I know, It's been an incredibly long time since I updated again, and this is why I don't like to try to promise a deadline for the next chapter, I can never keep them :(
My deepest apologies to everyone that has waited so diligently for this chapter, and I'm sorry the chapter isn't very long, I'll try to get the next chapter out sooner. Enjoy the story, leave reviews, you know, the good stuff.
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Naruto's eyes widened drastically, what did this have to do with his parents? "Umm ok. My mom and dad both died on the night I was born, on the night of the Kyuubi's attack. My mom died shortly after giving birth to me from some kind of medical complication from the birth. My dad was killed during the Kyuubi's attack itself. I don't have any living relatives or family members that we're aware of"
Sarutobi nodded "Very good, would you please take a seat Naruto? This is going to be a very drastic revelation, I just hope you don't hate me for keeping this from you for so long"
Naruto eyed him carefully but took the seat Sarutobi motioned to "Ok, what exactly have you been hiding from me then Jiji?"
Sarutobi winced slightly at Naruto's tone "What you know of your family, isn't quite accurate, and it's missing some information. First who your parents were. Your mothers name is Kushina Uzumaki, she was a powerful Jounin from the now extinct Whirlpool village, she came to Konoha and met your father...Minato Namikaze better known as, the Yondaime Hokage"
Naruto's eyes widened "M-My father was the Yondaime?"
Sarutobi nodded "You have to admit, before these new changes to your body, you were a near carbon copy of the man, but there's more to it all. Your father was indeed killed on that night, he died sealing the Kyuubi into you. But the story changes a bit here, and this is what I fear you will truly hate me for hiding from you. Your mother never died that night Naruto. She did indeed have complications from your birth but she pulled through. She was a lot like you, stubborn and very sure of herself. I had decided to announce that the Yondaimes son died in the attack, to protect you from his many enemies, without him to protect you I didn't want anyone to know."
"I had prepared to tell Kushina at the hospital that you were alive, and to give you to her and send off with you, to take you away in secret to be with your mother. But due to her stubbornness she got out of the hospital early, and heard the announcement that you had died. With her only two reasons to stay in the village ripped from her, she took her things and quickly fled the village, I've never heard from her since, but I imagine she is still alive somewhere. She's not the type to give up on life, as I said she's very much like you. She is probably living her days away, either traveling, or living in a small town under a fake name, I hope that you are able to find her one day."
Naruto couldn't believe everything he was being told, his father was the Yondaime, his mother is, or was alive. That he could now possibly find her and finally meet his long lost mother, the family he never had a scrap of. "You said you were going to try and help me too, what did you mean?"
Sarutobi smiled weakly "Well, Your father was the head of the Namikaze clan, he was the last member, now you, are technically the last of the Namikaze and Uzumaki clans. So by your birthright you are now the legitimate owner of the Namikaze compound in Konoha, and all of your fathers jutsu archives, and all of his assets, which adds up to a very large sum of money. You are officially a very rich man Naruto, with everything that's been left to you, you could probably start up your own village if you wanted to"
Naruto couldn't help but smile at the sudden idea that hit him "That's exactly what I will do Jiji, I'll start a new village, but I won't just be starting anew, I'll find my mother, I'll meet her, and I'll rebuild whirlpool, I'll create a new village based upon the old"
Sarutobi smiled, glad that Naruto didn't hate him for hiding things from him, and he tossed a set of keys to Naruto, who caught them and looked at them "What are these for?" he asked.
Sarutobi chuckled "For you fathers house, I figured you'd want to go through it and get everything you could out of it before you left, family heirlooms, his jutsu archives and such."
Naruto smiled and couldn't stop the tears that escaped from the corners of his eyes "Thank you, Jiji. Even if you did lie to me, you did it out of necessity, not want."
Sarutobi stood up from his chair at his desk and walked around the desk, he walked up to, and in front of Naruto and in an act that surprised Naruto. He wrapped his arms around him and hugged him tightly "Good luck Naruto, find Kushina and make everything right, I know you can do it. I suppose this is goodbye"
Naruto nodded and hugged him back "Thank you Jiji, even though you were never able to help me much as a kid, thank you for all that you did. You have no idea how much it helped knowing that at least one person was trying to help me out in life, goodbye" The two broke from their hug and Naruto walked out of the door with the new keys to his families old home, he looked at the key and the address was stamped into the metal, he knew where it was and he was quickly hopping over rooftops in the direction of where it lay.
Naruto arrived at the house and slipped the key into the lock and turned it with a satisfying 'click'. He grabbed the knob and opened the door slowly and it creaked loudly, it hadn't been moved in over 12 years after all.
