A Conversation With God
Hi, friends. Second to last chapter here. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I will. There was a wonderful guest who reviewed for last chapter. And they told me that they search me on google everyday to see if I've updated. It was so nice and sweet to hear that message.
Well guest, I shall not ignore you. You stated that you felt like the universe changed. It did in a way. Not physically as if Naruto and Sasuke were thrust into a new dimension and never knew. But in some ways, most things are peaceful. I believe that is how the world is when there are no wars. People roam freely. Thank you for reviewing and your message really made my day. It meant so much.
It was an odd topic: the love Naruto Namikaze and Sasuke Uchiha held for one another. Not even their own children could describe it. Their love was a mystery to all those who knew them.
Some moments, the two men could be heard fighting in their room and then laughing three minutes later. And sometimes, Sasuke could be seen making faces with Naruto no one thought could be real on him. With Naruto, the man once said, he either laughed too hard, blushed too often, smiled too large, or talked too much.
It was noted that neither could function without seeing the other at least three times a day. And often, when Sasuke went on a mission, Naruto's blood clone would be right beside him. When Naruto's anxiety began to creep in, and he could see Haruto walking toward him with a knife, Sasuke was there, standing over him, and kissing the blond's hands and face.
Naruto and Sasuke smirked as they stared down the six boys before them. "You know the rules. If your jutsu is stopped, then you cannot go on in this fight. Understood?"
Boruto, now 15, punched his fist together with a smile. "Just because you were once known as the dangerous duo doesn't mean you stopped aging. You old men are going down."
Sasuke raised a brow and turned to his husband. "Did he just call us old?"
Naruto nodded. "I think he just called us old."
"Does he know who we are, Naruto?"
"Hell no. Let's get 'em, Sasuke."
Much more like Naruto, it was Akiyama who jumped into battle first. Like his father, he had the power to not get hit in battle. Naruto had to keep his eyes on the seven year old.
"Dimensional Shift!"
When Naruto and Sasuke looked on both sides of themselves, they looked at themselves. Akiyama's chosen power was to manipulate dimensions and time.
It created multiple dimensions of his opponent, all of which worked with him.
"Shit." Sasuke cursed as another him ran toward him, engaging at the same level he did daily. "How are we going to stop this one?"
Naruto punched a dimensioned Sasuke and crouched. "At the right time. Right now, you have to take down Atsushi. He's thinking and his power is terrifying."
Sasuke nodded and ran for his son.
"Nice, Akiyama. But you're forgetting who your father is." Naruto stated with a smirk. Standing, the man focused on the dimension clones. "Namikaze Light Release: Ray of Assassination!"
The clones screamed as they burned in fire.
Akiyama pouted. "Aww. Come on, tou-san. Now I'm out."
Naruto smiled. "You did good though. Your dimensions are very tricky since the clones are very smart. If I were a lesser ninja, I would have been fooled by those pretty Sasuke faces. Not to mention that you never get hurt in battle. And that you can manipulate time just like your father."
This made Akiyama feel better as he smiled and sat on the edge of the training ground.
Samaru jumped forward and looked directly before Naruto, startling him. "Don't worry, otouto. I'm gonna take him down."
"Godlike Genjutsu!"
It was never okay to look into Samaru's eyes when was angered. And it was hard not to look into his eyes during battle.
Unlike anyone else's, Samaru used genjutsu like Naruto used shadow clones. And because he used that chosen bloodline so much, it became something to fear.
Samaru was able to take a beautiful memory in the past and recreate it. He made it so terrifying and traumatizing that his friends called the nine year old a dream destroyer.
Naruto fell to his knees, watching the past before him. He'd been younger and training with Sasuke. Both boys had been smiling and laughing with one another. Both seemed to be having fun talking to one another.
However, just as Naruto was pushed back, Sasuke began to deform. His back hunched as if something were crawling within him. His teeth bared out and wings grew upon him. His mouth, Naruto's favorite physical part on the man, had beaked out.
Sasuke had become a darkling. It sniffed the air and when Naruto moved back, it stared at him and roared. He advanced on the blond and bit his overly sharp teeth in the blond's leg.
The man groaned and grimaced. He had no idea how he would get by this one. It seemed that Samaru would win.
Just as the darkling began to work its way up and eat him alive, The picture had been cut.
