Naruto: The Missing Anbu Commander
Chapter 5: Reunion, New Love, New Allies?
The group was walking on a dirt road leading to Tazuna's home as a few had questions running through their head on what to do with their current situation. One their sensei was unconscious being carried on a strange yet now revealed deadly man two of them knew nothing about. Second, their now revealed C-rank mission was probably bumped up to a low B-rank to A-rank since the confrontation of not just the Demon Brother's, but also the A-ranked Nuke-nin Zabuza Momochi the Demon of The Mist, but since they saw him 'die' their was nothing to worry about. Lastly what can they do in this situation? They have no way of contacting Konoha for reinforcements and knew none of them could face against this man infront of them.
Sasuke knew this better then anyone...
So they just decided on to wait, for their sensei to wake up to await his orders for their next move, well except for Sasuke's hidden agenda to speak with Naruto...
As they followed Tazuna, Sasuke was eyeing Naruto's form in confusion, hurt, betrayal, and most of all anger. Confusion as to why Naruto helped in his clans massacre, hurt for not telling him why or any reason as why he helped commit the act, betrayal by killing his clansmen and helping 'Itachi' do it, lastly anger for wiping out his clan after all the times Naruto helped raise him since 'he' was a kid. 'He' still looked up to Naruto back then as a big brother someone who watched out for him when he needed it.
But now after the atrocity with his clan and the two people responsible made him confused of why they did it, and of how he should go about handling it...
Naruto discretely saw Sasuke's internal conflict within his eyes and knew 'he' was having a tough time just by being around him. He couldn't blame him once the news was spread about his appearance within the Clan massacre were claimed to be true. He sighed sadly will he have to break his promise to Hitomi and tell Sasuke of what really happened? Or just wait till this mission is over with to get away from Sasuke before he starts asking questions.
He shook his head as he saw Mito's worried look on him, he smiled in reassurance, but in the back of his mind there was something telling him was wrong with Sasuke he didn't know exactly, but it was something akin to an illusion also it similar to what Hitomi had on her when he first found out about her true self...
He narrowed his eyes in suspicion, he might be over thinking things, but if what he was remembering felt right now true. Then Sasuke...was actually...
''Naruto-sensei?''said Mito knocking him out of his stupor, he looked at her questioningly, ''Yes Mito-chan, what is it?''he said. Mito just huffed a bit before pointing ahead of them. He turned to see them all infront of a two story small cabin. With Tazuna walking up to the door, he sweat dropped a bit.
'how long was I thinking?'
They followed Tazuna till they at the front door, and waited. Tazuna knocked on the door and spoke ''Tsunami, I'm home come open the door!''he said, getting a quick stepping sound from behind the wooden door and multiple unlocking sounds before the door burst open. When it did come open Naruto's eyes widen a bit, the woman infront of them was quite beautiful, she looked around in her early twenties to mid twenties, she stood at the height of 5'6 wearing a blue blouse that didn't hide much of her figure. He saw that she had long dark blue hair and a heart shaped face. He saw her eyes and saw a warm and inviting black looking at them.
He smiled at her and spoke, ''hello miss, I know you have questions, but would you mind if we come in? Gotta get this guy in a room or something he isn't light after all, hehe'' he said nervously. Tsunami just looked at him before smiling warmly.
''Of course please do come in, I have tea almost ready.''she said, but there was also the slight pink hue on her face when she looked at Naruto though no one saw it. They nodded and walked in Tazuna leading them on. As they did Mito and Naruto saw a little child on the stairs looking at them all with a puzzlement yet defeated expression. This got a worried look from Mito, she looked at naruto and saw a grim expression on his face.
After placing Kakashi in a futon, Naruto walked out Kakashi's room only to meet the eyes of Sasuke. They stayed dead lock in their gazes before Naruto heard Sasuke utter one word...
''Why..''
He mentally flinched Sasuke wasn't suppose to see him again for a long time, but now this mission just has him crossing paths with Sasuke once more. Is Kami playing tricks on him or something? He sighed before thinking on what he should do, break his promise to Hitomi and tell Sasuke the truth? Or lie and don't speak to the boy at all? He turned his attention back to sasuke and said.
''Sasuke...if you are looking for answers...then we will speak...later on...especially from prying ears...''he said before walking away.
Sasuke just stayed rooted their at the spot, his mind raging with the insane amount of questions, He then reeled back of what naruto just said and walked down the stairs following Naruto silently while contemplating of what he should do...
When they reached the first floor, Mito saw them and walked over to Naruto, ''Naruto-sensei what will we do now? The situation is a bit...complicated...''she said a bit unsure of what to do. Naruto just smiled before turning his attention to the last two of Kakashi's student's, ''Well me and Mito have no jurisdiction with Konoha so you don't have to follow my orders, but I would highly suggest you follow my advice and wait for kakashi to wake up before you do anything else.''he said getting a hesitant nod from Sakura while Sai just 'smiled' and spoke, ''Very well'' he stated.
Naruto looked at the boy and was mentally thinking,
'This boy...he reminds me too much of Danzo's cronies from back then...But the man was captured so how could a ROOT be here?...Maybe I'm over thinking things...but I better keep an eye on him...just incase.'
''Good, now Tsunami-san?''he said getting the womans attention, ''Yes?'' she asked wondering what the blonde Adonis, in her and many other females opinion needed. He just smiled and gestured outside ''We need to speak more in detail about the mission you asked for Kumo for if that is ok with you?'' he said which she widened her eyes and nodded.
