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****WARNING: SPOILERS FROM THE MANGA WILL BE ADDED SO PLEASE READ ONLY IF YOU ARE UPTODATE!!***

Author: Mark L. Ongkingco and Dayse G. Lopez

*A/N*: **Italicized words are forms of memory and dreams** - **Bold words will represent the jutsu's used** (**) Parenthesis will represent current area and scene..

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-------------------FLASHBACK------------------

(In the Village of Konoha)

"WELCOME HOME NARUTO!

"YOU'RE A HERO!"

"WE BELIEVED IN YOU!" Were the voices and yells of his home village as he came out of the forest around Konoha.

"You did great Naruto" said the familiar voice that carried his weak body towards home.

"I was only protecting my way of the Ninja, Kakashi-sensei, nothing more.." Naruto explained in a weakened voice trying to savor and take into his being the voices of praise of the entire village.
Naruto looked shabby and torn up from the battle against Pein, yet his golden hair gleemed brightly and his eyes were colored as if the ocean itself were in his eyes and sparkled regardless of his condition.

"You protected the village from Pein, defeated him, and you came at the moment the village needed you the most.. you earned this" Kakashi praising his old student as he smiled at the weak and tired Naruto.

Waves and waves of the villagers came rushing to their hero with smiles and opened hearts. The villagers were overjoyed with the safety of their village, other Leaf nin's smiled and watched as the hero of Konoha was praised, pushed, jumped on, and practically swarmed over.

A blonde haired kunoichi stood amidst of the villagers, watching as the hero of Konoha, was jumped on and swarmed over. She wore a green coat with black linings, a very revealing shirt that tied around the waste enough to cover even a little bit of her cleavage, with the addition of loosely blue pants that cut off over her knees.

"You've surpassed those who came before you, Naruto" the woman thought.

"Taking a jutsu not even the Yondaime Hokage could achieve.." She remembered several long moments ago, when the attack of Pein was in action, she watched Naruto, destroy two of Pein's bodies.

---FLASHBACK during the battle against Pein---

"DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!" Naruto yelled as his jutsu was complete. Tsunade was gazing from afar as she watched him in shock. "Fuuton: Rasen-shuriken (Wind Release: Spiraling Shuriken)" she uttered under her breath, and kept her gaze and became shocked once again as Naruto threw the jutsu at Pein, destroying 2 of Pein's bodies in an instant. Complete amazement.

---FLASHBACK ENDS during the battle against Pein--

"Your father would have been proud..and I know that pervert Jiraiya, bless his soul, would be too". She relaxed and took a deep breath, suddenly out of no where a sharp voice rang in here ear.

"TSUNADE-SAMA!!" yelled a fellow female kunoichi, trying to grasp the Hokage of Konoha's attention.

"GAHH!! WHAT DO YOU WANT SHIZUNE?!" Tsunade screamed back.

"There's paper that needs to be done, and missions that need to be assigned, we can't sit back recovering without trying to repair the village as soon as possible!" Shizune informed her, reminding Tsunade of the village's current position.

"Gah..I want some sake after this, you hear me!?!" Tsunade scoffed and turned her head towards Naruto to glance at him before returning to work as the Godaime Hokage of Konoha

"Your dream to become acknowledged by the whole village has happened Naruto.." thought Tsunade. "You came and saved us at our most dire moment..thank you.." as she instantly vanished along with the thought.

Swarms and waves of villagers began dog piling on the hero of Konoha as they praised him.

"Ow! Don't push me so hard!" yelled Naruto as he was swarmed by waves of happy villagers.

But his head was brought down to his chest as a heavy pound came impacting on his head. "Itai… what the.." cut off with shock but relief as Naruto looked up.

A very beautiful kunoichi was standing over him holding him in her arms. Stunning pink hair held onto by her Leaf protector, dark pink vest and skirt a little worn out to show her exact clothing appearance when the battle of Pein finally ended. "Sakura-chan.."

Tears flowing down her eyes, as she wept in joy on the shoulders of her fellow teammate. "Baka.. I was so worried about you..thank you Naruto..."

Smiles and faces appeared in his vision as he glanced at his other teammates. "Hehe, finally did something right eh Naruto" showing his pride as Kiba spoke.

"We should go to a BBQ to celebrate!"shouted Chouji.

Laughter and happiness filled the atmosphere as for Naruto, could only feel happy and relieved to see his friends safe and his village out of harm's way.

-------------------FLASHBACK ENDS------------------

(Back in the present on a roof of the Konoha Headquarters)

"NARUTO!!!!" the shout he heard coursed through his head as he snapped back in attention and back to the present. He glanced to his side to see a beautiful pink hair kunoichi at the young age of 23 wearing a dark pink vest, matching with a dark pink skirt, covering her legs were black nets walking towards him and a holster at her waist. "What's wrong Sakura-chan?"

