Author's notes:
Jboy44: "Shinji is going to blend into the background a good bit in this chapter, but the next one will be all about him."
The next day, Shinji found himself moved into the same room as one Naruto Uzumaki Senju Namikaze.
Shinji looked over to Naruto who was sitting in his hospital bed with his arms crossed. "I guess they want us to be friends since we both have a half of the fuzz butt."
Naruto looked over to him and smirked. "Yes, and anyone who called the Nine Tails fuzz butt is ok in my book."
Meanwhile, in the hospital lobby…
The Fire Daimyo had just walked in, shocking everyone as he walked to the front desk.
The front desk lady was shocked as she nervously bowed and asked, "What can I do for you Daimyo-san?"
The Fire Daimyo stated, "I heard about what happened and I would like to check on one Naruto Uzumaki. After all, he is my younger sister Kushina's son."
The front desk lady froze for a second. Not only was Naruto the son of the Fourth, the last heir to Uzushiogakure and the Fifth's grandson, but he was related to the Daimyo, and after how she was always one of the people who hated the boy for having the nine tails in him, she just said, " room 203 first floor."
The lady then watched as the Fire Daimyo walked away as she thought, 'I'm so fucking dead! I was rude to a kid who's nobler than every last clan in the village!'
But, unknown to the lady and the Daimyo, one Hiashi Hyūga, who was just leaving from visiting Neji, had overheard and he placed his right hand on his chin as he thought, 'The boy is the rightful heir to the Namikaze, Senju, and Uzumaki clans and is the last heir of Whirlpool. Plus, he has the Daimyo for an uncle.'
He began to think as he put left hand under his right elbow. 'I don't hate the boy. I was a bit scared of the seal breaking because he wasn't a full blooded Uzumaki, but now that I know he's only half Uzumaki, that's not a problem. My daughter has feelings for the boy, and the elders want to put the Caged Bird Seal on her.'
The Hyūga then snapped his fingers as a plan came to his mind. 'I've got it. The elders won't seal Hinata if she is with someone as noble as the boy. She has feelings for him and, seeing as she cared about him before all of his heritage was revealed, just proving that will show him that she's the only one who has feelings for the real him.'
He then began to leave the hospital as he continued to think about the plan that was coming to his mind. 'The elder's won't seal her, seeing as that would bring the boy's wrath upon them. Plus, they would be too happy thinking about how a relationship between Hinata and the boy would make the Hyūga clan just as noble as the Daimyo.'
Hiashi smiled as he finished his train of thought. 'Hinata is happy to be with the boy, she doesn't get sealed, the elders don't have a problem with it and the boy gets the only girl who showed feelings for him before this big revelation. I won't have to seal one of my baby girls and everyone is happy. It's perfect. Now, I just need to figure out how to get Hinata to stop fainting around him.'
He then arrived home and headed towards the location of the elders, only stopping when he passed by Hinata and told her, "Hinata, if you end up in a relationship with the Uzumaki boy, you have my blessing."
Hinata just stood there in shock as she put her fingers together. "KAI!"
Hiashi looked back at her. "I understand why you did that." He then kept moving on towards the elders of his clan as Hinata fainted.
Back in Naruto and Shinji's hospital room…
Tsunade walked in and handed Naruto a map. "This is a map to your parent's house. The key is inside blood seal that only a Namikaze can open. You're moving in and, seeing as before the war every clan hid copies of their scrolls that held family histories, information on bloodline limits in the village and jutsu, in his library, you're going to find a lot of lost jutsu from different clans."
Naruto looked at the map and said, "Then I'll personally return the scrolls to the clans, Obaa-chan."
Tsunade then walked over Shinji. "Now, you need a place to stay."
Naruto then quickly said, "He can stay with me. After all, Jinchūriki have to stick together."
Tsunade smiled as she said, "You two are now healed, thanks to the fox. At 8 PM, you are both free to go and, Shinji, when you leave, a man named Iruka will be waiting in the lobby for you. Go to him and he'll take you to do the Genin test to see if just having some of Naruto's memories gives you the basics of being a shinobi."
Shinji just nodded along.