The badness disappeared and Sasuke helped him up. The raven flicked his son's forehead with a smirk. "You did wonderful. But you know the rules. Time to sit out."
Samaru smiled and ran to sit next to Akiyama.
Naruto put his chin on Sasuke's shoulder. "Nearly got me, love. Thanks."
"You'll just have to repay me later." The raven whispered.
Naruto smiled. "I promise."
"You forgot about us."
The two stopped their conversation and looked toward Atsushi, Mitsuo, Boruto, and Menma.
It was Atsushi who began first. Forming a small rasengan in his hand, the boy threw it. However, Naruto and Sasuke raised a brow when it stopped in the middle of both sides.
"What is this?" Sasuke wondered allowed.
Naruto looked closer.
"Prophecy Sage Art: All Seeing Ripple."
He stomped his staff on the ground and when the bright yellow ring sped past the hovering rasengan, Naruto cursed.
"Sasuke, com-"
It was too late. The man stabbed his staff into the earth and grabbed hold of the stump of his husband's missing arm.
Atsushi's rasengan had turned into a black hole and was now dragging everything in close vicinity. Naruto cursed and yanked Sasuke against him.
"That power is amazing isn't it." He yelled over the roaring wind.
Sasuke nodded and put both arms around the blond. "Yeah. When he chose it, I knew he had the mind to make something out of it."
Atsushi had been six when he sat outside all night with Kurama. His father had extracted all the tailed beasts for a week in smaller form so they could remember the world.
All night just staring at the stars in the sky and talking to the other tailed beasts.
When Sasuke found them on the porch, he lifted his son and the beasts one by one and brought them into the house.
Atsushi, when he woke up, mumbled to his mother that one day he would find a way to use space.
And that was his chosen bloodline. Space and atomic manipulation. Naruto believed the boy would be wonderful in the science department of Konoha. But all the boys loved fighting and training. None of them would be sitting in the next years.
"Think, Naruto." Sasuke yelled. "I know you can stop it someway."
And the man smiled and kissed the raven. "That's just it, teme; thinking. Put a barrier around the boys, but don't let them know. This way, they won't actually go in the hole."
"Done."
"I'm going to have to let you go for a second okay. So place a barrier around yourself as well just incase."
Sasuke smiled. "No. I trust you too much. I know you'll do anything to stop me from going in there."
The blond smiled as well. "Ready?"
"Ready." With that Naruto and Sasuke let go of one another and the raven began flying toward the black hode
"Cogitation Monstrosity!"
Just as Sasuke reached the hole, the hole flipped and the man fell to the ground. Now there final four boys were being sucked toward the dark matter.
Menma grabbed hold of Boruto and pulled him back. "Atsushi, you have to stop it."
Atsushi nodded and very simply put his hand up. The black hole sucked in itself and took the form of his rasengan again. When the rasengan exploded by the boy's command, it looked like stardust.
Sasuke smirked, thinking about what else in space, atomic theory, and matter Atsushi could control. "That's some power. But now it's time for you to sit out."
The boy nodded with a smiled of triumph and sat down. He was too much like Naruto for his own good, he and his twin.
Just as Naruto looked back at the remaining four, a voice stopped him.
"Naruto, please stop this madness. This is wrong. Please, my son."
Minato Namikaze was here. Naruto stared at the man. "Samaru. You know this is cheating. This genjutsu isn't going to fool us."
"That isn't me." the boy stated in awe, staring at his unliving grandfather, who he'd met only once before.
Naruto sucked in a breath. "All Seeing Ripple." When he looked back at the former clan head, there was nothing out of place. No thin chakra, no extra signatures. It was his father. In the flesh.
"Father. How?"
Minato smiled and pulled out a kunai. He threw it toward Naruto and Sasuke and appeared before them.
"Look at Menma back there."
Naruto looked behind him and watched his son poof from existence. That was a shadow clone.
Minato smiled. "It's me….Menma."
Up until today, Naruto and Sasuke just assumed Menma would not choose a bloodline. But, as Minato formed back into their son, the men stood astonished. So did the other boys.
"By Chi. How did you do that Menma?"
"It took most of my life to actually learn how to manipulate a human being." Menma stated sheepishly. "But I can turn into other humans now and use their jutsu."
"Menma that's amazing. Is this why you wanted to train today? To reveal your bloodline?"
Menma nodded and Sasuke hugged him. "We're so proud of you. And you did it all on your own, too. Amazing."
