Disclaimer: All HP characters are the property of JKR, the WB, and respective publishing companies and all Naruto characters are the property of Masashi Kishimoto. This is nothing more than a simple FanFiction that I have written. I have made no money from this or any of the other stories I have posted on this or other sites.

Warnings: AU for parts of both worlds (i.e. kiss canon goodbye), mild character bashing, mild to moderate violence (there are shinobi involved after all), and a few others that will be announced as they crop up.

AN: This story is self-beta'd; so there may be occasional grammatical or spelling errors that crop up every now and then and for those I apologize in advance.

Chapter 2: On the Other Side

Friday, January 22, 1999, Morning
Konohagakure no Sato, Hi no Kuni

The Sandaime Hokage watched from his office window as his shinobi scoured the village in search of the missing blond child that housed the Kyuubi. From the moment Iruka had reported that Naruto had not turned up when classes restarted after the winter break and that he'd been unable to locate the child in any of his usual hiding holes, Sarutobi Hiruzen had felt an icy stone settle in his stomach. He'd immediately sent his AnBu out into the village to search for clues as to what had happened to the young child; they'd all come back empty handed.

No one had even seen a glimpse of the boy since the twentieth of December.

The fact that there had not been one single prank played in all that time confirmed the boy was not simply hiding to evade capture.

That knowledge bothered him because no one had felt the need to look into the matter sooner or even inform him of the anomaly and he never had time to visit the boy this time of the year due to the sheer amount of paperwork he had to deal with before the end of the year.

Throughout the last eight years, he'd struggled to protect the child as much as he could when he was blocked at almost every turn by the councils and his advisors. He'd been far too tired and heartsick to fight them at every turn due to his grief over losing his wife (the love of his life), Minato (who'd been like a son to him), Kushina (a source of much laughter in Sarutobi's life), and hundreds of shinobi and civilians alike all in one night. And then he'd lost Chouko (his beloved daughter) just four years after that when she'd died giving birth to his first and only grandson.

To lose Uzumaki Naruto now, who'd been both an honorary grandson to him and Minato and Kushina's living legacy (in more than one way), was a harsh blow. The knowledge that he'd allowed his grief to lead him down this road tasted bitter in the back of his throat as he only had himself to blame. Anger soon followed the guilt and he swore he'd take the village apart brick by brick to find the little blond bundle of sunshine if he had to. When he got his hands on the person or persons responsible for kidnapping the child, he'd make an example of them before the entire village.

And they had better pray that Naruto was unharmed or he'd show them exactly why it was unwise to piss off the Shinobi no Kami.

Turning away from the window, Sarutobi faced the five men standing in the room with him (their faces hidden beneath porcelain masks cast in the shape of various animals) and addressed them, "It is time to deal with Danzou; I want every last weed that that man has allowed to take Root in my village to be ripped out in its entirety. If he resists; kill him. It is high time that I cleared the village of rotting deadwood."

"Hai, Hokage-sama."

Sarutobi didn't bother to watch the men leave, instead turning back to face the window as he continued to monitor the blue and green clad shinobi patrolling the streets and interrogating the villagers as he tried not to think about the fact that he'd just ordered his former friend and rival to be killed if he resisted arrest. Every so often, a man or a woman would be dragged off in the direction of the Torture and Interrogation Facility to be questioned further.

The Sandaime could practically see the fear spreading through the village as the civilians were abruptly reminded that this village was a military village, not a peaceful civilian village.

He would teach them the folly of mistaking his benevolence for weakness.

Friday, January 22, 1999, Morning
Yama no Kuni, Elemental Nations &
Mt. Asahi, Hokkaido, Japan

It would take Naruto ten long days to find the portal; two days of that time spent running from a small group of bandits that had crossed paths with him at one point.

