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Naruto finished dragging his two teammates to Ichiraku, and promptly slumped into the seat. Sasuke and Sakura eyed him carefully, the big reveal stunning them. Naruto-kun all these burden's placed on you at once, it's just not fair. Sakura thought, frowning. Minato-sama why did you seal the fox into your son? Why did you and Kushina-sama have to die and leave him all alone?
Sasuke was thinking along the same line. Hn, the Kyuubi's container, guess that explains the weird chakra when he fought the creepy woman that gave me this blasted hickey. I thought my life was shit, but after what he's gone through I have nothing to complain about, the Uchiha glanced at the whisker marked blonde thinking back to many times his mother brought him to the park so he could play with a few other kids, while she would sit and spends hours watching Naruto sitting on a swing, with one of the most heartbreaking expressions he ever seen before. Why did mom look at him like that?
"Here, Naruto on the house." Ayame said quietly, handing him a bowl. Naruto gave her an appreciative smile, before slowly picking at his ramen. The girl felt bad for her 'little brother'. She known about the Kyuubi vessel part, she and her father never gave him flak about it, Teuchi was Minato's former teammate. But to be placed in the CRA against ones will even though it was a law. How can they do that to such a young boy? Doesn't he have a right pick who he wants to marry, I mean he and that Haruno girl spent nearly a year dreaming about it until that horrible incident.
Naruto stared at his ramen, uncharacteristically picking at it, thinking about his father and surprisingly while a bit miffed he wasn't angry that his father sealed the Kyuubi within him; he could see that his father might have had no choice in the matter, how many babies were born on that night to begin with. What am I saying I wouldn't this done even to my worst enemy much less to someone I might actually of liked, well maybe my apartment manager but he's a dick anyway. Naruto was a jinchuuriki; a human sacrifice while he hated the terminology and everything that went with it he had to accept the fact the fox was sealed inside him for a reason. And he would be damned if he let his old man down.
In truth he couldn't really blame the villagers for their blind fear and hatred, though he was bound and determined to start a prank fest once the dust had settled. While he disliked them to certain degree he didn't want revenge, that would be sinking to the villager's level and he wanted to be beyond it plus the villagers only understood the bare bones of sealing. Heck he only understood the basics of sealing, only the top tier shinobi truly knew what a jinchuuriki was which concluded, as must as I hate the old farts that advise the old man I can't blame them for this either.
In reality, it was only the majority of the civilian council, minus Mebuki Haruno that made his life a living hell, and still continued on doing so just in a different fashion than before. Instead trying to execute me, they're now trying to get me laid.
It was then his thoughts drifted to the CRA, and he groaned out loud, pushing his bowl away and slamming his head down on the table, his forehead protector hitting it with a clang. Sasuke patted his back sensing his blonde teammate's thoughts, frowning. The CRA how I feel for him, if wasn't for a technicality I'd be put in that, the only thing keeping from it is the fact Itachi is still alive, Sasuke paused in his thoughts. Wait, why do I want to kill Itachi again? Sasuke sighed looking at his teammate again. Now, Naruto has to go through it…
"What am I going to do?" Naruto asked, his voice muffled. Sakura reaches out and takes his hand, squeezing it reassuringly. He looked up a little smiling in appreciation. Maybe just maybe she'll remember. She returned his smile, still holding onto his hand, running her thumb along the back of it as he rested his head back down.
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The rest of the rookies soon arrived at the stand, to see Team 7 sitting there; Naruto with his head on the table, his cloak splayed everywhere, Sasuke patting his back and Sakura holding his hand, squeezing it. Hinata, who had been talking to Kiba, froze when she saw her blonde haired crush and the girl she thought had forgotten him holding hands. An uncharacteristic flare of jealousy lit up the Hyuga, six years and suddenly she starts acting sweet on him again. Came Hinata's uncharacteristically vicious thoughts
Ino watched thinking of taking advantage of Naruto for her own gain, that was until she saw the two holding hands and a soft smile appeared on her face, finally starting to remember forehead good.
