1Yeah another chapter, I'm in a writing mood now. I don't know if I'll still be in the mood when this chapter is done though. Please review and whatnot. Also I am a major Naru fan and know pretty much everything there is to know about Naruto so if something is off in the story, it's off for a reason. Gaara is at this point about 4 or 3 ish, so it's been about 4 or 3 years since the attack of the kyuubi. Arigatou!
Chapter 2: Jinchuurikis and hokages
Naruto was very content with his make-shift village. A couple of missing ninjas who knew medical jutsu had built a hospital and missions were coming in. Ninjas without rank were graded on a special test invented by Naruto to be given a ranking. An academy had been set up and some of the kinder ninjas had taken up teaching students. However, The schools here were very different from Konoha because Naruto always found the schools there to be tedious and teach useless work. Who the hell cares about how fast a kunai goes when sharpened versus not! As long as it flies, he couldn't care less. The classes were available, yes, but not forced. Also a test was given when the students were about 10 to see were their specialties lie so they could work with jutsu and learn faster. Tokigakure had quite the abundance of all sorts of jutsu with ninjas who had come in from all the villages and even ninjas who had trained on their own.
Naruto knew that Akatsuki would rear their ugly faces soon enough and sent his most trusted ninja, Zetsu, to try and infiltrate the organization and act as a spy while Naruto decided to try and find the Jinchuuriki and Bijuu. Thinking back on his own life, he decided he should convince Gaara to come into the village before his mind was warped like it had been for a time in Naruto's time. The entire village said goodbye to their first Tokikage as Naruto left Hinata in charge of things yet again, but she was very busy recently with their newborn son. He was smarter than average and, not even 2 years old, he was walking around with a bad habit of getting into his father's kunai and shuriken sets. Naruto, unable to be creative enough to come up with a name, and named him Arashi after his father.
Heading out to Sunagakure was not a very long trip, and when he arrived he was truely surprised by what he saw. He had thought Gaara to have just reacted differently to the way he was treated than Naruto, but kids actually ran screaming whenever he came near. Naruto sat on a small bench near the park, his large straw hat covering his face. He wore black and dark purple robes (think Miroku) with the special necklace that Tsunade had given him under it. He watched Gaara sitting silently on a swing by himself with the kids over on the other side of the park playing ball. Sighing, Naruto stood up and walked over to Gaara. Gaara looked up at Naruto, his eyes seemed innocent even though he had seen things and heard things that no kid his age should have gone through.
"W-who are you?"
Naruto just looked at Gaara kindly before replying, "I am someone who came to help you"
Gaara looked almost happy, but wary nonetheless. "You're not going to hurt me?"
Naruto was shocked, yeah he had a couple of assassination attempts on his life, but Gaara seemed to have gone through more. "No, I won't hurt you. I want to help. Have you ever had a family gaara? I could introduce you to mine."
"If you're not going to hurt me, then are you an angel?"
Naruto laughed at that, scaring Gaara a little. "No, I'm not an angel, but an angel sent me. If you want to come live with me and the angel, meet me at the gates to the village tomorrow morning."
Gaara just nodded as Naruto turned around and walked away. It was a lot for him to take in, he could go live somewhere where people wouldn't hate him. Someplace where he could do whatever he wanted without people staring at him and protecting their children from him. A place where he could be accepted. But he would never see Onee-san or Aniki. He would mostly miss Onee-san because she was the only one nice to him, but she was still scared of him. Yes, he would definitely go. Maybe he would find this 'love' that Yashamaru had often talked about.
The next day, Naruto went to the gates to find gaara already waiting for him with a backpack and a small teddy bear held close to his chest. His once dead eyes held renewed determination and vigor.
"Aniki! Come on, let's go!"
Naruto was caught by surprise by being called big brother from gaara before he nodded and they left on the 5 day hike to Tokigakure. On the way, Naruto told Gaara all about the city and the kind people inside it. They all understood one another and even got along though they may have been from separate villages. Naruto told him about a recent pair of genin who were best friends and one was an orphan who had run away from Konoha and the other had moved there with his parents from Iwa. When Naruto finally arrived back, cries of "The Tokikage has returned!" and "Lord Tokikage!" were raised from the villagers. When Naruto looked down at Gaara, he realized that he had left out the fact that he was the Tokikage of the village. Arriving at his house, Hinata stood in the doorway waiting. Gaara gasped when he saw one of the most beautiful ladies he had ever seen and ran up to give her a hug. When Hinata hugged back he asked,
"Are you the angel Aniki told me about?"
Laughing gently, Hinata replied, "yes, I am. If you want you can call me your big sister or your new mother"
Gaara pretended to think about it for a moment before throwing himself into her arms. "Kaa-san!" He yelled.
Hinata laughed before showing Gaara to his room across the hall from Arashi's room. "Kaa-san, who's room is that?" Gaara pointed at Arashi's room. Hinata laughed quietly.
