SASUKE JUST DIED! Got your attention right. This is NOT A CHAPTER OF NARUTO OF THE SHINSOUGAN! It is a project that I abandoned from which Naruto of the Shinsougan got a lot of ideas but I felt like it deserved a little reading as well. Think of it as an unfinished Alternate Universe movie. Warning Time travel. When this side-story was published I was halfway through ch 6 of NotS.
REMEMBER THIS IS A PROTOTYPE THAT HAS A LOT OF BUGS BUT IT WAS THE DADDY OF THE MAIN STORY! SKIP IF YOUR NOT INTERESTED AS IT HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH THE MAIN STORY AND IT IS NOT FINISHED!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything about and from the original Naruto story or any story, character, scenery or anything that the lawyers could and might sue my ass for.
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Prototype Naruto of the Shinsougan – "Seal Lord Naruto"
"Kurama give me everything you got!" mentally yelled a certain blond teenager.
"You got it kit!" answered a voice within his head.
"Time to end this brat! Nobody will stop my plans! NOBODY! NOT EVEN YOU! the masked akatsuki leader screamed.
As the battle raged on the two shinobi fought for dominance. Screams of terror and killing raged across the battlefield a couple of hundred yards away from them. It was a titanic clash of the strongest warriors on earth. Naruto Uzumaki was battling Tobi known now as Madara Uchiha who was after the Ninetailed Demon Fox within our blond host.
They eventually reached a stalemate as jutsu after jutsu thundered across the sky and the earth. Deciding to finish it in one move Naruto called on his newly discovered bloodline limit (kekkei genkai) and started channeling Light element (Ranpu) from every corner of his body while the Kyuubi pumped his chakra through his body to back him up and the Jinchuriki made the biggest Rasengan one has seen (picture sage Rasengan ten times bigger) after which he compressed it till it was the size of a baseball.
He charged at Madara with the intent to kill. His speed was unimaginable but he was still running as he pumped all his chakra into his attack and did not have enough for a long distance Hiraishin jump.
His target Madara was in no better shape. He barely had any chakra left and was panting heavily. His mask was cracked and broken and two quarters of it fallen off, the one covering his Sharingan eye and the other near the left of his mouth showing that he was cringing. He had no more chakra to use his intangibility and barely enough to open a small space-time window.
Naruto used the fox's chakra to create 2 powerful Kage Bunshin that propelled him through the air many times the speed of sound as they launched him towards the Akatsuki leader.
Madara thought this was his chance as the space around his Sharingan began to warp like water going down the drain. Time seemed to slow down as Naruto was approaching his target when he began falling into the window. All his efforts looked like they have been wasted when the young hero screamed:
"SENSEI NOW!"
The man known as Kakashi Hatake appeared from behind a large boulder with his Mangekyou Sharingan activated and started focusing it directly at Madara. How did this happen?
"Recollection jutsu: Flashback"
15 minutes ago:
Naruto was pretty banged up from his fight with Madara. It was well over 6 hours since this epic battle had started. He was panting heavily and so was his opponent. Naruto barely avoided a full hit by the Uchiha's Amateratsu jutsu by sealing it inside one of his clones before dispelling it. He used this nifty little trick to catch Sasuke off guard then proceeded to pound some sense into him. The thing that was surprising was that it worked… in combination with some heartfelt words from Naruto and some proof that Madara had influenced Danzo Homura to order the Uchiha massacre when Sasuke was younger. The young avenger then teamed up with his former team mate but after 4 gruesome hours of fighting he was knocked out cold like an ice cube. Leaving another clone, Naruto used the smokescreen created by his dispelled one to hide behind a large tree only to find Kakashi-sensei standing beside him.
"What are you doing here sensei? You could get killed!"
"If my student AND hero of the Leaf will fight then so will I!"
"NO! Go to the battlefront! You could do more there than here … actually scratch that, this guy is tough I don't think I can beat him without help. And I have just the plan…"
After giving a rough idea to Kakashi about what he had in mind Kakashi carefully and wholeheartedly accepted it with only a tiny displeasure in his tone:
"ARE YOU CRAZY NARUTO? YOU CAN'T DO THAT! I WILL NOT ALLOW TWO OF MY CLOSEST PEOPLE SACRIFICE THEMSELVES WHILE I'M ARROWND! I WILL DO IT IN YOUR PLACE!"
"No you will NOT Kakashi! For two reasons: One I can escape his jutsu using the Senkou Denpa (Flash step – not to be confused with Shunpo from Bleach) and two only you can use that jutsu!"
"Ungh… you … have a point Naruto, just make sure you get out of there in time! YOU HEAR THAT! You may be the most powerful shinobi in the village but if you dare die both me and Hinata will resurrect you so WE CAN KILL YOU!"
"Ehehe... I'm not dumb enough to piss you off like that, MUCH less Hinata!" said Naruto with an anime style sweat drop.
"Let's go!" said the young blond!
"Recollection jutsu: Kai"
"Kamui" said the Jounin opening his own space-time gate to absorb the Akatsuki leader. That is until he got worried when he saw that Naruto's arm beginning to disappear into Madara's eye jutsu. That's when the masked man made the biggest mistake by looking directly into (and focusing Kamui at) the opponent's own Sharingan and all hell broke loose.
The two space-time windows destabilized one another and the power output grew to an unimaginable degree, together with Naruto's Rasengan amplifying the effects until it collapsed in on itself and exploding a space-time concentration orb that covered the entire Universe destroying its fabric and unwinding it leaving it chaotic.
In a flash of pure luck Naruto activated his Senkou Denpa at the same time this happened, hoping to get away from the blast but was engulfed in a light that could be best described as colorless without it being even white or black or a shade in between. Most (if not all) humans cannot imagine such a color and yet we find our young Uzumaki surrounded by a thin film of white light whilst around him was nothing than formless creation colored by that earlier described shade. He was tossing and turning and falling into something in no definite direction (as directions do not exist in a chaotic universe).
'Where am I? I can't breathe!' thought our young hero desperately searching for a breath of air.
'I need to get out of here!' Naruto was getting desperate until a slight feeling came to him barely at the edge of his senses. In one quick motion he gathered all his remaining chakra and some pure life force and mentally said 'HIRAISHIN NO JUTSU!' .
Once he felt he was finally out of that cosmic washing machine the first thing that he did was gulp down a large breath of air and was immediately met by a stinging in his behind. 'OUCH! What the hell?' he thought.
He opened his eyes barely only to be met by another assault on his rear. 'This is starting to piss me off!' he mentally shouted as he cranked his eyelids more to see a gigantic elderly woman holding him with one hand whilst the other was raised menacingly aimed towards his now swelling back end.
'Oh no you don't you old crone!' he thought as he bent his leg, hitting the elderly woman in the face.
"What the…? Spunky little one ain't cha! Sorry little guy but you got to cry to get the fluids out of your lungs?" said the woman as she went again for a third strike. This time Naruto took a jab at her nose. It wasn't that hard but she stopped her hand in midflight and took it to see if everything is still attached properly.
'Is this Oba-san (Old woman/Grandma) crazy?' "Wh…." Naruto's words were cut short when he began coughing like crazy but in a much softer tone that he was used to.
"Now I never saw this in my entire experience as a midwife! Instead of crying out the liquids in his lungs he is coughing them out! Either he is stubborn or he is strong… or both! He dang well hit me instead of crying!" said the woman whilst having Naruto near her chest patting his back gently.
"Ha-ha… there is no way a baby can hit someone that intentionally on his first day in the world, unless you say that taijutsu is hereditary since birth!" said a man whose voice made Naruto flinch. Our blond hero tried to face the source of the voice and started getting agitated.