"This whole situation must be troublesome?" Shikamaru asked, walked over to the blonde Kyuubi vessel hearing Naruto snort in laughter.
"For once Shikamaru, I agree this is probably the most troublesome thing I can possibly imagine, and what's worse I don't have a leg to stand on, because of these," Naruto pointed to his eyes. "I do have one question though, did I miss a history lesson on the Uzumaki clan?" He saw his fellow rookies shake their heads indicating they were in the dark as much as he was. He never asked any of them about him being a jinchuuriki the fact none of them looked at him differently was a plus. "Sorry for uh...going emo on you up there, personally I blame Sasuke-teme for rubbing off on me," He said with a smirk, gently rubbing Sakura's ring finger not really paying attention to what he was doing.
The Haruno was blushing slightly. God...feeling his hand...it feels so right. Please chibi its driving me crazy why am I feeling like this with Naruto? she got no response.
"Hey!" The Uchiha growled half-heartedly at the jibe. Sasuke watching his rosette haired teammate blushing out the corner of his eyes and smirked. If things work out well maybe I'll have one less fangirl to worry about.
"It's no problem." Choji said in between chips. "I'm surprised though, you being the fourth's son? I mean must be a real shock to your system, huh," the Akimichi asked.
Naruto shrugged, "it's still settling in, on top of the Chunin exam finals and this shit with the CRA," he groaned bopping his head on the counter.
Kiba clapped him on the back. "Yeah man, the CRA! You're gonna have tons of chicks after you now!" He said, wagging his eyebrows in a suggestive manner.
"Kiba, I don't want three fucking wives," Naruto stated exasperated. "THREE! Can you believe that? That's not love Kiba that's a baby factory, when I get married which unless I want a baby factory will have to before the finals, I want the marriage to be because I love the girl I'm with. I'm not some fucking baby machine!" His rippled eyes flaring at the wild looking boy.
Kiba gulped, "Why not, Naruto-san? When an alpha seeks to mate, he does so with as many females as he can in order to build up the population." Shino responded, everyone shivered at his brunt analogy.
"You can call me selfish on this if you want but I just be happy with one wife..." Naruto said, bring his one hand that was still holding Sakura's hand to his chest to empathize his plea. When he realize what he done he gently let Sakura's hand go blushing muttering an apology to her , he didn't see that she blushed too.
"So, Naruto-kun, who are you gonna marry? You said it yourself you have until your 13th birthday, right? Or else you'll be stuck in that program. So you better hurry. You know..." Ino said, flipping a bang back.
Naruto eyed her before rolling his eyes, "Ino, I appreciate it, but you just not my type. I like fiery girls, but your dad scares me," Naruto said carefully.
She chuckled, "Eh, can't blame a girl for trying. Besides..." She said, suddenly glomping Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun is much more attractive then you!" She said cheerfully. Sasuke rolled his eyes looking annoyed.
Naruto sighed in relief, glad his lame excuse worked in reality Inoichi would practically encourage him to go out with his daughter daily even before all the bombs began dropping. But the idea of her chasing after him like she did Sasuke was kind of creepy.
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Sakura was staring into her bowl of ramen in disbelief. Not because Ino flirted with Naruto half-heartedly; but the way she felt, she wanted to hammer Ino even more violently then she did when she and Ino had chased after Sasuke. NO hammer is too kind of a word for what I wanted to do to Ino, I wanted to flat out kill her I was never like that with her when we were chasing after Sasuke.
That's because even though your memories of Naruto were suppressed your feelings for him didn't change, Chibi-Sakura explained.
Then explain why I was annoyed by Naruto everytime I caught sight of him or when he asked me out? Sakura asked the chibi.
Simple you were confused, you saw Naruto you felt strongly for him but because your memories were suppressed you didn't know where they were coming from so it annoyed you to the point that you buried those feelings behind your rabid fangirlism, the chibi explained. The only one you had any true sense of rivalry toward was, the chibi motioned with her head in the direction of a certain Hyuga. Sakura looked up from her bowl and glared, before realizing she was getting jealous over the looks the Hyuga heiress was sending her blonde teammate.
