Corrupted Realities

by N B Higham

Kushina thought she was the last Uzumaki, but when it was discovered that a distant cousin away on a covert mission was too far away to help Uzushio in its time of need, had survived the following Uzumaki hunt led by Iwa, he is called to Konoha to train Naruto, his last remaining relative, in whatever ways he can. Fuinjutsu Master Naruto.

4. Council Meetings

Corrupted Realities

Chapter Four: Council Meetings

AN: First of all, sorry I didn't update the last two days, but I just didn't feel like sitting down and writing anything at the time, and I still don't really, even though I really enjoy writing, it just gets a little hard sometimes to express what I am trying to put down on the screen, exactly how I would like it to be. Oh and sorry for the short last chapter, it was 2 in the morning, I was tired, but I wanted to put up a chapter, but it suffered for it by being really short. But here is a quick note that I thought I should mention: I'm not a Naruto fan that reads the manga or watches the anime so... there is a lot of Naruto I don't know, because I only really watched the first season, watched some second season things, read some manga, but never really liked reading I t, but I just know enough of the storyline to make my own stories, which I do because I love writing and I would like to be an author someday, so I may actually be posting my own story on FictionPress, under the same author name at some point if I feel confident in doing so. My brother is an avid Naruto fan, who has read all the current manga, so he tells me a lot of Naruto, but there is a LOT I do not even have a clue about, so there will be things that I just skip in the story, that you may ask why I did not go over something that I should have, and it will be because I do not even know about it, if that makes sense. I may look up and try to read the hundred and fifty Naruto manga I haven't read, but it is really unlikely. Oh and the poll depending on whether I post another story on here, or just work on this story, is only at 4 to 3 in favor of just updating Corrupted Realities, but I won't make a decision until I at least have 15 votes, because I know it may be beyond me to work on two stories at once, but I think I can do it, and it would be cool to compare the stats that the story would get compared to this one. I am sorry for the really long AN, but there was just some things I wanted to say. Now on with Chapter Four: Council Meetings.

Standing before a set of double, solid oak doors, Isao turned his head, cracking his neck as he waited. Sarutobi said he would have to wait MAYBE a few minutes before he could go in. instead, here he stood forty five minutes later, still waiting. Incase Sarutobi somehow didn't know, Uzumaki's did not do well with patience.

Finally about to open the doors, Isao was mid step towards the doors when Sarutobi cracked open the left door. Sarutobi poked his head out of the crack saying, "Sorry about that Isao, some simple matters got blown out of proportion by some councilmen, making it take much, much longer than it should have…"

Nodding absently, Isao stepped forward as Sarutobi turned back towards the council. Isao was halfway through opening the council room doors, when Sarutobi started addressing the council, "And here is Uzumaki Isao, The Red Lightning of Uzushio, soon to be jounin of Konoha, and soon to be the caretaker of, and personal sensei to Uzumaki Naruto, upon his becoming an official jounin."

Isao stepped fully into the room, glancing around at the faces around the table. He easily recognized Hiashi Hyuuga, Fugaku Uchiha, Inoichi Yamanaka and Danzo, whatever his last name is, before settling his eyes back on Sarutobi. There was roughly a dozen other clan heads in attendance, with another roughly fifteen civilian councilmen and women.

When Isao walked into the room, recognition flashed across all the clan heads' faces, and most of the civilian council men recognized him as well.

Hiashi was the first to speak, "Well this is- definitely a good surprise to see."

Inoichi spoke next, "Yes it is very great to see Isao, The Red Lightning of Uzushio here, I had heard by chance actually heard he was working in a Shinobi supply store in Tanzaku Gai."

Here, one of the civilian councilmen stood up to speak, "Now I think I can speak for most of the civilian council in saying I have no clue who this Isao is, and where he just suddenly sprang from, getting recognition like this from the clan heads."

The civilian had directed his question at Sarutobi, who in turn looked to Isao to speak.

Isao shuffled slightly, "Yes well I am Uzumaki Isao, aka The Red Lightning of Uzushio, aka the nephew of the last Uzukage. I was out of Uzushio when it was attacked by Rock and Lightning in the Third Great Shinobi War, and I spent the next thirteen years hiding all over the place to evade Iwa hunter nin that were chasing down all known Uzumaki survivors. I should have guessed that an Uzumaki managed to stay in Konoha."

Silence swept across the civilian council, as they took in the fact they were obviously looking at an elite Shinobi, most possibly the last Uzumaki sealing expert left alive, and that fact alone floored them, to have him fall into the village's lap, to train his last relative, their jinchuruki, and he would become a jounin of Konoha.

The previous councilman again stood, "Then this is very great news, to have such a Shinobi with the Uzumaki sealing knowledge, he will definitely have to train Naruto in this, as we could definitely use a sealing master, as Jiraiya can't even come close to the sealing mastery of the Uzumaki."

