Chapter 3: Mother meets son
It has been five years since Naruto did his training with Madara and it was time to go back to the konoha today, but he was having his last sparring match before he goes to do his graduation test to become a genin. But there was one thing that always bothered Naruto was: weren't they looking for him?
"Before we start Madara-sensei, am I going to be allowed back in the village even though I have been missing for five years?"asked Naruto.
Madara turned to his student as they reached the training ground. Looking at the boy who had grown up from the useless brat, as he would like to put it, to a 'Perfect Uchiha' that can be used for his plans. Naruto was wearing black ninja sandals, white ANBU pants and dark blue, high collar jacket with a white t-shirt, at the back was a Uchiha fan crest at the top of the jacket. His hands were covered with black gloves that went a little past his wrists. His face still had his whisker marks but they were becoming more faint as he grows up and his face had lost its baby fat. He grew his black with a navy blue tint hair up to mid-back and a bang that covered most of his right eye that went up to his chin and had his fully matured sharingan staring at his sensei.
"They would allow you to go back, because you have been attending class or rather the blood clone I made for you when we transplanted the eyes for the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan" explained Madara.
"Can't believe you fooled me with that blood clone to think I had killed you, but what excuse did you give my clone for missing for three weeks?"asked a curious Naruto.
"You'll find out when you dispel it and I'm still surprised with how fast you mastered your Mangekyou abilities."
"Oh come on you really not going to tell me aren't you?"half asked half groaned Naruto only to no response from Madara." Fine, but you always do this. (Sigh) I guess we better finish this before I'm late for graduation"and with that said he charged at Madara at high chunin speed. He jumped up to try and kick Madara in the face only to be ducked and as soon as Madara saw the kick passed him, he quickly pushed Naruto's body and quickly turned around to aim a kick to Naruto in the back while he was unable to gain his balance. When the kick touched his back, he burst into a flock of crows.
"(Tch) You really are Itachi's brother, you've been doing that since the day he taught you it"Madara said as he watched the crows merge back together a few feet away.
Naruto responded by doing a few hand signs" Fire style: Fireball jutsu" and followed up with "Wind style: Great Vacuum Cannon" to boost the speed of his already large fireball at Madara who used Kamui to get away. The wind enhanced fireball continued until it hit the trees surrounding the training ground and exploded creating a smoke screen blocking Naruto's view of the other side of the field.
Then when he heard a faint sound behind him, thanks to the Kyuubi enhancing his abilities, he ducked on instinct to see a fist fly over his and channelled his chakra to his right elbow and move towards Madara's stomach. But when felt nothing, he turned his head to the right to see he had fazed through Madara who was in the midst of spinning. Before Naruto could comprehend what was going on, he felt pain at back of his head from a spinning kick from Madara and was sent crashing into the ground.
Getting up he weaved more hand signs and said "Fire style: Dragon flame jutsu" and a fire dragon came from Naruto racing towards Madara jumped to the left. Naruto seeing this threw a kunai at his sensei hoping to catch him off guard. But when the kunai hit his sensei turned into mud and when Naruto felt a cold blade place at his neck he knew he had lost.
"That's enough you'll be late for your genin test" stated Madara while looking at Naruto who was dusting the dirt on his clothes.
"Fine, but I still have a hour before 8."
"You will need the hour, now no more delays, you will leave now, dispel the clone and rest for half an hour. Zetsu will tell you the rest" getting a nod from Naruto who activated his EMS, which started as a fully matured sharingan spinning rapidly than in to a Mangekyou, which had a black background and a red shuriken with 4 curved ends and black iris. Then his eyes continued spinning and come to a stop with one black tomoe facing each end of the red shuriken to show his complete EMS.
"Before I go, how come I got the Eternal Mangekyou when the scroll you gave me says that I have to take a relatives eyes, but I did not take Sasuke's, Itachi's or Mikoto's eyes?"questioned Naruto.
"Well you have the Kyuubi to thank for adding the DNA from the eyes I put in you into your DNA. Even though I weren't sure it would work, it worked."answered Madara.