"What are you doing little one? Stop or you will fall out of my hands!" the woman told Naruto getting nervous holding him.
"Give him to me Biwako-san, I will take calm him down. Besides I want to see him so much!" said a kind loving voice that made Naruto freeze instantly in surprise.
"Of course dear! Here he is!" the woman let out a small sigh and bringing him closer to the source of the voice. As they got closer Naruto seemed to hold his breath, his eyes getting bigger and bigger with every step until he began to see beautiful long red hair, a beautiful feminine face that to Naruto looked every bit as a goddess he could possibly imagine and a pair of kind, loving eyes that he only got to see only once before in his life. He was at a loss for words. HE the most loud mouthed ninja just looked into those eyes like they were going somewhere and he could not get to see them ever again. Time seemed to stand still until the young woman opened her perfect pair of lips to whisper:
"Hello my dear sweet little Naruto. Nice to finally meet you! I am your Kaa-chan (Mommy)."said the woman bringing a hand over his whiskered cheeks.
Naruto then did the most logical thing he could do … he started crying whilst squirming around to get his hands free out of the bundle he was wrapped in which after a few tries he did.
The woman lifted her hand of Naruto's face in surprise just as Naruto got his hands free. She looked at him with a little bit of curiosity as the both lied down with our blond boy still crying and crawling to his best abilities to get closer to her. She then understood what he wanted to do and pulled him closer until their faces touched. That's when Naruto surprised them all.
"Kwaa-cshan, waa, Kwaa-cshan,*sniff*, waa, Kwaa-cshan" he cried out but all of the adults present had eyes the size of dinner plates. Did an hour-old baby just say his first word?
"Kushina I know you are exhausted with giving birth but we need to get the seal under control!" said the blond spiky-haired man next to her with his hands on her belly when they spot Biwako together with her assistant collapsing on the floor.
"Biwako! Taji!" screams the blond man.
"Yondaime Hokage, step away from the Kyuubi's seal or your kid won't live another minute!" said a man in a black cloak and a mask with one eye hole.
Naruto looked at the masked man for just a split second instantly recognizing him 'MADARAAA…!'
'No it is happening just like my mom told me that time! It must be a genjutsu but why can't I focus any chakra to dispel it? What happened to me? Calm down Naruto! Dig deep for no matter what illusion this is you still have your Shinsougan no Jutsu (Eyes of truth), just dig, and keep going! Yes! I found my chakra. Just a little of it but it will do! Now, Shinsougan no Jutsu!' Naruto quickly thought and started moving his Ranpu chakra to his eyes and brain.
By the time he was done the Yondaime Hokage was trying to negotiate with Madara but the man was having nothing of it. Time seemed once again to slow down for Naruto but this time it was his jutsu that did this. His eyes shined brightly and his hair got a little lighter in color together with an almost unperceivable yellow aura.
The Shinsougan was a technique that Naruto created with his Ranpu chakra to combat genjutsu in all forms. It gave his eyes and his brain the ability to see all forms of electromagnetic radiation from radio waves, infrared, x-rays to gamma rays, even a chakra seeing and zooming ability that would put the Byakugan to shame and also by giving some to the brain it accelerated his perception of time by one to five hundred (1 second in real time means 500 accelerated) giving him valuable minutes to think but at a much greater cost of chakra. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but what Naruto was seeing was that his own reserves were about the same as mid-chunin's level where he would usually have more than two Kages. But that wasn't the most troubling. What was the critical punch was that his eyes were telling him that all of this is real and it is no illusion. Even the fox was gone and was now inside his mother.
'What the hell? How could this be real? I mean I know I remember me and Kakashi fighting Madara when that big fla… OF COURSE! I knew that basic Jikuukan Ninjutsu (Space-Time Ninja Techniques) book was good for something! It said NEVER INTERSECT TWO JIKUUKAN JUTSU or the space-time bubbles will collapse causing devastating effects depending on power, AND THESE WERE TWO OF THE FOUR MOST POWERFULL TEHNIQUES IN THE WORLD. And together with my Ranpu: Taiyou Rasengan (Light release: Solar Rasengan) it must have sent me back to the past. Damn, it's a wonder what 3000 Kage Bunshin that transmit any information they get back to the original let loose in each shinobi library of the elemental countries for four months and a super powerful demon's healing ability can do to a guy's brain . But let's get back to the matter at hand. Looks like dad is about to attack. Got to make my move now or never just that without hand seals since this body is not cut out for moving right now much less fighting I must use seal-less Fuuinjutsu. Good thing that they do not take too much chakra to make and the fact that I am... or was/or will be a Seal Lord. But I must still calm Kurama somehow to get him inside me… I got it! Just tweak that little jutsu ANBU use to see the memories of someone only in reverse, to show the memories of that happening and to share quick thoughts. Good thing dad marked mom with the Hiraishin seal, this jutsu is easier and less chakra used to do than my Senkou Denpa. Now all I need to do is … shit here comes dad!' with that Naruto ended his thoughts and plans for now and focused on the battle shutting down the chakra to his eyes.
Faster than a blink Yondaime snatched Naruto from Madara's hands.
"Hiraishin no Jutsu, I'm impressed! Let's see how you handle this one…" and with that the Hokage noticed that there were explosive tags on the baby's wrappings.
He quickly striped Naruto of those clothes and was about to teleport when Naruto disappeared in a flash from Yondaime's arms.
"WHAT?" both men shouted only for the Yondaime to teleport outside of Konoha, leave the explosive and return just as they exploded, all in half a second.
Naruto in the meantime was on his mother's belly just as the Kyuubi was fighting to get out.
"NARUTO! RUN AWAY! GO!" was all the weakened mother could do to try to save her son.
All Naruto did was stare at her with eyes that did not shine as those of a child, put his tiny hands on his mother's seal and with a flash of chakra say in a garbled baby voice:
„Mwindro Fugin: Rebese Mind Widing" (Mindo Fuujin: Reverse Mind Reading) all it took was a second for the seal pattern to spread in a five branch style mark that appeared to be going down a drain spinning into the seal. The adults were mind struck. Not only did the fox seem to have calmed down but a NEWBORN BABY just did a seal-less advanced Fūin technique. If that impressed them what was next almost knocked them out cold. Naruto then said:
„Sowwy Kwaa-cshan, bwut twis wis gowbing to gurt: Twensbwa Fubin: Kwuubi no Kitswobne " (Sorry Kaa-chan but this is going to hurt: Tensha Fūin(Transcription seal):Kyuubi no Kitsune ) and as soon as Naruto finished those words, nine pure white tendrils shot up from Kushina's seal from each having equal spacing between them and wrapped around Naruto who was lifted 12 inches off her and then a column as wide as Kushina's seal of very intense red shot from her to Naruto's stomach, and she let out a huge scream of pain whilst Naruto visibly hurt by this experience just bit his lip with his toothless mouth and stood still. In three seconds it was all over with Naruto finishing by saying: "Hwake no Fubin Swiki"(Hakke no Fūin Shiki) and a pattern appearing on his belly. Both Kushina and Naruto were sweating and panting like crazy but they were alive and the fox was now inside Naruto. The baby then slammed his hand onto his mother's belly and whispered something that no one heard. The next second a red glowing seal pattern appeared where her Kyuubi seal used to be. Kushina then began to get visibly better by the second.
Madara was first to recover from the shock of having seen a baby do what most Seal Masters could not. He teleported to where Naruto was and grabbed him like when this all started. Naruto's eyes were closed and he was breathing heavily.
"Don't move Hokage! Do not even BLINK or I will slit his throat faster than you can think!" he then looked at Naruto. "You little monster, you just wreaked my plans! Now you and I are going to go bye-bye and I will GET THAT NINE TAILE..!" was all that Madara could say before Naruto stealthily put two seals on him with his hands.
