Magnus: Here is the second chapter, this is the beginning of the chaos that is going to strike Naruto's universe, and please be patient, this will be a NaruHina story, just give some time for Naruto to grow up, and please, Read and Review!
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Chapter 2
Adopting a Demon...
It has been 5 years and half since the Kyuubi attack, and the village of Konoha was still sore, slowly recovering from the damage, and still crying for the lost ones, the economy was bad, but there it was, slowly growing, trade between the village and other towns was smooth, at least for the outside merchants, meaning easy acces to the village, and an overcharge on their prices. So, it wasn't strange to see merchants coming to Konoha on these days, which mean less security at the main gate.
It was this situation what made possible the arrival of a new citizen to the village, a man clad in a pure white business suit, complete with white silk gloves and white fedora hat, under normal circumstances, he would only had to pass a lax security, however, this man asked an audience with the Hokage, in order to open a permanent shop in the village, usually this could not be possible, but the Hokage asked them to allow citizenship audiences (Whatever to be distracted from the paperwork). It was this set of 'coincidences' what allowed up the current situaton.
"So, I got word that you want to become a citizen of this village and open a shop, is this right Mr...?", Sarutobi asked, for some reason, the guards forgot to ask the name of this merchant,
"Uzumaki, Ankiseth Uzumaki, and yes, that information is correct", the merchant replied, and of course, his name made Sarutobi to almost swallow his pipe,
'UZUMAKI!!!!!!, it can't be!, Whirlpool was destroyed, there is no way that someone of that family could be still alive, unless...', Sarutobi was still on this train of thought when the man started to speak again.
"Oh!, it seems that you know my name!, hope my cousin have used nice words to describe me, by the way, how is Kushina?, last thing I heard was that she was about to marry a shinobi of this village",
At the remark of the man, now known as Ankiseth, Sarutobi went pale, he completely forgot the stories about one of the cousins of Kushina, the only one of her family that didn't took the path of the ninja.
=Flashback=
"So, Minato, are you sure you want to marry her?, you know, all her family are renown shinobies", Sarutobi was trying to reasoning with Minato, the Uzumakis were well known for not taking kindly the marriages with outsiders, let alone the heiress of their clan.
"Don't worry, not everyone in the family is a ninja, my cousin Ank, the one who helped us to escape, is a merchant, he was so kind to let us hide in his caravan all the way from Whirlpool to the border of the forest!", Kushina replied, defending the most weird of her family.
"Yes, you wouldn't believe it, if you don't look at the lack of muscles, he could pass as my double!, of course, you'll need to use a little make up on him, but otherwise we are identical", Minato continued, Sarutobi found a little hard to believe how someone could neglect the techniques of the Uzumakis, but that didn't distracted him from keeping the lecturing...
=End of Flashback=
Sarutobi felt a knot in the stomach, at first he tried to see if it was true, if this man was identical to Minato, trying to find a mistake to dismiss him, but after seeing his blonde hair, blue eyes, and foxy grin, one though exploded in his mind,
'I'LL BE DAMNED, HE IS IDENTICAL TO NARUTO!',
Suddenly, he found himself replying "I'm... sorry to tell you this... but Kushina died almost 6 years ago...".
Meanwhile, in the streets of the village...
During this 5 and half years, Kyuubi has learned many things along with Naruto, some of them were not to make people angry, not to accept food from strangers, never to walk alone on isolated alleys, and not trust any known person, Naruto also learned well by listening to the voice and advise of Kyuubi, he learned how to detect danger and bad intentions, and how to run faster than any other people, also he learned to conceal his presence from most shinobies, as well as using his sense of smell to detect poisons and drugs, but over all, they learned to listen to each other and cooperate for survival, this was something that they practiced daily, and today was not exception.
'RUN KIT, RUN!!!',
'I'M ON IT!, I'M ON IT!, WHAT DID WE DO TO ENRAGE THEM LIKE THIS?!',
'NOTHING THAT I KNOW!, BUT I REALLY SUGGEST YOU TO NOT TO STOP TO ASK!, JUST RUN!!',
Today was one of those days, when the villagers just felt like chasing the demon kid to beat him to a pulp, just to 'avange' the spirits of the fallen ones, however, today was also the day when everything will change, because by 'coincidence', Sarutobi decided to personally show one of the worst houses on one of the worst streets of the village to the merchant, the same street that Naruto was running on.
"As you can see, we have nothing better to spare, I know you wanted to make business here, but we haven't a place for you to do so...",
Sarutobi was still explaining to the merchant, trying to persuade him to leave the village before he finds about Naruto, until he heard the voice of a kid asking for help, both the Hokage and the merchant reacted too slow, soon Naruto crashed against the white clad merchant, who fell on a sitting position, hugging an scared kid on his arms, Sarutobi couldn't help but to shout in his mind,
'FFUUUUUUCCCKKK!!!!!!'.
"Now, now, little kid, what's wrong", the merchant, Ankiseth, asked with a sweet voice,
Naruto turned to face the man, and not recognizing him, he decided it was safe, however, Kyuubi recognized him, and finally she felt safe again,
"THEY WANT TO HURT ME!, I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING WRONG!, DON'TLET THEM HURT ME!", Naruto replied, with tears in his eyes,
At this Sarutobi asked,
"But, who want to hurt you, Naruto?",
He immediately regretted the question, because the mob showed up just as he asked.
