doing?" Jiraiya asked.
"Fine." Gabe said in a huff before quickly walking past the man. Gabrielle walked up to Jiraiya in a brisk manner as she looked him up and down before giving the pervert a wry smile.
"Hello Jiraiya. It has been a while. I'm sorry about Minato."
"Thank you Gabby." Jiraiya looked past the woman and towards the elevator while expecting someone to pop out.
"If you are looking for Liao, then stop. He said he would arrive at the funeral." Gabrielle stated. Jiraiya leaned back into place and looked back into the eyes of the petite woman before him.
"Liao was always a bit…antisocial."
"Agreed. I'll be in my room if you need me. I am going to be making some calls." Gabrielle walked away, her heels clicked on the floor with each step. Finally Jiraiya was completely alone. He looked at the elevator and was suspicious that there would be another guest. As he walked away from the elevator, he quickly turned around while expecting the elevator to open. Calmed by his observation he walked away from the elevator.
Ding!
Damnit! Jiraiya turned around and saw Ophelia walking out of the elevator. "Hello fair lady! Why are you up here? Did you come to finally accept my invitation for dinner?" Ophelia frowned and walked up to Jiraiya before shoving a notepad into his chest. He grabbed it and noticed that it was open. The notepad was open and horrifyingly enough, it was at a page that Jiraiya had written about the angry woman standing in front of him.
"That fell out of your pocket. I did not enjoy reading about how I would be used in your smut books." She then walked away briskly towards the elevator before giving him the classic eyes on you sign as the doors shut.
"That…actually could have been much worse. With that, Jiraiya walked towards his room. He was too tired to deal with anything else. As he walked by the kitchen he could hear Naruto squeal in joy at meeting a few more of his heroes. Jiraiya chuckled at this as he entered his room. He didn't notice how dusty it was from last night due to everything that happened. He walked to his desk with the chair pulled out from it and removed his jacket which he placed onto the chair.
He looked up from the chair and at the picture on the desk which caused a sense of nostalgia to enter him as he picked the photo up and looked at it. The picture showed a six year old Minato laughing while being held by a well endowed blonde woman as he stood next to the two with his arm over the shoulders of the woman. It was one of the few family photos that were taken that Jiraiya still kept. The rest had been lost when he moved here to the US. About two months after the photo was taken, the woman in the photo was killed. This woman was Tsunade Senju and she was his wife.
Jiraiya put the photo back and removed his guns which were attached to his forearms. Then he removes the greaves that launched the guns from his arms and set them next to the guns on the desk. After that, he walked over to the bed and collapsed onto it while allowing darkness to finally consume his sight.
Two Days Later
Naruto had enjoyed another night playing with Kurama. To him, Kurama was the big brother that he never had which he considered to be the greatest thing ever. Last night they had managed to watch a lot of the Disney movies that Kurama illegally downloaded off the internet. After they finished watching the movie Finding Dory, Kurama had him wake up to start the day which sadly enough involved going to the funeral.
Yesterday Naruto hung out with Gabriel and Reinhardt. The two had been left in the base to babysit him as Everyone else had to leave in order to do as his grampa said, super secret Overwatch stuff. Gabriel was while a little cold, Naruto felt like he managed to crack through that icy exterior when he mentioned how cool his shotguns were. The three of them then watched some movies together before all of them left to get dinner at a diner that Gabriel liked to go to here.
Naruto got out of his bed and walked into the bathroom and cleaned himself up, well as much as a child of five would clean themselves, before putting on the suit that his grampa had gotten him. The shirt, pants, and jacket were easy to get on but Naruto had no idea on how he would put the long strip of black cloth on.
'That is a tie, Naruto. Hold on a minute and I'll get you the instructions for tying it.' Kurama assured Naruto while he searched the internet for instructions for tying ties. After a few seconds he found a file and downloaded it into Naruto's brain. 'I hope you got that.'
"It feels weird, Kurama. It's like something pushed itself into my head." Naruto stated and it was true. The way the information processed through his mind was completely unique. Usually Kurama didn't download anything directly into his mind and it was instead just processed through him when he was asleep.
'You'll get used to it. Now try to tie that tie!' Kurama replied with excitement as he wanted to see how the download would work with Naruto being wide awake as he was. Naruto walked in front of the mirror with tie in hand and put it around his neck. A few twists and a pull through a hole and Naruto had a perfectly set tie laying proudly down his chest. 'Good job. Now you better get to the kitchen, after all you don't want to go to the funeral on an empty stomach.' Naruto nodded and walked away from the mirror and out of his room towards the kitchen.