Menma blushed deeply when Naruto joined the hug. "Okay." He whispered.
When they let the boy go, he sat next to the rest of the boys. "Now all that's left is Boruto and Mitsuo."
Boruto smirked. "Me first. Shadow clone!"
Boruto had not chosen a bloodline, but his came naturally. He was born with wood release. All it took were five splinters in his hands when he was just three to figure that out.
Ten shadow clones appeared before them as Mitsuo jumped back, watching with diligence.
Boruto and his clones performed quick hand signs and yelled all at once.
"Wood Style: True Several Thousand Hands!"
Naruto thanked Chi that the training ground was large enough in the forest of death. If not, these large statues with their thousands of hands would have destroyed Konoha.
"Kuso." Sasuke murmured as the arms began to come down. "Naruto. All world destruction on my call."
"Right." The blond stated.
The arms continued to move down, now blazed with fire around them. Just as they were about to hit, Sasuke performed his own hand seals.
"Now, Naruto!"
"All world Destruction!"
"Water Style: Grand Typhoon!"
Naruto's earthquake had expanded Sasuke's water attack tenfold and it had successfully destroyed all of Boruto's attacks.
When the water cleared out, both men sighed in relief upon seeing their son's shocked faces. Sasuke's barrier was still in tact, making them invicible to that grand splash of water.
Boruto grumbled. "If it were anyone else, I would have won." With that, he sat down next to the other four boys. "Mitsuo is hard to beat, so be careful."
Sasuke smirked and looked at Mitsuo. "I know that."
Mitsuo smiled as both Naruto and Sasuke ran toward him. Just as they punched out, the boy faded.
He appeared behind them. "You'll have to catch me to defeat me." He stated.
The redhead jumped toward them, engaging in a taijutsu match. When Sasuke finally he the boy, he exploded into a poisonous chakra.
The raven covered his nose and jumped back. "Surrender." He called.
Naruto sighed. "Me too. I'm still trying to find a way to stop his fading. Until then, you're lucky kid. Your jutsu can't be stopped."
Sasuke nodded. "Your chakra is tremendous, Mitsuo-kun. This bloodline is wonderful. Have you figured out how to create a clone made of chakra yet?"
Mitsuo sat. "No not yet. I was wondering is I could get some help from you two. Since tou-san can make a blood clone."
Naruto nodded. "You boys are my boys. All of you have wonderful bloodlines ready to be shared with the world. I'm proud of you all. Keep training and you'll get even better."
"How long did you two train?" Akiyama asked.
"We still train every day." Sasuke stated. "We never stop. There are things we both have to protect and sitting down and around isn't going to help us in doing that."
"Now are you all ready to eat?"
Naruto looked toward the sun and nodded. "Sure. We have time before wedding preparation begins."
"If Gaara-jisan is getting married to a queen, does he have to leave?"
Naruto shook his head at Mitsuo. "No. Oni is giving up the throne to her younger cousin and coming to live here. With us."
"How did he meet her."
"He met her when he was 14. I had just become hokage and I sent Gaara to escort her back to her village. He really liked her then. So he'd visited her a lot. So now that he's 28, he's ready to be married."
"Is Oni-jisan related to Karui?"
"No."
"Why is her name Oni?"
Naruto's brows furrowed. "It means 'born on holy ground.' Oni and her resemble the God Chi more than anything because they were born in the same place Chi harvested herself."
"How come they're getting married?"
"Because they love each other. And when you love someone so badly, you want to stay with them forever and ever."
"Like you and kaa-san?"
Naruto nodded and poured himself some tea. "Like your mother and I."
"How com-"
The blond's head snapped up. "Mitsuo, eat. No more questions. Not until after the wedding."
"Yes, sir."
The blond sighed as his sons finally began to eat. There was a snort beside him and he looked to Sasuke.
"This isn't funny, Namikaze. These boys are going to get their asses kicked."
Sasuke began giggling even more. And Naruto just sighed defeated.
"That's not how you do it, baka." Boruto stated. "Come here so I can fix it."
Akiyama grumbled and stood before his brother, letting the chunin fix his tie. "How come we gotta wear these stupid things anyway?"
"Because tou-san wants Oni-basan and Gaara-jisan to stand out. They'll be the only ones wearing Kimonos."
Samaru peeked over Boruto's shoulder. "How come you know how to fix a tie?"