"That is your baby brother's room, do you want to see him?" Gaara nodded, he had a little baby brother! Peeping into the room, he quietly looked into the crib to see a little baby with shocking blond hair and pupiless purple eyes staring back at him. Arashi tilted his head slightly before trying to grab Gaara's hair, only to have the sand stop him. Gaara almost laughed when Arashi picked up one of his little toy kunai and tried attacking the sand. He turned around and noticed that Kaa-san was gone, so he went into his own room and set it up the way he liked it. (No, gaara doe's not have the gourd at this point, no, the sand didn't attack Arashi since it only defended gaara, the sand followed gaara here and swirls around his feet until he gets his gourd) Gaara looked out his back window to see, a sandbox! Running out back he played in the sand and it quickly his favorite place to be in the whole village.
With Gaara safe, he knew there were other Jinchuuriki out there, but he didn't know who they were so he couldn't help them. He had heard a rumor of the two-tailed cat Nibi being sealed into a girl name Yugito, but by now she'd be a chuunin and wouldn't leave her village anyway. (Yugito was a full grown adult when Naruto was 15, think Kakashi's age) He figured it was time to reveal the presence of their village, but first he would approach Konoha claiming to be looking for allies before he revealed the presence of his village which was about 2 days trip away, but you could reach Konoha in 1 day if you pushed yourself. So that was what Naruto did. He had a fake passport made before arriving at Konoha's gates. (With all the ex-criminals in the village, somebody knows how to make a fake passport) He still wore his dark colored robes and kept his hat down over his face. He claimed to be a traveling monk seeking a place to rest. The jounin at the gates let him in. The first place he went was Ichiraku, one of the places he had missed the most. He sat down in one of the chairs next to a short hyper blonde kid who had just arrived.
"Hey, my name's Uzumaki Naruto! What's yours?"
Naruto pretended to freeze up in surprise before giving Naruto a big smile. "That's kind of funny, my name's Kazama Naruto"
"Huh? That is kinda funny, but I bet I'll be a better ninja than you!"
"I'm not a ninja, I'm a monk"
"Oh. Hey, I bet I can eat more ramen than you!"
Naruto looked down at his younger self before grinning, he hadn't had a good ramen race for a long time. He looked up at the old man, "hey! Get the ramen ready! We're having a ramen race over here!" The guy looked up before yelling into the back, then he gave a bowl of miso soup to both Narutos and raised his hand, "ready, set, go!"
Both Narutos dug into the ramen like there life depended on it, but in the end, Kazama won. Uzumaki just grumbled and paid the bill for both of them. Effectively leaving him broke. The whole ordeal was very strange for Kazama, but he waved goodbye to his younger self and headed over to the Hokage tower. He told the ANBU guards that he was a costumer here to ask for a mission. They showed him to a room where he waited to be let in. Finally an ANBU guard told him he could come in. He looked at the Hokage where he was sitting with a few jounin and chuunin on either side of him before he asked,
"What rank is the mission you wish to request"
looking at the old man, Naruto was overwhelmed with sad memories and it took him a second to long to regain himself as a chuunin stood up and spoke,
"Well, hurry up! The hokage doesn't have all day!"
"Quiet Iruka"
Naruto saw Iruka and remembered him too, but ignored the memories that overflowed him this time.
"I'm not here to request a mission"
Those surrounding the Hokage gasped at this and the obvious question on their faces was, 'well, then what do you want?'
"Please continue" said the Hokage.
"I'm not a monk either, I am a ninja and have come to request an alliance on behalf of my village."
"Which village do you come from, I do not see you wearing a headband"
"If I had worn my hita'ate, do you think that the guards up front would have let me in?"
"You make a valid point"
"I hail from Tokigakure, or the Village hidden in Time"
"I have never heard of your village before, and I am fairly sure I would have heard of it at some point or other"
"Umm, please excuse me lord Hokage, but I heard a legend of a strange village that is sometimes there and sometimes not. A village that comes in and out of time called Tokigakure. It is said that in the village of time, everyone is given a second chance. Several missing-nins have vanished and may be there or nearby." A short chuunin with sunglasses spoke up after hearing this. "I heard a legend similar to that too!" A few more people spoke up before the Hokage just told everyone to quiet down.
"If you really are from this village, why is it that no one has seen it before?"
"If no one had seen it before, where do the rumors come from?"
"Hmmm... What would we gain from an alliance with Tokigakure"
"We will be willing to assist you in times of need and we are located close by. We only request that you do the same."
"Very well, but one of my jounins will go back with you to your village to see that you are telling the truth. One last thing, what is your name and please reveal your face instead of keeping your head down like that."
"My name is Kazama Naruto, the Tokikage of Tokigakure." He took off his straw hat completely so everyone could see his stunning blue eyes and wild blond hair. He looked exactly like the fourth hokage, and if you listened carefully, you could have heard the Sandaime question under his breath,
"Yondaime?"