Isao beamed slightly at the praise, even a master Shinobi that knows he is awesome, having people say so is always to fulfilling. "I will train Naruto in all that I know of the Uzumaki sealing, and probably most all I know in anything Uzumaki related, because if he is truly the only other Uzumaki left alive, and I believe he is, then he will have to learn everything."

This had the entire Shinobi council smiling; even Danzo cracked a wicked looking smile.

Isao suddenly looked more serious, "Now I would like to know who knew that Naruto was living on the street digging out of trash cans for food the last seven months?"

*Queue bomb shell please*

When Isao finished speaking, Sarutobi paled, Danzo remained impassive, half the civilian council started to sweat, Fugaku's smile fell and the rest of the council looked shocked. Seeing all of the obviously guilty faces around him, Isao spoke, "Oh fucking hell no."

Sarutobi paled, "Oh crap."

Isao's chakra flared, quickly becoming INCREDIBLY pissed off, "What the FUCK! Are you even fucking kidding me? You all saw your village jinchuruki, the last known Uzumaki, just living homeless on the fucking streets eating out of damn garbage cans like some slum and just ignored it! What the fuck is wrong with you people! He is my fucking FAMILY! There is no way I am going to let this shit slide Sarutobi. I am gone, and I am taking Naruto with me."

"Now wait a minute, you can't do that, Naruto is our Jinchuruki and there is no way you are going anywhere with him." It was Fugaku who spoke, suddenly less guilty then before.

Isao turned to Fugaku, rage on his face, "You ESPECIALY should have done something, you are the head of the fucking VILLAGE POLICE FOR FUCK's SAKE! And there is nothing ANY of you can do right now to stop me from disappearing with Naruto right now."

In his signature red flash, Isao was gone out of the council room, the oak doors flying off their hinges as Isao blew right through them.

*Queue ENORMOUS bomb shell please*

Sarutobi slammed his head against the table, "Fuck me, I need my pipe."

Within seconds, Isao was inside his and Naruto's home, sealing things back into scrolls, as Naruto, freshly showered, in clean clothes, watched stunned. "Are you going somewhere Isao?"

"Not me Naruto, we. We are both leaving right now, we are going to go back to my shop in Tanzaku Gai, but we have to get there real quick okay? So I need you to take this scroll," At this Isao handed Naruto a sealing scroll, "And put your clothes into this, we need to go fast."

Naruto, still confused, ran into his room at the end of the hallway, while Isao was in his own room packing the few things he had brought, and bought.

Within a minute they were both ready to go, Naruto still confused, followed Isao out the door, before Isao turned back at Naruto. "There are people in this village that watched you as you were homeless in the village, eating out of garbage cans, starving, and filthy. They did nothing to help you, and there are now few people in the village that I trust right now, so we need to go for a while."

Naruto was now in tears, they were leaving his home, where he had never stepped out of in his six years of life. "Do we have to go Isao?"

Isao sighed, "Yes we have to go for a while, but we will be back in some time, I can't stay in a village that watched as my family starved in the streets. Now come here, I am going to use my Aka Senkou no Jutsu to travel really fast, so I need you to hold on tight to me, and we are going to go very fast okay?"

Naruto seemed unsure about this, "Well okay, if it's safe?"

"Yeah it's safe, as long as you hold on tight, and I won't let go of you either okay?" Isao reached out to Naruto with one arm, which Naruto took, and Isao pulled Naruto into a hug. "I am sorry we have to leave Konoha Naruto, but we will be back someday, after they can regret what they did, or didn't do for you."

In Isao's signature red flash, with a loud snap, they were gone, as Sarutobi and Inoichi just arrived, the entire village council behind them, all staring at the now empty property, all of their faces with disbelief, guilt, and in the cases of Fugaku, Hiashi and Danzo, rage.

Fugaku was bar far the most enraged, "Sarutobi-sama, there is no way we can let him just take off with our Jinchuruki like this, Naruto belongs to the-"

Here Sarutobi cut Fugaku off, "As unhappy with Isao that I am right now, I am even more pissed off at what YOU and the other council men have done, how you could not DO SOMETHING about the village Jinchuruki, a little six year old boy live on the streets like some ANIMAL is BEYOND ME! I am five seconds away from throwing you and the other council men in a jail cell for criminal negligence of a child! ESPECIALY you and Danzo, it is your jobs to maintain village order, and you BOTH should have done something, since you both knew that he was out in the streets!"

Sarutobi stopped to breath for a second, trying to control his anger, "And because of your actions, or lack of actions, we just lost the last Uzumaki sealing expert left alive in the world! That in and of itself, is almost as bad as losing Naruto and the Kyuubi!"

Finally, Fugaku seemed to look shamed, as did nearly half the civilian council, that had seen him digging into trash cans near their stores, or places of business, but had not really given half a shit.

Sarutobi took a deep breath, "I can only hope that they do come back to us, as we really could have used the Uzumaki's sealing abilities in the village again. And all I can hope for is that Naruto especially will come back to the village someday."