"How will new members of the Akatsuki know that I'm part of the organisation when we meet?"instead of a verbal answer he got a black box with a red cloud on it. After takin the box Naruto disappeared in a swirling vortex.
(Konoha)
Naruto arrived in his apartment to find the blood clone sleeping in his bed, he didn't even bother waking it up he just threw a kunai at it and it desolved into a puddle of blood. As he was about to remove the sheets he was sleeping on, a head splitting headache, which made him blackout from the clones memories flooding his head.
Half an hour later Zetsu appears from the ground to find a passed out naruto. "I wonder if he will believe us or will he really stick with him?"asked white Zetsu. "That depends on how much manipulating he got from him. But we will not tell him now, maybe after he completes the assignment."
Picking up the box, dropped by Naruto when he passed out, they made their way to him and shook him awake. When Naruto opened his eyes he quickly closed them shut trying to down the pain in his head. Opening slowly to see the person who woke him up only to see Zetsu.
"What time is it?"
"7:35, almost time to go, but before you go there's something I have tell, something important"stated white Zetsu.
"What is it?"
"Well its the mission you have, in the next six months the will be chunin exams and you might be allowed to take part depending on how many mission completed. You need to complete a minimum of 20 D-rank missions and 2 C-rank missions, but if you do a B or A-rank mission you don't need a to do the 2 C-rank missions"finished black Zetsu as he threw four files at Naruto who raised an eyebrow at the files and started looking through the files. When he looked back up he was met with an empty space.
"Well he was very helpful"mumbled Naruto to himself and put the files in the drawer in the night stand. 'Well let's see what's in the box and get to the academy. Maybe I'll even visit 'mother' and a nice chat with her'
Opening the box he finds black shades with black lenses and had small red cloud all over sides of the lenses. "Hey, these aren't bad for a person like Madara-sensei. Anyways I don't want to be late for the exam."
And with that he left, deciding on cleaning later and paying the 3rd hokage a visit. It didn't take long for Naruto to reach the academy, but what he failed to notice is the people's stares and the whispers as passed them. Reason being that he was busy thinking about his mission that he got from the Akatsuki about the jinchuriki he had to observe or test during the chunin exams. He was brought out of his musings when his sensei or rather his clone's sensei Iruka Umino said something to him.
"Huh... Sorry Iruka-sensei I didn't catch what you said"Naruto said.
"I was asking if you are ready for your exam and when did you change your clothes?"
"Huh... Yesterday after we you let me go from detention and I'm ready" answered Naruto while in his mind he was thinking about his clone's actions 'how the hell did I put paint in this guys chair so when sits it explodes on him, when he could not even answer a simple exam question besides stuff with the word hokage'
"Alright then I'll see you in class while I set everything up" stated Iruka as he went in the exam.
Entering the room he only got gasps of shock from his classmates as they thought it was a new student taking the exam when he didn't even attend one lesson like the rest.
"Wow who is that?"
"Does it matter, he's hot"
"Do you think he is hotter than Sasuke?"
That's when two girls Naruto remembered as Ino and Sakura from his clone's memories, two of the most lazy girls when it came to training, decided to make their voices heard.
"There's no way he is as hot as my Sasuke-kun"they both said at the same time.
"Man what's with all the noise?"asked a boy that Naruto also remembered as Shikamaru, the smartest kid in their class and yet he's the laziest, to a boy next to him. The boy was munching on a bag of chips as always, the boys name as Naruto remembered was Choji, just shrugged and continued eating his bag of chips.
"I think its some loser that made himself look cool, what do you think Akamaru?"asked the boy behind choji, who was Kiba by the memories from the clone, to the white puppy on his head which barked a reply which Naruto figured was the one named Akamaru.
"I don't th-think its v-very nice to says stuff like th-that, Kiba."stated a girl sitting next to Kiba named Hinata, as he recalled from his clone's memories.
