Prey.
That was the only thing on his mind right now, prey. It was trying to escape again. Naruto smirked as Sasuke flashed through hand signs and sent a giant fireball towards him. Before the fire ball could connect Naruto redirected the jutsu and it appeared behind Sasuke causing him to evade his own attack. Sasuke grunted as he rolled back to his feet only to see Naruto there slashing away with his Tonfa's . Sasuke produced a katana in a flash and blocked the strike. The two locked eyes for a moment then a smirk broke over Naruto's face.
"You have no idea how powerful I've become," Sasuke seethed as he pushed Naruto away. Naruto watched Sasuke's eyes begin to spin as the pinwheel design shifted. His purple and black eyes looked truly demonic as he charged forward slashing out with his sword.
"Don't care," Naruto answered in a more primal voice. His foxy grin broke out over his face as his fangs became visible. "I intended to end you here and now."
"You will try and die," Sasuke said as he slashed through the Naruto in front of him. Naruto erupted in a flash of light causing Sasuke to jump back and shield his eyes. Naruto appeared behind him and stabbed both Tonfa's into his back. Sasuke turned to mud and Naruto was kicked to the side by a grinning Sasuke.
"Oh," Naruto said as he picked himself up and turned to Sasuke. "I don't plan on that today."
Sasuke just smirked as he charged the blond. Naruto swiftly jumped back and exploded in a flash of light. Just as quickly, Sasuke disappeared in a mud clone as Naruto's fist exploded through his back. Naruto huffed as he reached into his pocket. He pulled out a deck of seal cards and turned towards Sasuke who was flashing through hand seals. Fire erupted from Sasuke's mouth as it charged towards Naruto in a form of a dragon. Naruto smirked as he 'Bamfed' to safety and tossed his cards into the air. Paper filled the air as it slowly fell to the ground around the two fighters. Naruto's eyes were a blaze as his figure slowly disappeared in a whisp clone. Naruto 'Bamfed' and appeared behind Sasuke, seal card blazing in his hand, and tossed the card. The card exploded on impact launching Sasuke forward towards a wall. Naruto appeared in front of him with two seal cards he grabbed from the air both glowing with chakra. Sauske flashed through hand signs and launched three fire balls at the blond. Naruto tossed the cards towards two of the fire balls and dodged the last one. The blast shook the underground base causing several pieces of the ceiling structure to fall to the ground around them.
"NARUTO!" Shikamaru's voice filled the room as Naruto and Sasuke continued their fight. Nartuo was flashing in and out grabbing seal cards as they seemed to be suspended in the air by some unknown force and tossing the explosives at Sasuke who was skillfully dodging them. "Let's go! This place is coming down!"
"So what are you going to do Naruto?" Sasuke asked with a cocky smirk as a tag exploded behind him catching him by surprise. Sasuke recovered in midair and landed across from Naruto who was holding three cards in his one hand, each glowing ready to be deployed. Sasuske just smirked as a piece of the ceiling fell between them and the rest of the building started to fall. Sasuke just smirked as he slowly sank into the ground causing Naruto to growl in frustration. Naruto turned to his team that finished dispatching the last of the enemy ninja's and gave a nod.
"Let's get out of here!" Naruto yelled as they took off, Neji in front guiding them throughout the maze of tunnels towards the exit.
"So, Sasuke got the drop on you this time?" Neji asked as they stood outside the now crater of land. Naruto turned towards him and shrugged.
"He has improved and something was different with his Sharingan," Naruto said as he crossed his arms. "It was purple and black instead of red. It reminded me of Thane's ability to sense disturbances around him down to a molecular level, but not to his complete mastery of it."
"That didn't stop you from planting the tracking seal on him did it," Shikamaru said as he looked over at Naruto who was smirking. "You were pulling your punches the entire fight. You're hoping he leads us to a bigger fish."
"Let the smaller ones go," Naruto said as he bit his thumb. He slammed it into the ground and a large purple frog appeared. It was medium in size and had a several scars over its purple hide. It looked over at Naruto and gave a slight nod. "Hey Grim, I got another seal tracking that needs to be done. Scout the area and return to me once you map the place."
"Yes Naruto-sama," Grimm said gruffly, as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"So you distracted him to place a seal on him to track him back to Orochimaru?" Choji asked with a grin. Naruto nodded.
"Come on guys," Naruto said with a smirk. "Let's head back."
"What about Sasuke?" Neji asked as he narrowed his eyes towards the crater.
"We will get him soon enough," Naruto said. "Once we have the details of the base we can come up with a plan."
"Iruka-kun?" Anko whispered as she curled up next to him in bed. Iruka grumbled something incoherent and pulled her closer and continued to snooze. Anko smirked up at her man as she traced lines over his chest. She slowly got up from bed and covered herself in a small robe. She made her way out of the room stopping by Isuma's to check on him. After that she made her way into the kitchen and started to prepare herself some tea. It was early morning, still dark outside.