Naruto hadn't recognized the portal for what it was at first; the weatherworn seals barely visible on the face of the mountain between two of the taller ridges and only visible at very specific times of the day. He'd actually passed the thing twice before he'd caught the briefest glimpse of the seals as the sun hit them just right to form shadows of the slight depressions and found the ancient stone sign post designating the spot as the West Gate. The eight year old had then camped beside the portal for two days before he worked up the courage to activate the portal using his chakra.

Sapphire eyes danced with wonder as his chakra raced through the seals carved onto the side of the mountain; the lines of the seals glowing blue as he continued to pour chakra into the stone until the entire design was glowing brightly. The moment he dropped his hands, the wall shimmered with the light of the seals for several seconds before the light seemed to melt into the very stone to form a doorway of what looked like water. Swallowing his doubts and fears, Naruto hitched his backpack up higher on his back before he stuck a hand into the liquid light and felt warmth engulf his fingers instead of the chill he'd expected.

Feeling reassured, Naruto stepped forward to pass through the strange warmth of the portal and immediately found himself stepping out onto the mountain again. For several minutes, Naruto thought he'd done something wrong until he realized that the mountain he was standing on looked nothing like the mountain he'd just left behind. A glance behind him revealed a much less worn version of the portal he'd activated on the other side; the seals far easier to read even if they were still somewhat weather worn.

Turning away from the inactive portal, Naruto turned his eyes outwards. The view from his current position was absolutely magnificent (even better than the view from the top of the Hokage's Monument) and his eyes darted back and forth as he tried to take in everything. After several long minutes of just staring out over the countryside that the mountain overlooked, it dawned on Naruto that he'd made it; he'd escaped the Elemental Countries without getting caught and dragged back to Konoha.

Elation filled the eight year old and he whooped loudly before he tried to figure out which way he should go; did he continue traveling west in the hopes of finding a village where he could get directions or did he pick another direction? Uncertain of where to go next, Naruto created fifty Kage Bunshin and sent them off in groups of five to find a way down out of the mountains and search for any sign of civilization.

While he waited for his clones to return or dispel, Naruto unsealed the information he'd gathered on the Outer Countries and read through it again while he ate a handful of dried apricots for breakfast (the eight year old had been too nervous to eat before he had activated the portal). An hour later, the first group dispelled and Naruto winced when he discovered that the mountain he was sitting on was actually an active volcano based upon what his clones had found above the portal before they dispelled. He immediately began to worry how safe he was sitting on the mountain as he was and he nearly bolted straight down the side of the mountain in a sheer panic.

The information he got from the second and third group, which had both dispelled at the same time, proved much more helpful and filled Naruto with more than a little relief. The second group had seen what appeared to be a large village off in the distance to the north-west of the volcano while the third group had discovered what appeared to be a hiking trail on the north side of the volcano, five miles below the portal. Without bothering to wait and see what his other clones discovered, Naruto packed up the few things he'd taken out and made a beeline for the trail. Once he reached the trail, the eight year old kept to the trees beside the trail in order to avoid being seen by any hikers moving about in the area.

Traveling through the daylight hours felt more than a little strange for the eight year old after he'd been moving through the darkness for so long. He would have preferred to continue traveling by night but knew it would be far safer to travel through the daylight hours now that he was in completely unknown territory with no maps, no written directions, and no clue as to what dangers lurked on this side of the portal. It would also be far easier to gather information during the day as that was when most other people would be moving about.

It would take Naruto three days to make his way down to the outskirts of the village his clones had seen from the summit of the mountain. The moment he got his first up close view of the village, icy fear griped Naruto's heart as he stared in shock at the sheer size of the town. He'd once thought Konoha had been large but when compared to the sprawling metropolis in front of him, Konoha might as well have been a poor farm village. On top of that, the noisy metal carriages that ran without horses were strange beyond belief and the smell they gave off burned the inside of Naruto's sensitive nose and made his eyes water while the sounds they made hurt his ears.

