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Then after depositing them there, he went back into the past. He had three places that he wanted to go that could not wait.

Naruto then traveled back in time until he got to the moment of Zetsus birth…

A young and innocent boy had just been born a few minutes after a low level plant demon had invaded the area while trying to find the whereabouts of their missing Bijuu lords on the orders of the demonic council. It had only been near the outskirts of the village looking around when it was seen by an old woman. The woman immediately ran to get help and the ninjas of the village attacked it. One of the ninjas managed to seal him into the newborn child who hadn't even been named yet with his mediocre knowledge of sealing. The seal itself was so weak that the demon immediately began merging with the child, bent on taking it over until it could find a way to unseal itself. The child body began to take on some of the features of the demon, he venus flytrap-like mouth growing out of his shoulders and protecting his head. Fortunately, the child subconsciously fought back and somehow managed to stop the merge when it was halfway complete. As a result the childs body divided while still remaining attached with the black side being the demon and the white side being the childs subconscious.

The villagers, horrified by what the child had become left it out in the forests on the outskirts of the village hoping that it would die. That however was not the case as Nature embraced the unfortunate child. The demon then realized that it had no other option but to help the child that it was sealed into. So, by using its abilities to manipulate plantlife and merge into anything that was around it, it was able to capture food to feed itself and used the plants around them to cover themselves from the harsh weather and predators. At first it was only able to drink the blood of whatever it caught but buy gaining the trust of the human it now shared a body with, they both agreed that it would be best to grow as old as it could as quickly as possible. The demon was able to forcefully grow their body to that of a eight year old child in order to survive. After that the next few years went by in a blur and the child began moving around a bit more, exploring the forests and the villages near them without being seen. It was a stroke of luck that he ran into the shodaime hokage one evening while exploring the forests outside of Konoha and they immediately became friends due to them both having the ability to manipulate plants.

The child, now known as Zetsu was kept a secret from the others however, due to its appearance. After a while, it soon became apparent that the only reason the shodaime was being so friendly and understanding was because it wanted to learn all of Zetsus abilities in order to become stronger.

Zetsu began to feel weary of him and it was by accident that Zetsu found out that it was the shodaime that had betrayed the bijous and given them to the other nations as gifts, causing them to be sealed. The demon side of him immediately went into a rage as they realized that this man was indirectly responsible for all that had happened to them. He began to hate the man but hid it well and when Madara came with his offer he took it willingly.

Madara had spun him a wonderful tail about reuniting all of the bijus and freeing them in the demon world after allowing them to take their vengeance and Zetsu believed him. It wasn't until a few years later, when it was too late to back out now, that he found out that all of the promises that Madara had made was a lie. By then he was trapped and as he saw the way Madara manipulated the Kyuubi to attack Konoha, he knew that he had no way out. After all , if the man could so easily do that to the strongest of them all , he would just be canon fodder.

So now he played the faithful pet, hoping for a chance to free his masters, even at the cost of his own life. It was his deepest regret as nothing else mattered to him anymore. He was a sealed demon who had lost all hope in the world, but was still desperately trying to hand on to the last bit of his faith.

Naruto watched the creatures plight and silently decided that when he fought him , he would not kill him. Instead, he would perhaps offer him a way out of it all. After all , his heart had been in the right place even though he had been played for a fool.

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Sighing, naruto cleared his mind and moved on to the next timeline….

Going back to two days before the fight on the bridge with Zabuza and Haku, he went to the hideout and froze time before revealing himself. Haku, upon seeing him , immediately launched a few senbons at him that were deflected by his read chakra that acted as a protected barrier around him these days, much like Gaaras sand.

That immediately shocked the two nuke-nins and Naruto held up his hand in a sign of surrender.

