All right guys some of the reviews are helpful while the others are not. I mean, come on, there are over a hundred thousand Naruto fanfics on just this site. The plotline is bound to get repeated at some point. You can't keep on crying over this. Suck it up and atleast read the first 5 or 6 chapters before deciding that you want to badmouth it.
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Person Speaking "Hello"
Thoughts 'Hello'
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Jutsu "Kage Bunshin"
Biju speak "Bastard"
Long range communication "Hello"
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Uncle?
As soon as he opened his eyes, he knew that he had made the right choice. He had been reborn on the same hill he had died. Looking around to see Konoha as it had been before being destroyed time and time again due to the wars.
The bright blue sky with a few clouds drifting by, the fresh air coming from the forest around the village created by the Shodaime, the Hokage monument which could easily be seen from such a distance with only 4 faces. Seeing the face of his father, he couldn't help but feel stupid. Even a blind person could see the similarity between the two, and then there were the shinobi of Konoha, who were called the strongest in all the hidden villages, who still couldn't see that. Man, come on. Even the so called 'All Seeing Eye' of the Hyuuga clan couldn't connect the dots.
'Looks like it is time' He thought to himself as he started running across town, on the rooftops to avoid the crowd which were starting to gather around the shops.
While running accross the rooftops, he saw a blond boy of around 8 in bright 'kill me' orange jumpsuit, with an arrogant smirk on his whiskered face as well as the Uzumaki clan symbol on his arm and back.
'Urgghhh... Did I look that bad? No wonder Sakura never paid any attention to me. At least it helps that all this was just the facade I had created to save myself from the villagers.' He thought while making a mental note to make the boy drop the facade some times so it wouldn't become a part of his identity, like it beacme a part of Ruto's. He slightly shook his head and headed for the Hokage Tower.
Once he reached near to it, he started thinking about the ways he could meet the Hokage personally while strolling across the road.
After thinking for a few minutes(which caused his brain to overheat), his childish side kicked just as he remembered about his dad's special kunai inside the office.
Throwing all thoughts of caution out the figurative window, he focussed on the kunai and used Hiraishin(Flying Thunder God) to teleport right in front of the Sandaime, when he was in the middle of a very important task...Reading his Icha-Icha.
All his thoughts of how he would cope up with seeing his grandfather in all but blood were forgotten at that moment as a tick mark appeared on his forehead.
With a yell of "PERVERT", he snatched the book out of his hands and did a small fire jutsu, and the book dissapeared in a ball of flames.
It was only then that the old Hokage noticed the new arrival in his office.
"Who are you?" he asked as the ANBU dropped down from god knows where they were hiding, with their swords drawn and placed on his throat.
Ruto just flared up a bit of the Kyuubi's Chakra in response.
Hiruzen Sarutobi may be old, but he was not a fool. There was a reason the people called him 'The Professor' afterall. He immediately connected the dots between the appearance of this strange man who looked an awful lot like Minato, except for his hair and the whisker marks on his face, and the Kyuubi chakra and knew who he was. His jaw was hanging open from the shock of his identity. But it was true, the Kyuubi chakra confirmed it.
Getting his shock under control, he ordered his ANBU
"Leave us alone"
"But sir-" one silver haired ANBU began to say, only to be cut off by the Hokage,
"Do you think that I, the Hokage, would not be able to hold my own against some stranger?"
Even when nobody could see their faces, they knew the uncertainty by their body positions.
"If you want, then you can stay Inu, but the rest need to leave."
Breathing a sigh of relief that their leader was safe, as none could take on Hiruzen 'The Professor' Sarutobi and Sharingan no Kakashi at the same time, they all started to leave the room.
"I am not to be disturbed for anything right now" The Hokage said before they closed the door.
"You can remove the mask Kakashi-san. Your hair gives you away anyway."
"Shall we talk now?"
Taking a deep breath to prepare himself, he launched off in his story, telling them everything that happened during and after his graduation from the academy. As the story went on, both of his audience's jaws were slowly making their way down to the floor. If seen from outside, it would seem as if they had learned how to dislocate their bones and move them with the help of their chakra(which might be true in case of the older man, he is said to have mastered all the jutsu of the hidden leaf). It might have been a funny scene, were it not such a serious conversation.