Before Naruto could go sit down his twin brother, Sasuke, walked up to him. "What's with the change of clothes loser?"
"You are in my way Sasuke."
"And what are you going to do if I'm in your way?"taunted Sasuke. According to the memories of the clone this happened almost everyday, whether it was Sasuke who started or him.
"Sasuke you don't interest me at the moment, go away and find something to do with your pitiful life."
This shocked Sasuke very much, but quickly got over it "What's wrong are you scared I'd beat you again?"
"No I'm done with playing with you and the only way you can make me become serious is if you also stopped playing around and start becoming strong to beat Itachi."stated Naruto in a low voice that only Sasuke could here.
"How do you..."Sasuke never got to finish as Naruto walked past him. Seeing this Sasuke got angered and grabbed Naruto by the jacket and pulled him back, but not before noticing the Uchiha clan fan on Naruto's jacket behind his hair. "How do know tha..."
He never got to finish because Naruto's left fist connected with his jaw, and thanks to the extra momentum from getting pulled by Sasuke it didn't connect as he would have liked. But what nobody saw was Naruto's blood red eyes with three tomoe thanks to the shades, but as soon as they appeared they vanished.
"Sasuke-kun!"came a chorus of voices from the Sasuke-fan girls. The rest were shocked when they saw 'The Mighty Sasuke Uchiha' on the floor from one punch, thanks to the mystery person who was walking away. But the thing that was going in everyone's minds besides Sasuke was 'Who is that person'. But no one could really think on it, because Sasuke started shouting.
"Don't walk away from me (spit blood) Naruto!"demanded a very angry Sasuke.
Naruto at this point was already sitting on his chair when he responded "You actually smarter than you look (starts clapping) you figured who I was before anyone, (stops clapping) however you still don't interest me at the moment. I'll tell you what you want to know later."
That's when Iruka came back in the class. "Alright let's settle down and we'll begin the exam. I will start at the top of the list as usual which will be Shino Aburame all the way to Ino Yamanaka. So Shino you can come take your turn"finished Iruka.
And with that Shino left with Iruka. Before Naruto could dwell on the mission he got again, he sensed a presence on his left. As he turned left to meet the intruder he saw Sasuke. "(Tch) What now Sasuke?"
"I want you to answer my questions now! First how do you know I want to kill Itachi and why do you have the Uchiha fan on you jacket?"interrogated Sasuke.
"I'll indulge a few of your questions. Your second question is I'm also an Uchiha and..."
"Don't lie to me Naruto, if you were one then how come you were never at the compound?"Asked Sasuke.
"That's a story for another day, tell me Sasuke do you you know what happens why you take the eyes of an Uchiha and give a non-Uchiha the eyes?"answered Naruto with his own question.
"I've heard they can't deactivate them"answered Sasuke. That's when Naruto checked to see if anyone was paying attention to their little conversation. After confirming it he turned to Sasuke and lifted his shades and activated his fully matured sharingan for about 6 seconds before deactivating it, while placing his shades back in their place.
Sasuke was at a loss for words, here he thought that Itachi, his mother and himself were the only ones left and now he finds Naruto is also from his clan.
Before he could say anything else he heard his name being called "Sasuke Uchiha your next"
And with that said Sasuke left the room, after a few minutes Iruka came back "Naruto you up next"
Naruto got up and went down the stairs and was about to pass Ino, who was the last student in the class, who said "Umm...Naruto I just wanted to say good luck and I'm sorry for how I've treated you"
"Don't worry about it Ino and thanks for luck" replied Naruto as he was almost at the door.
"Before you go I wanted to ask if we could umm... you know start over?"asked a nervous Ino.
"Tell you what, how about after the exam you and I go some place you want to go and we can start over"all Naruto got was a slow nod. Getting a confirmation he left for the examination room, but if he stayed longer he would have seen the blush on Ino's face and a smile.
Arriving Naruto was standing in front of a worried Iruka thinking Naruto would fail and a grinning Mizuki, the assistant sensei, who was sure Naruto would fail. It was well known that Mizuki did not like Naruto at all, so it wasn't a surprise that he was grinning.