"Nibwai Fubin no Jubsu: Bodi-Chakwa Mahi" (Nibai Fuin no Jutsu: Bodi-Chakra Mahi – Double Seal: Body-Chakra Stasis) was all it took for Madara to be frozen stiff during which Naruto also placed a secret blood seal called „Kien Fuin" (Memory Seal) to seal away his memories of these events. He was about to seal Madara with the Kyuubi but felt his chakra fading so, Naruto teleported to his mother with the Hiraishin just before his chakra reached critical. She grabbed him tight not wanting to ever let him go. In the meantime his father charged at Madara with the intent to kill bringing out a three-pronged kunai aiming for his throat.
The blades reached their target in a slashing motion but phased through. Madara jumped backwards and was now panting heavily from breaking two seals and phasing at the last second did not have any power to go on. The seal on Naruto was stronger than any other so far plus his dad was protecting him with a full tank of chakra. This was so not his day, so he decided to retreat now saying: „This will not be the last time we meet! Hahaha!" before he disappeared with a swirl of chakra around his eye but could not shake the feeling that he has forgotten something.
Naruto was in his mother's arms when his father came. They all exchanged a hug and a couple of kisses, they were happy that they all got out alive after that one. But then Naruto remembered something:
"Kwaa-cshan, Tow-cshan, I'b sowwy…" (Kaa-chan, Tou-san, I'm sorry…) said a sad Naruto as this confused them even more than they were"…fow dwis:" (…for this:) and grabbing both of them by some exposed skin: 'Kien Kawari no Fūin' (Memory Alteration Seal) releasing a the pre-created seals on his parents.
After those seals faded both Yondaime and Kushina snapped out of a trance like state. They were a little confused until they looked at their son sleeping peacefully and naked on his mother's belly with her arms over him. Seeing this, the young Hokage placed a gentle hand over his son and his mother's hands.
"I'm so sorry Naruto for sealing the fox inside you! I hope that when you find out about it you will not hate me for what I've done to you!" said the blond man to his son whilst gently rubbing his back.
"Don't worry so much Minato! I'm sure he will understand that you had to do it to save both us and the village. He is a hero just as much as you are!" the red-haired mother tried to calm her fiancé. "Besides, I'm positive things will only get better from now on! Isn't that right Naruto?" she whispered. Right on cue Naruto used his tiny hands to grab both his mother's and father's hands.
"You know what I think he likes us, hehe!" joked the man now named Minato Namikaze.
"Yes I think he does, but both of us are tired and just want to get some sleep!" yawned the woman.
The Hokage picked her up bridal style and teleported both of them to his mansion where he laid her in a huge and soft bed and took Naruto and placed him in a crib that he unsealed from a scroll.
"Naruto Namikaze-Uzumaki, quite a birthday party you had today, but don't fret… I will protect you with my life!" Minato whispered to his son rocking the crib gently. Meanwhile…
Naruto was back to the body of an eight year old. He figured that since he had the mind of a sixteen year old but the body of a newborn, his mental self-projection would be like this unless he focused his mind to do something else. He was walking down memory lane (literally) and was heading towards the seal area. In his former life this place would have been a sewer but now it was a tunnel of expensive pure white marble with blue and red lines crisscrossing the walls, glowing and warping their shape. The red ones were wider than the blue ones. He saw more and more of the lines getting together and when he got to a door that he opened and entered a grand ball like room made of marble slabs and gold between them, with intricate seal patterns all over and more red and blue lines coming together into two huge lines going into what appeared to be a cage made of silver and gold.
"Having fun in there fox-face?" yelled the boy at the darkness in the cage.
All of a sudden a huge roar came from behind the bars that took all his will to defend against. A huge twenty story fox appeared with red eyes that glowed in the dark and nine moving tails.
"Geez, cranky when you wake up, ain't cha? Do you remember now what happened?" stated the blond jailor to his inmate and hopefully friend.
"A little and what you gave me. Thanks again for the save from that masked creep but why do I remember so little and I don't know if it is important what I forgot but I can only just recall parts including when we became comrades!" said the fox with worry in his eyes.
"Don't worry so much! That seal that I used was complicated and so I had to give you the most important details. I couldn't waste my chakra giving you the memory of you spending 12 years in a sewer with nothing to do!" spoke the boy, flashing a foxy grin. "My memories will leak out to you in time but for now, do you trust me and will you fight with me Kurama?" the boy now had a face that only veterans of the field responsible with entire squads in times of war could have. It was serious and confidant but hid the worry in his eyes.
Kurama didn't respond just smiled and stretched his fist through the bars. Naruto grinned and they bumped fists.
"Thanks for that because I have a favor to ask. I will modify this seal to make it appear that you are still trapped but your chakra will have unrestrained access to my system if you will it to. Can you use your chakra to jump-start my body. I mean by tearing and fixing my muscles and grinding my bones to make them denser, also enlarging my own chakra pools? Just make sure you don't spike to much or too fast when dad is around!" Naruto asked Kurama with serious eyes.
"If this new seal is like that then sure, why not. It would have gotten boring anyway in here so might as well make the most of it." and with a sigh the fox got to work building Naruto's body from scratch.
"Don't worry about that! We will be seeing each other a lot over the next year or so since I do not want to see myself getting my diaper changed." said Naruto with a foxy grin and scratching the back of his head.
"Now that I would give one of my tails to see he-he!" joked the fox as the two started sharing stories.
"Maybe later, for now we have a lot of planning to do."
"Planning for…?" asked the curious Kitsune.
"I don't know… maybe like stopping the Hinata kidnapping attempt, saving her mother from death, stopping the Uchiha massacre, befriending Itachi Uchiha, saving Shisui Uchiha, saving Haku and Zabuza, getting rid of Danzo and most of all planning for the FUCKING WAR that is coming." answered the young Namikaze adding a little bit of sarcasm to mix.
"Why you little…" Kurama answered with a grin but then that turned into a smile. "There is something that you should know. Have you noticed something changed regarding my person? the resident fox asked.
"Well you look, how can I say this… taller, more… massive. How can that be?" answered Naruto curious as to where this was leading.
"Bingo!" smiled Kurama before stating "Look kit in the previous timeline your seal still kept me but my chakra was cut by your father's sealing method. He took away my Yin chakra to keep me from overpowering your will. This is not a problem now since we are comrades, but I must say I was quite impressed by that way of thinking. But that was not the point of this discussion. What I am saying is that now I have more than twice the power I had in our previous life so we will, as you humans say… kick some serious ass now!" grinned Kurama obviously proud of that.
"COOL! And I thought you were strong without it! We will totally bring the future that Ero-Sennin, Nagato, and the Sage of Six Paths dreamt about! You with me buddy?" the young blond looked at his furry friend.
The fox smiled and held a fist out saying "As you humans say: Totally!"
"Say kit, are you bored?" asked a curious demon.
"Why?" the kid answered.
"Come in here and let's play fake chakra wars! It's a good training method and a decent way to size up your current chakra! Besides what else have you got to do?" Kurama stated.
"Sure! Here I come!"
"Bring it kit!"
Twenty minutes later an exhausted Naruto was on his back on the cold grassy floor of the cage panting like crazy. Kurama stood above him and said: "Overall, what are your statistics?"
