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Flashback/Memory/Dream
Chapter 20:
The teams went their planned ways. Shikamaru, Iruka, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Baki, and Hanabi sat at the dinning room table eating lunch. Shikamaru kept looking at Tsunade and Jiraiya. He felt like they were hiding something. He had heard about the whole Naruto is really a boy thing. Why would Tsunade raise Naruto as a girl? As soon as Shikamaru opened his mouth to ask that question, a girl with green hair and blue eyes ran it the room. She was holding onto what looked like a journal.
"Ruby?" Tsunade asked. "Is that you?"
"Hi Tsunade-san," Ruby smiled. "It has been what, two years?"
"One and a half," Tsunade said. "Where have you been?"
"In the Uchiha Kingdom," Ruby said.
"How do you know each other?" Iruka asked.
"I was born here," Ruby said. "I'm Kurama's cousin."
Shikamaru looked into Ruby's eyes. They looked just like Naruto's. Now that he thought about it, Naruto did look a bit like Kurama. 'Could Naruto be related to Kurama? But why would they hide that. Wait. Naruto is fifteen and so is Kurama. That means...'
"There's something I need to talk to you about, Tsunade-san," Ruby said. She clenched the journal tighter.
The wheels in Shikamaru's brain began to turn at an alarming rate. He took one look at Ruby and knew that she was also thinking the same thing he was. "It would be better if we speak here."
Ruby turned to Shikamaru and saw realization in his eyes. She nodded and took a seat next to Iruka. She put the journal on the table.
Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "What is this about?"
Ruby looked at Shikamaru and the boy sighed. 'Blunt would be the best way to go. So troublesome.' "Why didn't you tell anyone that Prince Kurama and Naruto-san are siblings?" Iruka, Hanabi, and Baki gasped. Tsunade and Jiraiya looked at Shikamaru with wide eyes. When neither gave him an answer, Shikamaru added, "they are twins, aren't they?" At this, everyone except Shikamaru and Ruby had wide eyes.
Tsunade linked her hands together ad put her elbows on the table. "How did you find out?"
"Their eyes," Shikamaru said.
"Naruto has blue eyes while Kurama has red ones," Tsunade said.
"But Ruby-san also had blue eyes," Shikamaru said. "I'm assuming that the blue eyes came from her mom since King Akunin's eyes are green."
"Yes," Ruby said. "Akunin is my biological father. My mother, Shari was his wife, but she died soon after I was born. The late King Minato was Shari's older brother."
"I've seen pictures of King Minato," Shikamaru said. "If Naruto-san's hair was fully blond, they'd look like clones. I'm guessing that Naruto-san took King Minato's looks while Prince Kurama took after his mother." Tsunade nodded. "And this all makes Naruto-san a member of the Namikaze family. So tell me, why is his last name Uzumaki?"
"Twins are a curse amongst the royal family," Tsunade said. "If Naruto had been born a girl, things would be fine. But he wasn't. Queen Kushina and King Minato knew that a civil war could break out over who's the rightful heir to the throne. Usually, when male twins are born, only the first is given a name." Everyone shuddered. They knew that only the eldest boy would be spared. "As the second one born, Naruto was basically sentenced to death But the Queen begged me to not let Naruto die. So I took Naruto in ad raised him as my daughter. I was hoping that if anyone did find out that they were twins, they'd still think Naruto was a girl. The only ones who knew about this secret were the late king and queen, myself, Jiraiya, and the maid we had watching Naruto."
"Queen Mikoto," Shikamaru said. "She was Queen Kushina's friend and she watched over Naruto-san for you."
Tsunade nodded. "She did. But she was killed the night Naruto was kidnapped."
"Are you sure no one else knew?" Shikamaru asked.
"Of course," Tsunade said. "I never told anyone except Jiraiya."
"Someone else knew," Ruby said. "The reason Naruto was kidnapped in the first place was because of who he really was."
"W-who?" Tsunade asked, afraid of the answer.
Ruby's expression changed to one of pain and sadness. "King Akunin."
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"Are you going to let me go?" Naruto asked.
"I'll bring you back to Sasuke," Uen said. "But I think there are a few things we need to go over." Naruto waited for Uen to continue. "King Akunin is the one who ordered your kidnappings, back when you were seven and yesterday."
"Kyu's uncle?" Naruto asked. "Why?"
"I can only assume that you were too close to the prince," Uen said. "I'm not really sure. I only know that he saw you as a threat to Kurama's right to the throne."
"How could I possibly be a threat to Kyu?" Naruto asked. "I belong to Sasuke. I will be going home with him after Itachi and Kyu get married."
"I don't know either," Uen said. "Some important information is missing from the knowledge I learned. It is probably the key to why you are a threat." Uen turned to Naruto. "Ay ideas?" Naruto shook his head. "Hm... oh well. That's not important right now. You just need to be careful around Akunin. He may try to kill you, even if he has to do it himself."
Naruto smiled. "Don't worry. I don't die easily."
Uen smirked. "The lets go." He held out a hand for Naruto. Naruto took it and was pulled onto his feet. The two began their way back to the Namikaze Kingdom.
To clarify:
Shari had green hair and blue eyes. Akunin has brown hair and green eyes. So Ruby looks like Shari. Akunin thought Shari had cheated on him, so he believed that Ruby was not his daughter. He raised Ruby as his own, not knowing that Ruby was really his daughter and that Shari had never actually cheated on him.
Minato and Shari are siblings. Akunin married into the Namikaze family. His is also a distant cousin of Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro. Kushina also married into the Namikaze family.
So the family tree would look like this:
King Namikaze + Queen Namikaze = Minato and Shari
Minato + Kushina = Kurama and Naruto
Shari + Akunin = Ruby
Also, Jiraiya wasn't around for most of Naruto's life, only a year before he was kidnapped. He had been traveling. When he returned, he finally married Tsunade.
