The Return of Senbonzakura V2
AN: Sup peeps, now first things first, I will NEVER leave a date saying when I will update again, that was just a fucking disaster. Now I know that many of you have questions and they will be addressed in the story and right now, also this isn't a bash fic so no Minato or Kushina bashing. I am really sorry people I was really busy with trying to graduate and taking exams but that's all over now so I'll try to update as much as possible.
To Spiritwolf35: Hey man or girl, Naruto will only be learning kenjutsu and taijutsu from Mifune and will be learning techniques like hado and bakudos from Senbonzakura. The ninjutsu part will covered by buying chakra paper and scrolls, also taking any scrolls of interest from any bandits or missing nins Naruto will defeat. Also about the whole Sakura wanting to marry Naruto is only a thing she said because she wants to make sure that he will come back and also, she is a child, 8 years old like Naruto, and will take it slow with Naruto when he comes back. So no instant pairing. Naruto and Natsuki are twins. The whole map thing is really sketchy so I don't really know much about it and so far he is going to be staying in Iron Country. Hoped that answered all your questions for now.
To Sentinel of Legends: Thanks dude or dudette for the inspiration of some of the content in this chapter! Hope you will enjoy it!
To Naruto-kun257: I've always felt that Naruto never got enough of his mother's traits, except his personality and his facial structure, he even didn't even get any of her beneficial ninja traits so in this story and in most of the others that I plan to write Naruto will most likely be a redhead.
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STORY START!
CHAPTER 3!
THREE MONTHS AFTER NARUTO LEFT
Blue eyes looked out of a window as they studied the village below, the people walking with content smiles on their faces, the shinobi jumping from rooftop to rooftop and the genin were running around chasing that damn demonic cat. The eyes eventually caught the reflection of the man looking through the window. They looked at his blonde spiky hair with the two chin length bangs framing his angular face and his black Konoha hiate wrapped around his forehead keeping his bangs from falling into his eyes.
The man's eyes soon looked lower and looked at his usual clothes which consisted of the standard jonin uniform, a long sleeved navy blue shirt that had four thin white armbands around his wrists and below his elbows, two on each arm, and navy blue pants, he also had the green jonin flak jacket/vest on. The pants starting at his shins going down to his ankles were wrapped in white medical bandages which were tucked in to his black shinobi sandals with his toes and heels exposed. The most noticeable feature of his attire though was the white high-collared ankle-length short sleeved sage coat, with red flames starting at the hem and reaching up to his uppers thighs. The kanji for "Fourth Hokage" written in red was on his back going down between his shoulder blades, a small red clasp at chest level kept the coat closed. Yes, the person of question is indeed Minato Namikaze, an SS-ranked shinobi of the highest caliber and also the Hokage of the most powerful shinobi village in the Elemental Nations.
"Why am I such an idiot?" thought Minato, "What the fuck was I thinking doing something like that to my own son?" finished the now angry Yellow Flash as he though back to that day three months ago.
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The sounds of clapping reached his ears, smiling Minato thought that everyone agreed with him and mentally congratulated himself. He nor anyone else heard the sounds of feet running up the stair case, looking around Minato noticed that not everyone was clapping and mentally frowned trying to keep his displeasure under wraps.
"Why aren't they clapping, this should be a happy, joyous occasion, Natsuki is going to lead this family to greatness, I just know it, so why aren't they clapping?" thought the perplexed Hokage.
He looked at all the people not clapping and was surprised to find that one of the people not clapping was Kushina.
"Why isn't she happy that her daughter is going to be clan head? She should be crying tears of joy right now." Thought Minato.
With the Naras
The Naras looked shocked for a second and looked as Inoichi Yamanaka and Chouza Akimichi clapped, "Why the fuck are they clapping?" thought the lazy clan head, Shikaku Nara.
"Don't they realize what Minato just did? Should I tell them and Minato what he just did? That would just be too troublesome and it's not really my business anyways. Meh, it would just be too much work having to deal with all that, what's the worst that could happen?" Shikaku thought to himself, before sighing and keeping quiet, it would all work out in the end anyways so why should he correct others mistakes? It would all just be too troublesome.