With that Naruto, Mito and Tsunami walked out the door leaving Team 7 alone, Sakura returning to her fan girlish ways looked at Sasuke and spoke, ''Sasuke-kun, What should we do?'' wondering what her crush was thinking about. Sasuke just closed his eyes in thought ignoring Sakura the whole way and spoke, ''I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna listen to the guys advice and stay put till Kakashi-sensei wakes back up, then we plan our next move.'' he said snapping open his eyes, ''But be on guard we don't know them so watch your backs.''he said with a unusual seriousness in his voice. They saw his more rigid posture and even Sakura for a untrained, civilian herself knew to follow what he said, for a worried Uchiha like him to be like he is now. Is very troubling...
Outside Tsunami just explained everything to Naruto and Mito and to say they were both a bit disgusted was an understatement...
Mito was trembling in anger while tears fell from her eyes, Naruto though was stoic and emotionless, while on the inside he was planning ways to find Gato and murder the pig headed fucker in the most painful ways possible. What they heard would break any mortal, this Gato has been controlling Wave country for year's now, The crook has been hiring thugs and bandits to keep control over the country and extorting money from all of Wave, whats worse is if they couldn't come up with the money Gato would take something else either it your house, your food, Your life basically. He also takes the woman off the streets and uses them as sex slaves as Tsunami puts it and are never seen again.
She also explained about Kaiza how the man was a hero to the country and what he did for the people, how he stood up to Gato and his men, only for him to be tortured before executed infront of them all. ''it hurts especially since Inari looked up to kaiza like a father...since that day forth the town has lost all hope. That is why I asked for help I know the money wasn't much and the rank is higher then it should be, but please...Please!''she begged falling to her knees.
''Help us!''she stated tears going down her face, Mito immediately knelt down and hugged the woman comforting her the best she could. When she looked at Naruto she actually flinched a bit from the aura he was emitting, if there was one thing sh knew Naruto hated, it was men like Gato, in his opinion scum like him was only that; scum and trash not meant for the living world. Plus the aura he was emitting showed how hard he was repressing his urge to find the man and kill him painfully and slowly...
''Tsunami-san...''Naruto said in only a whisper, but the crying woman heard it and raised her head to see Naruto's warm smile as his eyes gave her the reassurance everything would be ok, ''There is nothing to worry about the pay doesn't concern me, hell you can keep it. What has happened in wave is my priority now, We Will take care of gato and his men there will be nothing left after we find him that is a promise and me and Mito always keep our promise.''he said with conviction and confidence. Tsunami's eyes just watered even more before she wrapped Naruto in a hug wailing in his chest ''Thank you, Thank you, Thank you'' she repeated.
Naruto just looked at Mito and spoke, ''Mito-chan we are gonna need to scout out the area to make sure its safe around after this we plan our next move afterwards alright?''he said to his student. Mito just answered with a quick ''Hai Naruto-sensei'' she said. ''Good now, Tsunami-san?''he asked softly. The crying woman slowly stopped her crying, She raised her head to look at him questioningly only to see him smirking, ''As much as I like having such a beautiful woman such as you in my arms. I think it would be better you get back inside Tazuna and Inari might get worried.''he said getting a blush from the woman from his compliment. She 'eeped' jumping out of his arms and nodded before running into the house.
Once she was gone, Naruto turned toward Mito, ''Mito-chan, we are gonna need to plan out our next move. From what Tsunami-san explained it would seem this Gato rules with fear and uses his fear men to instill this fear.''he said getting a nod from Mito. ''Also from seeing the appearance of someone like Gato shows me how desperate gato is so Tazuna dies...Remember my battle with Zabuza and when he 'died'? ''he said getting a confused nod from Mito, though she was contemplating on something now. He mentally smirked since now she was catching on to what he was about to say.
When the red haired teen though about it, The scene looked to suspicious. For one even if Zabuza was weakened he was still one of the Legendary Swordsmen, and an ex-anbu. So to be caught and killed that easy looked strange to her, but then again shinobi always choose the right time to get the jump on their enemies at their weakest. But what really bothered her was how the supposed 'Hunter-nin' dealt with the situation, unlike how normal Hunter-nin did their protocol, This one took the body with her...
That's when realization came upon her face, ''Hes alive...''she mumbled, but Naruto caught it and nodded with a frown, ''That's right, and even now if hes alive I'd say we have a week before he and his accomplice come back to kill Tazuna. So until then we will train and guard Tazuna and his family from any dangers Gato might send.''he said getting a nod from Mito. Once she agreed Naruto softly smiled before walking up to Mito since he knew the girl was holding back her own tears from what she heard. He gently hugged her body pulling her into his chest. ''Now, mito-chan there is no need to hold it back, there is no reason to hold back the tears...''he said and got the immediate reaction out of the girl
She buried her face deeper into his chest and cried. What she heard broke her heart and utter hatred for Gato, but most of her emotion was sadness for Wave and what happened to its people, what they had to go through. The horrors they always faced, the terror of having their family taken or the women used in such a way. And the sign of control...how the man did things to keep control over a country made her feel so angry it made her want to kill the man herself.
Naruto held her as she cried out her emotions, He couldn't blame her he himself was holding back all he could as not let his other side out to completely slaughter Gato and his men. He sighed when he thought back on Zabuza and the Hunter-nin, those two...he needed to speak with...