When he got there, he saw that the Overwatch members were all dressed in black clothes. Torbjörn stood out the most compared to everyone else due to his red claw of an arm appearing to have been shoved through his suit in order to get it to fit. Each of the members were eating and when Jiraiya saw him, he handed Naruto a plate filled with sausages, scrambled eggs, and toast which Naruto took with glee. Jiraiya handed Naruto a fork and Naruto dug into the food with a ravenous hunger that took some of the adults near him by surprise. Naruto handed the plate back to a shocked Jiraiya with a grin on his face.
"More please!" Jiraiya's eyes twitched at his grandson's newfound hunger before taking the plate and putting more food on it. This was swiftly consumed by Naruto which began to freak Jiraiya out. This also gained the attention of the rest of the adults as they watched the young boy devour his food.
"Wow kid, that's one large stomach you have there." Ana stated.
"I was just hungry." Naruto stated humbly. Reinhardt chuckled at this.
"Relax everyone, he's just a growing boy." Reinhardt then turned his gaze at Naruto's. "Maybe one day you'll grow as big and strong as me!" Reinhardt flexed his muscles at Naruto which made the boy chuckle.
"You really mean it?"
"Yeah." Naruto handed his plate once again to Jiraiya who filled it with more food which Naruto once again consumed before letting out a large belch which caused the adults to laugh.
Kurama, during all of this, thought that something like this would happen if he downloaded information straight into Naruto's brain. After all, he was using up a lot of energy that like a computer needed to be replaced. In Naruto's case, it involved eating lots of food. Finally after the third plate of food, Naruto no longer seemed to be hungry.
"If this is how much he eats now, then what about when he grows up?" Jack asked causing Jiraiya to make a comical expression upon realizing that he would have to pay for the food Naruto ate.
"Oh-oh God!" Jiraiya squeaked out. As they he said this, the elevator dinged open once again much to the annoyance of Jiraiya. "Alright, who is it this time?" Jiraiya asked as he waited for the next surprise guest to show up. Within the next minute they did and it was a surprise for everyone in the room. Torbjörn was the first to react.
"What the hell is that blasted machine doing here?!" Torbjörn shouted while pointing his claw menacingly at the Omnic standing in the doorway. It seemed quite peaceful with its hand being held together as if in prayer. The white robe it wore gave off a sense of peace as it slowly walked through the doorway.
"Greetings members of Overwatch. It is an honor to meet all of you. I am Tekhartha Mondatta and I come in peace. Mister Namikaze invited me to come to father's funeral." The Omnic stated in a serene voice. Torbjörn turned to Jiraiya with a look of anger.
"Are you an idiot, Jiraiya? It's an Omnic! This thing should be put down and ground to scrap!"
"Enough Torbjörn. I invited him here because I wanted him to be here. I don't care if you don't like my decision, it wasn't yours to make." The short man grunted in anger before hopping out of his chair and walking out of the room. His shoulder bumped into Tekhartha's body as he did so before the man was gone. Jiraiya shook his head in annoyance before standing out of his chair and walking up to the Omnic. Both man and Omnic shook hands with one another.
"It's good to see you Jiraiya."
"Same here, Tekhartha." Jiraiya turned away from the Omnic and brought him to meet with each of the members of Overwatch. Unlike Torbjörn the members were quite cordial with the Omnic as they had heard of and supported his work of trying to unite both humans and Omnics. Finally Tekhartha was brought before a curious Naruto.
"Hey Mr. Robot!" Naruto said excitedly.
"Hello young one. My name is Tekhartha Mondatta."
"Well I'm Naruto Namikaze."
"Greetings young brother. I am sorry about what happened to father." This confused Naruto slightly. His parents never told him that he had a brother, especially a robotic one.
"How are you my brother?" Naruto asked with confusion.
"Minato Namikaze is my creator, my father. Because he is also your creator, then that means that we are brothers. So once again, greetings brother." Tekhartha said with a bow. Naruto tried and managed to bow in a similar way to the Omnic monk. When Naruto stood up from his bow he grinned.
"I have a brother. That's so cool y'know!" Naruto then rushed at the Omnic and hugged him. This confused the Omnic slightly but he eventually recovered from the slight shock and replied with a hug in return.
"I am pleased to see that you are so accepting of this." Tekhartha said with a voice full of happiness even if it couldn't be shown on his metallic face. The two separated and the monk straightened out his robe. "So grandfather, when will we be heading to the funeral?"
"Right now actually. We were waiting for you."