Naruto walked through the house, taking in all the sights, it was a good sized house, with modest furnishings, five bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a large backyard. Naruto wandered around, wishing he could have lived here with his parents as a normal child, it was the first time since he met Kyuubi that he had actually wished his life had been different. He looked about the house and found a few pictures of his parents when they were younger. He looked at one in particular that forced unbidden tears to flow down his face. It was the one, and only picture that was to exist of his complete family.
His mom stood there in a hospital gown, holding an infant Naruto in her arms, with her long red hair flowing over her shoulders and down her back. The Yondaime, no, His father, stood beside her with his arm over her shoulder, fully dressed in his uniform, blue Shinobi pants, green vest, and his long white cloak with orange flames licking up from the bottom, he was looking down at the baby Naruto and smiling. Naruto was lying there in their arms, happy as could be, giggling as his dad tickled his chin, and his mom looked down at him happily.
That picture must have been taken right before Minato took Naruto to seal the Kyuubi in him, and to ruin four lives in the blink of an eye. Naruto took that picture, took it out of the frame and put it in one of the pockets of his vest, over his heart. His family would always be alive there. He gathered up the rest of the pictures of his parents and sealed them all into a scroll he had in his vest, he continued through the house and eventually came to a door to what seemed to be an important room, the door had no handle, and no lock, but it had a blood seal on it. Naruto bit his thumb and smeared the blood across the seal, and it opened for him. He walked through the large room, marveling at the large collection his father had created. He carefully went through the whole archive and sealed all of the different scrolls into scrolls that were marked differently for what they would contain, family jutsu's, and then of different elements and other various categories.
Naruto finally finished going through the house and had found and collected everything that could hold meaning to him, from pictures to jutsu's he combed over the whole house and didn't miss a thing, when he was finally finished he walked back out the front door, and closed and locked it for the first and last time.
Naruto found Anko at her house, packing and getting ready to leave the village. His eyes gave away that he had been crying, Anko had never seen him cry before, she didn't even know he could cry. "Naru-kun, what happened?" she asked, her voice laced with love and care.
Naruto smiled "I found out who my parents were, are. Jiji told me, he also gave me all of their assets and possessions to help us in our travels"
Anko's smiled warmly "Well, who were they? What were their names?"
Naruto reached into his vest pocket and pulled out the picture of his family and showed it to Anko.
Her jaw dropped and she covered her mouth with her hands in an attempt to stop the gasp, but she failed "Y-You're their son? We were all told that his son was killed in the attack"
Naruto nodded sadly "He said that to protect me from his enemies. That single statement both saved and destroyed my life"
Anko cocked her head to the side "What do you mean?"
Naruto sighed "Kushina Uzumaki, my mother. She's alive, or was, twelve years ago. She got out of the hospital early and heard the announcement that I had died, and she instantly fled the village. If that statement had never been made, then I would have lived with my mom, happy and with a family my whole life"
Anko couldn't help but tear up "I'm so sorry Naru-kun, but there is an upside to it all at least. Your mother is still out there somewhere, and we will find her. Plus If that speech had never been made, then you never would have met me, and we never would have fallen in love"
Naruto sighed, damn Anko always coming up with good arguments against his points. He looked around, wanting to change the subject and noticed most of her stuff was already gone "Hey, all your stuff is pretty much gone, are you ready?"
Anko nodded, and took off her hitai-ite and set it on her coffee table, on top of a note to Kurenai and anyone else who cared enough to check her house after she went missing.
The two then picked up their things, and disappeared from Konoha, barely leaving a trace that they had ever existed at all, nothing but memories to those who cared enough about them to remember them.
Once they had gotten a decent distance away from Konoha Naruto created a huge army of Kage Bunshins, numbering far into the thousands. They all henged into random travelers, hikers and such and split up to go in every direction, and ask every person they saw if they had ever met, seen, or heard about Kushina Uzumaki, or someone matching her description.
Naruto and Anko themselves both headed towards where whirlpool once stood though, and Naruto told Anko of his plans to rebuild the once powerful village, and for it to take the place as most powerful hidden village from Konoha. Anko readily agreed to the idea, it sounded great and Naruto would be a great leader for such a village, being the most powerful person in the world would do that to you sometimes.
It took them about two weeks to get to whirlpool, or what used to be whirlpool. Next to nothing of the old village remained except for foundations and small bits of the villages outer walls, everything on the inside had been reduced to rubble. Naruto and Anko looked about the city, imagining what it could have looked like years ago. Naruto nodded to himself and created thousands more Kage Bunshin, which all scattered about the village ruins and started to get to work on clearing all of the debris out. With there being thousands of them all working it wouldn't take to long to clear everything out, but it would still take a while to clean the entire village area.