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Hiruzen Sarutobi knew that he was old. A bit too old to be the Hokage if you asked him.
Last night had just confirmed this fact.
He, the Hokage, had not been able to stop his advisers and Danzo from giving a child the mission to kill members of his own clan.
He knew it was necessary, that they were planning a coup which would take a lot more lives, but placing the burden of killing your own family on a young teenager? That was just horrible.
And then there was the fact that an outside party had killed the rest of the clan. Young Itachi had done all he could to save Sasuke, but had taken it a bit too far and ended up sending him into coma due to the stress of being caught in the Tsukoyomi.
Then his absurd request to go after that person all alone, to be declared a missing nin to save konoha the trouble of coming up with a cover story.
And now this man sitting in front of him, claiming to be Naruto Uzumaki from the future.
He wanted to believe him, he really did. They looked the same, their DNA matched, he knew things that he had only told to Naruto, but he was still wary.
Time-travel, who would want to believe such a thing?
He knew that he was the one who came to this conclusion, but still...
And so he had called Inoichi for help. And here they were, in the Torture and Interrogation department, with Inoichi going through the his memories to confirm the story the man had told him.
Those memories were even worse than the story, which were already enough to make the ever stoic Kakashi weep for the poor boy, who was his legal brother. He could just wonder what had driven him to tell the council that the Kyuubi was sealed inside the boy and not been killed as the whole village thought. It had made the boy's life a living hell. And it was all his fault.
And now all he could do was sit by and watch the results of his mistakes.
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After Inoichi had collaborated for all the facts the man had told, they were back again in the Hokage's Office, when Kakashi raised a question which even Sarutobi had.
"That was an interesting life you had Uzumaki-san, but why did you want me to be here as well?"
"Please call me Ruto Kakashi-sensei. I was never good with formalities. As for the why, well I would need a cover story. I thought of saying that I had gone on many long term missions, all of them had a danger of failure due to how famous I was, so I made a memory seal, which replaced any and all memories about me and compelled people to destroy the data they had on me. Everyone was effected by this except you, the Hokage, Minato and Kushina. I also need you to collaborate for one of my 'missions', as you are the one closest to the one I would have to rescue from Iwa."
Kakashi's eyes widened when he heard this. He was no fool, his mental gears spun rapidly and came across the image of the only person he could be reffering to. Afterall the number of people he was close to could be counted on one hand. But it could not be, could it? She had died right? Afterall, how could one survive a hand going through her chest?
Frightened of what the answer may be, he asked in a quivering voice
"W-Who are you t-talking about Ruto-san?"
"Rin Nohara"
And just like that, the mighty Sharingan no Kakashi collapsed on the floor weeping like an orphan who had been told that their parents were alive and coming to take them.
"She does have the 3-tails sealed inside of her, but only the Yin part, just like Naruto have the Yang part, while I have the Yin-Kyuubi inside me. That day she was not the one you killed, it was one of those White Zetsu clones. No-one can see through their henge. The only way to identify them is by their emotions, which only a very skilled Uzumaki sensor, or the 9-tails Jinjuriki can sense.
In the future, the Tsuchikage sent Rin back to Konoha in prisoner exchange in order to strengthen the alliance between the villages.
People couldn't go near your house for a few days after that if they wanted to keep their innocence intact. You were pretty loud Kakashi-sensei, You also gave me and... me and Hinata a lot of material to work with for the next few books of Icha-Icha..."He took a few deep breaths to calm himself enough to continue with the next part of the story. Then he continued in a jittery voice, "When she became pregnant, you decided to step down as the 6th Hokage, making me your successor. It was then that Sasuke/Orochimaru decided to strike. He knew that the seal would grow weaker during childbirth, so he attacked the outpost where she was giving birth, where I was born.
Both, she and the child died, and Orochimaru sealed the 3-tails into Sasuke's body. You lost yourself in your anger and rushed forward to kill him. He took advantage of this and killed you."
At this point he was almost hyperventilating. He drank some water from the glass kept in front of him to calm down. Kakashi had reigned in his emotions and was sitting on the seat next to him with his emotionless mask in place. Ruto took another deep breath before continuing
"Right now she is a civilian who works at their hospital. She lost her memories in the war. I would need you to come with me to be able to get her out of there."