He felt a slight snore so when he looked down he saw Mito had fallen asleep in his arms crying, he frowned he never liked it when she cried, sure everyone cries offer lose or emotional [pain, but when she or those important to him cried. Something within him snaps and whoever is in his way, meets their end...
He sighs sadly running a hand through her hair, he honestly didn't want this kind of life for Mito, but the girl was so adamant to be a shinobi despite their dangerous and deadly lifestyle. He knew it was her choice and wouldn't stop her since he was the main one to train her despite his opinion of her not becoming a shinobi, but be damned will he not protect her from those that would try to hurt her. That includes the now rumored Akatsuki...
He sighed once more before making a kage Bushin to take her to his room, since it was technically her room as well. He narrowed his eyes out in the woods, there was something very familiar out there and somehow felt this feeling watching him. He didn't know what or who it was, but the feeling felt so familiar to him, but just couldn't place it. Naruto shook his head before walking back into the house he had other things to worry about...
Kushina who finally got close enough to Mito and Naruto's energy felt them inside the house and finally thought about what she wanted to do,
'Wait...what am I gonna do? Just walk into the house and say 'Hey I'm looking for Naruto and Mito they ere my children and I've come back from the dead to say hello' Pft yeah right, hmm I'm gonna wait a little more before I decide on when the time is right...'
With that Kushina jumped deeper into the forest and started to wait out the days before she went to speak with Naruto and Mito...
After she was gone a shimmer appeared, and out came was floating green slitted eyeball that looked strangely familiar before it to disappeared as well...
Tomorrow
''So let me get this straight, Zabuza is alive and we will be training to counter his attack by the end of the week? Is that what your telling us sensei?''Sakura said with a terrified look on her face. This only made the now healed Hatake nod confirming her fears, Sasuke and Sai though were both opposite of her and had different thoughts about this.
Naruto though took everything kakashi said in stride before speaking, ''Well Hatake if that is all your gonna say then I would suggest you get to training your student's or are you gonna laze around another day?''he said with a raised eyebrow, Kakashi just flinched at the jab since it was true...he was lazy...
''Yes we will begin today'' he said while Sakura asked if he was gonna be ok which he just waved off her concerns, naruto just turned around and pat Mito on the shoulder, she looked up at him and he smiled, ''Well I guess we have our own training to get to then huh?''he said getting a soft smile from mito. Kakashi watched the interaction and spoke, ''Well I'm gonna be teaching them tree-walking want to join?''he said thinking Mito needed to learn it as well. Mito just snapped her head at Kakashi like he was crazy, Naruto though just snorted; ''No, actually kakashi Mito-chan already knows tree-walking and other such training exercises, I have something else in mind...''he said with an underlining meaning with 'other' training exercises as to not inform the other genin of what Kakashi was gonna tell them.
Though kakashi caught on and his eyes widen, and mentally berated himself for being such an idiot! Of course Mito would know of the chakra control exercises, Naruto had taught her since she was small! He really felt like an idiot at the moment...
''Now if you will excuse us we have training to do...''he said escorting Mito out of the house with him following, Once they were gone Kakashi rose up as well, ''Well shall we go? We are on a time limit here...''he said silencing the questioning Sakura was gonna ask and at the moment didn't feel like answering to her questions. Especially with Sai in the room...
After they left a clone of Naruto appeared and sighed, ''Good there gone, now I can guard this place like boss said, without having to worry about any of them looking for ways to make me go poof''he said before melting back into the shadows.
With that all of the shinobi prepared for the inevitable encounter with Zabuza and his accomplice...
Unknown Location
''OW!''Yelled Zabuza as Haku plucked out the needles in his neck, he still felt like he went 3 rounds with the Rokubi so it was quite painful from the pain of the induced 'death-like state' haku put him in. Though he was quite giddy about having another chance to fight Naruto...
''Zabuza-sama, stay still...'' Haku urged him, which he ignored, he considered how he should go about fighting the blonde once more since it was gonna happen, should he fight at his full capability, or do something of the latter...
''Heh, the baby demon got his ass handed to him by a bunch of shinobi, you are pathetic!''said a pig-like voice, this made Zabuza narrow his eyes and Haku turn around to see a small man, their employer Gato with his two bodyguards behind him. The pudgy man walked a little further and made an attempt to grab Zabuza only for his hand to be caught in a iron-like grip from Haku who spoke,
''Don't you lay your filthy hands on Zabuza-sama, or you will die...''she spoke as a coldness slowly came over the room which made the Gato and his bodyguards shiver, that was before Gato started screaming when his arms was officially broken...
'''AAAAAHHH!''He yelled pulling his now broken left arm as he glared through his orange tinted glasses at his two hired shinobi.
''Y-you better get it right this time! Or so help me you can consider our deal broken and let you two be killed by the Hunter-nin's.''he said before wobbling out the door as the two scared samurai left in tow not wanting to be killed.
Haku sighed before looking over at her 'Master', ''Haku...that wasn't necessary...''he said pulling out a Kunai from under his bed. She held her head low and spoke, ''Sorry Zabuza-sama, but I can't let you be hurt...''she said. Though since she was looking at the floor, Zabuza's eyes soften,
'Don't worry Haku...soon...we can find a better life then this...Soon we can find a life that which we won't have to look over our shoulder no more...' he thought after remembering the wanted talk with Naruto...