Naruto and Anko, and Naruto's army of clones had been clearing out the village for about one month when Naruto suddenly stopped and his eyes widened, he turned to Anko and smiled "Anko, lets go. One of my clones found her, I know where my mom is"
Anko's eyes widened as well "Really? Where is she?"
"A small village, about two days travel from here, lets go, we can leave the clones to keep cleaning up the village" They grabbed their things and started quickly in the direction of where Naruto's clone had been.
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After two days of travel the two arrived at a small, pleasant town. It was one of those towns where everyone knows everyone, and Naruto's clone had heard someone mention the name Kushina, and investigated, turned out she had been living there for about eight years now.
Naruto and Anko walked slowly through the village, gaining a good bit of attention with their clothes, and Naruto's ears and tails. Naruto's clone had found out where she lived, and thats precisely where they were headed. They arrived at her house, it was nothing special, a small house, probably no more than two bedrooms.
Naruto reached forward and nervously knocked on the door. A minute later the door opened and a women stood at the door. Naruto wanted to cry, she barely looked a day older then in the pictures he had of her. Her long red hair flowed over her shoulders down to her mid back, she had blazing green eyes, and her body did not betray her age at all.
Naruto swallowed "Uzumaki...Kushina?"
The women nodded "Yes, who are you, and what can I do for you?"
Naruto was more nervous then he had ever been in his life "This is Mitarashi Anko, and I'm... Uzumaki... Naruto"
Kushina's eyes narrowed in rage"Why would you say such a thing!? My son died over twelve years ago, you look nothing like him, and your at least seventeen, are you just here to try and make me feel worse!?"
Naruto could do nothing as the tears began to leak from his eyes "It really is me, I learned that you were alive just a few weeks ago, I sent thousands of shadow clones to search for you, now I've finally found you"
Kushina's eyes widened "T-That's impossible! It was announced that you died, with Minato, and you look nothing like him!"
Naruto sighed "You were never supposed to hear that announcement. Jiji was going to tell you about me in private, and give me to you to take and raise, but you got out of the hospital and ran when you heard"
Kushina wanted to cry, if what this man before her was saying was true, then her little boy never died, then a sudden question hit her "Who's Jiji?"
Naruto smiled "Sarutobi, I kinda think of him as a grandfather, he helped me when he could when I was growing up"
Kushina couldn't believe what she was hearing, and was still unsure "You can't be my son though, you're much to old, and you don't even look like him, he had blond hair"
Naruto smiled weakly "The Kyuubi. He changed me when I needed him to, he made me stronger, better, he gave me the ability to protect those who are important to me, and he helped me save all of Konoha, even if it did get me banished"
Kushina's eyes widened again, this time in anger "You were banished from the village? Why?"
Naruto sighed "They feel that I'm to dangerous to keep around, a seven tailed spider demon came to Konoha to kill me and Kyuubi while I was proctoring the chuunin exams, and I killed it, they fear for what could happen if it happened in a more populated place, so they got rid of me. Not like I really care though, I could care less if ninety-five percent of that village went up in flames, I only care for my friends and family there"
Kushina was shocked, Minato had absolutely loved the village, and everyone in it, how could his son be so different "Why do you hate them all so much?"
Naruto frowned "If I told you why, you would probably want to go and destroy the village, I don't want you to want that, so I won't tell you"
Kushina realized they were still standing at the door, and instantly asked them both to come in and get comfortable. They all walked into the house and Kushina led them to her dining room and set out some tea, which had ironically just finished being made when they arrived. The sat at the table and Kushina began.
"I find that I do believe that you are indeed my son, even though you're so different, you're also so much the same, your eyes are the exact same color as Minato's, and your hair though different color, is much the same as his. So tell me, what have you been up to in your life? What have you done, things you've done, what was your family in Konoha like"
Naruto quirked an eyebrow "Family?"
Kushina narrowed her eyes slightly "You know, the people that took care of you your whole life, adopted you?"
Naruto nodded "Oh, right. Never had one. I've been on my own since day one, everyone in Konoha hates the 'demon spawn' you know, I was kicked out of the orphanage when I was four, Jiji got me an apartment after that, and I've been on my own since"
Kushina's eyes widened "You've been living on your own since you were four?"
Naruto shrugged "Well, I wouldn't really say that, I've only really been living since I turned eleven last year, everything before that was just, well from what Kyuubi has told me, worse then hell itself"
Kushina's eyes once again narrowed "And just why was your life, worse then hell itself?"