"Kaa-san taught me."
"Can you teach me?"
"Why?" Boruto asked, patting down Akiyama's suit.
"It's because he wants to look nice for someone. A girl in his classroom."
Boruto smirked and ruffled his younger brother's head. "Really? I never even knew you liked anyone. Much less a girl. Your eyes make you look like one yourself."
Samaru blushed deeply. "Hey I don't say anything about you having a crush on Mitsuki."
Boruto blushed deeply and growled. "I don't have a crush on my former teammate. And don't go on saying that around tou-san and kaa-san either."
Samaru stuck his tongue out. "It was kaa-san who told me."
"What?" Boruto questioned, his face growing redder.
"Yuh huh. Kaa-san told me. And cousin Sarada. So did Shino-sensei. He said you two used to be in the back of the classroom giggling at everything you said."
Boruto rolled his eyes and Menma shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Let's go and get tou-san and kaa-san. They're probably waiting on us."
The six boys walked out of the room one by one.
"Tou-san! Kaa-san!"
No one answered. However, there was a loud crash downstairs and the boys made their way down there.
"Tou-san?" Atsushi called when he reached the bottom of the stares.
There was a yelp in the kitchen and a loud bang. "Come here!" Naruto yelled.
Out of the kitchen ran Sasuke. He was laughing loudly in only his boxers and a large orange t-shirt. In his hand, a sheet trailed behind him.
No further behind came Naruto. The blond man was huffing and wearing the same thing as his husband, but also sporting water all over himself.
The crash must have come from him slipping.
Just as Sasuke neared the couch, he was tackled over it by Naruto.
Boruto deadpanned. "Am I the teen or is it them?"
They could hear Sasuke laughing over the couch.
"Okay...Okay...I surrender….Dobe, I surrender….No that tickles…..You can't eat my neck."
Naruto stood and lifted the raven over his shoulder. "Making me slip in that water and break my mother's vase. I have something for you, Sasuke."
"Tou-san."
Naruto looked up at his sons. "Why are you all dressed up?"
"The wedding." Boruto stated. "It's starting in two hours."
Naruto's eyes widened and he began walking upstairs with Sasuke still in hand. "We'll be back in ten minutes. Get my sealing book ready so I can wake everyone else."
Sasuke laughed quietly as they walked to the shrine. Kushina had hit Naruto upside the head for the fifteenth time.
"You were supposed to wake us up thirty minutes ago." She stated. 'Now Gaara is probably scared out of his mind."
Naruto rubbed his head. "But, kaa-san. Sasuke wa-"
"Don't blame anything on Sasuke. You're going to start taking responsibility for your actions."
Pein shook his finger at Boruto as the boy giggled quietly as well. "We're here and nothing is happening so we may as well stop and see Gaara and then Oni."
"Oni's not pregnant is she?" Minato question, rubbing his stomach.
"No." Naruto stated. 'Why?"
"Because we had to drink water when you and Sasuke got married. I'm wondering if we could drink sake."
Kushina turned. "Minato. Is that all you think about?"
"No, honey."
"Guys, please." Naruto stated. "Chi made it a wonderful day for us. We need to not make her feel unappreciated."
"Dad, why do you talk about God Chi so casually? Like you know her?"
Naruto ruffled Boruto's hair. "It's a very long story."
Nagato nodded. "Yes. Let's just say I was there."
Gaara came out and waved. 'Thank goodness you all made it. I was a bit scared."
Kushina pushed past everyone and tackled her youngest son. "Oh, Gaara. You're finally getting married. Now you can bring more babies into the Namikaze clan."
Minato nodded. "Six children in the largest any Namikaze has ever fathered or mothered."
Naruto smirked. "Thank Sasuke everyone, my one and only. We can't keep our hands off ea-"
"Shut up." Sasuke hissed, now red.
The wedding had been just like Naruto and Sasuke's. When Gaara kissed the dark Oni very quickly, making her laugh at his eagerness, Naruto smiled. He turned to Sasuke and leaned on his missing arm.
"I really like you." He whispered.
Sasuke snorted and looked down into the mismatched orbs of his husband. "Like?"
Naruto ignored the tease. "I was talking to Chi the other day…"
"Why does she only come to speak with you? Why are you the only one that ever really saw her in her physical form?"