Mid-way in the Week
'Huff' 'Huff' 'Huff' ''Naruto-sensei, I got it down...''Mito said completely exhausted, around her were nothing, but craters and obliterated tree's. Naruto nodded in approval with a warm smile which made the tired mito feel warm and safe.
''Very good Mito-chan, all you have to do now is fine-tune it and get complete mastery and you will have got it perfectly controlled, other then that I'm proud of you, you got it way faster then I did...''he said with pride.
Over the time they were in wave, training he was helping her with getting the Rasengan down and fully mastered. It would seem Minato was trying to find a way to add his affinity in the Rasengan since the orb was just an empty shell of highly condensed Chakra. Since the jutsu was incomplete Mito wanted to completely master it, so she can surpass her tou-san in the Rasengan.
But that didn't mean Naruto didn't train when he had time over the days, he secretly trained in a pocketal dimension of his own creation. So that way his training wouldn't alert the others or destroy the forest in his training.
Over the last few days though Naruto had an interesting talk with Sasuke and it unraveled more secrets then one...
1 day ago, Flashback
The two stared at each other in a tense silence, since either of them were waiting for the other to speak. Fortunately Sasuke was the first, ''Why...Why..did you do it...'' he said in nothing but a whisper. Though naruto could hear him perfectly and closed his eyes waiting for Sasuke to let loose.
''Why...Why...WHY DID YOU DO IT NARUTO!'' Sasuke said in outrage, though he never saw the slight shimmer in his form or fluctuation of his chakra path-ways. Naruto saw it though and hardened his eyes, he thought about it and decided to act,
''Why...Are you trying to imply something on me...Sasuke?''he said in a oh so innocent voice, but this just made Sasuke even more angry, ''You know damn well what I'm talking about! You helped in my Clan's total Slaughter!''he said as his form started to shiver even more and Sasuke's chakra got even more out of control. Naruto mentally flinched at Sasuke's words, but right now he was more focused on what was happening to Sasuke's form...
With a sigh he made the last push, ''It was needed Sasuke...The Uchiha clan...was growing arrogant...''he said casually like he was talking about the weather. With that Sasuke snapped...
''AAAAAAAHHHHH! DAMN YOU!'' Sasuke yelled before he charged at Naruto with a Kunai drawn, Naruto though quickly appeared beside Sasuke and knocked the enraged Uchiha out with a swift chop to the neck. After this he did a few simple hand signs and placed the final one in a tora then placing his heads on Sasuke's forehead, where a seal appeared...
''Kai..''he said, before Sasuke's form erupted in smoke and when it cleared showed a completely different person. It was a girl and people ho knew of Mikoto would say this girl was her twin or at the least her sister, for the girl had long raven hair that reached her mid-back, a growing heart shaped face. She wore what Sasuke was wearing though it didn't hide he growing bust.
Naruto's eyes narrowed in anger, he was right. This was the true 'Sasuke' he saw the seal and only knew the uchiha clan Head and Elder's had such a seal. The seal was used in emergency if a clan was going into extinction and used to change a male to a female or the opposite, in which case was Sasuke, but to use it on his own second daughter...
He growled and cursed Fugaku to the deepest reaches of hell before laying the newly female Sasuke on the ground, and waited for the newly revealed girl to wake up.
A few minutes later, the girl started to stir and she slowly opened her eyes revealing the same black coal all Uchiha had. He saw from where he sat they went through confusion to anger when she saw him and before the girl could say or do anything he spoke, ''Sasuke...sit down...what I did just now...actually helped you...if you look at yourself you would have at least an idea of what I speak of.''he said getting a confused look from the girl. She looked herself over only to freeze up, Naruto plugged his ears for the inevitable...
''AAAHH! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME!'' she screamed, good thing Naruto had his ears plugged or he would have a major headache at the moment.
Naruto waited for the raven haired Uchiha to calm down, so when he saw her sit down staring at the ground in shock he decided to speak, ''Well now that you have that out of your system I suppose I can explain myself to you, and of how your a female, so don't try to attack me till I'm done...ok?''he said which made the girl just look at him with anger, but confusion. She shakily nodded her head needing to know what was going on.
Naruto sighed he knew he was gonna break his promise to Hitomi, but he had no other choice, but he couldn't help but see this as the right way to settle things. He stared hard into the girls coal black eyes making her flinch and spoke, ''What I'm about to tell you is all true, and you can say I'm telling lies, but every single thing I speak of is all true down to the last word...''he said and explained everything, everything from the truth of Itachi's real gender, the orders from Sarutobi, Koharu, Homura and Danzo, but also of the usurpers in the Uchiha Clan that were planning to stage a coup. He also explained of the ones he and Hitomi actually saved the innocents including Mikoto.
''Now how your a female, I'd say Fugaku didn't want another a Daughter so he planned with the elders took you away from Mikoto and placed the seal upon you at birth so you would be a male Uchiha instead. Mikoto probably had a memory displacement seal placed on her when her guard was down.''he said, that's when he looked to see the female Uchiha looking blankly at him with not a single emotion on her face. That's when he saw her eyes start to glisten up and sighed, he walked over to her and placed a hand on her head ruffling her hair like he used to when she was younger...
She slowly looked up at him as tears feel from her face, and he gave her a small smile, ''You probably need time to think on everything I've said, but its all true. Down to the last word, Mikoto is alive, "itachi' is actually Hitomi and the so called 'Massacre' of the Uchiha clan wasn't a massacre at all...''he said, while the girl just looked at the ground in thought.