"stand down Haku-kun , Zabuza- san I've come in peace." he said quickly. "I am from the future where you two are dead.you died two days from now. You Haku-kun, met me as a child earlier this ,morning in the forest while you were picking herbs. I was the little boy in orange that was lying there exhausted after training. You told me that people become truly strong when they have something to protect. If you hadnt died we would have been best friends because we were so much alike. You Zabuza, your last regret was that you never told Haku that he was more than just a tool to you and you wished that you could have gone to the same place that he did after death, even though you knew he wouldn't. you love snow haku and wished for it as you died. Haku you died from a chidori threw the chest after I defeated your crystal ice technique by taking the hit for Zabuza. Zabuza you went out like a warrior and with only a kunai in your mouth since you could no longer use your hands, you killed Gatoh who had double crossed you and his samurai buddies."naruto said sadly. "I am the child you saw in orange that day and my name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze no kitsune, the Kyuubi jinchiruuki, king of hell and the Rokudaime of konoha. I am here to give you a second chance as you have always been one of my biggest regrets."

The two of them looked at him in shock with a little disbelief. A part of them wanted to right him off as crazy but the things he said were too realistic to be a lie.

"can you prove any of this?" Zabuza asked after a long pause.

Naruto nodded. "yes . Just look into my eyes and you will see what I have seen."

The two of them looked and for the next few minutes they saw through Narutos eyes about what happened to them. When they were done the two of them just looked at him in shock.

"so do you believe me now?" naruto asked tearfully. "we both know that this is not a genjutsu . As you saw, I buried you myself and placed your unfinished sword on your grave Zabuza. Please I'm begging you, do not let me have to watch you die again. This is your only chance to live, something that doesn't normally come along in anyones life.I've already saved your friend Kisame who possesses the sword Samehada, want to save you too. So will you do this? Will you come to the future with me?" he asked.

There was so much pain and sorrow pouring off him that they decided to agree.

Naruto smiled atthem gratefully. "thank you two so much. I will take you to my village where you will finally be able to live without nuke-nins after you anymore. As for the future, I'm about to fight a war against a group called the akatsuki but you have nothing to worry about since you wont be fighting and I'm actually an immortal demon now. I will also give you the option to expand your lifetime at a later date but first you must follow my instructions so that we don't disrupt this timeline with out actions."

They agreed and naruto made the switch with the bloodclones and allowed them to see it all again . At the end of the battle when Zabuza lay dying, he noticed that it hadn't began snowing yet and laughed when he realized why. He had been the one to make it snow that day as he observed their deaths. Quickly causing it to know, they watched for a bit longer before returning to the future. Zabuza was a bit upset to lose his sword but Naruto convinced him since not leaving it would have disrupted the timeline. He left it on the condition that he would be given a better one. It was mostly due to Hakus persistence however, that he finally gave in. it seemed as if this time around, they would finally be able to give in to their feelings for each other.

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As soon as they got to the future, Naruto took them to the rooms on the other side of the estate that he was keeping them for now. Kisame was overjoyed to see his old friend once again, especially since he had once been dead.

They all gathered around and Naruto sat before all of them and for the next few minutes he filled them in on everything that had happened so far, using a special projection jutsu from the demonic realm that could showcase memories or thoughts.

When he was done they were all silent and deep in thought .

"so what did you have in mind for us?" Haku asked finally.

Naruto sighed. "for Jiraiya-sensei and the former Akatsuki members, I want to know everything you do about the members and their plans and weaknesses. Other than that , I want you all to lay low here for a while until its safe enough for you to reveal yourselves. Stay on this side of this estate for now since the other side is currently occupied by people who arent aware of your presence yet. Also I am currently having a palace built here in the human world since I will be moving out of this estate soon. You will all have your own apartments in a wing of my new home of course. Anyway, I'm sure that you guys are a bit annoyed to stay here but which one is worse? Being here or being dead again? A lot will be going on in the next few months and we will all have to play it safe. I'm trying to work as fast as I can but I can tell you right now that I'm making great progress. I will be having kitsune demons coming here to take care of you . If you needd anything please inform them . Other than that, think of this as an extended vacation free of hunter-nins and enemies. Also , no one who is my enemy can come on this estate so you're all safe. Now I have to go, I need to make one more trip into the past for the day." he said looking at Jiraiya. "and its to see how that heartless human bitch I have for a mother is doing. There was no need to tell that whore about me Jiraiya, I would have been content just thinking the bitch had died in childbirth instead of abandoning me." he said coldly.