Sarutobi seemed to be considering his words. After a few minutes, he said
"You said 'missions', in plural. You plan a few more of these right?"
"Yes. I can use my future knowledge to say that I was spying on other villages. Well I can also take another mission to take back the body of Hizashi Hyuuga. Kumo had preserved his body to be given back to us. The plan was made by the Sandaime Raikage, but by the time Hizashi reached Kumo, he was dead and his son had taken his place as Yondaime Raikage A. He wanted peaceful situations between the two but wanted to wait for the right opportunity to send him back."
The Sandaime had his jaw hanging loose for the second time that day.
"But that is not. what our primary concern should be. Orochimaru had used Edo Tensai to bring back the previous Hokage during the chunin exams. We would have to bring them back before him so that he cannot force them to do his bidding. Jiji, can you bring me 6 death row inmates, Advisor Danzo Shimura along with Kabuto Yakushi and his teammates? Right now I can only bring back the Shodaime, the Nidaime, kaa-san and Mito-sama. According to the contract with the Shinigami, I would need the sacrifice of 2 souls to bring back one. And I would need the sacrifice of a follower of Jashin to release dad's soul."
The Sarutobi clan head called in the ANBU with a sort of a seal he had under the desk, and relayed him his orders.
"Now the issue about my appearance. I cannot henge to look different as the Byakugan or the Sharingan could easily see through it. So either I could use the facial makeup kits of the ANBU or I could be introduced as one of Naruto's relatives."
"The second one would be better. We can introduce you as Minato and Kushina's cousin. No-one would be able to question it as you look a lot like them."
"Then we should start with the preparations for the ritual."
"I am sorry to disturb both of you," Kakashi said, "but shouldn't we go somewhere we can't be seen? It wouldn't do good to have the people see the shinigami appear in the Hokage tower"
"You are right Kakashi, maybe we should go to training ground 44, or 67. Both of them are nearly abandoned this time of the year." said the Hokage.
After writing a note for the ANBU, the three of them left for the forests near the outskirts of Konoha.
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Kabuto was feeling something he had not felt for many years. He was Nervous. Nervous because he and his teammates, the three spies his Lord Orochimaru had placed inside Konoha, were summoned by the Hokage.
He had turned genin the same year. How could he be caught so fast. It made no sense. Lord Orochimaru's briefing told him that the Sandaime was just an old fool without a backbone. He couldn't have figured it out. He had taken all the necessary steps to conceal himself while searching for information.
He wasn't even sure that he could fight his way out of this if he was truly caught. His skills were high chunin level at best right now.
Then he noticed six inmates who he knew were on death row and Danzo. He knew that the only thing that connected all of the people over here was Orochimaru-sama, but then what about the six inmates? Just what was happening here?
His musings were cut short as they arrived at training ground 67. 'The haunted ground' as it was called by the shinobi. Nobody had used these training grounds after the Nidaime had used it to train his students.
"Hokage-sama" he said while bowing low.
It was then that he detected something abnormal. His eyes widened as he felt a presence just behind him. But before he could do anything to warn his teammates, he felt the person's palm striking his neck, and then there was just darkness.
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Ruto had just used one of his best seals, the chakra manipulation seal, to seal all the chakra of the four traitors, they would not be able to access any more of their chakra than was needed to keep their heart beating. This caused them to pass out as they didn't have enough energy to keep themselves conscious.
"What is the meaning of this Sarutobi. And who is he?" Danzo said in his calm voice.
"Don't worry about them. They were all traitors working for Orochimaru and his village Otogakure. I am Ruto Uzumaki. Cousin of Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze. Danzo Shimura, I heard that you have tried to strengthen Konoha's Shinobi force many times after the Kyuubi attack when the educational standards were lowered to increase the quantity of the shinobi we had, but were stopped everytime by the civilian council. Is what I have said till now correct?"Ruto said while making a few discrete hand signs to the other two people who could have interupted him(The 6 inmates were bound and gagged and ANBU were trained to never speak when their superiors were talking).