"I finally found you! Tsunade-sama has been looking for you.. what are you doing up on the roof of the base?" The headquarters roof, which overlooked the entire base of operations, was surrounded by ruins of the destroyed village south of Konoha.

"Konoha.." Naruto thought to himself as he reminisced of his once blooming village.

Sakura glanced at Naruto's face which was deep in thought. "Whatcha thinking about Naruto-kun?"

"I was just remembering the day when Pein or should I say Nagato was defeated" answered Naruto. Sakura's face had turned in awe and with a sweet smile, she sat down beside Naruto.

"8 years have passed since that day" thought Sakura as she remembered the events of praise towards Naruto after the fight. "You did a good job protecting the village.." comforted Sakura while leaning her head on Naruto's shoulder.

Naruto looked down and viewed at the remainders of what was left of Konoha. "Not even a third of the villagers and our friends survived the attack.." Naruto spoke with deep sorrow accompanied by pain and agony.

Sakura looked at him expressing her concern. "It was not your fault.. no one could have predicted what would have happened next.." she comforted.

"No, I am at fault...I was the only one strong enough to fight..but I left..and in the end I still failed to protect my village against Sasuke..I wasn't in the village during the attack.. I was in Myobokuzan speaking to the elder toads. The same thing happened with the attack of Pein but I came back in time. But I couldn't protect the village from that attack." he expressed such pain and agony through his words.

Eyes widened with tears of sadness which flowed instantly down Sakura's face as she remembered the moment Sasuke attacked the Village of Konoha.

-------------------FLASHBACK------------------

(In the midst of Konoha)

Screams and cries were heard all around the village as 1 by 1 villagers and ninja's alike were killed by the invading sound ninja's and their leader. Blood splattering everywhere, limbs went flying as they came off of people, buildings came crumbling down and debris falling over children trying to escape with their parents.

Out of nowhere the roof of a building collapsed as a family of 3 stood still, in fear, and about to lose their lives.

"WATCH OUT!!" a female kunoichi, hair of dark purple flying behind her as if it were trying to stop her actions, her Leaf protector dangling from her neck, wearing a purple/white overall, and pants that cut off below her knees, her white gleaming eyes already strained from overuse, leaped towards the family and pushed them aside, but in return becoming victim to the debris and crushed.

"HINATA!!!" yelled her younger sister, Hyuuga Hanabi as she became stunned with fear and shock to see her beloved sister at the brink of death. She gained her attention back as she heard her dying sister speak her last words.

"Escape..and..protect..the remains of Konoha..Hanabi-chan.." breath released as Hyuuga Hinata spoke her final words.

Hanabi looked in shock, as she could not accept the event that happened right before her eyes. But with her last form of strength, she respected her now deceased sister final wish, and retreated from Konoha along with the family her dear sister had protected.

In the center of the village, fights broke out, filling the village with screams and cries. A group of sound ninja's soon arrived to assist their fellow nin's in the battle of Konoha.

"There's one of those Konoha dogs! Kill him!" sound ninja's leaping towards one man to give him the honor of his last breath. Suddenly, sparks of lightning flashed, blinding them as they saw the figure vanish.

"RAIKIRI! (Lightning Edge)" Kakashi shouted as he pierced through the group of sound ninja's with blinding speed and agility. He dropped back into his alert position, and panted hard from the constant fighting.

"There's too many of them..we can't hold out much longer, and our forces are rapidly dwindling.." Kakashi yelled and gave in to a sudden choke when he remembered not a long moment ago, he had witnessed one of his best Chuunin-ranked friends, be impaled by countless sound ninja's, while protecting the academy children. "Umino Iruka" Kakashi murmured as he remembered his friend. He turned his attention in alert as he heard a familiar voice speaking to him in much hate and anger.

"So, your still alive huh..in a way I'm glad you are, this way I can kill you myself..Kakashi.." uttered the figure staring at Kakashi. The figure had an all directional spiked black hair, wearing a white opened long sleeved shirt, with the symbol of a fireball imprinted on the back collar, he wore a black cover from waist done, with a large purple weaved rope belt that held on to his sword striped in white and red. His eyes dark and filled with hate and vengeance.

"I knew you were behind this..You've really turned on us, haven't you.. Sasuke.. but I'm afraid I can't let you leave alive." Kakashi lifted his hand to pull up the Leaf protector he wore in a weird fashion and revealed his closed left eye.

He glared at Sasuke, who stood his ground. Sasuke spoke to him.