Jiraiya sighed. " I know and I'm sorry kid." he said sadly.

Naruto just shrugged and got up. "well it makes no difference now." he said as he began to leave the room. "alive or not , she is dead to me."

They all watched him go sadly, feeling sorry for him that his mother had abandoned him.\

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With Naruto…

Clearing his mind, naruto found his mothers timeline and went back to the day of his birth. He saw her give birth to him and watched as he was brought back after the sealing. He saw her look at his whisker marks which had appeared immediately after the sealing and decided to listen in to the conversation….

"that thing is not my son Sarutobi-sama." she screeched. "when I gave birth to him , he didn't have those marks on his face. Its obvious that the demon has taken control of him completely. It should be left to die for killing my son and husband."

"kushina-chan you're being unreasonable. Naruto is your son and you know it. Minato was no fool so trust in him." sarutobi said trying to reason with her.

"no." she yelled. "that thing is not my son and I'll never claim it! Tomorrow I'll be leaving konoha forever. I don't want to be anywhere near that abomination!"

They continued to argue until Sarutobi finally gave up after seeing that it truly was no use. She even went as far as to tell the old man to make sure not to ever tell him that she had ever given birth to him, effectively cutting all ties.

It broke Narutos heart but he continued to watch. He saw her go to whirlpool country where she was originally from and met up with some of her clans men who she had thought had all died. He watched her start a new family afterwards. Her mind occasionally running on him and convincing herself that she made the right choice. He saw Jiraiya meet up with her by accident thirteen years later and watched him telling her and the rest of her clan all about his life. It was a conversation that would change her life…

A few days after the retrieval mission for Sasuke…

Jiraiya sat with the rest of her clan at a dinner in his honor and was telling them stories about Konoha…

"yes, konoha has changed but there is one little boy who has the will of fire unlike any I've ever seen before." Jiraiya said happily as he took a sip of his sake. "this boy is an orphan who was beaten and treated as the village's scapegoat his whole life but yet he still has a pure heart. He not only beat the genius of the Hyuuga clan of this generation, but he changed Zabuza the demon of the hidden mist before he died and saved the land of waves from Gatoh and he is still just a mere genin. He is also recognized as a hero there and has a bridge named after him. He stopped one of his academy teachers from stealing the forbidden scroll of Konoha and beat him using the Kage bunshin that he learned in only a few hours from the very same scroll. And on the day of the chuunin exam when sound and sand invaded Konoha, he fought Gaara no sabaku the vessel of Shukaku the ichibi. He even summoned gamabunta and used him to help him fight. He changed gaara from a murdering psychopath into a much better person. He even helped Tsunade and me when we fought Orochimaru while we were both incapacitated until we could handle ourselves again. He is the reason that Tsunade agreed to become the godaime. During the chuunin exams in the forest of death, they were attacked by Orochimaru and he managed to fight him on even ground for a while. He also learned the rasengan in less than a month. When I return to Konoha, I'm planning to take him on as an apprentice since he has more potential than even minato ever had." he bragged.

"who is this child that you're talking about Jiraiya-sama." asked ryuuki the clan head, completely impressed. "I would love to meet him."

Jiraiya then got serious and looked the clan head directly in the eye when he spoke. "his name is naruto Uzumaki namikaze. The son of the yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze and your sister Kushina Uzumaki. He is also the kyuubi jinchiruuki and he thinks he's an orphan since that no good niece of yours abandoned her own newborn child. I have checked his seal myself and he is definitely not the demon that she and most people in konoha assumes he is. He's just a child who has a great burden that he willingly bears in order to save all of our lives." he said coldly shocking them all.

"what nonsense are you talking about old man?" asked Shurei, kushinas eighth year old daughter. "my mom doesn't have another child and she would never do such a thing!"