"That is true. But I have never heard that Minato or Kushina had any living relatives in Konoha" Danzo turned to his old rival in order to confirm this. Seeing that he couldn't get anything from there, he turned back.
"I would have to explain this to the council later on, and I would rather not explain this twice, so please wait until then." Then going a complete 180, he started off on the previous discussion, "According to me, it is a grave mistake to not prepare our young nin for the real world. We shouldn't produce shinobi in sheer numbers as it makes the power of the nin drop. Currently we are making the students learn the basics at the academy and then leave the Jonin's to pick up the slack. Due to this, the shinobi are never able to realise their true potential.
I also heard that you have taken counter measures in secret, your ROOT is an excellent example. But what you are doing has a drawback Danzo. If a person operates without emotions even in daily life, then our potential customers would be too scared to give us another chance to serve them. That is why I have a proposal for you.
We can train our shinobi in a way in which they would be able to show emotions in normal life but put them under lock and key during missions. That is what most of the heroes of war, Like the Shodai, the Nidaime, the White Fang, the Yellow Flash, and many others have done. Think about it yourself, there would be more who wouldn't break down due to the stress and we would have more shinobi as a whole.
As for the academy, we can change it's syllabus and teachers. We could have some members of your ROOT to teach at the academy. It would do good to have teachers who have experience about the battlefield to teach the students how to react to a particular situation. We would also have to reevaluate all the shinobi and accordingly reassign their ranks.
You should make your actions for protecting the village public knowledge. It would force atleast some votes from the civilian council to go in our favour."
"That all sounds good, but how are you going to realize this dream? Even if we have the support of the entire shinobi council, the civilian part would never agree to this. They are more stubborn than you think , and they have more votes than the shinobi part as we are missing 4 seats with no Uzumaki, Namikaze, Senju or Uchiha over here."
"If it comes to that, then I would come forward. You see, my mother was an Uzumaki, my father was a Namikaze, and some members Clan Senju and Clan Uchiha had once joined in with the Uzumaki for the political power. So we hold 5 votes, counting one from Clan Sarutobi and if we still have a tie of votes, then you can vote in such cases along with the vote of the Hokage right? So we can say that we have 7 votes, that is if you agree." Then as if to confirm his claims, he activated his sharingan, which was in the 3 tomoe state, made a single hand seal, boar, and said,
"Mokuton:Ringo No Ki No Taito"
Everybody watched, astounded, as an apple tree grew right in front of them, while an adamantine chain shot out of Ruto's body, wrapped around a branch and pulled it away from the tree. It then proceeded to distribute the apples hanging on it among all those gathered over there, including the two ANBU who were standing guard over the inmates. While others thought that the stranger actually carried Uzumaki, Senju and Uchiha genes, Kakashi and Sarutobi were trying their hardest to not laugh. It was just so damn funny. They actually thought that advance release were a Kekkei Genkai. They were told by Ruto that the same could be done with years of practice.
As for the sharingan, they had come to know that the RikudÅ sennin's first-born, his daughter had inherited both his Ying and Yang part, unlike his sons in whom it was split equally. It was very hard for an Uzumaki to awaken their sharingan as it required darkness, which the Uzumaki's made sure wasn't present as for them, family came above all else, and an affinity for Yin-release, which they didn't possess. Naruto had awakened his dojutsu after seeing Hinata die and...a few other things. He had awakened the mangekyo when Sasuke/Pedomaru had forced him to relive that moment over and over again in tsukoyomi, and rinnegan after he had mastered Yang release.
Danzo's thoughts were racing. The things this man said sounded really good. The idea to use the retired ROOT agents to teach the children at the academy was brilliant. And if he could do his best to protect Konoha openly it would even be better. He would still sustain his spy network. One could never have too much information. But the man's identity was an enigma. He seemed to be connected to the kyuubi Jinchuriki, if his looks were anything to go by. Their opinion of the way a ninja should be didn't match his but it was tolerable. As long as a ninja didn't show emotion on the field it would suffice. And he had to admit it would be good public relation when the ninjas were seen as humans by the clients. Then they would put in more mission requests. He had even taken care of the problem the Hokage usually faced due to the civilian council. His plan was just brilliant. He had taken care if most of the problems in one stroke, and if there would be any of those minor ones, they could just brute force their way through.