With the Harunos
"Man that is just so messed up, how embarrassing it must be for that Naruto boy. That kid is going to be depressed for a while with this. At least he has Sakura-chan, hehe I wonder how long it will be before that girl will develop a crush on him, after all she hasn't stopped talking about him since she met him earlier." Mused Kizashi Haruno, father of Sakura Haruno.
"That poor boy, what kind of parents embarrass their child in front of everyone like that? From what Sakura has told me that boy doesn't really have any friends besides her, looks like he is going to be needing her now more than ever. Oh! I can already hear the wedding bells! At least she didn't develop some stupid crush on one of those stuck up Uchihas, this is a much better choice." Thought Mebuki Haruno, mother of Sakura Haruno, happily.
"Speaking of Sakura where is she?" she looked around and managed to catch a glimpse of pink hair go around a corner of the stairs leading up stairs. "That's my girl, go get your future husband!" cheered Mebuki, mentally smiling to herself.
With Kakashi, Shizune, Tsunade, and Jiriya
All four of them looked at the Hokage with worried expressions. With the way Kushina was looking at him right now they knew he was going to be in some serious trouble.
"You will be missed Sensei, say hi to Kami-sama, and my parents for Me." Thought the last living student of the yondaime, Kakashi Hatake.
"That fucking idiot! What the fuck does he thinks he's doing embarrassing Naruto like that! If Kushina doesn't kill him then I will." Huffed the legendary sucker, Tsunade Senju in her head.
"Wow, for being known for his kindness and his compassion that was pretty heartless Minato-sama." Thought Shizune Kato?
"What is this idiot student of mine doing? The toads' prophesized that twins would bring peace to the world, and if he makes Naruto hate him then the prophecy will never be fulfilled." Thought the legendary SUPER pervert, and author of Icha Icha Paradise, Jiraiya the toad sage.
With Kushina
"What the fuck is that baka doing?! We never discussed this! What gave him the idea to do something like this without asking me first! Oh when this party is over I'm so going to make him pay for this." Thought the now murderous Kushina, whose hair now started splitting behind her into nine strands, making her look like a certain demon fox in human form.
Back with Minato
Minato felt a shiver run down his spine as he soon noticed the look on Kushina, as well as the strands of her standing up and separating making her look even scarier than how she usually was.
"Why do I get the feeling I'm going to die soon?" thought the now scared Hokage.
Normal P.O.V
After watching Naruto leave Sakura locked the door and closed it before going back down stairs and then went straight to her parents. They looked at her curiously as she looked pretty calm and sort of happy in a way.
"I wonder what she is so happy about?" thought both of her parents.
With Sakura
Sakura looked around and gave a small glare to the Hokage before continuing to scan the room for the various reactions. She smiled slightly when she noticed the death glare that Kushina-sama was giving her husband. She looked at all the adults and was saddened by how they all seemed to forget their own rules so easily. Sakura frowned when she saw all the kids her age were around Natsuki and congratulating her for becoming the new heir of her clan. She was puzzled though when she saw the uncertain look on Natsuki's face as she looked at her friends and gave them all a fake happy smile.
"So it seems that Naruto was the only one who was studying for the clan head position and it seemed that Natsuki thought that since her brother was going to be clan head why would she have to study all this." Thought Sakura.
Sakura was taken out of her thoughts when she noticed Kushina-sama coming over to her.
Normal P.O.V
"Hey there sweetie, you're Naru-chan's friend right?" asked Kushina giving the small pink haired girl a dazzling smile.
Sakura looked at her and admired her beauty before responding, "Yes."
"I saw that you were coming from upstairs earlier and I was wondering if you knew where Naru-chan went?" asked the red headed woman.
"I need to give him enough time to escape, what should I tell her?" thought Sakura. Thinking of something fast she replied, "He is upstairs in his room, he wants to be left alone for the night." Lied Sakura smoothly, surprising even herself with how natural it came it out.
Kushina at hearing that looked down sadly, she then got even angrier at Minato for this stupid little surprise that he had presented everyone with. Sighing she looked down at the young girl and gave her a small smile.
"Ok, thanks sweetie." She said before walking over to Tsuande and the others.