*With Isao and Naruto*

Isao stopped, dropping Naruto from his arms as he stood before his Shinobi supply store, cracking his back audibly as it definitely had a few cricks in it from carrying Naruto so far, even if it only took them six minutes to get to Tanzaku Gai, it was an incredible burn on Isao's chakra.

Naruto was looking at Isao in awe, "Wow Isao! That is so cool, how do you move so fast? That was INCREDIBLE!"

Isao chuckled, amused at Naruto's astonishment, hoping that maybe it could be turned into a drive to actually learn jutsus of his own at some point. "Well, it involves this seal," Isao lifted up his shirt to show a large, intricate seal tattooed across his belly, continuing on below his waist, down to his legs, and all the way up to his biceps on his arms, "And what it does, is it propels my body at unbelievable speeds, which I will not try to explain to you how, but it produces a loud snap, and a red blur is left behind from my clothes, which has earned me the title "The Red Lightning of Uzushio" and I rather enjoy my nickname, as it is rather fitting."

Naruto again looked in complete awe, "That is SOOO cool! Someday, you will have to teach me how to make seals like that, so I can move that fast too!"

Again Isao chuckled, "That will be no problem Naruto, I will teach you everything I know about the Uzumaki, the sealing arts, and my own personal repertoire of jutsus among other things as well."

At that, Isao and Naruto walked into Isao's shop, Naruto looking around in wonder at the tools, weapons, scrolls, clothes and various Shinobi equipment, but what especially caught Naruto's eye, were two split blades, each with a circular strap attacked to the end. The blades were dark red, roughly eighteen inches long, and had a metal plate on the opposite end.

Turning to Isao, Naruto exclaimed, "Isao! What are those?" Naruto gestured to the blades, hung on a wall, behind the main counter of the store.

Isao looked at where Naruto was pointing, "Oh those Naruto, were Uzumaki Hironori's blades, they fit onto your wrist just below your hand, going over you hand, the blades are sharp on the outside, and the points are very sharp. The metal plate on the other end, protects you forearm, so you can use the entirety or your arm, plus eighteen inches for a weapon. He was very skilled with them, as he actually invented and forged them himself. They were passed to me, as he was my grandfather, but I never liked to use them, I prefer to use standard kunai my weapons of choice."

Isao's Flashback

A seven-year-old Isao stared in awe as his grandfather showed him his blades, "WOW! Those are SO COOL!"

Hironori chuckled, "They are very precious to me, I created them myself, and I have used them in battle over a hundred times, they have served me very well. Maybe someday, after I give them to you, you can give them to your son."

Flashback End

"WOW! They are so cool though, how could you not have used them?" Naruto was incredibly in love with the blades, they were the coolest things he had ever seen.

Isao laughed, "Well if you want, we can take them with us, and maybe in a year or so, you can start learning to use them if you would like to."

Naruto beamed a giant smile, "Alright! They are so cool!" Isao reached up, pulling the blades down off the wall, before pulling out a sealing scroll, rolling it out, and placing the blades onto it, pressing onto the seal, putting the blades into the scroll. Isao handed the scroll to Naruto, who in turn, places the scroll into a backpack that he grabbed off a wall.

Isao started to walk towards the back of the store, "Now wait here Naruto, I need to get a lot of things packed up, before we get going again."

Naruto nodded, "Alright, but where are we headed for now Isao?"

"Well, I had actually received word from a friend that Kirigakure is currently in the middle of a civil war, and I think that I need to go check that out, which I was going to do before word was sent to me that you were Konoha, my family. So I need to go there, to help out an old friend of mine who may or may not be in a lot of trouble at the moment."

Naruto smiled, "Cool, all at once I am out of Konoha for the first time, and I get to go to a whole new country! This is so cool."

"Yes well, we are going to be travelling there slowly, as there is a lot that I will have to teach you on the way there, starting with this question, do you know how to read, Naruto?"

Naruto smiled, seemingly proud, "Yeah, I do, one of the nice ladies at the orphanage taught me, and she says I'm really smart too."

"Well alright, that's good that there is one less thing I will have to worry about. Well, find a couple changes of clothes Naruto; there is children's clothing over in the section over there." Isao pointed to the left back corner of the store. "There won't be much of a selection to choose from, but you should be fine."

Fifteen minutes later, they were both ready to leave, Isao having put nearly everything in the store into a sealing scroll, which we held inside of the backpacks that Naruto and Isao wore. Naruto glanced at Isao, before they both started to walk off, towards Kiri, to go help Isao's unnamed friend.

AN: Well sorry again, that I didn't update the last two days, but oh well. Who is Isao's friend? Will Isao and Naruto return to the village any time soon? If at all? What will their part be in the Kiri civil war? Well anyway, please no flames for Isao taking Naruto out of Konoha okay? Opinions are appreciated, but I don't care for flames alright?