"Yes, I agree to your plan. But what about the Hokage? No offence meant Sarutobi, but you have been turned into a mere figurehead by the council. If you don't grow a backbone soon, then this entire plan would just collapse on itself. You are the Hokage Sarutobi, and this is a ninja village. We follow dictatorship. The council cannot order you around for anything."
"That is pretty easy to solve. ANBU-san, will you please bring the inmates along with thise three over here. Take Kabuto Yakushi to the TI department. Keep him under the highest security, he should not be able to escape. Got it?"
Once the ANBU had left, The blond set to his work. He drew 4 ceremony circles and put 2 people in each. He then proceeded to make some hand-signs they had not seen before. It went as this- Boar, Tiger, Rat, Bird, Snake, Ram, Tiger, Rat, Tiger.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu:Shinigami"
There was a blinding flash of light, making it seem like the sun was still out, which disappeared as soon as it appeared. The small group couldn't see anything for a few moments, when their eyesight returned, they saw white spirit with purple arms and a sword in his mouth.
"Shinigami-sama, here are the 8 sacrifices. In exchange for them, return to us Hashirama Senju, his wife Mito Uzumaki-Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze."
"Very well mortal, you may have their souls back after I take the spirits of your offerings."
(AN:To preserve the innocence of my readers, I would not be describing what happened during the next 5 minutes.)
Now we get back to the scene unfolding in the clearing. Everyone, except the 8 used as sacrifice for the ritual, were showing each other what their last meal consisted of. Even Ruto who had seen all the horrors of war, and had seen every single person dear to him die in the most gruesome manner, could not help it as he saw the god of death's more sadistic side.
After these 5 minutes, the shinigami disappeared in another flash of light, just as Ruto fell to the ground in pain. Kakashi made to help him, but was waved away by Ruto who soon stood up and made another few hand signs. It looked as if he was making the hand signs for an earth, lightning, and water bunshin followed by the cross of kage bunshin and a few more unknown signs before the area around him started getting crushed by the massive amount of Chakra he was letting out. It was a good thing that he had moved a bit away from them before starting the ritual. They could see four pair of bodies forming in front of him, as an equal number of seals started glowing from underneath his clothes. It said a lot about the brightness of the glow as Ruto was wearing ANBU armour, and a trench coat over it. Then it was all over as the entire area was covered in smoke.
Once the smoke cleared, they saw four figures were standing where the god once stood, and one of them was another god. They were 'The God of Shinobi' Hashirama Senju, his wife, his younger brother, along with another Kage level shinobi named Kushina Uzumaki. Ruto was on kneeling on the ground, breathing pretty heavily, as the other two men of the group of five were helping him to his feet.
Watching his mother, Ruto could not contain himself. He rushed out to her and grabbed her in a bone crushing hug, even when he was threatening to fall over.She let out a startled yelp at this. She knew that this was her son. The Pure world did not know the concept of time. So when the time for the mortal world was rewound, all the souls of the pure world remembered what had happened.
Danzo was just watching from the sidelines with his visible eye ready to drop onto the floor and his jaw already on it's way there as the two previous Hokage went on to clap Ruto on his back and saying something to him, before they all turned back to Sarutobi, Kakashi and Danzo to discuss further plans.
He had seen many things in his life, but a blood clone? He had checked with the Sharingan of Shisui Uchiha, they were not clones made by any particular element, but neither were they normal kage bunshin. Blood Clone was the only option left. The blond had sealed the spirits returned by the Shinigami, then used that spirit to send into a Kage Bunshin with atleast three elemental base, and he didn't recognise the other hand signs he made, so there may be more to this jutsu than met the eye. It was pure genius. Suddenly he was very grateful that he had decided to in his good graces.
"Before we start the discussion, Ruto-san, can I ask you a question?"asked Danzo
"You just did Shimura-san but please continue" Ruto replied, not knowing where this was headed.
"Ruto-san why did you not bring back Yondaime-sama instead of his wife? Wouldn't he have been a better choice to have been brought back?"