"I hope you don't plan on making this a usual occurrence," Anko said as she turned towards the figures that were sitting at her table. Sitting there was Tsunade and Jiraiya. Tsunade stifled a giggle as she watched Anko stare daggers into Jiraiya, who was leering towards the scantily clad women.
"No we just wanted to deliver this in person," Tsunade said as she held up two folders. "You're being removed from active duty, again!"
"You mean?" Anko asked as she set down two more glasses on the table for them. She was shaking slightly as she Tsunade handed her the folder. Her glazed eyes looked over the folder before she let a single tear fall from her check. "Thank you!"
"No problem at all," Tsunade said as she pulled out another folder. "Now we have to discuss something else. Naruto."
"What about him?" Anko's eyes snapped from the folder in her hands to Tsunade. She had a small fire in them that made Tsunade smile. "He better not have gotten hurt again! I swear I will kill the little bastard!"
"No nothing happened," Tsunade said as she smiled at her. "He will be learning of his heritage today. That means he will be inheriting his estate and what not."
"What does this have to do with me?" Anko asked as she leaned back in her chair a bit relived.
"Naruto grew up without anyone in his life," Jiraiya said as his eyes dropped. "I am partly at fault and can never forgive myself. While we were on our training trip I heard stories of all of his special people. How Guy and Kakashi would fight over training him. When Kurenai would coddle him after being beat by Asuma, making him jealous. Then there where the stories of you and Iruka. I had to shadow Iruka for a while after I returned to see what made a chunnin so special. He was the figure Naruto needed for a long time. With Iruka came you, someone who didn't take his shit. He came to you when he needed healing, which you would do regardless of what was going on. You are more than a sister figure to him."
"What are you guys asking?" Anko asked as she tilted her head.
"I know that your family is growing and that Naruto will always play an intricate part in it," Tsunade started. "Would you make it a permanent part?"
"You're asking to adopt him?" Anko whispered out. She had tears in her eyes as she nodded. "I don't know what to say."
"Say yes," Iruka's voice said from the other side of the room. Iruka was standing there with his pajama bottoms on and his arms crossed over his bare chest.
"We accept," Anko said with a smile as she looked back at Tsunade who had a bit of drool coming from her mouth. "HEY! Eyes here!"
"Ahem," Jiraiya coughed as he glared at Tsunade who blushed and shrugged.
"Sorry," Tsunade said as she looked over at them. "I will discuss this with Naruto tomorrow. If he accepts the Umino name will forever be one with Naruto's heritage."
"And who's is that?" Anko asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Namikaze," Tsunade answered as both Iruka and Anko fell over.
"Naru-kun hurry up!" Hinata said as she streaked ahead of him as they raced towards the Hokage's officee. "We are going to be late!"
"Hey it's not my fault this time!" Naruto said as he appeared next to Hinata who giggled. "You just had to make sure I wasn't injured."
"I was just concerned," Hinata said a dusted blush spreading over her exposed face. "You act like you didn't enjoy it."
"I enjoyed it immensely," Naruto smirked back. "But I was just commenting that it wasn't my fault we are running late."
"You're late!" Tsunade yelled as Naruto and Hinata entered the room. Naruto blushed and scratched the back of his head.
"You see there was this old lady that needed help walking across the street…" Naruto started. He dodged a kunai that was thrown at him by Anko who sat to the Hokage's left. She didn't even look up as she thumbed through the papers.
"Well what do you want to talk about?" Naruto asked as he crossed his arms.
"I asked you to come alone," Tsunade said as she looked at Hinata who bowed politely and made to leave.
"Anything you say to me will be told her as soon as I leave," Naruto said as he grabbed Hinata's hand. "She can stay."
"Fine," Tsunade said as she pulled out a large folder and placed it in front of her. "I have here something that was supposed to be given to you upon reaching the rank of Jonnin. I feel that you've been deprived of this knowledge for far too long already, and seeing as we are going to be heading into war, I believe that you need to know. Naruto this folder is proof of your heritage. You were born Naruto Uzumaki, son of Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze."
"I..What?" Naruto fell to his knees. "You mean…"
"Naruto-kun," Hinata whispered as she knelt next to him. She wrapped him in a hug and he let go the tears that were stinging his eyes. "
"Yes," Tsunade said as she stood up slowly. "You are the son of a Kage and the Princess of Uzushiogakure. You're more royalty than anyone in this dammed village, yet you were treated like you were for so long. I wanted you to know that you will be inheriting what was left behind."
"Thank you," Naruto said as he shakly stood up on his feet. "Baa-chan….did they love me?"
"More than life itself," Jiraiya said as he appeared in the window. "Kushina and Minato loved you. Never forget that."
"We have one more thing for you," Tsunade said as she handed Naruto the scroll that had Naruto's name on it.
"Naru-chan," Anko stood and crossed her arms over her chest. She stared down at him with a slight smirk.
"Yeah, Anko-nee?" Naruto asked as he placed the scroll into his jacket.