Getting up in a sitting position Naruto explained. "Well, without Sage Mode or Ranpu element, I would say that my Ninjutsu is above Sannin and below Kage level, my Genjutsu is still pretty much nonexistent without using Ranpu jutsu, my taijutsu is still Kage level but I have almost no real muscle power or speed, my fuin jutsu is from what I can tell still Seal Lord level. But my chakra control is almost nonexistent and the amount of it worsened after the last fight, I would say around high Gennin or low Chuunin and I can still use Wind, Water and Fire elements. Overall I would say that I am mid Chuunin level without Sage Mode or Ranpu element. "
Kyuubi replied "Yeah that's about it. Don't worry about your chakra and strength. I will enlarge your system and grind your body so by the end of the year you will have it back to Kage level. And if that fails you can always use some of mine, especially now that I have my true power. I owe you that much and a Bijuu never leaves a debt unpaid. Also, too bad that you couldn't use Sage or Ranpu chakra, it would have been fun but I understand the low profile." while giving Naruto some of his chakra to help him recover.
The blond looked up to the roommate in his body and answered with low volume "Thanks buddy!"
"Don't mention it kit! And I do mean don't! I have a reputation to uphold!" snickered the red fox.
Naruto blinked twice and then they both broke into a good laugh.
Time went by as Naruto spent most of his time into his mindscape training with Kurama to keep his skills sharp. He was viewed by his parents and most people close to them as a child genius after he spoke his first words 'Kwaa-cshan, Tou-shan' at about 3 months of age and in another three he was speaking full sentences correctly with only a few problems, began walking at 5 and a half with very little trouble and at the age of one year and 2 months he was caught by his mother with a book that he 'borrowed' from his father called 'Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi', now that was a good memory.
"Recollection jutsu: Naruto Family Flashback"
Our little hero was very happy that he found where his dad kept the book. He knew he had it since that was how he named his son. It was on a bookshelf at about three times the size of Naruto's height. His father was gone doing Hokage duties and his mom was out in the back yard tending the beautiful flower bed. They were red roses planted by Minato with his son to show her that they both loved their mother and her hair which was her soft spot as well as a good anger starter.
He channeled chakra into his feet and begun walking up to the shelf and got the book. He use to practice this with a shadow clone. The clone Henged into different small animals and snuck out the room and into the woods training and after dispelling sent the information back to the real body. Kurama helped him big time by constantly enlarging his pools and replenishing them when he used a jutsu.
After checking if the coast is clear he teleported back to his room and begun reading. He knew the book word for word but he always enjoyed reading it. That's when Kushina entered the room and saw him with the book.
"Oh Naruto where did you get that? Did your Tou-san forgot to put it away again?" he looked at her and went back to reading. "Baby that book is a little too advanced for you (remember this is a Japanese world and their books are written in Kanji), if you want your Tou-san can read it to you when he gets back." and she motioned to take the book and lifted it from his hands.
"Kaa-chan, give it back pwease! I want to know wut happens to the Nauto in the bwook after he beats the bad ninja and bweaks the cwurse! (Kaa-chan, give it back please! I want to know what happens to the Naruto in the book after he beats the bad ninja and breaks the curse- he didn't have a problem with pronouncing words but he was a teenager in the body of a child, with facial muscles of a child even with Kurama's 'improvements' done to his body) said the toddler with eyes between pouting and puppy-style. He knew those eyes worked most of the times, but now Kushina was a little surprised.
His mother asked "Sweet heart, has your Tou-san been reading this to you?". Naruto shook his head from side to side. "Then can you read this?" Once again he moved his head, but this time the motion went from up to down.
There was not an ounce of lies in his eyes. He just looked like he really wanted the book from his mother. Kushina stood there shocked. When did her little boy learn to read? "Naruto who taught you how to read?". Naruto flinched at this question. He decided that a half-truth would be good. "I wooked at Baa-chan's book when she wed it out waud! I wearn it myswelf!" (I looked at Baa-chan's book when she red it out loud! I learn it myself!). It was half a truth because he really did look at Baa-chan's (the worker at Naruto daycare center) book when she read it and in his past life Naruto really learnt by himself by stealthily watching the book that the orphanage worker read to the children when she sat near the wall and since he wasn't allowed to sit with them he was lucky, as a hole was in the wall so he could hear what she said and see the book's contents.
It was half a lie however because Sarutobi Hiruzen noticed this later and took matters into his own hands and properly taught the boy though he didn't have much to teach since Naruto mastered most of it on his own.
"Kaa-chan, can I have it bwack now pwease?" (Can I have it back now please?) he practically begged.
Kushina snapped out of her daze and gave her son the book.
"Thwenk you Kaa-chan! I lwove you!" (Thank you mommy! I love you! )
"Can you read it for me baby?" she finally submitted herself to the fact that her kid was a true genius.
"Sure!" he answered and he began reading with his mother correcting and helping him here and there with his speech and telling him to slow down and enjoy the full story. He then said that he will be just like the main character of this book and will end the curse of hatred in the shinobi world.
When his father got back and Kushina told him what happened his eyes were as big as saucers and his jaw was on the floor when he peeked into his son's room. He then picked him up and kissed him on the cheek and told him that he could ask a present from him. Naruto flashed a mischievous grin.
"Well I say this calls for a present for my genius son." said Minato bouncing his son in his arms. "Want anything kiddo?"
Naruto immediately said: "I want pwactice kwunai and shwoowiken!" (Practice kunai and shuriken)
His father let out a sigh. "Naruto you know I can't give you kunai and shuriken. It's dangerous for you and other people."
"No I want pwactice twoy kwunai. Like my fwend Twen-chan has." (Practice toy kunai. Like my friend Ten-chan 'I'm sure you can guess who she is' has)
Now Minato was curious as to why a girl only a year older than his son was allowed to carry kunai to the daycare, scratch that, why was she allowed to carry them at all.
"Okay, Okay. I will go talk with Ten-chan's Tou-san and see where he bought them but if I think they are dangerous… pick another present" Minato talked to his son with a serious tone.
"Dweal!" (Deal!) answered Naruto as he was sat down on the bed and his dad teleported towards Tenten's house. The boy went back to reading.
Twenty minutes later Minato teleported to the back yard and went inside the kitchen to talk to Kushina.
"How did it go?" she asked.
"Well I'm not sure… These kunai and shuriken are made of plastic with retractable hard rubber tips…" and pulled one out he got as a sample pressing the tip inside the casing "… and you dip them into graphite (pencil lead) powder and let it fly at the target marking it. They wouldn't be deadly even in the hands of a Jounin. The only problem would be that they are for 3 year olds and above" whispered Minato weighing the pros and cons.
"Well that would be something to consider. The only danger with this toy is that he could poke his eye. It did say that they are for preteens and not for toddlers, but this toddler can already read a novel at his age. I say it is okay as long as we watch how he does the first few weeks at least and warn him about the dangers." his expert wife advised.
"Okay honey. I'll go and pick a set for him. Be right back!" and with that he flashed to the store and came back five minutes later.
To say his son was happy was to say that Jiraya only has a slight interest in peeping. They told him that he should never bring his new toys more than a forearm's length near his face and that for now he must be supervised while 'training'. He asked if he could start right now and Minato went with him. He took out an old training target that he had and set it on the stand in the back yard. Then he got out of the way and told his son to fire when ready. That's when jaws dropped.
"Honey! Kushina! Come here for a minute!" Minato called for his wife.
"What is it? Did something happen?" she got there running.
"No! More like something did NOT happen!" he was in quite of a shock himself.
"What do you mean?" she was starting to get worried.
"Naruto threw 8 kunai and 7 shuriken shots at his target from 30 feet away…" he said looking into her eyes.
"So..?" she was beginning to think that her husband was in need of some vacation … and a mental checkup.
"He did NOT miss the bullseye ONCE!" the blond man answered pointing to the multiple dark points on the red center of the target.