'Now that I think about it, things were getting tense back then between Tou-san and Itachi, and from the things Naruto told me, its all starting to fit...' That's when she remembered the last words Hitomi spoke to her that night,
'I'm doing this to protect those important to me...' were the words Hitomi told her. She dropped her head after finally realizing it, her clan her father, the elders, The higher ups of Konoha...They all had it planned out...That's when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her she looked up to see Naruto giving her a warm smile, She stayed frozen there in his arms until he spoke the few words that broke the final emotional barrier.
''Go on...let it out...no need to hide your pain anymore...''he said in a soft yet sad tone. That's what she did, she slammed into his chest and utterly broke down in his arms crying her anguish and sadness. He just stayed there soothing the crying girl as best as he could.
After a while she pulled back sniffling a little. Before she rubbed her eyes not wanting to show anymore of her weakness infront of Naruto. He just smiled and ruffled her hair, making her look at him confused at his action.
''Hehe, you know I don't like it when a girl cries especially someone that's important to me, so come on smile...''he said which made the girl give a slight twitch of her lips before a small smile formed on her face. He nodded before standing up, ''Good, now why don't we go back? I think you need rest so you can get control over everything I've told you...''he said which she nodded and they walked back to the house that day, although the girl was much closer to Naruto then the spiky haired shinigami would ever realize now...
Flashback end
Ever since that day 'Sasuke' hadn't changed much well infront of Kakashi, Sakura or Sai, but with Naruto and Mito she would dispel the henge she placed on herself so the others wouldn't get suspicious. She decided to give herself a new name when she was in her true form, she calls herself Sayuri, she also acts so much more different around the two shes more open and smiles a lot more especially around Naruto, which Mito finds a bit suspicious and would talk to her about it later.
Naruto shook his head of his recent thoughts and walked over to Mito, he placed a hand on her should and his hand glowed green a minute before Mito's outlining body glowed the same before she sighed in relief as the pain and soreness left her, but she felt tired that was for damn sure.
''Mito-chan, why not go back inside the house and rest, you need it after all the training today...''he said, She smiled and nodded before getting up to walk away, but lost her footing and was about to fall...
Only to fall into a pair of strong arms, she looked up to see Naruto smirking at her as he led her from falling to the ground. ''Now are you your ok?''he said with his smirk going into a worried expression. She nodded once more scratching her head nervously, He looked into her violet eyes and smiled softly, he closed in on her face and before she knew it, their lips were together in a chastise kiss, her surprise only lasted a minute before closing her eyes joining in. They stayed like that for a few minutes before they separated fro air. Naruto had a smile on his face with a small blush as well, while Mito's face resembled a cherry.
He chuckled before kissing her forehead getting her look at him once more, he smiled and snapped his fingers a Kage Bushin appeared in a puff of smoke, He looked at the clone ''I need you to carry Mito-chan back at the house she needs her rest.''he said the clone didn't need to hear anything else and nodded. With that naruto gently put Mito in the clones arms,
''Wait Naruto-kun, what about you? Aren't gonna come back to the house?''she said curious as to what her /sensei/boyfriend was doing. Naruto just gave her a eye smile that was so similar to the ones she saw Kakashi give his students, ''yes I will be there in a little bit, but first I wanna try something I've been working on, so go ahead with the clone. I'll be there shortly and then you can use me as the big teddy bear at night all you want~~'' with a teasing grin, Mito just flushed red and buried her face into the clones chest. They both looked at each amused by her action and the clone jumped off into the forest heading for Tazuna's home.
After this Naruto's body went rigid and prepared for battle, his head was low with his bangs shadowing his eyes. He looked over into a section of the forest and spoke, ''Come out...and quit your hiding there is no point to it anymore...''he said in a icy tone. He waited a few more seconds before a shadowed figure could be seen from the tree's. He couldn't see much, but knew it was female from the curves the shadow gave out. He narrowed his eyes, this figure he's sensed for a long time watching him ever since they got to Tazuna's and for some reason the feeling this person gave off was so familiar to him.
''I see...you've gotten quite good at sensing people...Naruto...''said a voice that shocked Naruto to his very core he couldn't forget such a voice, the very voice that belonged to the one woman he respected and loved above all others...
''I-it...can't be...''he said, but was silenced when the figure walked more until it showed the form of Kushina Uzumaki, with a sad smile on her face as tears fell from her beautiful face. ''Yes, I'm here Naruto...I'm back...''she said. Naruto just stood their frozen in place as his eyes were on Kushina's own trying to find the least amount of deceit...
There wasn't any...
He placed a hand on his face covering his eyes to hide his emotions he spoke, ''...How...are you here...I saw you die...I know you died...how...''he said as a tear fell from under his palm. Kushina saw this and sighed sadly, knowing this was gonna be hard to explain.
''Well, since we're alone I'll tell you Kami and Megami'' she began which Naruto stiffened at both of their names which she caught, ''3 year's ago asked if I wanted another chance at life, I agreed and kami gave me this chance, only to come back this time since Kami needed time to sort things out before I could come back.''she said which naruto's eyes widened behind his palm at the shocking information.
'Kami...brought her back...?'
He closed his eyes once more taking a deep breath, he would have asked about Minato, but he knew what happened to the man. Using the Shikki Fuin has its consequences not even Kami or megami could bend or break. He calmed himself and stood straighter and snapped open his eyes staring into Kushina's own violet ones that were the same warm violet Mito had.