"I know that you just found out who your parents are," Anko started as she pulled out a scroll and unrolled it. "I have been given permission to make my family even bigger and I was wondering if….Ugh…. Careful now I'm expecting again!"
Naruto had launched himself into her arms tears spilling from his eyes. He looked up at his adopted mother and smiled. He hugged her tighter and pulled away rubbing his eyes.
"Ok now that the water works are done," Tsunade said as she tossed him a scroll. "Your new residence location and inheritance is in this scroll."
"You mentioned my mother was the princess," Naruto said slowly as he looked up at Tsunade who nodded.
"She was Princess of Uzushiogakure," Jiraiya said with a smirk. "The Uzumaki's where masters of seals. One of the many reasons you can create certain seals with just touching ink stained paper. The village was in Whirlpool, but was destroyed in the last Great War."
"Can I see it?" Naruto asked as he looked at Jiraiya. He pulled out a scroll and passed it to Naruto.
"That's the only map that exist in Konoha," Jiraiya said as Naruto unrolled it. "If you're going there to find answers then good luck, it's a ghost town."
"Then it couldn't hurt to look around," Naruto said as he pocketed it and turned towards Tsunade who was shaking her head. "Just give me two weeks and a small team."
"What of Orochimaru?" Tsunade asked as she crossed her hands over her chest.
"Grimm-san can meet with Jiraiya and deliver his intel," Naruto said. "Let me bring a small team there. I don't know why, but it's like I have to go there."
"Fine," Tsunade said as she leaned back in her chair. "You and a three man team can leave as soon as you set up you're moved into your new house."
"Thank you Baa-chan!" Naruto yelled as he fist pumped. He hugged Anko who kissed the top of his head lightly as he turned to leave.
"So you want us to go with you?" Shino asked as he sipped his sake. They were gathered around Choji's table after another outing at their house.
"Well," Naruto said as he looked at everyone. "I'm picking Hinata and You because you guys are my teammates, no matter the rank. Shikamaru is coming cause he's my advisor and needs to know my heritage as well."
"I hate you," Shikamaru mumbled as he looked up from his paper work. He was studding up on the Akatsuki almost non-stop. "So you're going to be leaving when?"
"As soon as my shadow clones set up the new place," Naruto said as he watched Hinata and the other girls in the kitchen. They were passing the sake around as they cleaned and talked. "It's been a very confusing, but awesome day."
"I'd say so," Shino said as he put a hand on his back. "Congrats on both families gained."
"Yeah you finally have a true pack!" Kiba said with drunken smirk.
"Yeah," Naruto said as he looked up. "Iruka and Anko have always been the parents I never had now that I look back, now it's just on paper."
"Well I shall return," Shino said as he stood. "I shall gather my things and meet you at the gate."
"Yeah give me about an hour," Naruto said with a smile.
"Troublesome," Shikamaru mumbled as he put the folders away in a seal and stood as well. "I guess I can't back out of this one huh?"
"Nope!" Naruto snapped as Shikamaru fell back into his shadow with a curse.
"KIT," A voice said from inside his head. Naruto closed his eyes and he appeared before the demon king.
"Yes fuzzy-sama?" Naruto asked with a smirk as he dodged a skull that was tossed at him by the Demon King.
"I HAVE TO SAY THAT YOU DO LOOK LIKE THE MAN I REMEMBER," The kyubi started as he leaned forward. "HE WAS A WARRIOR OF NO EQUAL, MUCH LIKE YOU ARE BECOMING. BUT THE NAME UZUMAKI IS FAMILIAR. MAYBE WE CAN FIND OUT MORE WHILE WE ARE THERE."
"More about what?" Naruto asked as he tilted his head. "What would you want to know about us petty mortals?"
"REMEMBER MY END OF THE BARGIN," The kyubi said with a grin. "THAT UCHIHA NEEDS TO BE ERASED FROM THIS WORLD. BY OUR HANDS."
"I have no problem with that Fuzzy-sama," Naruto said with a smirk. "Is there something that you're not telling me about the Uzumaki clan?"
"FIND OUT YOURSELF," Kyubi said with a smirk. "IF WHAT I BELIEVE IS STILL THERE WE CAN UNITE THE TAILED BEAST AGAINST THAT BASTARD."
"Not going to even give me a clue are you?" Naruto asked as the fox laughed. "Thanks again Kyubi-sama."
"THINK NOTHING OF IT KIT," The Kyubi whispered as Naruto left. "YOU'RE GOING TO NEED ALL THE HELP YOU CAN GET SOON ENOUGH."
Hello Everyone!
Well first things first, as always thanks a bunch for all the reviews! They were great! Secondly, hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and got really fat and happy over the break. I loved the break from school. Needed it, trust me. Now for the chapter, a bit slow i will admit but needed to get through all the waterworks and teary eyed stuff. Not the best at writing it either, sorry! But we are now getting around to Naruto's heritage and what not, so be ready for some action and greatness and all from here on out. Now as always, Read, Review and Enjoy!
Thanks again!
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