Kushina looked at her son who was wearing his famous fox grin and walked towards him. When she reached him she knelt down and put her hands on his shoulder looking at his face with an emotionless stare.
Naruto gulped and said "Did I dwoo sometshin'wong?" (Did I do something wrong?)
His mother pulled him into her embrace and kissed his cheeks countless times saying "No you didn't my boy, you are a natural. Even your father couldn't destroy that bullseye at your age like you did!"
"I dwidn't destwoy the bullsheye wet, but I can dwoo it." (I didn't destroy the bullseye yet, but I can do it.) said an embarrassed and happy Naruto. Both his parents asked "HOW?"
"Like thish (*this)!"
Naruto put his left hand and foot forward similar to the Gentile Fist stance and bent his knees. He then brought the toy kunai hand stretched fully over his left one, perpendicular in directions with a firm grip on his 'weapon'. He then let some kind of energy flow from his hand into it and just as he let it fly he started making the hand seals for Ram, Rat, Bird, Boar, and Tiger.
„Fuuton: Kunai Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, oops!" the oops part was that was not supposed to show the jutsu, just the wind chakra but it did not matter anymore. The target was completely mauled as about 300 Wind element enhanced toy kunai ripped it to shreds leaving a couple of holes in the wall of the compound as well as two frozen parents. He turned to them and scratching the back of his head began to laugh emotionally.
„Ehehe... Wouldsh woo believe me if I twold woo zhat wash a fuke?" (Ehehe... Would you believe me if I told you that was a fluke?) the blond toddler asked but his parents remained immobile. „Guesh not." and with a sigh he activated the Memory Alteration Seal in his parents and rewrote the destruction of the target as 'Minato showed his son the Shuriken Kage Bunshin with a real shuriken after Naruto begged him to show a 'cool' shuriken jutsu.'
"Too close for comfort kit. That was the last thing you could do to their minds with that seal isn't it?" the fox was talking to a 9 year old version of Naruto in the blonde's mindscape.
"Yeah. If I try again it will either break completely or fry their minds so that was the last arrow in the quiver." responded the young time-traveler.
He was brought back to reality when his dad said. "Sorry about that tyke. Let me get a new one and we can continue practicing."
He responded "Okay!" and showed his foxy smile.
"Recollection jutsu: Kai"
Another two years and a half years passed following a similar routine. The boy was now three years old. He started pranking his parents with light pranks like using Kage Bunshin to appear as if he ran out the door without permission and his mother to follow him a little ways before he went into some bushes and dispelled the clone and she ran back to the house and he was sitting reading in the library causing her to think she was going crazy. Though over the last 2 months he had stopped doing pranks inside the house since Kushina caught him taking the toilet paper for another one. She didn't hit him or anything but had a really serious talk about this and I mean SERIOUS.
Naruto saw why they called his mother 'Red Hot-Blooded Habanero' as she told him that he acted a lot like her when she was a kid, but his grandmother had made sure that Kushina would grow into a proper lady and sent chills down the blond boy's spine when he heard the dreadful methods used to 'calm' his mother down and that she became really frustrated from these 'lessons' that when a group of kids her age were teasing her about the color of her hair she beat them half to death earning her nickname.
Naruto swore never to be on the receiving end of one of his grandmother's 'lessons in proper conduct', though that didn't stop him from a couple of harmless pranks on some of the neighbors who had taken a liking to the boy and his way of livening up the place.
Then one day Minato came home and as they ate Kushina asked him how was his day.
"Wonderful honey! I got some great news. It appears that lord Raikage (Lightning Shadow) wants to open negotiations with us for an alliance. He wants to send his head shinobi to secure this treaty!"
Naruto was surprised that he instantly choked on a piece of food that went the wrong way hearing this news. He began coughing like crazy to get some air. His mother landed a powerful strike to his back that loosened the stubborn piece out of his windpipe.
"Naruto are you okay?" they both asked.
"Yeah!" he answered and began downing a glass of juice. "Sorry Tou-san, you were saying?"
His father looked a bit concerned but he let it go and returned to finish his words. "As I was saying, the head Kumo ninja is coming the day after tomorrow to begin negotiations. And…". That was all Naruto needed to know. That bastard was coming in two days to kidnap Hinata-chan and he would be damned if he would let it happen like last time.
The next day he spent mostly in his mindscape evaluating the situation.
"Okay I have placed a Hiraishin marker near the Hyuuga compound with a delay activation timer for tomorrow evening. I have been working with both you and dad on my taijutsu and I can say it even improved a little. Of course I had to fake it with dad but he still showed me some good moves. My chakra control is still heavy and rough but it's around high Chuunin. I've been practicing my Ninjutsu and my Senjutsu in a forest outside the village with my shadow clones and they are now Kage Level. I have to say I have never been more thankful that I know Fuin jutsu that I used to create a buffer to stop any sensor ninja from picking up on my chakra spikes. Thanks to you my chakra is huge and once again thanks for giving me some of yours." our blond hero was reviewing the situation with the resident demon.
"What did I tell you about mentioning …oh never mind, so are you ready for tomorrow? Kurama asked with a serious face.
With a slight frown and intense white light in his eyes Naruto looked right into the fox's eyes. "That creep is going down!" .
"He-he-he-he, see you tomorrow partner!" and the Bijuu retreated to the shadows of his cage.
The next day things were in quite a commotion as a delegation from Kumogakure, led by the Head Ninja of the village paraded down the road towards the Hokage's office. High above the crowd on a roof , hidden in the shadow of a chimney, a small spiky figure watched them with interest. He then pulled a thin, almost invisible wire and from the other roof two fireworks shot towards the sky and popped.
This caught the Kumo ninja's eyes for a few moments but it was enough time for the Head Ninja to trip and loose his balance.
When he looked at what almost made him fall, there was a small blond boy with whisker marks on his face. He was on his back and was rubbing his forehead with his left hand while his right hand was standing on a blue ball with a small yellow spirals pattern.
'Damn Konoha brat, almost made a fool out of me!' "You okay kid?" he asked hiding his true thoughts.
"Sorry mister! I was chasing my ball and forgot to look where I was going!" the little toddler said while holding his ball in his hands. He was dressed in orange shorts with a white t-shirt with two red and black spirals on the arms. "Wait a minute! Are you guys from Kumo?" the little tyke asked.
"Yes, we are the delegation from Kumogakure and I am the Head Ninja!" the man smirked as he presented himself like the crown jewels.
"Wow, that's awesome! My dad always tells me that Kumo ninja are very smart and fast! Can I shake your hand mister?" the kid looked star struck.
'Heh, that's right kid! Your pathetic Konoha ninja can't compare to ours… except for that damned Hokage of yours!
A\N: From this point on I will write the names original techniques I created in English or a mix of languages.
"Sure kid, put 'er there!" said the man stretching out his hand.
The kid and ninja shook hands with one thing going through the toddler's mind 'Fuin: Hiraishin Hidden Beacon'.
They parted after the kid told him that he will never wash that hand again. Naruto (as you would have guessed by now) went inside an alley and unsealed some shinobi clothes that consisted of pure black ANBU pants and shirt with a dark blue Chuunin style flank jacket with a deep red and black spiral on his back, a classic black ninja mask and hood throwing them into the air. With a couple of Flash-Steps he changed his clothes in record time and took to the roofs and waited at the Hyuuga compound. He got as close as he could but still outside the range of any curious Byakugan. He laid back atop a tree branch and started waiting. He wasn't afraid that his mother will discover he was gone since he left a Kage Bunshin in his place. All that remained now was to wait until dark so he set up a surveillance area seal and waited.