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Naruto, feeling slightly better because his friends accepted him, promptly began inhaling his bowl of ramen at his normal record setting speeds, his appetite renewed. They all looked at him in awe as he ran through no less than 20 bowls of ramen. "Ahh! That hit the spot!" He exclaimed, the tension from the past few days loosening a bit. He stood up, throwing a bundle of bills on the table, before turning to his teammates. "Well, the old man gave me a set of keys and a note, the note says I have an estate, and some of the scrolls in the library so I'm going to get the scrolls then take off for the estate. I'll see you guys later." He said, shooting a quick glance to Sakura. The two blushed slightly when they met each other's gazes, as well as smile. Naruto walked out, his cloak flapping in the wind. Suddenly, his arm was gripped by someone.
He turned around to meet the pale gaze of Hinata Hyuga. He raised an eyebrow, "What's up, Hinata?"
"Uh...u-uh...umm...d-do you think...I c-could c-come with you? W-Wouldn't you like some company..." She said, blushing furiously. He sighed, and noticed everyone watching their interaction Sakura's in particular her jade green eyes look like they wanted to cause the pale eyed girl to combust.
Naruto awkwardly shook his head, "Not this time, Hinata. I...want to be alone for this. I'll invite all of you later." He said, before rushing out of the awkward situation that was Hinata Hyuga. She frowned deeply, the sting of rejection charring her heart. Kiba walked over and patted her on the shoulder, giving her a wide grin.
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Naruto walked over to the Namikaze estate after meeting with Kakashi and the Hokage. They came upon a large door that led into the building.
"Naruto, we have someone we'd like you to meet." Kakashi said, and a white-haired man approached. He was wearing robes, and had a forehead protector with the kanji for 'Oil' on it.
The white-haired man's jaw dropped when he saw Naruto's eyes. "No way...I seriously thought you were pulling my leg, sensei. I've only seen one other person with those eyes," the man said, walking over to the boy.
Naruto cocked his head, "so, I'm not the only one?"
The man shook his head, his face grim. "No. Naruto, my name is Jiraiya. I'm your godfather. I'm sorry for not being here for you, tried to do what I could but damned civilian council pretty much railroaded me," the toad sage explained.
The boy's eyes widened for a second before sighing rubbing his eyes. "Damn civilian council, well Mebuki-obasan is pretty cool."
"Heh, heard about you and Mebuki's daughter awhile back, but let's get down to business." Jiraiya said, grinning at him.
"Naruto, this here is a blood seal; only those with Minato's blood can open the door," the Hokage said pointing to the door with a strange seal covering the middle of the door.
Naruto nodded, before promptly biting into his nail and swiping the blood across the small seal. It lit up for a moment, before a lock clicked. Naruto turned the doorknob, and the trio entered, needless to say, the whisker marked blonde was highly impressed, the house was massive. "Whoa," he said, eying the main lobby. It was a large foyer with a pair of large, curving staircases that lead to the second floor. In between these stairs sat a fairly large lounge, that had a few couches and a fireplace.
The Hokage led them through the house until they entered a room, which contained a personal office and library after closer inspection Naruto's determined it had been his father's, inside another room there was a small arena like the one in the tower at the center of the Forest of Death, to practice jutsu in. Naruto's eyed all the scrolls lining the shelves; he could see countless techniques, all ordered alphabetically. Naruto wandered off, picking one at random heading towards the R section. He skimmed through the scrolls for 10 minutes, until he found something that surprised him, he took a large scroll, that was labeled Rinnegan and brought it to the desk his father used in the past. The three elder shinobi walked up to him, eyes wide.
"Sensei has a scroll on the Rinnegan?" Kakashi asked. He had always believed the Rinnegan to be real, but only a mutation of the Sharingan.
"It appears so. Minato kept track of everything interesting and powerful in the ninja world. No doubt the infamous 'Eyes of the Sage' would spark his interest." Hiruzen said, tapping his pipe thoughtfully.