"Excellent. The let us proceed." With that, the group walked out of the kitchen and into the elevator together…well except for Torbjörn and Reinhardt. Torbjörn wanted nothing to do with an Omnic and Reinhardt was too large to fit inside the cramped elevator with it being full of people.
The funeral ceremony happened on a private graveyard. The members of Overwatch, Tekhartha, and Naruto were all silent as Minato's and Kushina's bodies were slowly lowered into the hole that was dug for them. Naruto began to cry as this happened and Jiraiya had to comfort him as he did.
They did finally find Liao who had been waiting at the graves for them. He was an Asian man of small statue yet he held himself with pride. The group slowly began to separate as the funeral proceeded. Ana was the first to leave and was followed by Angela who had met them at the grave site with Liao. The next to leave was Torbjörn who let fall into Minato's grave a ratchet before leaving.
The next two to leave were Jack and Gabriel who patted Naruto on the back before they left. The next to leave was Gabrielle. The last to leave was Reinhardt who hugged Naruto before following after his comrades.
This just left Naruto, Jiraiya, and Tekhartha at the two unburied graves. Naruto wiped his eyes with his sleeve before looking at his grandfather with eyes fill of anger. "Grampa, I don't want something like this to happen again." He quickly looked back at the graves as his mind was made up on what he wished to do. "I wanna join Overwatch."
Jiraiya gave Naruto an impassive stare before he responded. "You can't join Overwatch now," Naruto felt his hopes begin to disappear, "but that doesn't mean I can't help train you to join it later." Naruto looked up at Jiraiya. "It will be tough, punishing, and you may wish to give up but if you finish the training, then you'll be able to become a hero that could stop things like what happened to your mother and father."
"Yes. I wanna be a hero!"
"Then tomorrow, we will start our journey together." Naruto cheered while Jiraiya looked at the boy with all kinds of ideas.
"Then I hope that you will make a great hero one day, brother." Tekhartha said in a pleased tone. Naruto stopped cheering and looked at the Omnic.
"Will I ever be able to see you again, Tekky?" The Omnic chuckled at this before nodding.
"My temple is always open for the two of you. I hope to see both of you one day." Tekhartha then walked over to the grave and pulled out a screw from his robe. He then dropped it into Minato's grave. This action confused both Naruto and Jiraiya.
"What did you just drop into Minato's grave, Tekhartha?" Jiraiya asked.
"It was the first part used in my construction. I had to have it replaced but I kept it for sentimental reasons. Now, I am giving it back. Thank you, father." Tekhartha said with a sad finality. Finally, he walked away leaving Jiraiya and Naruto alone.
"Ready to go, Naruto." The boy in question gave one last look at the graves. Inside the graves were both the cold bodies of a mother and father. But what also joined the two adults was not physical, no, instead it was emotional. What lay inside the graves was the last bit of a normal life that Naruto would ever have. Naruto turned to look at his grandfather, the man who represented a change that would last for the rest of his life and what he now would gladly accept.
"Yes." With that one word, Naruto would begin his new life.
A black unmarked car pulled up to a small apartment complex. The building looked quite shabby and on the verge of falling apart but the city that it was located in would do nothing to change it. This was due to multiple officials being paid off or…convinced that the building should stay. Attached to this building was a small parking garage in the same rugged style as the apartment.
The car drove slowly into the parking structure and stopped between two pillars. The ground beneath the car then lowered itself while above it a cover concealed the hidden passage. After three seconds the lift halted and the car was now in a white room filled with multiple other cars parked next to one another.
The car drove off the lift and into an empty parking space. The doors to the car opened revealing a man and a woman with matching black hair. Both wore matching black suits that were fitted for them. The woman walked to the back door of the car and opened it up to reveal a sleeping young boy who she carefully pulled out.
"Mikoto, how is the child?" The man asked. The woman gazed at the boy and put her fingers against his neck in order to check his pulse. It was beating at a slow rate which meant that the sedative was still working.
"The subject is fine, Fugaku." Mikoto replied monotonously. The man nodded and the two walked away from the car with the doors opened. In a few minutes the scrubbers would come to remove any DNA traces that may have been left in the car as well as burn their civilian clothing.
The two adults plus one unconscious child walked through a pure white hallway illuminated by lighting that was built into the floor. After passing several doors they entered a room filled with machinery and monitors that surrounded a operating table. Standing next to the table was a man in a hazmat suit.
"So was the mission a success or a failure?" The male asked in a raspy voice.
"We searched the house for the materials you wanted but we were unable to find anything of interest. The Vishkar corporation took anything of value before we arrived." Fugaku reported.
"And why didn't you try before they entered the building?"