Night time came and the seal was activated. Naruto woke up from his nap and teleported to a nearby Hiraishin seal hidden in some bushes. He then activated his Shinsougan Jutsu and saw a man coming around the corner with a sack about the size of Naruto. Being able to see through objects helped him make sure that it was indeed Hinata as well as confirm the identity of the kidnaper. He took a few snapshots with a high performance night vision camera that he 'borrowed' from a certain ANBU operative's locker after which he jumped out of the bushes in front of that ninja.
"Drop that girl Head Ninja-san or else!" Naruto spoke in a quiet but threatening tone. He could not afford to release killer intent since his is noticeable for a mile at its lowest.
"Quiet kid and get the hell out of my way!" he said afraid he had been discovered by some older shinobi.
"Not until you let go of the Hyuuga heiress, you will not be warned again moron-san! smirked the blond kid.
"Why you little dirty diaper! I think you need a spanking! so he dropped Hinata and took out his weapon which looked like a rapier style dagger with a simple cross guard and handle until the man flicked it and it grew three times the length and shape like an overgrown sewing needle. He flipped over Naruto and then charged it with lightning chakra and flicked it again in the boy's direction.
"Take this brat. Raiton: Creeping Surge!" yelled the man as an arc of electricity flew from the ninja's weapon straight at the boy. Naruto had his Shinsougan active and saw the attack slowly moving towards him. He wanted to Flash Step away but he saw Hinata some space behind him. He knew that if he went to save her he will lose the Kumo ninja and the evidence that he was at the Hyuuga compound even with the pictures, but if he went to capture him then we have deep fried Hinata. A counter jutsu was out of the question as this would alert all shinobi on in a half-mile radius. This just left him with one solution.
He moved his right hand over his left wristband and unsealed a three-pronged Hiraishin kunai. As the attack neared him, he slashed the air with the kunai creating an unstable pocket to subspace that absorbed the attack. Now it was time to end this.
Meanwhile…
In the Hokage tower, Minato was fighting a battle of his own with the arch nemesis of every Kage, paperwork. For all the genius that he was he could not find a solution to this problem. And now because he tried to skip it so many times he had to stay late at the office to get the work done. He was praying for something to happen to save him from this cruel fate when he felt a unfamiliar chakra surge and then drop followed by a Hiraishin kunai being activated. But that kunai should have been in the house and not the other side of town, not to mention that it felt like Naruto's chakra activated it. He tried activating Naruto's Hiraishin seal that he integrated it with Kurama's seal but to no avail. He was really worried and so he did the best he could he jumped to the Hiraishin point that was closest to the earlier disturbance only to see a ninja he did not recognize fighting a small black clothed shinobi with a red and black spiral on his back. He immediately recognized the suit as he was the one who bought it and customized it for his son.
Back to business…
Naruto absorbed the last of the deadly jutsu. He then bellowed in a menacing voice "You bastard! Were you trying to kill Hinata as well? Time to end this! HIRAISHIN NO JUTSU!" not loud enough to wake the neighborhood but loud enough so that his father heard him.
"WHAT?" the Kumo nin and the Hokage said in unison when the kid disappeared from his position in a flash of orange only to appear behind the ninja and delivered a strike to one of his Tenketsu (Chakra points), paralyzing the man instantly. The Head Ninja fell limp to the ground. After making sure he was alive he Flash Stepped to Hinata removing the bag over her head and checking her general situation when…
"Is she alright son?"
Naruto flicked around and saw his father looking worried at the two kids. Naruto's mind was going a mile a minute as he was sweating buckets, but the only reply he found was:
"Yeah s-she's good! Umm… Would you believe me if I told you that was a fluke?" the boy smiled a weary smile and then looked back to his father who had an emotionless face with the moon behind him. "Guess not."
"Didn't work the last time kit" Kurama spoke.
'True, but what now?' the worried boy asked.
"How 'bout the truth. I have faith that he will listen and we could use the help!" whispered the fox.
'I suppose it's sink or swim!' were Naruto's words as he returned to reality.
Minato had broken off staring at his son and was now moving forward to him. As he got in front of him he knelt taking his son's shoulders in his hands. Naruto did not dare move or even look at his Tou-san's face.
"Naruto, as your father I am terribly disappointed in you that you hid this from me and put yourself in danger like this. Do you know that you could have been killed young man?" Naruto only bit his lip and gained an even more painful expression. He never wanted to disappoint his own father, ever. "But I'm also very, very proud of you!". The boy looked at his father slowly as if he didn't believe him. His mask shattered and showing the eyes of a war veteran that had seen death and suffering with the face of that of a small boy not wanting to lose his father's faith in him. Minato was taken aback by this combination but didn't waver. "Not only am I proud as your father but also as Hokage of Konoha. You have proven your love for this village by defending its residents at the risk of your own wellbeing. Also you have mastered one of my most difficult jutsu at such a young age, how could I not be proud of you?" he then went to hug his son further but Naruto pushed him back. He could not let this charade continue on like this.
"I … I… have a lot more… secrets dad." Naruto said once again removing his eyes from his father's gaze. After a short moment of silence that seemed like an eternity to the boy, he closed his eyes and began crying.
"I'M SORRY FOR KEEPING THEM FROM YOU BUT I COULDN'T … NO, I WOULDN'T TELL ANYONE… NOT EVEN YOU! I'M SORRY! I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING!". Naruto stood in his place and wept with his head hung low. But this time his dad pulled him fast into the embrace. They just stood there like that until Naruto stopped weeping.
Minato took one more look at his son and wiped his drying tears. "It's okay, I understand!" said the man receiving a slow nod from his son.
He then picked him up and held him in one hand, gently rubbing his son's cheeks with the other.
"By the way, how did you give your mother the slip since she hasn't contacted me yet?" Minato smiled at his son.
"Well because of Kurama and my Uzumaki linage I have about 10 times your amount of usable chakra Tou-san.." answered the young Namikaze.
"Who is Kurama?" asked the curious head of the family.
"Take a guess. Here are the clues. He is big, furry, red, has nine tails, is twenty stories tall and is very, very cranky when he wakes up or gets bored." answered the boy matter-of-factly.
"KYUUBI?" the father's eyes froze in place blinking twice as fast.
"Actually, his name is Kurama. Kyuubi no Kitsune is a title like Hokage…" Naruto corrected his father "… and is a pretty nice guy once you get to know him."
Minato was blinking four times as fast now .
"But I'll tell you more tomorrow at your office okay? I think Kaa-chan is getting freaked out by you getting home so lat…!" Naruto froze in his father's arms when he remembered his mother.
"What's wrong kiddo?" Minato got worried.
"N…Nothing. That is if you keep this a secret from mom until you hear the whole story otherwise I most certainly will not be able to sit down for at least two months." the boy shivered in his father's arms.
Minato pondered what his son said. Why should he hide this from Kushina and why won't Naruto be able to sit… it hit him then, or should he say it WILL hit his son in the rear if his mother finds out about tonight. "Bwhahahahaah! I don't know, ha-ha, maybe we should tell your mother! he broke out laughing.
"NOT FUNNY DAD! And here I was going to tell you the secret to dealing with paperwork, but I guess I will just forget it since I am worried about my behind!" Naruto was trying to blackmail his father… and it worked.
"You have a deal kiddo, now what is the secret and it better be for real or all bets are off!" Minato looked with one raised eyebrow at his son.
"It's pretty easy if you think about it. It's the same method, or should I say jutsu, that I gave mom the slip with. Tell me… which jutsu creates an identical copy of a person and then transfers the memories of the copy after it was dispelled?" Naruto had an evil grin on his face.
The reaction was just as expected. "KAGE BUNSHIN!" Minato answered giving himself a facepalm.