''I see, then I assume you know of...what happened to me then?''he said gesturing to his position and of how he technically 'died'. Kushina nodded sadly as her eyes drooped to the ground in sorrow. ''Yes, I know...your no longer my sochi...you really aren't my or Minato's son anymore...''she said as a tears were welling up in her own eyes.
Naruto scowled seeing Kushina cry made him inwardly break, she was his mother in the past when he was...'alive', but now...he was just Naruto...The Avatar to the Goddess of Death and a Shinigami...
He walked over to Kushina and wrapped his arms around her trembling body and pulled her into a warm hug, that split second he did Kushina wrapped her arms around him crying into his shoulder. He just stayed there with Kushina in his arms while running a hand through her red hair, he couldn't help but smile with a tear falling from his face.
'Kami-chan...thank you...'
They stayed there for a few minutes before Kushina got control over herself and stopped her crying and just stayed in Naruto's warm embrace secretly enjoying being in his arms. Naruto unintentionally laid his head on atop her own since he was a head taller then Kushina and sighed. ''Its good to have you back Kushina...it truly is...''he said, while the red head softly smiled at his words and sighed happily before she remembered Mito. She pulled back albeit slowly and looked into Naruto's confused eyes,
''Ano...Naruto-kun?''she said getting a mental raised eyebrow from Naruto at the suffix wit his name,''Yes, Kushina-chan what is it?''he said.
''What do we tell Mito? I'm pretty sure she doesn't know all about your true self...she may know somethings, but she doesn't know everything...so what do we tell her?'' she said hoping to find the easiest way to tell mito hows she alive.
Naruto sighed and thought about it, only for a second before grinning, ''I guess we tell her the whole truth, I trust Mito-chan with my life, and love her. Besides I am starting to see flashes of her in a shinigami attire and her sword is changing as well, so she was bound to find out soon.''h said with the love part making Kushina's eyes go wide before they turned into a playful teasing violet.
''Oooo I see you fell in love with Mito huh?~~''she said with a teasing grin, Naruto blushes a bit before deciding to play her little game.
''Yeah I did, but then again you are just like I remember the same fiery tempered red headed beautiful woman I remember.''he said with a grin, but Kushina just blushes blood red at his compliment and suddenly finds the ground fascinating. Naruto just laughs at finally being able to beat Kushina at her own game. He calmed down a bit and wrapped Kushina in a one-armed hug, he lifted her by her chin gently and looked into her eyes. ''About Mito-chan, how about you two meet tomorrow? I'll make sure this time Mito gets to meet the one person that brought her into this world.''he said which she gratefully smiled at him before kissing his cheek surprising him as he blushed a bit.
She giggled at his action and grasped his hand tightly and spoke, ''Thank you for giving me this chance, I've been dieing to see her...and you as well Naruto-kun...''she said, Naruto just firmly tightened his own hand around her own before gesturing the Tazuna's house.
''Then tomorrow then, come by Tazuna's house in the morning I'll be outside waiting for you, then I'll introduce you to Mito, ok?''he said getting her to nod with a grin. Before Naruto could ask why she was grinning she did something shocking...
She utterly pulled him down till she was face to face with him and only a second before he could say anything Kushina's lips were touching his own in a small kiss that didn't hide the love that was there for him. Naruto stayed rooted to the spot frozen in complete shock. Even after she let go he stood there with a blank yet dazed look in his eyes he faintly touched his lips, She looked into his eyes and said ''That's from Kami-chan and megami-chan'' with that he turned around and stumbled to Tazuna's house in a daze. Kushina just giggled at his reaction before she blushed scarlet red, when she saw what he looked like.
'Kami...now that I look at him, hes totally different then what he looked like 3 years ago...' She shivered when she remembered being in his embrace the feeling of her body brushing against his body. Kushina shook her head though and continued a bit more deeper into the forest awaiting for the next morning to see Mito again.
With Naruto, he had already came back to see everyone else asleep, he looked at the table to see a plate for himself with a note from Tsunami. He smiled gratefully and quietly dug in. After this he went to the sink and washed his dirty dishes. He dries his hands off with a towel and put the now dries and clean dishes away, before heading up to his and Mito's room. Once up there he slowly opened the door to see Mito sleeping peacefully while a small fox kit was laying between his and her futon. He walked in quietly as to not wake the two before getting undressed before getting into his own futon.
He then gently picked up the fox kit he knew as Kyuubi or as he likes to call her, Akira and placed her in Mito's arms before he wrapped the two in a hug in a protective manner. His eyes started to get a bit dazed before giving Akira and Mito a goodnight kiss before falling asleep with the two in his arms.
Next Morning
Kushina appeared infront of Tazuna's house at the given time and to her joy, Naruto was out there when he looked at her he gave a genuine smile to her and gestured her inside quietly. She nodded and followed him inside, as they did so Kushina looked at Naruto's wardrobe and only saw him in a pair of black sweatpants and a black muscle shirt. She of course blushed hard when she saw his muscular chest. Though she shook her head of her thoughts when they reached a specific room.
Naruto grasped the door knob and opened the door, Kushina quickly walked in with Naruto in tow closing the door behind them. Kushina though had her eyes right on Mito's sleeping form and she had to put a hand over her mouth to stop a gasp. ''By kami...she looks just like me...''she said in a whisper, but heard a chuckle she looked beside her to see naruto looking at her with an amused expression.