Naruto sighed "Fine I'll tell you, but you promised not to lose it, though I doubt that you'll keep that promise. My life has been, less than savory"
Anko narrowed her eyes slightly "Naruto-kun, just tell her, sugar coating it isn't going to help any. To put it bluntly Mrs. Uzumaki, Naruto-kun's life has taken the definition of suffering, and rewritten it"
Naruto sighed "She doesn't need to know everything that happened. No one needs to know everything, it's in the past for a reason, anyway, yes my life has sucked beyond all possible belief. The villagers, and Shinobi would routinely hunt me down and beat, assault, torture, and overall abuse me. The first time they ever did it they didn't just go after me, they also went after the only person that ever tried to get close to me and be nice. I don't want to continue, I don't want these memories to surface"
Kushina was openly crying as her long lost son described the hell hole of a life he had lived, she was also incredibly angry that he had been treated that way, by the same people who thought his father to be almost godlike. "W-What happened after that?" She asked
Naruto smiled slightly "Then I met the Kyuubi, he's actually pretty nice. He felt bad for everything that had happened to me, and offered to fix everything, give me new eyes, remove my scars, even make my body older, faster, stronger, better. He even offered to train me. Well I eagerly accepted, and here we are, now I'm the most powerful person alive, I have over thirty-five hundred years worth of training under my belt, and I have big plans for the future"
Kushina was completely shocked that the demon that was bent on shredding Konoha to ruins, could have been so nice to her boy, but for now she still wanted to know more. "What do you mean 'new eyes? And what are these big plans?"
Naruto cursed, he didn't mean to slip about his eyes. "Well, on that...night they gouged out my eyes, Kyuubi gave me new ones. My plan is since I'm banished from Konoha, and I have Anko-chan with me, we've decided to build our own village, one which will surpass Konoha, and take the place as the most powerful village in all the land, we are going to recreate whirlpool, and bring it to heights never before seen"
Kushina gasped, she couldn't believe what he was doing "Why though? Why recreate whirlpool, why not create your own new village, with your own name and reputation?"
Naruto smiled warmly "Because, Konoha is no longer my home, which was my fathers home, so we, the Uzumaki's will bring our own homeland to prosper, we will recreate our own home village, and we will make it better then anything else seen before. From then on, we will do what's needed, one of the things on my list is that once Konoha makes the right mistake, I will move in, take out the council and Danzo's root devision of Anbu. I will restore Konoha to it's former glory as well. From then on, who knows, whatever happens, happens"
Kushina was amazed at how large his plans went, and the thought he put into it "Well, you're definitely Minato's boy, he thought things far ahead too, he even designed the seal for the Kyuubi long before the Kyuubi was ever even known of, in fact he prepared it so in secret, that the seal that is on you, is the only proof that it exists at all"
Naruto frowned "Oh, so what's on me is the only proof of it, so theres no like, documentation on how it was made or how to make it or anything like that?"
Kushina nodded "That's correct, why do you ask Naruto?"
Naruto's frown deepened "Well, if that's the case then there is almost no proof at all, the majority of the Kyuubi's seal is gone, only a tiny fraction of it remains, the part that keeps his soul entwined with mine"
Kushina's eyes widened in fear, and her jaw dropped "What! Why? Why is most of the seal gone, what happened!?"
Naruto chuckled "Come on mom, don't tell me you haven't noticed my ears, or my nine tails? I removed the Kyuubi's seal, or most of it. It's how he improved my body and made me better, it's also how we saved all of Konoha, by removing more of the seal, so I could access all of his power"
Kushina was shocked, both at the fact that Naruto had willingly removed the seal, and trusted the fox, but more so that the fox kept his word and helped him. "It's still so surprising. This is all so much to take in, I think I just need some time to soak everything in. I think I'm going to lie down for a while"
Naruto nodded "Alright, me Anko aren't going anywhere, so we'll be here when you get back"
Kushina nodded and got up and headed for her own room. Naruto turned to Anko, "So, what do you wanna do? And no, I'm not doing any funny business in my moms house"
Anko put a hand in front of her mouth and yawned "Actually, I'm pretty tired myself, how about we take a nap on the couch?"
Naruto smiled "Alright, sounds good. Easy way to pass the time too." The two then got up and made their way over to Kushina's couch, fortunately it was big enough for both of them to lie on, they both lied down and Naruto wrapped his arms around Anko and put his chin on her shoulder, and the two quickly slipped into a nice deep sleep.