"Ah, well you see, Minato used the Shiki Fuin, which caused the Yin part of the Kyuubi to be sealed inside him and him to be sealed inside the Shinigami's Stomach. If we want to make the Shinigami to agree to cut open his stomach, then we would have to either have a Kage Level shinobi to wear the mask of the death god kept inside the Uzumaki shrine on the outskirts of Konoha and do the same, or give him the sacrifice of a worshipper of Jashin."
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Somewhere on the outskirts of the Earth country, a person with black skin and the bones highlighted in white suddenly sneezed for no apparent reason, which caused him to drive the sickle like object he had in his hand to plunge into his heart instead of his stomach.
He stared at the growing pool of blood beneath the person he was sacrificing to Jashin and cursed the person who was talking about him behind his back.
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The summary of the entire conversation was that the people who were brought back to life would form a special ANBU squad whose very existence would be confidential. They would operate from the Senju, Namikaze and Uzumaki estates which were actually alongside each other.
It was also decided that Danzo would take care of the council for now, as Ruto was more useful out on the field than in the pit of vipers which was the council of konoha.
After the discussion, Ruto, Kushina and Sarutobi headed for Naruto's apartment, while the others went to their homes.
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Naruto was having a very bad day. Today the people were glaring at him more than usual. After yesterday's trip to hospital, after he was beaten by a mob thinking he was the one who caused the Uchiha massacre, the people were colder towards him. He had been thrown out of the hospital today morning. When he went shopping for a new pair of clothes, as the old ones were getting smaller, he was denied the right to buy any clothes, except for the bright 'kill me' orange jumpsuit. While he liked the colour orange in general, but the jumpsuit was just extreme. After that he wasn't even let to buy instant ramen, the only food he could buy at such cheap price that he would have some money left to buy other essentials.
And now someone just had to come knocking at the door when he was trying to sleep. He just turned around and put the pillow over his head. It must be one of those villagers who came to hurt him. He would act as if he wasn't at home and they would go away.
After a few more minutes, he finally got up. If they were finished with him, then atleast he would get to sleep on the soft hospital beds. When he opened the door, the last thing he expected was jiji to be standing there. With his grandfatherly smile, with him stood a woman with purple eyes and beautiful red hair, along with a man with three whisker marks on each side of his face, wearing the cloak like the ninja who kept the people from harming him wore(Naruto doesn't know the term ANBU till now).
"Naruto pack your things quickly. You are moving into your new house with your family."
Now Naruto may act like some stupid kid stuck up on becoming the hokage, but he was actually pretty smart (Though he was a bit too naive). The smart side of him could only be seen in battles, where he had to drop his mask to be able to survive, but it was always there. Thinking, observing, calculating his surroundings. Keeping escape routes to get out of any situation. That was how he was able to prank even the ANBU and get away with it. He was just observing how similar he looked to the two strangers.
But when the Hokage said family, hid brain all but shutdown. He was vaguely aware of how his eyes started watering a little, before the dam burst and two stream of tears went down his face. Of how he ran forward into the arms of the woman who must be his mother. He looked to damn much like her to be anyone else. Aware of how he was pounding on her chest even as she pulled him into a warm hug, the kind he had sid that it's alright, I am here and I won't let anything happen to you. The kind of hug he had always wanted someone to give him. He kept on weeping into her shirt, shouting things he didn't remember a second later, even as she ran her hand through his hair.
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, he calmed down enough to back away a little and see that her eyes were a little wet. He waited for a few more moments as he gained enough control over his emotions to be able to speak without choking. Not daring to hope if it turned out to be another way to torture him, he asked in a small voice, "K-Kaa-san? Are you my Okaa-san?" At her nod, he jumped back into her arms, burrowing his head into the crook of her neck, breathing in her scent, which seemed strangely soothing. Whatever happened he would not let his mother go anywhere again. Not when he just got her.
He turned his head at the sound of soft laughter, only then remembering that they were not alone. Jiji and the other man were smiling down at him. He looked the other stranger, who looked a lot like him, as a thought struck him. He opened his mouth to speak, but the person beat him to it.
"No, Naruto-kun, I am not your father." At his deflated look, he quickly added, "I am your Uncle"
"Oji-san" Naruto yelled as he ran up to him and hugged him.
After another minute, Naruto said
"Haa. The other kids always teased me for being an orphan. The looks on their faces would be priceless when I tell them about it."