Naruto had no idea where to even start looking for his uncle in such a place; luckily for the eight year old, he at least had a way to make the search a tiny bit less daunting.

Under cover of night, Naruto used the Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu to create roughly five hundred clones that slipped into the city one by one; each one of them under a different henge to look like an assortment of birds, cats, dogs, rats, and more than a few foxes. Their orders, for their first foray into the city, were merely to explore the streets and get a feel for what the place was like and where things were located. They also had very specific orders not to dispel all at the same time; Naruto didn't want to turn his brain into mush after all and he'd learned early on that dispelling too many clones at once gave him a severe migraine on top of exhausting him with their fatigue.

While his clones were off learning about the city, Naruto hunted for a place to camp for a few days; making certain that it was far enough out from the city that he wouldn't be noticed but close enough that he could enter the city reasonably quickly if he needed to for any reason. Once he found a suitable location, he set up his camp and thoroughly trapped the area to prevent anyone from sneaking up on him. He then made himself something to eat before he curled up in his sleeping bag and tried not to think about just how daunting of a task he'd set himself.

His dreams that night were frightening; his imagination spinning out of his control as it took the worst of his memories and combined them with the memories his clones sent him of the city he'd stumbled upon. The nightmares started with crushing mobs (far larger than those he'd faced in Konoha) chasing him and cornering him every time he turned around only for him to end up being chased by the frightening machines that sped along the roads until he stumbled across a man that looked like an older Minato who glared at him with cold and hateful eyes. Naruto jerked awake after that last one with a strangled cry and tears pouring down his face.

Once he realized it had only been a night terror, the eight year old relaxed a bit and wiped his face clean. Knowing he wouldn't be able to sleep again any time soon, for fear of facing yet another nightmare, Naruto got up and threw himself into his taijutsu training. Each set of katas he did only reinforced his determination to find his uncle and prove that his nightmares and the village that had hated him were both wrong; he was not an unlovable demon. His fear that his uncle would hate him just as much as the villagers he left behind was soon buried once more beneath his sweat and a burning desire for a family.

Over the next three days, Naruto continued to train himself into the ground as he waited for his clones to find something that he could use to decide his next move. He'd lost a few the first night when those strange metal contraptions ran them over (the memories of which had helped to fuel his nightmares) in addition to losing a few as they were captured in traps (mostly the rats) or kicked about by people during the day (a small number of people seeing the stray cats and dogs as filthy vermin). The memories they'd collected before their 'deaths' were proving exceedingly helpful though as they allowed him to familiarize himself with the city's layout without risk of him getting injured or mugged.

It was on his second day of waiting, when his clones reported to him a discovery of utmost importance; the city (which he'd learned the first night was called Asahikawa-shi) was famous for its ramen and there must be dozens of ramen restaurants and stands spread through out the city. Naruto automatically assumed that he'd just landed in the ramen capital of the world as he began drooling over the prospect of sampling the many different types of ramen his clones had seen throughout their explorations. (It would be a few months before he learned that there were many cities throughout Japan that were famous for their ramen and that it was Fukuoka-shi in Kyushu that was considered by a good number of people to be the ramen capital of Japan).

The only thing that prevented Naruto from rushing into town to devour his first bowl of ramen in ages (it had been well over a month since his last bowl of Ichiraku's ramen after all) was the fact that the prices were confusing him. All of the stands his clones had seen were asking between six hundred and one thousand yen for a single bowl of ramen and he wasn't certain how much that would be in ryō. He didn't even know if the restaurants and stand owners would take ryō in place of yen and he couldn't afford to spend all of his money on ramen when he still had no idea where to find his uncle.

On the afternoon of his third day waiting, Naruto froze as he received a memory from one of his clones. The clone in question had been wandering around in the henge of a fox (his way of thumbing his nose at Konoha for their treatment of him due to his status as the Kyuubi's host) when it had been picked up by the scruff of the neck quite unexpectedly and found itself face to face with a rather formidable looking man.