Sakura watched her as she walked away and smiled at herself for being so good at lying and of being able to help Naruto-kun out. She then smiled and went back to talking to her parents about Naruto and some other stuff.
After the party
Minato shivered as he looked at Kushina and Tsunade and the looks on their faces when the last guests had left. Natsuki was sitting on the couch with a slightly frightened expression on her face with how baa-chan and kaa-chan were looking at her tou-chan. Jiraiya, Kakashi, and Shizune also looked frightened at the two pissed off look on the women's faces.
"Natsuki, sweetie, how about you go upstairs and get ready for bed?" Minato said, wishing to spare his daughter the traumatic experience of seeing him get murdered by her mother.
"Okay!" said Natsuki happily running out of the room so that she wouldn't be caught in the cross fire.
Minato looked nervously over at his wife and bit back the girlish scream that was sure to escape him at the murderous look his wife was giving him.
"So Kushi-" Minato tried to say before being interrupted by his wife.
"Don't you "Kushina-chan" me you dumbass! What the fuck was that earlier? What gave you this stupid idea to make that sort of decision without talking to me first!?" she asked/demanded.
"W-well, I thought since that Natsuki was doing so good in her training and that she shows a lot of promise so I thought it would be a great idea to surprise her and you for Natsuki's birthday." Said Minato rubbing the back of his neck nervously.
"What about Naruto you dumbass how do you think he feels about all this and being passed up on his own birthright?" said Tsunade chipping in her two cents, while also glaring at Minato.
"I'm sure he doesn't mind at all, by the way where is he?" asked Minato.
"Naruto's little friend Sakura said that he went up to his room and that he didn't want to talk to anyone at the moment." Said Kushina, still giving Minato an angry glare.
"Well then we are just going to have to wake him up. That way he can tell you that he doesn't have a problem with it." Said Minato.
"NO! We are at least going to allow him some time so that he can get used this or at least sleep before we have that conversation." Said Kushina, before going to the kitchen and grabbing a bottle of sake and some glasses.
"For now everyone come have a drink." She said, Tsunade quickly agreeing as well as Jiraiya.
The next morning
Multiple groans were heard as everyone began to try to shake themselves of their drunken states.
"KAA-CHAN! NARU-NII IS GONE! HE'S GONE WHAT DO WE DO?!" Yelled Natsuki making everyone wince at the volume before what she said registered with everyone.
"What! What do you mean he's gone!" yelled a frantic Kushina.
"Calm down everyone, he probably just left early because he's still upset about last night." Reasoned Minato.
"No, no, you're probably right but I still want him found so that I can just be sure that he is safe." Said Kushina.
"No problem Kushi-chan." Said Minato before flaring his chakra making ANBU shunshin into the room.
"You four go look for my son, Eagle, go to his room and see if you can get his scent to make this go faster." Said Minato, the Inuzuka nodded and went up to the room while the rest left to search the village.
"See Kushi-"started Minato, before being interrupted by the eagle masked Inuzuka.
"I'm sorry sir but the scent I got says that he hasn't been in his room since last night. I didn't find any other scents suggesting that he left by himself" Said Eagle.
"What? Grab another team and try to find his scent." Ordered Minato.
"I'm going with them." Said Kushina, Kakahshi and the others agreeing they all split up, with Shizune staying behind to watch the now crying Natsuki.
Six hours later
Everyone appeared back in the house everyone looking at one another seeing if someone was successful. Next the ANBU squads showed and everyone was disappointed when they came back empty handed.
"Did you find any clues?" Asked Minato.
"Negative sir, we followed his scent for as long as we could but there was so much wind and trail if fairly cold, also we only found what appeared to be a battle of some sorts and all the blood made it almost impossible to keep tracking Naruto's scent." Explained Dragon the captain of the two squads.
"Oh Kami, was Naruto's scent near the battle site?" asked a now very worried Kushina.
"I'm afraid so Kushina-sama, but that's where the scent ran cold do to the large number of other scents in the area." Said Eagle.
"Keep looking, if you find anything or any leads, follow it. Do you understand?" said Minato.
"HAI HOKAGE-SAMA!" yelled the AMBU before they all left.
Kushina went to the couch and hugged Natsuki close, "Why? Why would he just leave like that?" asked Kushina, tears beginning to spill.