"The Sharingan..is my clan's bloodline ability and you are not even an Uchiha, Hatake Kakashi.. I will kill you for revealing it to me you Konoha bastard". Upon saying this, Sasuke's eye's changed revealing his bloodline limit, the Sharingan, then finally rushing towards Kakashi.

Kakashi kept his eyes closed for a second before snapping it open and revealed the different shape of his Sharingan. He whispered under his voice, "Mangekyou Sharingan!"

Kakashi gazed at Sasuke, as a blur of a sudden vortex came appearing on Sasuke, where he focused his Sharingan eye and the more he focused the more clearer and stronger the vortex felt as it pulled Sasuke towards it. Sasuke became angrier and continued his assault.

Sasuke leapt towards Kakashi, and unsheathed his blade which held from his weaved belt, until he felt an instant and extremely painful snap on his arm that held onto the blade. He watched as his arm fell off his shoulders.

The blurred vortex spun back in a counter direction and returned the area of focus back to normal. Kakashi gasped in pain and held his left hand over his left eye to relax it from pain as soon as possible.

Sasuke screamed in agony, "ARGGGHH" his eyes flared at Kakashi as he transformed his Sharingan with a scream. "Mangekyou Sharingan!" he forced himself to leap beside Kakashi who was now completely stunned, after using his eye. His body shocked him into a complete stun whenever he used his ocular powers.

"I have no time to react!" Kakashi professed to himself in a panic. Electric currents of extreme voltage began to surround him, shocking him completely all over his body and burning him alive, screaming and wishing the pain would end.

"CHIDORI NAGASHI! (One Thousand Birds Current)" the Uchiha yelled allowing his own chakra to manipulate into electricity, as he came in complete contact of Kakashi.

A severely burnt body, and constant twitching came crashing down to the floor infront of Uchiha Sasuke.

A pink haired kunoichi, leapt from building to building in a panic to retreat away from Konoha. She spotted the burnt body and a familiar man standing in front of it.

"Sasuke…you killed Kakashi-sensei.." looking down at the body that laid before him.

"SASUKE!!!.. Why?..How could you.. why are you doing this?!.. Weren't we family? Weren't we your friends?.. SASUKE!!!" screamed Sakura as she watched in horror as hordes of Sound ninja's swarmed the village, destroying everything and killing anyone on sight.

"Sakura.." he began to laugh crazily. "Family? Friends?.. I am an avenger Sakura, you Leaf ninja's are so oblivious to the truth. Konoha ordered for the annihilation of the entire Uchiha clan using Itachi as their means" Sasuke screamed back.

At hearing this Sakura's eyes widened with intense shock.

"Itachi loved this village and protected it and he was betrayed by the very same people he tried to protect! And now you all rejoice in his death!. I will have this cursed village experience the same pain and agony the Uchiha Clan faced. Sasuke closed his right eye fiercely.

"AMATERASU! (Illuminating Heaven)" Sasuke voiced as he opened his right eye revealing his Mangekyou Sharingan that he obtained after he had killed his brother. Blood dripping from the stressed right eye while black flames began covering the buildings he focused his eye on and burned anything it touched.

"SAKURA! SNAP OUT OF IT WE NEED TO EVACUATE!" as these words smashed into her thoughts. She turned her head and her eyes met with her master's concerned and panicked face. "Tsunade-sama.." eyes filled with tears as Sakura was forcefully pulled by her master towards the exit of the village.

"There's nothing we can do Sakura except to retreat. Our village was not able to protect itself after the battle of Pein last week. Our forces are terribly weak and we can't stand up on our own in this state, especially without Naruto, he has not returned from Myobokuzan yet.. we need to go!"

Sakura staring back at her home with tear filled eyes as she watched the destruction of Konoha, black flames covering the atmosphere of her now destroyed village that she loved and protected.

-------------------FLASHBACK ENDS-----------------

(Back to the roof)

Naruto watched her tears stroll down her eyes onto her cheeks. He felt heart ache and pain as he could not stand seeing someone he cared about act like so.

Sakura gasped as she was pulled back into reality with a warm feeling covering her entire body as she wept. "It's okay Sakura-chan..I know it's not.. but we need to move on and forward for the future. We need to do our best to make the future better.. right?" asked Naruto in a tone looking for comfort trying to use the softest and comforting voice he had into her ear as he hugged her, trying to fight back his own tears.

"I need to be strong, and support her..to live for the future, and to protect what is left in my life.." Naruto thought to himself as he began to pick himself back up emotionally.

"Your right..we need to live for the future now.." she answered as she hugged him back tightly.
"This is the present, we can't change the past.. we need to move forward if we are going to survive and accomplish our goals." Sakura thought as she allowed herself to embrace him.

"He's being strong for me..he hides it but I know he is..I need to be strong for him too.." Sakura thought as she closed her eyes slowly, embracing Naruto.