"I've felt you running all over the city for the last three days and at first thought the Elemental Countries had somehow managed to send an army through the portals until I realized that each and every one of the five hundred or so points of chakra running wild through the city all carried the same signature. That made me stop and think about how one person could possibly manage to be in so many different places at one time until I recalled jijii speaking of a man that could make clones. I'm quite impressed that you could manage to create so many copies of yourself without killing yourself as I distinctly recall my grandfather saying that solid clones were a costly technique to use."

"I was further impressed when I observed several dozen of your clones and noted that they all looked quite different and that you'd hidden them as animals instead of people. However, I can't just let you keep running all over the city like that though; someone is bound to notice the sudden increase in strays and start investigating. So, if you are not the original, then I need you to take a message back to the original and tell him to get rid of the rest of his clones and meet me right here in three hours."

"It is probably best that the original comes disguised as another fox because I don't know if the clothes you are wearing will stand out or not and those of us that live in the Elemental District don't need the added attention that that will draw to us as it will only make our job all that much harder. I will give you my word that I mean you no harm; it is my job to keep those who pass through the portal from drawing attention to themselves. I can also provide you with maps and information to help you find whatever it was that brought you to the Outer Countries, no matter what your reason."

The man had then set the fox back down on the ground and the clone in question had watched the man for a few minutes before he promptly dispelled himself to pass along the message as requested. A crow clone had dispelled itself a few minutes later; the clone had followed the man through the air as he wound his way through the streets and entered a walled off section that had a huge sign proclaiming it to be the Elemental District. The crow clone had also noted a couple of other clones arriving in the area before it dispelled so Naruto knew the man was under surveillance.

Naruto debated with himself for close to an hour on whether or not he'd do as the man asked. In the end, he figured it couldn't hurt to meet with the man at least once just to find out what the man had to say. He couldn't really walk away from a chance to get a few of his questions answered about the dangerous machines that ran through the city and whether or not he could buy ramen with the ryō he'd saved up and brought with him. To that end, Naruto created four new clones and sent one of them to track down one of the older clones in order to pass along his orders to immediately pull out of the city and dispel in groups of five every ten minutes starting an hour after sunset (in order to give him time to meet with the man without being distracted by a flood of memories and to prevent a large backlash of memories).

Once the clone headed for the city, Naruto set about packing up his camp and dismantling his traps. The eight year old and the three remaining clones then made their way closer to the village before he transformed into a fox as the man had requested (his clones transforming alongside of him into a trio of birds to follow him from above) and slipped into the city. Naruto paused when he received a set of memories from one of his original clones indicating that his message had been passed on in addition to all of the information it had gathered over the past three days. As soon as he sorted through those memories, Naruto began moving again; taking care to avoid both people and the smelly, roaring machines.

He arrived at the appointed meeting place a good thirty-five minutes early and scouted about for the perfect hiding place as two of the newest clones set themselves up in clear view to act as sentries (one staying in the guise of a sparrow and the other changing into an orange tabby cat). The last clone with him had gone to shadow the man from earlier wearing the form of a pigeon to make certain he didn't try to pull any funny business. As soon as Naruto found and settled into a small gap beneath a set of stairs leading up into the building above him, he cast the Meisai Gakure no Jutsu to further hide his presence as he settled down to wait for the man to return.

He didn't have long to wait, the man arrived a good fifteen minutes early. Naruto didn't rush out to greet him though, the blond was far more interested in studying the man with his own eyes first. One of the first things he noted was that while the man easily noted the three clones in plain sight (sparrow, pigeon, and cat), he didn't seem to know that the original Naruto was hiding under the stairs as he never once looked in that direction. The second thing he noted was the fact that the man didn't seem at all angry that Naruto didn't show himself immediately or that he hadn't exactly followed his instructions of dispelling all of the clones.