''Well of course she would be after all, I was born like a carbon copy of Minato, so its only natural for the daughter to look almost identical to the mother.''he said with a grin. She just gave him a half-hearted glare before smacking him lightly on the head getting a slight pout from Naruto.
She then walked closer to mito's sleeping form and saw the fox kit in her arm's her eyes widen when she felt the kyuubi's youki. She looked at Naruto only to see a small nod of confirmation, ''yes its kyuubi, but I'll explain later...''he said, she nodded before looking at Mito's sleeping face, she brushed a stray of hair back before whispering in her ear.
''Its so nice...to finally meet you...Musume...''she said, this got the slight reaction out of Mito when she groaned and bit with her right hand rubbing her right eye. She blearily opened her eyes and only saw a red blur infront of her, it started to clear up so she looked around the room and saw a blonde man infront of her futon.
When things finally got clearer she saw the blonde man was actually Naruto who was smiling sadly at her, she frowned why was he smiling like that? She looked at her side to see a beautiful red headed woman-
She froze in shock...this woman...was the same woman int eh pictures Naruto showed of her parents when she was little...
''K-kaa-san...?'' she uttered before she rubbed her eyes profusely to make sure she wasn't seeing things. Kushina though smirked at her action and knew definitely Mito got her attitude from her.
When Mito stopped rubbing her eyes and saw Kushina again, she snapped her head at Naruto once more and spoke, ''N-naruto-kun...i-is she...?'' which she just got a nod from naruto and before Kushina knew it she was tackled by a red missile-like blur. This knocked her to the ground while Akira rolled on the floor and woke up to see a shocking scene...
Her former container...was alive...and being hugged to death by her third container while Naruto was looking at the scene with a small smile. She slowly stopped up on her pars and walked over to Naruto and pulled on his leg. He looked down and smirked seeing the 'Fox pout' Akira puts up in her current form. He picks her up and places her on his head before placing a silencing and locking seal within the room. He then walked up to the hugging pair and sat down and waited for them both to calm down.
After a few minutes Mito pulled back a little out of her Kaa-san's hug and looked at Naruto with red puffy eyes. ''N-naruto-kun...how is she..h-here?''she asked since Naruto told her that she died when she was born. Naruto just looked at Kushina and got a nod of confirmation from her he sighed and looked right into Mito's eyes and said.
''Well Mito-chan, how she's alive goes back during your birth...'' with that Naruto explained everything about the day of her birth, to him actually dieing, his new life as Megami's Avatar. He explained everything to the one girl he trusted the most. So when he saw her staring blankly at him he started to get a bit nervous...
''Sooo...since the day I was born you've been the manifestation of what you would have looked like if you were alive? You sacrificed your life to give Kaa-san more time with me when I was a newborn and in-turn you met The Goddess of Death herself who is called megami...which she gave you a deal to become her Avatar and come back to life afterwards you come back to the living world and take me away before Sarutobi could do anything like taking me away from you. Now I see you really haven't been my brother in blood after so long due to sacrificing your humanity, now with your relationship with the Goddess of Death you met the Goddess of life which is megami's sister kami, which gave kaa-san here another chance to live...did I hear this all correctly..?''she said, which both of them nodded.
That's when Mito grinned a massive grin that threatened to split her face. ''In that case I can do this!'' she said before getting behind Kushina and pushed her to Naruto, said blonde shinigami was to surprised to react ended up falling to the ground Kushina falling with him with their lips connected once more. Akira who was safely picked up during the action by Mito was grinning a fox-like grin mimicking Mito's own.
The kissing pair stayed like that to shocked to move as blushes rose from both their faces, they then separated so quickly it would make the Hiraishin look slow in comparison...
They then snapped their heads toward the sound of giggling and saw mito sitting their with a oh so innocent grin and her shoulders trembled from holding in her laughter, while Akira was practically rolling on the floor laughing.
''M-mito-chan, why did you do that?'' Naruto asked wondering why Mito would do such a thing. While Kushina wondered the same thing she did love the feeling of the kiss they shared. Mito just looked at him in a deadpan face and said, ''Naruto-kun, I'm not stupid I can see how much you love Kaa-san, you might not have noticed but I have seen you look at her pictures at times. I know you love her naruto-kun~~~''she said in a teasing grin, Naruto's face went completely blood red and looked away from the two grumbling about smart ass girlfriends and their twisted sense of humor...
Kushina though was looking at Naruto with wide eyes...
'H-has he really?'
''I-is that true, N-naruto-kun?''she asked and Naruto suddenly found the ceiling very interesting, but after a few seconds he sighed and decided he couldn't hide it forever...
''Yeah...I guess I do...I just...didn't know what these feelings were, I mean you were the one that brought me into this world, that was before I died, but...I just...see you more then a someone like me should...I'm not your son anymore by biological mean's and most definitely aren't a Namikaze anymore either. But...''he looked at Mito and saw her nod happily. He smiled and looked at Kushina once more, ''I'm...willing to give a new relationship a try...as friends...'',
''or maybe more~~~'' Mito said with a grin, getting a blush from Naruto and a giggle from Kushina. Though the red headed woman smiled at Naruto and scooted closer to him and pulled Mito to her side and placing Akira in her lap.
''Hehe well then, I guess we'll be rebuilding the Uzumaki clan together huh?''she said, which made the three all widen their eyes at her. Naruto's face blushed a deep scarlet as his face while Mito looked like a deep red tomato. Akira though mentally thanked her fur for being the color it was, or they would have all seen her look like a crimson look fox kit.