"So this is where you ar..." cut off from the sight of seeing his two friends in their own little moment. Naruto and Sakura did not notice someone else open the door to the roof, being so distracted.

He coughed loudly to gain the attention of Naruto and Sakura who immediately heard and moved away from each other in complete embarrassment.

"AH SHIKAMARU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" yelled Sakura as she looked up at the face of her friend.

Nara Shikamaru, the lead strategist of their base, wearing a grey vest, and black pants, with armguards resembling one that was in the ANBU Black Ops in Konoha. His hair spiked and tied in a pony tail.

"I'm here to fetch Naruto, he's been requested to the Command Room downstairs by Tsunade-sama. Why do you have to be so hard to find Naruto? You cause me nothing but trouble even since we were kids back then." complained Shikamaru.

Naruto stood up to face his friend Shikamaru. Laughing under his breath he replied "Sorry" as a mumble.

Shikamaru looked at Naruto with a raised eyebrow and thought to himself, "I remembered when he looked like such a baka.. wearing an orange jumpsuit.. such an easy target for the enemy". But in all of his amazement he was most happy to see Naruto and that he had survived since then.

Naruto's looks were completely different than they were in the past being now at the age of 23. His golden hair was longer and no longer spiked as his bangs covered his Leaf protector while the top bangs flared in many directions, sideburns that matched his older look, still the same whisker marks on both of his cheeks, and his eyes still looked like it carried the ocean as it beamed towards anyone he glanced upon. He wore a black zip up shirt, underneath it was a silver netted shirt, that can be seen from his collarbone towards his chest. He wore white pants and had bandage wraps around his right shin. He wore fine black sandals that covered his feet except his toes. And in addition to his newly defined look, he wore a cloak that resembled his father's, Namikaze Minato, the 4th Hokage just it was black with red flames at the bottom design. Shikamaru grinned as he thought back into the past.

-------------------FLASHBACK------------------

(In the Hokage's office in Konoha, 2 days prior to the attack by Sasuke)

They were all gathered in the Hokage office consisting of all the teams from Rookie 9 and a few additionals. "Naruto.. what was it you needed to talk to us about?" asked Tsunade as she looked at Naruto precariously.

"I wanted to inform you all of something before I return to Myobokuzan to speak with the elder toad sages, because you are all friends and family who are dear to me" explained Naruto in a soft tone. All of his friends were now watching and listening closely to Naruto thinking to themselves, "I wonder what it is.."

Naruto sighed and began. "Before my seal was broken during the fight with Pein, I was stopped by a man that helped me come to my senses and the fixed the seal within me that almost broke."

"A man?" Tsunade interjected in confusion.

"Yes.. I met Yodaime." Naruto calmly voiced out. From those words everyone in the room gasped and looked at him with widened eyes.

"Yondaime?!?" Tsunade asked with shock in her tone. Naruto sighed again and looked at Tsunade and words came out of Naruto's mouth that shocked the entire room of friends and family.

"I want to inherit my father's name in honor of his sacrifice for the village when he sealed the Kyuubi within his own son, as Namikaze Naruto."

"So you finally found out huh.." Tsunade said jokingly. Naruto nodded and slightly grinned as he listened to the voices of his friends.

"WHAT!?!?"

"No way…"

"Naruto is the son of the 4th Hokage? Namikaze Minato?"

"Wow, no wonder there was such a resemblance.."

"Seriously that's a freaking shock"

"We already know your the Kyuubi container.."

Shikamaru sighed as he heard they're remarks and thought to himself, "I already knew all of this, but it's too troublesome to explain it to everyone.."

-------------------FLASHBACK ENDS------------------

(On the Roof)

"Shikamaru?" Naruto said to gain his friend's attention. "Ah sorry sorry, I was just day dreaming." explained Shikamaru. "Let's go Namikaze, Tsunade-sama is waiting for us". Naruto smirked and followed as Sakura changed her glace towards Naruto and thought to herself, "He really does resemble the Yondaime." She smiled at the thought of how Naruto has matured and grew up over the years while following Shikamaru to the Command Center.

"I wonder what's going on? thought Naruto as he entered the Command Center where he saw an impatient Obaa-chan waiting for him. "Took you long enough Naruto!" exclaimed Tsunade ex Godaime Hokage of Konoha, and commander of the new Konoha Headquarters Base.

With annoyance in her voice and in an angry tone caused by Naruto's delay, she spoke out words that grasped his attention almost instantly. "I have a mission for you.

*A/N: First Chapter is finally out and done! Were gonna see how the story turns out the next chapter coming out! So stay Tuned! ~Dayse

Yeap, 2nd chapter is gonna take more proof reading and more imagination to make it as interesting as possible. ~Mark

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