Iruka coughed slightly before beginning "Okay, Naruto you are required to do a transformation, a substitution and a clone jutsu, but since your marks are low do three clones just to be on the safe side"
And Naruto performed the first two effortlessly, but stopped when it came to clones "Eh... Iruka-sensei does it have to be a normal clone or any clone as long as its three"asked Naruto.
"Any clone is fine"
"Great"he sighed in relief knowing that with his large chakra reserves, thanks to the nine-tailed fox, he could never get perform a normal clone 'I guess Itachi did not just teach me genjutsu and my Mangekyou abilities, but thanks to the shadow clones he taught me I'll pass this stupid exam'
Making the hand sign for the shadow clone jutsu, five puffs of smoke puffed into exsistence. To say Iruka and Mizuki were shocked would be an understatement.
"So do I pass sensei"all Iruka could do was nod an answer and Naruto dispelled his clones, he turned around and collected a headband with a black cloth and left. He called Ino and told her it was her turn and he would wait for her, while she was busy inside he made a shadow clone to find Sasuke.
After a minute or two an excited Ino with a headband tied around her waist "I guess I can say congratulation by the smile huh?"asked Naruto and received a nod from Ino.
"Yeah I'm so happy, by the way Iruka-sensei said to go to room 401 for team placements."
With that Naruto put his hands in his pockets and moved his right elbow to create space, Ino didn't even need to be told what to do. She moved towards him and put her left hand through the space, but what she did next was what Naruto didn't expect. Putting her hand in his pocket and intertwined hands with him then took it out "I guess you ready to go"stated Naruto still a little surprised by her action, but quickly pushed it at the back off his mind for later assessment.
"Yeah we are getting dango if that's okay with you?"asked Ino and getting a nod from him "Great so let's get going."and with that they left to the dango shop.
(Uchiha compound)
Meanwhile with the clone Naruto had made, entered one of the Uchiha training grounds to find Sasuke taking a break from training.
"Can we finally finish our discussion now or am I still not making you interested?"questioned Sasuke as he looked at 'Naruto'.
"I did say I'll answer your question later didn't I? Plus I'm here for two reasons that have to do with you."
"So what are the two reasons for you being here?"asked Sasuke.
"I'm here to answer your question as to how I know about you wanting to defeat Itachi and tell you the truth about Itachi and the massacre"said 'Naruto'.
"What is there to tell huh, Itachi went crazy and killed everyone in sight!"shouted Sasuke who was trembling with anger at what 'Naruto' had said.
"Tell me Sasuke... Why is it that he didn't kill you since he killed everything at sight? Why is it that he did give you a chance to get revenge on him?"
"I-I don't know"answered Sasuke in a low voice which was slighty surprising considering the way he was a minute ago.
"Well he showed me everything from how he did it to when and where he did it, but more importantly why it happened. Since you know the how, where and when, so I'll go straight into the why it happened even though I was supposed to tell you after you killed him I'll trust you to still kill him."explained Naruto.
"Before you start why are you telling me all this?"asked a curious Sasuke.
Naruto chuckled ever so slighty "Well that's a story for another day isn't it?"asked Naruto as he sat down in front of Sasuke.
'Naruto's attitude is so much like Itachi's, always brushing me off with the same line, Itachi's was 'I'm busy at the moment' then pokes me on my forehead and Naruto's is 'a story for another day' its like I'm not important or don't deserve to know the answer'
Sasuke was brought out of his thoughts when Naruto began telling him about how the Uchiha where planning a coup d'etat against the village to over throw the 3rd hokage, because were tired of being secretly watched, pushed away from the village both literally and figuratively thus taking away their political power and putting them in the corner off the village. But the last straw for Fugaku, the clan head and 'Sasuke's father', was the clan being blamed for the Kyuubi attack. Than clan members gathered and planned the coup and asked Itachi to spy on the higher ups to see if they could get any information they could use. But since Itachi didn't like war he told the hokage and the elders, after sometime when thing were getting out of hand they ordered Itachi to kill the Uchiha clan. Itachi did as ordered, but couldn't kill his little brother.