"Maybe it was because of what happened last night?" proposed Kakashi.
Hearing that made Tsunade's eyes widen, "Everyone I just remembered something." She said, gaining everyone's attention.
"What is it Hime?" asked Jiraiya, everyone looking at her.
Tears began forming in eyes as she looked over at everyone, "We all forgot a very important clan law, that while isn't very practiced anymore is still in effect." She said as she chocked back a sob.
Kushina seemed confused before her eyes shot open and as she sat down on the couch sobbing, "Oh kami, oh Kami, naru-chan." She said her voice shaking.
"Kushina why are you crying what's wrong?" asked Minato.
"M-mina-kun w-we ban-nished our own s-son from the c-clan." She said as her sobs became too great and she broke down.
Minato eyes widened as did everyone else's after remembering the law that stated should the clan heir be found incompetent and replaced they are to be banished from the clan to avoid further signs of weakness. It was a law set in motion during the time of the Nidiame's death so that clans could choose the child who was deemed stronger to lead while the weaker one was sent away from the clan so as to not further embarrass the clan.
Realizing what he had Mianto walked over to Kushina and hugger her tight, "I am so sorry Kushina-chan I didn't mean for this to happen." He whispered.
"Why'd you do it daddy? Why? I never wanted to be the clan heir in the first place! Naru-nii was always better at politics and clan laws and stuff he even said that when I became Hokage he would help me and be my right hand man. Now that will never happen." Said Natsuki, before running upstairs and locking herself in Naruto's room.
Kakashi looked over at Jiraiya and said, "So it seems that Naruto knew this and chose to run away."
Jiraiya simply nodded and said "I probably could've reverse summoned him back here but my scatter brained apprentice decided that when I was about to have them sign to make the announcement. So that's a no go."
"Well the only thing we can hope for is that either one of the ANBU patrols will find him or that Naruto decides to come back of his own free will, and who knows when that will be." Commented Shizune.
Sighing everyone but the Namikazes decided to head back out to join the ongoing search.
"I am so sorry Naru-chan please forgive your stupid mother." Thought Kushina as she sobbed into Minato's sage cloak.
"Will Naruto be able to one day forgive me for what I've done?" Thought a crying and remorseful Minato.
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Minato shook his head at the awful memory and continued to look out the window, Kushina kicked him out of the house for a week and refused to speak to him or Nartsuki for that period getting very drunk before he managed to force her to snap out of it. Thankfully she sent Natsuki away to Tsunade's before breaking out the bottles.
Natsuki on the other only recently has started talking to him again but he was making slow progress on that end. She now has thrown herself into her studies determined to be the greatest Hokage in history. She also has stepped up her ninja training so that she can graduate and begin searching for her twin.
Minato couldn't help but wonder what his son was doing.
WITH NARUTO IN IRON COUNTRY
Sparks flew as Senbozakura clashed with Mifune's blade before he had to dodge the low swipe to his midsection. He also retalitated with two quick thrusts trying to create an opening before his sword was knocked from his hands as Mifune placed his sword to Naruto's throat.
"Congratulations Naruto, this time you lasted two minutes before being disarmed." Said Mifune with the amusement and pride evident in his voice.
"Keep it up like this and you'll learn everything I can teach you by the time you're thirteen." He commented.
"I won't disappoint you sensei this way I also be able to start learning and practicing kido and learning my elemental affinity." Said Naruto between pants as he retrieved his Zanpaktou.
"I'm sure, now run fifty laps well begin taijutsu training right after." Said Mifune as he thought about the tort- training he was about to put Naruto through.
Naruto couldn't help but feel this was going to be a long five years.
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OKAY PEOPLE NO I AM SORRY THAT IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO WRITE THIS CHAPTER BUT I HIT SOME WRITER'S BLOCK AND GOT LAZY. ILL TRY TO UPDATE THIS AND NARUTO UCHIHA V2 AS QUICKLY AS I CAN SO BEAR WITH ME PEOPLE.
NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE THE COMPLETION OF NARUTO'S TRAINING AND THE BEGINNING OF HIS JOURNEY BEFORE RETURNING TO THE LEAF.
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