Naruto bit his thumb, and swiped the seal on the scroll. It unclasped, and Naruto unraveled it. He began reading it out loud. "The Rinnegan. Is an extremely powerful and rare dojutsu, said to have been once used by the fabled 'Sage of the Six Paths'. It hasn't been encountered until Jiraiya-sensei's student Nagato, who had these eyes. Later Kushina-chan confided in me Nagato may have been her older brother and were separated after the fall of the Hidden Whirlpool village.
It took me a long time but I've managed to gather and read several scrolls, tablets and folklore about the eyes. Using Jiraiya-sensei's experience with the boy as guide in separating the myths from the truth, this is what I have come up with. Basically a rough list of the abilities the Rinnegan offers and the unfortunate side effect these paths must take. By now Nagato has already found his five paths hopefully he is not greedy enough to create six.
The first path commonly referred to as the Deva path, is the ability to repel and attract anything, using chakra. Jiraiya-sensei said that at first, Nagato was able to use this ability directly with his palm, but he soon was able to create a field around his body, and repel anything that came close to him. A theory I have is that if the user has enough chakra, they could maintain a constant field of repelling; varying in strength depending on how much energy is put into it. Recommendation for any future Rinnegan users, use this as your main path.
The second ability better known as the Asura Path is the 'spawning', or creation path this path will probably dependent on the wielder . As it could summon anything the best example would be like my Kushina-chan's chains, which can be used to bind and hold almost anything...including a bijuu. The 'downside' to this would be that it causes unbearable pain to whatever is constrained. Don't recommend this for the main path however if it must be used my suggestion would be a shinobi who in life already had this ability
The third ability known as the Human path, this ability allows the user to read the mind of any target by simply placing his hand on the target's head or chest and yanking out the soul from the body. Though it provides valuable intel on well-guarded secrets, a target without a soul dies. Someone with a great understanding of the human psyche in their life would be the ideal path if so inclined Not recommended for the main path
The fourth ability the Animal path also known as the path of summoning allows the user to summon various animals not contracted to any one village. Not recommended as the main path. Suggestion find someone who has dealt heavily in life giving chakra.
The fifth ability the Preta path this grants the user the ability to absorb an infinite amount of chakra in any form using a jutsu called the Blocking Absorption Seal. Not recommended for the main path. Suggestion use someone in their past life the user is bonded with as a family member, mother, father, brother, sister, daughter, son to make the absorption of chakra quicker.
The final path ability the Naraka path this path has two abilities interrogation and restoration, by using Yami, not recommended for the main path use someone who in their past life could make something out of nothing.
There is another path that can link the other six together but it is dangerous and will cause the user's body to waste away. It is called the Outer Path which allows the user to control life and death even raising the recently fallen and restoring those that were lost but at great cost to the user if used too much.
When I first read this I was awed by the power these eyes have until I understood the cost. I often wonder what the Sage of the Six Path thought in doing this, but I'll never know. Anyway on to the downside, the Rinnegan is partially sentient in that each path seeks out its own body but is still control by the user, if the paths don't get their own body within a year's time, the user will go mad and die. The paths though give their user images of what bodies they wish to use and a jutsu to send the paths into their bodies. A great power with an even greater drawback. I feel sorry for my brother-in-law wherever he is or the next Rinnegan wielder, Naruto finished reading it, his eyes wide in both amazement and horror, "Kami...what have I unlocked?" He said, his head reeling. By all rights, if he were to master the dojutsu...he would be a god, but also something worse than Orochimaru at the same time
The Hokage's pipe was hanging loosely from his mouth. "That much power..." He said quietly. Kakashi was agape, while Jiraiya merely had his eyes wide. He had no idea that the eyes could do that much.
"Naruto, I suggest you read through the library for the first half of this month, and train in jutsus you find the other half. There's no telling what else you could find. Minato spent most of his life documenting the shinobi world." Hiruzen said.
Naruto stood frozen looking up at them, "Didn't you hear the last part about me having to seek out five other bodies to use because these eyes will kill me, if I don't!"
"Yes, that does prove a problem, have you been given any visions on who these paths will be yet," The old man asked.