"... That's what he told me, whether you believe me or not that's up to you"he said as he finished his story.
"When did he tell you this?"asked a Sasuke who looked like he would have a lot to think about.
"That's a story for another day."with that he activated his EMS, which was covered by his dark shades, and was about to use Kamui when he remembered something. "Oh and by the way don't do anything stupid for now, I'll help you make the higher ups pay as for now you need to train to beat Itachi and kill him to get the Mangekyou. When you are accustomed to the unique abilities it gives you, I'll transplant Itachi's to give you the Eternal Mangekyou so you don't suffer from blindness. Don't tell anyone about this. Then and only then will we be able to make the people who caused us pain suffer."
"What about you, aren't you going to be blind since you don't have a relative, because that's the only way to get the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, according to the scrolls in the Uchiha library?"asked a slightly worried Sasuke, for reasons unknown to him, about Naruto.
"Oh I already have the Eternal Mangekyou, as for the how. That's a story for another day."and with that he used Kamui to leave.
"Dammit... He's always saying that! (Sigh) I guess I'll have to wait another day, (chuckling) yeah right."getting up to finish his training for the day and blowing steam to clear his thoughts.
(A few blocks away from the outside of the Yamanaka flower shop)
It has been the best day ever for Ino, having dango for lunch with a hot guy and then having him walk you home after bonding and sharing things with each other. Ino could feel the closeness between her and Naruto, even though it has been one day, but still the one day she learnt a lot of things about him. From his likes, dislikes and hobbies. But as wonderful as the day was, there was this one question bothering her and if she didn't ask now she didn't know if she would get the chance to.
"Hey Naruto umm... Where does this (pointing between her and him 3X) take us? I mean are we friends or are we..."she said as she went quite at the end not knowing how to put it.
Naruto continued walking, but turned his head to his left to look at Ino while asking "Or are we dating, is that the word you were looking for"Ino nodded while blushed a little, being embarrassed by the way he bluntly put it. "Well that depends on you. I'm fine by either choice you make, being it friends or having a relationship"replied Naruto looking forward again, while still walking.
"Before I make my choice what do you think of me? And please be honest with me"pleaded Ino as they came to a stop in front off the Yamanaka flower shop walkway. Moving to stand in front of Naruto and took off his shades so she could see if he was going to lie or not.
Looking down at Ino, onyx black meeting sky blue, Naruto started "What I think off you huh? Before today I never really thought much, but now when I think of you, Ino Yamanaka, I think you smart, funny, cheerful, loving and lazy"
"What! I'm not lazy!"exclaimed Ino while playfully punching him and pouting at the end.
Chuckling softly and replying "Just kidding you not lazy, but what I said before the lazy part is true. The most important thing when I think about you is your beautiful and not just physically, but also spiritually. You have a good heart. There are things I personally love seeing when I look at you and they are: the beautiful smile, the cute blush you have right now, the beautiful eyes you have which make me lose myself when I stare into them and many other things which I love to see but what I would never want to see is tears which were caused from pain, especially if they were caused by me."at the moment Ino couldn't even utter a word, hell even gibberish wasn't working. That's when Naruto's clone came out of the flower shop and handed Naruto something from behind his back and dispelling, the item unseen by Ino. Before she could ask he continued. "I guess what I'm trying to says is if you give me a chance and I swear that I'll do everything I can to make you happy."and with that he retrieved his hand from his back and held it in front of her. In his hand was a red rose, this caused the already recovering from being speechless to just uttering rubbish.
After a few moments she accepted the rose and gave him a hug while whispering into his ear "Then I would like to be with you, only if you promise that you'll keep your word?"
"I promise"he whispered back and broke the embrace, much to her discomfort but understanding he had to go. She placed his shades back where they were and looked at him for a moment and was about to go, when Naruto cupped both her cheeks in his hands and kissed her gently on her forehead.