The fire Daimyo then walked in and said, "Lady Hokage, I hope I'm not interrupting anything, but…" He walked over to Naruto and removed his hat to reveal red hair, "My name is Kenshin Uzumaki, the Fire Daimyo, the older brother of Kushina Uzumaki, and thereby your uncle, Naruto."
Tsunade's eye's widened as Naruto just shrugged. "I used to think that I had no family. Now I have family coming out of the woodworks. I can't believe it."
The Fire Daimyo then handed Naruto a pass. "This is proof of the right of free travel. A gift to you, my nephew. With this, you may leave the village and travel without the need of vacation time, a request or a mission. I give you this so that you may travel to find your sister and bring her home safely from the hands of Orochimaru. I will also give this right to anyone you wish to have it. Use it wisely."
Naruto, still sitting in his hospital bed, bowed to the man. "Thank you, uncle. I will do all in my power as holder of the Rinnegan to bring my sister back safely and make the snake pay for his crimes against our family."
The Fire Daimyo then put his hat back on. "That is all I ask. Now, Lady Hokage, come. I wish to speak to your council on the treatment of my nephew." He then left with a scared-as-hell Tsunade following him.
Naruto then put his fingers in the fox hand sign and said, "Shadow Clone jutsu."
One Shadow Clone of Naruto then appeared and both Naruto's put their hand on their head as the sensory overload of seeing what the other was seeing was still a little too much for him.
Shinji looked puzzled. "What are you doing?"
The clone and real Naruto then said, "I'm is trying to get use to the sensory overload as the Rinnegan makes the first five clones I make and myself of one mind and we see what each other see. While fighting Danzo, I only used clones twice. Once with my eyes closed to control only the clone and the other time I fainted from using as many clones as I could. Only the memories from the destroyed clones snapped me back awake, so I might as well train with this always active, controlling the power of up to six bodies before it gets me killed in the field."
Shinji just nodded. "That makes about as much sense as anything else that's happened in the last two days."
The real Naruto said, "If you want weird, try controlling two bodies at once while having them look at each other. It's like one of those infinite reflections is happening to your brain."
Shinji didn't know how to respond to that so he just stayed quiet.
The Naruto clone then left the room through the window and headed out into the village, only stopping when he saw his reflection in a window.
The clone looked at the battered, burned and dirty clothes he had on. "I'm going to need to get some new clothes, and hopefully with the last names of two Hokage and a Daimyo, the stores will sell me more than 'kill me' orange jumpsuits."
The real Naruto who was still in his hospital bed with his hand on his head and one hell of a headache stated, "Best head off to a store and see."
Shinji was watching. 'He's saying what his clone is, but he's not doing what the clone does. Is that good for controlling more than one body or bad?'
Yin Kurama then told Shinji, "It's good, seeing as it's how my father started with this ability."
The clone headed into a store and headed over to the cashier. "Sir, in the past you have overcharged me and only allowed me to buy orange. That ends now. Understand?"
The cashier nodded as he not only knew that how he treated Naruto was completely wrong, but all the ways he could end his life if he continued to treat him that way.
Naruto looked at him. "I know you own this clothing store and, as you have overcharged me for the last 12 years, I think it's only fair that anything that I buy here is half off for the next 12, don't you?"
Once more, the man nodded as he nervously as he sweated and said, "Yes, sir! I'm sorry! Don't kill me!"
Naruto walked over to some of the clothes. "You treated me like dirt and now that my last name has changed you want to kiss my ass. People like you make me sick, and you will pay for it, just like all the older generation of this village will. But, you won't pay with money or your lives. After all that would make me no better than you all."
The man gulped as he forced himself to ask, "Then, how will we pay you back, sir?"
Naruto looked him dead in the eye. "Simple. The truth will come out. Then my generation will lose all respect for yours and the one before you. Or, in short you will pay with the respect of your children, and the best part is that I won't and haven't done anything to make it happen."
Naruto then picked up a pair of black pants with a chain going from a belt loop to the right pocket, pair of black ninja shoes, an orange shirt and stated, "I believe that the store credit I have from you overcharging me is more than enough to pay for this."
The cashier then nodded as the Naruto clone folded the outfit under his arm and left for the hospital.