Kushina laughed at their reactions and had to admit, she couldn't wait for that time. Though she also couldn't wait to spend time with them again...
Naruto shook his head a bit before getting up, ''W-well, we still have a couple more hours to sleep before everyone else gets up, so wanna catch a bit more sleep?''he said and got nods from them all.
This ended up with Naruto pushing the two futon's together and him laying in the middle with Mito on his right side and Kushina on his left and Akira in her fox-kit form asleep on his chest with the two red heads using his chest as a pillow with their arms wrapped around him while his own were over their bodes which pulled them closer into him.
They slept like that for a few more hours before waking up and waited for kakashi and his team to leave before leaving as well, so they wouldn't find out Kushina was alive. Though they did keep it between themselves that was the best moment of their lifes, just that moment of them all together was all they needed.
In the Forest of Wave Country-Day before The Battle
''So let me get this straight, your giving me and Haku a chance to join your personal squadron in the Fire Damiyo's army, only if we leave Tazuna and his family alone and help you kill Gato and his thugs?'' Zabuza said with a incredulous stare at Naruto's shadowed form as Haku was in a defensive stance ready to protect Zabuza from a potential enemy.
Naruto just chuckled, ''Yes, it may seem to be to easy on your part and wondered what the catch was? Well there is none, you see I'm looking for shinobi like you and Haku-san here to join my specialized squad in Iro-sama's army.''he said which Zabuza's eyes narrowed much more.
''And do pray tell what you will do with the Hunter-nin from kiri that are tracking us?''he said needing to know what this living legend will do. Naruto just raised an eyebrow at him before chuckling. ''I already got that straightened out, for you see if you accept my offer all your transgressions against Kiri will be erased from your profile and have a clean slate, while Haku here already has a clean due to not really being a shinobi only your apprentice. So...what do you say Zabuza-san?''he said with his hand extended out to his fellow swordsman.
Zabuza pondered a bit and looked at haku for a moment before looking back at Naruto with a grin, ''Very well, on one condition though! You and I have a duel Kenjutsu only, no Ninjutsu Genjutsu or any other shinobi skill allowed, only full out kenjutsu. I want to fight you at my fullest with my sword against yours.''he said which naruto just smiled at him and nodded and with that the deal was struck.
Later that night Naruto and Mito was eating at the table with Kushina beside naruto on his left. It would seem kakashi found out about her being alive due to him accidentally stepping in Naruto's room to find Kushina in their of all things. Let's just say things got a bit heated, but naruto stopped kakashi from doing anything and told him to keep her existence a secret for a little longer. The man was a be hesitant, but finally accepted. After which Kushina was welcomed in by the family and usually helped out with Tsunami or helped in Mito's training.
Them three along with kakashi's team were eating supper with Tazuna, Tsunami and Inari. Though the little boy was looking at the shinobi with an angry expression, when his eyes landed on Naruto he snapped and slammed his hands on the table. ''Why!...Why do you keep thinking you can beat Gato? Your all training for nothing and will heading to your deaths tomorrow, so why try!''he said which the table went totally silent while Naruto just looked at Inari with sad eyes.
''Its because we can kid, you might not know this, but Gato is nothing more then a tyrant that uses his men to bring fear and drains the hope from Wave country. That is why Raikage-sama sent us here in the first place, and like Konoha's shinobi here are to protect your Oji-san here so he can finish the bridge which will when its finish bring back the hope Wave country needs.'' Naruto says with closed eyes.
''But he has an army! He has so many men its uncountable, and there's only seven of you! What do you plan to do against numbers like that?''Inari said, which naruto just sighed and scratched his head. ''Kid, listen to me here for just a minute. Your talking to trained killers that have been trained since birth to either kill, assassinate, espionage or anything else you can think of, and you thinking a bunch of thugs and bandits are capable of taking us out?''he said before snapping his eyes on inari's crying form and spoke, ''Gato is nothing, but a pudgy little pig that's hides behind his money and men, without either one hes nothing more then a fucking coward that will die tomorrow. You can say whatever you want, but just like Kaiza we are the ones that's gonna be standing up to Gato and finish his work by ending Gato's rule over this country so it can bloom once more.''he said.
Inari just looked at Naruto with confusion, and that's when he saw the face of kaiza appear beside naruto's own and both had the same identical smile. The same one that radiated strength and courage.
Naruto stood up from the table and walked to the stair's now if you will excuse me, I need some sleep. Also Inari...'' which got the little boys attention only to get a hand pressed on his hat where it was pushed down hiding his eyes. ''There is no reason to be scared...you are strong...there is no fear...take a step forward and protect those important to you, lay down your life to protect those important to you, only then will you become truly strong...''he said before walking up the stairs.
Mito and Kushina though watched his retreating back and looked at Inari's smiling face.
'He's really good with kids...' they thought in unison and had a slight day dream about their futures and little blonde or red headed children running around.
End
A/N: Ok, first of all those that didn't like the sudden gender switch with Sasuke I suggest you read back on the chapter 3 it shows clues that this was gonna happen, just look really really hard! XD. Also those that want action don't worry it will be here in next chap :P
Now questions:
Whats gonna happen at the bridge?
Who's floating eyeball was that?.. .
Will poor Naruto be trampled by the love of both Kushina, Mito and Akira?
Until next time!
TDKN is out bitches! XD