"I have to go see the hokage for something, I'll see you tomorrow"with that said he left with a shushin, leaving a swirl of leaves.
"What was that?"asked a voice breaking a frozen Ino out of her frozen state.
"Huh... (Turning to the left) oh hey Sakura, umm could repeat what you just said."
"I was asking 'what was that' with you and Naruto?"
"You saw that right (sighing after getting a nod) well I guess I will start from the beginning, but first let's head inside while I tell you?"and Ino proceeded to tell her bestfriend/rival the events since the end of the exam to when Naruto left, while heading for her room.
Meanwhile Naruto had just entered the 3rd hokage's offices with all the passion he had a minute ago replaced with an emotionless expression. After having seen the whole thing through his crystal ball to confirm the report he had received from Iruka about his sudden change in behaviour. Looking at him now and when he had looked through the ball and all the other times he had burst through the door shout a greeting at him. But now he walked in calmly and had a stoic expression on hid face and this worried the old kage.
"What brings you today, Naruto-kun?"
"Just wanted to clear something, Hokage-sama" even the voice was emotionless and the term 'Hokage-sama' was something that the kage didn't expect, even the Anbu who were at their posts.
"And what would that thing be?"
"About you not know who my parents were."see as the hokage tensed a bit only urged him more. "When I ask who my parents are, your reply is 'I don't know who they were', but when I asked what kind of people they where you would say 'They were one of the strongest ninjas in the village and were well respected'. Now I don't know if you were lying to me or it was just old age catching up to you or even both."finished Naruto with a voice betraying no emotion what so ever.
"Naruto-kun I did it to..."he never got to finish as Naruto raised his left hand, gesturing the old hokage to stop speaking.
"It is okay Hokage-sama it was to protect me from the truth that I deserved to know, but do I know and knew for some time, a 7 year old child can't control his mouth. I've known everything since I was seven, the Kyuubi, my parents and relatives and the real reason why I'm hated, but you never heard me uttering a word to any one even in my sleep."stated Naruto in the same stoic voice, but with a faint trace of anger here and there.
And before the old kage could say anything, Naruto beat him to it "I met the kyuubi when I was seven thanks to the villagers, and told me how my own father died sealing him inside me and then there was my mother who left at the hospital as a 1 week year old. I'm sure there is going to be an excuse that the clan not wanting me, when we both know that they loved power and would have used me for what you prevented."at hearing this the old kage gasped in shock how could he know about the Uchiha coup. But before the kage could question Naruto continued "Also that I had brothers who did not know a thing about me, well I don't know about Itachi, and that I was thought to be the Kyuubi reborn, all those secrets kept hidden by a seven year old who heard it from the same thing you and the council kept from me. Anyways Hokage-sama I cleared what I wanted two clear, if your reactions say something."and with that side he was swallowed in a vortex, leaving a shocked yet ashamed kage.
(Uchiha compound)
At the main house of the clan were the clan head was supposed to stay was, but now only stayed Mikoto Uchiha and her son Sasuke Uchiha. There were two reasons they were staying at the main house and that's because one: Mikoto used to be married to Fugaku, the last clan head, and two: they were one of the last Uchiha.
At the moment we find Mikoto washing the dishes from the late lunch she had with her son since he was training and she was sleeping with nothing better to do since her friends were mostly dead or the last two which were busy with their work or family.
She was enjoying the evening bird's singing that she was also humming along, when suddenly there was a faint sound, which sounded like something being sucked into something. She turned around, still holding a glass she was washing. As soon as she saw a person coming out a vortex she gasped and dropped the glass on the hard wooden floor due to her shock.
"I'm hurt, (faking a hurt face) my own mother doesn't want to see me."
Mikoto was busy thinking hard on who in the world might this person be and called her mother. Itachi was gone, Sasuke was outside training and both of their hairstyles did not look like that which only left one person who she did not expect to see for a few years.
"N-Naruto?"