In fact, the man's dark eyes held none of the cold hate that the villagers back in Konoha had; but Naruto wasn't dense enough to think that that meant that the man wouldn't hate him the moment he set eyes on him in his original form. After another ten minutes had passed, Naruto dropped the camouflage technique and slipped out of his hiding place; a small part of him pleased to note that the man jumped in surprise at his sudden appearance. Naruto warily watched as the man approached him, his posture defensive (much like a real fox would be if approached by a human).

"Easy," the man gruffly (if kindly) urged as he crouched down not far from where Naruto was poised to bolt at the first sign of trouble. "I'm not going to hurt you but you can't keep wandering around on the streets; you could get into all kinds of trouble that would make life difficult for you."

Naruto snorted; he was well aware of just how dangerous this new city had turned out to be after experiencing his clones being killed in a number of different ways. After a moment, he crept a little closer to the man and lifted his nose as he caught the man's scent; his mouth watering when he recognized the scent of ramen clinging to him. He sneezed and backed up a bit when the man laughed the moment that Naruto's stomach gave a loud growl in response to the smell of his favorite food.

"It sounds like you're a little hungry," the man needlessly stated a moment later. "If you'll let me carry you back to the Elemental District, my wife was just finishing supper and you're welcome to join us for the meal before you and I sit down and talk business. Izumi makes a mean salt ramen and we have baked yellow fish and shrimp tempura to go with it in addition to green tea ice cream for dessert. Your three friends are welcome to tag along if it will make you feel more comfortable."

The prospect of a free home cooked meal was enough to sway Naruto; he was tired of his own cooking and from the scent clinging to the man, he hadn't been exaggerating about his wife's culinary skills. Two minutes later, Naruto was tensely cradled in the man's arms as he navigated the streets with ease while his three clones trailed them from the sky (all three of them now in sparrow form in order to draw less attention to their presence). The moment the five of them passed beneath the gate leading into the Elemental District, Naruto felt an immediate difference as the level of pollution and noise dropped off dramatically and he stiffened in the man's arms as he scented the air.

"The Elemental District is surrounded by an ancient barrier that separates us from the rest of the city," the man explained as he set Naruto down on the ground. "It is safe for you to drop your disguise now."

Naruto backed up several feet and eyed the man skeptically for a full minute before he studied the area he found himself inside; instinctively taking note of the various places that he potentially could hide in and at least three alternate escape routes in the event that the man showed any signs of becoming hostile the moment he got a look at him. After a moment, Naruto glanced back towards the man who was patiently waiting and reluctantly dropped the henge he'd been wearing.

"Chikushou, you're nothing but a kid!" the man swore in utter shock the moment he saw Naruto's true form. "What are you doing running about the city alone? Where are your parents? Did something happen to them after you passed through the portal? Or is that another disguise?"

"I'm not wearing a henge and my parents are dead; they died a long time ago," Naruto quietly replied as he backed up a bit further from the man.

"Who came with you then, kid?"

"No one."

"Chikushou," the man cursed again as he pursed his lips and stared at Naruto with open concern. "How old are you and how long have you been on your own?"

"I'm eight and I've always been on my own. Are you going to chase me out now?"

"No, I'm not going to chase you out. I am just shocked that you are so young and unaccompanied by an adult. As I told your clone earlier, it is my job to make certain that those that pass through the portal on Asahi-dake can blend in on this side of the portal and to point them in the right direction to find whatever it was that they came here to find. My name is Sasaki Naoki; I am the Guardian of the West Gate and the fifteenth mayor of Asahikawa-shi's Elemental District."

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto, dattebayo," Naruto declared as he completely relaxed the moment he sensed the man's sincerity, a large grin springing into place beneath the cloth face mask he still wore.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Uzumaki-kun. If you'll follow me, I will guide you to the bathing house so that you can clean up before I take you home and introduce you to my wife. Do you have a clean set of clothes to change into or do we need to stop and get you something to borrow until those are washed?"

