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Chapter 3: Mixing With Konoha
When Naruto walked into the Kage's Office with Tsunami surrounded by a group of ANBU, he saw both his father Minato Namikaze and grandfather figure Hiruzen Sarutobi. There also was an Uchiha there: Kagami Uchiha, previous clan head of the Uchiha Clan based on Obito's memories, but he seemed less important than the two inspiring figures of Konoha's leadership in front of him. It was combination of military discipline and Obito's 'recent' memories that prevented Naruto from crying and running up to the two male role model figures for a hug.
Naruto simply stood as straight as possible, waiting for his Kage to address him. With his now coal black eyes, he looked around the room and noticed not much has changed. The Hokage red hat with the kanji for fire was hanging on the wall. The bookshelf with some novels were on the side of the room. The old chairs in front of the desk looked the same. The only difference was that there were more piles of paper laying on the desk.
While Naruto surveyed his surroundings, all three men could only gape internally at the man who proclaimed himself as Obito Uchiha dressed in a mix of Iwa and Kiri Shinobi clothes.
Minato knew in his heart that this was Obito the first time he saw his student. After all, what kind of idiot would choose someone who died two weeks ago and walk right up the front entrance of an enemy village wearing said enemy village clothing? He just wanted to figure out how his student survived and why he looked so drastically different.
Both Hiruzen and Kagami came up with the same conclusion as well, but as leaders, they could not show any indication of their feelings and had to prioritize the village safety first.
Hiruzen let out a cough which sounded like a grunt before addressing the shinobi in front of him, "Chunin Obito Uchiha, report! Start from the beginning of your mission."
And Naruto did. Following Obito's memories, he spoke of all the major key points leading up to the rock slide. Avoiding the topic of how Obito died, he went on about making his way back to the village while scavenging supplies from dead shinobi and avoiding enemy scouts and rescued a civilian in the process.
Hiruzen took a thoughtful frown throughout the story. After a silence, he asked a question that he wanted to know. "How did you survive when you were buried in the rock slide?"
"I unlocked my Mangekyo Sharingan that allowed me to perform a space-time ninjutusu."
All three men were shocked, but they all filed the information for later use.
"Show me." Hiruzen demanded.
Naruto sent chakra into his eyes, activating his red tomoe eyes that turned into spinning pinwheels. Then he used the Kamui in his right eye and started to walk forward. All the ANBU in the room tensed, but Hiruzen put his hand up as a signal to stand down. To the amazement of everyone, Obito went through the chair.
There was a silence that even shocked the hiding ANBU in the office. It took awhile for everyone to go to take in this amazement with everyone's minds were working fast. After all, it wasn't everyday where you see a person defies the law of physics by walking through a solid object.
None other than Kagami Uchiha was thinking of multiple ways how to use this to his advantage. This orphan Uchiha could be the person he was hoping for to bring back glory and prestige to the Uchiha clan back to the days of Madara. Although Kagami was a kind husband and honest leader in politics, he still had the Uchiha blood that demanded power. Seeing how a young shinobi of the Uchiha clan who is younger than the famed Uchiha Madara who evolved his eyes further, which was achieved by less than a dozen people since its discovery, with two new undocumented powers, made him break out a smile, destroying the Uchiha's stoic demeanor.
Recovering from this shock, the Kage asked a few more personal questions along with Minato before Hiruzen was able to acknowledge that the man in front of them was truly Obito Uchiha. Writing a couple of notes onto Obito's files before putting a stamp on the top right corner, he said, "Thank you Chunin Obito Uchiha. Please rest for two weeks and report back for duty with your sensei. I am glad you are back home."
With a nod and a smile, Obito stepped back a step to allow his grandfather figure to address the female next to him. While Tsunami and Hiruzen were talking, Obito needed to think about what to do. I need to first get much stronger to survive the Third Shinobi War and make sure Konoha stays on top. Be strong enough to prevent the Kuruma from destroying the village if Madara decides to do the same plan but with another shinobi. Make sure Madara doesn't create the Fourth Shinobi War and send ideas to Minato-sensei to strengthen borders around Fire Country to prevent the Fifth War from breaking out. Just wonderful. And I gotta do all of this while making sure Danzo-teme and Orochimaru-teme don't try to take my eyes. And start a family. Can't forget about that. Then I gotta make a...
"Obito!" Hiruzen barked out, breaking Obito from his brainstorming.
"Huh?"
"Tsunami-san here will be living with you since we don't have any available apartment complexes. Treat her well. Is that clear?"
"Understood!" Shivering from the glare, he gave a smile to Tsunami who looked like she won the lottery. With a tilt of his head, he was trying to figure out why she was so happy.
After all, no matter how much Naruto was opened to the idea of the wonders of the female flesh, he is still pretty dense about the opposite sex. Then again, he never had much experience in dating...and completely forgot about Hinata's crush on him.
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Naruto/Obito walked through the roads of Konoha while talking to Tsunami. Although there was a war going on, he noticed most of the civilians were happy and determined, a striking contrast to the gloomy helplessness when word got out that Ame managed to be at the doorstep of Konoha. Some even nodded in respect to him which made him feel happy inside as both Naruto and Obito.
Walking through the Uchiha district was a surreal experience to him. He never stayed near the Uchiha district as a kid because they always tried to push some blame on him during his prank wars with the shopkeepers and never helped him when he was getting beaten up. WIth his teammate Sasuke, he always saw the district as a ghost town and only popped by to get Sasuke during missions. And in the Fifth war, the whole place was reduced to rubble.