"We did not wish to compromise our civilian identities unless it was important. When we heard the gunshots, we broke cover and entered the domicile after the Vishkar operatives left." Mikoto replied. The hazmat man walked over to a table and pulled out a syringe which he flicked.
"Did anyone see you?"
"It appeared that Kushina Namikaze was still alive after receiving three gunshots to the lower torso and one to the arm." Mikoto replied.
"And did you take care of it?" The man asked as he walked to the operating table and typed onto the console attached to it.
"I put a bullet in Kushina's head if that is what you are asking." Mikoto replied. The man chuckled to himself as he heard this.
"Yes, you really are quite an excellent agent. Friend: not so much. You may have to work on it in the future if you ever get the chance." After typing onto the console, he stood away from the table. Mikoto took this as the sign to bring the boy over to the table and setting him down onto it.
"I was a good enough friend that Kushina didn't expect me to put a gun to her forehead. Now what did you need Sasuke for?" Mikoto asked. Even with the mental conditioning placed upon her, it still was not enough to quell the natural curiosity that she had before joining this organization.
"I plan to turn the subject into the first working recipient for project Vision. He will be the first and possibly only agent to have this type of augmentation done upon him." The man replied as he injected the syringe into Sasuke's neck.
"Why would he be the only recipient for project Vision? Surely an augmentation process like this would be a benefit for all of our agents." The man nodded as he pushed down on the plunger and injected the numbing agent into the boy. After all, he didn't want the child to awaken during the next step of the process; otherwise it would be much more difficult to do. He learned this after the first three subjects that he tried this on. The man decided to please the agent in front of him with an answer. She was the only one that he could have a slightly decent conversation with unlike most of the other agents who were just androids in all but body.
"The boy is the only one who we have seen to possibly be capable of not rejecting this type of operation. His mind has been tested and it is much more hopeful than the other subjects who have gone insane, like your last offspring for instance. What was his name? Itami, Izumi, Izuna?"
"Itachi." Mikoto replied.
"That's it! Thank you! Now you may leave." The two agents nodded and left the room to the doctor. He walked back to his table and pulled out two more syringes before walking back to the table and setting one syringe besides Sasuke's head. The doctor used one latex glove clad hand to open Sasuke's right eyelid. His eye was rolled slightly back into his head but that wouldn't be a problem. Slowly yet surely he lowered the syringe so that it was directly aimed for the pupil.
"Now…this won't hurt a bit." The doctor then plunged the needle into the boy's eye and pushed down on the plunger. This was a special nanite solution that he created for this procedure. It would keep the optic nerve of the eye from being damaged during removal of the eye as it was needed for the next part of the surgery. He then did the same process with the left eye before walking back to one of his tables and pulling out a strange tool that looked like a strange gun attached to a mask.
The scientist walked back to the table and placed the mask portion of the tool onto the boy's face so that the eyes would match up with that of Sasuke's. Then he pulled the trigger of the device which created a whirring type of noise that was ended with a type of sucking noise. The doctor removed the device which now contained the eyeballs of the previous owner in perfect condition.
He then walked back to his table and pulled out another device that was similar to the first one except that it had two circular bulges placed in the same position as the eyeholes of the mask. He walked back to the table and placed the mask on Sasuke's face except that this time, the circular bulges were fitted into the empty spaces that took up what used to be Sasuke's eyes.
The man pulled the trigger and a whirring sounded from the device before a sizzle sounded. He pulled the device away from Sasuke's face to reveal two black orbs that took up space in place of Sasuke's eyes. The irises of the eyes were a crimson red that glowed while instead of just one pupil, there were three extra space evenly apart from each other and the center pupil.
The doctor closed Sasuke's eyelids and walked away from the table, his work was complete. Now all he needed to do was wait for the subject to wake up in order to see if the surgery was a success.
He really hoped that the boy wouldn't pull another Itachi. The older teen had been exceptional at first. His reflexes were quicker, he had a much larger memory capacity, and his ability to predict his opponent's moves made him the ultimate soldier. Unfortunately, the mental toll that project Vision took on the boy's psyche caused him to one day go on a killing spree. He managed to kill half of the base before a well timed shot from a sniper rifle killed him. The sniper in question did not escape the assault unscathed as Itachi managed to throw a knife at the man. The knife may not have killed him but it managed to damage the man's spine so that he was now a worthless operative. He was put down a day later.
They really needed to get a new sniper now that he thought about it. He would worry about that later, they would find a recruit to take his place eventually, whether they were willing or not.