"I have clean clothes."

The hot shower Naruto took felt heavenly; it had been well over a month since he'd last been truly clean. It also felt nice to put on clean clothes that weren't grimy and gritty from the weeks of travel (the eight year old had not bothered to change his outfit during his journey; simply washing it when he washed himself in the few rivers he crossed before entering Kaze no Kuni. It also felt rather nice to leave his hair and face uncovered for the first time in a long time and he reveled in being in his familiar orange jumpsuit with a black t-shirt on underneath.

The amount of weight he'd lost during his journey was much more evident now that he was in his old jumpsuit. The pants and jacket had always been rather loose and baggy on him but now the pants barely stayed up and his jacket practically hung off of his skinny frame. On the plus side, his traveling diet of wild fruits and vegetables combined with plenty of fresh game (he'd saved the cheap food bars and preserved fruits he'd purchased for the journey for when he couldn't find anything edible) had induced a small growth spurt (due to the influx of vitamins and minerals that weren't found in his usual diet of store-bought ramen) and the eight year old now stood two inches taller than he had a month earlier.

Naoki-san did a double take when Naruto reappeared after his shower; the eight year old looked much different now that he wasn't clothed from head to foot in dark green and black. His bright yellow hair also stood out alongside of the six whisker marks the graced his cheeks. Naruto tensed up a bit when he noticed the man intently studying the facial marks that looked like a cross between a birthmark and a tattoo but relaxed when the man simply smiled and beckoned him to follow him once more.

Naruto was soon introduced to Sasaki Izumi (a pretty woman with dark brown eyes and a ready smile) and little three year old Sasaki Kenichi. Moments later, he was seated at a small table beside the small family with a large bowl of ramen in front of him alongside a small bowl of steamed rice, and a plate of fish and shrimp tempura. It was a veritable feast for a child that had been dining on scorpions, ground squirrels, cactus fruit, dry meal bars, and dried fruits for most of the past three weeks (the desert and mountains he'd crossed both being far more barren than the forests surrounding Konoha).

Despite the meal being much larger than he was used to eating, the eight year old managed to eat everything he'd been served and even finagled a second bowl of ramen from Izumi-san by complimenting her cooking skills. Naruto was then shown to a guest room and urged to get some rest when it became apparent he was exhausted; a state that was mostly due to the sheer number of exhausted clones that had begun dispelling not long after he'd sat down to eat. He slept well that night due to a combination of a pleasantly full stomach, a comfortable futon, and the feeling of security that came from sleeping beneath a roof for the first time in weeks.

Not even the continued stream of memories pouring in from his dispelling clones disturbed him that night.

His host woke him up shortly after dawn the next morning and served him breakfast before he led him through the Elemental District to his office. Once they were both seated, Naoki got right down to business as he pulled out a thick stack of blank forms while he launched into an explanation, "The Elemental Districts, of which there are a total of four (one for each portal that was created between our worlds), were created shortly after the Elemental Countries were sealed away in a dimensional pocket. The purpose of the Elemental Districts, aside from aiding those who to pass through the portals (regardless of which side they were born on), is to stand watch in order to prevent a war from breaking out between our worlds."

"As one of the four Guardians that stand watch over the portals, I am also tasked to keep a detailed record of all who pass through the West Gate Portal. The purpose of those records is threefold: it allows us to keep an accurate record of the number of people that cross over each year, it allows us to keep track of those who pass through the portals and whether or not they returned to their point of origin, and it allows us to help people search for family members that chose not to return for one reason or another. The individual records are all sealed in such a way that only a Guardian may access them; that is to insure that all who pass through the gates will not be hunted by those that seek to harm them."