Jiraiya shook his head as he pulled out a picture of naruto with team seven and showed it to them. "you're wrong kid she did. You see whenever a demon is sealed into a newborn child, the child will often take on a characteristics of the demon they carry , like a different eye or hair color or even marking on their skin. Well those whisker marks that you see on his face were what he got as a result of the sealing. Sometimes they even get a special technique like elemental manipulation, it depends on the demon. The child and the demon are two different beings that just happen to share the same body with the child in full control.when your mothers first husband, narutos father Minato who was the yondaime Hokage, did this at the cost of his own life, kushina found out and upon seeing the whisker marks disowned naruto and even went as far as to demand that he be left out into the cold to die. She has obviously moved on and remarried since you've been born. You all live in luxury with food to eat and a home and a true family. Meanwhile naruto has had nothing and no one. At the age of three the orphanage kicked him out without a care in the world and since the day he was born , there has been more than a thousand assassination attempts on him. As a young child he was beaten and raped regularly and if it weren't for the bijuu in him , he would have died. Everyone hated him his whole life when he has never done anything wrong and continues to protect them by holding the demon inside him and away from them. Yet naruto still tries to protect everyone even though they all enjoy making his life a living hell. I cant even tell him about what your mother did to him because after everything that has happened, knowing that his mother abandoned him could finally break him. The fact is Shurei, your mother abandoned her newborn son and by doing so , damned him to the hellish nightmare he now lives in." he said coldly.

Ryuuki who knew of a jinchiruukis life since he had once been friends with one was pissed and disgusted with his niece. He couldn't believe that she could have done such a horrible thing and yet it all made sense now. Why he would sometimes see her crying when she thought that she was alone.

"sister is this true?" he asked angrily, needing to here it from her.

Over the years Kushina had thought about her actions that day and had began to see the error in her ways since she had started her own family but she had been too ashamed and afraid of rejection to ever go back and apologize to him.

"y-yes uncle I did" she sobbed out. "because he wasn't born with those whisker marks on his face I thought that he was the demon and disowned him. I left the next day and came here and found you and the rest is history." she said shocking even her husband Ryuurin.

"kushina how could you have done such a thing to your own child and not even try to correct it when you realized what you had done? Even after all these years why havent you tried to fix the mistake you made?"ryuuki asked angrily. "what kind of woman would abandon her own child?"

"I have a brother?" said shurei a bit excitedly.

"kushina what you've done has dishonored this clan and your first husband." ryuuki said angrily. "you will be correcting your mistake when we move to Konoha to take care of him and I clear?"

A tearful kushina nodded, shamefaced.

Jiraiya sighed. "well I'll be taking him on a three year training trip as soon as I get back. You can move to konoha if you want but not before you do one thing. I want you all to promise me something." he said seriously.

Ryuuki nodded. "what is it Jiraiya-sama?" he asked.

"I want you all to go to the places that he has been and meet the people that he has helped to see the type of person that he truly is before you even think about approach him. He doesn't know he has family left and this will be hard for him so you'll have to be very careful. One wrong move and it could cause him to release the kyuubi that's sealed within him. There is also a group called the Takatsuki after him to capture him and remove the bijuu that is sealed within him and he cant handle any distractions right now, especially since his best friend just betrayed him for power. Wait a while first."jiraiya said seriously.

They all nodded and at Ryuukis request, they were all told about Narutos life and jinchiruukis in general.

Naruto moved on from that scene and watched the next few years of her life feeling a bit numb. He saw that Jiraiya occasionally gave them updates of his life and that he had told them about the merge and his pregnancy. And on and on it went until the uzumaki clan was now in wave country which would be there last stop before konoha. That was when naruto decided to return to the present and sat in the office thinking. From what he had heard, they would be here in a few months . Sighing heavily, he began to make plans for the future after making five thousand clones and sending them to go train. After seeing what his mother had done, it made it so much easier for him to forget about her and move on. As for as he was concerned , she was no mother of his, after all she made her choice.

Tbc.

This was unedited since my beta is sick so sorry for all of the errors.