"I saved her daughter." Naruto murmured. "Anyway. I'm talking to her. And I'm telling her everything that's happened. I tell her that you and I finally got married. And she says to me 'I told you if you go slow, you can go.'"
"I tell her that I can't describe how you make me feel on a regular day. Even when we fight, I still really really hold this strong feeling to you…."
Naruto trailed off, smiling. "And what?"
She gives me the craziest look and says "Little boy grows dumber as he grows. There are no words. For there are so many to describe true love. It is intense, passionate and most often, unforgettable. Love is pain that broke heart yesterday and yet love is joy that picked up the pieces to create a beautiful tomorrow."
So we continue talking and soon we start to talk about Haruto. On the subject of Haruto, Chi tells me this story that there was once a human who had turned into something that wasn't a man. And it fed on his friends until he grew stronger. She called it a devil. She said she killed it before, but as she grew, she realized evil couldn't be destroyed."
Sasuke raised a brow. 'What does this have to do with you loving me?"
Naruto laughed. "I'm getting there. So she believed that Haruto was the reanimation of this...devil. And soon someone else will be a reanimation of Haruto. She says that the darklings were the demons. They worked for Haruto and did most of his work. And I asked her 'where are the people who work for you, Chi? Where are the angels?'
And she looks at me and says 'my angels live in all of you. You can't spot one just by looking, but you'll know it when you see it, little boy.'"
Naruto sat up and closed his eyes, putting his forehead on Sasuke's. "I think I found it. It's human too. I was younger in the hot springs with my best friend. This woman had seen me naked and he laughed and laughed his heart out. I'd never seen him laugh so much, but now I know your angel was showing.
Right under your skin. I knew it was your angel because you weren't glowing in the morning light. You gave it off. Actually let it shine within you."
"Are you saying I'm your angel."
Naruto laughed, his eyes still closed. "That's exactly what I'm saying, love."
Sasuke laughed. "You're so lame."
"Just for you." Naruto mumbled. "So you gonna kiss me or what?"
"No." Came the instant reply.
Naruto's eyes opened in mere shock. "Why Sasu-"
His words were muffled when Sasuke laughed and kissed him.
When they moved back, Naruto's hand roamed the raven's cheek. "Am I your angel too, Sasuke?"
"Yes." Came the instant reply. "In fact, your angel split up into seven parts and moved onto to or boys. That's why I love them so much. Because you gave me them."
"When did you find out I was your angel."
Sasuke blushed. "Oh it keeps happening."
"Keeps happening?" Naruto wondered aloud, shocked and astonished.
"Yes. I don't know when to stop falling in love with you. But, I know I always find out when you touch me."
"When I touch you." Naruto whispered, kissing the other's man's ear.
"Yes. Any kind of touch, dobe. Like last night. Last night when you touched me, my heartbeat was mild. I realized how natural your hands felt against my skin while the wind continued to squeal silence. Everything was in focus, I had control but two years back, I had wished for something entirely different.
When we were younger. When we were going to get Tsunade on that cold evening of December when you first pulled me close, I could feel warmth spreading throughout my body. My hands trembled and my lips hardly spoke. From then on, I wanted it to remain that way. I wanted my surroundings to vanish when you were around. I wanted to crave your touch and for you to crave mine."
Sasuke wiped his face, realizing that he'd been crying. He felt so emotional.
"Aww." Naruto stated, hugging him close.
"And right now, dobe." Sasuke sobbed. "At this moment in time when you touch me, I don't feel the galaxies collide. Now, your touch soothes me. It sets my internal chaos quiet. It fixes me and honestly, it's better than what I had hoped for."
"Don't cry. If you cry, my mother's going to think you're pregnant again."
Sasuke cried louder and harder and then laughed. "Don't make me then. These are happy ones, you know?"
"I know. You know I love you right?"
"Yes. And I really really like you."
"Teme." Naruto murmured at the tease.
"Dobe."
So….one more chapter. Unless a very special person requests something else. *Quiet giggles* you know who you are. Okay, on a more serious note, I am faced with a dilemma.
I have already started the first chapters of my next four fics. My first is a crime fic, then a slave fic, then a memory fic, and finally a fic where mental disabilities make the story. I don't know which one to post first. Any suggestions, friends?
One more chapter to go and then you all can be exposed to more Narusasu. Just you all wait.
PS. A very special someone is returning to Sun Sage of Juubi next chapter.