Naruto nodded grimly, "The first hokage, the second hokage, dad and mom, if I'm going to be the first path. Judging by the descriptions, Dad would be the Preta path, the first hokage would be the Animal Path, the second hokage would be the Naraka path, and mom would be the Asura path, if I'm going to be the Deva path, that leaves the Human path, which thank kami hasn't appeared in my head yet," Naruto's eyes watered. "Stupid eyes want me to defile five people, two of them are my parents to be used as tools."
The three men looked at the blonde none of them could say anything, what could they say but none wanted the boy to die even if this whole debacle was morally and ethically problematic. "It is nothing we can do at present Naruto," the old hokage replied.
"Well what about the outer path, I know it's dangerous but you're not reviving a whole village, just four people and I'm sure they would gladly take the burden off of you. Besides I seriously doubted the Sage of the Six Path walked around with five zombies, they must have been loved ones and friends that were still breathing," Jiraiya suggested.
"Only one person or I should say thing that could tell me if your right or not," Naruto grabbed his stomach.
Sarutobi nodded, "I'll leave that to you and Jiraiya, I'll probably see you tomorrow if Jiraiya's theory is correct," he smirked to himself. And if it is then I'll volunteer myself to be your Human path it would be the least I could do for you, my boy.
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Both the hokage and Kakashi promptly poofed out of the house, leaving the Toad sage and Kyuubi jinchuuriki along with their thoughts. "So...gaki, do you mind if I ask how did awaken you Rinnegan?" He asked, pulling up a seat and resting his arms on the back of it. He noticed Naruto's expression darken, his rippled eyes brimming with emotion.
"Second stage of the Chuunin exams. My team and I, we were first assaulted by this weird snake lady-guy-thing that wanting to kill us...I don't know much guess I went partially berserker mode using the foxes chakra, but the snake-lady-guy-thing did something to the seal and it knocked me out," the blonde explained.
Jiraiya's eyes widened. Orochimaru...what are you doing here? What are you planning? "May I see the seal before you continue?" the toad sage asked. Naruto nodded, and lifted his orange and blue jacket up, showing off the Fourth's seal with an imperfect 5 finger seal layered onto it. The toad sannin eyed it carefully, before gathering chakra into his fingertips and jamming them into the seal. Naruto grunted in pain as his white-haired godfather removed Orochimaru's impromptu seal, and it soon vanished.
"There, should be back to normal and I strongly suggest you communicate with him when you get a chance, as strange as that sounds. Now, you were saying?" Jiraiya chuckles nervously at the prospect of his godson actually speaking to the biju but it was necessary, the two sat back down.
"Well, I woke up I felt different...like something was just waiting to come out. That's when I heard the scream...I looked outside of the cave I saw..." He said, his tone turning dark. His face was contorted into a vicious scowl as he looked up into Jiraiya's eyes.
"These two Sound-nin, were trying to rape my teammate Sakura-chan. When I saw that...something inside me snapped. Not like the Kyuubi's chakra usually does, you know. My eyes just became ultra-clear...and they began letting me do things I wouldn't have even imagined doing. I killed both of them like they were nothing," the whisker marked blonde explained, "Sakura gave me a mirror and well I had these."
The toad sage's eyes widened at how serious he was, and how serious the circumstances were. Jiraiya smirked perversely. "Sakura-chan eh?" he said.
Naruto blushed, and muttered a 'shut up'.
Jiraiya guffawed loudly, slapping the blonde on the back before standing up. "Well, Naruto, I'll be going now. Try and get in touch with the fox and see about my theory everything henges on it. As much as I would love to see your father and mother again, I don't think I could take looking at a virtually soulless doll." He said, before leaving Naruto to his devices.