The clone, with Naruto's new cloths in hand, then re-entered and Shinji and Naruto's hospital room through the window he left through.
The clone walked over, put the cloths on Naruto's hospital bed, dispelled and Naruto fell backwards on to the bed as he held his head and let out a painful scream.
Shinji stupidly said, "At lest you stopped saying what your clone was saying after a while."
Meanwhile, in Misato's apartment…
It may have been a full day since he disappeared for him, but, in his home world, only 5 hour had passed and Misato was asleep on her couch, sweating a cold sweat as her sleep was filled with a nightmare.
In Misato's nightmare…
She was in a forest and she thought she spotted Shinji with his back turned to her, so she ran to him only for him to turn around to reveal a monster.
The monster was humanoid in shape with a layer of dark purple – almost black – energy covering its body. Atop its head were fox ears made from this energy. Four tails made from the same stuff were behind its back and it was solid black with two glowing, white, soulless, empty eyes. Misato didn't know it, but this was a Yin Release two-tailed chakra shroud.
A glowing ghostly white jagged line like a ghostly mouth was appearing on its face out of nowhere and it let out a roar as its hands grew large claws and swung at her.
That was when Misato awoke with a scream, panting and scared as she thought, 'If all dreams have a meaning, then what does that mean for Shinji?'
A another universe, in the Leaf…
Naruto had just come out of the hospital room that he shared with Shinji's bathroom in his new clothes. "I still feel like this outfit is missing something, but, right now, I have more important things to do. Shadow Clone jutsu."
A single clone of Naruto appeared, but, this time, neither held their heads from pain.
The real Naruto leaned against the wall as his clone left through the window. "Let's see how I can handle multitasking with the two bodies, now."
The real Naruto pulled out the map to his parents' house and read a note on it. "So, the Namikaze estate is hidden underground. No wonder the clans hid copies of their clan jutsu, training and history scrolls there in the third ninja war. After all, this place was pretty much levelled after the war. Who knows what lost jutsu I will find there."
Meanwhile…
The clone was walking around the village, seeing the villagers either ask for forgiveness, cry about how sorry they were or just stay away from fear. They still stared. "Great the only thing that changed is that they're now too chicken to attack me."
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Hinata in Ino's family's flower shop, talking to Ino. So, he listened in to hear Ino say, "Did you hear, Hinata? The Fire Daimyo came to the village and revealed that he was Naruto's mom's older brother and he was mad at the villagers for not even listing his last name."
Hinata looked at her. "W-what do you mean, Ino?"
Ino, who was ringing up some flowers she was buying, told her, "In all the files the Daimyo saw, Naruto's last name wasn't listed. The council knew he was Naruto's nephew and stopped the Daimyo from knowing that his sister's son was alive."
Hinata was paying for the flowers as she spoke. "W-why?"
Ino then added, "Well, it turns out that Sakura's mom has a sit on the council and headed this little sting out of spite that the Fourth always said no when she asked him out. So, since the Fourth didn't go out with her, she ruined Naruto's life and made a member of the Daimyo's family's life hell. Enough proof of this was found that Sakura's mom was sentenced to death and killed by the Daimyo himself right in the council meeting."
Both the real Naruto and his clone's eyes widened.
Ino handed the flowers to Hinata. "Let me guess. These are for Naruto?"
Hinata blushed as she failed to form any words. Ino just said, "Hesitation is conformation."
Naruto's clone then walked in and said, "Well, I'm flattered, Hinata."
The two girls turned to see the Naruto clone. They were a little shocked, but the clone said, "I'm just a Shadow Clone. The real me is still in the hospital room, but, when a shadow clone dispels, the original gets all their memories. You're basically talking to the real me."
Hinata just blushed as Naruto walked over to her and said, "Hinata, I kind of figured out why you blush and faint around me so much. I'm sorry I didn't notice before." He rubbed the back of his head. "And, if you will think of me the same way after all of these big revelations, then I would like to try and make a relationship between us work."
Ino was wide eyed as Hinata forced herself to say, "I would like that."
Hinata's face was redder than ever and she was trying harder than ever to not faint as Naruto smiled and said, "Thanks. I can leave the hospital at 8. How about we meet for ramen then?"