"Wait a minute! What do you mean you gave Kushina a slip with that? Can you use it?" Minato asked, and as an answer he got another Naruto in his other arm, and in two seconds he was surrounded by a thousand Narutos.
After picking up his jaw from the ground he looked at the original.
"He-he, guess I overdid it, huh? the said blond was scratching the back of his head. After that he dispelled them.
It had been a half an hour since Naruto was caught red handed by Minato and now the little bag with the girl inside started to get restless. Naruto was the first to notice this and Flash-Stepped to her. By this time Hiashi Hyuuga, Hinata's father came out searching for his daughter. He then saw Minato near his daughter.
"Hokage-sama , may I ask what is going on here?" the Head Hyuuga asked.
"The Kumo-nin there tried to kidnap your daughter. My son was able to intercept him and incapacitate him. He will be taken to be interrogated by ANBU later. Your daughter is safe, if only slightly drugged." was the Hokage's answer.
"I see!" Hiashi answered then went to Hinata's side. "I thank you as the Head of the Hyuuga clan and as this girl's father Naruto-kun! I invite you and your family tomorrow evening for dinner!"
Naruto saw the relief and kindness of a father when looking at Hinata, but then flashed into a hard look. Naruto knew what was going to happen so he acted.
"Thank you Hiashi-san! While I do not speak for my father I would be honored to accept your kind invitation!" said Naruto in the most polite form of speech that he knew and then looked to his father.
"Me and Kushina would be honored as well!" responded Minato.
"Wonderful. I will be expecting you! Have a good night!" said Hiashi carrying Hinata back into the mansion.
"The same to you Hiashi-san!" they both said in unison.
"Ready to go home dad? Do you want to 'drive' or should I?" Naruto said flashing his unique foxy grin.
"Go ahead kiddo!"
And a second later they both flashed in an orange light.
Next morning the family sat for breakfast. Naruto was not worried about his father breaking the deal since he never went back on his word. No. He was worried about how was his dad going to tell his wife that they were invited to the Hyuuga residence.
"Honey, we have been invited to the Hyuuga household for dinner. Naruto is invited as well." he said it like it was second nature.
Naruto thought that his dad may be thinking of breaking the deal. I mean how could you brush off something so important like being invited to the Hyuugas. He thought that his mom was going to freak out and start asking questions.
"Okay dear, so no sushi dinner tonight." Kushina calmly replied.
What? Now Naruto was the one blowing a fuse. How could she be so relaxed, like they were someone of great importance to the village like Hokage or someth… .Naruto's head just fell face first on the table.
"What's wrong baby?" his mother asked worried about his action.
"I sometimes forget that my dad is the Hokage." he said with his head hung low feeling terribly stupid right now.
Both his parents blinked two times and then burst into laughter.
"Sweetheart, I also want to take Naruto to work today with me to see if he still wants my job like he ALWAYS says." Minato flashed an evil grin.
"Sure darling but be here by two o'clock so we can get ready!" his wife approved with a small peck on the cheek.
"Let's go buster!" the Hokage gestured to his son to grab his hand which he did and they flashed out of the kitchen.
An instant later they appeared outside the Hokage's office scaring the poor secretary. After a few complaints to move the anchor seal for the Hiraishin elsewhere and a greeting exchange the two entered the office and took a seat on the couch.
"Here we are kiddo, just like you wanted now… do you want to tell me something?" the father asked the son.
"First I want to tell you this: get rid of the guard dogs in the right shadow of the door and the one outside the window." Naruto said looking at each of them.
The Hokage waved at the two and they scattered.
"Okay now that those two are gone…" the boy slapped his hands together. Instantly the walls, ceiling and floorboard flashed with white intricate patterns that receded afterwards "Fuin: Keeper of Secrets."
Minato thought that his heir could not surprise him further but Naruto just made a 26 hand-seal Expert level Fuin without even using one hand-seal.
"I might as well begin with the first secret out of many." Naruto explained beginning to look away from his father with shame in his eyes and voice. "This is not the first time you caught me doing stuff normally impossible for one of my age." Minato's eyes grew big and a little worried. "I… altered your memories of those events with a seal. Don't try to search for it in your mind, I will cancel it myself but I need you to relax to prevent damage to your mind".
The Hokage was skeptical at first but he trusted his son with his life so he relaxed as much as he could. Noticing this Naruto formed a Ram seal and said "KAI!".
Minato's memories instantly returned of his newborn son's incredible performance and of his target practice experience. He was shocked. Not because Naruto hid this from him but because he never noticed his son's undeniable acts: Reading, writing, talking and walking at such a tender age. He was about to open his mouth his son raised a hand.
"Don't ask anything for now just listen and it will all be explained"
Naruto then began to tell him about his "real" age, his battle with Madara, the intersection of the two powerful Jikuukan jutsu, how he was blasted through time and space. How he ended up in his toddler body and from there on he told him that he already knew all there is to know.
"So let me get this straight. You are my son from the future…" Naruto nodded "… in the body of my son from the past…" again he nodded "… and in the future there is a war for freedom or dominance..." *nod "…of every living being on in the world." *nod "You were freedom most powerful shinobi…" he blushed and nodded "…but was caught by the intersection of two powerful space-time jutsu, a supercharged Rasengan and your own Jikuukan jutsu…" *nod "… and you got trapped in subspace until your subconscious latched onto your beginnings and your mother's Hiraishin imprinted seal…"*nod "…and from here all hell broke loose with that creep in the mask."
"Yup that's about it!" Naruto confirmed with the best natural poker-face that anyone could find.
"Okay… besides the fact that you were 17 when you came here I'm ashamed to say that I don't really know anything about my own son except that, by what he told me today and last night, he could probably hand me my own ass if we were to fight for real. Would you please share some details with your poor father, hmm?" with these words the Hokage flashed the kindest, most loving smile in his life. This relaxed the teen-boy sitting next to him and he opened his mouth.
A\N: Here is described Naruto's battle power (Skip if you do not want to read ++++++)
"Well… let's start with some battle capabilities. I have mastered the Hiraishin and combined it with the Kawarimi no Jutsu to create my own jutsu called Senkou Denpa. It is a limited range jutsu that I can use without seal markers to teleport to any location within the radius of my senses. The Hiraishin opens a tunnel through subspace and throws the user to the target. Kawarimi uses chakra to reel two objects in in and switch their places. By combining this knowledge I was able to open a tunnel to subspace and using chakra I reel in the portion of the space itself replacing it with my own. That is Flash Step."
"I'm also a Seal Lord with over 500 years of sealing knowledge and experience. Because of the war, the Shinobi Alliance formed and so we were allowed to browse the jutsu archives of every elemental nation. I used Kurama's chakra after we became friends and made 3000 clones each day for four months' time and have them spend time in each of the elemental nations sealing sector. Normally that would fry the brains of just about anybody but with Kurama's healing factor my mind was able to adapt at an early age to this drawback so I feel nothing at all when the clones are dispelled in masses. I form seals within my mind with my Yin chakra and project them in real life with my Yang chakra. Thanks to my knowledge I can do this just thinking of the effect I want and the seal forms subconsciously.
"For my Ninjutsu is mostly based on Kage Bunshin and Rasengan with a huge arsenal of variations about them from Shuriken Kage Bunshin to multi-elemental Rasengan. Other than that are the academy Ninjutsu ."
"My genjutsu is zero if I don't use Ranpu element. You see Ranpu was an adaptation of my spiritual energy or Yin energy to balance the output of the physical energy or Yang of the fox. It gives me the ability to convert chakra into radiation, for power shots like Solar Rasengan, directly as well as some other nifty little tricks. It has high purification capabilities but almost zero healing-factor and if I channel it into my eyes I can detect all forms of radiation including chakra and have better sight than the Byakugan but it's pretty costly but I used to have more chakra than all of the Kages combined. When I pump it into my brain it eases the stress on my synapses and purifies my mind so I get expanded perception of about one to five hundred. Also I can use it in its electromagnetic radiation form to cast semi-real genjutsu and hypnotism.
