I'm Back

12 year old Naruto walked down the path towards where he knew Konohagakure was. According to the map he should be able to see the gates pretty soon. Naruto wondered what Oji-san would think of him when he just turned up like this. It wouldn't have been too weird if they thought he was just dead especially if they found a lot of his blood. Naruto shrugged and decided he didn't care. The only reason he was even back at this stupid village was because of that annoying promise he made to Hitoshi.

He saddened at that thought he didn't want to think about Hitoshi now. No he had to focus on the present. Naruto soon spotted the gates and decided to take cover in the tree line. He easily hopped from one tree branch to the next. A few minutes walking before the gate he jumped down from the tree he was on and started to walk again.

Five minutes later he arrived at the gates glad to see they were open. It would have been troublesome if they weren't. Naruto walked up to the first guard desk and poked the ninja who was asleep there.

"Wha? I'm not sleeping!" the man yelled indignantly.

Naruto chuckled a little at that.

"Who are you?" He asked suspiciously. "No one your age is supposed to be back today."

"Uzamaki Naruto. Could I speak to hokage-sama today?" Naruto said a little amusement in his voice.

The man seamed unimpressed and said, "Uzamaki Naruto died years ago. He was quite young. Why are you saying you're him anyway that doesn't even make any sense."

Naruto laughed then responded, "Uzamaki Naruto didn't die you never found a body. I am Uzamaki Naruto. Who would know about him other than someone from Konohagakure anyways?"

The man seamed to consider this for a moment before saying, "How do I know you're not a spy?"

Suddenly as if remembering something Naruto started to root through his pack and finally pulled out a very small shirt. "I was wondering why he had me keep this." Naruto held out the shirt for him to see. "See this is the shirt I wore when I was little look at the symbol. Who else would have this?"

"I suppose I can take you to see him but if you try anything I'm gonna have to put a kunai through you." He conceded it was really above his head at this point.

Naruto nodded at him. "Lead the way."

The man led him to the hokage tower without anything happening. Naruto was quiet he hadn't said anything else. He just fallowed he was actually a little tired now that he thought about it. He'd been traveling for quite some time.

They soon stood outside the tower. 'Wow big red and extremely noticeable.' Naruto thought looking up at it for a second an amused smile played on his lips for a minute. Naruto and the man he was fallowing walked in and he talked to someone behind the desk for a while before nodding. They waited for a little while before they were directed upstairs.

Naruto stepped through a door flanked by two masked ninja and was greeted with the sight of the hokage sitting behind his desk doing some work. He finished something up before looking up to greet them. Sarutobi dropped the pen he was holding and his eyes widened.

"Hey, Oji-san. How've you been?" Naruto said raising a hand and waving a little at the hokage.

Sarutobi almost sputtered a little before answering. "I've been alright. But what about you? We thought you were dead."

"Yeah that's what this guy said." Naruto said jerking his thumb towards the ninja behind him. Naruto smiled and said, "I've been good."

Sarutobi sighed and rubbed his face. "That's good to hear. Though I really must ask; where have you been?"

Naruto scratched his cheek for a little bit before saying, "I'll tell you but can I sit down? Oh and you may want to send him out of the room." He said jerking his thumb once again at the ninja who had brought him to the tower.

Sarutobi nodded. "You're dismissed Hagane."

Naruto sat down and waited for the hokage to speak again. "Naruto I really thought you were dead. Who did you go with you were only four when you disappeared."

"I was with a man by the name of Hitoshi. He and I traveled to pretty much every country that you can walk to. Hitoshi-sensei took care of me when I was young and taught me everything that I needed to learn." Naruto said speaking in a low tone.

Sarutobi nodded. "Naruto why did you go with him?" He asked confused as to why Naruto would leave everything he knew with a stranger.

Naruto looked to the ground. Then spook in a quite voice, "He helped me when I was hurt."

Sarutobi's eyebrows came together and he rubbed his face again. "Naruto I'm sorry to ask this but how do I know that your really who you say you are?"

Naruto lifted his eyes then stood up. He pulled up the black shirt he was wearing and concentrated his chakra on his stomach.

Sarutobi nodded at the tattoo that seamed to just appear on his skin when he did this but frowned slightly when he noticed that the five elements seal was gone.

"Naruto who removed the five elements seal from you?" He asked there were very few people that could do that.

"My sensei looked up how to do it because it was tampering with my chakra control." Naruto explained.

Sarutobi nodded then asked, "He trained you as a ninja then?"

Naruto nodded, "He trained me to be a shinobi. I would like to continue with my training. I would like to become a full fledged ninja of the Land of Fire."

Sarutobi nodded again, he expected as much. "I would like to meet your teacher."

Naruto stayed quiet for a while before saying, "I'm sorry that will be impossible. My teacher died. The reason I'm here now is because I promised him I would come here if he died. Also I don't have any other alliances with other countries."

Sarutobi was actually a little pleased. If Naruto didn't have any alliances with other countries he could probably get him into the ninja academy and a team as soon as he passed the test. "Well Naruto I'll see what I can do. I'll put you up at a hotel for the night and we'll get you an apartment as soon as we can."

Naruto nodded happy that he would have a home again. "Oji-san, do I have access to the Konohagakure library?"

Sarutobi nodded. "Though right now you are only a civilian so you won't have very much access."

Naruto smiled. "No that's fine. Thanks Oji-san."

Sarutobi smiled at the boy.

Then Naruto started his story from the beginning telling Sarutobi almost everything that happened to him while with Hitoshi omitting a few things for privacy sake.

Welcome to the wondrous corner of translations!

Oji-san – old man

Obba-san – old woman

Onii-san – polite way to refer to young men that are older than you and older brothers (yeah little weird)

Onee-san – polite way to refer to young women that are older than you and older sisters

San – a polite ending that basically means Mr. or Miss.

Chan – ending for young kids or people you know very well

Kun – relatively polite ending mostly for boys; girls their own age may call them this as well as teachers or other boys if they aren't very good friends.

Ok well that was a little hard to explain but I'm going to be using these in the story so I thought I should let you know what they are. If I add another Japanese word I'll put it down here too. Though just so you know I have decided against using Japanese swear words because they are just too complicated.