Kushina woke up a few hours later and came out of her room to find the couple snuggled up on the couch, both snoring cutely, with Naruto's tails occasionally twitching, his ears doing the same. She awed at the adorable site the two created when she suddenly realized that Naruto was only twelve, and this Anko girl had to be almost twenty, but they seemed truly happy together, and Kushina wasn't going to start lecturing her son the day she met him.
She sat down in a recliner on the opposite side of the room from the couch, and simply sat there, watching her son and his girlfriend. After about another hour or so they both awakened, rather abruptly when Naruto rolled over, with Anko in his arms and took them both over the side of the couch to the floor.
They both hit the floor with a loud thud, and Naruto groaned and rubbed his head, after a minute they were both awake and sitting on the couch, and they all started getting back to business.
"So, you're planning on rebuilding Whirlpool, do you have any idea how long it will take to clean up the whole village, let alone rebuild it? With just the two of you no less" Kushina stated.
Naruto grinned "Ahh, but we aren't alone, at all times I have an entire army of Kage bunshin at my disposal, in fact they are cleaning up the village as we sit here talking, plus. We have you now too, well that is, if you want to live in Whirlpool when we start getting it underway"
Kushina's eyes narrowed slightly "Of course I'm going to go there! You think I'm not going to want to spend time with my son, after just learning that he's alive? But there is another problem. Finances, building a village needs more then just man power. You need contractors, plans, materials, and more. All of these things cost great amounts of money, and I somehow doubt that you had a whole lot of money in Konoha"
Naruto's grin grew "That is covered as well. Just before I we left the village Jiji gave me all of dads things. Possessions, assets, everything. Even gave me the key to the house, so I went through it and emptied out his archives, got all of the pictures of you and him too, even got the only picture of all three of us"
Naruto pulled out the picture of the three of them, and handed it to Kushina, who took it and looked at it and started to cry again.
She eventually calmed and turned the conversation back onto Naruto's plans "So, how are you planning to accomplish everything with the village?"
Naruto smiled "Well, I figure once I have the village all cleaned and prepped, I'll higher some contractors to design and supervise the construction, then I'll create a huge army of clones for the contractors to use, they work better together then people, they never tire, and they're free, after that. I'm not really sure I. guess we just slowly get more famous over time, we'll draw people to us and grow in power, eventually it will just work out"
Kushina nodded "Sounds like you have things planned out fairly well, but where do you and miss Mitarashi plan to live while all of this happens? This village will take years to build"
Naruto slapped himself in the forehead "Damn, I didn't think about that"
Kushina giggled at her sons action "Don't worry about it, you guys can stay here with me while the village is under construction, if you want to that is. There's a spare bedroom you can use. Now I have a more...delicate question. What are you and miss Mitarashi planning on doing with yourselves? You abandoned your village to be with Naruto, so I take it you guys are quite serious, have you thought about marriage? Children?"
Naruto choked on his saliva "Mom! I'm twelve! We still have time for things like that, but well I know I want kids, it's up to Anko though"
Anko giggled mischievously "Little yous running around? I think I'd like a few"
Naruto smiled "Seems that was simple enough, kids it is! Though, lets take our time on that one, no need to raise a kid in my moms house, haha"
Kyuubi suddenly chirped in, with foul news 'Actually, You can't have kits with her'
Naruto's expression instantly turned into one of distress and anger, alerting Kushina and Anko "What's wrong honey?" Kushina asked. Naruto growled slightly "Kyuubi's telling me something, one minute" 'What the fuck do you mean I can't have kids with her?' His tone wasn't asking questions, it was demanding answers.
'Well, you know how I've changed your genetics so much, and how my chakra has changed you so much, your technically.....not human anymore. With the amount of changes that have happened to you you've become quite...demonic, meaning your children would also be demonic, and while you could have a child with her, she would almost definitely die in the progress, though it could be... bypassed'
Naruto paled 'What the hell! I never knew those changes would make me not human, why didn't you tell me!?'
'Well, I never planned it to happen like this, originally the changes I did to you wouldn't have done anything to make you not have human children, but with the removal of most of the seal my chakra finished the changes, turning you into a demon, this also brings about another point, you're immortal now, not invulnerable, but immortal. You will live forever'
Naruto was furious 'I don't give a damn about living forever! What about having children? Having a family!?'
Kyuubi actually flinched slightly at his tone 'There is one way that you can have kits still though.'
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I hope you enjoyed the chapter....yeah a whole shit tone of stuff happened in a very short span of writing...which I wasn't all to happy about, but I didn't want to just stretch out the Naruto-Kushina introduction with tons of useless conversation.
Again, please leave reviews, and well...I wouldn't be all that surprised if you can guess what's the one way they can have kids, but a cookie to whoever can do it anyway!
Until next time, -Goliith