As for taijutsu, I have mastered Goken (hard fist), Jyuuken (gentile fist) and Tunade's personal style. Also I create combos with my clones and attack with them from all sides.
I also do a little Kenjutsu and I have evened out with three Mist Swordsmen at the same time but I lost my sword coming here.
Well that's about it if you don't count the fact that I have a twenty story fox sealed inside of me and we are like brothers. Besides the fact that he gives me a TON of chakra I can also switch places with him at any time and bring him out. So what do you think Tou-san?
A\N: (End skip here +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++)
Minato was about to faint. Forget having his ass handed to him tied with a silver string bowtie if they fight, he would be lucky to have even an atom of him remaining. A Seal Master such as himself could not have a snowball's chance in hell against a normal Seal Lord, much less a Jinchuuriki Seal Lord. That's like comparing a simple forest fox to the Kyuubi, as for the one trick that could save him, the Hiraishin, Naruto mastered it as well as upgraded it into his own seal-less jutsu.
"Tou-saaan, Tou-saaan, you there?" Naruto was screaming worried about his father .
The Hokage returned to reality just in time. "Yeah, I'm here kiddo! It's just … WOW. If you compare just battle potential between us now it's like a pebble to me and a mountain to you."
Naruto blushed at the comment but immediately said: "No dad, you are still the most amazing guy I know. You would give your life for your people and even use your son to seal a demon in him…" with these words Naruto's sunny mask came off and his eyes held nothing but pain now "… to help your home."
Minato didn't miss the change in his son. "What's wrong buddy?"
"It's just that… what I told you really happened the first time. That masked guy, Tobi, managed to get Kurama out of mom, put him under a powerful genjutsu with his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and killed you both and a lot of civilians and shinobi when you sealed him inside me.
I then spent my first twelve years of my childhood hunted down and persecuted because the people either wanted revenge or didn't give a damn. Besides Sandaime Jii-chan and Iruka-sensei, my academy teacher, nobody cared if I lived or died, with some doing whatever they could to make sure of the later.
Hehe… I remembered how, two weeks before my fourth birthday a boy was kicked out of the orphanage in the middle of a storm at night, and two weeks later, on the night of the festival of the Kyuubi's "defeat", cold and starving, living the weeks off moldy bread and river water was found by a drunken Chuunin, tied down to a post in training ground 77, splashed alcohol all over him and was … set on fire.
That was one of his worst years. The following eight were a lot more standard with the boy being beaten half to death every three weeks or so and getting stares of hatred from the villagers that made him feel even less than human trash. All this time he didn't even know why they did this."
All this time telling his life's tale Naruto had an absolute emotionless face, but his eyes burned of pain that could not be hid or held back.
Minato was staring at his son with eyes that defined shock. When he started hearing about his boy's painful past he clenched his fists so hard that his fingernails drew blood. They only got tighter as the story progressed and when the preteen said that he was 'set on fire' his own face lost ten shades of color. He didn't dare say anything. How could he? If things with Madara didn't happen like they did he would have certainly caused his son this horrible wound to his heart. When Naruto finished his story, the blond Hokage was weeping tears of blood. He would if he could, but right now only one thing left to be spoken.
"I'm sorry son! I'm so sorry!" he wept embracing his heir close to his chest.
"It wasn't your fault dad! I wasn't accusing you of something. You did the best that you could and nobody will judge you for that. I came to terms with my dark side a long time ago and learned the true way to break the curse of hatred. That was love, sacrifice and most of all forgiveness and acceptance, for those are the embers that ignite the Will of Fire!"
The father looked deeply into his son's eyes. He could see the pain of hatred and war. But he could not find a drop of deceit anywhere. In his eyes burned the Will of Fire that lit the faces of the Hokages before.
But most of all he saw forgiveness in his eyes, and painful sacrifice. To this boy the foe of today was the friend of tomorrow and he would be deathly loyal to his friends. He found his resolve in the man-child that stood in front of him.
"As long as the Will of Fire is alit it will burn through the Curse of Hatred! That is my oath and honor as Hokage!" said Minato with full confidence and strength.
Naruto watched as his father's determination soared, and he was damn proud to be related to him.
"That's my Tou-san! Umm… I have a favor to ask you. There are certain events in time that MUST not happen! I can't tell you about them right now but I will when the time comes! Last night was one of them. If I didn't stop the Kumo-nin he would have been killed by Hiashi-san and his brother Hizashi-san would have been sacrificed to prevent war."
Minato nodded "It was troubling indeed. Ibiki managed to get a confession from him but I'm afraid it might not be enough evidence against him and they will start asking for blood."
"I thought so, so I took his picture with a night vision and thermal imaging camera. His heat print (like fingerprints- the distribution of heat in a body is virtually unique to every person) was captured on camera holding Hinata, also visible on thermal imaging. It was taken with the Hyuuga compound in the background." smirked Naruto
"That should suffice. The captive nin will probably be executed to cover-up the event but war will be avoided." smiled Minato.
"About that, can you ask that he remains our captive as punishment for the kidnaping attempt if they deny their involvement? I don't want to cause a man, even the enemy's, death if it can be avoided." asked the young Namikaze-Uzumaki.
"Good idea! If they deny his involvement he will be considered a missing nin and his extradition will be left to our accord. He must have valuable intel that we could use. And of course if they don't then their political situation will crumble. I like the way you think kiddo."
"He-he, here are the pictures!" Naruto brings an SD card.
"By the way where did you get the camera from?" Minato looked at his son curiously.
"I "borrowed" it from Kakashi-nii's ANBU locker." the young blond stated sheepishly.
Minato started laughing hard. He would love seeing Kakashi's face when he tells him that a 3 year old snuck into the ANBU HQ and stole HIS camera. He then got up and buzzed his secretary.
*buzz "Sonya, send for agent Inu (Dog) please!"
*buzz "Right away sir!"
In less than five minutes there was a knock on the door. Naruto lifted the seal on the door to allow Kakashi to enter.
"You called Hokage-sama?" agent Inu asked.
"Inu, please for the current stay in my office I am demoting you to Jounin, but when you leave again you may choose to resume your ANBU duties." the Hokage said this to make sure Kakashi removes his mask.
"As you wish." with that Kakashi removed his mask.
On the couch Naruto waved. "Hey Kakashi-niiii!
Kakashi turned and faced the noise "Hey Naruto-kun!" he then faced the Hokage "Is this why you called me here sensei?"
"Yes and no. Naruto will you be so kind as to return the 'borrowed' merchandise."
Naruto got off the bed and went through his fox backpack. He then pulled out the former ANBU's camera and gave it to him. "Sorry Kakashi-nii but I needed it!"
"Whaa? How? Where? Why did you have it? Kakashi had a look on his face as if Jiraya decided to stop publishing his adult novels. Naruto saw this and the fact that he was holding the camera pointing to the masked Jounin's face and pushed the picture button. A quick Flash Step and the second memory card was in his hand and he gave it to his father.
Minato almost fell out of chair laughing. He then smiled menacingly and put the card in his pocket. Kakashi sweat dropped. The Hokage then became serious.
"Kakashi I trust you and I also trust that what I'm going to say now stays in this office until later orders. This is a low S-class secret!" Kakashi nodded. "You know that last night there was an attempted kidnapping at the Hyuuga compound?"
Kakashi nodded and Minato began telling the story.
*End of Part I*