The blonde sighed as he read over the Rinnegan scroll again. As he read, his thoughts drifted once again to the CRA. I have this month to find a girl to marry that I want...or else I get 3 that I don't, and I'm forced to have kids. He thought of his pink-haired teammate, and felt the familiar pang of love and hope spark up within him. He palmed his face, I know she's starting to remember what we had I just hope it isn't too late. There's only one girl I want to marry…
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After spending hour of reading up on dojutsu and as well as figure out how to communicate with the Kyuubi, which involving something he wasn't very good at, sitting and meditating. Naruto decided he needed to give himself a break and walked out of his new home. He sighed deeply, the falling sun lighting up Konoha in an evening glow. Taking a trip to Ichiraku for dinner the whisker marked blonde bounded across the rooftops, he arrived on the roof of the building next to the shop, and was going to jump down, when he heard the voice of his female teammate, and her blonde best friend turned rival from Team 10.
"What do you mean? Ino you're not making sense, that Naruto and I from age four to seven were always together I don't remember that," Sakura's voice sounded confused.
Naruto froze when he heard that, and sighed. "What's going on I feel so confused, like I want to remember something wonderful but I keep getting it pushed away," Naruto clenched his teeth hearing Sakura sniffle "It's driving me crazy."
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Ino looked at her friend sadly, "I can't tell you, dad said this is something you need to work out for yourself. He says its' how all cases of repressed memory work, especially at this point."
"What you mean?" Sakura asked wiping away her tears.
"All I can say is it happened on Naruto's birthday," Ino replied softly. "And maybe what happened in the forest is what started shaking your memory loose. Dad's always been better at this," Ino pouted.
Sakura clutched at her head growling in frustration, "I have a new inner persona telling me the reason why I treated Naruto like crap for six years is because I loved him but my memories associated with those feelings is all blocked up, causing me to latch on to the one emotion I had anger. So what do I do I take it out on the one person my feelings were directed at. Ino how many times did I hit him for simply asking me how I was doing," she cried Ino looked down which was more than enough as the rosette putting her face in her hands as more tears began to form. "Repressed memories, means something happened to Naruto that was so bad I blocked it out and everything that happened. I also locked up every single happy memory I had with him. Let me guess it has something to do with that kami forsaken fox and how these assholes have been treating my Naruto since day one!"
Naruto's eyes widen from his spot as he continues to listen in, "I don't know Sakura the only ones that do, is the Hokage, your mom, Two ANBU, and Naruto. I remember you walked into school the day after looking so dazed."
Sakura frowned trying to collect her thoughts but they were a mess along with her emotions that were screaming to find Naruto. "T-The first thing I remember after coming out that daze was seeing Naruto walk up to me. The first thing I felt was the kind of happy I didn't know could exist, but I didn't know why I felt that happy, the feeling was there but no memories were surfacing, I got confused. He asked if I was okay and I said I was. Then he started up a conversation something I didn't know about instead of asking him to clarify it, I-I told him to leave me alone, when he asked what was wrong I don't know what happen next thing I know my fist met his face," Sakura shook her head as more tears streaming down her face. "Instead of getting mad at me and asking why I hit him he just sat there on the floor with no expression on his face like he had expected it. The worse part when I saw him on ground, I wanted immediately run to him say I'm sorry and beg his forgiveness, but I couldn't I just walked away. I can't take this anymore it's tearing me a part, I don't have any more illusions now, I know I love Naruto, please chibi let me see it," she said the last part mostly to herself.
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Chibi-Sakura looked at her outer self grimly, You're not ready yet.
Do it please I want to remember it. If it is as bad as you say I rather be a fucking vegetable than having to deal with not knowing why I felt like I did that day. I became a fangirl, abuse the guy we say we love, and nearly get raped. Well I'm putting my foot down Naruto has a month before he's put in that stupid CRA and according to you we're just a yes away from becoming Mrs. Naruto Uzumaki. But I can't if I have this damned mental block in the way.
Cha! She's right we have deal it to be with Naruto-kun! Inner Sakura added her two cents.
Chibi-Sakura sighed and nodded turning to a huge black door that has a disturbing crimson blood like finish to it. Okay then let us begin.
Author's Note: I have a few premises in mind one involving a Naruto/Fairy Tail crossover and another with Naruto/Destiny, which by the way is both really fun and annoyingly bad at the same time if that's even a thing.