Naruto and Jiraiya stood before Jack, Reinhardt, and Torbjörn as they had finished packing for their journey. It looked quite comical to see Naruto with a duffle bag slung across his back that was bigger than him but this moment was quite serious. "Well guys, it's time for us to get going." Jiraiya said. Jack nodded at the old man. He was quite used to how the old man would go on journeys around the world when wanderlust came to him. Jack just considered himself lucky that Jiraiya kept his phone on him at all times, otherwise he would be untraceable.
"I hope you two have a safe journey then." Jack and Jiraiya then shook hands. The man then turned his gaze to Naruto and crouched to the boy's level. "I hope to see you one day when you are trained up. We'll definitely have a spot at Overwatch for when you come back." Jack stated with a smile to the boy. Naruto's eyes lit up at this.
"You really mean it?"
"Definitely." Jack then ruffled Naruto's head and stood up. Next came Reinhardt. Jiraiya held his hand out for a shake but the German had different plans as he grabbed Jiraiya in a bear hug and lifted him off the ground before setting him back down.
"You be safe and take care of my new friend." Reinhardt said. Jiraiya nodded at the giant while Reinhardt turned to Naruto and picked him up in the same hug that he gave to Jiraiya.
"Be safe little one and make as many friends as you can. Then when you come back we'll go get ice cream, yeah?" Naruto gave a hug back to his friend which humorously enough, only reached to the man's chest.
"Yeah! I'm gonna make as many friends as I can and that's a promise, y'know!" Reinhardt set Naruto down. Finally Torbjörn walked up to the two.
"Don't die." He then walked away before turning back and looking at Naruto. "If you manage to survive the next few years, I'll have something waiting for you." The short man then walked out of the room leaving the four people before an elevator. Jiraiya picked up his dufflebag and both him and Naruto walked into the elevator together.
"See you guys later. We'll be in touch." Jiraiya stated and Jack nodded at this. The elevator then shut and went down. When they reached the bottom floor they saw Ophelia at her desk reading what appeared to be…Jiraiya's novel Icha Icha Paradise. Jiraiya coughed to announce his presence and Ophelia shut the book and put it under her desk.
"We'll be going now beautiful. I hope to see you again one day." Ophelia nodded at this.
"I hope to see you again, Naruto." Ophelia said with a wave to the young boy who waved back.
"It was nice to meet you Miss Ophelia!" With that the grandfather and grandson duo exited the building and walked to Jiraiya's car where they set their bags into the back and entered the front of the car.
"So grampa, where are we going?" Naruto asked.
"Well, I was thinking that we would start our journey in Europe first. Then we would make our way to Russia, enter China, make it to the temple of Tekhartha in the Himalayas, avoid India, head back to Europe, go to Africa, fly to South America, and make our way back up to North America." Jiraiya finished while sucking in a breath of air.
"Seems kinda long." Naruto said.
"Seems kinda fun." Jiraiya replied. Naruto grinned and Jiraiya turned the car on before leaving the parking lot. Who know what they might encounter during all of this. All Jiraiya knew was that Naruto would need to become strong one day in order to protect himself against the Vishkar corporation that might one day come after him. Jiraiya wanted to take no chances with the group as he had managed to survive all these years on being paranoid enough to deal with every possible outcome that would want to screw with him.
Then again, he also really wanted to take Naruto to a Russian strip club. Damnit if he didn't keep up the family tradition of taking the younger members to strip clubs in different countries. He remembered when he took Minato to a club in Singapore. Now those ladies could dance! Minato was quite funny to look at that day as he was bright red the whole time and it seemed like he was going to pass out at any minute. Jiraiya really hoped that Naruto didn't inherit the amount of chivalry that Minato had.
There was also the A.I. that was being hosted inside of Naruto's body along with all the nanobots. One day they would need to work on that. Right now though, he needed to teach Naruto about surviving in the wilds. Scotland might be good for that. It would be like that movie Jiraiya watched that was from the 1980's. He couldn't remember what it was called, Moonlander, Groundlander, Sealander? It would come to him one day.
"Well Naruto, time to head to the airport. Hold on!"
And that is a wrap folks. Now I gotta be honest, please don't harass Sabere. It just isn't that nice to do. (My one good deed of the day!) Now back onto topic, I'll see you people again. Hope you all enjoyed. Stay frosty my friends.
Except for Mei. She needs to learn how to get hotter. Take off the parka for starters. It's like 70 degrees, she should be getting dragged out of each battle she goes to on a stretcher due to heat stroke. And no, I don't believe that ice technology is going to help her during that. Jesus, she goes into deserts in that thing. Just wear a normal jacket lady!