Hinata nodded yes as she handed the 'get better soon' flowers to the clone before she fainted, thinking, 'Best day ever.'
The clone Naruto held on to the flowers and asked Ino, "So, how's Sakura taking this?"
Ino put her hand on her cheek as she used it to hold her head up. "We won't know for a while, because, when the ANBU went to tell her, they found this shrine in her room that showed she made her own religion around Sasuke. In short, she was bat shit crazy. My dad is in a hidden location removing all her memories that involve Sasuke right now to try and make the girl sane again."
Naruto looked down. Sure she turned him down and hurt him a lot but still no one should have to go through that. "I see."
Ino looked down. "Hey, she spent everyday since she was five running after Sasuke, so I doubt she'll have any memories past when she first saw Sasuke when we were five left. In short, she's probably going to be a five year old girl trapped in a 12 year olds body. They say that when it rains, it pours, and this village is in the middle of one hell of shit storm."
The Naruto clone just turned around. "I know, and I'd better get these flowers to the real me before they wilt. Make sure Hinata knows that our plans for a date wasn't just something she dreamed about when she comes to."
Ino responded, "Trust me, I will. After all, it's the first good thing to happen since duck butt left, and I love the new look."
The real Naruto and the clone smiled at what Ino called Sasuke. "Thanks."
Back in the hospital…
Shinji looked at him. "I take it that something good just happened to your second body?"
Naruto smiled. "You'd better believe it."
Shinji just looked at the clock to see that it was noon and he started to grab his hair with both hands. "Great. Another 8 hours until we can leave. I'm going to go crazy in here."
Naruto watched him as his clone returned with the 'get better soon' flowers that Hinata bought. "You need to learn how to relax, kid. I mean, a body-stealing, possibly half snake, mad scientist freak has my sister and I'm not going nuts about it."
Shinji's eye's turned red as he looked at Naruto and yelled, "THAT'S BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT HE WILL LEAVE HER ALIVE SO THAT HE CAN TRY TO USE HER AGAINST YOU!"
Naruto looked at Shinji and said, "Calm yourself. Don't let the demon control you, Shinji." He formed a Rasengan in each hand, ready for a fight.
Shinji took a deep breath, then let it out as his eyes returned to normal. "I'm calm. Put away the balls of pain, please."
Naruto dispelled the Rasengan in each hand. "Good. I didn't want to hurt you."
Shinji just crossed his legs and said, "Say, Naruto, last night, something happened and I started to see through Eva-01's eyes, or, as you may know it from my memories, the big purple monster."
Naruto looked at him. "It could have been a dream, or maybe you have a link to it. Who knows?"
Shinji put his hands in his lap and said, "That's what worries me. What if I take over the thing without knowing it and destroy part of Tokyo-3, or what if someone else pilots it and that allows them to control my body?"
Naruto looked at him. "But what if that link is your only way back? After all. it sent you here, so it makes sense that it could send you back and forth between our two worlds."
Shinji blinked a couple of times before saying, "I never thought of that."
Naruto looked at him. "Life is all about figuring things out. Sure, it may take some time to figure some stuff out, but, given time, the answers will come to us."
Shinji raised an eyebrow. "Ok. That sounds like something you would read in a fortune cookie."
Naruto shrugged. "I'm new to this whole sage thing. Cut me some slack."
Shinji turned away from him. "Ok, but I'm not going to let this whole brain-to-brain link between the monster and I go any time soon."
Meanwhile, in a hidden location…
Tsunade was standing in front of one Root shinobi named Sai who was tied to chair.
Tsunade held a journal up in front of him. "You are still loyal to Danzo after his death. Let's see if what we found in his journal will change that."
Tsunade to held the journal up so that he could read it and Sai read aloud. "Sai is progressing faster than his brother Shin and has more skill than him, as well. So, I'm opting to poison Shin slowly to make it look like he is dying of a virus to kill Sai's last emotional attachment so that I can make him the perfect Root shinobi and get rid of the deadweight."
Sai's eyes bugged out of his head as he read it over. He knew that it was Danzo's handwriting, so it wasn't a fake. This broke all of the training to kill off Sai's emotions and he cried as he screamed, "BASTARD!"
To be continued…