"So, before I can make arrangements for a tutor to help you learn how to navigate through this world's cities, I will need you to answer a few questions in order to give me a better understanding of why you chose to travel through the West Gate," Naoki finished as he calmly met Naruto's troubled gaze. "We'll start with the easy questions and work our way up to the more difficult questions. First, I'll need to know your birthdate, the city or village and country in which you were born, and the names of your parents. Also, if you have any official documents with you, such as a birth certificate, travel papers, or a shinobi identification card, then I will need to see those so that I can make copies of them for your file."

Naruto eyed the man for a moment before he pulled out the scroll that contained his family's file that he'd stolen from the storage warehouse well over three months earlier. Once he released the file, he carefully pulled out those documents that he thought would be most relevant; his birth certificate, his parents' birth, marriage, and death certificates, and his uncle's birth certificate, medical records, and the document listing the known details of his uncle's quest to seek healing in the Outer Countries. He carefully withheld anything with any mention of the Kyuubi on it; not wanting the man to turn cold should he learn about the Kyuubi sealed inside of the eight year old or worse throw him back through the portal because of the demon.

Naoki was pleasantly surprised to be presented with those documents as it meant it would be far easier to recreate the appropriate paperwork and documents on this side of the portal; something that would allow Naruto to travel far easier (which was going to be difficult enough as it was due to his age). That Naruto also had copies of his own medical files and Academy records would be helpful too; though his academic records were far from accurate. After providing Naoki with the basic background information, Naruto tentatively explained that he had left Konoha in order to track down his uncle because the man was potentially his last remaining family he had that was alive.

The eight year old was then sent to the small clinic within the Elemental District in order to undergo a comprehensive medical exam and to be given the standard immunizations that all children his age were required to have. After that, Naruto was taken to sit for an assessment test to see exactly where he sat academically for those subjects that were taught universally on both sides of the portal (such as math, science, reading comprehension, writing composition, and social awareness). The hyperactive blond was feeling fairly wrung out by the time Naoki collected him and took him back to his house for the evening; he'd never expected to be tested, poked, and prodded all in one day.

The next day was only slightly better as he was given a complete mental evaluation and a physical fitness assessment before he was taken to a special facility where his shinobi skills were tested and his chakra levels evaluated. Only the announcement that he was finished with all of the required exams kept him from throwing a temper tantrum about being sent through the wringer for the second day in a row. That night, Naruto would sleep peacefully for the third night in a row in the guest room at the Sasaki residence after spending a couple of hours playing with little Kenichi.

Translations: Japanese to English

Asahi-dake – Mt. Asahi (highest point in Hokkaido Japan)
Asahikawa-shi – Asahikawa City (the capital city of Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan)
Chikushou – damn/damn it
Chouko – Japanese girl's name meaning butterfly child
Fukuoka-shi – Fukuoka City (the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan)
Hai – yes
Izumi – Japanese girl's name meaning spring or fountain
Kenichi – a Japanese boy's name meaning strong, healthy son (firstborn)
Naoki – Japanese boy's name meaning honest timber tree
Ojiisan/Jiisan/Jijii – grandfather or old man
Sasaki – Japanese surname meaning help tree

Techniques/Skills:

Henge no Jutsu – Transformation technique
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu – Shadow Clone
Meisai Gakure no Jutsu – Camouflage Concealment Technique
Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu – Multiple Shadow Clone Technique

Notes:

Kage Bunshin – Now, I have no idea whether or not it is canon or fanon but I am using the Kage Bunshin's ability to pass memories back to the original to also pass memories to existing clones. The reason for this, is because I see all of the clones as being fundamentally connected on some level which allows the chakra to carry the memories back to the original and since some of the chakra is bound to scatter in different directions, I see no reason for that scattered chakra not to carry memories to the clones that were all created in the same moment since they are all a part of Naruto. Any clones created after the first group would not be able to pass their memories along to the older clones however, because their connection to the older clones would be far too weak.

10-24-15: Minor edits made to chapter to fix spelling/grammar mistakes and removed unnecessary author's notes.