At the sight of the Hokage, the mob tried to disperse as fast as they could, there was a decree that no one will harm Naruto, but since only the Hokage cared, nobody said anything about the constant beatings in the streets and the park, and the fact that Kyuubi healed Naruto, made it hard to believe that the beatings were too savage.
Sarutobi was about to either call Kakashi or chase after the mob, when the voice of the merchant brought him back to the current crisis,
"Everything is ok now, little kid, nobody is going to hurt you now", at the sweet voice of the white clad man, Naruto relaxed,
"Thank you (sob), thank you so much, but they will come back (sob), if not here, then at home and at night", Naruto replied,
"What about your daddy and mommy?, aren't they going to protect you?", Ankiseth asked, at this Naruto turned sad,
"I have no parents, I'm an orphan, and no one want me in the orphan...", at Naruto's reply, the man decided to give him a foxy grin,
"Then you can live with me!, the Hokage is about to appoint a place I can live, so, I can take you and nobody will harm you again!".
Sarutobi stiffened, the last thing he wanted is for some stranger to take a hold on either the Kyuubi or the son of his friend, however, Naruto was jumping in joy,
"THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!, but, who are you?, I have never seen you before",Naruto squeaked in delight
Sarutobi wanted to stop this now, until this point, neither of them had said their family names, but he had no chance, when the merchant gave a hearty laugh,
"Oh my!, where are my manners?!, my name is Ankiseth Uzumaki, nice to meet you, little one!".
Naruto stood still for a moment, his mind raced, trying to make sense of the current situation,
'Uzumaki?, just like me?, but the Hokage said that I had no family left!', Naruto thought, at this Kyuubi replied,
'Yes, my child, Uzumaki, like you, maybe the Hokage didn't knew?, or may they lied to you, either way, you should ask', then Naruto asked,
"Did you said Uzumaki, are you an Uzumaki just like me?, how is that possible, Grandpa Sarutobi said I had no family left!",
At Naruto's reply, both him and Ankiseth turned to face the Hokage with angry eyes.
Hokage office, few hours later...
"Very well, here are your papers, now you are a Konoha citizen, you have also being appointed as Naruto Uzumaki guardian, please, take care of him, also, Naruto's apartment is now yours, is somewhat small, but is better than the spare apartments right now", Sarutobi said,
He wished that the council does not notice this 'little' change for some time, then he turned to face Naruto, and then talked to him.
"As for you, Naruto, I'm really sorry, word of the entire destruction of your family reached us, and we thought that it was everyone, not only the ninja clan, if I had knew about the existence of this man, I would have searched for him since the death of your parents, I'm really sorry", Sarutobi finished, wishing the best for Naruto, and planning on put an special ANBU team to check every move of this man, just to be safe.
Both Naruto and Ankiseth nodded and headded to the streets, leaving a worried Hokag in his office, as soon as they left, Sarutobi made what he should have done since the beginning,
"KAKASHI!!!!!",
It may be a little late to fix some things, but he will start fixing all what he could, starting for the original guardian of the legacy of the fourth.
The rest of the day was what could be described as one of the happiest days for Naruto, the first of many, Ankiseth promised, they visited every place of interest for Naruto, like the academy, they ate at every restaurant in the village, and Naruto watched in awe as Ankiseth paid everything as if it were the cheapest thing in the world, also, Ankiseth suggested to purchase furniture for the apartment, as well as food.
Of course there were things that Naruto didn't liked, like the fact that his uncle told him to stop living on instant food, he stressed that real food was required for him to grow stronger, fortunately, he agreed to allow Naruto to eat at Ichiraku in the near future, at the end of the day, they arrived to the apartment, where both started to clean and repaired as much as they could.
During all this time, Naruto told to Ankiseth the small story of his life, how he was beaten almost daily, how hard was to get something to eat, and he told him about Kyuubi, his greatest secret, Ankiseth for his part, listened to everything with great 'fascination', and in return the merchant told him stories about lots of places around the world, stories about magic and mystery, Naruto felt like dreaming, this was just too perfect to be real, and deep inside him, he was afraid to wake up.
That night...
"Ok little one, time to go to bed, tomorrow will be a busy day", Ankiseth said,
Naruto reluctantly agreed, and once in bed he asked,
"Why?, what are we going to do tomorrow?", at this, Ankiseth gave him a warm smile,
"We are going to open our shop, also, you'll be able to watch some magic in action", Naruto chuckled at this, in his mind, whenever he said 'magic', Naruto thought of it as jutsus,
"Ok, can you teach me how to do magic too?", at Naruto's question, Ankiseth used his foxy grin.
"Of course little one, I'll be glad to teach you everything about magic!",
Naruto smiled with excitation, he was going to learn some rare jutsus!, however, there was a hole in his soul, and if this was a dream he wanted to give it a supper happy ending before awakening to the horrible reality,
"I know you are my uncle, but... can I call you daddy?", Naruto asked the last part with a very tiny voice, but Ankiseth heard him anyway, and a soft and sincere smile adorned his face.
"Of course, you can call me daddy, dad, or father, as long as you allow me to call you my son", Ankiseth replied while hugging him,
Naruto finally found happiness, and in it's embrace, he fell asleep,
Soon after this, a diabolic grin was plastered on the face of the merchant,
"Sleep well my son, and have sweet dreams, for when you awake tomorrow, nothing will be the same", said this, he started to cast lots of spells, both dark and light.
Magnus: Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, remember that your opinion is of great value, so, don't be afraid of reviewing, see ya in next chapter!