Following the route from Obito's memories, he arrived to a modest house near the outskirts of the Uchiha compound that had two floors with some furniture and a lot of the Uchiha fan symbol hanging around the house. Opening the door, he allowed Tsunami in and went upstairs to his room.
It was then that exhaustion consumed him since Obito's body wasn't used to staying up for a whole week, regardless of the upgrade the body received from the Shinju Chakra. Making his way to the futon, Naruto fell down onto the cushion that consumed his mind and his body shut down. For the first time in ages, Naruto got a good night's worth of sleep without worrying about being in danger and forgot about the resident female currently residing in the house that he was supposed to take care of. He later felt like there was a nice smelling teddy bear next to him but the idea disappeared as sleep took over him. He smiled as he dreamed about swimming through ramen and...dango?
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Naruto woke up the next morning to a warm ray of bright sunshine. Blocking it out with the pale backside of his arm, the Uzumaki turned Uchiha flipped himself over to the side with his back to the window, grumbling in his sleep as he blindly reached down to pull the white bed sheets over himself. To his surprise though, his fingers grabbed something smooth and fleshy. His hand right hand moved around to feel the fleshy blanket while his mind subconsciously was trying to recognize the texture and firmness he felt anywhere in his life but could not make a connection. His analysis was stopped to a halt as he heard an erotic moan nearby. An erotic moan next to him.
Opening his eyes and activating his sharingan. He slowly looked around the room, not fully recognizing where he was since he was still partially asleep. His other hand immediately went to the kunai under his potted plant Obito put there for safety on reflex.
Within miliseconds his brain rebooted as he realized he was sleeping in Obito's room. Fully awake, he gripped the kunai in preparation to stab the person right next to him. Turning over to look at the enemy, he finally saw what his hands were grabbing.
Let it be known that the 26 year old Naruto Uzu-turned-Uchiha did NOT scream like a girl.
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After the fiasco with Tsunami that involved a lot of bowing and saying sorry, he left the house (with a big red hand print) after eating some of Tsunami's home made breakfast. Deciding to give the civilian some space to adjust to her new environment, Naruto went to the Uchiha training ground 83 to work out the chinks within his body. In the peacefully grassy environment, he went through his personalized katas to integrate Obito's knowledge on the Uchiha Inceptor Fist and using the Sharingan with it. His clones continued to work on Obito using elemental ninjutsu in the background.
After hours of nonstop movement, Naruto quickly sat down in a meditative position under a tree to feel the nature's energy. Although his contract with the Toads would be null, Naruto felt that he needed to prep his body so he could one day access Sage's mode. Despite his knowledge, it felt different to him. Instead of trying to coax the energy to enter into him, the energy just flowed through his body without trouble but he could not grab onto it.
Naruto thought that he couldn't gather the energy because Obito never had a Summoning Contract but Naruto dismissed the idea. After all, everyone could do it but they did not have the knowledge to do so. Instead he believed that Obito's Uchiha body is very different from his own body since Madara believed the Uchiha inherited the Sage's Yin chakra while the Senju inherited the Sage's Yang chakra.
Because he closed his eyes, he never saw the red pigment that was slowly appearing on Obito's face that resembled Hashirama's Sage Mode.
And that was how Naruto Uchiha spent the two weeks he had on his break while trying to avoid the current Team 7. He practiced his katas and elemental ninjutsu in the day and sat in the afternoon trying to go back in tune with nature. At night, he would stop by to help the Konoha elderly (a trait he inherited from Obito) and help Tsunami prepare dinner and unload her supplies. Within the two weeks, he steeled his heart to see his two teammates and sensei.
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Naruto sat quietly in a tree reading one of the books he found in the Uchiha library. Using his Sharingan to memorize the text, he waited for Team 7 (or Team Minato) to appear while he learned some tricks with the Sharingan to use genjutsu. Apparently, the Uchiha library of jutsus was useless to him since he learned the most useful jutsus from Madara himself or from his allies in the wars.
Naruto also changed his clothes, in part because they are too small and wanted to wear Sasuke's attire he had during the Fourth Shinobi War in memory of his rivalry and sacrifice. So Naruto wore a high-collared black shirt that had a zipper that depicted the Uchiha fan on the back. He also wore a black cloth over his black ANBU pants with a red rope belt around his waist tied in a knot. He also wore his black ANBU boots to look presentable to his new/old team.
His reading came to an end when he noticed three familiar figures. Jumping down from his tree, he quickly looked at both of his teammates: Rin Nohara and Kakashi Hatake.
Rin Nohara was Obito's crush who may have like Kakashi. She is the medic of the team and also plays peacemakers between us. Not noted for any major jutsu for fighting, she is a chunin like I am because of her intelligence and poisons. Plays a key role in Obito's descent to darkness.
Kakashi Hatake, a jonin, is considered to be a genius among geniuses in his own right and created the Chidori (Lightning Release: One Thousand Birds) recently. A stickler for rules after his father's death and hates me because I am stupid. Well now, let show him how behind he really is. I still need revenge from the time he used Sennen Goroshi (One Thousand Years of Death)...
"Dobe...you…" Kakashi gasped.
"Obito-kun…!" Rin spoke as her face turned into a red tomato.
"Well...hello." Naruto said with a Uchiha-like smirk that would have made Sasuke proud.