"While I agree to it Naruto, but you can't tell anyone about this."said Sarutobi, "You see, Kushina-chan over here is an ANBU who is believed to be dead. If anyone gets to know that she is alive, then it can cause war with other nations. She is a legend in the ninja world. Promise me Naruto that you won't tell anyone about it"
"B-b...Oh all right."Naruto finally agreed after seeing the old man's stern look.
"If it's any consolation, then you can tell your friends after you become a genin. But not before then. Understand?" Seeing Naruto nod, he let the subject drop, for now.
"Let's pack up quickly, shall we? We have to sleep to you know."
And just like that, without any hand signs and without the telltale smoke cloud or the sound, several of Ruto's clones were standing all around them. Half of them went on to make sealing scrolls, and the others brought the things and sealed it in them.
When everything was sealed, Ruto turned around leaving the clones to do carry them. He then sweat dropped at the stars he saw in Naruto's eyes and immediately knew what was going to happen next.
"Please teach me how to do that, pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease..."and continued on saying please until Ruto raised up his hand and said, "Will tomorrow be okay?"
Naruto cheered as they continued on to the Namikaze mansion, where he promptly fainted seeing the large house where he was supposed to be staying. It was a good thing that they had not merged the house with Senju and Uzumaki clan house, which were just next to the mansion. They didn't know how Naruto would have reacted then.
Ruto then broke the seal on the gate, made a few clones to clean the house and arrange the things they brought with them, went to the room he had chosen to be his, fell on the bed and then promptly fainted. Creating even a single blood clone puts a lot of pressure on your body and chakra reserves. The fact that he was even standing for as long as he was, was a miracle.
And all the time he was 'asleep', he wondered just how he would look at his old friends once again without trying to get them all in a bone crushing hug. Of course he could pass it off at being 'glad' to see the children of his 'friends' once again, but it would be awkward as hell.
Time-Travel, he decided, was a real bitch.
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AN: Alright, so this chapter proved that I am no good with conversation part of the story. Nobody lets anyone speak such long dialogues before interrupting them.
Hizashi Hyuuga -- Well I dont really know how to make Neji's hatred go away, so I just made it so that the Hyuuga's didn't kill him when they sent him over to the hidden cloud, they marked him with the outcast seal(type of caged bird seal, just doesn't fries the brain and destroys eyes if taken out, also makes the person sterile until the seal is removed). So he was alive when he got there but committed suicide later on to prevent anyone from figuring out how to remove the seal.
Rin Nohara -- Well kakashi needed someone to stabilize his psych. I can't make Ruto do it cause he he himself needs more help than even Kakashi, the person had to see his entire family murdered in front of him and a few more things. I wont reveal just yet. And Kushina would need to be there for her son, both of them. Tobirama just wouldn't care enough (stoic bastard) and Hashirama wasn't mature enough most of the times. Well Hashirama could act mature, but only in the heat of the battle, but it won't help, would it?
Danzo Shimura -- The person was a true bastard. But whatever he did, he thought was for the benefit of Konoha. Just tinker a little bit with his thought process and you get a perfect Shinobi and advisor to the Hokage.
Shinigami Summon -- Bringing back the dead would not happen always. Most people would be let to go on in peace. Only the ones who were truly needed to stop the wars would be saved. I am thinking on some sort of limit on it too, like you can't bring back more than 4 people in an year, or only a maximum of x number of people could be brought back. The Death Seal seal won't take Ruto's life, but he would have to give the soul of someone else. Ruto would get back the Toad summons after he re-signs the contract with Jiraya. The only one summoning contract rule would still apply, but only to regular summons. As the Shinigami is a God and not a regular summon, his contract is an exception. His Rinnegan won't help. As for the why, would be revealed later on.
Minato Namikaze -- To make the Shinigami willing enough to cut his own stomach in order to let go of the spirit of the Yondaime, he would require the sacrifice of a worshipper of Jashin (I mean really, immortality? The Shinigami is sure to be pissed off enough to cut his belly open to get back at one of them). But all that depends on whether Ruto decides bring him back to life or not. Have any of you wondered just why he never used his Namikaze name even after the 4th shinobi war?
